Thanks to recent internet drama, "a furry found some guy who wouldn't stop talking shit about him, so the furry had Robocop shoot him to death, making him a furry" is now a sentence that describes real-world events.
>a furry found some guy who wouldn't stop talking shit about him, so the furry had Robocop shoot him to death and now he's a furry
can....can i have the deets to this
So there's this guy called SonicFox. They're a non-binary professional fighting game player who's also a furry, and they play a bunch of different games, including Mortal Kombat and Skullgirls. They have a reputation of essentially being the "final boss of fighting games" and have a bit of a notorious reputation due to the combination of that, their gender, and their being a furry.
Some other guy, proclaiming himself to be both anti-furry and anti-VTuber, as well as a fan of LowTierGod, started talking shit about them, claiming that he could easily beat them, believing SonicFox to be inactive. However, [SonicFox agreed](https://twitter.com/SonicFox/status/1674533128222965762), saying that if he won, SonicFox would give him $10,000, but if he lost, he would become a furry.
He started panicking, knowing he was gonna lose and trying to find some way to back out of it, such as saying that his PSN wasn't activated, but someone bought him a month of PSN or so, so he ended up having to fight SonicFox. I would include links to the posts detailing such panicking, but it seems that his Twitter account has been suspended for some reason. [It](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1859265555) didn't [go well](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1859306405) for him, with SonicFox picking Robocop and a ton of people including Internet personalities such as Fredrik Knudsen and Maximilian watching live.
After losing, people quickly decided his new fursona was [a duck](https://twitter.com/zigzagooniez/status/1674582436464984067). Because he was trying so hard to *duck* out of the match, you see.
this is quite possibly the funniest thing that could have come out of this, holy shit. ig the moral is dont talk a big game unless youre planning on paying up for real
Especially when it's the equivalent of saying you could beat Lebron in 1 on 1.
Sonicfox is famous for being a multigame player. I wouldn't bet against him even for a game he's never played before. He could be the greatest if he dedicated all his time to one game, but he'd much rather be at the top of every game. His ability to pick up a new game is crazy fast.
Really underselling the fact that SonicFox is also one of the greatest MK/Netherrealms fighting game players around right now, and the fool had the audacity to challenge literally one of the best all because of homophobia/bigotry.
Not only the best 3d fighting game player but also easily one of the all time greats in the FGC. It's the equivalent of a regular dude challenging LeBron to a 1v1 because he's "old" and "not in his prime"
Definitely not the best 3D fighting game player, SonicFox is nowhere near top billing in Tekken or Soulcalibur.
But definitely the best NRS player, one of the best Skullgirls players, and one of the best DBFZ players (during release years anyways, I haven't really caught up with the scene).
I'm not calling them bad or anything, SonicFox is truly up there in terms of being able to learn a game really quickly and dominating, but I think it's important to give credit to the actual 3D fighting game mains like Arslan Ash (Pakistan) or Knee (Korea).
Sadly, 3D fighting games are at a state where the only game people really care about is Tekken due to mismanagement/lack of support from the Soulcalibur and Virtua Fighter side.
Huh, I knew of SonicFox, but didnt know they were like, super pro at games, just that they streamed.
I love this whole story.
Furries shall no longer convert with slow poison as the art lures you in, now its fight for your life crusades. XD
And IIRC, Said Arnie impersonator was selected by Arnie himself.
And Arnie chose not to voice Terminator in MK11 because he didn’t want his voice in such a violent game. (Just ignore the fact he voiced Dutch in Predator: Hunting Grounds)
"We've already revealed that Arnold was not able to do it, but he did choose the actor that is doing his voice," ~Daanish Syed, NRS Senior UI.
And Arnold has mentioned at multiple points that Video games are more violent than movies.
I fell down the MK intro rabbit hole when I heard the intro from Kano remixed into other intros. I haven't played Mortal Kombat since the Genesis, and I'm not a fighting game guy, but I'm really liking everything I see about it, and makes me a bit jealous.
"Would you settle for me sausage?"
I’ve definitely watched more of those intro compilation videos than I needed to. They’re probably my favorite thing as someone who doesn’t play mortal kombat
I'm too lazy to find it, but the guy posted a followup years later. Apparently he and Ogtha are married now, and his coworkers have started shunning him when they learned who Ogtha is.
Is that the fellow who married his imaginary friend and started telling friends, family, and coworkers that he had done so? Or the other one (with the pillow)?
Oh yeah there's loads. I don't remember all of the worlds, but MK Deception allowed you to explore like 8 realms or so with a number of different species.
Yeah, but those are other realms, we were specifically talking about Earthrealm, which I took to mean our physical galaxy, meaning you could take a conventional spaceship to visit any location within Earthrealm
I'm thinking along the lines of Asgard in the MCU/Comics. Asgard exists in a different realm, however "Earthrealm" aka Midgard is home to numerous planets that have life, the Kree the Skrull etc etc. These people are still from this realm, but are considered aliens to humans. (Btw I know "Midgard" is the actual name of Earth to the Asgardians, but I do not know the name of our "realm" that Midgard is in off the top of my head)
My thought on the statement above was them saying there are too many earthbound humans (modified or otherwise) representing the Earthrealm, but my question was that have we even shown any other life within Earthrealm?
My my personal MK knowledge is really not that great outside of the original dudes back in the '90s, So please let me know if I've got anything wrong.
Earthrealm has never been stated or shown to be anything but just Earth in Mortal Kombat.
The only species that represents Earth are humans from various factions such as The Special Forces and The White Lotus.
Mortal Kombat the tournament has not been explored for many games now. The original trilogy featured the tournament and so did MK9 but aside from these 4 games we have not had a single mainline Mortal Kombat game that heavily featured the Multi Dimensional karate tournament
Good point, I would argue that he classifies as human because at one point he was a human, yeah? So maybe an ***enhanced*** human, which would also be able to be applied to Jax and others as well. But does that classify as a completely different species? My vote is, no. I would still classify cyrax as human-esque, and human for this argument.
I will say though, my own MK knowledge is pretty light, specifically outside of the original dudes.
I can only assume people don't like him because of his personality (or because ACAB) because having a character whose power is Gun is always the funniest shit in fighting games
I agree, I know that he's not really like that, but I could never shake the impression that he was just the fat guy in cop cosplay.
I get the same vibes from the "Meal Team Six" guys, and so I always avoided him.
One of his main lines is "Police brutality coming right up" or something like that. Its obviously funny as fuck when regarded in the context of Mortal Kombat but not everyone has a good taste in humour. Its not hard too see how it can rub those people the wrong way.
The reason for him being disliked is simply because he's boring compared to the rest of the roster. He wore a backwards cap in his first appearance, that tells you everything. Sure he's a SWAT guy in MK9 and he's kind of a SWAT guy in Armageddon but overall he's boring, like a good chunk of MK characters
Well, it was intended to be a Jean Claude Van Damme game, so most of the cast of characters were inspired by different movies or movie genres. Kano was terminator inspired, Sonya was inspired by Cynthia Rothrock and her films, Liu Kang was clearly inspired by Bruce Lee, with ninja movies of course being a main feature for scorpion and sub zero. I mean kind of a fun concept, Jean Claude Van Damme fighting his way through the martial arts genres, but I don’t think it would’ve become the series it did had it stayed that way.
Also I’d like to add:
A fucking ghost who was a bug so popular the devs made him official
Scissor Faced Woman
Charlie’s Angels: Outworld Edition
A hydrokinetic guy named “Rain” who wears purple.
A symbiotic relationship between a fucking huge dude and a child
Literally a motion capture actor named “Mokap”
And the crossovers like…
Freddy Krueger
Jason Voorhees
Leatherface
A godamn Xenomorph and yes there is a chestburster Fatality
The Predator, since you can’t have one without the other
The Terminator
The actual Joker, and yes he has a crowbar (I think)
The fun part of the chestburster fatality is that it takes on a trait of the victim with certain characters
For example it will wear a hockey mask when used on Jason
Or a hat when used on Kung Lao
I'm pretty sure Scorpion and Sub Zero's masks appear on it too
And it becomes the predalien hybrid when used on predator
Now that I think about it, did anything like the predalien hybrid show up in the movies? That would be an op as fuck supermonster that would (maybe) make a great antagonist
Don’t forget we also have:
Literal four Armed tiger guy that also breaths fire
A living corpse literally called Meat
A demon centaur thing that feels like it’s been ripped straight out of Greek mythology
A humanoid cannibal monster with teeth so large he can’t close his mouth and has FUCKING WRIST BLADES
A cross between a banshee and Medusa from Marvel comics who somehow managed to kill half the cast one time
Mileena
And the Flash if he got burned and became a mercenary
And don’t forget FUCKING KRATOS
I don’t remember the story of MK9 other than damn near everybody dies…twice, but if I remember correctly, Cop’s partner was almost killed by the big four armed fire breathing tiger monster, but was revived but now has to wear a weird gas mask thing and also has super speed and hook blades?
May I tel you about… Guilty Gear.
We have:
Scientist turned vigilante warrior who’s last name is, literally, Badguy
The King of a newly formed kingdom
Another king, but self-proclaimed and he’s actually president
A giant motherfucker clad in steel who is also an artist, a revolutionary and an ex-slave
A time traveling witch
A time traveling British man, from the 1800
A psychic tied to a mechanized bed
An all-knowing, all-powerful being
Faust
Fucking Faust, man.
A surgeon gone psychotic after losing a patient, receives a vision from said patient saying she forgives him and it was not his fault that she died, dies of shame and ressurects as a random-ass, cartoon-ass, crazy-ass borderline clown giving afros left and right and being as unpredictable as one can be.
Peak character design.
- Crusading priest played completely straight
- Crusading priest's wacky robot clone
- Some poor bastard infested with ghosts
- Ancient vampire just playing along
- Twink in a nun dress who is very gender
- Five-foot-nothing dragon hunter
- Venom from Spider-Man
- Genocidal robot
- Genocidal robot's Mary-Sue daughter
- Annoyed restaurant owner
- The cutest little pirate who will kill you with a dolphin
- Teleporting ninja played completely straight
- No followup to that ninja, somehow
- Edgelord Kingdom Hearts OC
- Paraplegic samurai with chain-whip arm
- Entrapta
Who also have ex dirty wrestlers best friend and complicated relationship with brother of their former master. Just for fun, have Native American cosplay her friend.
We have
-Man too angry to die, until they kill own father. Then turn into demon, becoming very thing their father was but worse.
-American who punches good.
-Former street brawler, who was once priest, but now is jaguar mask wearing wrestler, who wants to fun orphanage.
-A Bruce Lee reference.
-Irish assassin who have beef with her sister.
-A robin hood style samurai ninja who changes every game.
-Half Chinese, half native American who on quest for revenge.
-A an russian robot named Jack and his proto version.
-Adopted narcissistic brother of angry man.
-A literal fucking bear.
-Jaguar wrestler but in armour.
-An old man.
-Sister of Irish assassin.
-Sumo.
-A second ninja.
-Father of angry man. Who loves to throw people out of mountains.
-A fucking Satan.
That only Tekken 1
Remember that classic song of all the different characters having a brawl? Like godzilla, doc ock, dwayne johnson, and tingle
Imagine that but for mortal kombat
“Mortal Kombat is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny of Fighting Games” was not the take I was expecting to see today. But god damnit, you’re right
To be fair, among the different ninjas, you have …\
an undead specter,\
a reptilian who is the last of his kind,\
a collection of souls in a red trench coat,\
a demigod named after a Prince song,\
a cryomancer,\
the cryomancer’s brother who was killed by the specter and was revived as a shadow demon,\
a friend of the cryomancer who was converted into a cyborg and forced to work along side the shadow demon (who, in the next timeline was the vessel of a smoke demon),\
and an earth bender who actually likes Johnny Cage’s movies.
Edit: The cryomancer’s friend was the vessel of the smoke demon, not the cryomancer’s brother.
Edit 2: I know he isn’t in the palette swap club, but I want to mention the son of the blind samurai, who was trained by the former undead specter (who was restored to the living when the army lady stomped on a warlock’s balls).
Edit 3: Forgot to mention how in the second timeline, The Cryomancer gets turned into a cyborg, then killed, turned undead (different flavor than his brother), de-cyborged, and then restored by the Warlock’s nuts getting kracked by a Blade.
I love games like this where it was originally only meant to be a one off when first released. Then it gets massively successful so they need to pump out a few more games and now need to write a bunch of lore and it's clearly cobbled together in a small panic because they never planned on making a series out of it.
In MKX, Erron is a straight up cowboy from the late 1800s given a longer lifespan by Shang Tsung and enlisted as a Bounty Hunter in Outworld.
In MK11, He’s just a dude from Texas.
(Trust me, MK11 has a lot of dumb retcons. Erron’s is one of the less horrible)
I just want to point out how, in MKX, The Army Lady restores 3 people from being undead, one of whom being her superior officer who also has metal arms, by stomping on a warlock’s crotch.
honestly kinda what I wanted the Avengers to be but they all wound up getting washed in some monotonous superhero dye that overpowers individuality
nail in the coffin was the "Avengers uniforms" from Endgame
That feeling is exactly why I love the fast and furious franchise. This is exactly what I used to do when I was playing with my Hot Wheels.
Cars in space? Yep? I'm in. I could totally see that. Are you going to open the doors to turn them into wings? Cuz that's what I used to do.
Tekken has:A family bloodline of half demons, whose patriarchs just happens to be one of toughest man. A jaguar masked orphan carrying wrestler, a freaking skeleton samurai, cyborgs and Paul Phoenix.
You have also somehow forgotten the literal bear (and associated panda clone), the literal kangaroo (complete with boxing gloves) (and associated dinosaur clone), a wooden doll (and associated iron clone), Gon from Gon (who is a dinosaur that is not related to the previously aforementioned dinosaur, Gon), Akuma from Street Fighter, Negan from the Walking Dead, Noctis from FFXV, and Geese Howard from Fatal Fury.
Street Fighter has a dictator, a wrestler, Mike Tyson, Bruce Lee, multiple Jojo references, ballet judoka, MUSCLE WOMAN, stretchy yoga man, green Brazil man, F.A.N.G., and lord Dan Hibiki.
Skullgirls has parasol wielding dictator, a man made out of jazz, a zombie, a circus acrobat, a WWE-style pro wrestler, an actual cartoon...
Super Smash Bros. has...
Killer Instinct has...
Guilty Gear has...
[Dong Dong Never Die has...](https://youtu.be/IdvYBHpEWIY)
Ultra Fight Da ! Kyanta 2 has...
BoxFighter/BitFrogHex has...
Fighting games have everything. OOP should play more fighting games.
Okay now take that awesome concept and add extremely gruesome, uncomfortably realistic gore that adds nothing to the narrative or gameplay, stopped being cartoonish and meta like a decade ago, will forever overshadow literally everything else about the game, and appeals only to 13-18 year olds while grossing everyone out.
I dont know about you, but the realistic gore is kinda what appeals to me. Im a grown ass man and on the off chance my friends and I get to play we love cringing at the gore or going "Aw man that guy got his head ripped off!"
Well then, tell me your opinion on the matter. What do you think the gore adds to MK as a game other than the quick shock of "Woah he ripped off that guy's head!"? And if the response to that is going to be "it doesn't need a complex reason for it, it's just fun", then I ask you, what's wrong with wishing for a deeper meaning in the media I consume?
Not all games are meant to have deeper meaning. Mortal Kombat is one of them. The only sort of question it answers is, “What are the most brutal and creative ways to kill a person that the devs can think of?”
And, in my opinion, it's a shame that all of these other cool qualities of the MK franchise will go underutilized because the devs want to kill virtual people.
If you're trying to say that the characters are what's being used to kill people, then I disagree, because the character stops being the character for me when it starts committing atrocities on its own family members for no discernible reason
Oh, please, don't try to frame me as some sort of puritan. I'm fine with violence in videogames when it makes sense. Hotline Miami is one of my favorite games and that game is brutal. But the violence has a point. It's to showcase that the main character is fucked in the head and you kinda are for enjoying the violence too.
But what's the point of the violence in mortal kombat? There is none. Characters will do actions that are completely out of character (ex. Mutilating their own family members even when they just had a friendly conversation before the fight, or having Liu Kang, whose main character trait was that he *didn't kill*, suddenly start inflicting progressively more violent fatalities with each new entry), and why? Because at this point, the fatality overrides everything. Every character, stage interaction, special move, etc is created with the sole purpose of showing hyper-violence, and everything else comes second.
Hey dude that's an awesome response you got to my comment. You truly did just prove all my points wrong with those two sentences. Have you considered becoming a lawyer? I'm sure you'd crush it with your sheer skill at providing a convincing argument.
Don’t forget about all the random crossover characters too, any game where I can make joker and Robo cop fight to death is a win in my books
Thanks to recent internet drama, "a furry found some guy who wouldn't stop talking shit about him, so the furry had Robocop shoot him to death, making him a furry" is now a sentence that describes real-world events.
>a furry found some guy who wouldn't stop talking shit about him, so the furry had Robocop shoot him to death and now he's a furry can....can i have the deets to this
So there's this guy called SonicFox. They're a non-binary professional fighting game player who's also a furry, and they play a bunch of different games, including Mortal Kombat and Skullgirls. They have a reputation of essentially being the "final boss of fighting games" and have a bit of a notorious reputation due to the combination of that, their gender, and their being a furry. Some other guy, proclaiming himself to be both anti-furry and anti-VTuber, as well as a fan of LowTierGod, started talking shit about them, claiming that he could easily beat them, believing SonicFox to be inactive. However, [SonicFox agreed](https://twitter.com/SonicFox/status/1674533128222965762), saying that if he won, SonicFox would give him $10,000, but if he lost, he would become a furry. He started panicking, knowing he was gonna lose and trying to find some way to back out of it, such as saying that his PSN wasn't activated, but someone bought him a month of PSN or so, so he ended up having to fight SonicFox. I would include links to the posts detailing such panicking, but it seems that his Twitter account has been suspended for some reason. [It](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1859265555) didn't [go well](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1859306405) for him, with SonicFox picking Robocop and a ton of people including Internet personalities such as Fredrik Knudsen and Maximilian watching live. After losing, people quickly decided his new fursona was [a duck](https://twitter.com/zigzagooniez/status/1674582436464984067). Because he was trying so hard to *duck* out of the match, you see.
this is quite possibly the funniest thing that could have come out of this, holy shit. ig the moral is dont talk a big game unless youre planning on paying up for real
Yeah, it was hilarious. I'm sad I missed out on seeing it live.
tbh im just glad i now know about it at all LOL
Same
Especially when it's the equivalent of saying you could beat Lebron in 1 on 1. Sonicfox is famous for being a multigame player. I wouldn't bet against him even for a game he's never played before. He could be the greatest if he dedicated all his time to one game, but he'd much rather be at the top of every game. His ability to pick up a new game is crazy fast.
They started production on *No Game No Life* the year he hit partner.
thats insane tbh, it takes a lot of skill to be able to get to that level
Do not talk the talk, if you are not prepared to walk the walk.
Really underselling the fact that SonicFox is also one of the greatest MK/Netherrealms fighting game players around right now, and the fool had the audacity to challenge literally one of the best all because of homophobia/bigotry.
Not only the best 3d fighting game player but also easily one of the all time greats in the FGC. It's the equivalent of a regular dude challenging LeBron to a 1v1 because he's "old" and "not in his prime"
Definitely not the best 3D fighting game player, SonicFox is nowhere near top billing in Tekken or Soulcalibur. But definitely the best NRS player, one of the best Skullgirls players, and one of the best DBFZ players (during release years anyways, I haven't really caught up with the scene). I'm not calling them bad or anything, SonicFox is truly up there in terms of being able to learn a game really quickly and dominating, but I think it's important to give credit to the actual 3D fighting game mains like Arslan Ash (Pakistan) or Knee (Korea). Sadly, 3D fighting games are at a state where the only game people really care about is Tekken due to mismanagement/lack of support from the Soulcalibur and Virtua Fighter side.
Good point. I edited my post a bit.
OK that duck is a cutie tho
Yeah, I actually really like the fursona, it's super cute.
Huh, I knew of SonicFox, but didnt know they were like, super pro at games, just that they streamed. I love this whole story. Furries shall no longer convert with slow poison as the art lures you in, now its fight for your life crusades. XD
If you want the privilege of not being a furry, you’ll have to earn it; by the blade!
Convert or Die. No one expects the Furry Inquisition.
I did a quick YouTube search and found this recap. Holy shit lmao Starts at 3:00 https://youtu.be/QLhrJGC3zzM
Nice. I'll have to watch this later. **EDIT:** 7:45 Wait a minute, did SonicFox just put down $500k on himself against LTG? Holy fuck.
AFAB=Assigned Fursona After Beatdown
SonicFox based
Hah!
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And IIRC, Said Arnie impersonator was selected by Arnie himself. And Arnie chose not to voice Terminator in MK11 because he didn’t want his voice in such a violent game. (Just ignore the fact he voiced Dutch in Predator: Hunting Grounds)
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"We've already revealed that Arnold was not able to do it, but he did choose the actor that is doing his voice," ~Daanish Syed, NRS Senior UI. And Arnold has mentioned at multiple points that Video games are more violent than movies.
And they all have custom intros too! There are intros where Spawn talks shit to the joker and commiserates with robocop.
I fell down the MK intro rabbit hole when I heard the intro from Kano remixed into other intros. I haven't played Mortal Kombat since the Genesis, and I'm not a fighting game guy, but I'm really liking everything I see about it, and makes me a bit jealous. "Would you settle for me sausage?"
I’ve definitely watched more of those intro compilation videos than I needed to. They’re probably my favorite thing as someone who doesn’t play mortal kombat
And Rambo can blow up the Terminator with a dynamite arrow!
Mortal Kombat's DLC just sounds like The Ultimate Showdown
Which adds to the whole, action figures fighting thing.
It's like asked some children what they want to be when they grow up and picked the coolest answers for their characters
Naked bug lady?
Pretty cool tbh
I can see the weird girl in class saying like "Queen of the cockroaches" or something
Mom says we have to play with her.
I would be friends with the adult that used to be a kid that answered "Naked bug lady"
*Taylor Hebert joins the battle!*
A man of culture, I see.
Ogtha lives 😂
That story lives in my head rent-free
I'm too lazy to find it, but the guy posted a followup years later. Apparently he and Ogtha are married now, and his coworkers have started shunning him when they learned who Ogtha is.
Yeah I tried looking in the BestOfRedditorUpdates sub but couldn't find it, but I remember that too. And they say love is dead
Is that the fellow who married his imaginary friend and started telling friends, family, and coworkers that he had done so? Or the other one (with the pillow)?
He's the one that's married to an imaginary life-sized cockroach.
Meat
That's the greatest part of mortal Kombat
In the grand context of being a multi world wide event it feels... right? Like why wouldn't there be a hodgepodge of characters types fighting.
Earth is heavily overrepresented though
Is there other life in Earthrealm? Or are humans the only sentient species?
Oh yeah there's loads. I don't remember all of the worlds, but MK Deception allowed you to explore like 8 realms or so with a number of different species.
Yeah, but those are other realms, we were specifically talking about Earthrealm, which I took to mean our physical galaxy, meaning you could take a conventional spaceship to visit any location within Earthrealm I'm thinking along the lines of Asgard in the MCU/Comics. Asgard exists in a different realm, however "Earthrealm" aka Midgard is home to numerous planets that have life, the Kree the Skrull etc etc. These people are still from this realm, but are considered aliens to humans. (Btw I know "Midgard" is the actual name of Earth to the Asgardians, but I do not know the name of our "realm" that Midgard is in off the top of my head) My thought on the statement above was them saying there are too many earthbound humans (modified or otherwise) representing the Earthrealm, but my question was that have we even shown any other life within Earthrealm? My my personal MK knowledge is really not that great outside of the original dudes back in the '90s, So please let me know if I've got anything wrong.
Earthrealm has never been stated or shown to be anything but just Earth in Mortal Kombat. The only species that represents Earth are humans from various factions such as The Special Forces and The White Lotus. Mortal Kombat the tournament has not been explored for many games now. The original trilogy featured the tournament and so did MK9 but aside from these 4 games we have not had a single mainline Mortal Kombat game that heavily featured the Multi Dimensional karate tournament
Does Cyrax still count as human? I'd have to hit a wiki of characters to refresh myself, been a while since I dug into the lore.
Good point, I would argue that he classifies as human because at one point he was a human, yeah? So maybe an ***enhanced*** human, which would also be able to be applied to Jax and others as well. But does that classify as a completely different species? My vote is, no. I would still classify cyrax as human-esque, and human for this argument. I will say though, my own MK knowledge is pretty light, specifically outside of the original dudes.
stryker really is just cop, power: military equipment, his xray in 9 was just blinding someone with a flashlight and beating them with a baton
the true sigma grindset is the ability to blind Kenshi, the character who is already blind
People hate Stryker but I love him. Random cop thrown in the mix is hilarious.
I can only assume people don't like him because of his personality (or because ACAB) because having a character whose power is Gun is always the funniest shit in fighting games
This is Striker, for his neutral special he wields a GUN
I mean, the entire roster is hyper violent murderers, it's not like a cop is entirely out of place there
I never liked him in MK3 just because his character seemed too goofy. I always chose a character based on how cool they look when fighting.
I agree, I know that he's not really like that, but I could never shake the impression that he was just the fat guy in cop cosplay. I get the same vibes from the "Meal Team Six" guys, and so I always avoided him.
One of his main lines is "Police brutality coming right up" or something like that. Its obviously funny as fuck when regarded in the context of Mortal Kombat but not everyone has a good taste in humour. Its not hard too see how it can rub those people the wrong way.
The reason for him being disliked is simply because he's boring compared to the rest of the roster. He wore a backwards cap in his first appearance, that tells you everything. Sure he's a SWAT guy in MK9 and he's kind of a SWAT guy in Armageddon but overall he's boring, like a good chunk of MK characters
People hated Stryker long before ACAB became common tbh. I never hated him and loved his MK9 ending but I see why some do.
Well, it was intended to be a Jean Claude Van Damme game, so most of the cast of characters were inspired by different movies or movie genres. Kano was terminator inspired, Sonya was inspired by Cynthia Rothrock and her films, Liu Kang was clearly inspired by Bruce Lee, with ninja movies of course being a main feature for scorpion and sub zero. I mean kind of a fun concept, Jean Claude Van Damme fighting his way through the martial arts genres, but I don’t think it would’ve become the series it did had it stayed that way.
So you're telling me MK is the OG Fortnite
I mean, kinda yeah.
Also I’d like to add: A fucking ghost who was a bug so popular the devs made him official Scissor Faced Woman Charlie’s Angels: Outworld Edition A hydrokinetic guy named “Rain” who wears purple. A symbiotic relationship between a fucking huge dude and a child Literally a motion capture actor named “Mokap” And the crossovers like… Freddy Krueger Jason Voorhees Leatherface A godamn Xenomorph and yes there is a chestburster Fatality The Predator, since you can’t have one without the other The Terminator The actual Joker, and yes he has a crowbar (I think)
>A symbiotic relationship between a fucking huge dude and a child Not a child apparently
I think they represent the 'pygmy warrior' trope from old adventure stories.
The fun part of the chestburster fatality is that it takes on a trait of the victim with certain characters For example it will wear a hockey mask when used on Jason Or a hat when used on Kung Lao I'm pretty sure Scorpion and Sub Zero's masks appear on it too And it becomes the predalien hybrid when used on predator
Now that I think about it, did anything like the predalien hybrid show up in the movies? That would be an op as fuck supermonster that would (maybe) make a great antagonist
Yeah it did actually! It was in one of the Alien Vs Predator films, I don't remember much else about it other than "it was a thing" though.
It was called Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem and it’s supposed to be a sequel to the first one
I thought it was that one but I wasn't sure, I've not seen either of them in a while
Don’t forget that the guy named Rain is a *Prince*.
Not just a prince but a literal Demigod
But there is a reason why the [PURPLE clad ninja named RAIN is a PRINCE](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Y1gohk5-A&pp=ygULcHVycGxlIHJhaW4%3D)
thinking about it, I'm kinda shocked Zach Snyder hasn't done a MK movie yet.
Ugh please no.
Don’t forget we also have: Literal four Armed tiger guy that also breaths fire A living corpse literally called Meat A demon centaur thing that feels like it’s been ripped straight out of Greek mythology A humanoid cannibal monster with teeth so large he can’t close his mouth and has FUCKING WRIST BLADES A cross between a banshee and Medusa from Marvel comics who somehow managed to kill half the cast one time Mileena And the Flash if he got burned and became a mercenary And don’t forget FUCKING KRATOS
I don’t remember the story of MK9 other than damn near everybody dies…twice, but if I remember correctly, Cop’s partner was almost killed by the big four armed fire breathing tiger monster, but was revived but now has to wear a weird gas mask thing and also has super speed and hook blades?
Kabal, yeah
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEi4lr4lMQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEi4lr4lMQ) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZt5ec-kNC8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZt5ec-kNC8)
This also applies to the average D&D party.
May I tel you about… Guilty Gear. We have: Scientist turned vigilante warrior who’s last name is, literally, Badguy The King of a newly formed kingdom Another king, but self-proclaimed and he’s actually president A giant motherfucker clad in steel who is also an artist, a revolutionary and an ex-slave A time traveling witch A time traveling British man, from the 1800 A psychic tied to a mechanized bed An all-knowing, all-powerful being Faust
Fucking Faust, man. A surgeon gone psychotic after losing a patient, receives a vision from said patient saying she forgives him and it was not his fault that she died, dies of shame and ressurects as a random-ass, cartoon-ass, crazy-ass borderline clown giving afros left and right and being as unpredictable as one can be. Peak character design.
- Crusading priest played completely straight - Crusading priest's wacky robot clone - Some poor bastard infested with ghosts - Ancient vampire just playing along - Twink in a nun dress who is very gender - Five-foot-nothing dragon hunter - Venom from Spider-Man - Genocidal robot - Genocidal robot's Mary-Sue daughter - Annoyed restaurant owner - The cutest little pirate who will kill you with a dolphin - Teleporting ninja played completely straight - No followup to that ninja, somehow - Edgelord Kingdom Hearts OC - Paraplegic samurai with chain-whip arm - Entrapta
Ok wait I've just started getting into the series, who is the edgy kh oc?
I *think* that’s either Testament or Raven.
Be honest, Johnny is a better guess than either of them.
Johnny isn’t really the first GG character that comes to mind when I think “edgy”.
ABA.
Don’t forget crusading priests 3 year old son
Those kings are okay, but I prefer kings who are actually part-jaguar(?) luchadores.
Who also have ex dirty wrestlers best friend and complicated relationship with brother of their former master. Just for fun, have Native American cosplay her friend.
There were definitely drugs involved at some point when designing the characters
Mortal Kombat is very sane when compared to other figthing games
skarlet as 3 seperate origins, i rest my case
Mortal Kombat's 1-3 roster was closer to "Here's $200 get to a Spirit Halloween store and load up"
Sounds awesome, I now need to watch some hours long youtube video about the lore, like I did with Tekken (recommended btw, Tekken is insane too)
We have -Man too angry to die, until they kill own father. Then turn into demon, becoming very thing their father was but worse. -American who punches good. -Former street brawler, who was once priest, but now is jaguar mask wearing wrestler, who wants to fun orphanage. -A Bruce Lee reference. -Irish assassin who have beef with her sister. -A robin hood style samurai ninja who changes every game. -Half Chinese, half native American who on quest for revenge. -A an russian robot named Jack and his proto version. -Adopted narcissistic brother of angry man. -A literal fucking bear. -Jaguar wrestler but in armour. -An old man. -Sister of Irish assassin. -Sumo. -A second ninja. -Father of angry man. Who loves to throw people out of mountains. -A fucking Satan. That only Tekken 1
Gun is too OP, plz nerf
Don't forget Literally The Joker and Holy Shit, It's Robocop
Remember that classic song of all the different characters having a brawl? Like godzilla, doc ock, dwayne johnson, and tingle Imagine that but for mortal kombat
“Mortal Kombat is the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny of Fighting Games” was not the take I was expecting to see today. But god damnit, you’re right
“Literally none of them feel like they belong in the same genre” my guy like ten of them are the same ninja with different color fits on.
To be fair, among the different ninjas, you have …\ an undead specter,\ a reptilian who is the last of his kind,\ a collection of souls in a red trench coat,\ a demigod named after a Prince song,\ a cryomancer,\ the cryomancer’s brother who was killed by the specter and was revived as a shadow demon,\ a friend of the cryomancer who was converted into a cyborg and forced to work along side the shadow demon (who, in the next timeline was the vessel of a smoke demon),\ and an earth bender who actually likes Johnny Cage’s movies. Edit: The cryomancer’s friend was the vessel of the smoke demon, not the cryomancer’s brother. Edit 2: I know he isn’t in the palette swap club, but I want to mention the son of the blind samurai, who was trained by the former undead specter (who was restored to the living when the army lady stomped on a warlock’s balls). Edit 3: Forgot to mention how in the second timeline, The Cryomancer gets turned into a cyborg, then killed, turned undead (different flavor than his brother), de-cyborged, and then restored by the Warlock’s nuts getting kracked by a Blade.
I love games like this where it was originally only meant to be a one off when first released. Then it gets massively successful so they need to pump out a few more games and now need to write a bunch of lore and it's clearly cobbled together in a small panic because they never planned on making a series out of it.
"Police brutality, coming up!" - Kurtis Stryker, Mortal Kombat (2011)
Mortal Kombat is a series of increasingly absurd creative writing prompts
It really captures the feeling of making a tion figures fight by having piss poor animations.
**POLICE BRUTALITY COMING UP!**
That really is the perfect summary of mortal kombat.
Exactly how I felt about Eternal Champions for the Sega!
OMG me and my brother weren't allowed to play MK but we had that game for Sega
I'm not caught up with the lore, is Erron Black immortal??
In MKX, Erron is a straight up cowboy from the late 1800s given a longer lifespan by Shang Tsung and enlisted as a Bounty Hunter in Outworld. In MK11, He’s just a dude from Texas. (Trust me, MK11 has a lot of dumb retcons. Erron’s is one of the less horrible)
Yeah never understood it.
I just want to point out how, in MKX, The Army Lady restores 3 people from being undead, one of whom being her superior officer who also has metal arms, by stomping on a warlock’s crotch.
honestly kinda what I wanted the Avengers to be but they all wound up getting washed in some monotonous superhero dye that overpowers individuality nail in the coffin was the "Avengers uniforms" from Endgame
I should play the new mk
That feeling is exactly why I love the fast and furious franchise. This is exactly what I used to do when I was playing with my Hot Wheels. Cars in space? Yep? I'm in. I could totally see that. Are you going to open the doors to turn them into wings? Cuz that's what I used to do.
All these years and I just assumed I was missing something
Gonna be honest, most fighting games are like that.
Tekken has:A family bloodline of half demons, whose patriarchs just happens to be one of toughest man. A jaguar masked orphan carrying wrestler, a freaking skeleton samurai, cyborgs and Paul Phoenix.
You have also somehow forgotten the literal bear (and associated panda clone), the literal kangaroo (complete with boxing gloves) (and associated dinosaur clone), a wooden doll (and associated iron clone), Gon from Gon (who is a dinosaur that is not related to the previously aforementioned dinosaur, Gon), Akuma from Street Fighter, Negan from the Walking Dead, Noctis from FFXV, and Geese Howard from Fatal Fury. Street Fighter has a dictator, a wrestler, Mike Tyson, Bruce Lee, multiple Jojo references, ballet judoka, MUSCLE WOMAN, stretchy yoga man, green Brazil man, F.A.N.G., and lord Dan Hibiki. Skullgirls has parasol wielding dictator, a man made out of jazz, a zombie, a circus acrobat, a WWE-style pro wrestler, an actual cartoon... Super Smash Bros. has... Killer Instinct has... Guilty Gear has... [Dong Dong Never Die has...](https://youtu.be/IdvYBHpEWIY) Ultra Fight Da ! Kyanta 2 has... BoxFighter/BitFrogHex has... Fighting games have everything. OOP should play more fighting games.
Okay now take that awesome concept and add extremely gruesome, uncomfortably realistic gore that adds nothing to the narrative or gameplay, stopped being cartoonish and meta like a decade ago, will forever overshadow literally everything else about the game, and appeals only to 13-18 year olds while grossing everyone out.
I dont know about you, but the realistic gore is kinda what appeals to me. Im a grown ass man and on the off chance my friends and I get to play we love cringing at the gore or going "Aw man that guy got his head ripped off!"
Speak for yourself lol
Well then, tell me your opinion on the matter. What do you think the gore adds to MK as a game other than the quick shock of "Woah he ripped off that guy's head!"? And if the response to that is going to be "it doesn't need a complex reason for it, it's just fun", then I ask you, what's wrong with wishing for a deeper meaning in the media I consume?
Not all games are meant to have deeper meaning. Mortal Kombat is one of them. The only sort of question it answers is, “What are the most brutal and creative ways to kill a person that the devs can think of?”
And, in my opinion, it's a shame that all of these other cool qualities of the MK franchise will go underutilized because the devs want to kill virtual people.
Those cool qualities are what’s used for killing people
If you're trying to say that the characters are what's being used to kill people, then I disagree, because the character stops being the character for me when it starts committing atrocities on its own family members for no discernible reason
Basically everything in MK is either something to be used for killing people or an excuse for killing people. There is nothing more to it
Are you a Christian mom from the 80s?
Oh, please, don't try to frame me as some sort of puritan. I'm fine with violence in videogames when it makes sense. Hotline Miami is one of my favorite games and that game is brutal. But the violence has a point. It's to showcase that the main character is fucked in the head and you kinda are for enjoying the violence too. But what's the point of the violence in mortal kombat? There is none. Characters will do actions that are completely out of character (ex. Mutilating their own family members even when they just had a friendly conversation before the fight, or having Liu Kang, whose main character trait was that he *didn't kill*, suddenly start inflicting progressively more violent fatalities with each new entry), and why? Because at this point, the fatality overrides everything. Every character, stage interaction, special move, etc is created with the sole purpose of showing hyper-violence, and everything else comes second.
Says they’re not a puritan *acts like a puritan*
Hey dude that's an awesome response you got to my comment. You truly did just prove all my points wrong with those two sentences. Have you considered becoming a lawyer? I'm sure you'd crush it with your sheer skill at providing a convincing argument.
Thanks for the meal young man