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Contents 1 Tabling 2 Rumored Characters 3 ARGH 4 EDIT HIM! *dramatic music* 5 Article needs some work 6 Sonya Blade 7 Merge proposals 8 information crossovers 9 I think it's done for awhile 10 MK: Armageddon 11 Question about merger 12 Images 13 Jax 14 The MK1 character list 15 Great Kung Lao

[edit] Tabling

The page is, in its current form, almost unreadable beyond character names. I think perhaps it should be altered to a table form, since it'd be easier to cross-reference characters and games. See WP:TABLE. Comments before I get started? Virogtheconq 23:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC) Edit: Finished initial version. x means playable, h for hidden (unplayable), b for boss (unplayable), c for cameo (pretty much any NPC that appears in the background and/or only has speaking role): Virogtheconq 01:49, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Edit2: Found a much more readable way to do this. Not much work to import previous table to this version, just a lot of deleting linefeeds and inserting extra pipes. Virogtheconq 06:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Edit3: Done. Going to leave here for a few days in the unlikely event of comments. Virogtheconq 03:11, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Game/Character	MK	MKII	MK3	UMK3	MKA	MKT	MK4	MKG	MK:DA	MK:TE	MK:D	MK:U	MK:A	MKM:SZ	MK:SF	MK:SM
Ashrah											x	x	x
Baraka		x				x		x			x	x	x			x
Blaze		c				c			x	x	c	x	x			c
Bo' Rai Cho									x	x	x	x	x
Cyrax			x	x	x	x		x	x	x	x	x	x
Dairou											x	x	x
Darrius											x	x	x
Drahmin									x	x	c	c	x
Ermac				x	x	x					x	x	x			b
Frost									x	x	c	c	x
Fujin							x	x			c	c	x	b
Goro	b					x	x	x			x	x	x			b
Havik											x	x	x
Hotaru											x	x	x
Hsu Hao									x	x			x
Jade		h		x	x	x					x	x	x			b
Jarek							x	x			c	c	x
Jax		x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x	x		x	c
Johnny Cage	x	x				x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x			x
Kabal			x	x	x	x					x	x	x		c
Kai							x	x			c	c	x
Kano	x	c	x	x	x	x			x	x	c	c	x		x	b
Kenshi									x	x	x	x	x
Kintaro		b				x					c	c	x			b
Kira											x	x	x
Kitana		x		x	x	x		x	x	x	c	c	x			x
Kobra											x	x	x
Kung Lao		x	x	x	x	x		x	x	x	x	x	x			x
Li Mei									x	x	x	x	x
Liu Kang	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c		x	x	x			x
Mavado									x	x			x
Mileena		x		x	x	x		x			x	x	x			b
Mokap									x	x	c	c	x
Moloch									x	x	c	c	x
Motaro			b	b	b	x					c	c	x
Nightwolf			x	x	x	x					x	x	x
Nitara									x	x	c	c	x
Noob Saibot	x*	h	h	x	x	x	x	x		x	x	x	x	x		c
Onaga									c	c	b	b	x
Quan Chi							x	x	x	x	c	c	x	b		b
Raiden	x	x				x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c		c
Rain				x	x	x					c	c	x
Reiko							x	x			c	c	x
Reptile	h	x		x	x	x	x	x			c	c	x			x
Sareena										x	c	c	x	b
Scorpion	x	x		x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	b		x
Sektor			x	x	x	x		x		x	c	c	x
Shang Tsung	b	x	x	x	x	x			x	x	c	c	x			b
Shao Kahn		b	b	b	b	x			c	c	x	x	x			b
Sheeva			x	x	x	x					c	c	x
Shinnok							x	x			c	c	x	b
Shujinko											x	x	x
Sindel			x	x	x	x					x	x	x
Smoke		h	x	x	x	x					x	x	x			c
Sonya Blade	x	c	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	c	c	x			c
Kurtis Stryker			x	x	x	x					c	c	x
Sub-Zero		x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x			x
Tanya							x	x			x	x	x
Taven													x

^*The original Mortal Kombat's Sub-Zero was killed and replaced by his younger older brother; the original became Noob Saibot.

[edit] Rumored Characters

I added a section for rumored characters. I am new to Wikipedia so am not able fix the links yet, please do so if you come across bad links. Also, I didn't add any information on the characters as I feel there people better suited to the task. Feel free to add information. There is a Belokk page started at List_of_Mortal_Kombat_Character/Belokk which is a link I don't know how to fix.

--NovaStarr 23:50, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

If you have any rumored characters, just make sure to provide verifiable evidence, i.e., news articles or reports from Midway or something and not just fan speculation, or everything there could soon be deleted because it is crystal ball-type information. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:41, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ARGH

This is a MESS. Not so much the structure, I think it's a good move to seperate "proper" characters from minor ones, rather the fact so many of those minor characters have articles that are only a sentence or two long. Rumours shouldn't get their own page. I have NEVER heard Ermac referred to as "Red Robin", so that's just one example of something that's evidently not worthy of encyclopedic coverage.

Now, for these rumoured characters, instead of giving them a page of their own, shouldn't they be put under a "rumours" heading in the article for their respective games? If there's proof that they were considered, or at least possible (Zebron and Belokk, for example), then, yes, they're worthy of a page. But if there's nothing we can give other than fan opinion and speculation, there is no need to give them more than a passing reference- IF THAT- on the page of their respective game.

I also noticed the other day that there were numerous articles that had been duplicated with just "(Mortal Kombat Character)" put on the end. If it didn't need a disambiguation page in the first place like characters such as Scorpion or Reptile logically WOULD, it DEFINITELY didn't need a duplicate article!

Oh, and Saurion isn't a character. It's a race. Khameleon and Reptile are part of it. Should we have a page for Mortal Kombat races? Personally, I'm all for it, but what does everyone else think?

I've been a tad shocked at the MK characters' articles in recent months. I'm going to give some of these articles a severe tidying (a lot of them are sloppy in the first place) and I very much encourage other people to join me. Come on, guys, let's do justice to these wonderful and imaginative characters. --L T Dangerous 20:59, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] EDIT HIM! *dramatic music*

OK, here's where I'm gonna log everything I do on this page as well as adding a few suggestions (I'll add dates and times to let you know when I added this). Please carry out anything I don't do. If you disagree with any of my contributions, please tell me on this page:

My contributions

• Removed Reptile, Ermac and Rain from the "Rumour, Hidden and Cameo characters" section. All three are main characters and were already listed as such. There is no need to link to the same page twice --L T Dangerous 13:20, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
• Deleted the link to "Teir" for two reasons. One: it's not a character in the first place. Two: it's SPELLED WRONG. Seems somebody was too keen to make their first Wiki that they decided to copy and rename an already existing page. --L T Dangerous 13:20, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Things I suggest you all help me with

• Let's get some of these "rumour" characters deleted, please. If there is no proof then it can be considered a hoax and, therefore, has no place here, thank you very much. And I dread to think how stupid you'd need to be to believe Ryu was in a Mortal Kombat game. --L T Dangerous 13:20, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
• Can we work out who is and is not a "cameo" character? Chameleon is listed with the major characters in the "Mortal Kombat characters" template. While I'm not sure if I agree, that means he must be listed with the major characters on this page, yet he isn't. On the other hand, boss characters from Mortal Kombat: Mythologies are listed on this page with the major characters, despite having articles that are only a few paragraphs long. There's not enough information to make them main characters and, frankly, they're not main characters anyway. --L T Dangerous 13:20, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article needs some work

Port exclusive info needs its own symbol as well. For instance, Goro wasn't even in the arcade version of MK4 and Noob was a hidden unplayable opponent. And why is Meat labeled as a Hidden Unplayable Opponent in MK4? Where are you baffoons getting your information from? Buzda 06:44, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Meat is labeled as a hidden unplayable character, not opponent. However, this is still a misnomer as Meat, although hidden, is indeed quite playable (And playing as Meat is the only way to even see him, actually). Although now that you mention it, I don't know if Meat appears in the arcade version of MK4 since I don't think group mode is in it. These little symbols definitely cannot compensate for all these weird exceptions, of which there are many (I'm not a particular fan of this whole table thing, by the way). MarphyBlack 12:33, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

He's in the arcade game. The arcade had Group Mode. Buzda 02:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

What about Khameleon? She's only in the Wii version of MK:Armageddon. -- VederJuda 14:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I didn't see the list at the bottom. -- VederJuda 14:41, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Why is Mario and Sonic listed in the character list?? and checked for every game?????? -- Typhoon87 0:08, 26 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Sonya Blade

Why isn't Sonya Blade listed? She was in the Nintendo console version of the first three games and as well as the arcade version. Mr. C.C. (talk) 09:49, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposals

As you've probably seen several articles here have been proposed for merge. The reason being they don't sufficiently cover Wikipedia's policy of citable information in third party material or even real-world development information with proper citations, and are extremely bare bones. Wikipedia simply isn't a directory.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 03:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

With full disclosure that I haven't yet looked for third-party sources, as there are so many characters—I support merging any character for which no reliable secondary sources can be found once someone does look. Pagrashtak 16:47, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

After researching, merged Darrius, Taven, Mokap, Daegon, Drahmin, and Moloch here. The subjects lack any reliable secondary sources that can be cited for notability and so forth. Just simply does not exist.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 08:36, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on this. A note to anyone concerned—if you think that a merged character might warrant a separate article, the best way to proceed is to add referenced out-of-universe content to the section in this article about the character. If enough is added (and is not largely in-universe or plot repetition), then we will split the section off into a separate article. Pagrashtak 15:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Havik, Dairou, and Hotaru are merged in here now as well. That ends up taking care of the simplest ones to merge given the subject matter. There are still a lotta characters though, and many of them have no reception in anything.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 00:03, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

This looks chaotic and unprofessional. While I understand the reasoning for the moves I can't help but think that it should be everyone or no-one. Picking and choosing is confusing for users. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.51.35.241 (talk) 23:21, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

These merges suck. Most of the information regarding characters is gone. There are no images. Looks like an index, not an encyclopedia.--Gonzalo84 (talk) 03:38, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] information crossovers

the decision of merging all of the character articles into one list is an acceptable idea. though i must ask if some specific parts of the articles may also be added to this list article. basically, i'm talking about adding the game version debut of the character, the fighting style, and, of course, their special moves to their personal information.

[edit] I think it's done for awhile

The remaining characters have some degree of notability, and what's left can be merged or not as time goes on.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 08:07, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MK: Armageddon

Non-main character links on the Mortal Kombat: Armageddon page have been updated to redirect to this article. Also, any out-of-universe character information (actors, game info, etc.) previously removed due to the article merger needs to be restored at some point. sixtynine ^{• spill it •} 22:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question about merger

I just have to ask, why is there a merger with all these articles? Is there a problem with the server? Because I didn't think any of the character's pages were stubs. I have already read that if I wanted a character to have a separate page, I could request it, but I doubt I would be heard. I can understand the guys that debutted from UMK3 foward with the exception of Blaze, Shujinko, and maybe Onaga. But I mean guys like Cyrax and Rain (okay maybe not Rain) really need a separate page. Especially those who debutted earlier in the series, plus the renders that were on the individual pages were extremely helpful and now they are gone, and for people not as MK savvy like me, they wouldn't know to look in MKwarehouse for character renders, when they could look in this public encyclopedia. Subzerosmokerain (talk) 22:26, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Read Merge proposals. Importance in the series is not enough to have an article. The characters need reception information to have their articles. None of them had such section.Tintor2 (talk) 23:09, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean on how well they were recieved? I am not following you. And just to say, the relative importance that each character has to another does grant them some degree of an individual page. Subzerosmokerain (talk) 23:12, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

No, it doesn't. It's real world impact of the character that will count.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 00:16, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

For example see GA characters articles like Cloud Strife, Elite (Halo) and Kyo Kusanagi.Tintor2 (talk) 00:25, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, Cloud isn't a very good example since a lot of the FF games revolve around him, (at least the ones he appears in) so he already is popular but I see what you mean with Elite and Kyo, then again, the developers actually speak on the subject of their characters while the MK team is more often than not silent. Like the Aftermath of Armageddon which has been due for over a year now they aren't going to say, "Our best characters in our opinion, etc" they just don't have the time. Also their(Cloud's, Elite's, and Kyo's) developers actually have the time to speak upon their characters.

The Mortal Kombat franchise isn't exactly as popular as it was once in the 90's. So the only characters who really are seen in popular culture nowadays are Scorpion and Sub-Zero, so real world impact wouldn't be a good example to use.

On another note, I always seemed to look upon Wikipedia to provide indepth coverage on obscure subjects, but some of these summaries had only been scratching the surface of the characters, not showing renders even just incase a person only knew of a character through their memory, (just incase they wanted to look up a character like Zangief from SF but only knew what he looked like but didn't know their name and also knew he appeared in the SF games, I was in the predicament once) and now without character renders, that way of looking up a character is useless. And really, isn't Wikipedia a reference source? Subzerosmokerain (talk) 00:41, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

So, your only complain is the use of images? Reception could be get by reviews from certain games of the series. The King of Fighters series also has lots of characters, but I could get reception and creation from Kyo from interviews as well as reviews.Tintor2 (talk) 00:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

My complaint is not giving the other characters enough recognition. Albeit thats not what wikipedia looks for, to give characters recognitinon I mean. Some obscure characters I understand like Mokap and the like. But guys like Smoke and Jade have been around for a while. And have had a developed storyline and should get their own article. (I being biased towards Rain though would also like a Rain article but thats not gonna happen.) Subzerosmokerain (talk) 00:54, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Once again, the importance withing the series does not matter, or how long they have been.Tintor2 (talk) 01:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Man, I can't believe you guys just deleted all the hard work done by the fans who put in the effort to make all of those individual pages. The pages were acurate and informative. When ever somebody wants to learn about a specific character they would type it into google, the wikipedia page for show up, and then they would gather the infor they needed.

I see no reasoning in this what so ever, rather than to display some sort of internet power. Under you reasoning their shouldn't be hardly nay individual pages for any video game characters, or comic book characters. But there are, and there are lots of them. This makes no sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.162.139.110 (talk) 23:21, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

In wikipedia, there are lots of characters articles that need to be merged. See the Reptile article which has been highly improved these days as an example of notability.Tintor2 (talk) 00:00, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Images

I have noticed that there are no images of characters that are only included on this page (characters without their ownn personal articles I mean). If anyone has time and patience, and the images; could you upload them to appear next to their individual article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mechaermac (talk • contribs) 03:41, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

To add upon what this member said, can we not just create a Mortal Kombat page in the Wikimedia Commons, since it's purpose is to upload pictures? And we can put an external link to that page at the bottom of the page so if people want to find images of the characters in question, they can simply look up the character in the General MK commons page. The page has begun creation so anyone who wishes to participate, please do so. Sincerely Subzerosmokerain (The Lin Kuei) 22:29, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Jax

What happened to his article. It just disappeared? He is a major Mortal Kombat character worthy of his own article. Boasts more game appearences then even Sonya and Johnny Cage. Why is his article missing? I mean a main artcile. If Noob and Ermac get one then surely he should.

Is there any explanation? ~Darklink75 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.22.224.231 (talk) 06:45, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The MK1 character list

The tab at the top of the page which says this article too long is true. I ask that maybe we should instead link to this page?

Mortal Kombat 1 characters

It has the same list of characters, it goes directly to a list of every character mentioned on this list of Mortal Kombat 1 characters, just in smaller print. Less clutter, more clicking. The only downside is that visitors must redirect themselves to the Mortal Kombat (video game) page. Seems logical, but I expect some devil's advocates because I see no real error with my judgement. Sincerely Subzerosmokerain (talk) 21:50, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Great Kung Lao

Being the protagonist of Mortal Kombat: Conquest he should at least merit a sub-heading. Not an article per se, but at least more than 3 mentions on a page of about 50 characters. Perhaps the character's descirption should return to the minor characters page? Sincerely Subzerosmokerain (talk) 22:38, 19 November 2009 (UTC)