Top 10 WTF Mortal Kombat Characters
Top 10 WTF Mortal Kombat Characters
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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 WTF Mortal Kombat Characters! For this list, we’re looking at the oddest, weirdest characters to have graced the “Mortal Kombat” games. Which kombatant was the most bizarre to you? Let us know in the comments below.
#10: Meat
Look, we understand Meat’s real purpose - he’s more of a joke character. We shouldn’t take him so seriously! Well, we can’t help it when he’s standing next to powerful warriors like Scorpion and Liu Kang. Here, you have this living pile of flesh and bone, this sentient, exposed muscle, constantly making mess around the battlefield and somehow NOT screaming in pain. What makes his existence more unbelievable is how he’s supposedly a failed experiment of the all-powerful sorcerer, Shang Tsung. Given his intimidating appearance and intellect, it’s hard to imagine Shang Tsung failing to create a new minion. Then again, he did make Mileena who, herself, seems like a mistake.
#9: Moloch
“Mortal Kombat” features a handful of fantasy-esque creatures as we’ll see throughout the list, but of them all, Moloch is the most questionable. Overall, he just looks like a basic orc you’d find in something like “Warcraft” or “The Elder Scrolls”. Yes, we are aware that he is technically an “oni”, and he was the arbitrary sub-boss for “Deadly Alliance”. However, he looks really out of place, as if someone had ripped a character model from a completely different game. It’s probably best that the franchise has left Moloch in the past, save for a couple references.
#8: Mokap
Another joke character that we simply cannot get behind. The idea of a motion capture artist fighting mighty combatants is ridiculous and funny, but here’s the deal - we already have a Hollywood type. Remember Johnny Cage? You know, one of the main characters? You could have easily reworked Mokap into an alternate costume for Johnny instead of giving us a face as plastic as a Barbie Ken doll. Now, he’s forever known as “that guy covered in the ping-pong balls”. Maybe he’ll have a more respectable depiction in a future game, but we aren’t holding our breath.
#7: Nitara
You know, we’ve seen dragons, sorcerers, orcs--I MEAN oni, and the undead. However, there’s one fantasy and horror cliche we haven’t seen, and that’s vampire. Well, allow Nitara to fill that questionably necessary role. Problem is that Nitara doesn’t have anything interesting going on for herself. She’s an Outworlder, unbound by all factions and worries only about herself. Cool, so how does she fit into the story? ...Oh, she doesn’t? So, she’s just there because we needed a token vampire goth? You can do so much with just the fact that she’s the only vampire we’ve seen in the “Mortal Kombat” universe! Screw it - just make Lady Dimitrescu a guest fighter and maybe NetherRealm will figure something out.
#6: Dark Kahn
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When we first played through the campaign for “Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe”, we were hoping for an epic finale. Oh, boy! Do we fight Shao Kahn AND Darkseid in a tag team fight? Is there gonna be some crazy mashup of the two where they’re decked out in spiked pads and shooting lasers everywhere!? Oh...oh… It’s a lava monster. With a skull for a face... What even is this? You have the fearful and mighty Darkseid doing a “Dragon Ball'' fusion with a bloodthirsty warlord like Shao Kahn, and THIS is what you come up with!? Dark Kahn was one of the many reasons why MK vs. DC was a mistake.
#5: Chameleon & Khameleon
After we were introduced to Reptile, Ermac, and Noob Saibot, many of us thought, “Cool, so we’ve got enough ninjas”. But it seems like NetherRealm thought otherwise because after those we got water ninja Rain, rock ninja Tremor, and the worst one, invisible ninja Chameleon AND his female counterpart, Khameleon! In case you couldn’t tell, their schtick is invisibility! Ooooh!! So innovative, so ingenious! Really, why do these two exist? We already have a ninja that can turn invisible! We really just going to sit here and pretend Reptile never happened? Chameleon (yes, both) was just evidence that we didn’t need more ninjas and that they were just running out of ideas.
#4: Motaro
We’re not quite done with the fairy tale-ish creatures of the “Mortal Kombat” universe. Even with Moloch on this list, the weirdest sub-boss is Motaro as this dude can’t stay consistent with appearances. In MK3, he’s a centaur who hates the Shokan for no legitimate reason, but in “Armageddon”, he’s a Minotaur because of *condescending* a magical spell placed by the Shokan! So, the only REAL reason Motaro is here is because he’s an ally for Shao Kahn, he’s a token centaur, and he hates the Shokan, but now more than ever because they made him go from four legs to two. This. Is. Stupid.
#3: Hsu Hao
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When it comes to the most outlandish, the most cartoon-y characters in “Mortal Kombat” history, Hsu Hao takes the visceral cake. Take one good look at this guy - militaristic pants and boots, a dictator-like hat, and a moustache-goatee combo reminiscent of Boris from “Rocky & Bullwinkle”. There is not one ounce of this character that fills us with intimidation, that doesn’t make us want to turn him into a punching bag. This guy does not look capable of crushing spines and breaking jaws. More like “tying someone to a set of train tracks”.
#2: Drahmin
You know how the “Soulcalibur” games have that ultra-creep Voldo in his BDSM attire? Well, “Mortal Kombat” has a Voldo of its own. Everyone, meet Drahmin, an Oni wearing nothing but a mask, underwear, and an iron club for an arm! Don’t touch the sword lodged in his back! Remove it and he’ll go on a murderous rampage! Whoa!! ...Yeah, this is lame, and it's weird seeing a dude fighting noble warriors like Liu Kang in his underwear. Give us all the lore you want, playing as Drahmin is no different than fighting a crazy naysayer you picked off the streets. Before we reveal our strangest top pick, here are a few Honorable Mentions
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