He also takes up the cause and fights if you decide to choose him. Raiden’s look was influenced by one of the elemental masters in John Carpenter ‘s film Big Trouble in Little China (BTiLC). He’s the one that picked the human heroes that would fight in the tournament, but he’s no slouch. In Mortal Kombat he’s called Raiden and is basically in charge of Earthrealm. RaidenĪnother god making an appearance in the game is the Japanese thunder god, Raijin.
In mythology, Kali is a Hindu goddess and consort of Lord Shiva, whose persona also lent inspiration to Mortal Kombat in the form of Goro’s female counterpart Sheeva. In the film, a six-armed Kali idol comes to life under the dark magic of a wizard named Koura and dances for him. While the other fighters were based on digital renderings of actors, Goro was created with claymation as the creators took inspiration from the Ray Harryhausen stop-motion film, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. With his four mighty arms and monstrous features, Goro stood out from the other characters and for good reason. One of the first characters that comes to mind is Goro. I dove right in, picked out the coolest looking character, and started mashing buttons as soon as the game announced: “Round one: FIGHT!” Looking back it’s really interesting to learn more about the characters and dive deeper still to see what in our world (or should I say, Earthrealm) inspired their stories. There’s a whole lot more story to the series, but when I started playing the original game I didn’t really pay attention to the lore. When Outworld emperor Shao Kahn decided he’s going to stomp on down and take over Earthrealm, it is up to our world’s greatest heroes to Shao Kahn’s warriors and win our freedom. According to the lore, the elder gods decreed that no realm could take over another unless they defeated the defending realm’s champions in Mortal Kombat (MK). Humans live in Earthrealm, but there are a bunch of other realms including worlds of lizard men, vampires, demons, and more.
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The Mortal Kombat series is a legacy of brutal fighting games where monsters and mankind from across the multiverse have come together to compete in in martial tournaments that will decide the fate of their realms/worlds. You can watch live every Thursday starting at 4:00PM PDT. Every week on Twitch and Alpha host Ryan Green introduces us to the histories of our favorite geek fandoms on his show Lore Masters.
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