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Top 10 Old School Mortal Kombat Characters

Posted on Thursday, February 3 @ 14:29:42 Eastern by Anthony Severino

1.) Sub-Zero/Scorpion (Tie)

I consider this less of a tie and more of a double K.O. Nobody would have guessed that a simple palette swap aimed at squeezing two characters out of one design would create two video game icons. Sub-Zero and Scorpion were the original Team Jacob Vs. Team Edward, splitting the fan-base down the middle as to who their favorite was.

Sub-Zero, living up to his chilly name, can freeze you on the spot, throws snowballs and can make things really slippery. Scorpion is needy, demanding you to “Get over here” and pulls you closer with his spear. There’s no getting away from him, every time you turn around, he teleports and pops out the other side of the screen. In contrast to Sub-Zero’s freezing facade, Scorpion can make things nice and toasty. These two kombatants are even keeled through and through, and picking a winner could only come down to personal preference. Which leaves only this question: who is your favorite Mortal Kombat character?

Test Your Might Fast Fact - In Mortal Kombat Trilogy, there was a total of 7 palette swapped ninjas -- Classic Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Reptile, Ermac, Rain, Human Smoke, Noob Saibot -- in addition to Chameleon, a male-ninja whose color and abilities would change during a fight, randomly mimicking all of the other male-ninjas in the game.

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Comments

UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Feb 3rd, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Good feature, but my question is why wasn't Liui Kang in the top list?

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UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Jul 26th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
just realized I added an extra "i"

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Feb 3rd, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Whoever wrote this should get their name on it. Great feature.

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bigdrew
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: Feb 3rd, 2011 at 4:25 pm
This feature is so full of reminiscing win! I never log in and had to go through many old emails to find my user name and password to post this comment. But this feature brought back the many hours and quarters I spent learning special moves in the original MK!

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Yoshi
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Feb 3rd, 2011 at 5:43 pm
@Daniel - It's Anthony Severino, evident by his full name up there.

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Ivory_Soul
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Feb 3rd, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Another Fact: A female version of Chameleon called Khameleon was only Playable in the MK: Armageddon version for Wii.

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Paulmichael
Joined: Oct 2010

Posted: Feb 3rd, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Nice, lots of backstory behind how this game began!

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Lenin17301
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Feb 5th, 2011 at 8:48 am
Great list Anthony!, Game Revolution doing an article on Mortal Kombat bring up my hopes even higher that' this year will be truly be the rebirth of MK, and the series will finally get the respect it deserves back from the people who never liked the 3D games, but played the first and second Mortal Kombats. And of course for people like me who ACTUALLY liked the 3D games, but acknowleged that the ones with the 2D plane of fighting are the best, can't wait for April 19th to play what's shaping up to be the ultimate MK game, with 2D gameplay, awesome 3D graphics, classic characters and the old-school gore and fatalities all combined.

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Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: Feb 5th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Fun fact: you list Classic Sub Zero and Noob Saibot as two of the palette swap ninjas, when technically they're the same person. When the original Sub Zero died, he became Noob Saibot. His brother then became the Sub Zero that was in every game. So really, Classic Sub Zero need not be mentioned as much.

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UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Feb 6th, 2011 at 9:58 am
Also, your Fan favorite reference link for Kitana is broken, Anthony.

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BigTruckSeries
Joined: May 2006

Posted: Feb 6th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
My Favorite was Kabal because of his dash attacks in MK3, but, the developers crippled him in Armaggedon. Now, my favorite is the FLASH in MKvs.DCU because he's so tricky. I think my all time favorite is Sub Zero, but, every other game he loses some charm. Sub Zero was best in MK3.

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