When it comes to games that fall into the fighting genre, you’re bound to love some
characters on the roster more than others.
It’s just the painful truth.
But in some cases, some of the lesser loved characters on a game’s roster tend to become
a bit infamous for being so disliked, or just flat out crappy for the series.
Mortal Kombat is no exception.
So today, we’re counting down some of the lack luster characters to have appeared in
the series with our list of the top 10 worst characters in mortal kombat history.
10 Drahmin Starting off our list with one of the most
unsettling poorly designed characters, we have Drahmin!
Just look at him.
The stuff of nightmare fuel, friends.
Drahmin debuted in Deadly Alliance and since has made a slew of cameos, but hasn’t really
returned to any of the recent titles thanks to a lack of popularity.
Wonder why.
Players also found his speed too slow, and his moves lacking variety.
Guess the glob for a hand just didn’t do it for everyone.
9 Mokap Now, before we start ridiculing poor Mokap
here, disclaimer – Mokap was intentionally created as a joke.
While the Mortal Kombat devs have always shown that they have a great sense of humour, Mokap
was a joke that just kind of fell short.
He was a character that was unlocked in Deadly Alliance, and many felt he was just a wasted
character slot.
And the joke?
Mokap’s name is derived from the fact that in Deadly Alliance, there was a motion capture
performer used for all of the characters featured in the game.
Despite this starting to become the norm in the video game industry, I guess the devs
felt it was humourous, and tossed Mokap in as a fighter.
Underwhelming, isn’t he?
The only reason he doesn’t get a higher spot on this list is because he’s literally
a joke character.
And hey, maybe some of you found that funny.
8 Khameleon Khameleon is just a female rip off version
of Chameleon.
Nuff said.
7 Bo Rai Cho A drunken marital arts master stereotype?
Whose also fat and kind of a slob?
Yeah, doesn’t really fit into the MK vibe, does he?
To see just how seriously fans take Bo Rai Cho, he’s been featured in death battles
online facing off against the likes of Shrek.
While some take him for what he is – a joke character – just like Mokap, to many, he
felt like a waste of a character slot.
6 Shujinko Mortal Kombat Deception had it’s fair share
of lame characters, but perhaps the worst was the game’s story mode protagonist, Shujinko.
This is particularly sad because Deception was the first MK title to introduce a story
mode, and of course, we got this lame ass, who offered up no unique abilities; his move
set was a copy and paste of other fighters’ move sets in the game.
And the story was weak at best.
5 Stryker Stryker came to be during a turbulent time
in Mortal Kombat history; when MK 3 was released.
At the time, the game introduced a bunch of new mechanics like running and more sophisticated
combos, and even omitted some fan favourite characters the likes of Scorpion.
While Scorpion was out, that meant new characters were in, including a bunch of fighters who
just couldn’t keep up with MK favourites.
Stryker, this fun little man swat cop dude, didn’t add anything special in terms of
moves or personality like Sonya or Jax did.
He was just kind of bland and mundane.
4 Reiko Reiko was notoriously a let down.
Introduced in Mortal Kombat 4 as Shinnok’s general, when players finally got to use him
in the game, many realized that he was just a variation of Noob Saibot in a different
skin.
And in the Playstation and Dreamcast versions of the game, he would walk into a portal and
put on Shao Kahn’s helmet.
Everyone was like WHOA WAIT WHAT until Midway was like yeaaaah ignore that please and Reiko
was all but forgotten, up until the Mortal Kombat X prequel comic where he dies in a
fairly humiliating way.
Fun stuff.
3 Kintaro Kintaro is another character who is basically
just an iteration of a previously existing character.
He’s Goro, but a tiger.
Like, literally, they just took Goro’s skin and redesigned it, giving it fur and an animalistic
feel.
He debuted in MK 2 as the game’s sub boss and was playable in Mortal Kombat Trilogy,
only to become an NPC sub boss in the 2011 MK game.
2 Meat Meat is a character that was plucked up from
fan rumours and turned into an actual fighter.
There was a long standing rumour about an MK fighter who was a skinless warrior.
Then, the series turned him into an actual character.
But the thing was, aside from being a visual gag or an easter egg, this hidden character
was the produce of a horrific experiment gone wrong, and in terms of moves and playability,
didn’t really offer up anything new or exciting to players.
Plus, by the time Meat actually became a character, the idea of a fighter who was essentially
a bloody skeleton just wasn’t as horrific as some of the other stuff featured in the
Mortal Kombat series, let alone other video games.
Lack luster at best.
1 Hsu Hao Hsu Hao looks like he crawled out of a pile
of Village People rejects.
Cruelty aside, this dude is one of the most disliked characters in the franchise, and
the devs have even stated they have no intention of bringing him back in future MK games.
So why does he suck, wardrobe choices and sad mustache aside?
He’s kind of a Mortal Kombat rip off of Iron Man, having that glowing core in his
chest.
Which shoots lasers.
This is because everyone thought that Kano’s laser eye attack was dope, so Hao ended up
getting laser powers too, but in order to make them different, they shot out of his
heart.
Groan.
Eventually Kano got the laser heart added to his move set, which ultimately made Hsu
Hao a big ol redundancy.
There we have it friends!
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