He is the first Mortal Kombat Kombatant to face a non-Street Fighter character, with the next four being Sektor, Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Sindel and Goro. After a tearful goodbye, Blue stabs him, causing him to disintegrate into lightning and smoke. Mortal Kombat and Deadly Alliance states that Raiden is seven feet tall, but his sprite was the same height as the other fighters. His precognition can be enhanced by Kamidogu daggers infused Blood Magik, although this prevents his wounds from healing for a while once he has slit himself with the dagger. Disgusted by his fellow Elder Gods for their refusal to intervene, Raiden relinquished his position and gathered Kung Lao, Jax Briggs, Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage, and Kitana to stop the sorcerers. His cape was changed to a subdued red and appears tattered at the end. A group of martial arts warriors have only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion. Raiden and Fujin - Mortal Kombat . After centuries of kombat and bloodshed, he fears unintended consequences for humanity, and himself. Raiden is also one of the playable character in, Raiden has been portrayed by Midway employee and martial artist Carlos Pesina in all his 2D games' appearances, except in. Interestingly, others thought that he was actually speaking English, and thus Raiden's phrases were mis elucidated as "Get back in the car! Amplifying the move has Raiden summon another bolt that pushes the opponent slightly towards him. Amplifying the move suspends the electrified opponent in mid-air, opening them up for attacks. He has two primary character designs in the MK11 story, his Dark form from the end of the previous game, and his more traditional look albeit with some alterations. He was Kung Lao's mentor since childhood, and constantly reminds the young warrior of his duty to find new fighters to protect Earthrealm and to prepare for the next Mortal Kombat tournament. A saya (katana scabbard) appears on Raiden's secondary costumes in Deadly Alliance, Deception, and Armageddon, but he is never seen actually using the sword. Sacrificio che si rivela vano, perché Onaga rimane vivo. Raiden grimly replied, "Now." 1 Strategy 2 Interactions 2.1 Good With 2.2 Good Against 2.3 Countered By 3 Abilities 4 Support Cards/Equipment 5 Stats Klassic Raiden's status as an all around great diamond kard is undisputed. His coolie hat is his most recognizable feature, and he occasionally wields a quarterstaff that holds the power of thunder and lightning. Raiden was originally going to use his staff as a weapon already in Mortal Kombat II, but Midway was forced to omit it due to memory constraints. While they had their own uniqueness, Raiden was still considered to be the most popular of all the gods in the series. On the ship taking all tournament contestants to Tsung's island, Raiden informed the Earth warriors that he had looked into all their souls, and one of three would decide the outcome: Liu Kang, Johnny Cage or Sonya Blade. Spending a bar of Defensive meter allows Raiden to cancel the move. Despite Shao Kahn taking every soul on Earth as his own, Raiden was able to protect the souls of Liu Kang and other chosen warriors. Raiden's Fatality in the original game, in which he obliterated his opponent's head with a lightning strike, was drastically altered in the Super NES version due to Nintendo's strict no-blood policy at the time. His conical, straw Chinese coolie (harvester) hat is one of Raiden's most recognizable features. In his arcade ending, Raiden returns to his realm to find that exposure to his world's sun has weakened him greatly. In Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Raiden could not interfere when the titular alliance of Shang Tsung and Quan Chi killed Liu Kang due to his Elder God status. He was depicted as the brother of Shao Kahn and the son of Shinnok in the film's original storyline, which included both Raiden and Kahn sporting a dragon tattoo that was explained to be a family crest bestowed to his family's bloodline, and allowed its bearers to travel safely between realms. Ed Boon personally hated that Acclaim spelled it with an Y.[20]. dedicated to @electricflyart. The second was his Klassic Card which has a similar Passive. Raiden is the second Mortal Kombat character to appear, after Shang Tsung, and with the next seven being Shao Kahn, Sektor, Scorpion, Sonya Blade, Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Sindel and Goro. In the original Mortal Kombat, Raiden was invited to compete in the Mortal Kombat tournament, by its grandmaster sorcerer Shang Tsung himself. [33] In 2010, UGO ranked "baby Raiden" as the cutest Babality. To do so, she creates a time storm that erases Dark Raiden from history but brings a younger version of him from the past due to his being immortal. When the elder Sub-Zero stole Shinnok's amulet from the temple for the sorcerer Quan Chi millions of years later, Raiden appeared before the Lin Kuei warrior and ordered him to enter the Netherealm to steal it back as his powers do not work there, lest Shinnok use it to free himself. Raiden confronts Taven, only to be defeated. Based on the Japanese thunder god, Raijin, and portrayed in the series canonas the thunder god and appointed protector of Earthrealm, Raiden defends the planet from myriad otherworldly threats alon… 316 notes. With Robin Shou, Talisa Soto, James Remar, Sandra Hess. Portrayers In the crossover fighting game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Raiden fought Shao Kahn until he sent him into a portal that caused the latter to fuse with Darkseid and turn them into Dark Kahn, which in turn fuses the Mortal Kombat and DC Universes. He is also more prone to thinking in terms of eternity rather than normal human lifespans, and has a radically different outlook on life. The name of his Friendship is a reference to the TV show, This is perfectly seen when Jason performs his, Despite not being affiliated with the Netherealm in the ending of the. As it turns out, he was inspired by a character from from John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China. But by Doing this, Raiden made earthrealm more vulnerable to a potential invasion by another realm. Fans originally believed that he was yelling Japanese phrases. 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Declaring himself "Raiden, the Thunder God and protector of Earth" only confirms to the psychiatrist his mental "disease", and he starts a therapy by force, continuously drugged in order to lower his "unusual physical strength". [10] When he learns the Elder Gods had been killed however,[11] Raiden slowly gives into his dark impulses and uses Shinnok's amulet to empower himself like his future self did. Raiden is given a choice between a life of servitude to the sorcerer, or mortality. One year later, after Liu Kang's triumph in the tournament, Raiden found that he had no choice but to accept Shang Tsung's challenge of Mortal Kombat in Outworld. He warned the last remaining members of the Shaolin tournament Liu Kang and Kung Lao of Shao Kahn's threat before venturing to Outworld. Raiden was played by James Remar in the 1997 sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Lastly, his … Raiden's name and status as a God are taken directly from the Japanese thunder god. #raiden #raiden mortal kombat #fujin #fujin mortal kombat #mortal kombat #mortal kombat 11 #mortal kombat fanart #raijin. Weapons His wardrobe consisted of a robe which hides his attire from the first game (his rain hat was worn only once at the beginning of the film). Raiden charged four gods with guarding the amulet—the gods of Wind, Fire, Earth, and Water. However, the PC and console ports released until Mortal Kombat Trilogy, along with both movies and the TV series, changed the name to "Rayden". The original Mortal Kombat Warehouse displays unique content extracted directly from the Mortal Kombat games: Sprites, Arenas, Animations, Backgrounds, Props, Bios, Endings, Screenshots and Pictures MKWarehouse: Mortal Kombat 11: Raiden Raiden made his debut as one of the few original characters in the first Mortal Kombat game and is the one of the few characters to have appeared in every generation of Mortal Kombat games as a playable character.