Talk:List of minor Mortal Kombat characters

This article was created to house all of the "minor" Mortal Kombat characters, because most of them are not encyclopedic enough to warrant their own article-- expand this article with only minor characters. If the character has enough recognition to warrant their own article, but they are still only minor characters, provide a brief summary of the character and a link to their main article. (Notorious4life 01:57, 30 November 2005 (UTC))

Organization

Suggest organizing into Ninja, Robot, Joke character, and Nonexistent character sections, and maybe a section for game specific characters (Mythologies, etc).

Not sure how long the above's been here, but I've just noticed it at any rate. In my own opinion, I don't think nonexistant characters or "rumour" names for real characters belong here. Wikipedia's based on fact, not fiction. There is only one exception I can think to this and that'd be "Nimbus Terrafaux", purely because he was so strongly rumoured. Even then, he doesn't belong here, stick him in the MK2 trivia section (though I think he is already). --L T Dangerous 21:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nimbus Terrafaux

Nimbus Terrafaux was merged and redirected to this article. I believe several minor characters listed in that AFD's comment may also have had content merged here. Johnleemk | Talk 12:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

"Made-up" characters

It has been proven that no Mortal Kombat characters of the names Watchdog, Mirror, or Ryu have ever existed. Yet, these characters repeatedly appear recreated in the Mortal Kombat pages. This page is not to spread hoaxes and completely nonsensical rumors. A Google search of any of the existing characters on this page will result in thousands of sites, yet the three mentioned above produce almost no information.

Mirror or Mirror Match has constantly been referred to as a GameShark "glitch" within the Gameboy version of Mortal Kombat, yet the term mirror match has been synonymous for two of the same characters fighting each other, often right before the endurance matches. I have the Gameboy version of Mortal Kombat, and I have never found any pertinent information concerning a Mirror character, as it mentions mirror match in the form that I have stated. Until real information comes up about this character speculation, I will continue to remove any mentioning of this so-called "character" of Mortal Kombat.

The character Watchdog has also never been proven to exist. He is regarded as a "rumored" character for Mortal Kombat II. Some character rumors have notoriety, but since there is no search engine that provides any information about this so-called "character," the rumor must certainly be a made-up hoax and information pertaining to this hoax will continue to be removed.

- I've never heard of an actual "Watchdog" character rumor, but I remember hearing the name in conjunction with MKII. The game's audits menu (Which had "Kano Transformations" listed, which is where that rumor comes from) had something called "Watchdogs" on it, likely to goad players to look for something that wasn't there. There's the source of the rumor, if you're interested. Shadaloo 10:23, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

inferno Scorpion merged here

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inferno Scorpion. Johnleemk | Talk 14:51, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Overboard classic subzero section

Why are there 4 huge paragraphs on Classic Subzero? In an article of minor MK characters? This is wikipedia, not a thesis for canonininity. The 3rd paragraph in particular is really insulting for the casual browser.Asdfff 09:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)asdfff

• Fixed. Shadaloo 13:12, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Takeda

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I was always under the assumption that Takeda left the Lin Kuei decades/centuries prior to the events of Mortal Kombat, and wasn't the leader of the Shirai Ryu at the time it was destroyed by Quan Chi. Are there any official sources that back this up? Virogtheconq

Mythologies Gods

When was it ever stated the names of the Gods of MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero? As far as I know, there was no mention in any game, and I don't think Boon or Vogel has said, either.... The S 03:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Those are the names that were on their pages before I moved them here (I didn't want to delete info that may be accurate, but I have my own doubts). Boon and Vogel wouldn't know, as it was Tobias who created them. I was under the impression that they were listed in the MKM:SZ instruction manual, and this is something I wished to actually bring up, but forgot about. If anyone can confirm their names, I'd like to know. Shadaloo 06:06, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I've looked through the Playstation manual, and I see no reference. I'd like someone to check the source materials (manuals, packaging, et cetera) of the Nintendo 64, PC, and Tiger Handheld versions to assist in this manner. The S 03:47, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Please

In the spanish wikipedia (`My first language is spanish) there isn't this article. Pleae, I need your intelectual copyright for translate this, Please!.

--Dsalazar23491 02:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

(in the es.wikipedia.org, I'm Dsalazar23491, too)

Well, I can't speak for everyone else, as this is a multi-user project, but it's fine by me. Shadaloo 12:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Hero Merger

I vote against merging it into this because, by the time MKA roles around, he will have such a large tale to tell that we will just end up splitting the two articles up again. I also have no clue why somebody put up that notice without addressing it. --SilentRage 18:47, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I vote he should not be in Minor characters because by the time MKA comes out he will be a major character. --Vash_15

• By the time Armageddon comes around, he'll probably have a proper name instead of just "Hero," so the article will be useless anyways. I'm actually of the opinion that Konquest mode will use a custom fighter anyways, with the names "Hero"/"Bob" just being examples Midway used for the promo vids. I'm all for deleting, rather than merging, since there's no useful information. Virogtheconq 05:57, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it should be merged. But i am not sure if it should exist either. Hero/Bob is being used as the name for the hyped up create a character. Seeing as it has no name and there are possibly thousands of variations for looks it can't really have a character page i would think. It would make more sense to have any info about it on the MK:A page to help make it more fully developed. izret101 01:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I don't there's a point in merging it. Why? Take Shujinko. He gained "main character" status simply by being in Konquest. Any merger is just going to need an unmerger. On the other hand I'm going to agree with Virog. If he's named Hero in the game, he'll be the single least imaginatively named character of them all. There's next to no information on him, what there is is miniscule, and it's all but certain this name won't be the final one. When the game comes out, someone'll have to give it a good play, finish Konquest, finish the Arcade game as him and get his bio info and then write an article about all we know re: "Bob". In its present state, though, this is as pointless as the articles we had some months ago that just read "Red Robin was a nickname given to the Mortal Kombat character we now know as Ermac". --L T Dangerous 21:24, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Izret, there's no point in keeping any part of the page what-so-ever. Perhaps just a bullet in the Armageddon page. -Kombat Krave 01:36, 01 May 2006

Well, now that we know a little more about his backstory and name, does the consensus remain the same? Shadaloo 12:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

kochal

kochal means koin challenge, it doesnt mean anything else, but i dont get why the smae person still says its a rumor.

Because at one point when MKD first came out and people weren't quite finished with Konquest mode, there were rumours going around that Kochal could have been one of the SU's. Then they found out that it just meant "Koin Challange". It is still worth keeping, because it was a rumor at one point. I think that we should make a seperate article for rumored characters, if one doesn't already exist. Also, please remember to sign your posts with four tildes, so everyone knows who we are talking too. SilentRage 18:50, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Inferno Scorpion

I think that because he is not his own character and is just a pumped up Scorpion with a different name, that this article should be merged into Scorpion's. I would put the tag there myself, but I don't know how too. -SilentRage 18:54, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree SilentRage, it should be under Scorpion's moves or Trivial facts. -Kombat Krave 01:29, 01 May 2006

Tasia

I really don't think that 'A popular story by a MK fan' has any place in an encyclopedia article, as it's purely specualtion, and definitely not fact about Tasia. It should be removed.

I must have missed that when it was added. Removed. Virogtheconq 21:32, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Wynd and Rayne article

Suggest we merge the information there into this article; the Wynd and Rayne article doesn't have a lot of information in it, and could easily be written in less than a paragraph here. Virogtheconq 02:28, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Picture and alignment concerns

The article looks really nice with a lot pictures, but several pictures in a row can cause alignment problems by leaving vast spaces of emptiness to provide room for overlapping pictures. A suggestion to alleviate this problem is to, in the event that two left-aligned pictures overlap, make one of them right-aligned or to resize certain pictures. (Notorious4life 21:00, 6 May 2006 (UTC))