Just wondering who all of you think is the coolest "rumored" character.
What I mean by that characters that were never actually in a game, playable or secret, but were meerly glitches/rumors. I'll give a brief description of each just to make sure everyone is famaliar with them, if you have any additions to this list, feel free to add them on.
Ermac: Yeah, I know he was in UMK3 and MKT, but he was the original glitch character. For the few who don't know about his origins, he was a glitch of Scorpion, he was the red 'ninja'. Displayed where Scorpion's name should have been, it read "ERror MACro". The capatilized letters are to show where his name came from.
Nimbus Terrafaux: A character that was said to be real, and not a glitch at all. He was supposably an African American kickboxer and he was to appear in MK1. Many fakes were made around the time of the rumor, which added alot of mystery, until they were proven to be false. Still, I've seen many people here who would like to see him in the future.
Skarlet: She's the female Ermac of MK2. A glitch of Kitana or Mileena, she was also a red tinted color. She was dubbed Skarlet by the fanbase, I think by a magazine, though I am not sure. The name "Skarlet" never appeared in MK2 exactly.
Tourch: Though, he eventually turned out to be Blaze, he was part of the MK2 Pit Background. He seemed to be having a battle with Liu Kang, a green Liu Kang though. Note to some of you, Tourch is NOT the Fire God from MKM, that character has no name that we know of.
Hornbuckle: Tourch's opponent in that background. Named after a person working with Midway (I think, not sure), most think he is just Liu Kang. But with the developments in Blaze's new storyline in MKDA, he could turn out to be a workman for the Dragon King. As I said, he is of a green tint.
Note: I am not going to include those rumored 'ninja' clones that were supposably in MKT. Pinklet, Blizzard, etc.. they had no real story behind them. As I said, post more if I happened to leave your favorite out.
i alwsys heard something about someone named red robin on mkII. cant remember where i red it.
also, "hornbuckle" isnt tinted green..his pants were..but thats probably what you meant..and i never heard that blaze is tourch. the "tourch" in the mkII back ground was only on fire from the waste up. i always figured it was because liu hit him with a fireball or something. but someone said that blaze's file name on mkda is tourch. but i read that they called him that due to the fantastic 4's "human tourch"...not the character in the pit 2.
~Crow~ Wrote: Hmm... didn't Boon say that the one of the secret characters would have something to do with a background in MK2? I think I remember a poll about that on this site before the game actually came out. "Torch/Tourch" was on that list I think, thats why I always figured that he was indeed Blaze. Since Mokap obviously was not in any background, and yes, I meant Hornbuckle's pants, lol. |
yes it was said that "one of them have ties to an mk2 background". that doesnt mean that they actually have to appear in the background itself. but, people are gonna beleivr what they want reguardless of what others think or say. tourch very well may be blaze, but until i hear boon him self actually say "blaze was tourch from the pit 2" then all i can do is wonder..lol. maybe in mk6, they'll update the mk history and tell how they came up with some of the characters.
but anyway, back to the topic, lol.


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RainerFatalis Wrote: Before you ask, I am a bit of a noob... In MK2 is there any concrete way to see Ermac? |
Nope, there was no concrete way to see Ermac until UMK3.
The God Of Fire's name is Yu. The name is revealed in a novel by Jeff Rovin entitled simply Mortal Kombat. The other names of the elders are also included in the novel. Fujin of course is the God of Wind. P'an Ku is the God of Earth, and T'ien is the god of water.
Anyway, I remember another rumor I heard sometime ago before MKDA was released. There was something about one of Shang Tsung's shadow priests being a hidden character. I always thought one of those being a character would be an awesome idea, but it looks like that never became true for MKDA. Oh well, perhaps we could see one in the future.


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i wish i had something cool to say
she wore a blue outfit similar to her mk3 but with medalions. she also had a "c" shaped scar going down her face and if you high punched her too many times it would start to bleed and she would lose life slowly. if she died because of this she would be unplayable until the game was shut off.
stupid, but i heard it. i was young so i believed it too. so i like that one for a fake.

i also remember hearing stuff about smoke, i thought he sounded so cool, i used to pretend i was him in like 1st grade, i would pick up some gravel and throw it at my friends and pretend i hit them with smoke...heh, i also used to carry around my mk strategy guide everywhere, even after my cat peed on it, im gonna go throw up now...

I always like the idea of a Red Female Assasing known as Scarlet, and I try to ended w/ a fake on the fan art lol
I always like the Error Macro I belive I still have something that made people belive he was really in Mk1 let me uploaded.

Wat ya bot te si, see is a fak, comprende? lol
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When MK3 1st came out it was rumored that Cyrax was really scorpion in disguise. Since his mission was to kill sub-zero and it just so happeded that he was yellow and scorpion was missing. The other was when UMK3 came out you know the demo that is shows. Well at the time the ninja in white was thought of to be a character called ROCK since smoke was a cyber ninja and that ruled him out of being the dude in white. Of course we all found out later that it was human smoke. :.P






Malice Wrote: There is another secret character in MKI for genesis besides Reptile, it's Sonya glowing green. Although it's a glitch, it is still there. |
There are many characters like this, like "Raid-tile". Though, this glitch character actually has his own moves I believe. I think he had moves like spear, freeze, in-battle fatality, backwards lightning, backwards torpedo, and possibly other moves as well.