Here are power levels for the first movie.

Chan: 12
Shang Tsung: 55
(absorbs chan’s soul): 58

Sonya: 16
Jax: 20
Thug: 7

Johnny Cage: 18
Stunt men: 5-12
Master Boyd: 24

Liu Kang: 34
Raiden: 10,000,000

Sub-Zero: 27
Scorpion: 30

Monk killed by Sub-Zero: 14

Monks who attack Liu, Johhny, and Sonya: 18 each

Liu Kang: 36
Black guy: 26
Shang Tsung after absorbing black guy: 61

Sonya: 20
Kano: 17

Liu Kang: 38
Kitana: 40

Johnny Cage: 25
Scorpion: 32
(toasty): 100

Goro: 65
Art Leen: 23
Shang Tsung after absorbing Art: 65

Johnny Cage: 28
Goro after being hit in the balls: 32

Liu Kang: 43
Reptile: 15
(human form): 39

Shang Tsung’s warriors: 25 each



Liu Kang: 50
Shang Tsung:65
(after losing souls): 43
Liu’s Fireball: 85

Shao Kahn: 140

Interesting undertaking... But wouldn't it be easier to do it based on all the characters in general instead of game-by-game? Unless you want to show the characters and how they grow stronger per game.
Also, the numbers seem to be really random, and I don't quite understand the basis for most of these... For example, Jax is considered one of the strongest humans in the world, yet you gave him a very low rating compared to Liu Kang, Baraka, Sub-Zero... In the official comic book, Jax was able to fight hand-to-hand against Kintaro, who seems to be 3 times as powerful, and that doesn't make sense based on your umbers here.
Also, even though Raiden's a God, you gave him a ridiculously high number that implies he's unbeatable; we've seen him lose before, and it is heavily implied that even as a God, he does not have unlimited power.
How come Smoke is considered to be so ridiculously powerful in MK3? Just because he can destroy the planet in a Fatality? Also, you made Jax ridiculously weak once again without the implants... We already know he's not like a regular human as he does have special abilities (Ground Pound is a perfect example), so there's no way that he could be so weak before getting the implants; if anything, he should be stronger than the cyborgs. Nightwolf has magical powers too, Stryker is still a riot cop with some kind of training (he should be the weakest out there, but not to the point that he is useless), and Sonya has special abilities that help her out too to make her really strong (she has to have good body strength to be able to throw someone with legs while standing on her hands, and she can fly...).
It's really hard for me to look at this list without criticizing it.

I've actually been waiting a few years for one to show up, though I was expecting a joke one. This is nice and reasonable.

"Black Guy" in the movie, iirc, is nammed Art Lean.



Ka-Tra

Art Leen is in my list. "Black guy" referes to the guy Liu fought. The first fight of the tournament.

I understand there are a lot of errors, and you're right, the numbers are pretty random. No, I didn't make Smoke so powerful just because of his fatality, I gave him that power level using the basis that he still has a soul, thus enabling him to "power up", so to speak (if you remember in Dragonball Z, the androids couldn't increase their power at will, except for Cell). Also, although Sonya and Stryker have low ratings, they are by no means weak, I mean, c'mon, at the start of Dragonball, Goku was already doing super human shit, and his power level was like 30. And yes, I gave Raiden a stupid-high rating because he is a god, but as far as I know (correct me if I am wrong), he does not actually fight in the game's story. I know he fights in the comics, but I don't think those are considered cannon (again, correct me if I am wrong).

Anyway, I'll make another list some time soon.

Well, if you're basing a lot of what you're saying on DBZ, then you must take into account that at the start of the DBZ saga, characters like Goku and Piccolo were between 300-400 off the bat, and that Raditz registered the farmer guy at 5, so you can't have someone like Jax barely over 100 when he can cause earthquakes as easily as characters like Sheeva and the other Shokan.
Also, you can't look at MK as being like DBZ (aside from the numerous deaths and resurrections) because the value of strength with regards to things like the soul aren't considered. The soul-stealer characters like Shang Tusng and Shao Kahn draw their powers from conquered souls but the rest of the cast do not gain power just because they have their souls too. Besides, when has Smoke ever "powered-up" before?
You're partially right about the comics, but you must keep in mind that there are 3 official MK comics out there (ones that Midway actually made to coincide with the games), and the scene I refer to with Jax against Kintaro is featured in the MK2 comic drawn by John Tobias. You'd have to look for them online though.
Last bit about Raiden there with regards to his God status, you kind of don't make sense with it because you rated him as being insanely strong, but the other Gods (Fujin, Water God, Fire God and Earth God) as being ridiculously weak. Raiden has fought before too (think Deception) and lost to mortals, so despite his God status, he can be beaten.

I thought in Deception, he gave up his deity status to fight alongside the mortals like he did in the second movie. When he did that in the movie, his power dropped like crazy.

He always has to drop his Deity status to battle in other realms; he dropped it in MK3 for example when Earthrealm and Outworld merged. Not sure about MK1 and 2, but considering MK1 had Raiden invited to the tournament by Shang Tsung himself, Shang must've known Raiden was beatable, because who'd challenge a God to a tournament featuring mortals if his God-like status would be unfair in the first place?

The Gods' may just not die from old age. Aside from that, they have powerful magics, "energies", and such.


Babidi, but not as patheticly weak. Turtle could kick his ass.



Ka-Tra

... and smoked bananas!!!

All these powerlevels are wrong.

Goku at the beginning of DBZ had a powerlevel of 10.
At this powerlevel, he could lift cars, take bullets to the head without injury, move huge rocks, run faster than any human, and jump several meters in the air.

Everyone in MK has a powerlevel under 10, unless we're talking gods.

Um, Goku's power level at the beginning of DBZ was over 400. I think you mean Dragonball. Even then, at the beginning his power level was 30. Hercule's power level is like 20, but he can't shoot fireballs, cause earth quakes, jump 50 feet in the air, move so fast he causes his oponent to spin like a tornado, fly, blow up the earth, steal another persons soul, rip off another man's arms, uppercut someone's head off, rip a person's body in two with his bare hands, uppercut a person 50 feet in the air....I could go on. If you're going to post something, make sure you know what you are talking about first.

Raditz scanned the farmer at the beginning of DBZ and determined that he was Level 5. If you're actually suggesting that the farmer was half as strong as Goku, then you really need to watch the show again and pay attention to the numbers.