I recently heard the song "Head Like A Hole" by AFI, and while I was listening I thought that it would be a great theme for Shang Tsung. I'm not too sure about other characters in the series.

would it sound weird if I said that I think of the song "iron man" for rayden?

i have plenty. god of thunder (kiss) for raiden, hells bells (acdc) for shao kahn, "shout it out loud" (kiss) for johnny cage, "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" (acdc) for dairou, "break on through" (THE doors) for liu kang, "peace frog" (the doors) for stryker, and "eye of the tiger" (no idea" for kung lao.

Some songs will remind me of more than just one character, so I'll list by character

Kano:
Judas Priest - Breaking The Law
Testament - Over The Wall

Raiden:
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Creeping Death
Slayer - Raining Blood
Iced Earth - The Reckoning
Sinai Beach - Necessary Bloodshed
KISS - God Of Thunder
Mastodon - Blood And Thunder
Judas Priest - Painkiller

Liu Kang:
Iron Maiden - Flight Of Icarus
Hatebreed - Final Prayer

Scorpion:
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
Slayer - Born Of Fire
Pantera - Hollow
Slayer - Dead Skin Mask
Megadeth - The Scorpion

Noob Saibot:
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Testament - First Strike Is Deadly

Reptile:
Testament - First Strike Is Deadly

Sub-Zero:
Slayer - Cryonics
Metallica - Trapped Under Ice

Sonya & Jax:
Slayer - Expendable Youth
Metallica - Disposable Heroes
Slayer - Mandatory Suicide
Anthrax - Gung-Ho
Slayer - War Ensemble

Shang Tsung:
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Black Magic
Testament - The Haunting
Testament - Souls Of Black

Nitara:
Slayer - At Dawn They Sleep

Stryker:
Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55
Judas Priest - Breaking The Law

Nightwolf:
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
Anthrax - Indians

Mileena:
Black Sabbath - Dirty Women
Anthrax - Medusa
Pantera - This Love

Shao Kahn:
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Anthrax - The Enemy
Slayer - Angel Of Death
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Dimmu Borgir - Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse

Quan Chi:
Slayer - Hell Awaits

Kung Lao:
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Anthrax - Lone Justice

Baraka:
Judas Priest - The Ripper
Children Of Bodom - Needled 24/7

Kitana:
Black Label Society - In This River
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
Pantera - Hollow
Hatebreed - A Call For Blood
Judas Priest - Worth Fighting For

guess I am not so weird, yikes the raiden list is long, and some of the scariest (but coolest) songs ever

raiden
thunder kiss: by white zombie

sub-zero
ice ice baby: by vinilla ice

liu kang & kung lao
that kung fo fighting song not sure who sings it

baraka
more human then human:by white zombie

reptile
toxcity:by system of a down (no idea why but that song reminds me of him)

thats all i can think of at the moment

well now I am tempted to make cds for each characters using both this and the song request threads

For some reason I've always associated Vangelis' Conquest of Paradise with MK2... yes! that crappy latin chorus music! For some reason for the longet time I thought that song was from MK.... I especially associated it w the monks...

Usually when listening to a song, I listen to the music, not the lyrics so some of these might seem odd to you. :P

Mileena:
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Nirvana - Been a Son
Heart Shaped Box
Stain
Something In The Way
Tanya:
Jimi Hendrix - Foxey Lady
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song

Sonya:
Nirvana - About a Girl
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

Sindel:
Pearl Jam - Alive
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Sheeva:
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower

Jade:
Jimi Hendrix - If 6 Was 9
Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary

Kitana:
Bob Dylan - Lay, Lady, Lay
Nirvana - All Apologies

Nitara:
Nirvana - Breed

now that I think of it, Enter sandman is making me think raiden too yikes, I guess any dark song does that to me right now

thankfully a few of the mk annalation songs make me think more of reptile, but the names escape me right now, but another one that does make me think of my fave lizardman

Bleed by papa roach - it sounds like his life a bit to me

My personal opinions.

scorpion: seek & destroy by Metallica

raiden: black thunder by the HU or ride the lightning by Metallica

noob: blackened by Metallica

sub zero: trapped under ice by Metallica

liu kang: the god that failed by Metallica

Baraka: I am the beast by DETHKLOK

erron black: house of the rising sun, the FFDP version

spawn: hail to the king by Avenged Sevenfold

skarlet: bloodbath by DETHKLOK

rain: go into the water by DETHKLOK

there y’all go👍🏻