Prince.

no he is 1 of his generals i think he was ex lin kuei or something i read something on it awhile back but anyway he dies in annilation and in deception he has the ability to control water and weather and stuff he quite a mean character if u get to know him well on UMK3 ohh yea and he doesnt really like shao kahn he plans to nick his throne just like reiko

Rain was the son of an Edenian general who was killed by Shao Kahn 10,000 years ago. He was smuggled out of the realm when he was a child. During MK3 Rain returns and serves Shao Kahn out of fear for his life. But Kitana gets Rain to turn against Shao Kahn. However, during a battle Rain mysteriously disappears and everyone thinks he's a coward so to prove himself he goes on a suicide mission to destroy Shao Kahn.
Obviously he didn't kill Kahn but it was never confirmed he died in his attempt.

Rain was one of Shao Kahn's henchmen in MKT, the son of an Edenian general. He joined Kahn's army to save his own life. During the Earth invasion, Kitana found him, and convinced him to turn against the Emperor, as his father had been a hero before Kahn took over Edenia. Rain fans will deny this bit, but since there's nothing to say otherwise, he was most likely killed by Kahn. Rain's own ending says he went on a suicide mission against his former leader (note the word "suicide"), and since there's been nothing on Rain since, I think he's dead. Imo, he's best left in the past, a filler like Jarek, Hsu Hao and Tanya.

Rain was NEVER a part of the Lin Quei. I think that was an early idea for him which was dropped, but it accidentally made it to print in some manuals. Rain was a hoax in UMK3, appearing in the intro, but not the game (though he was added to home versions in place of Sheeva), his name and purple outfit colour are references to Prince, or whatever he's named himself these days.

Rain is still alive on deception he is in outworld and edenia trust me ive done both his quests jade kills him in edenia and in outworld he asks u to find a the shokan dagger

Yeah, but when he was created he was a joke about Prince. Purple Rain, Rain is in the graveyard (with prince's career). Since the initial joke though, they seem to be elaborating on him a bit.

The side missions in Konquest aren't canon.

i know they arnt but no1 in the previous 1s have killed him has them?

As far as Storyline, he really wasn't a cannon character anyway so it doesn't matter if nobody killed him. He was just a joke.

Does Meat appear anywhere in any story modes?

Rain is a canon character in the storyline. Doesn't matter what he started off as, he is part of the storyline and is very canon.

Meat and Chameleon are the only "playable" characters that may or may not be canon. I tend to believe Chameleon is not (since Khameleon is) and that Meat is very likely a real entity of some sort, due to the fact he actually does appear in MK:D's Konquest mode in cameo form.

Do you think Human Smokes dream state is a canon character as well?

ermac - joke character
noob saibot - originally a joke character
rain - joke character
reptile - originally a joke charcter by Tobias i think
stryker - was never supposed to have existed after MK1
classic sub-zero - only for gameplay, no story

erm, you're a little off topic there buddy but I see that you're new to this forum so I wont criticize it.

im not really off topic cuz isnt that wat this thread is about? just clearing up that rain along with others were not real characters in the story at first. just jokes or easter eggs in the games

Human Smoke is canon. Not in the tradional way in that he actually fought as a human in MKT, but it is true that he did look like that in the past and now he's stuck as a robot. That's really all H. Smoke's story is saying.


Everyone says Classic Sub-Zero is non-canon but I can't think of anything pointing to that. He has a story. It's true he hasn't been mentioned since MKT, but neither had Stryker before MKD. They could bring him back at anytime.

The extra characters in Trilogy aren't canon appearances, but Human Smoke is still a canon character because he was human in MK2.

MK Trilogy added a bunch of people back in for completion purposes, which were not canon. Among these are: Goro, Kintaro, Human Smoke, Classic Sub-Zero(maybe) and the Classic characters from MK1/MK2. These *appearances* weren't canon themselves, but in their original games they were canon characters, just like Smoke. Any time Smoke appeared as a human after MK2 isn't canon because he simply is not human after that time.

The "Classic" Sub Zero in UMK3/MKT may or may not be canon. I believe that he is non canon, like Mokap in MKDA, he was given a tiny scrap of storyline, but has no real place in the MK timeline. Since Midway are very unlikely to do anything with a third "Sub Zero" character, I think he should be considered a non canon extra.

In his ending, we are told that he is NOT the MK1 Sub Zero (who went on to become Noob) but someone else, who'd fought in a past tournament. I believe this was just an excuse for them to get yet more mileage out of the overworked male ninja sprite, and please those who hated younger Sub Zero's MK3 outfit.

I believe Trilogy is sort of loose a representation of the entire storyline of 1 through Ultimate, and based on/working around fan service.

Matt

ermac was never a joke character neither were half the characters u said but noob was just by the name

-Reptile was a creation of Ed Boon's and was a last-minute addition to Rev. 3 of MK1; he was so top-secret, I don't even think Tobias knew about him.

-Noob Saibot was basically another pallet swap added to a later revision of MK2.

-Ermac was based on an un-proved glitch that would change Scorpion's outfit red in MK1. They gave him a crappy story in UMK3, then revised it and made him more of a real character in MKT.

-Kurtis Stryker was initially going to be in MK1, but was then replaced by Lt. Sonya Blade, as the creators thought that the game needed a female fighter. When the idea to bring him in MK2 came about, his name was changed to Major Jackson Briggs. They finally branded a character with that name in MK3.

-I highly doubt they had planned on continuing Classic Sub-Zero's story, and that he was there just for the excuse of having a Sub-Zero in uniform.

-Rain was a draw-in for people to play UMK3 in the arcades (remember the teaser in the intro that showed him fighting Shao Kahn at the Blue Portal stage?), and was given a story just to say he existed. He's considered to be a parody of a Prince song though.

Aside from Rain (even though he was more implied to be an excuse for players to waste quarters), none of these characters were intended to be jokes.

It's true CSZ has a very short and vague story, but it is SOMETHING. That's enough to make him canon. Ermac started off almost exactly the same way, with a very lame story in UMK3. With him they decided to expand on it. They could do the same for CSZ. It's not likely, but it is possible. Until then he is just an irrelevant footnote during Kahn's invasion.