These theories are absolutely ridiculous. I don't know where you people get off on saying that Kahn and the DK look the same. From what I've seen, they look entirely different. If some spiky armor makes you thing he is Kahn, I'm surprised somebody hasn't said "Okay, so he has spikey armor, right? That must mean that the DK is Armor King from Tekken!!" Honestly, give it up with Kahn. We saw him die, we know that the DK has been dormant for an extremely long time, no evidence points to this matchup

when did kahn get wings? anywho people have to stop with ridiculous therioes. this is why games should be antcipated and little has to be shown otherwise people are going to babble and think of things that dont make sense. kahns not the dragon king. the kings been his egg while kahns trying to rule earth and all the other realms. people shouldnt speculate on the story yet on the game play cause thats a game is all about. i haveent specualte much except the gameplay. only way we can draw conclusions abot mkd's storyline is by looking at mkda.

Well, the person who started a topic must have been trying to release a rumour. Oh well, didn't work. How about you (the guy who started the topic) go through the story and endings of MK:DA. You MIGHT learn something

Although I think that Reptile is the DK, I've also drawn the conclusion never to rule anything out.

As stated before, with the amount of screwing around with the story that has been done previously anything is possible...

Yeah if the spikey armor mattered, I'd say the Dragon King was the Super Shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie...

But anyways, I believe the DK is Reptile 100%, Reptile's MKDA ending is just too convincing.

lol, i'm liking the super shredder idea... anywaze, technically if the name above the Dragon King said Shao Kahn it wouldn't really be the Dragon King in the first place, it would in fact be Shao Kahn... and really I just said that too be difficult and thus made my post more convoluted, but I see your point that Shao Kahn could be the Dragon King (there's the deception right there) but I doubt it highly.

The whole point of killing off Liu (although it seems the tricky bastard snuck back in) and Kahn was to start the series in a new direction, by creating a new main hero/villain... I don't think the MK team would go to the trouble to develop the set up in Deadly Alliance just to have a twist in the plot where Kahn is the DK, which is not to say that Kahn is dead, just that I think Reptile's a more likely choice.

However, just for kicks (and to contradict myself) I thought up a fairly plausible explanation/story for Kahn being the King...

~After being defeated by Liu Kang and the Earthrealm's warriors time and again, Shao Kahn was severely weakened. He had predicted that his subordinates would either abandon him or betray him, so he devised a plan that would allow him to rid those unfaithful to him and restore him to his peak strength. Just as Kahn suspected, the sorcerors Quan Chi and Shang Tsung attacked him and killed him. Shao's body was broken, and his soul abandoned it into a new vessel: a dragon's egg.
Kahn would now bide his time and wait for the prophecy to be fufilled, and the return of the Dragon King. It was his loyal servant, Reptile, who would serve as Kahn's new host. The combined ruthlessness of Shao, the savagry of Reptile and the power of the baby dragon spawned a new entity: the Dragon King~

what do you think? this explains Reptile's ending and also why DA didn't say outright that Shao Kahn was dead. It also explains why Kahn kept Reptile around even though he caused the extinction of the rest of his species (er... that was Kahn right?)... feel free to argue with me

I was not sure if you were being Sarcastic or not.

Noob Saibot comes from reversing the the Original Founder's last names. Boon & Tobias.

Why don't they just use the name "Bud" for the Dragon King?

scorpion15152004 Wrote: Noob is the abbreviation for noobie,it means when someone is new too the site or something.

"BUD" WINS...FLAWLESS VICTORY

lol

I'm not talking about mk Noob Saibot or I would of said it.I'm talking about the word they use when you're new too a site it's noobie.

Um...now..I could be mean about this but it wouldn't be right of me and I certainly don't want to get any skull points and/or be banned so I'll try to be as nice about this as possible.

Here are some things that will help clear some confusion and misunderstanding and that bad stuff:

The Dragon King is a very ancient king who existed long before Shao Kahn.

Shao Kahn and the Dragon King are NOT the same person and Shao Kahn and Reiko are NOT the same person. However, you will find out what happens to Shao Kahn because he isn't dead.

The Dragon King has been dormant for a long time while Shao Kahn was in power in Outworld and then eventually, Shao Kahn lost many times and was weakened over his years against his battles against the forces of Earth. Then Shang Tsung and Quan Chi attacked Shao Kahn and then left to go to Earthrealm to kill Liu Kang. When Reptile arrived, he found Shao Kahn bleeding and assumed that he was dead but Shao Kahn was merely injured.

Anyway, I hope this helps and to all of you, please pay careful attention to my post so that there'll be no repetition in asking certain questions.

For God's sake people, there has NEVER been a Mortal Kombat character that wound up actually being another Mortal Kombat character; NEVER. Reiko isn't Shao Kahn, Reiko isn't Rain, Noob Saibot isn't the original Sub-Zero, and Meat isn't Shang Tsung (Among the other ridiculous rumored X character= y character rumors I've heard.)

The Dragon King is simply that; THE DRAGON KING. That is who he is. I don't know why it's so hard to comprehend for some of you that there are more than 65 people in the world of Mortal Kombat.

Ahh confusion with Ed's name. You are referring to Newbie.

scorpion15152004 Wrote: I'm not talking about mk Noob Saibot or I would of said it.I'm talking about the word they use when you're new too a site it's noobie.

... or noob for short which is where the confusion comes from... Noob is a term used by one to make another feel inferior and/or attempt at making themselves look more informed. The term noob can also be spelled n00b (ooh, that's right... I spelled it with two 0's... I'm L33+
) in further attempts to appear superior, but instead often comes of as egotistical uber geek.
Anywaze, if one was talking about Noob Saibot, perhaps they should capitalize the N?

how did this become a discussion about who's a noob? back to the actual subject of this page: the Dragon King... as I stated before, I don't think that Shao is the Dragon King, nor do I think that he was before. I was being very much sarcastic in the last post, but with a hint of seriousness. Some1 else *can't remember who, sorry* had said "after all the crap they've pulled with the storyline, you don't think Shao could be the DK?" anything's possible in MK...

It would be cool if you were fighting the Dragon King in Arcade and when you beat him he would explode and reveal Shao Kahn, then you have to fight him again. LOL, Good idea though, right?
Or...considering Liu's Animality is a Dragon, he could be there instead of Kahn. (^_^)

No bad idea there... Because it's not Shao Kahn as many have said. THis was in another thread and this makes sense why everyone thinks rekio's Kahn. Ok Rekios MK4 ending he walks in sits down in Kahns thrown and puts the helmet on. MKDA Shang and Quan Chi rush in and kill Kahn. Well maybe it's not Kahn maybe it was Rekio. Meaning Kahn would be alive. Now the Dragon King does look sort of like Kahn but thats it.

DK THEORY 1 When the egg cracked the Dragon king might of needed a body or something maybe when he died and they got his soul and put it in a egg so when it hatched he would return. But he needed a body to be human or w/e u want to call it. So he shot in to Reptile and Transformed him into what is now the DK. Now I'm not saying that Reptile is the DK and I'm not saying he's not. But when he was transformed he became the DK. SO reptiles dead no matter what maybe the ninja will come back lol. Or they thought he was overated and got rid of him.

Dragon King Theory 2: When the egg cracked it had so much pressure and heat behind it that it changed Reptiles form and out came the DK.

THeses are my opinions.

What's the dragon king's name??? Any thoughts?

It's like putting the word Ninja in Sub-Zero's energy bar. Or Oni in Moloch's energy bar....

Will the energy bar say "Reptile" for the Dragon King?!?

juergen Wrote: What's the dragon king's name??? Any thoughts? It's like putting the word Ninja in Sub-Zero's energy bar. Or Oni in Moloch's energy bar....

Why would they put Ninja in Sub-Zero's energy bar when Sub-Zero never was or is a Ninja?

Btw, I suggest all of you read my post.

And one more thing, Liu Kang isn't the Dragon King.

i know liu kang isnt the dragon king....but i think that would make into a great story line....liu kang was once the lead defender of earth and now he's ruling outworld in a different form....idk about you guys but i think that could be a possibility since the storyline hasnt ever been rilly too...well u know....and since kang is supposed to be back in zombie/ghost form or w/e that wudnt surprise me and i'd like it....just my opinion tho

DK is not Kahn.

As to why people think Reiko is Kahn here is why:
In the MK4 GameBoy ending it states clearly that Reiko, after defeating Shinnok's forces, reclaimed the throne he sat on when he attacked in the previous tournaments (meaning he's Kahn, that's what is meant by Kahn's helmet on Reiko's face at the end of the game). That's a rough summary of the 'written' ending of Reiko (GB not having video endings). You can read it at the Kombat Pavilion.

Oracle_Thunder Wrote: DK is not Kahn. As to why people think Reiko is Kahn here is why: In the MK4 GameBoy ending it states clearly that Reiko, after defeating Shinnok's forces, reclaimed the throne he sat on when he attacked in the previous tournaments (meaning he's Kahn, that's what is meant by Kahn's helmet on Reiko's face at the end of the game). That's a rough summary of the 'written' ending of Reiko (GB not having video endings). You can read it at the Kombat Pavilion.

this could have meant that he ruled a different kingdom and was secretly using fighters in the mortal kombat tournament to take over the earth. his plans were obviously not very sucessful since he remained unnoticed until the time of mk4.

perhaps he had seen shao kahn's helmet and thought it was uber-awesome so he decided to have one just like it made for himself.

where can I see this Dragon King picture?

Alright, the bumping is getting out of hand. There was no point in reviving this thread, since it's basically just a statement with no proof which followed into flames.

Somebody please close this.

wow, this thread is old... who the hell bumped it? lol