because.. it's the movie poster?
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07/05/2008 05:45 PM (UTC)
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Hmmm.. I dunno. I suppose it's not completely out of the question. Baraka's not exactly unpopular after all.


I beg to differ. Now, I may be wrong about this, but I have never heard any MK fan get excited about Baraka appearing. He seems to be one of those characters that everyone overlooks and doesn't seem to care if he's in the game. I think that Ed Boon and co. really like him, whenever he appears in a game they always make a big deal about it and call him a popular character. I have never recognized him as a popular character, he's kinda right in the middle of the spectrum of popular-unpopular and like-hated as far as MK characters go - and he's certainly not that iconic. I really hope he's not in the game.


I hope he's not in either. I'm certainly not a fan. I never said Baraka was anywhere near "iconic" status. However, while he's definitely not the MOST popular MK character, he certainly isn't unpopular. If you look at my post, I AM kind of skeptical about the whole "Baraka in MK vs. DC" thing. I was merely pointing out that what this guy suggests is not completely ridiculous. It could be a clue about Baraka. Though I am hoping it's not.


I think that this defines Baraka (and Stryker as well):

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWesley


No.

Im not a fan of Baraka, but he is definitely not as un-popular or as hated as you suggest with that “The Wesley” link.

And Baraka is iconic in the way that he is very well recognized among the general public, but he isnt as iconic as other characters who have actually done more crucial and important things in the story.

I do agree with you that he is in the middle, but your last comment with the link puts him in a very different position, one which is hardly true. I have heard of a few people hating the character, but not as much as to think the creators love him enough to keep bringing him back despite a "huge gerenal hate". Thats not true.

He isnt hated, he isnt super loved. He is just in the middle.

And remember, he is well known, and he was very well received by fans when he was confirmed for MKD, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he makes the cut, though I prefer other characters to be in his place...other more iconic crucial characters.


I kind of agree with that.

He's no Scorpion, that's for sure. But he's no Kai either. There are certain characters that are popular on a certain level.

Characters such as Baraka, Sindel, Mileena, and Quan Chi have much popularity, but not to an iconic point. (Sindel is getting close though.)

These characters are secondary on the popularity charts. Many video games, movie series, and tv shows have this. Here are some examples.

The Simpsons: We all know that Homer is the main character of show, and is the show's icon, but he is not alone in fame. Characters like Krusty, Moe, Ralph, and Mr. Burns fall right behind him.

Pokemon: Of course for most of us, when we here the word "Pokemon", Pikachu comes to mind. Still, there are his little buddies. For the most part, there's Jigglypuff. The cute, but easily angered ball of joy captured the hearts of millions after hearing her sing, then watching her draw on people's faces. That there explains why she was a character in Super Smash Bros.

Star Wars: When it comes down to it, Darth Vader is SW's icon, not Luke. Still, Vader isn't the only with fame. Characters such as Yoda, R2D2, and Darth Sith grew popular over the years as well.

So, as you can see, Baraka is quite popular. He just isn't an icon.
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07/05/2008 05:56 PM (UTC)
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The guy in the Mcast said there are hints the mk commuinty has not pick up on to piece together the roster.

1. This one hint I believe reveals an MK character which is baraka. The original picture of these two boxers have been discovered. They added spikes to the back of his head to make him resemble baraka.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/00AGoodMan/mkvsdcu_hell_tmk.jpg




2. On the NOOB sight, it says there will be blood, I think that's self explainatory.
Could be Kano in his MK3 costume
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07/05/2008 06:02 PM (UTC)
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Sorry for the double post, but on the THERE WILL BE BLOOD poster, the guys face, although not the right side, is shaded kind of purple, I know it's always like this but...A Two-Face reference?
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07/05/2008 07:47 PM (UTC)
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Vash_15 Wrote:
Sorry for the double post, but on the THERE WILL BE BLOOD poster, the guys face, although not the right side, is shaded kind of purple, I know it's always like this but...A Two-Face reference?


Two-Face is no fighter.

I don't think he'll be in the game.
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07/05/2008 09:58 PM (UTC)
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Here's something interesting, but most likely not a "hint" at anything. Take the image from Noob.com and turn up the gamma on it (I used ImageReady). In the upper right corner, near the brim of the hat, you'll see something that wasn't visible before. Now to me it looks either like one of the ninjas (Scorpion?) but also looks a bit like Cyrax or one of the other cyborgs. Here's some pics to show you what I mean. Most likely nothing, but interesting nonetheless.

Pic with gamma turned up.

Close-up


You can almost even see the hair/wires on the right side. But really, is Cyrax "iconic" enough?
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07/05/2008 10:06 PM (UTC)
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Ronny_Mac Wrote:
Here's something interesting, but most likely not a "hint" at anything. Take the image from Noob.com and turn up the gamma on it (I used ImageReady). In the upper right corner, near the brim of the hat, you'll see something that wasn't visible before. Now to me it looks either like one of the ninjas (Scorpion?) but also looks a bit like Cyrax or one of the other cyborgs. Here's some pics to show you what I mean. Most likely nothing, but interesting nonetheless.

Pic with gamma turned up.

Close-up



You can almost even see the hair/wires on the right side. But really, is Cyrax "iconic" enough?


hmmmm.

Here's a way to test this out. Find the same image from another site and see if using the same method yields the same image.


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07/05/2008 10:31 PM (UTC)
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I highly doubt the movie poster holds any other secret, other than telling the fans that MKDC will have blood.
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07/05/2008 10:55 PM (UTC)
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Ronny_Mac Wrote:
Here's something interesting, but most likely not a "hint" at anything. Take the image from Noob.com and turn up the gamma on it (I used ImageReady). In the upper right corner, near the brim of the hat, you'll see something that wasn't visible before. Now to me it looks either like one of the ninjas (Scorpion?) but also looks a bit like Cyrax or one of the other cyborgs. Here's some pics to show you what I mean. Most likely nothing, but interesting nonetheless.

Pic with gamma turned up.

Close-up



You can almost even see the hair/wires on the right side. But really, is Cyrax "iconic" enough?


this is the original poster

http://www.impawards.com/2007/there_will_be_blood_ver2.html

if you look in the upper right corner, you see the green, so sorry, not a hint, but good speculation
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07/06/2008 02:59 AM (UTC)
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Hmm. I may be over-thinking this/being stupid, but I'm wondering why there's more periods than necessary on the noob.com page. Ellipses have three periods(...), but there are four periods following "wondering"
Also, there's a bolded period spaced below the hidden text...I'm confused.

Oh, and on wordlscollide I think some of the letters in the text on the bottom are green...but I may just be looking for things that aren't there. tongue
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07/06/2008 05:34 AM (UTC)
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Click Sub-zeros eye and you get a page full of question marks.

i dunno if thats been said, but i thought it was pretty obvious since they did it with MKA Also - I think Kobra is the most useless character in MK history. And if we don't see him again i'll be happy. Not a happy as if they never invented him though.
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07/06/2008 05:56 AM (UTC)
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There are faces in the cloud on the worldscollide homepage.I saw like three. Most likely nothing, like the MKA wallpaper faces, but I swear, one of the clouds looks like Clayface.
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07/06/2008 06:11 AM (UTC)
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hmm... NOTICED SOMETHING

On noob.com, everyone knows that if you highlight under the picture, it says "In case you were wondering...."


BUT!!!!!


highlight more and there is just a simple "."

WHY?

It's not an html error because look at the coding

(I viewed the source of the web page to get this)



It looks as if Ed purposely seperated that "." from the rest for some reason.

any speculation on what it means?
And the two earths being connected by lightning is most likely that two realms merging together,
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07/06/2008 06:32 AM (UTC)
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Everyone knew about the period after the writing.
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07/06/2008 06:36 AM (UTC)
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then i guess im just a reminder
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07/06/2008 02:46 PM (UTC)
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not really a "hint" but an unexpected snipe.

in the bunch of scans form the magazine where we first saw the flash and sonya. The article does mention a few characters unexpectedly, not in relation to the game, but in an almost un-needed fashion. the only one i recall is tlaking about unknown facts about characters perhaps making them "iconic". the ONLY one i remember as i am a fan of this character, was the random as hell throw in from the mk team "for example, did you know SEKTOR was the first of the cyborgs?"

just random stuff that is not needed to be included, but is anyways, almost like they are trying to set the eyes of avid readers onto these characters.

my money is on sektor. i know...

"its just cuz ur a sektor finatic casselman!!!"

but i honestly believe so.. if im wrong im wrong, this game looks crazy either way.


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07/07/2008 02:40 AM (UTC)
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^^^

Cool theory with the Cyrax pic and movie poster.

Casselman Wrote:
not really a "hint" but an unexpected snipe.

in the bunch of scans form the magazine where we first saw the flash and sonya. The article does mention a few characters unexpectedly, not in relation to the game, but in an almost un-needed fashion. the only one i recall is tlaking about unknown facts about characters perhaps making them "iconic". the ONLY one i remember as i am a fan of this character, was the random as hell throw in from the mk team "for example, did you know SEKTOR was the first of the cyborgs?"

just random stuff that is not needed to be included, but is anyways, almost like they are trying to set the eyes of avid readers onto these characters.

my money is on sektor. i know...

"its just cuz ur a sektor finatic casselman!!!"

but i honestly believe so.. if im wrong im wrong, this game looks crazy either way.


-Casselman


You know, that does make sense.

It was like the “we would be surprised if Kung Lao and Sindel doesn’t make it” or something like that comment in one of the mags.

???

Sektor rocks btw. The robots are iconic in their way, so if one of them is supposed to make it, I say Sektor or Cyrax (Cyrax is quite popular and has been the more favored of the two, so I guess he has a chance as well).
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07/07/2008 02:47 AM (UTC)
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As much as I love Cyrax and want him to be in the game, I really doubt that poster has any hints of Cyrax in it. the green spot is only a green spot with lines.
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07/07/2008 10:27 PM (UTC)
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In the new Flash picture, under his left arm it looks like the word Venom, maybe Venom will be a playable character
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07/07/2008 10:37 PM (UTC)
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darkrazor Wrote:
In the new Flash picture, under his left arm it looks like the word Venom, maybe Venom will be a playable character


Venom's from Marvel, dude.
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07/07/2008 10:39 PM (UTC)
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lol at the guy who thought Venom would be in a DC game. Seriously, do you have any knowledge of comics at all? Hell did you even fucking see Spider-Man 3 at least?
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07/07/2008 10:52 PM (UTC)
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darkrazor Wrote:
In the new Flash picture, under his left arm it looks like the word Venom, maybe Venom will be a playable character

Nice find! Maybe it's a reference to The Joker seeing though one of his most famous weapons is named "Joker Venom."
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07/07/2008 11:14 PM (UTC)
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one of his (Joker) most famous weapons is named "Joker Venom."


Now that makes sense.

Though Joker isn't much of a fighter.
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07/08/2008 12:30 AM (UTC)
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Riyakou Wrote:
CrowLord13 Wrote:
one of his (Joker) most famous weapons is named "Joker Venom."


Now that makes sense.

Though Joker isn't much of a fighter.

Thank you. He actually is though, it just depends on the writer. Some writers portray him with fighting skills so good that he can even hold his own against Batman. It is a common misconception that he isn't a fighter.
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07/08/2008 05:46 AM (UTC)
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K, it looks like a sound wave(the yellow line): http://www.noob.com/noob10.jpg

I've tried to reproduce it into some program to see if I'm able to hear anything, but I don't know how to do that. Any idea?
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