mkflegend Wrote:
On your martial arts post, well except for the fact that again....most characters CAN fight in MK via martial arts....


... Okay, you read it, you just didn't understand any of it.
You have no idea what ham fisted gestures are, do you? I sometimes forget I need to elaborate more...

Stryker's a very specific example of a character who's conceptually supposed to be a very proficient martial artist, but has never really been shown to be that. MKA was a much better representation in-game, but nothing we know about Stryker says much more than tubby riot cop with weapons.

The Question's had forty years to accumulate a print library of countless examples of his fighting expertise. His stature as a fictional fighter is immediately present. In contrast, like many MK characters, Stryker has very little tangible evidence of his ability - tangible evidence being something you can actually look at and compare and assess.

As a theory this is a problem for many of the MK cast.
Because the beats of a story usually supercede characterization, most characters come off shallow, boarish, or moronic. Very little of the drama or struggle does anything to build their credibility as fighters. Our time with Liu Kang as a character is typically something like his MK4 ending, or MKSM, where the character is little more than a dawdling idiot.

The Question, like most DC characters, has been touched by some exceptionally talented writers. The volume of this work lends far more credibility and specifics to the realised fighting potential of the character.


You mentioned other fighting games... A Tekken, a DOA, a Street Fighter... All of these series have readily available examples of their characters performing with individual, and rich fighting styles. Their gaming mechanics are vehicles to much more readily display their characters in a light that supports their fighting ability.



Ok, so by your view of the Question he's boarderline "supernatural" even though his wiki explanation or elsewhere online doesn't say that.

I think you're giving him just a tad bit too much credit honestly, I've read a little bit about him, seen the shows with him. He's nothing more then a great detective, good fighter and is rather very clever and smart. Other then that he's really nothing "supernatural" like you're going on about here.

So, he'll be able to anticipate "stryker from a far pulling a gun" you do realize that Stryker is a cop right? And not some street punk, he's heavily trained, as his MKA look even suggests has a good arsenal of weapons and can hold his own well enough. Like I said before, up close it's anyones call....Stryker is an experienced cop trained obviously to fight well, Question is also a highly trained martial artist but Stryker wouldn't give Question the chance to get NEAR him lol.

I disagree with you on the MK characters not being defined well enough with their martial arts or or have proof, if you read and follow the storylines of each character individually you'd know and understand more that certain characters just like DC or anything else can fight better then other characters but overall they can all fight well.

I mean, ok let's take Sub for example. He's survived ohh let's see here onslaughts by the Lin Kuei for disobeying their rules when they were the "old corrupted Lin Kuei" from Sektor, Cyrax, Smoke and most likely other smaller ninjas from the clan as portrayed in the TV series.....then he survived MKD's events on top of the whole Scorpion and Quan-Chi stuff from MK4 going on around him.....yeah, MK characters can fight if a mere Ice Ninja can fight off undead spectres, powerful sorcerers, highly trained and evil ninja cyborgs with missles, and other technologically advanced weapons....

Liu Kang and Kung I don't even have to go into, they're among the least powerful from a "supernatural" point of view and have defeated many powerful foes over the years, enough said. I can go on and on but yeah...

I definitely disagree with you on that concept.

Actually, I understand your Stryker point , what I'm saying is that not only with MKA's intro of portraying Stryker's fighting abilities but there's also his storyline, he's survived Kahn's invasion and most likely fought against Kahn's minions. You have to realize in most stories even DC at times there's a lot that must be assumed. I mean, example...in the Superman and Batman vs. Alien and Predator comic(couple years back) Superman was zapping and fighting off lots of Aliens...did they say 10 or 40? no..but either way it's assumed that he fought off LOTS. In the pics you'll only see a few at a time, but knowing aliens it's assumed it was several since they hunt in packs. And Stryker isn't a "tubby cop" why you think that puzzles me but since you feel that way, that might be why I feel you're not that familiar with Stryker....he's not tubby nor fat. He's very fit actually and muscular. He's not this "huge bulky" dude but he's not tubby either... lol

Same thing with MK, a characters storyline defines just how powerful they're and the MK characters can fight just like any other fighter/characters.

We are talking about these characters overall with all their abilities vs. one another, with all their weapons in which stryker simply has better, more far range weapons then Question does and would just shoot him lol. I mean he had the auto pistol in UMK3, the machine gun, tazers and grenades in MKA....I just don't see Question "anticipating or dodging" all of that from an experienced Cop.

If you were referring to some punk with a few street moves, I'd agree with you but not someone of Stryker's calibur.