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So how do you want baraka to look??
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posted01/04/2011 06:21 AM (UTC)by
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Frost89
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Apart from reptile baraka has been through more physical change than any other MK character throughout the series because of the sudden change to his look in mk deception. Most characters change and develop their costumes but baraka has actually changed as well in terms of his face and body

so here are baraka's many forms:










so from all his looks which one do you think is best for MK9? what features do you want him to keep and which ones to lose?

personaly i like his most recent mk vs. dc universe looks and i want them to keep:
- his teeth being really long instead of short like in deception
- his skin colour being more yellow instead of brown or olive like in deception and gold
- his head being point and egg shaped

but i also wish he was slimmer and agile like in the early mk games, and it doesnt really suit him to me.

i also hope he doesnt have spikes on his head anymore, they just look dumb. and i never liked the fact that he wore armour, i think he would look scarier in shredded clothing or something
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 •12/30/2010 08:00 AM (UTC) •
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I prefer him with the spikes on his head.

And I'd like to see something like his MK2 shirt come back rather than a breastplate this time.

Also, and I know this is a ridiculous longshot, but I really, really would like to see him get chopped in half by Kung Lao in the plot, so he can have the MK Gold body-staples again in the next game. I love those and I wish Deception hadn't gotten rid of them.
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One more ounce will make me feel so great.... wait... now i cant feel my face.

 •12/30/2010 08:02 AM (UTC) •
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I do like his teeth in MKvDC, but ultimately i think i like his deception look the best. Idk, it's between deception and mkvsdc. I definitely dont like his slimmer look. Baraka should be a bulky guy, imo. He's the leader of a barbarian horde, not a village of hunter-gatherers. Also, chill out on the slobber.
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 •12/30/2010 08:25 AM (UTC) •
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Wait; Baraka got chopped in half by Kung Lao and survived, canon wise?

Being a Tarkatan, Baraka possesses incredible strength and stamina. He also possesses a potent healing factor, as he was able to survive Kung Lao's vertical slice Fatality, though he was required to wear metal staples.

What. The. Fuck? He was chopped into two halfs and managed to heal himself? So basically, Baraka is immortal?
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 •12/30/2010 08:50 AM (UTC) •
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Demon_0 Wrote:
Wait; Baraka got chopped in half by Kung Lao and survived, canon wise?

Being a Tarkatan, Baraka possesses incredible strength and stamina. He also possesses a potent healing factor, as he was able to survive Kung Lao's vertical slice Fatality, though he was required to wear metal staples.

What. The. Fuck? He was chopped into two halfs and managed to heal himself? So basically, Baraka is immortal?


Where's that quote from? As far as I know, Baraka's never been said to have a healing factor before and HOW he got chopped in half was never canon, we all just assume it was Kung Lao because he's Kung Lao's nemesis and Kung Lao does that to people in his fatality.

I'm just saying I want to see the staples return and the reason for them made canon 'cause I like them. And I never necessarily assumed he survived the cutting in half under his own power - he's working for Quan Chi in MK4, so Quan could've shown up to save him with his magic as his method of recruiting him.
Yea I believe he survived kung lao's hat slice because quan chi braught him back to life in mk4 thus the initiation of the staples.

I would personally prefer his mk vs dc look with a bit more detail to his arms (in terms of his blades) and an ABSOLUTE, his mk2-mkt fighting stance, that stance always made him look brutal. I guess you can say that mk vs dc tried redoing his stance to some extend.

I AM SOOO PUMPED FOR THIS GAME!!! grin
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 •12/30/2010 09:26 AM (UTC) •
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I normally go to the MortalKombat Wiki for additional info. The info appears to be quite accurate, to me (though that quote about Baraka might not be accurate).

http://mortalkombat.wikia.com/wiki/Baraka

You can find that quote under "Powers and Abilities".
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 •12/30/2010 09:58 AM (UTC) •
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The Mortal Kombat wikia site is literally THE most inaccurate plot FAQ site I have ever been to, dude. Almost every page contains something that's pure fan-fiction on it.
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 •12/30/2010 10:25 AM (UTC) •
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something like his shaolin monks look, with the mk2 shirt. i thought everything about his dc look was awful, terrible costume and terrible teeth.
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 •12/30/2010 10:44 AM (UTC) •
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RazorsEdge701 Wrote:
Also, and I know this is a ridiculous longshot, but I really, really would like to see him get chopped in half by Kung Lao in the plot, so he can have the MK Gold body-staples again in the next game. I love those and I wish Deception hadn't gotten rid of them.


O_o personally i;d be happy if i never saw any hint of those staples again. i heard the king lao hat slice fatality thing too but got no idea where... maybe it was just a rumour that got out of control
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something like his shaolin monks look, with the mk2 shirt. i thought everything about his dc look was awful, terrible costume and terrible teeth.

i didnt like his dc look either but i think his teeth are the best they have ever been- a lot more barbaric and menacing
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 •12/30/2010 11:11 AM (UTC) •
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I was just reading Reptile's page in the MK wiki. It mentioned he was tried for genocide in Edenia, which although is very much possible, has never been confirmed. Banished, yes. To the Netherrealm, yes. Trial in Edenia? Not from any bio/ending I've seen.

As for Baraka, I'm gonna go with the MK4 version. Mostly because every version after MK4 had that dumb-shit facial expression (it made the MKvsDC model almost unviewable).
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 •12/30/2010 11:13 AM (UTC) •
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TemperaryUserName Wrote:
I was just reading Reptile's page in the MK wiki. It mentioned he was tried for genocide in Edenia, which although is very much possible, has never been confirmed. Banished, yes. to the Netherrealm, yes. Trial in Edenia? Not from any bio/ending I've seen.

As for Baraka, I'm gonna go with the MK4 version. Mostly because every version after MK4 had that dumb-shit facial expression (it made the MKvsDC model almost unviewable).


To be fair, they showed Sindel putting Reptile on trial in the MK4 collector's edition comic.

But unlike the canon MK1 and 2 comics, the MK4 comic wasn't written by Tobias, so it isn't necessarily canon.

Either way, I can find a lot worse made-up shit on the MK wiki than that. For instance, Scorpion's page used to say that his middle name is "Sasori", the Japanese word for scorpion. Which of course is complete bullshit, the games never gave him a fucking middle name.

Now it just says Sasori was his Shirai Ryu codename. Which...well, if you speak Japanese, I guess it's technically true, but the characters don't speak their native languages in the games, everybody speaks English. His name is Scorpion, telling me how to say "scorpion" in different languages is just wanking off to your own knowledge of another culture, that's not how an encyclopedia article is supposed to work.
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 •12/30/2010 11:31 AM (UTC) •
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Off Topic: I remember when it said Hsu Hao's middle name was Hazon or something like that.

ALSO I saw some on Shang's Page that went lik;' My nizzle for shizzle; or someting like that. I got rid of that.
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OT: I'd prefer his MKD alt for his look, but I fear we may see his MKD primary. He needs his MKDC teeth though. No spikes on his head.
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 •12/30/2010 11:35 AM (UTC) •
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RazorsEdge701 Wrote:
To be fair, they showed Sindel putting Reptile on trial in the MK4 collector's edition comic.

But unlike the canon MK1 and 2 comics, the MK4 comic wasn't written by Tobias, so it isn't necessarily canon.

Hmm. Although I wouldn't consider it a bad thing if the Edenian trial was canon, it does kinda beg the question (and I'm getting slightly off-topic here): what's the difference between banishing someone to the Netherrealm and killing someone and thereafter letting their soul natural enter the Netherrealm? Is there some benefit to the former?

RazorsEdge701 Wrote:

Either way, I can find a lot worse made-up shit on the MK wiki than that. For instance, Scorpion's page used to say that his middle name is "Sasori", the Japanese word for scorpion. Which of course is complete bullshit, the games never gave him a fucking middle name.


Now it just says Sasori was his Shirai Ryu codename. Which...well, if you speak Japanese, I guess it's technically true, but the characters don't speak their native languages in the games, everybody speaks English. His name is Scorpion, telling me how to say "scorpion" in different languages is just wanking off to your own knowledge of another culture, that's not how an encyclopedia article is supposed to work.

Although it's definitely offensive, I do find it funny that some kid out there thinks Scorpion's middle name is actually (and conveniently) "Scorpion."
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 •12/30/2010 11:53 AM (UTC) •
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TemperaryUserName Wrote:
what's the difference between banishing someone to the Netherrealm and killing someone and thereafter letting their soul natural enter the Netherrealm? Is there some benefit to the former?


That is exactly what's always bothered me about Reptile's MK4 bio. Opening a portal to Hell and tossing someone in is easier than an execution? Really? That makes no fuckin' sense.
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 •12/30/2010 12:03 PM (UTC) •
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In addition to that, I was always a bit baffled that Shinnok made Reptile a General in his army. A bit of a strange choice if you ask me. I also found it strange that he was charged with genocide. That came out of no where. Unless of course, they're referring to him assisting in Kahn's genocide of Earth, but why not just say that?
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 •12/30/2010 12:12 PM (UTC) •
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Well why is Edenia charging him in the first place? Why is he in that realm?

I dunno, maybe it's one of those artifacts from the whole "Before MKDA retconned it, Edenia wasn't merged with Outworld, it WAS Outworld, Kahn died in MK3, and Sindel is ruling Kahn's kingdom now" thing. It doesn't make sense in the modern era.

Conversely, maybe when the realms split, he got stuck in the wrong one.
Either way, I can see being stuck in Edenia and responding to his confusion or anger with a random killing spree not being totally out of character for Reptile, especially as MK4 seems to be regarded as the early days of his devolution, which means his mind and ability to reason are degrading.
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 •12/30/2010 12:45 PM (UTC) •
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I would like new looks for him.Totally.This general Baraka shit just doesn't fit him at all.No armour, no shit.Something like that would be nice :

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 •12/30/2010 12:47 PM (UTC) •
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That's just MK2 Baraka without a shirt on, right there.
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 •12/30/2010 02:17 PM (UTC) •
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That't how the head should be
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 •12/30/2010 02:31 PM (UTC) •
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I like him with an armor, something that tells me Baraka in not just another Tarkatan, but the leader of them. Not a Shining armor. An armor that Has seen 200 Battles, something that tells me Baraka is the Man, you need To level a City, Call Baraka!
You need To kill all the Withe Lotus, Call Baraka, he and his Tarkatan horde will get the Job Done!

somthing that tells me o man, this guy is Bad ass, even for his race.

The teeth, i prefer them not as long as he will looks like he cant talk.
A Cool And Used Armor that represent his leadership of the Tarkatan.
His Stance should be offencive with little care for defence, something like Wolverine in the Vs siries could be fine by me.
He chould fight with his blades all the time, giving him grate fighting reach something like this will be one of his strong points, a low defence because he is all ofence and reach.
I hope they remove his projectile move, because every one has one and thats not special, when even grama can trow one, makes it not special.
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 •12/30/2010 02:58 PM (UTC) •
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I never liked the armor or the stupid fucking basketball jersey.

If Baraka's a wild nomad mutant he should look the part, not wear armor.
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 •12/30/2010 03:16 PM (UTC) •
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Baraka was always the one that reminded me of an executioner-style character and needs to look as dark/gritty as possible (MK2/MKGold were his best attires) He just needs his MKT spin move, blade fury, and blade spark move and he'll be set nice well maybe a new move or 2 would be a plus.
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 •12/30/2010 03:28 PM (UTC) •
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Zentile Wrote:
I never liked the armor or the stupid fucking basketball jersey.

If Baraka's a wild nomad mutant he should look the part, not wear armor.



I dont like the armors he has been using, but when i think of Baraka i think of the mongolian horde.

Hi is the leader of this Horde, not jsut a silent assassin (like Reptile). he is the leader he could use a Leather Armor, Torn to pieces for the innumerable blattles he has fought.
A mix of Samurai with Mongolian Horde leader.
Badd ass, Cunning and Ruthless, And a Savage in the Battlefield.
but by no means a stupid bo brains killing mashine that only takes ordes.
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 •12/30/2010 03:32 PM (UTC) •
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I want Baraka to have something similar to his MK 2 outfit with a few upgrades.
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