And what species is Onaga, anyway? They call him the Dragon King, but he looks more like a man with dragon features than an real dragon.
There is a lot of similarities between Draco-Shokans and the Dragon King. They're similar in size, both species have three fingers per a hand, Goro and Onaga both don a ponytail, they share dragon scales and six limbs, both of the Outworld natives breathe fire, Onaga actually falls in love with a human in Li Mei's ending (this suggests a lot) and basically he is the only dragon that could even hypotethically mate with a human. Onaga having a portion of human blood would also explain Goro's dominant human features. Moreover Onaga is the only dragon in Mortal Kombat that is first and foremost a "dragon" since e.g. the dragons that we see in the end of MK9's story mode are "Elder Gods". There are different kinds of dragons even within our world's cultures – there are Welsh dragons and Chinese dragons for example. With that said, the Outworld dragon could still contain a portion of human blood, after all MK has a tendency of redefining the mythological creatures. Seeing the Elder Gods are never called "dragons" by their specimen but "gods", it might be that Onaga's species reserves the definition of "dragon" presumptuously. Onaga could be part human, part elder drake – though this one is an assumption – a bit like Edenians except Onaga's race would have inherited the dragon form attributes. Roalty commonly connects to divinity in the series hence Onaga was the Dragon King in lieu of the Dragon Emperor, maybe to remind Outworld about his legacy of divinity. There were also some flying lizards in the Kombat Tomb arena in MKII and MK9, but their definition in the MK cosmos would be something different altogether (not "dragon"). The Shokan have six limbs for so do the dragons; the wings are limbs too. The extra arms have made the Shokans the supreme fighters of Outworld.
Half-Dragon Prince Goro & Full-Dragon King Onaga
Red eyes of an underground inhabitant and bright eyes of an aviator
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And what the hell species is Onaga, anyway? They call him the Dragon King, but he looks more like a man with dragon features than an real dragon.
Did he like..possess Reptiles body or something..which could explain his reptilian appearance, he looked different in Raidens MK:DA ending.
And what the hell species is Onaga, anyway? They call him the Dragon King, but he looks more like a man with dragon features than an real dragon.
Did he like..possess Reptiles body or something..which could explain his reptilian appearance, he looked different in Raidens MK:DA ending.
I would take that as just an early design that was made before they settled on his final design, and isn't canon. Like how John Turk in MK3 became the standard for what Sub-Zero's face looks like even though he looked like a Chinese guy with a bowl cut in his MK2 ending.
Canonically, Deception and Armageddon did show us what Onaga's original body looked like and it's exactly the same as he looks while possessing Reptile.
Thanks to MINION for taking my Siginity!
And what the hell species is Onaga, anyway? They call him the Dragon King, but he looks more like a man with dragon features than an real dragon.
Did he like..possess Reptiles body or something..which could explain his reptilian appearance, he looked different in Raidens MK:DA ending.
I would take that as just an early design that was made before they settled on his final design, and isn't canon. Like how John Turk in MK3 became the standard for what Sub-Zero's face looks like even though he looked like a Chinese guy with a bowl cut in his MK2 ending.
Canonically, Deception and Armageddon did show us what Onaga's original body looked like and it's exactly the same as he looks while possessing Reptile.
seems fair :)
