Sub-Zero_7th Wrote:
We don't know what the Hanzi (Chinese characters) for the names of the Sub-Zero brothers are, so it makes it really difficult to determine what their names mean. I mean, MK Wikia has some Hanzi for their names, but I'm not sure if they are the actual ones for their names like it is with the Hanzi for Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and Shang Tsung.
Yes... With the Twitter at hand, the only way would probably be to directly ask the developers' confirmation concerning the uncertain theories or in the podcasts similar to The On Blast Show. Perhaps in a blue moon I will.
German Noob SaibotNoob's Dorfen, the arena from Mortal Kombat 3, is an arena whose name "Dorfen" means a town in the southwest Germany
(Boon's Dorfen? Ed loves Germany?), and while we haven't figured out the background story for that name, Ed Boon's Twitter account is "noobde" which includes the country code of Germany, "de", as well as "Noob". There actually is also a website called
www.noob.de but it has nothing to do with Mortal Kombat. However, I translated the text therein and it told that despite of numerous pleas, the host
will not sell the domain name for marketing – suggesting that maybe NeRdS have been trying to acquire the domain as the next "Noob.com". Hints at Noob.com's return have been cast and Noob seems to be Ed Boon's pet from the secret fighters; ergo it seems more about "when" than "if" a new Noob page will appear. Although "de" refers to "ed".
Bi-Han's blood origins are told to be Chinese and "American". I've always considered the "American" part vague but obviously his American family descends from Europe: thus could his roots lie in Dorfen? I know, I know, far fetched and stuff this is but theoretically this would be entirely possible.
Lin Kuei Unit CodesI finally took a look at the cyborg unit codes that I asked whether or not somebody could examine in the spring. I tried to apply the most logical way of translating the numbers i.e. the 26 alphabets
(A=1, B=2 etc.) thus Cyrax 4D4 would be Cyrax DDD but IMO there is nothing in that, is there? Nonetheless, Star Wars has a big bunch of droid units – that resemble the Mortal Kombat cyborgs – and there is one black and yellow droid whose name is
B-4D4 which is
pretty close to that of Cyrax which is 4D4. We know that Star Wars has been inspiring Mortal Kombat. You be the judge.
Heck, I'd like more power for better Mortal Kombat etymology study, like an own dedicated page or something. RyanRaiden the original poster hardly writes here anything. Not much asked in my opinion, though surely won't be happening here. I'm delighted that there are other awesome people interested in the name backgrounds, that's something. Our progress would defensibly become more productive: more team oriented, cyclic etc.
