The game was so rushed that ever Sonya Blade was scrapped.Ģ002’s Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance finally brought back Kabal! Unfortunately, it was to announce that he was dead. While it made a ton of sense – what with the villains being the Black Dragon gang – the game had a rough developmental cycle that forced Midway to cut the character. Pre-scarred Kabal was supposed to be a boss in Mortal Kombat: Special Forces, but that didn’t take.
It would be several years before Kabal was acknowledged again.
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It’s just as well since that movie featured too many characters as is. In an earlier version of the script, he and Kurtis Stryker were supposed to be potential heroes captured by the villains who would be forced into slavery, only to lead a revolt thanks to Liu Kang’s assistance. Kabal was only briefly mentioned in the movie Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. In a moment overused in the X-Men animated series, Liu Kang offered Kabal a spot on the team and he refused because of reasons. Kabal helped the heroes stop Kano and we got one of my least favorite cartoon tropes: the Superhero Team Status Quo Rejection. Sonya was sympathetic towards Kabal, likening his scarring to a girl she knew who was in a wheelchair. All things considered, he looks pretty good! Ergo, he had a bunch of ninjas mess up Kabal with multiple swords to the head.
His backstory was that, although he worked as an assassin for Shao Kahn, the evil ruler saw a prophecy that Kabal would one day try to redeem himself and turn to the side of good. Kabal aided Sonya against Kano and the Black Dragon, all the while acting like the Phantom of the Opera due to his scarred face.
“Amends” was the eleventh episode and dealt with Sonya coming across Kabal, voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. Some guys refused to wear shirts, Kitana refused to wear pants, and most episodes would have a moment of serious conversation to drive the plot forward, like how Jax was bullied for being fat as a kid or how Sonya needs to confide in Kitana about lady stuff due to the team being such a sausage fest.įurther Reading: Warrior King, the Forgotten Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter Cartoon Crossover This Saturday morning cartoon was a quasi-sequel to the first Mortal Kombat movie and played up the idea that various heroes would hang around in a cave all day and wait for bad guys to invade Earthrealm so they could send them back from whence they came. A year later, he got his very own episode of Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm. Kabal wasn’t completely left in the dust, though. More specifically, the return of Scorpion, Kitana, and a bunch of people who looked exactly like them. Not only did Midway nerf Kabal, making him less powerful, but the game was centered around the return of Scorpion. So of course, Kabal fell to the wayside that fall when Midway released Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Also, his Animality move saw him turn into a glowing rhinoceros skeleton…because that’s rad as hell. The visual was so effective that his opponent’s ghost would literally run away from his or her body. Of his two Fatalities in the game, one required he take his mask off, which revealed him to be horribly burned into some kind of horror whose screaming visage could scare his enemies to death. He barely survived the ordeal and survived only because of some makeshift respirators. Kahn’s extermination squads caught up to him and tore him up something fierce. Kahn shrugged and sent his armies to go wipe out any and all survivors.Īlthough Kabal’s bio didn’t outright reveal who he was, it did say that he was one of those survivors. He started absorbing the souls of everyone on Earth, but Raiden was able to protect the souls of a few dozen warriors. So reviewing Mortal Kombat 3’s storyline, it went a little something like this: after losing two tournaments, barbarian overlord Shao Kahn decided to straight-up invade Earthrealm using some kind of magic loophole that involved resurrecting his dead queen.
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