Monday, April 1, 2013

Shao Kahn
Mortal Kombat
Evil: Very
Insanity: Yes
Powers: God-like strength, can consume souls, intelligent, stupid (in my eyes), can wield magic
Occupation: Mad king of Outworld

Description: I can summarize Shao Kahn's character very easily, in the middle of a very important fight, whether he's losing or not, he has the nerve to yell at you in a very deep and powerful voice "It's official, you Suck!!". Shao Kahn truly is a dick, his attack patterns consist of a lot of spamming of moves that do a lot of damage, are very unavoidable and knock you around six ways from Sunday, and every now and then he'll taunt you, making his arrogance his greatest weakness. A huge reason why I think Shao Kahn is completely idiotic is because he wants to merge his world with Earth, which I think is a stupid idea, there should be all sorts of other worlds that he could probably conquer but he is set on conquering one, even if it meant risking his own life for several billion souls that he will consume. Earth seems to be under the special protection of the Elder Gods yet he wastes his time attempting to conquer it, rather than taking several other potential victims. If anyone was wondering about what kind of helmet he is seen wearing almost all of the time, the helmet is stylized after a Samurai helmet, this style is called a Kabuto. Unlike several other characters in the franchise, the appearances of Shao Kahn hardly change. In MK 2011, his X-Ray attacks tend to be brutal, dealing a lot of damage, and the use of said move tends to make the fight lean to his favor. He will spam moves a lot, but occasionally he'll stop to taunt you, which is the best opportunity to attack. If he gives you a hard time by spamming moves, the best logical way to beat him is to fight spam with spam, so go nuts with uppercut or those jump kicks. Nobody is sure why but whenever a word begins with the letter C in this universe, they replace it with K, hence why some people call it the MK disease that everyone, even Shao is afflicted by, and later we will see another villain who is afflicted by said disease from a game completely unrelated to the fighting genre. It is rare of a MK game to not have Shao in it in any shape or form, excluding the original of course but I think that he is mentioned at the end however.

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