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" Yo bro I main Kano. Who's yours? "
" Mines, Huitzilopochtli Kahn "
Power of fuck will
Fax 😂
Broooo 1000%.
Finally someone that understands why they changed his name
@@Official_artifactsmp i can totally say that in my lenguange.
“ Let’s take away what makes them unique” Raiden then went on to be one of the most iconic faces of the franchise
“Raiden show me who did it” 💀
@@Bbyface._Amayaa “She kinda bad tho is that frost”😹
@@saucytrap “👨🏾🦱”☠️
@@Bbyface._Amayaa “I know I said No Pause 2019…”
Oh Berlin
"Change his name for no reason" my ps5 started floating when you said his name
"No reason." Like his name isnt gonna summon a demon.
"For no reason"
Yeah I can't see why they'd change huitzilopochtli's name.
None.
You are weak
You are strong
You are pretty average in strength
You are below average in strength
Your bodily attributes are evenly distributed
Ya gotta remember when these characters came out, like first Mortal Kombat games. Back when they were literally just pictures of dudes in costumes and 1 claymation dude
Goro n Kintaro were the claymation dudes right?
Kotal Khan was added in MkX, only 7 years ago, not the first games.
@@Korrupted_dust Goro, Kintaro, Sheeva and Motaro were clay figures
I have had the privilege of playing all games
@@randytheredneck1771 even special forces!? 😬
"Lets change his name for no reason" You know how hard it is to fucking say his name for a normal person? XD
The fact that Kotal Kahn looks very similar to the aztec god is pretty cool
I mean… thats how they were dressed even warriors dressed like that, also the Huitzilopochtli thing is somewhat wrong as MK11 separates Kotal from that character, in any case Kotal is a Chaman or Avatar
@@TotallyNotKanyeyea that makes sense I guess no decided to go there own way with it
I thought that was the point lol. Like, even the people he ruled, the Ashtek or whatever, sound like Aztec! Heavily rooted in that theme, which is pretty cool
@@thenitpickchannel9993 osh’tekk.
@@TotallyNotKanye eh close enough
For the first one they probably just made them more humanoid for the fatalities. And they probably changed his name to make it easier to pronounce.
Edit: These were just ideas that I was spitballing. I don't pretend to know what the creators of Mortal Kombat were thinking way back when they created these characters.
Same thought along with the fact they gotta do the mocap
The first ones were already humanoid enough. Just horns and difficult skin colors
@@redwayne4282 mocap would not be affected by this as the oni are very anthropomorphic.
Changing a name because it's hard to pronounce doesn't make it a good excuse
@@umokwhy2830 🙄
"For no reason" bro have mercy on the tournament narrator having to repeat that like 506 times
that would have been funny actually
@@DiamondAppendixVODs imagine if you were the caster id quit
Realistically they'd just say Huitzi or something like that
@@tortoisesoup16 Huitzil is the robot in Darkstalkers
When you make a product you should make it correctly
Mexico: gets representation
The character: gets bodied in almost every cutscene
Baby steps baby steps
*Gets turned into a meme for being a jobber
A what?
@@pabloandthebucketeers698 A jobber is someone who always loses. They "do the job" of making someone look good.
Historically accurate
If they made them have a transformation for Raiden and Fujin I feel like they would make them more interesting 😊
Might have made a cool fatality actually
Be honest here the average person will have a hard time pronouncing the name of the Aztec god
that one in particular because I'm pretty sure a normal person would have a problem saying most mythological names
I just call him Quetz becuase i cant for the love of life pronounce his name. And believe me i tried becuase as someone who's name gets butchered all the time i know the frustration of getting your name butchered
@@alaktusarratum that is not Quetzalcoatl... It's a different god.
might as well call them architect
@@TheFoxBurnDen see what i mean? Can't even get the right name
"Let's make Kotal Kahn's back even more breakable"
“Give this man a promotion!”
Now he's on a wheelchair
Yes, but when he breaks his back he goes into wheelchair mode and then no one can stop him. KK in a wheelchair is a force of nature.
@@smilegabe He started off hating Tarkatans, now he doesn’t really care
Kotal Kahn: I have been crippled...
"Dang, they didn't put in characters that are just regular ass oni wearing loincloths."
"What the fuck, why did they change his name to something understandable and pronounceable for an international audience."
Gonna be honest, if raiden looked like those dudes up there, it'd be really hard to take his character seriously
And yet, I still can't take him seriously
Nah ist actual Look is the reason why noone i know can Take him serious
So i call cap
@@lucasmeixner654 youre telling me you'd take a pair of fucked up lookin flabby red and blue demon dudes with big bellies more serious then what we got?
sure you could take that design concept and make it looks cool, like with Kotal Kahn, but if they took directly from the source material, they'd be goofy as fuck
Actually, he'd look ferocious and you might want to take him seriously. Lol
@@zosazsatara5889 IF they adjusted the design, youre telling me that goofy red mf with curly hair looks ferocious?, he looks like a pug, hands down the goofiest mf ive ever seen (in a good way, I'd love it, but y'know wouldn't fit the serious mk tone)
Nothing wrong with having a character BASED on something without being a carbon copy
Yeah I think it'd suck if Raiden and Fujin were big monsters, plus nobody can pronounce that dudes name it's sounds like wheatpillowpouchtitty
I like carbon
@@bobbygroover also the mythology version eat babies, not protect people.
@@LumaSloth same
@@LumaSloth idk man, carbon makes up nearly everything.
You gotta remember, back when they made Mortal Kombat there was no internet and the costumes were from Spirit Halloween.
Stop lying 😂😂😂
@@ihadtochangemyname5595 are you joking
@@ihadtochangemyname5595 look it up
@@ihadtochangemyname5595 he means the 199-something arcade, you buffoon, you absolute fucking dummy
@@ihadtochangemyname5595he's not lying. The internet was made public like 3 months before the first game's release
Raiden and Fujin are great characters and have great designs ngl
He really thought he was cooking too smh 😂
Change his name fore no reason? I almost had a stroke trying say the name in my mind
Really? It isn't that hard
Kuet
Zal
Coatl
@@mirzapramudya1580 He didn't even say Quetzalcoatl 💀
@@weedgoofy4323 bruh, my bad
Aztec names are absurd, I swear I heard him say Quetzalcoatl
@@mirzapramudya1580 still, that name is fucking mouthful, idk why y'all tryin to defend his " for no reason " statement
Just say
Huits
Shilo
Postley
That's just ONE of the inspirations for Raiden and Fujin. Need to watch Big Trouble in Little China for the other.
Standing here
@@gradedsplash1324 no
@@slimy3638:)
I realize
I bet kotal khan is more easy to pronounce that HUITZILOPOCHTLI Kahn
The reason behind raiden and fujin is that MK1's characters are made by disguised actors in a blue screen with low resolution so they couldn't make their appeareance that complex. Goro was made using a toy and stop motion.
Yeeeaahh, but Goro…
Was an exception.
Not a main character in the same way.@@bfan82
Also I could be wrong on this but I think raiden was more inspired by the characters in the movie Big Trouble in Little china
@@danielvilllareal9726 you’re not wrong, he was.
@@TheManBehindTheMask1_really? I kind of thought so but wasnt sure
The early MK games were all live recorded animations, they actually filmed real people and used the footage to make the sprites for the game. Because of this every character needed to be humanoid and simple enough to be a costume that an actor would wear countless times throughout production, hence all the color swaps and simple designs of the early games. This is why raiden was designed as a regular looking human, because it is literally footage of a regular human in every animation, I guess it stuck and they felt no need to change him once it was technically possible to create more complex characters
They coulda say this is they true forms
@@MLEMOBLIFEENTERTAINMENT or, people could not complain about bullshit.
That's a poor excuse. Other characters like reptile have had their look updated and they had fucking goro in mk1.
@@blackwingdragonmasta yeah I believe goro was made out of claymation, probably took a lot of work thats why hes one of the only ones like that, they probably did not want to do that more than they absolutely had to
@@blackwingdragonmasta I mean the characters take on a life of their own at a certain point either way based on backstory and whatever the developers feel at the time. Not so much an excuse as just an explanation of how things were done back then and then why they stayed or changed to fit their needs and community.
"Change his name for no reason"
Nah it has a very good reason, no one would be able to pronounce the name of the guy he's bases on
If people can learn how to pronounce tachovsky, Xi Jin ping, and others, people can learn how to pronounce huitzilopochtle
@@alexavalos5437 its just easier to change the name for a wider audience
@@alexavalos5437 xi jin ping is WAY easier to pronounce and even read
@@HexManiac-nf1yg it's easier to say because first of all, it's widely known how to pronounce because people had to, and listen to this part here , LEARNED how to say it. Something with tachovsky. No one wants to learn to say an indigenous name and that's fine, but changing it to something else for your convenience is lazy and a slap to the face.
@@alexavalos5437 first off, most people can't say tchaikovsky's name, you couldn't even write it correctly. Second of all, Xi Jin Ping is really easy for majority of english users, because it's literally how you would pronounce the letters, except for the x, which people already get wrong. The name change was good
TO BE FAIR…
Raiden was in the original game, back when making unique demonic characters would have been VERY difficult, considering they were using essentially rotoscoping.
So he was human because…
Well, it was kinda needed to work.
And he was actually a rip off of the guy in Big Trouble in Little China.
Not any of the multiple gods of thunder you could claim he is a redesign of.
We didnt just change his name, we also made him a total Jobber!
More like a Kotal jobber lol
Im new to being liberal is jobber a dog whistle
@@Maestro-gh2ei it's a fighting game term for characters who rarely, if ever, win a canonical fight.
@@DurtyDan ah that makes a lot of sense thank you, im going to choose to believe it as a slur though
@@Maestro-gh2eijobber isn't a lib term
I wonder if the next movie they'll give them demonic modes.
*game
@@trixon2118 mortal combat was turned into a movie... More than once...
@@yhormelgigantica6972 and? They're still based on the game so until Warner Bros agree for directors to make "demonic mode Raiden and Fujin" it will be first added to the game
The devil
@@trixon2118 Raiden has a skin in mkda that makes him look slightly similar to the Raijin of japanese legends.
He still looks human but he sports the long hair, traditional clothing and mala beads chain.
Raiden was actually based on a the lightning god from a movie called “Big Trouble in Little China”
That can't be true 🤣
@@WileeCoyote1516 it is
It is along with Shang Tsang who is based on the main villain. Johnny Cage’s personality is similar Kurt Russell’s character from the same movie.
@@antoinehicks2681 Johnny Cage is based off of Jean Claude Van Damme
Facts
So it’s him
Bruce lee
Vann damn
Bro is literally the personification of "uhm, actually"
I think the inagural season was incredible for Play More. Might not have made it this time, but making it that far as a start bode extremely well for the future of the team. Can't wait to keep watching and see Play More reach for the top next season!
The inspiration for Raiden and many others came from the movie, “Big Trouble in Little China.” The resemblance is uncanny and it didn’t come from the Japanese gods
Raiden and fujin are literally just the gods of lightning and wing. They're very clearly inspired by mythology since their powers and names are taken from those gods and they are gods themselves.
@@blackwingdragonmasta the characters in big trouble in little china look almost exactly like raiden and there are three of them. Each one having different powers. One has lightning, the other thunder, and the last one rain. Raiden was inspired by both myth and movie. That’s all OP was saying.
Dylan Schafer nope wrong answer they are still shinto gods.
@@leroyjenkins3744 nope they literally said they didn’t come from the Japanese gods
For no reason? Man's name is the verbal manifestation of the way it feels when you take a sip of a drink you thought was something else.
to be fair, that aztec god's name is one hell of a mouthfull, i think the voice actors would of rage quited from trying to pronounce his name.
With kotal was a different story
"Let' steal the ogre from the tekken..."
Fujin is the most handsome man in MK11 cant argue that
The GOAT, carried the entire game for me while being only dlc
@@weewee3486Shang Tsung and Fujin carried that DLC.
Gayyy
Robocop
Idk man. Kano was pretty good lookin for once lmaooo
Raiden's design is based on a character from Big Trouble in Little China.
I imagine they thought it would be weird to have Fujin looking like an Oni, if Raiden looked humanoid
Plus, imagine the parents' outrage if their kids were to play a game with two horned demons in it.
yeah, Raiden is blatantly a rip off of the Storms.
Themythologyguy : *mentions mortal kombat*
Fans of sonichaxd,trueunderdawg and the 4th snake : WHO DARES AWAKEN ME FROM MY SLUMBER
People usually forgot that when they first make MK1, they were very limited in what they could with budget and resources lol
And the conversation at Nintendo was, Hay lets turn them into pokemon
Where does landoros(?) Fall in?
@@lucas_leoheart google says Landorus is based on Inari the Japanese god of fertility and is also the patron of blacksmiths and protector of warriors
@@jonathankruger6356 what about the new one ? Enamorus ?
Rayquaza be like
Hey at least they kept the look
Imagine wanting a game that has “Combat” misspelled in its title, to be accurate.
Bro what?
@@3ASY355 mortal kombat
@@kungflupenguin1067 yeah I know. It’s just that his komment is dumb. Mk is been around since 1992. The reason the C is misspelled was cause of trademark issues. His comment made it sound like they unintentionally misspelled the title for decades🤦🏾♂️
@@3ASY355 to me it seems like a random creator is getting content off of something that is only an issue when you make it one. Something that has been going on more of a rampage than recent pandemics.
@@3ASY355 no, he’s saying that wanting a game, that misspells things intentionally to be accurate, to its source material is dumb. He’s not saying that mortal kombat is stupid for misspelling things, he’s saying that the expectations for keeping the demon designs is not logical since they didn’t even spell the name of the game correctly.
Let's make Crocodile Dundee an Aussie mercenary version of Cyclops
Just because he has *a* laser eye? That’s like calling a pizza a weird savory version of a jam filled donut without jam, sugar, or it’s top half, but instead a bunch of cheese and tomato sauce.
I can't wait to see WHEN THE DEVS PUT SATIN IN MORTAL KOMBAT skit 😂
Imagine being this guy
No reason ? Had to google Huitzilopochtli to have the spelling and I still can’t pronounce it after hearing you say it.
Now imagine in a syllabic language like Japanese
Ha-weet-zu-lo-putch-dee
This is a very rough guide based on how he says it in the video. I'm not an expert or anything.
"hard to pronounce" is still no reason tbh
Mk isnt a japanese franchise, it’s actually banned in Japan
Weet and putch aren’t syllables in Japanese
I think you pronounce it like weet-see-lo-po-ch-tlee (Im not from México but i speak spanish) my english is not that great so i cant explain why you pronounce it like that, sorry
Kotal Kahn in MK11: AHHH MY BACK!
Lore accurate Kotal Kahn: Fear me!
Kotal Kahn is actually based on Buluc, a War God from Mayan mythology
Well. Huitzilopochtli is kind of THE god of the Mayans. So it makes more sense to be based off of him considering it’s much more well known. He also has the blue skin, the feather crown and the sickle thingie so it kind of chess out
@@VValuntHuitzilopotchli is Aztec, buluc is Mayan, kotal is based on huitziliopotchli not buluc
Well kotal kahn had his names changed to fit lore, as a kahn is a royal family in mortal Kombat
Khan is a title my dude
@@Spyderinagourd that’s what I meant
Quetzalcoatl
Coatl is prounounced the same as Kotal
Man I am so old. When the first Mortal Kombat came out, they used live action humans/actors for the game, that’s probably the reason why. It was new tech at the time, and it blew our freaking minds!
The lore is that humans had always expressed fear over the knowledge of other realms and Earthrealms protectors kept actual knowledge to a minimum and Liu Kang continues that trend, with Shao Kahn criticizing him about Earthrealms ignorance. That is most likely why they are not actual representations of mythological figures from mankind’s perspective in the MK universe.
I’m pretty sure Raidan’s design is inspired by the character Lightning from Big Trouble in Little China since he also wore a wide conical hat that obscured his face most of the time.
I didn't know they looked like that actually but I'm gonna be honest I love how Fujins face looks in mk11 and his voice fits pretty well definitely wana see him in upcoming games
"Change is name for no reason" Bro is definitely the same kind of guy that calls Mario "Super Mario" everytime.
Creators of MK: “oh look I have to suddenly sniff the table FOR NO REASON”
Mortal Kombat: Makes changes to mythical beings.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: We make lcards out of them, Raijin and Fujin are basically which appears to be the equivalent of a shikigami or some other kind of golem.
The reason is, How are you going to take pictures of those demons for your gimmick of actual people fighting.
This put me into a deep dive of mortal combat lore and it’s so awesome
"oh who is this guy?"
"oh just a random drunk aussie i met last night"
"i want to put him into mortal kombat"
"oh ok, sure why not"
"i will also give him laser eyes"
*in alternate universe where huitzilopochtli's name stays the same in mortal combat*
Some person:yo dude, wanna play mortal combat
Other person:sure ill be *proceeds to mispronounce huitzilopochtli's name*
*A large red horned man with wings emerges from the ground*
Some person:yo dude, you summoned the fucking prince of darkness
Never mind. It's just Raiden...
I would guess that changing his name would make it easier to pronounce and/or spell. What did they change it to?
Kotal Kahn (Kahn is his tittle)
Kotal Khan, Khan being passed down as a title from Shao Khan and other prior Khans that rule over outworld.
See his official name in the fighter select screen is Kotal Kahn(kahn is his title as others have explained) but in the story mode people have called him Koatal (pronounced Koh-uh-tal instead of Coat-ull) and idk why but it confuses me bc i dont think it was ever explained why hes referred to as that
@@gh0style239 Because all the names we read are based on Earth Realmers pronunciation while the outworlder cast refers to him properly. In my headcannon the cast calls him different names corresponding to their knowledge of the realm and level of respect for Kotal.
Kotal Kahn
You practiced that pronunciation for at least 2 days straight. 😂
My understanding was they used the Buddhist thunder deity, Vajrapani, in his Chinese form as the basis for Raiden in Mortal Kombat. Vajrapani is also the protector deity of Shaolin Temple, so Raiden's affinity with Shaolin in the series is appropriate
big trouble in little china is the inspiration for raiden. the character named "Lightning" is the direct inspiration
Except for the first 30 years Raiden was portrayed as a white man in all MK media. 😂
@@majorlazor5058 Do I have some amazing things to tell you about the Universal Door Chapter of the Lotus Sutra regarding the infinite forms Avalokitesvara can take (including the form of Vajrapani, which is why painted Shaolin iconography of Vajrapani often has a little Guanyin above his head)
They where based on and reference to "Big trouble in Little China"
Last one, "Also let's make him a jobber."
Its just so hard to say, nobody is gonna remember the guys name if its not iconic.
At least for Raiden, they probably just based them on the lightning guy from Big Trouble in Little China, I doubt Ed Boon and the gang had an extensive knowledge of Japanese mythology.
I also thought the same thing and it also includs the inspiration for Shang Tsunh's creepy old man form from the first game
Certainly it didn't look like it to me...but I'm hardly the expert...it's just that I've never even noticed the supposed connections until I've heard of them recently,
until now I was always assiming they were meant to be original creations with no ties or inspiration based in real myths
Wondering why more people havent pointed this out, thought this fact was more well known
Yeah, Tobias based the design off of Lightning. It's been a well known fact for ages.
I mean Tobias did know a little bit about mythologies, but it wasn't really integral to his story.
I was wondering when you'd make a sketch about Mortal Kombat! I noticed that MK shirt in several of your other videos.
Mortal Kombat was a child smashing his random action figures together. Now it looks like a 90210 reboot.
I actually love how inclusive MK is of real life cultures and implements them in game but as a more exaggerated fictional take to fit the games universe, does it all respectfully and badass imo
If your familiar with how terrifying Raiden and Fujin are during battle you’ll see that they certainly didn’t lose all of their demonic traits.
Thanks for telling us you don't understand the history of MK or how to market a character.
I KNEW as soon as the Aztec God was shown, he was about to talk about my boy Kotal!
"Let's change his name for no reason."
Me: right, because that name is easy to say in passing conversation.
When I first started playing Mortal Kombat I immediately compared Kotal Kahn to the Aztec God ( can pronounce it, cannot spell it ) since I learnt so much about the Aztecs and then was told he was based off of him. Also compared Fujin and Raiden… but I still love Fujin, specifically his hair
Huitzilopochtli (wichilopostli) it's a pretty easy name to pronounce once you've done it a few times, or maybe it's just because I'm Mexican but actually I think it's the first
I mean, yes, huitz is not Even the hardest name; Chalchiuhtlicue and Macuilcozcacuauhtli on the other hand...
@Tido totter lol.
Macuilcozcacuauhtli is of the Macuiltonaleque, also known as the Ahuiateteoh, the deities of Vice.
Is the Deity of Gluttony, and the oposite of Apiztetl, the Deity of Famine.
His partner is Maculxóchitl, the Deity of Bets (like, betting games)
@Tido totter Chalchiuhtlicue, on the other hand, is the Deity of Water, makes, Rivers and ponds, his Husband Tlaloc is the Deity of Rain.
She also was one of the Temporal Suns (the fourth sun), during the Fifth Sun Myth, just before Huitzilopochtli.
This is just to Say, Mexica God names are wild xD
TBF, the second one is a good idea
"My favorite character is Huitzi....Huit....Hut...the green guy"
They might still look like that. Remember, Raidens appearance is merely a disguise he uses when he steps foot in Outworld
I love that “WHAT?!” Right at the end
To be fair tho , human fujin looks awesome
"Oh who's that?“
"That is the God of War"
"Cool! Let's put it in the Mortal Kombat games"
"Sure, I'm sure people will love it"
"Yeah but let's use Santa Monica's depiction of the God of War"
The fact that Fujin looks like Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) does give his case some legitimacy 😂
And while I like the characters as they are I wouldn’t mind some kinda form where they look more accurate to the lure… or maybe they have halfling kids that look mutated kinda like in Beowulf
I like Okamiden's version of thunder onis. They play rock music really loud to make thunder and lightning and wear tiger skin and have jam sessions with Ami.
With how far mods have come I'm surprised they didn't make a mod for the first two to look more accurate.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Maybe due to hitboxes there are no mods of that, it would be extremly unfair havoing a hitbox that is much smaller than the character you see.
@@AugustoEL that's why I hate fast characters in games. Their hit box is either smaller than what you see. Or they out run their hit box.
mk11 doesn't have modding support and there's very few mods for it that are hard to make, they also stop you from playing online
The way he says "what?!" at the end XD
To be fair, wheat-zillow already looks human. He's just wearing some fancy garb.
That last "what?!" had major Jontron energy, ngl, lol
"What?" Is probably the funniest thing someone can say it's my go to punchline.
Kotal's name change works because he's not actually a god. He's just so powerful his people thought he was.
This acts like that this was all one persons decisions and didn’t happen over generations and then netherrealm adding way more lore to it.
Respect that there is a long proud history of people that care to make this art
Hey I just realized that there were similar characters in teen titans the older version
The second character is one of my favourites, he's just OP
The answer you seek for Raiden's appearence is "Big Trouble in little China"
Now, all the characters look nearly identical.
"Kk in a wheel chair"
I think you’re about 2 decades late. This is like doing a review on a Mario game that came out in the 1980s but you’re reviewing it in 2022
Are you familiar with the avgn? Cause he does exactly that
I think the criticism is more confusion about Kotal Khan who is a recent character
"Hey, you know that Drunken Fist movie Jackie Chan played in?"
"Oh, the one where the fighting style is based on the fact that the user's very unexpected with their movements due to being loosened up?"
"Yeah! Lets make a character out of that! But now he just pukes and farts, and he's a fat dude who also knows sumo! Also he trained Liu Kang, and is named after the Spanish word for "drunkard" !"
bro was cooking at lukewarm heat
The gut who the king of the outer world. And a good guy is also the guy getting his shirt kicked in by everyone. Like if he loses to anyone that is cannon.
Ah yes...the “KK on a wheelchair”
And who could forget Raiden’s most iconic line…
“I mUsT cOnSuLt WiTh ThE eLdEr GoDs”