Just about every character in the original Mortal Kombat game was derived from a motion-capture performance by one of five actors: Korean-American actor Ho-Sung Pak played both game hero Liu Kang and big boss Shang Tsung England-born Elizabeth Malecki played Sonya Blade Chicagoan Richard Divizio played Kano fellow Windy City native Carlos Pesina played Raiden and the latter’s older brother Dan handled the lion’s share, portraying Johnny Cage, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Reptile. Some of the Mortal Kombat “actors” have impressive resumes. Pinball and game designer Steve Ritchie, a friend of Boon’s, came up with the name Mortal Kombat on a whim upon catching a glance of a misspelled “kombat” on the latter’s drawing board during a visit to his office. An outsider came up with the final title. Names that didn’t make the cut included Kumite (which refers to a hand-based section of karate training), Dragon Attack, Death Blow, and Fatality. Mortal Kombat didn’t have a name for more than half of the development period every suggestion for a title was allegedly detested by at least one of the four designers. Coming up with a name for the game took six months.
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Designer John Tobias has said that these influences were an homage to Big Trouble because the premise of both the movie and the game were “kind of a mashup between a mythological eastern world and a western world grounded more in reality.” 5. The game’s thunder god, Raiden, took visual inspiration from the movie’s assassin trio, “The Three Storms” (played by Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, and James Pax), while Mortal Kombat boss Shang Tsung resembles the film’s big bad sorcerer, Lo Pan (played by James Hong). Two Mortal Kombat characters were modeled after villains in the 1986 John Carpenter movie. Big Trouble in Little China was a prominent source of inspiration. Still hoping to capitalize on Van Damme’s image as the epitomic action movie persona of the time (and in order to “spoof the whole Van Damme situation”), the pair wound up modeling popular Mortal Kombat playable character Johnny Cage-in appearance, backstory, and personality (the character is a notoriously narcissistic Hollywood actor), and initials- after Van Damme. Jean-Claude Van Damme maintained his presence in the final cut. But that deal fell through, eventually moving the martial arts tournament to the fictional planet of Earthrealm. But Midway thought it would be more fun if they licensed Jean-Claude Van Damme on his own, making a grittier game more like Van Damme’s Bloodsport. According to Tobias, the game started when the producers of Universal Soldier came and asked Midway Games to create a game based on the movie.
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