![]() In Mortal Kombat 4, a red tank top was added to Liu Kang's outfit while his alternate design showed him shirtless with blue-striped pants. Lead series programmer Ed Boon said in a 1995 interview of the development team's decision to include Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat 3: "It'd be like doing part three of Star Wars and not having Luke Skywalker in there. Mortal Kombat 3 contained minor changes of longer hair and thin black leg strips wrapped above his ankles in order to give him a "sleeker" look. Starting with Mortal Kombat II, his outfit was enhanced with a red palette by way of single vertical stripes on his pants and a matching headband, in addition to black shoes and studded wrist guards. Liu Kang's design in the first game had him shirtless with short hair, while wearing only black pants and white shoes. ![]() Tobias additionally drew inspiration from the 1973 film Enter the Dragon in developing Liu Kang's backstory. Liu Kang was played by Korean actor and martial artist Ho-Sung Pak in the first two games, but Pak's refusal to shave his head resulted in the character instead being modeled after Bruce Lee and depicted as "a renegade monk grew his hair back". The character was renamed Liu Kang as a nod to actor Gordon Liu, who starred in the 1978 film The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, and with his ethnicity subsequently changed to Chinese, he "was originally going to be a traditional monk - bald and in robes". ![]() However, during production of what would become Mortal Kombat, the Midway staff "just couldn't deal with the name," according to Tobias, the game's lead character designer. Original concept sketches for a proposed Midway Games fighting title by artist John Tobias featured a Japanese character named Minamoto Yoshitsune. Reception of the character has been mainly favorable for his special moves, gameplay, and his role throughout the series.īruce Lee and Minamoto Yoshitsune were the two main influences of Liu Kang's character Liu Kang has appeared in various alternate media outside of the games, including as the hero of the 1995 film adaptation and its 1997 sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. He returns to his heroic role in Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), in which he becomes a fire god. During both the original and rebooted timelines, Liu Kang receives a more villainous depiction after he is killed, appearing as a reanimated corpse in the former and an undead revenant who rules the Netherrealm in the latter. ![]() The character's storyline sees him win the eponymous Mortal Kombat tournament in the first and second games, saving Earthrealm from being conquered by the opposing forces of Outworld. He is also a protagonist of the action-adventure beat 'em up spinoff game Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (2005). He debuted in the original 1992 game as a Shaolin monk, and has since appeared in nearly every main installment of the series except Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance and its second version. ![]() Depicted as Earthrealm's greatest warrior and champion, he is generally the main hero of the series. Liu Kang is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios. ![]()
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