From a scroll taken from the library of Necropolis.

"And behold, though the tournament was fast approching, the blood lust of combat could not wait. The need for battle and the lust for victory consume 13 warriors, and thus the wild cards decended upon themselves, eager to thin the heard in the name of Mortal Kombat."

As I said, I'll be creating a new thread for the preliminary round and linking to it from here so people can find it.

Is it too late to submit a character because I have been on an extended absence from MKO and I just returned tonight and this thread caught my eye right away. If it is thats cool but I was just checking before I went through all the trouble.

- Darkhound

The contest is closed for entry unfortunately, but voting processes will be beginning soon should you wish to take part in that.

Ahhh well I guess that is unfortunate, but I will participate in the voting at least.

Here are the 13 characters currently on the outside looking in at the tournament's main bracket. Only 8 of them will survive, and the community will choose which warriors' destinies have greater rewards in store!

Due to some "issues" I am having, these pages are not exactly as I would like yet. Characters with images are having a thumbnail issue I have yet to sort out and given the hour my brain perhaps it's functioning to the best of it's ability. If there are images associated with a character, you should still be able to click a very tiny little box on their page in the upper right corne. Another problem is some of the special characters people used. I will have to either go back and manually replace these characters with more familiar ones or leave them be. I was able to fix most of these, however. Some remain, but they shouldn't affect the ability to read. I'll try to fix more later on. There's also no main directory page set up yet. That should come shortly.

Adsler
Alexandra
Bachi Li
Clyde
Eternus
Kimya
Komodo
Levyatan
Lonin Regon
Neuros
Onyx
Psionic
Shade

(Special note: I am having problems with your second image eliblue, you may way to resend it, file seems to have errors)

I'll give throughout Monday and some of Tuesday so you can read over these 13. Some time Tuesday I will create a topic for voting as I have described above (and will again within said topic).

Costume details mixed up on Alexandra's page.

Yeah mixed up with Eternus. I am making a rating chart for myself so when voting time comes I can copy and paste if need be...I can not properly rate if it is incorrect info lol.

Damn... they are better than I expected... this is gonna b a toughie

Alot of those guys have originality but, then go south and start taking things from other characters, not only MK either.

I'll say Shade, he sounds really fucking cool.


But the description makes me think of Noobs MKA alternate with a bloody mask and spiked wrist straps.


Which is bad, you even gave him a tunic.
It's alright to take a little something from one character as inspiration or something. It's when you take what makes them, well THEM that's when it gets unoriginal.
Komodo is a little to much like Reptile.
Adsler is is made up of/gets power from souls.
Psionic is has telekenisis like Kenshi & Ermac.


I'm not gonna give you the whole list. Don't be biased against me(and not my character either) because of these judgements and don't try to prove me wrong, my opinion is set in stone.

I already think one of those characters could go all the way.

Also how can Kimya speak to animals if he has no mouth and uses sign-language?

You need to specify.

Bravo to all the entries so far. I will say there are 3 that have caught my interest quite a bit :)
I'm quite worried for Malice already

I'm not really crazy about any of these. I guess I'll vote for Sophitia... I mean... Alexandra, because I like Soul Calibur and she's the only female represented here and MK doesn't have enough females.

Hey Crow, I just noticed that on Alexandras page there are Eturnus's costumes. I will resend the second on for her, but why are eturnus's there?

I am keeping a little chart so I can remember what I think of these characters...

Some of them I see a lot of good in, especially "Onyx", who I think potentially has more character depth than most of the others despite the minimal details in his description. His story and choices imply much more than others I suppose... And I think fighting game characters are at times nothing more than what they imply, which is what fans latch on to and expand upon to create a rich history behind a character.

I also like Adsler, she really stands out in a group that is somewhat generic. Komodo is nice too, though it has some similarities to my own character(this is like.... The third time that has happened, and she is NOTHING like them otherwise.)

Good luck to all!

Some of the character sound very plausible. But some sound a little off. I am a story driven type of person. But some stories have seemed to have made their ending's the same with "the death of Shao Kahn".

Even though they are all very different. I tend to go for the ones that are the most plausible within it's own background and the link that binds them to the MK universe.

Good job guys! Too bad there can only be a few of them to go through...

Eternus's costume looks like a mix if MKA rain, scorpions MK9 Alt and the green goblin.



I mean that in the best way though.

@ultimatesavage:

Indeed, the ones with the best story were the ones I was most drawn to. But the "death of Shao Kahn" ending is for arcade mode, and I think each character (for the first three MK tournaments) should be connected to that in some way, otherwise they are not related to the MK story. I would very much like those who incorporate Shao Kahn's death into their own story however, instead of making their story about Shao Kahn himself... Unless it was a really good story about Shao KAhn.

That's not to say I don't appreciate an ending that doesn't involve Shao Kahn, simply defending those who do.

The thing is in an MK arcade ending, is that Kahn don't die every time! I have played on this to add something different from the poor guy dying all the time haha!

But I have come up with a new generation MK story for the future that involves Shao Kahn in a very different way! But that's something different from this competition. Look for 'Mortal Kombat: Next Generation' on facebook pages.

Well, i didn't like all of them, but some were really cool. Komodo's both story is amazing, but the way is narrated it's little out of place for a charachter bio. I liked the gameplay, though. Onyx has a great story too, really liked him. But the one who really was amazing is Asdler. It would be something like the Voldo of Mortal Kombat, haha. Her look and gameplay are great, i have some issues with her story, but its good too.


I want to see the rest of the charachters, and i'm pretty worried for De Kai & De Kiô (I think i exagerated with the gameplay part XD)

Thanks for doing all this Crow!

There are some really good ones amongst them, worthy competition and interesting characters. Good job everyone. ^^

Problems that need fixing:

-Adsler's fatalities have Shade's fatality names
-Alexandra's costume descriptions are actually Eternus'
-Eternus' entrances/poses are actually Onyx's
-Psionic has no pictures OR costume descriptions, and his special moves are not described


Overall, I only really liked maybe 3. The others just didn't seem that original or interesting. I also saw one character with an ending VERY similar to mine...

Also, some of the bios were entirely too long...

I think Onyx's "taunts" have been put in both his and Eternus' pages, with Eternus' missing.... I think... I'll have to look again.

Wow, someone posted what I was going to say at the exact same time as me... Alright then. Hehehe.

the 3 ones i digged the most were
1.adsler cool design and unique moveset.
2.komodo like the idea for another reptilian character/neat fatality.
3.bachili interesting character.

those 3 stood out more to me than the others but i'm not saying the other aren't good. i just liked these 3 better.

alexandra
clyde
eternus
kimya
levyatan
lonin region
neuros
onyx
psioniz
shade

good characters and good luck to everyone. i enjoyed reading your characters but did not see the photos of the characters. don't know why.