Story idea to make Meat a more serious character
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Story idea to make Meat a more serious character
I know he's a joke character, but I think he could be turned into a serious character. Here's my story idea for him below, and if he's already been decomfirmed, I don't care.
Story: Back when he was alive, he was a butcher, and a particularly sadistic one. Any animals he could find during his free time, he'd bring them home and kill them in any particularly cruel way he could think of.
His activities eventually became known by certain people, who were appalled, kidnapped him and had him eaten alive by pigs. The spirits of the animals he butchered claimed his soul before it went to the netherrealm, put it back in his resurrected and healed body, only to then skin him, leave him in perpetual pain, and incapable of killing himself, though others could kill him.
The only way for him to get a reprieve, is to butcher people exactly like him. He's been fighting evil in the hope that he will be killed, until one day, a sorcerer named Quan Chi came to him and altered his curse. He would now get his reprieve whenever he served him.
Another thing they could do is drop the "Meat" name, and make the character a woman (since it's pretty obvious naming a female character "Meat" could prove controversial). I admit to being fond of the skinless Julia in the second Hellraiser movie. This female version could still have the story I suggested above.
Gameplay-wise, Meat should keep some of the MKA moves like the bowling head and the bloodport (teleport special). A new stun special could include pairs of chains coming from both sides to nab the opponent.
Design-wise, Meat could be covered in bandages like Julia in Hellraiser 2 (not mummy bandages like Drahmin's alt in MK:DA), or clad in white blood-soaked butcher garb.
Two more things to conclude. 1) I liked the cleavers and wouldn't mind them becoming Meat's trademark weapons. 2) Just for the sake of detail, if we get any skinning fatalities, when done on Meat, they should reduce him to a bloody skeleton, while others end up like his "live" self.
I see no reason Meat has to remain a joke. He wouldn't be the only one who became a serious character.
Story: Back when he was alive, he was a butcher, and a particularly sadistic one. Any animals he could find during his free time, he'd bring them home and kill them in any particularly cruel way he could think of.
His activities eventually became known by certain people, who were appalled, kidnapped him and had him eaten alive by pigs. The spirits of the animals he butchered claimed his soul before it went to the netherrealm, put it back in his resurrected and healed body, only to then skin him, leave him in perpetual pain, and incapable of killing himself, though others could kill him.
The only way for him to get a reprieve, is to butcher people exactly like him. He's been fighting evil in the hope that he will be killed, until one day, a sorcerer named Quan Chi came to him and altered his curse. He would now get his reprieve whenever he served him.
Another thing they could do is drop the "Meat" name, and make the character a woman (since it's pretty obvious naming a female character "Meat" could prove controversial). I admit to being fond of the skinless Julia in the second Hellraiser movie. This female version could still have the story I suggested above.
Gameplay-wise, Meat should keep some of the MKA moves like the bowling head and the bloodport (teleport special). A new stun special could include pairs of chains coming from both sides to nab the opponent.
Design-wise, Meat could be covered in bandages like Julia in Hellraiser 2 (not mummy bandages like Drahmin's alt in MK:DA), or clad in white blood-soaked butcher garb.
Two more things to conclude. 1) I liked the cleavers and wouldn't mind them becoming Meat's trademark weapons. 2) Just for the sake of detail, if we get any skinning fatalities, when done on Meat, they should reduce him to a bloody skeleton, while others end up like his "live" self.
I see no reason Meat has to remain a joke. He wouldn't be the only one who became a serious character.
OttoVonRuthless •01/22/2015 02:55 PM (UTC) •
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Wow... There's so many things I want to make fun of, I don't even know where to start.
Tazer_Gunshot •01/22/2015 03:07 PM (UTC) •
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I'm intrigued....Sold!
DG1OA Wrote:
I know he's a joke character, but I think he could be turned into a serious character.
I know he's a joke character, but I think he could be turned into a serious character.
Nope, nope, nope, nope. Sorry. This is like asking Capcom to take Dan Hibiki seriously. Heellllllllll no.
Meat being a silly joke is the only reason anyone (and there are comparatively few) likes him.
He's the Dan Hibiki of the MK universe. He's the distilled essence of all the over-the-top gore and violence focused into one awkwardly nutty character. He works better as a joke character than Mokap ever did.
Anything else would smack of trying waaaaay too hard. The day MK takes everything about itself seriously is the day it becomes a parody of itself. Meat is fine the way he is.
Tazer_Gunshot •01/22/2015 03:26 PM (UTC) •
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Meat would certainly be the one I'd want them to make serious over the likes of...
Kira, Kobra and Darrius,
Kira, Kobra and Darrius,
Shadaloo Wrote:
Nope, nope, nope, nope. Sorry. This is like asking Capcom to take Dan Hibiki seriously. Heellllllllll no.
Meat being a silly joke is the only reason anyone (and there are comparatively few) likes him.
He's the Dan Hibiki of the MK universe. He's the distilled essence of all the over-the-top gore and violence focused into one awkwardly nutty character. He works better as a joke character than Mokap ever did.
Anything else would smack of trying waaaaay too hard. The day MK takes everything about itself seriously is the day it becomes a parody of itself. Meat is fine the way he is.
DG1OA Wrote:
I know he's a joke character, but I think he could be turned into a serious character.
I know he's a joke character, but I think he could be turned into a serious character.
Nope, nope, nope, nope. Sorry. This is like asking Capcom to take Dan Hibiki seriously. Heellllllllll no.
Meat being a silly joke is the only reason anyone (and there are comparatively few) likes him.
He's the Dan Hibiki of the MK universe. He's the distilled essence of all the over-the-top gore and violence focused into one awkwardly nutty character. He works better as a joke character than Mokap ever did.
Anything else would smack of trying waaaaay too hard. The day MK takes everything about itself seriously is the day it becomes a parody of itself. Meat is fine the way he is.
Jeez, melodramatic much? Meat becoming a more serious character doesn't mean the whole series will. Calm down. And please, if any MK character should be considered the Dan Hibiki of MK, it's Kobra.
Anyway, I admit I wouldn't mind Meat becoming an alt for everyone again, because I'd like to see how Reptile, Baraka and a cyborg would look like without skin. Plus, can you imagine everyone interacting with the skinned characters during intros and acting as if nothing's different?
DG1OA Wrote:
Jeez, melodramatic much? Meat becoming a more serious character doesn't mean the whole series will. Calm down. And please, if any MK character should be considered the Dan Hibiki of MK, it's Kobra.
Jeez, melodramatic much? Meat becoming a more serious character doesn't mean the whole series will. Calm down. And please, if any MK character should be considered the Dan Hibiki of MK, it's Kobra.
The hilarious thing is that you're also taking my response waaaaay too seriously.
Sorry, but I'm one of the few people who actually appreciates him for what he is, and I feel your whole idea misses the point of Meat entirely.
And the difference is Kobra was never intended to be a joke character like Dan or Meat; he was an attempt to pay tribute to the Karate Kid's Cobra Kai. Dan sucks on purpose; Kobra just sucks.
nightbreed_16 •01/22/2015 04:07 PM (UTC) •
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I actually prefer Drahmin to Meat but anyway if Meat is in the game they could have him look somewhat like Drahmin and I would be happy for him to be in the game.
SHAMEonNINJAS •01/22/2015 04:57 PM (UTC) •
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That's a challenge tower character imo lol. Somebody like "director" that was made to kick the crap out of.
shrairyuwarrior •01/22/2015 09:26 PM (UTC) •
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Nope meat should never have been placed in mka and I don't want him back ever
unleash_your_tounge •01/22/2015 09:45 PM (UTC) •
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unleash_your_tounge Wrote:
Then throw on the Face of Kun-Lo, call him Oni Tormentor, and we have Drahmin.
Much better.
Then throw on the Face of Kun-Lo, call him Oni Tormentor, and we have Drahmin.
Much better.
Good story, didn't read.
The bad thing about posting up a story about any character online is that the company will most definitely not go with that story because you came up with it and they'd have to come up with a story no fan posted on the board because of copyright and legal reasons.
That's why it's best not to make any good guesses because they'll have to settle for the next best thing, mediocre story that hasn't been proposed yet,
: Skulled for the truth, but I'm right.
The bad thing about posting up a story about any character online is that the company will most definitely not go with that story because you came up with it and they'd have to come up with a story no fan posted on the board because of copyright and legal reasons.
That's why it's best not to make any good guesses because they'll have to settle for the next best thing, mediocre story that hasn't been proposed yet,
: Skulled for the truth, but I'm right.
OhYesMar$h •01/23/2015 02:29 AM (UTC) •
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No.
HiddenCharacter •01/23/2015 08:05 AM (UTC) •
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DG1OA Wrote:
Stuff.
Stuff.
So your idea to make Meat legit is to make him an entirely different character.
Great. Let's revamp Hornbuckle by making him a female assassin acting as a mole in Daegon's Red Dragon to gain intel about Blaze. Oh, and Tanya can be a guy thats actually a reincarnated Jerrod. Just change their names to Barb and Phil.
Just fixed the whole rebooted timeline.
Not feeling any of OP's ideas.
COMIC SPOILERS
BUT, when i first read the part of the comic where Felix Fox skins his face and murders everybody my first thought was Meat. IMO that was the best chance to redeem Meat and make him cool, a sadistic demon that posses people and mutilates itself. That would have been a cool fucking cameo for Meat. Sadly that did not come to pass, although we still don't know what possessed good ol felix or wtf happened to him, so there's still a teeny tiny sliver of a chance.
COMIC SPOILERS
BUT, when i first read the part of the comic where Felix Fox skins his face and murders everybody my first thought was Meat. IMO that was the best chance to redeem Meat and make him cool, a sadistic demon that posses people and mutilates itself. That would have been a cool fucking cameo for Meat. Sadly that did not come to pass, although we still don't know what possessed good ol felix or wtf happened to him, so there's still a teeny tiny sliver of a chance.
Spaceman Wrote:
Not feeling any of OP's ideas.
COMIC SPOILERS
BUT, when i first read the part of the comic where Felix Fox skins his face and murders everybody my first thought was Meat. IMO that was the best chance to redeem Meat and make him cool, a sadistic demon that posses people and mutilates itself. That would have been a cool fucking cameo for Meat. Sadly that did not come to pass, although we still don't know what possessed good ol felix or wtf happened to him, so there's still a teeny tiny sliver of a chance.
Not feeling any of OP's ideas.
COMIC SPOILERS
BUT, when i first read the part of the comic where Felix Fox skins his face and murders everybody my first thought was Meat. IMO that was the best chance to redeem Meat and make him cool, a sadistic demon that posses people and mutilates itself. That would have been a cool fucking cameo for Meat. Sadly that did not come to pass, although we still don't know what possessed good ol felix or wtf happened to him, so there's still a teeny tiny sliver of a chance.
Did he not also thank Scorpion for punching him? If so then he was speaking bizzaro and what race works by bizzaro logic in the MK universe?
raidenthefridge •01/23/2015 08:54 PM (UTC) •
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I kind of like meat, as a non-serious character.
I mean..he removes his own head, and bowls it at his opponent and it just pops back on...whats not to like.
I mean..he removes his own head, and bowls it at his opponent and it just pops back on...whats not to like.
starzilla83 •01/24/2015 04:51 PM (UTC) •
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It seems that the fans are split. I find this idea pretty neet thou.
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