![]() Baraka has otherwise received positive reception from gaming media outlets for his character and Fatalities. Dan Ryckert of Game Informer, in 2010, noted him among the characters wanted for the 2011 reboot game, as he felt that "people love Baraka" yet noted his absence in subsequent releases since his series debut. In 2009, Baraka ranked third on GameDaily's list of the "top ten ugliest game characters". Baraka makes a brief appearance in the 2021 animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, in which he has no dialogue and is killed in a fight against Cage. These changes were not carried over into the 2011 web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, in which he was played by Fraser Aitcheson and was reverted to his original Outworld origins. He later kills Johnny Cage - working undercover for Jax - in a fight. Baraka is played by martial artist Lateef Crowder in the 2010 short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, in which his origins in the film's modern setting are changed into his being a psychotic former plastic surgeon who surgically attaches a pair of long metal blades to his forearms. He has an expanded role in the film's novelization, in which he partakes in the opening invasion of Earth alongside Kahn's other generals. He has no dialogue and is killed in a fight scene with Liu Kang, and is only identified by name in the closing credits. īaraka appears briefly in the 1997 feature film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, played by stuntman Dennis Keiffer. He was visualized for MKII with a Nosferatu mask adorned with silver-painted false fingernails serving as his teeth, while his arm blades were constructed from silver cardboard. The character was first conceived by Mortal Kombat co-creator John Tobias as a "savage barbarian demon warrior" who was initially planned to be in the first Mortal Kombat game. However, Kitana convinces him to aid her in rescuing Kotal, and he and the Tarkatans take part in Kitana's battle against Shao Kahn and in the final battle against Kronika. After learning of his death and Kotal Kahn rendering the Tarkatans to near-extinction, he initially allies himself with Kronika and a similarly time-displaced Shao Kahn. In Mortal Kombat 11, a past version of Baraka is brought to the present by the keeper of time Kronika. In a flashback sequence, Baraka serves under then-Outworld ruler Mileena alongside D'Vorah, but during a meeting with the Osh-Tekk Kotal Kahn, Baraka is killed after D'Vorah betrays Mileena. ![]() He is not playable in Mortal Kombat X, but appears in the game's story mode when his fellow Tarkatans aid D'Vorah in loading captive Shaolin monks before they are confronted and defeated by Raiden, Liu Kang, and Kung Lao. In the retold storyline of Mortal Kombat II, he leads his Tarkatan armies in an invasion of Earthrealm. In the 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot that retells the events of the first three games, Baraka appears as a recurring foe in the story mode who is defeated by Johnny Cage, Cyrax, Jax, and Jade. While Baraka is playable along with the entire series roster in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (2006), but was not among the seventeen characters therein who received an official biography by Midway and he played no part in the game's storyline. In Mortal Kombat: Deception, Baraka and the remainder of his Tarkatan (formerly "Nomad") race ally themselves with the arisen Dragon King Onaga, and recruits the mutant clone Mileena into Onaga's ranks in order to pose as Kitana. While Baraka accepts, he secretly plans to betray his new masters. Baraka is not playable in the next fighting installment, Mortal Kombat 4 (1997), but was added to the roster of the 2000 Sega Dreamcast-exclusive upgrade Mortal Kombat Gold, in which Quan Chi offers him a chance to rule the Outworld realm of Edenia by his side if he agrees to join the fallen Elder God Shinnok's army. In Mortal Kombat Trilogy, he is a member of Kahn's forces that takes part in the invasion of Earthrealm. He spearheads the attack on Liu Kang's Shaolin temple following the conclusion of the first Mortal Kombat tournament, which in turn lures Liu Kang into Outworld to seek vengeance. See also: Mortal Kombat II Baraka Portrayed by: Richard Divizio ( MKII) Sean Okerberg ( MKvsDCU) Dennis Keiffer (film) Lateef Crowder (short film) Fraser Aitcheson (web series) Voiced by: Dan Forden ( MKG) Eric Wackerfuss ( MK:D) Dan Washington ( MKvsDCU) Bob Carter ( MK9) Greg Eagles ( MKX) Sean Okerberg ( MKvsDCU) Steve Blum (2019-present)īaraka is a member of a lowly Outworld race called the Nomads, who are known for their violent and unpredictable behavior and characterized by long gnashing teeth and a set of forearm-implanted retractable blades.
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