Story
The show was focused on a group of warriors assembled by Raiden (Clancy Brown) to defend Earthrealm from invaders who entered through portals from various other dimensions. The assembled warriors included Liu Kang (Brian Tochi), Stryker (Ron Perlman), Sonya Blade (Olivia d'Abo), Jax (Dorian Harewood), Kitana (Cree Summer), and Sub-Zero (Luke Perry), with Nightwolf (Todd Thawley) functioning mostly as tech support but still entering the fray on various occasions. The warriors operated out of a hidden base from where Nightwolf and Raiden monitored portal openings; the warriors would fly dragon-shaped jets to deal with disturbances. Shao Kahn was something of an arch-villain throughout the series, being responsible for allowing other realms to invade Earthrealm, but Kung Lao, Johnny Cage, Mileena, Sindel, Jade, Noob Saibot, Goro and Kintaro were not shown or referenced in the show at all. The finale involved Kitana leading a rebellion from Outworld against Kahn.
The characters and their backgrounds were mostly continuous with the movie, although elements of Mortal Kombat 3 were included. The episode plots themselves shared little relation with that of any of the games, though the character designs are based from their Mortal Kombat 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 sprites (except for Kitana, whose design looks like a blend of her MKII and her UMK3 looks), with some liberties were taken with some characters' designs. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the show was that it provided the debut of Quan Chi, the villain of Mortal Kombat 4 and Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.
Read more about this topic: Mortal Kombat: Defenders Of The Realm
Famous quotes containing the word story:
“From the beginning, the placement of [Clarence] Thomas on the high court was seen as a political end justifying almost any means. The full story of his confirmation raises questions not only about who lied and why, but, more important, about what happens when politics becomes total war and the truth—and those who tell it—are merely unfortunate sacrifices on the way to winning.”
—Jane Mayer, U.S. journalist, and Jill Abramson b. 1954, U.S. journalist. Strange Justice, p. 8, Houghton Mifflin (1994)
“One of the necessary qualifications of an efficient business man in these days of industrial literature seems to be the ability to write, in clear and idiomatic English, a 1,000-word story on how efficient he is and how he got that way.... It seems that the entire business world were devoting its working hours to the creation of a school of introspective literature.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Cinderella and the prince
lived, they say, happily ever after,
like two dolls in a museum case
never bothered by diapers or dust,
never arguing over the timing of an egg,
never telling the same story twice....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)