

Kahn shrugged and sent his armies to go wipe out any and all survivors.Īlthough Kabal’s bio didn’t outright reveal who he was, it did say that he was one of those survivors.

He started absorbing the souls of everyone on Earth, but Raiden was able to protect the souls of a few dozen warriors. So reviewing Mortal Kombat 3’s storyline, it went a little something like this: after losing two tournaments, barbarian overlord Shao Kahn decided to straight-up invade Earthrealm using some kind of magic loophole that involved resurrecting his dead queen. In a fun connection to the previous games, Richard Divizio, who also portrayed Kana and Baraka, played this new, masked enigma.įurther Reading: Mortal Kombat Characters Ranked Kabal also got a super-speed attack based on Ed Boon’s childhood love for how cool it looks when the Flash runs into a blur. He was also going to have a trench coat, but that would have been too difficult to animate well with the digitized style. He was armed with hook swords, which were initially going to be used by Baraka back in Mortal Kombat II before Midway decided to give him Wolverine arm blades. When developing Mortal Kombat 3, the folks at Midway referred to Kabal as “Sandman.” His design was a bit of a mishmash of various ideas, but his look was mostly inspired by the Sand People from Star Wars. He wore a mask, nobody knew where he came from, and the only way to find out was to play the game.

Kabal was no ninja, but he had the same deal.
