9 Introduced in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon.8 Introduced in Mortal Kombat: Deception.7 Introduced in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.5 Introduced in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero.4 Introduced in Mortal Kombat 3 and updates.By Mortal Kombat: Deception, most of the playable characters had been killed by Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, but by Mortal Kombat: Armageddon all of them return. Since then, every game features a new villain who wishes to conquer the realms, breaking the rules of Mortal Kombat. The Earthrealm warriors manage to defeat the champion Goro and the host Shang Tsung, but this leads Tsung to search for other ways to destroy Earthrealm. The first Mortal Kombat game introduces a tournament in which the Earthrealm can be destroyed if it loses once again.
The Elder Gods created a fighting tournament called Mortal Kombat to reduce the wars between the realms. The series takes place in a fictional universe composed of six realms, which were created by the Elder Gods. This is a list of playable characters from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series and the games in which they appear. The character roster for Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (excluding Taven, Daegon, and Khameleon) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
