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John Tobias Reveals Character Origins Via Twitter

Sep 07, 2011 2:27pm by Fuzz in Mortal Kombat General Discussion

Last week, Mortal Kombat co-creator John Tobias revealed some Goro sketches via his official Twitter page. John has decided to keep revealing more never-before-seen concepts by releasing a snapshot featuring sketches and notes for Kitsune (Kitana), Liu Kang, and Gongoro (Goro). Also, note how Shang Tsung was originally called "Shang Lao."

A page of ancient notes n doodles and the beginning of what became Kitana from MK1?

Here?s some forgotten MK history? MKII?s Kitana started out as a character called Kitsune in MK1.

I completely forgot about Kitsune until finding this sketch. She wasn?t intended to be a playable fighter.

She was going to fit into the story as Shang Lao?s (Tsung?s) princess daughter - the spoil of victory for winning the tournament.

Of course Shang became a minion of Shao Kahn when the story was expanded for MKII and Kitsune was renamed Kitana and made Kahn's step-child.

Kitsune?s original inspiration? Mariko from @jmechner ?s Karateka. I played that game a ton on my Apple IIc during freshman year of H.S.

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Posted Sep 08, 2011 3:00pm by KombatNerd

I've been following that stuff a while now; it's neat what we don't know about the past!

Posted Oct 11, 2011 3:08am by THUNDERGOD

John Tobias posted the first sketches of Liu Kang, Kano and Raiden on his Twitter account.
Check them.
They are very cool !!!

http://twitter.com/therealsaibot

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