Respect Baraka! (Mortal Kombat) (composite)

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Respect Baraka!

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"I am Baraka, leader of the Tarkata! I fear no one, least of all a human!"

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Backstory and Overview

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Baraka is one of the Mortal Kombat universe's many jobbers. He's a member of the savage Tarkatan race, a species of mutated demon-mortal hybrids who inhabit the wasteland realm called Outworld. Baraka has deadly retractable biological blades hidden away in his arms, a common trait of his race. While it varies from version to version, he seems to be a bit more intelligent than your garden variety Tarkatan.

Feats from games that are ports/derived from other games will be beneath the original game. Special moves are listed in order of appearance and taken from the first game they appeared in.

This is composite Baraka so this RT covers all officially licensed versions of Baraka.

Tags

• [Gameplay]: This tag indicates that a feat was taken from gameplay, and not a cutscene or something. Though they wont have this tag, all special moves and finishers should be considered gameplay feats.

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Old Timeline

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Durability

Deception

• According to an unlockable piece of artwork, Baraka was able to survive getting the top half of his body split apart by Kung Lao. However, the details of this event are unclear, and he needs metal staples to keep himself together.

Armageddon

• Baraka keeps fighting after getting stabbed in the chest by Kung Lao.

Speed/Agility

Armageddon

• Baraka leaps high into the air to fight Kung Lao.

Blades

Deception

• Baraka claims in the Konquest mode that his blades are as natural to him as any other part of his body.

Armageddon

• Baraka's blades are able to hold up against a real metal sword being wielded by Kung Lao.

• Baraka fires a projectile from his blades by clashing them together, which blasts back Kung Lao.

Martial Arts/Weaponry

Mortal Kombat 4

• [Gameplay] Baraka can use a scythe-like weapon called the Razor Cane in this game.

Deception

• [Gameplay] Baraka can use the martial art Silat in gameplay.

• [Gameplay] Baraka can use the martial art Hung Gar in gameplay.

• [Gameplay] Baraka can uses blades as his weapon style in gameplay.

Miscellaneous

Armageddon

• Baraka somehow stays suspended in the air while fighting Kung Lao.

Special Moves

Mortal Kombat II

• Blade Spark - Baraka clashes his blades together to fire off a projectile towards his opponent.

• Blade Fury - Baraka kneels down and slashes at his opponent repeatedly.

• Blade Swipe - Baraka slashes at his opponent once.

• Double Kick - Baraka uses a snap kick that hits twice.

Mortal Kombat 3

• Blade Spin - Baraka spins around like a top, arms and blades extended. Introduced in Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

Deception

• Mutant Blades - Baraka lunges at his opponent, blades extended.

Finishers

Mortal Kombat II

• Fatality 1 - Baraka stabs his opponent in the abdomen with both his blades, lifting them up.

  • This finisher can also be performed in Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
  • This finisher can also be performed in Mortal Kombat Gold.

• Fatality 2 - Baraka decapitates his opponent with a slash from one of his blades.

  • This finisher can also be performed in Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
  • This finisher can also be performed in Mortal Kombat Gold.

• Friendship - Baraka gives his opponent a present.

  • This finisher can also be performed in Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

• Babality - Baraka turns his opponent into a baby.

  • This finisher can also be performed in Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

Mortal Kombat 3

• Animality - Baraka turns into a vulture, then rips off the top half of the opponent's body and flies away with it. Only in Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

• Brutality - Raiden hits the opponent with a super fast combo, ending with an uppercut that blows them to pieces. Only in Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

Deception

• Fatality 1 - With his blades, Baraka cuts through his opponent's arms, legs, and neck, but they don't fall apart. To finish the attack, he stabs them in the torso with one of his blades, ripping it out so that the body parts he cut earlier fall down.

• Fatality 2 - Baraka uppercuts his opponent, sending their head flying into the air. He holds out an arm and extends a blade, the head landing on it.

• Hara-Kiri - Baraka decapitates himself with one of his blades.

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New Timeline

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Durability

Mortal Kombat X

• Baraka gets back up after D'Vorah throws him off a balcony.

Speed/Agility

Mortal Kombat (2011)

• Baraka leaps a massive distance.

Miscellaneous

Mortal Kombat (2011)

• Baraka knows about the importance of gun safety.

Special Moves

• Spark - Equivalent to the Blade Spark attack from the old timeline. The enhanced version causes knockdown and increased damage.

• Chop Chop - Equivalent to the Blade Fury attack from the old timeline. The enhanced version adds in extra hits.

• Slicer - Three quick strikes with his blades. The enhanced version adds in an uppercut at the end.

• Blade Spin - Baraka does a quick spin with his blades extended. The enhanced version adds in extra hits.

• Blade Charge - Equivalent to the Mutant Blades attack from the old timeline. The enhanced version increases damage and range.

• X-Ray Attack: Nail And Impale - Baraka impales his opponent on both of his blades, then draws one out and uses it to stab them in the neck and eye. He then kicks them off.

Finishers

• Up The Middle - With his blades, Baraka slices off his opponents arms, then impales them through the torso. He then bisects them vertically, lifting up one half of their body on a blade.

• Take A Spin - Baraka impales his opponent on one blade, lifting them overhead. He gives them a spin, then extends his other blade, which lops off their limbs and head. He then throws what's left of their body to the ground.

• Babality - Baraka turns his opponent into a baby.

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Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks

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Strength

• Sweeps Sonya off her feet with a kick, then throws her into a wall hard enough to leave behind tons of blood.

• Lifts Sonya and carries her on his shoulder.

• Tosses a guy he had impaled on one of his blades across a room.

• Throws a monk an impressive distance, and does the same with another. This is partially from gameplay.

Durability

• Gets sent flying by Sonya and gets back up quickly.

• Gets sent flying again, this time by the player, and recovers quickly.

• Gets sent flying by the player again, slamming into a small stone column thing.

• [Gameplay] He's still able to fight, even after being impaled through the head or chest by a sword. This is required to be done by the player to win his boss fight.

• He's not immediately killed by getting impaled through the head and chest and being slammed into walls. This is partially from gameplay.

Speed/Agility

• Ducks under Kung Lao's hat while it's boomeranging back.

• Does a spinning leap across a gap in the ground.

• Leaps across a room. This is partially from gameplay.

• [Gameplay] Leaps across that gap again.

• Leaps across the gap once again, but this time it looks cool.

Blades

• Uses them to quickly kill a monk.

• Skewers another monk through the torso, lifting him up.

• Extends a blade straight through a monk's head.

• Stabs them into stone, using them to recover after getting knocked down a gap in the ground.

• [Gameplay] In his boss fight, Baraka can launch out projectiles very quickly, and even send multiple out at once in a spread.

Miscellaneous

• Is crazy enough to set monks on fire and throw them at you as a form of attack.

Special Moves

• Blade Spark - Equivalent to the Blade Spark attack from the old timeline.

• Jump Spark - Baraka leaps into the air and fires off three projectiles in a spread from his blades.

• Blade Slam - Baraka does a neat little combo with his blades.

• Blade Chop - Equivalent to the Blade Fury attack from the old timeline.

• Blade Spin - Baraka does a neat little combo with his blades in midair.

Finishers

• Blade Lift - Baraka impales his opponent on both of his arm blades, lifting them up. He then kicks them away, sending their lower half flying as the top half is torn to pieces.

• Blade Decapitation - Baraka decapitates his opponent with a single slice from one of his blades.

• Boss Fatality - Baraka grabs his victim and stabs them, lifting them up. He stabs them again, then hurls them across the room into a fire, where they burn to death.

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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe

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Special Moves

• Sharp Spark - Equivalent to the Blade Spark attack from the old timeline.

• Scrape Kick - Baraka slides along the ground on the tips of his blades, hitting his opponent with a kick.

• Chop Chop Blades - Equivalent to the Blade Fury attack from the old timeline.

• Blade Cyclone - Baraka spins in place, blades extended.

• Free Fall Super Move - Useable during Free Fall Kombat. Baraka extends his blades then spins around close to the opponent, cutting them repeatedly. He finishes the attack by knocking them to the ground.

Finishers

• Fatality 1 - Baraka knocks his opponent down, then leaps onto them and extends his blades through their chest, killing them. He then leaps back and poses.

• Fatality 2 - Baraka slashes his opponent twice, then stabs them in the gut with both blades and flips them overhead.

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Malibu Comics' Mortal Kombat

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Strength

• Tosses Kitana off himself.

• Smashes apart a thick block of ice that's covering Reptile.

• Knocks Sub-Zero back with a punch.

Durability

• Gets Kung Lao's razor hat thrown at him and is just fine.

  • For reference, the Malibu version of Kung Lao is strong enough to reduce a tree to pieces with a series of punches, send Kitana (really Shang Tsung) back with an uppercut so hard that she cracks the ground when she lands, and punch Kano through a wall.

• Gets blasted in the face with Reptile's acid and recovers quickly.

• Takes Reptile's acid spit again.

• He's able to resist getting frozen by Sub-Zero.

  • For reference, the Malibu version of Sub-Zero's ice attacks are potent enough to leave Reptile in a thick covering of ice and do the same with some random guard.

• Gets blasted with electricity by Raiden and is up and fighting some time later.

  • For reference, the Malibu version of Raiden's lightning is powerful enough to blow a wide hole in a stone wall.

• Gets blasted with fire by Scorpion and is pretty much fine.

  • For reference, the Malibu version of Scorpion was able to kill Sub-Zero with his fire breath.

• Takes an uppercut from the Kombatant and is up and fighting some time later.

  • For reference, the Kombatant was created with the strength of the Malibu version of Goro, who is strong enough to smash apart rock and mangle a car.

Speed/Agility

• Blitzes an entire group of undead warriors, taking them all out while not getting hit once.

• Does it again.

• Attacks so fast it looks like he has multiple arms.

• Reacts fast enough to block Sub-Zero's ice blast.

Blades

• Baraka stabs one of these into a wall hard enough to crack it.

• Baraka cuts a metal sword in half (and seemingly decapitates someone) with one.

• Uses them to destroy the Deathstone, a crystal pendant Scorpion had.

• Uses them to slash up Jax's arms.

• Uses one to slash off the Kombatant's arm.

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Midway's Mortal Kombat Comics

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Note: These are promotional comics either distributed with or advertised by the games. Due to being published by Midway, they might be canon to the old timeline. It's unclear if they are canon to each other.

Durability

Mortal Kombat II Collector's Edition

• Bullets from a handgun just bounce off of him.

Mortal Kombat: Deception Limited Edition

• Just fine after leaping off a cliff to kill a guy.

Blades

Mortal Kombat: Deception Limited Edition

• Kills some random armored guy with them offscreen. Yeah, this is the same thing as directly above, sue me.

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Mortal Kombat Movie Series

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Feats from the novelizations will be included here. Identical/similar feats will be beneath their movie counterparts, feats unique to the books will be in their own sections. Mouse over novelization feats for chapter number. While the movie itself doesn't refer to Baraka by name, the credits and novelization confirm the Tarkatan character to be him.

Strength

Annihilation

• Knocks down Liu Kang with a kick then pins him down with his blades.

Durability

Annihilation Novelization

• Takes hits from Liu Kang and keeps fighting.

  • For reference, the Annihilation novel version of Liu Kang is strong enough to break apart an Outworld warrior's ribs with a series of kicks, knock Sheeva through a temple wall with a bicycle kick, break a sword in half with a kick, launch away an armored guard with a kick, snap another armored guard's neck with a kick, and haul another armored guard on top of a cage.

Speed/Agility

Annihilation

• Flips high into the air to avoid an attack from Liu Kang.

Annihilation Novelization

• Dodges a kick from Sonya.

Blades

Annihilation

• His blades can hold up against a real metal sword wielded by Liu Kang.

  • For reference, using that same sword, the movie version of Liu Kang was able to break a lock on a cage and throw it hard enough to split a metal chain.

Annihilation Novelization

• Sonya dodges his blades, "knowing full well those claws were capable of slicing her to the bone."

• His blades cut apart Liu Kang's hands when he deflects them.

Miscellaneous

Annihilation Novelization

• His teeth are "razor-sharp."

• His teeth are metal.

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Mortal Kombat: Legacy

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Mouse over a feat to see the name, season, and number of the episode it's from.

Blades

• Impales a woman through the chest with a blade.

• Extends his blades, impaling the impostor King Jerrod on both.

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Jeff Rovin's Mortal Kombat

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Mouse over feats for chapter number.

Blades

• Skewers a pigeon with his blades.

Miscellaneous

• His teeth are metal.

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"Shao Kahn conquered my realm. I owe him my loyalty; I honor his will. "

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Submitted March 25, 2019 at 02:58PM by 76SUP https://ift.tt/2HL2LDV