For the record I don't actually have any problems with Mavado's name. I mean sure you can tell me what it means, but without the cultural awareness and experience, it still sounds fine to me. A bit like Jade, which here in Britain is a really rather horribly white trash "chavvy" name, yet her name sounds so much more mystical in MK's context because of the characterisation (and thankfully doesn't remind me of guests on the Jeremy Kyle Show).
Needless to say there's lots of stupid names in Mortal Kombat, even for beloved characters. Rain, Smoke, Kitana (since it's just a Japanese sword spelled slightly differently), The Kollector, hell even Sheeva (they simply named her wholesale after the four-armed Hindu goddess, Shiva, inventive lads), but when the characters are well designed and have good back stories, their dopey names cease to matter and we love them entirely regardless.
With Mavado for me it's simply the fact that he's a fedora and katana away from posing for an edgelord photograph in his mum's dining room. And the Red Dragon was just lazy as hell writing. It's no surprise they only had two members who were both absolute clowns. Plus it turned the Black Dragon from being a very terrestrial scumbag terrorist organisation to the offshoot from an ancient mystical religion with talking cartoon dragons from Edenia? Ugh.
