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Which Character's move seems most unlike them?

Juggs

Lose without excuses
Lead Moderator
I mean, they throw concussion grenades, that explode and knock people out, or something like the ball version I posted.

I'm sure he grabbed them from the back of the supply room somewhere :p
Yeah but that's still different than an explosive grenade. If he's going around throwing puny rubber blast grenades at people like Scorpion who can summon hellfire, he's as doofy as his character portrait looks in UMK3.

 

Awsumpossm

Apprentice
Definitely Sonya's upward bicycle kick. Bitch completely defies gravity.

Hell Liu Kang's doesn't really make sense either but at least its befitting of his character.
 

CrimsonShadow

Administrator and Community Engineer
Administrator
Yeah but that's still different than an explosive grenade. If he's going around throwing puny rubber blast grenades at people like Scorpion who can summon hellfire, he's as doofy as his character portrait looks in UMK3.

Hehe, well I imagine Scorpion probably wouldn't care much about the bullets either. But you've got to use everything you've got, right? Hahah.


I think we made a thread once that was like "what would happen logically if these characters actually fought" and it was pretty grim for a lot of the cast.
 

ZeZe

The smart stuff!
Sindel's hair grab. I mean, I know MK has to do with lots of over the top ridiculousness, but this hair attack... at least if her hair were like Medusa's - living and breathing snake-like things, but they are just white and black normal hair. Until they grab you. Sindel has specialls based on her voice, why give her deadly hairstyle?
 

TheRazorsEdge

You can't see him. His time is now.
It may come from a cloud he created... but it's still electricity (ie not water) and therefor, he should not be able to control it. The strikes should be random, not directly at the opponent.
It's a very small cloud, the lightning bolt has nowhere to go but straight down.
 

ShaolinGunFu

Warrior
I wanna complain about how stryker shoots human beings like sonya in the face and her raising her arms up deflects the bullet- but this is a game with far more stranger occurrences
 

Zoidberg747

My blades will find your heart
Liu Kang's Flying Dragon kick makes no sense from a physics perspective. Like...where does he get all that momentum from? Also his parry, since he is supposed to be human yet he can somehow teleport.

Kanos ball is weird because it never makes sense how he manages to do that. That and upball aren't physically possible, even if you have cybernetic enhancements.

Kabals saws come out of nowhere every time. Still doesnt make sense.

Those are the only things that I can't seem to explain.
 

KiD INsAnitY

Z of The Leaf -Team R.A.N
Liu Kang's Flying Dragon kick makes no sense from a physics perspective. Like...where does he get all that momentum from? Also his parry, since he is supposed to be human yet he can somehow teleport.

Kanos ball is weird because it never makes sense how he manages to do that. That and upball aren't physically possible, even if you have cybernetic enhancements.

Kabals saws come out of nowhere every time. Still doesnt make sense.

Those are the only things that I can't seem to explain.
Well No fighting game is logical when it comes to physics...You can't juggle people, pop up off the ground as high as they do...Get upper cutted and fly 10 feet in the air etc..lol
 

ando1184

Warrior
Everyone has touched on how Kabals saws and gas blast don't make sense but honestly neither does his dash. How can getting your bodied mutilated give you flash-like speed? To touch bases on rain, his roundhouse kick shows he's manipulating the wind to me. So yeah, he's more like storm from xmen than simply a firehose ninja. Bicycle kicks and Kano ball are pretty rediculous for human characters.
 

Zoidberg747

My blades will find your heart
Well No fighting game is logical when it comes to physics...You can't juggle people, pop up off the ground as high as they do...Get upper cutted and fly 10 feet in the air etc..lol
I mean yeah but still, within his character it doesnt make sense to me.
 

Barrogh

Meta saltmine
Suddenly this thread is about unrealistic moves rather than about moves that don't fit a character :p

Rains dumb roundhouse.
Well, to be honest, everyone kicks and punches in this game. The victim flying from the opposite direction is pretty damn dumb, but in my humble opinion it's more a problem of with move's visual design rather than with it not fitting the character.

My top goes to scorpions leg takedown. It's not that it's out of character it just seems pointless. Has anyone ever thought "I hope scorp still has that awesome leg sweep in the next game."? How has that move made it off the cutting room floor every game?
To be fair, scissors takedown is legit move in oriental martial arts (including judo I believe), it just usually looks a bit differently, but then again MK moves may mimic something from RL, and then they turn them up to eleven (recent example: Sonya's garrotte parry), so this one can be considered par the course too. I believe it's kind of okay on Scorpion because of his Japanese background.

what about the animalities?
I'll just say: animalities. All of them :p

Still til this day I don't understand How a regular human like Jhonny Cage acquired green Fireballs.
He's not regular human though, he's basically a descendant of a race of supersoilders created by gods at one point in history.

As to the topic... I'm having trouble to think of anything else really. I'm so used to what different characters can do that it became their integral part in my eyes.

Now that I think about it, I can agree on Kano balls. The name sticks well (thanks to similarity with "cannonball"), but to me Kano was first and foremost his knives and fighting style, not this move. Heck, his new set of throws and parries look much more like himself despite being new thing. Well, at least MKX balls at least animated a bit differently to look a bit less silly.
 

Via_Negativa

Darkforge
All the characters in every single modern iteration of the series when I find that none of them have kept any signature normal attacks.
I think this is a big reason NRS typically has issues with balance.

Still hyped for this game though. I really hope against hope they have netcode that's not completely broke this time.
 

FinalBoss_FGC

Day -4MONTHS Dual Jin main
If Kano didn't have that stupid ball move, I wouldn't hate him as much as I do.

Another one -
Can we please talk about Goro's projectile? I'm sorry but that shit is dumb
 

kabelfritz

Master
If Kano didn't have that stupid ball move, I wouldn't hate him as much as I do.

Another one -
Can we please talk about Goro's projectile? I'm sorry but that shit is dumb
i dont see why people are wondering about goro and Johnny throwing their snot. everyone can do that.
 

ShArp

Dedicated Broly main
This might be a bit off-topic but what never made sense to me in MK9 (gameplay aside) is how Rain's/ Nightwolf's lightining bolts or Stryker's electrocute move do damage on Raiden xD...

I mean he's a freakin Thunder God, that Stryker's X-Ray should only charge this mofo xD
 

Hexin_Wishes

Likes nerds with big ...
I know this isn't a klassic move but in MKX Kitana's pounce throat cut just doesn't seem like it belongs with her. It just seems too...alien. I get that she's pissed but that move is pure primal savagery to me.
 
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