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About Goro

Goro was introduced in the very first Mortal Kombat game as the sub-boss, where he was infamously very difficult to defeat. More than two thousand years old, he is the Prince of the Shokan race, hailing from the Kuatan realm of Outworld. As a General in the Outworld Emperor Shao Kahn's militia, he fights for the pride and glory of his people. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Outworld (Mortal Kombat: Deception). ... Shao Kahn is a boss and recurring playable character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...

Storyline

Goro in the original Mortal Kombat

Goro became Grand Champion of the Mortal Kombat tournament after defeating the Great Kung Lao. For 500 years, he remained undefeated and helped Shang Tsung grow ever closer to achieving Shao Kahn's goal of domination over Earthrealm. In his 10th title defense, however, he faced Liu Kang. Kang pushed him to his limits and finally defeated the mighty Shokan warrior. In the tournament's aftermath, Goro went missing after a battle between him and Kano, Johnny Cage, and Sonya Blade. He was believed to be dead. It is theorized that he actually retreated back to his kingdom during this time. Shang Tsung, meanwhile, faced execution for his defeat at the hands of Liu Kang and for Goro's apparent death. Image File history File links Goro_Mortal_Kombat. ... Image File history File links Goro_Mortal_Kombat. ... Paolo Montalban as Kung Lao in Mortal Kombat: Conquest The Great Kung Lao is a character referenced in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series and featured in the TV show Mortal Kombat: Conquest. ... Shang Tsung (last name pronounced sung) is a video game character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Shao Kahn is a boss and recurring playable character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Earthrealm (Mortal Kombat: Deception) In the Mortal Kombat video game series, Earthrealm is the name that is most frequently used for Earth. ... Liu Kang is a major character and fighter in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Kano is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... Sonya Blade is a video game character from the Mortal Kombat fighting games series. ...

Goro would resurface after Kahn's downfall, during the events of Mortal Kombat 4/Mortal Kombat Gold. Despite having the intent to avenge his losses at Liu Kang's hands, Goro began to take an interest in the matters of his own race and joined his fellow Shokans in war against the Centaurians. Princess Kitana intervened and negotiated both races through a truce and peace accord. The meeting was interrupted by Kung Lao who desired to challenge his ancestor's killer. The Shaolin Monk lashed out with a ceremonial strike of revenge that left Goro's chest scarred. Considering the score settled, the two shook hands. When Shinnok and his legion were defeated and Edenia was free once more, Goro and the Shokan race decided to ally themselves with the Edenians. Mortal Kombat 4 (1997) was the last game in the Mortal Kombat series to have an arcade version. ... Mortal Kombat Gold is a fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series. ... // Centaurians The Centaurians were first introduced in Mortal Kombat 3, where the centaur Motaro acted as the sub-boss. ... Kitana is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Kung Lao is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Edenia (Mortal Kombat: Deception). ...

Years later, during the time of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, the united Edenian and Shokan forces attacked the weakened Shao Kahn's armies. Exhausted from battle, Goro was struck from behind by Noob Saibot. He was mortally wounded, apparently dying from the injury. However, Goro is able to survive, being saved from death by Shao Kahn himself. He vows his allegiance to the emperor, making the Shokan allies of Kahn once again. Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is a video game developed and produced by Midway. ... Noob Saibot is a character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...

In his Armageddon ending, Goro defeats Blaze and attains the power of a god. Onaga, Shao Kahn, Quan Chi, and Shang Tsung had formed an alliance to get this power, only to have it stolen from them. They confronted Goro in an attempt to get it, but Goro laughed and from beyond the pyramid came an army of Shokan that killed the four attackers. The Shokan would rule Outworld. Onaga is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Shao Kahn is a boss and recurring playable character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Quan Chi is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Shang Tsung (last name pronounced sung) is a video game character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...

Combat characteristics

Signature moves

• Fireball: Goro shoots a green fireball out of his hand. This move was stronger than most projectiles, just like his physical attacks. It also appeared in Mortal Kombat 4, but this time he shot it from his mouth, similar to Kintaro. In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, the fireball is larger, red, and does standard projectile damage. In Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Goro can shoot one from each hand, four in a row. (MK, MKT, MK4, MKG, MK:D, MK:SM, MK:A)
• Leaping Stomp: Goro jumps off screen and comes crashing down on his enemy. (MK,MK4, MKG, MK:D, MK:SM, MK:A)
• Chest Pound: Grabbing his opponent with his lower arms, Goro then pounds them with his upper arms, shaving off a good portion of his opponent's life. In Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, a Test Your Might event occurs against Goro when he uses this attack. (MK, MKT, MK4, MKG, MK:D, MK:SM, MK:A)
• Tremor Pound: Goro either stomps or pounds the ground, creating a small tremor and knocking his opponent into the air. (MK4, MKG, MK:D, MK:A)
• Spinning Slaps: Goro holds his arms out and spins around, smacking the opponent multiple times with his outstretched fists. (MKT,MK:A)

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Recurring fatalities

• Four-Armed Rip: Grabbing his opponent's arms in his top pair of hands and their legs in his other pair, Goro then rips his opponent's limbs off. (MK:D)
• Sai Assault: Goro slashes his opponent, shoves four sais into their chest, and rips out one sai and shoves it into their neck. (MK:D)

Appearances in other media

Film

Goro appears in the first Mortal Kombat movie, in accordance with his original story, as the champion of Mortal Kombat. After defeating numerous opponents, including Johnny Cage's friend Art Lean, he is in turn defeated and sent falling to his death by Cage. In the movie, Goro is portrayed as an evil warrior, steeped in the authoritarian traditions of Outworld. He does not look favorably upon humans. He is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, with vocal effects provided by Frank Welker. Mortal Kombat is a 1995 movie, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... This is a list of minor characters from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series and related media, of varying canonicity. ... Kevin Michael Richardson Kevin Michael Richardson (born October 25, 1964 in The Bronx, New York) is an American voice actor, one of the most prominent black voice actors in the field. ... Frank Welker Frank W. Welker (born February 16, 1945) is an American voice actor. ...

Character Development

Goro's original appearance through the 2D games was nearly human shaped with an extra arm under each armpit, dragon scales on his back, and spikes on his forehead. In later appearances, Goro would have an extra chest beneath his regular one to match his second set of arms

As Goro had four arms, he could not be portrayed by an actor when the original Mortal Kombat games were digitized from real subjects. He was, in fact, a latex mold created from a clay sculpture. The mold was animated incorporating moves from another actor. This technique was later incorporated into the first Mortal Kombat movie as well. According to Ed Boon, the clay sculpture used to animate Goro in the first Mortal Kombat was twisted around and bent so many times that it simply fell apart. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Digitized is a method of creating sprites to games using live video footage. ... Ed Boon, on a G4TV interview Ed Boon (born March 30, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois), along with John Tobias is a co-creator of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...

In Mortal Kombat: Deception, when explaining how Goro was animated, Ed Boon mentions a second model for Goro had also been created. This second model was not used for animation and still survives to this day.

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Alignment

Goro's alignment has been in a constant state of flux since his introduction in the original Mortal Kombat. Due to the nature of his fighting style and appearance, he was presumed to be evil in the first game. In Mortal Kombat 4 and Mortal Kombat Gold, his alignment is somewhat ambiguous; his bio states that he wanted revenge on Liu Kang, while Kung Lao's ending and the comic book packaged with the PC version of MK4 clearly showed that Goro is actually good-natured and wishes to end the meaningless violence caused by Shao Kahn and the Centaurs. In the end, his desire to see peace wins out, leading him to settle his long lived grudge with Kung Lao and Liu Kang. Here, it is revealed that Goro was never truly evil, but that he was simply fulfilling his role as Champion of Mortal Kombat until the title was taken by Liu Kang.

In Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Goro is described as being killed in battle while fighting alongside Kitana against Shao Kahn's forces, which indicates his alignment at the time was good. However, in Mortal Kombat: Deception's GameCube incarnation, Goro was saved at the last moment by Shao Kahn himself, pushing him to pledge his loyalty to the former emperor in return and therefore changing his alignment to evil. Whether or not Goro will return to the side of good remains to be seen.

In Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Goro is intentionally portrayed as being evil as indicated by his dialogue in the wastelands. The same also applies to the movie, in which he is defeated by Johnny Cage.

Game Information

In the original MK, if the player defeated Goro with Johnny Cage with a flawless victory, Goro screamed a Wilhelm scream. In the SNES version of the original MK, if the player performed Rayden's finishing move on the final endurance match, a metallic Goro would appear to fight. This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the movie Distant Drums. ...

Goro is a secret playable character in the Game Boy version of the first Mortal Kombat game. To play as Goro a player must first beat the game, then during the end credits enter a secret code. There are also other changes made as a result of this secret code. One of the more notable changes is that all the fighters would have new names (Kano would now be named Eric for example). In addition, you would now have to fight Goro twice (the first time during the mirror match just before the Endurance Matches and the second time just before Shang Tsung himself). Goro has no personal ending in this game and he is also unbalanced enough to play. Goro had no fatality, only special attacks and all can be difficult to execute. For the entire Game Boy series of handheld consoles, see Game Boy line. ...

It was rumored that Goro was to be a playable character in Mortal Kombat II. That rumor was finally put to rest when it was confirmed that Goro was not in the game.

Because of Goro's unusual body size and shape, his Game Over sequence in Mortal Kombat 4/Mortal Kombat Gold was greatly glitched: his tumble down the pit was awkward, he would land on the spikes at the bottom head-first (thus sinking his head in below the shoulders due to clipping issues), and an odd computerized laugh would be heard. Mortal Kombat 4 (1997) was the last game in the Mortal Kombat series to have an arcade version. ... Mortal Kombat Gold is a fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series. ... Look up clipping in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Goro's appearance in Deception is unusual because the game depicts him as using three distinctly different weapons: his Dragon Fangs (as his Weapon Style), four sais (for his Fatality and Hara-Kiri), and a pair of poison-laced swords (in Shao Kahn's ending, against the Dragon King). As there is no in-game reason given for his use of all these weapons, seemingly arbitrarily (and mutually exclusive from one another), some fans find this confusing and nonsensical for the character.

Trivia

• Has seven polygamous wives. Sheeva has often been theorized to be one of them, but this has never been mentioned within canon.
• Goro's skin is either flesh colored or yellow in the games, but he was dark brown in the first Mortal Kombat movie.

Goro: Prince of Pain Malibu comic book

• He was the first of five Mortal Kombat characters to have their own non-canon Malibu comic book (the others were Kung Lao, Baraka, Mileena, and Kitana). His nickname in these comics is the "Prince Of Pain".
• Throughout the Mortal Kombat media (the combination of the games, comic books, and movies), only three men have beaten Goro in a fair fight. These three are Liu Kang (as stated in the official Mortal Kombat II comic book), Johnny Cage (as shown in the first Mortal Kombat), and the original Sub-Zero (as shown in the Malibu Mortal Kombat comic book, Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition II). Thus far, no women have beaten him.
• Fan reactions towards Goro were favorable, as they had never seen anything like him prior to Mortal Kombat's release.
• The source of much aggravation for the writing staff at UK-based Amiga magazine Amiga Power, who constantly received letters along the lines of "Dear AP, tell me how to 'be' Goro." [1].
• In the movie Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins, Goro has an older brother named Durak (whom he kills to become the Prince of Shokan) and mother called Queen Maya.
• While Goro was billed at 8' 2" (249 cm) in the first Mortal Kombat in 1992, in the games, he looks nowhere near that height. However, in the GameCube release of Mortal Kombat: Deception, Goro is nearly as tall as Onaga, the Dragon King, who towers over the other warriors, so it is likely that he is at his listed height again.
• Although there is a popular rumor that there is an official trading card that claims Sheeva is the daughter of Goro, this card has never existed.
• Goro is referenced in the videogame BloodStorm, where a Game Over message would insult him by saying "Who cares where Goro is?".