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Encyclopedia > Kintaro (Mortal Kombat character)

Kintaro is a character in the Mortal Kombat video gaming series. Mortal Kombat is a 1992 fighting game by Midway. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ...


About Kintaro

Kintaro is a moody, gigantic humanoid with four arms. He was introduced as the successor to Goro, and was everything Goro was (including being of the Shokan race), but only meaner, bigger and harder to defeat. Being the supreme commander of Outworld's armed forces only second to Shao Kahn himself. He has more clearly defined feline aspects than Goro, with tiger stripes on his back, and has the ability to spit fireballs from great distances. Kintaro heard of Goro's loss to Johnny Cage and vowed revenge during Shao Kahn's tournament. He lost the match and tried to attack Cage from behind. Rayden stopped him by vaporizing him into ashes with his lightning. Goro as he appears in Mortal Kombat: Deception (GameCube version). ... In the Mortal Kombat mythology, it is a race of half-human half-dragon warriors. ... Outworld is the evil realm that was once ruled by Onaga, the Dragon King. ... Shao Kahn. ... Subfamilies Felinae Pantherinae Acinonychinae Machairodontinae (extinct) All cats are members of the family Felidae. ... Johnny Cage is the stage name of John Carlton, a video game character from the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games. ... Rayden. ...


For a long time after his introduction, he was seen as one of the hardest fighting game bosses in all of the Mortal Kombat series, able to grab someone in mid-attack and throw them to the ground, usually then teleport-stomping his enemy. Shang Tsung also had a fatality in Mortal Kombat II where he morphed into Kintaro and punched the opponent's upper-body clean across the screen. Shang Tsung is a video game character in the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games. ... Mortal Kombat II is the second game in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...


Misc stuff

There is actually a Kintaro in Japanese mythology (Mortal Kombat draws upon this mythology frequently), but he is nothing like this one at all. Kintaro (Golden Boy) is a hero from Japanese folklore. ...


Kintaro was originally going to be a playable character (a tall anthropomorphic tiger with two arms), but as his large size meant potential problems with costume size and finding a tall actor to play the role, he was made into a four-armed boss character in the same way as Goro. Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ... Tiger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...


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