Hidden Content: Mortal Kombat's Insane Secret Characters

[@Pikasprey]

So I've never been much of a social media user, but I figure since the channel has been growing so much lately, I should at least have a Twitter account. You can find the link to it in the description. There's not much there right now, but I plan to use it for posting updates for all of the different projects I'm working on, as well as maybe use it for talking with you guys some more.

[@primorock8141]

Pikasprey Yellow lol i am not much of a social media user either

[@takingdownconjopi]

Whoa, I think I subscribed around 9k subs and you're already up to 25k? That's great dude! So much growth in so little time. I guess it's just a sign of great content.

[@Nutshaq]

Pikasprey Yellow wow, when I subbed around a month ago, you had 2,000 subs. Great content. Keep up the work

[@alex.thedeadite]

Well, seeing as the Arkham games had stuff that the makers themselves had to release how to get to them/ that they even existed twice. So Yes, yes I think it will continue.

[@takingdownconjopi]

Alex Huneault Are you a little lost bud?

[@primegoat]

Ermac in MK1 started when people noticed that there was a "Reptile count" and "ERMAC count" counter in the arcade cabinet debug info. People assumed that ERMAC is another character, while really it stood for "Error Macro", and had nothing to do with another character. The attention towards this, however, ended up in the creation of an actual Ermac character in later games.

[@jayden7106]

Thx

[@yamibakura3641]

@Dom LS1 it was in the games debug info

[@ThomasMink]

I believe that's also why the UMK3 announcer called him 'Air'mac. Since he was a combination of Error and Macro. Sadly got dropped in later games in favor of a more normal pronunciation with how the name is spelled.

[@Interesting_Failure]

This reminds me of Armok from Dwarf Fortress, actually; the in-game name for the God of Blood, but the name originated from the ARM_OK variable determining, hold on, if I remember right, whether an entity's arm was okay or not.

[@sirsmellybottom7480]

Hey I main ERMAC

[@BDeity]

Donny Rage hints: I am Rage Ermac who? One chance (No continues) Lunar (moon) More than Mondan (Monday=2nd day in week, Tuesday=3rd day in week) Get thinkin' (thinkin' rhymes with chicken, chickens lay eggs) No, the other way (the player is holding the controller right side up, right side up is the opposite of upside down) Tibet's wind (Tibet monk, flutes are woodwind instruments) Be Before (A comes before the letter B, "Be" is a homophone with "B".) Johnny who?

[@Pikasprey]

I love this.

[@CaseyThelord]

He forgot these hints. The name of the A (the first name with letter A part) Johnny who?

[@BDeity]

CaseyThe lord123456, I edited the comment. Thanks for telling me.

[@CaseyThelord]

YEAH!!

[@CaseyThelord]

B.Deity Your welcome! You should go to the comment below the pinned one from Pikasprey by me. I made a special secret caharacter called Dung Pee.

[@creativeandfunnyname3744]

People probably didn't "figure out" the Jade one. One of the most common AI exploits in MK games is spamming sweep kick, so a lot of people probably found it accidentally.

[@DoctorPorkenfries]

...that would actually help explain why the A.I. could generally beat everything you tried but was somehow still suseptible to the sweep.

[@Yogsoggeth]

I found Jade by accident just by being bad. True story!

[@HeavensAscension]

Lol for me I was doing jump kicks and found her by accident

[@jorgedocarmo3057]

Yes, I did it once. I came to fight her, but had no idea how I got there.

[@b01tact10n]

😂 that's 😅😂👍

[@clarencegutsy7309]

Ermac and Reptile to me are among the best in the games. Reptile was new, fresh, mysterious and you never saw anything like that before so having the beginning of your round hijacked by some green clad ninja who spoke cryptically was enthralling. Ermac is pretty much a character made through pure fanservice since he became something of an urban legend in arcades and even his backstory being that he's made up of thousands of warrior souls can be taken as a sly reference to the amount of quarters people dropped in MK1 cabinets to try and discover him. Fun fact, in Shaolin Monks for PS2 they have Ermac as a secret boss fight. You encounter him in the Warrior Shrine portion and he's disguised as a Scorpion statue. The rumor was Ermac being a red Scorpion and the infamous fake picture from EGM had "Ermac" fighting in the Warrior Shrine. A very cool nod to the genesis of the character.

[@rustymixer2886]

Link

[@xaosm_os]

nerdy af.

[@clarencegutsy7309]

@@xaosm_os "apocryphae" lol

[@xaosm_os]

​@@clarencegutsy7309 ​ @Clarence Gutsy lol

[@clarencegutsy7309]

@@xaosm_os "xaosmos" lol

[@TheBlarggle]

I was a little kid when this mystery shit was at its peak with Reptile and man, I can't tell you how cool it is to have someone going into detail about this stuff. Side Note: When I was in, maybe 6th grade(?) my teacher had us write letters to someone famous, or that we admired, and being a dumb little kid I thought about "the makers of mortal kombat 2!" so I wrote to Acclaim and they sent me something I still have, and haven't seen anywhere else. It was a full poster(I'm talking movie theater sized poster) featuring all of the MK2 characters, with in game screen shots and all of their moves and fatalities listed besides them. Let me tell you, as a little kid this was the coolest fucking thing I'd ever gotten. Also, do you know how cool you are when you're the kid who knows ALL, fuckin ALL, the fatalities, friendships, and babalities? Not very cool. But still... I made a couple friends.

[@leonid123ful]

Umm, that IS cool. We should hang out. But yeah I get you, this is nostalgia at its best.

[@SenorDisuade]

@@82pythons85 ...What if it were an old picture?

[@kiyyanafilmore5591]

@@82pythons85 I was born in 87 yeah😎😎

[@sephyrartcore9523]

@@82pythons85 maybe you could benefit from therapy

[@SandwitchZebra]

That's... pretty cool. Must have been a pretty cool thing that they sent you that. I would've been your friend of I'd known you. Yeah, now I hear how wrong my sentence sounds when I said it to myself. But still, pretty cool.

[@LightshaverConstellation]

I unlocked donny rage by doing this while cosplaying as the monk I needed just yesterday.

[@synthetic_creature]

cheater.

[@synthetic_creature]

@@wilfredogumapal7946 you don't have a in your name

[@gracielamillan8088]

Bro same

[@mattiatf2]

XDDDDd

[@mattiatf2]

NandNproject❤ W H A T, W H A T T H E FU-

[@FavaleXD]

Allright so: -No continues -Tuesday night -Full moon -Holding the controller upside down -Balancing a full egg cartoon on my head -While a tibetan monk performs a wicked flute solo in the corner of my room Donny Rage, here I come

[@OmniscientWarrior]

That moment when you realized that you need to have the letter "a" in your first name... and you don't.

[@Grandmastergav86]

FavaleXD Could be worse, these days they'll charge you for the "privilege" of accessing a character in a game (DLC) that you've already paid for...

[@natman2939]

OmniscientWarrior legally change your name

[@drunkpanda8301]

OmniscientWarrior he does fAvAle

[@bz4400]

what about... having Donny Rage as an actual secret character in a fan game :D it should know the date, time and the moon cycles (or there should be a stage like pit1 with full moon where you have to defeat sbdy) you should ealier beat the game so you can write your name on the board monks are in mk1 arena (?) stage, so it could be a mix of this arena with pit 1's moon or sth about the eggs, welp, ehhm, oooh i see no jumps so they won't fall down :)

[@Miguelnumbers]

With how Noob started and what you said of people calling game developers Lazy if they did this nowadays, it makes you realize John and Ed really are two special people; looking how epic and amazing characters like Noob, Smoke, Reptile and Jade look nowadays in MK 9, 10 and 11. Those men really are a gift to the world.

[@eclipsethefox4397]

A shame Tremor didn't get his love until recently

[@raiden1356]

I bet everyone pretty much lost their minds when reptile became a playable character in Mortal Kombat 2

[@Scoob589]

I DID

[@danmccarthy4700]

They did. I remember thinking "holy shit he's got Sub Zero's and Scorpion's moves; why would anyone use anybody BUT Reptile?" Then it came out that he'd get his own moveset, which turned out to make him the shittiest character in the game. The Force Ball was too slow and the Acid Spit was quick but did little damage.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

Dan McCarthy You probably sucked ass at playing him then cause I won so much money cheesing people with Reptile back then. Same with Stryker when MK3 came out

[@keelyleilani1326]

@@danmccarthy4700 Reptile was actually one of the best characters in the game. He was the first character that I was even able to win the game with.

[@demariowilliams8]

I definitely did and kept the game so long, my momma started getting threats from family video 😂

[@HeckinBrandon]

in the arcade: Noob's win thing has the announcer say "Feel the power of toasty!"

[@shaynehughes6645]

Game theory: Noob's actual name is Toasty That's it

[@OpiumSmoke8971]

Shayne Hughes noob saibot was created by reversing Ed Boon & John Tobias’s last name

[@NitroMemes]

Steven Motie he is the original subzero that got killed by scorpion in the original game

[@assassinonprozac]

@@NitroMemes He was talking about the origins of the name “Noob Saibot” not the characters in universe identity

[@NitroMemes]

@@assassinonprozac THAT WAS 8 MONTHS AGO, I REALIZED THAT AFTER A WEEK OF THAT COMMENT, IT WAS ALMOST THE START OF THIS YEAR THAT I POSTED THAT

[@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers]

They still have secrets in games nowadays, only they hide it behind an inpenetrable wall with a door on it. Which can be unlocked with both Visa and MasterCard.

[@pokepress]

Basti EiseNKrafT I was hoping someone would make that joke.

[@NemaselsNeo]

What kind of hints would you get for unlocking such characters? "Beggars cannot choose me." "I do not tolerate the presence of the poor." "Diamonds are a girl's best friend... Plastic is mine." "I love those Pay-to-Play games, don't you?" "Money doesn't buy happiness... unless your happiness is with me." "Fork over the dough already you nerdy f**k - I'm DLC and you need me!" **Looks at his wallet** ...Meh... Some secrets are better to keep secret, eh? :-]

[@5AO172]

@@NemaselsNeo spot on 🤣

[@kaihedgie1747]

So it's no different from the arcades :V

[@DmitriyK12]

@@kaihedgie1747 You are incorrect kind sir; owning said arcade cabinet will also allow you to remove your hard earned $$$. 😏😒😁😎 Obviously you have to buy the aforementioned arcade cabinet in the 1st place; however, the price alone is worth it in my opinion.

[@0ddSavant]

Speaking of “Not having enough graphics memory for additional features“ In the first game, Shang Tsung was supposed to have his own unique moves but there wasn’t enough graphics memory available to do that. Instead, they had the character “Morph” into other characters. This way they could reuse the animations & memory allocated for the other players & treat those re-runs as a legit Bossfight - all without having to increase the hardware specs. It worked so well, we customers kept blasting quarters into the Arcade’s [glorified slot] machine, none the wiser. But damn that was some scandalous AI. Downright nefarious, with that weasel grab and instant override. Cheers!

[@monasteryfounder]

To add to this, the roster included Goro, having battled him just before this point. So a player could potentially have to kontend with a busted Goro AI back to back, albeit for an unpredictably brief amount of time the second time around, if at all.

[@humanrelatedtolegend64-on4bc]

As this is mortal kombat I made it accurate Speaking of “Not having enough graphiks memory for additional features“ In the first game, Shang Tsung was supposed to have his own unique moves but there wasn’t enough graphiks memory available to do that. Instead, they had the kharacter “Morph” into other kharacters. This way they could reuse the animations & memory allokated for the other players & treat those re-runs as a legit Bossfight - all without having to increase the hardware specs. It worked so well, we customers kept blasting quarters into the Arcade’s [glorified slot] makhine, none the wiser. But damn that was some scandalous AI. Downright nefarious, with that weasel grab and instant override.

[@0ddSavant]

@@humanrelatedtolegend64-on4bc Appreciate the assist, thank you. Cheers!

[@humanrelatedtolegend64-on4bc]

@@0ddSavant your welkome

[@Dr.GundeathPunchface-enstein]

Donny Rage confirmed for Mortal Kombat 11!

[@jjs32stepstoenlightenment37]

Dr. Gundeath Punchface-enstein no he’s dlc 69.99 dollars and only can be purchased when it is 7:34 at night in the winter and your name has a Q, v, and the last letter is k while your reviewing a McDouble for a KZbin channel with over 2 million subscribers and have a mustard stain on your v-neck shirt

[@bradenmitchell5565]

Johnny Cage: Who hired this guy? What the F**k!

[@andrewbarnes08]

Who’s Donny rage ??

[@Hydra_X9K_Music]

@@andrewbarnes08 The most OP character in Mortal Kombat history!!!

[@andrewbarnes08]

Hydra X9K I tried googling him an couldn’t find a picture of him I even looked at the dlcs and didn’t see him

[@merchantziro4285]

I got it, Donny Rage is actually Johnny Cage's distant cousin who just got out of prison for armed robbery. The only reason he can shoot fire out of his elbows is because he ate a magical egg drowned in hot sauce, eggshell included, all while playing the flute, after finding out he's the reincarnation of a legendary warrior from another dimension that was feared for his power, named Rex the Hedgehog.

[@lessel3465]

NICE

[@manicbeyond]

WTF!? WHY DO LIKE THIS!? WHY... OH, I KNOW!!!! IT'S F U N N Y !

[@johnnysaurus04]

Rex is the best Sonic character.

[@aperson5215]

Is he Also his slightly older cousin on his mother's side?

[@tehSunBro]

you wasted an opportunity to call it hidden kontent

[@josef3878]

Nice copy n paste.

[@InsanePorcupine]

Perhaps he just came to the same konclusion.....

[@jtzxcv]

InsanePorcupine I think he was just konfused

[@krage22]

Khameleon 8 *Kopy

[@trippytri]

Anyone want some chicken w/ Korn tortillas?

[@purpseatpeeps8641]

I like the fact that for fairness, 50 wins was shortened to 25. Then later, in MK11, it’s required to get 50 fatalities on each non guest character to unlock special bonus gear an things… but for fairness they had to knock it down to 25. Just an interesting parallel is all.

[@johnjarhaskeen2261]

I could imagine smoke saying "You picked the wrong fight, fool" instead of "Get over here"

[@sayangmustard4]

Big smoke?

[@brandonatwood8859]

@@sayangmustard4 yes.

[@sayangmustard4]

@@brandonatwood8859 ok thanks

[@johnnycage3673]

I killed Donny Rage!

[@murderwill320]

Obviously a lie. You don't have an A in your first name.

[@stardestroyer59]

@@murderwill320 At first it might seem so, but you must remember that his name is actually a shortened form for another name, Jonathan

[@murderwill320]

@@stardestroyer59 But Johnny is a form of John, which is not short for Jonathan - instead, Jon is.

[@AverageGamer-tq1hx]

I killed donny rage too!

[@jammyjamzz]

Johnny Cage me too

[@revolution_is_my_name8981]

“Alternate costume means I’m a new character” lmao

[@manicbeyond]

Yes, like young and old Lego Obi-Wan.

[@Larry]

At least they haven't gone to Call of Duty levels of insane things you need to do to unlock them, it's ruined COD as people are more obsessed in working out how to unlock the easter eggs, than playing the actual game. But, I'm surprised Mortal Kombat has never had a purposely nerfed "Dan" type character. Maybe a Pink make ninja, or wearing a home made cos-play costume.

[@assassinonprozac]

They did in the form of Hsu Hao (story wise)

[@AlphaRebel]

Battlefield has the CoD easter eggs beaten by miles.

[@nicovelardita8619]

Mokap and Meat are the joke characters of the saga

[@emiliomarbanjr]

In CoD they're not even Easter Eggs anymore, they're like side missions.

[@Idkwhattoputlmaoejjdjsdn]

I'd rather unlock easter eggs than play the actual game

[@Morningstar_95]

I always think it's borderline incredible that all the secret characters ended up getting their own movesets and backstories. Noob Saibot definitely has the best backstory.

[@Guerro573]

I fought Donny rage took me 6 tries the monk screwed up twice

[@charizardgaming2253]

@Ramen Bowl Bob im wheezing

[@legogamer09]

What was the other 4

[@Me_Baka]

@@legogamer09 we dont talk about number 4

[@GooberInternet]

@@Me_Baka Werewolf came in and killed the monk. That's why it didn't work the 4th time.

[@Me_Baka]

@@GooberInternet dang tuff life for monk

[@CrossoverGameReviews]

To those who want to know how unlocking Donny Rage works within the intricacies of old arcade/gaming hardware: - All his moves from Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Liu Kang, and Rex the Hedgehog are just the game switching to those characters since he's nothing but a red shadow. Kids didn't knew any better back then. - You got to beat the game with no continues: The game kept count of this. - Your first name has to contain the letter A: Just input your initials with the letter A first, just like that. - On a Tuesday night: There was a built-in calendar in the game so it knew what day it was. - When the moon is full: There was a super-secret feature that the arcade operator had to swear never to reveal in punishment of DEATH (or a lawsuit, I can't remember) that kept track of the lunar phases when set. - While holding the controller upside down: This works for both the arcade and home console believe it or not. The game simply detects if you are hitting Up as Down and Left as Right in a confusing manner, thus it would assume you are using a controller or the arcade stick "upside down". Just jiggle up and down a lot and you'll probably get it. - Balancing a full egg carton on your head while a Tibetan monk performs a wicked flute solo in the corner of your room: At the time, it was en vouge to hire a Tibetan monk to entertain your guest during so it would be easier to hire one in the time frame. Anyway, there was a secret camera in specialized arcade units that would detect both the eggs on your head and the monk in the corner of the room and it detected if there was a corner with advance-for-its-time scanning technology (this trick did not work if it did not detect the southwest corner of the room). Later revisions had no camera so the arcade operator had to wear a monk's outfit as part of the contract from Midway to keep the secret alive (learning the flute was not necessary, the game never detected if a monk played it in the first place because this is 90's technology, it couldn't actually do it, duh!). If you did all this, then Donny Rage would appear on the screen, yell out "Beat me or suffer!", and the fight would begin. However, if you didn't beat him, the game would crash and a few seconds later, he would pop out of the game, grab you, take you into the game, and a white flash would appear that would erase you from everyone's memory. Then the entire arcade unit/game console would disappear without a trace and you would be trapped in a limbo within the MK2 game itself as a dead prop in the acid stage for all eternity.

[@Dhal-SimMusic]

Looc yrots orb

[@GooberInternet]

Aw fuck yeah! Time to do all that! THEN I WILL BECOME SKELETON! NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEHHHHHH!

[@red_again]

im not good at fighting games but i am good at being aggressive with some thought of my action, so lets fuckin' do this

[@BronzetheGolden]

Atleast I'll witness the Final Battle!

[@red_again]

hey i'm back

[@timothymclean]

"Reptile gives a hint relating to the bottom of the Pit. You need to perform two fatalities to unlock Reptile. However, the Pit's stage fatalities don't count." That...seems unusually counterintuitive, even for a sequence of events which includes "Hope Santa flies in front of the moon".

[@jcdenton2187]

Oddly, the Pit's stage fatality doesn't count as a fatality at all in the game.

[@mrniceguy7168]

Counterintuitive only on hindsight. It was in MK2 did stage fatalities count as fatalities.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

You don't get the "fatality" voice clip or the bonus points for a fatality when you do the Pit finisher, so the game probably doesn't recognize it as a fatality.

[@paige64bitgamerfurry3]

Something that's odd is if you do Liu Kang's input to knock the opponent off, it does announce Fatality

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

@@paige64bitgamerfurry3 Well, that's because Liu Kang's finisher counts as a fatality normally... it would've been funny if the other uppercut fatality in the game, Johnny Cage's, showed the opponent's head flying into the Pit tho :P

[@chadbleach7781]

If I want to unlock Donny rage I have to flip the controller. How do I hold an arcade cabinet upside down?

[@talbottsands3560]

Talent

[@chadbleach7781]

Point well taken

[@hatjousuke]

Carefully

[@theamazingcj2748]

You can't fight him because your name is chad.

[@Niafi11]

U have to hang upside down from the top of it. Duh. Pfft. Long live Donny Rage!!

[@Kalina47]

Coming after MK11’s release, the Krypt is so awesome, and there are so many easter eggs to other characters. You can find Kenshi’s decomposed body and you can take his blindfold and wear it as a bandana. You can find Ermac falling onto a spike if you go to the bottom of the pit. You can find Kano’s skeleton at the head of one of Goro’s dinner tables, a reference to one of the movies. Fuck, even REPTILE appears! But, they missed out on a golden opportunity. Reptile is found in Goro’s lair, next to a skeleton of a Zaterran (one of Reptile’s race). Now, they missed out on putting Reptile at the bottom of the Pit, where you find Ermac.

[@jayy_93]

After you hit him the first time he will go to the bottom of the pit as one of his locations

[@Kalina47]

Jayy Oh.

[@13th_Ghostly_Grimm]

Reptile near a skeleton of his race is fiting since in lore (that i know) his race is extinct.

[@dstone6240]

I feel like it may be possible to put stuff like this in modern games but it will take a lot of hard work and creativity. Like how COD Zombies Easter Eggs are made. There are teams of KZbinrs going on hunts trying to decipher them when a new map drops and it's a great community to be apart of.

[@C.V317]

Nope. The fun of putting advanced secret stuff died when Ed McMillen expressed how disappointed he was that data miners found how to unlock The Lost in The Binding of Isaac. For indie companies, where’s the fun in making these kinds of elaborate secret character methods when people can just hack the game and find everything? And for big companies (looking at you Netherrealm and Capcom), where’s the profit? Just leak a picture of the character and release them as DLC for $10. Nope, the era of fun secret characters is over.

[@Orangekid65]

"apart"? seriously? when used in that way, "a part" is two words. Ironically, when you spell it as one word like that, it sounds like you're saying the exact opposite of what you mean.

[@dstone6240]

@@Orangekid65 Twas a typo young lad. Take it easy.

[@madgadgetss]

"You can not defeat me" what a great hint

[@GewelReal]

Big smoke

[@CallieSqueakz]

So now bow down!

[@Fahel14]

@@GewelReal TWO NUMBER NINES was the one that put the whole thing together for me

[@apotatoguylikesdogs6761]

Steampunk Goat he is clearly trying to convince you he is god

[@TheOnetimeshawty]

@@GewelReal ;

[@Karanthaneos]

I remember playing MK2 with my brother on our Sega Genesis and destroying him when we were younger. Every win gives you a dragon symbol, every few wins you get the MKII symbol, and when you reach the number needed of consecutive victories you get a single silver simbol that flashes on the screen for a few moments and then tells you that you go to the battle... Had to be one of the most awesome things we could discover as kids

[@TrillBill]

"It's like playing Rock ,Paper, Scissors against someone who gets to CHOOSE, after you already revealed what you picked" 😂😂😂

[@williammcghie3443]

One of my first times playing Mortal Kombat with my dad as a very young kid, Reptile appeared and gave the "blocking will get you nowhere" tip and my dad was shocked because he'd never seen that before. I took it as a sign and never used block in ANY game after that. 14 years later, and I'm using a shield in Skyrim for the first time and wondering just how much I missed out on. (Don't get me started on Dark Souls)

[@ReiisLucki]

*When your name doesn't have an A, so you will never fight Donny*

[@michaelwilliams7140]

Rio Smith get a legal name change

[@1111-e4p]

My name does contain an A, but contacting Tibetan monks and convincing them to play a flute solo while you play an incredibly violent video game in the background that probably goes against their core beliefs, is surprisingly hard.

[@youinanotherform1965]

The narrator can't pull it off. His name starts with T. Todd Barry.

[@austinvazquez7074]

Ironically I could have very slim chance of doing this. But most likey not😥

[@PETRIXXXX]

suckers

[@christophergore4745]

Can't believe you didn't mention unlocking Pong with 250 wins in a row!

[@yellowpebbles7642]

What?

[@boodahwompwomp4077]

Pong that's the glitch character on MK1.

[@boodahwompwomp4077]

Really hard character to find

[@SoundwaveSuperior80]

@@yellowpebbles7642 it's true. And it's just what you think it is, just a game of pong.

[@Glatier]

Actually it's a secret in MK2

[@PhirePhlame]

"Chun who?" is, so I've heard, teasing people about a rumor of _Chun Li from Street Fighter_ somehow being in Mortal Kombat. I haven't confirmed this, but it's what I've heard.

[@MeteoraCedric]

I think it's a clue for the kick requirement.

[@martinluizaga]

That’s straight up an arcade gamer hearsay. I bet you got this info while inserting coins for a versus game lol I love it!

[@shane-o4778]

The mysteries of these characters was AWESTRIKING to me as a kid. I remember playing MK for HOURS trying to just get reptile to appear with a notebook next to me. MK 2 I remember figuring out how to find Jade but Smoke always eluded me and I never even found out about Noob on MK2 until MKTrilogy came out. God what a nostalgic piece of arcade and SNES/SEGA magic!

[@KorgCrimson]

shoulda put a k in content for this one. wasted opportunity.

[@TinchoX]

Agreed

[@xbuster3]

NanoRim well what they used in the game was kombatants

[@MyAccount217]

🅱ontent

[@KorgCrimson]

Zingtron Then I suppose you aren't a huge MK fan since that is a bit of a trend in the games.

[@EpicNinjaShiro]

Nah, the C is fine there but SeKret Karacters should maybe be considered.

[@BBoldGaming]

Plot twist: That was never Reptile it was chameleon .

[@RtistiqSkubie]

I see you know what MK Trilogy is...

[@shaydesofblue2281]

Classic

[@DeweyBiggs-tr6zj]

From Spider-Man???

[@apotatoguylikesdogs6761]

Lol obviously

[@griffingower1883]

Chameleon wasn't introduced until Mortal Kombat trilogy as a secret playable character

[@redrazorx-23]

17:54 i lost my shit at this,this segment was hilarious

[@kawimason361]

Same here

[@raseblueberries4871]

Ikr a Google ad

[@landrylongacre6391]

10:58 is clearly just Donny Rage but the lighting somehow makes him look like Johnny Cage.

[@rayjoa888]

With the clue of "You can not defeat me" you obiously going to know that: If you're not going to win, you're going to "Kneel DOWN" The only explenation i found

[@gozinta82]

So cryptic :)

[@matthewbrown5259]

I wasn’t good enough to find them back in day. Did mk I reptile or the me ii hidden characters have a fatality?

[@gozinta82]

Matthew - I don't think so. They'd just uppercut you as far as I know.

[@tbirddddd]

I can't remember. CPU characters so rarely did fatalities that even if the secret characters can the odds of it happening is low.

[@gozinta82]

Yeah, but when they did it (at least back when it came out and there were still a lot of secrets), it was so cool! :) Ever accidentally pull off a fatality and act like you meant it? LOL

[@adamwebb3571]

I straight begged my mom to buy the official guide and just hid it when my friends came over. I was a God like fish in a little pond that year.

[@near5148]

Lol

[@Handstyles]

Thanks for speaking out in detail about the AI in MK2! It always frustrated me that it was so cheap & that the setting you chose only influenced when the game got so annoyingly difficult. I still managed to beat Kintaro though after a million attempts with Reptile.....I still think he is one of the hardest fighting game bosses because of this automatic counter AI shit :D

[@mobl0x179]

I remember fighting Jade by accident on the arcade version. I was so confused on how, and I got so close to beating her. Now I know how, thank you.

[@cnycewitit003]

Remember Chameleon from MK Trilogy? The character with the powers of all the ninjas including Scorpion, Sub Zero, and Reptile.

[@PrimeGamator]

That was an actual cool ''kind of hidden character'', and the most difficult character to use once you unlock it

[@fc1373]

Best MK hands down

[@cnycewitit003]

Gamator had to have mastered all the ninjas

[@cnycewitit003]

FC137 for sure

[@LostSoulSilver]

@@fc1373 Mortal Kombat 2011 was even better. Too bad it didn't had Motaro though

[@trangoemangoe7487]

What I think for Jade: fight in goros lair, without blocking, and before the "?". You also must be fighting kano as sonya or fight sonya as kano Edit: I was wrong.

[@vicegealgood]

Kano and Sonja have there hands tied up. They can only fight with their feet. It's a good hint

[@SomethingMoreOriginal]

vicegealgood interesting... but still cryptic.

[@jaysonedson]

Of course it's cryptic. It's a fucking hint.

[@FusionCyborg]

I don't think Midway though of that......

[@TheFEARSlayer01]

FailTrain huh...good observation

[@kamrynbennett9482]

Fusion they did know that they created the game lol

[@Blackwolfninja89]

There were also some secrets in MK Armageddon. Where you had to step on a Spider just for a hidden chest. You had to search a dead body a couple times to get Kung Lao's hat or Liu Kang's wrist bands for the 60 in game relics you had to collect.

[@gamingadventureswithcharli1640]

My character: kiu lang. a fully black Liu kang. Has the moves of every character, and Dr mario. How to unlock him: beat goro five times without taking damage, on a Saturday night, when the moon is a crescent, when the star wars episode one ending is playing, and you have to beat pokemon red during the match. If you beat him you get to play as him and you get 100,000,000 million points.

[@tuberoyful]

Gaming Adventures with Charlie 😂😂

[@MrSnake-dh3hu]

Will it work if I'm playing Pokémon Red on 3DS Virtual Console, or does it have to be a physical copy played on an original Game Boy?

[@gamingadventureswithcharli1640]

Either way it works

[@farmerwithshotgun5166]

Do I have to beat Pokemon Red with a Ditto?

[@tearuxous6590]

LMAOOOOO WTF

[@RealGhostHawk38]

I have fought Donny rage before.. he’s so cheap.

[@jamiegawler5167]

Pretty sure he plays Dota2 now ;)

[@midnightthebearfox]

IKR all his ai does is use these huge ass force balls that can’t be blocked of dodged

[@estaboggs7734]

It's just a joke

[@Cinnamon_Rolls_Out_Of_The_Oven]

GhostHawk38 yeah he just spams every single button ever

[@nekoluxuria7721]

You have no idea, I actually ended up being forced to cheat so I could stand a bit of a chance, only to find out that his 100% combo also makes you lose the round despite cheats even if your health isnt at 0.

[@lordbaldski9455]

well now days you have to pay at least 6 dollars to see a new mortal kombat character so i wish they could just go back to the weird clues instead of charging us

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

The thing is secret characters are pointless now. The ease of access to the internet means everybody knows how to get them the moment the game is launched.

[@sqlb3rn]

@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN yea I just learned all the secrets to mk1 and mk2 from the boredom of my couch

[@seanb3226]

Something lost in modern age of KZbin and gaming websites is the urban mystery element some games used to have. Rumors of hidden characters, secret areas and endings, etc. Nowadays we can look inside games and see everything that's hidden in the code, but back in the day you never knew for certain, and it kept us wondering if there was something more to discover.

[@thegamingsheeprosenberger2701]

Guys I just fought Donny rage he abuses scorpions spear in the fight unbelievable fight didn't beat him but I tried I had to pay my Tibetan 100$ man this games rigged I swear

[@markgrech309]

I'm not Donny cage I'm my original character blonny brage

[@jackbong71]

wow

[@DrummahMike]

@Heavyroboking Jr. Shoe Bangs

[@Trollgaming1987]

🅱ohnny 🅱age

[@SandwitchZebra]

I've found someone even better, and her name is Jonya Slade.

[@Trollgaming1987]

@@SandwitchZebra I found boo fang The vampire ghost version of liu kang Who is just white The steps are to go to the pit and get a double flawless do the stage fatality on a full moon friday while the premier of the twilight saga on amc is on make sure your fighting shang tsung you also must beat the dawnguard dlc for skyrim and kill karstaag with only a wooden sword while drunk on native russian vodka while a gopnik is dancing to hardbass while Putin is giving a speech right by you

[@mrvampire7577]

Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Rain, Reptile, Ermac... The skittle ninjas!

[@djpheeze]

_Smoke and Noob file a racial discrimination claim with Lin Kuei HR_

[@zoniken]

Skittle Ninjas...Taste the Fatality...

[@acewilson5898]

ok. zoniken wins. well played.

[@joshjennings5690]

Mr Vampire LOLOL

[@DreMurrz]

I guess smoke waz supposed to be orange

[@assassinzgod]

It's pretty cool how Jade can't be hit with projectiles in MKII and they made that an actual move of hers in later games.

[@ArchangelRG09]

I hated that damn move on umk3 and trilogy

[@coolbugfacts3953]

My first name contains the letter A (Br*a*den), so, I am one step closer to unlocking Donny Rage

[@ultimateditto4380]

Skarmory Inc. Productions Hey Hey Hey same here!

[@coolbugfacts3953]

Ultimate Landon 1v1 me m8 Donny Rage only, bottom of the pit

[@ultimateditto4380]

No continues, and bring your monk too!

[@coolbugfacts3953]

Ultimate Landon You're on BIOTCH

[@xMasterSparku]

Skarmory Inc. Productions my uncle's a monk, I think we got this

[@DaysonTop]

To unlock the hidden character Mayonnaise, you have to play through the game and beat it with Donny Rage and only use Hadoukens throughout the whole game while eating a jar of mayonnaise and not looking while doing it. Oh and you have to have finished the jar by the time you beat Shang Tsung, and your full name has to have all the letters of mayonnaise, or else your game will never work ever again!

[@DaysonTop]

Mayonnaise has the moves of Meat, Mokap, Donny Rage, and Derp-Derp the Derp-Derp. Lol

[@malcolmlloydandrileyproduc6451]

seems like a hard fight cus the ball atack and cleaver

[@madafaka2666]

i won :V

[@rayd1418]

1N51D3R 13 what name will you need

[@symbolsarenotreality4595]

This sounds quite reasonable

[@darko_p8631]

I lost it after 18:10. Funniest bit ever.

[@PotatoPL-]

darko _p86 same

[@asapando9411]

i can confirm Donny Rage is real..... Only took me 15 years.

[@bookit2164]

Holy shit. He played as both subzero and scorpion???? Yellow+blue= green.... it makes such sense now

[@InsanePorcupine]

Cool thought man, I didn't think about the colour thing.

[@robertflannery4883]

wow I never thought of that

[@theDragoon007yaboiCJ]

ZombieNectorZ thatvwas my idea :v... Fusion a

[@CarInMyAss]

I thought that was the first thing people thought of when they fought him

[@bungiesblueflames]

google inc back then boon and tobias's studio was very small so they had a very low budget, which leads to pretty lazy designs. But if you look at the new characters that from deception and onwards, they were pretty original.

[@chainbreaker]

so many memories... I used to play MK1 A LOT in my genesis as a kid, by watching this I remembered that one and only time I glitched The Pit and the background turned white(ish) during the stage fatality , I spend so many months trying to redo that one... did anyone got that glitch back in the day?? pd: ermac stands for error macro

[@otherhalf228]

he was also a flesh colored reptile that appeared if you did it on an endurance stage. and only certain versions. i couldn't believe my eyes when i saw it! i pinched myself to see of it was real. its a "real" glitch and "really" random specific version of the arcade. my local theatre had it. but none of the other ones in town. spent the last 20+ years trying to find it!

[@emmastarr5242]

Wow, sounds like you almost unlocked Thor, Raiden's cousin twice removed! :O

[@yesboisofaguy1396]

"Lucina is my waifu" great reasoning right there

[@tehjamerz]

Right

[@DCBiscuit]

3:39 "No secret can stay hidden from gamers forever." *Laughs in Polybius*

[@johnnyg4mer764]

**laughs in GTA V's Mt. Chilliad mystery that still isn't uncovered since 2013**

[@someone0]

@@johnnyg4mer764 laughs in an Arkham city easter egg that hasn't been found yet

[@diogod2347]

We gamers still have time to find all of those, guys, forever is a long time 😳

[@dethdefire]

*laughs in MA logo from Half-Life: Decay*

[@shyguy85]

@@dethdefire ...ma logo?

[@legionbeast]

I was there when the arcades first carried MK1 and 2 and those secrets were insane. I've personally been sad that such secrets simply don't exist nowadays, or have to be twisted and downplayed so that hackers don't think it's any big deal.

[@cecilk729]

Even if they put them in , like dude said , they would be mocked for laziness , but they also wouldn't be legendary bc the internet exists and e everybody would know how to do it in the matter of days after release.

[@DrJekyll38]

I remember reading in a MK2 Strategy Guide that Noob Saibot was made completely black so he would be nearly impossible to see in the shadows of Goro's Lair.

[@christianyuen1106]

Also, ermac was a rumor, but was in the first mortal kombat. He was glitched scorpion that appeared red, his name is short for error macro.

[@brushrolla8379]

Christian Yuen I thought he was a hoax and not even a glitch (but was believed to be).

[@blackstardragon_]

Christian Yuen Awesome 👏

[@itsmesteve1081]

that's hecka sick..😁😁❤❤💚

[@johnsengul]

Yeah, error macro code 5

[@sharkofjoy]

No. False. There is no color palette for a red scorpion. This was entirely a hoax, except the error macro message could be present.

[@posindustries]

7:59 Okay but in Decapre's defense, she actually got a totally unique moveset that was pretty sick, so folks got over it after that initial reveal.

[@mjallen1308]

It wasn’t just a dog, it was a Shiba Inu. They would def do something like that.

[@doctorxawesomestop-motion1234]

Donny Rage... that might be the funniest thing I ever heard. As soon as you said that, I instantly subscribed.

[@raulaguilera6183]

How dare you spell “Kontent” with a C!!

[@ebencied706]

Raul Aguilera --- because "Kontent" means "Content" in Polish.

[@idontknowwhatimdoingwithmy2305]

ZA WARUDO

[@Fizz-Q]

@Enter The Dragon actually that isn't an r/woooosh because is with 4 o's

[@leungzinwang4188]

Content is spelled with a c oh I understand your joke mortal kombat not mortal combat

[@xyzzy-dv6te]

@@ebencied706 actually "kontent" is an archaic synonym for "satisfied", the Polish word for content is "treść"

[@gamalieltorres7842]

there was an arkham asylum secret that was unfounded and no one knew it existed until the devs told everyone because know one was even close to finding it and they wanted people to know about it. The binding of isaac also had a crazy secret that had people going IRL to find clues. There was a MOTORCYCLE game that hid a buncha keys IRL with clues in game. Its cool when devs do this but i feel devs become more and more jaded because the secrets are found so easily. I hope they keep doing it

[@lilshokan]

NRS owes you royalties I saw Donnie rage in the krypt in mk11. He said he was to powerful to be a character and kronika sent him to a alternate timeline where only he exists

[@hitmanhatton]

They don't do this anymore because instead they call it DLC and make you pay for it

[@solosavage1177]

I can never tell is scorpion yellow or orange? Sometimes he looks even GOLD

[@RolandMIA71]

Mustard lol

[@caveyspider]

Its yellow

[@PrimeGamator]

It's yellow, a quite shiny yellow which might make you think it's gold. The mustard colour in the first games is just because of the palletes they had available i guess

[@ImmortalMalcolm]

is he black and yellow or blue and white?

[@caveyspider]

@@ImmortalMalcolm the first one

[@gaszwyn449]

MKX had secret brutalities and a secret way to unlock Cyber Sub-Zero... it also had a way to secret-fighter Reptile in the Klassic Tower and I'm pretty sure MK9 let you have a secret fighter with Smoke.

[@johnnycage3673]

1:51 - yep, but they got the idea from Street Fighter II's "Sheng Long" typo/prank and knew how to turn that into cash

[@randomreviews1461]

I remember unlocking Noob Saibot by complete accident. I was freaking out as a kid it was a great gaming moment. Mk2 one of my favorite games. Kintario one of my favorite bosses.

[@Deeaannoo]

I do remember playing this game as a kid and it was frustrating getting past each character. Makes sense now

[@kingd8m]

I think secrets like this should (and maybe will) make a comeback! With the popularity of ARGs today, i can totally see a secret battle that requires players to complete steps in game AND on their phones/computers, all while solving puzzles to figure out what the devs have hidden

[@2rad4rio]

12:04 At that point I was like OOOOH THAT'S WHY IT WAS CHUN LI, and then he said it.

[@RoseSupreme]

What stuns me is that we live in an era where datamining and hacking exist to get everything out of a game. Despite this, people still discover stuff today, recently I learned that there was a Rainbow Banana Coin in DK64 discovered nearly 20 years after its release.

[@michaelhawthrone2184]

I love Donnie Rage. That shit made me laugh... hard.

[@DRIP_DIO]

After 3 years ever since this videos release... I finally defeated Donny Rage.

[@BlueNinjakoopa553]

My Machamp's name is Goro.

[@NeoGraena]

BlueNinjakoopa553 lol

[@crazyd4ve875]

Doesn't have the letter A in it...

[@robertflannery4883]

thats the first step to getting booroo

[@matthewanderson170]

Oh my God dude I always named my machamp Giro. To funny.

[@Metal2Bach]

same

[@marquisyarosh4994]

Given the online feature we can just have hints that tease things like unlockable characters saying "To find me you must be connected" meaning hooked to the internet and playing online. The next hint could be "Digging will get you nowhere" could refer to the character being only shown as sprite in offline mode, meaning you would have to do any secret online tasks, well, online and not offline. Basically make the hidden characters only accessible online and have them be downloaded into your game as a reward for beating them. Only show sprites and animations to show the character giving their hints, that way no one just tries to our them in the game since they have no hit boxes or actions offline.

[@thanatos4147]

OK I FINALLY WATCHED IT KZbin ARE YOU HAPPY NOW

[@jessie0890]

Yes we are. Thank you!

[@kekdrone5051]

@don't call me carson holy shit you too?

[@zing6]

I love how you could do the secret fights in mk9, and hints still come up in mk11, but this time it seems like more of a tribute to these

[@monolito8556]

Nice, it only took me 24 years to know how to unlock reptile .beautiful

[@HedggieChillin]

welp time to get to work with "Donny Rage"

[@Brian-wg9wk]

When I was playing MKI and MKII as a kid, I eventually bought a strategy guide magazine which included gameplay tips, walkthroughs, cheats, and how to play the secret characters. Although I didn't discover the secret players by myself, it was a lot more fulfilling than doing a good search and finding the information in a few seconds. At least I had to read the strategy guide.

[@ps4games164]

16:17 "Chun who" is super clear compared to Mortal Kombat One Nice video. A necessary one.

[@flightofapaullo72]

For years, I always thought he said "Whoopty" 😂 I still say it instead of Toasty! Lol!

[@adrianramirez3046]

I thought the same

[@flightofapaullo72]

Adrian Ramirez Lol!👍

[@theRhinsRanger]

I used to think it said walkies 😆

[@flightofapaullo72]

The Rhins Ranger Lol!😂👍

[@totaldestruction152]

sillysausage72 I always thought it was "Whoopsie!" Like it was a mistake or something lol.

[@MicrowavedAlastair5390]

I love when devs include homages to fan stories and theories.

[@ssobcza7]

you forgot the secret Kano morph. that no one ever figured out in the game log.

[@farzadghorbani]

Stak Humatnum what is kano morph?

[@WolfDB]

@@farzadghorbani Kano morph, or as it's supposed to be known, "Kano Transformation" is essentially an attempt by the developers to do what was done with Ermac in the first game, that on rare occasions, Shang Tsung will transform into Kano, who was not playable in MK2

[@someone0]

@@farzadghorbani due to the Ermac rumor from the first game Midway decided to make an intentional rumor by having "Kano transformation" in Shang Tsung's files making a rumor that Kano could be played

[@codysdumbchannel6128]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve rewatched this video.

[@fpz3491]

18:21 mmh, I did all the requirements, yet nothing... help?

[@TheSillyCroc]

@Zander Wohld wait my monk has been flying in the air for days.....

[@MisterTutor2010]

@18:34 Actually did that once, I really have to lay off the weed :)

[@KSofficial141]

9:55 "Original Kharacter DO NOT STEAL!"

[@Dirty-Hertz]

Someone in the comments may have already said this, but the Chun-Li clue makes sense as you have to spam the low kick button to do her 100 leg kick move on SF2.