Liu Kang is a fictitious character of video game in the series of the plays of combat '' Mortal Kombat ''.

In connection with Liu Kang

Disciple and descendant of Great Kung Lao, this monk shaolin pertaining to the White Lotus had been trained by Bo Rai Cho. He illustrated himself by beating Shang Tsung at the time of the first tournament by using the " flying kick" or flying kick. Its techniques were inspired by those of Bruce Lee.

History

August 1st

Characteristics of combat

Fates

• Ultimate 360 : Liu Kang makes simply a blow-of-foot butterfly and uppercute its adversary. ( MK, MKII, MK: SM )
• Dragon : Liu Kang is transformed into Dragon which crunches half of its adversary. This fatality will become thereafter its animality ( MKII, MK3, UMK3, MKT, MK4, MK: SM )
• Funeral Pyre : Liu Kang disappears, burns its adversary with death, then it reappears. ( MK3 )
• Arcade drop : He Kang disappears, a terminal of arcade of the first Mortal Kombat falls on its adversary and crushes it! ( MK3 )
• Toss and burn : Liu Kang thrown its adversary in the air and launches a fireball which tears the body of its adversary ( MK4 ).
• Body Invader : Liu Kang disappears and takes the control of the body of its enemy, who comes from there to tear off his own head, revealing that of Liu Kang… ( MK: D )
• Champion Fireball : Liu Kang charges its hands with fire, and the adversary becomes unable to move. It then launches a fireball on its victim which explodes in several pieces under the impact. ( MK: D ).
• Shaolin Soccer : Liu tears off the head of its victim and a blow of footballer exploding to him the body uses it to give. ( Mk: SM )
• Bonebreak Combo : With a series of martial blows, Liu Kang breaks the arms of its adversary, the legs, and finally the neck. ( Mk: SM )
• Fire/Kick Combo : Liu sends a fireball on its victim which ignites it, before striking a violent one kick breaking to him the bones to him. ( Mk: SM )
• Head Clap : Liu breaks cranium of its adversary with incandescent punches. ( Mk: SM )
• Giant Stomp : Another fatality of Liu where this last carries out a movement similar to that of Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon . It types several times until the victim is cut into two. ( Mk: SM )
• ARM RIP : Liu Kang borrows this fatality from Jax, where it tears off the two arms of its adversary and makes use of it to beat it with death. ( Mk: SM )

Other completions ( Finishers )

• Disco music Liu (Friendship) : A ball with facets goes down from the ceiling and a music Disco starts. Liu Kang is then caught for John Travolta in the Fever of Saturday evening! ( MKII )
• MK Shadows (Friendship) : Liu Kang created a Chinese shade of the logo of Mortal Kombat. ( MK3 , UMK3 , MKT )
• Brutality : Liu maltreats its adversary very by employing all its combos at high speed, and completes it with a uppercut which explodes it ( UMK3 (SNES), MKT ).
• Hara-kiri : Liu Kang charges its hands with an green energy. It absorbs its whole body then and it falls of pieces (MK: D) .

Appearances in other media

August 1st

Around Liu Kang

• celebrates It “blow-of-foot bicycle” is a possible reference to the blow-of-foot éponyme of Wong Fei Hung in the film Once Upon has Time in Clouded .
• the initial name of Liu Kang (that which was given during the pre-production of the first Mortal Kombat) was Yoshitsune Minamoto .
• the model of face of Liu Kang in MK4 is that of the vidéaste Josh Tsui of Midway.
• Liu Kang is the uncontested champion of Mortal Kombat. It is known under the name “of the immortal champion of Mortal Kombat” in the posterior plays.
• the origin of Kang is turbid. Certain rumors claim that it goes down from the Great Kung Lao (ancestor of Kung Lao). Others affirm that he is the cousin of Kung Lao. Confusion reigns owing to the fact that certain biographies in the various plays Mortal Kombat are not always rigorous the ones towards the others.
• In Mortal Kombat II, Shao Kahn will react different (compared to the other characters) if it is Liu Kang which gains a round: it will push a war cry.
• the fatality of Liu Kang where it is transformed into dragon in MK2 will become its animality in MK3 before returning a basic fatality in MK4.
• He is the fifth character of MK to have a play based on him (Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks). It divides the poster with Kung Lao.
• It is often compared with Bruce Lee, to which it impressed some blows. The developers probably took as a starting point the character Lee in Enter The Dragon , film which will have also inspired all the universe of Mortal Kombat.
• Liu Kang makes a Caméo (an appearance “wink”) in the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del .

flying kick or flying kick.

He gained the two other tournaments of Mortal Kombat by successively pushing back the attacks of Shao Kahn and Shinnok in order to protect the Kingdom Ground, " Earthrealm" but Alliance Mortal, made up of way purely computer of Shang Tsung (its sworn enemy) and of Quan Chi (wizard of the same quality that Shang Tsung) was right of him.

Having taken the appearance of his/her friend the young person Kung Lao (descendant him also of Great Kung Lao), Shang Tsung attacked Liu Kang at a meeting of meditation, this being, the champion of the Kingdom Ground calmed its heats quickly… Thus Quan Chi intervened and the combined capacity of the two wizards killed Liu Kang… Shang Tsung broke its nape of the neck and absorbed its heart.

Liu Kang made thereafter, involuntarily, of the atrocities under the control of the king Dragon, Onaga, life income thanks to Quan Chi and wanted to be some.

Liu Kang fought against its own body with its heart, neither one, nor the other took the top; a flash amalgamated its body and its heart and this last returned to the life; the champion of Mortal Kombat was of return. -->

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