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Mortal Kombat: Conquest
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Mortal Kombat: Conquest was a TV series which aired from 1998 to 1999. The series is based on the fighting game series Mortal Kombat and acted as a prequel to the first Mortal Kombat movie. Filmed in Orlando, Conquest was cancelled after just one season (22 episodes), despite being very popular.
Contents
- 1 Plot summary
- 2 Episodes
- 3 Characters
- 3.1 Main characters
- 3.2 MK game series characters
- 3.3 Other recurring characters
- 4 Trivia
- 5 DVD Availability
- 6 External links
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Plot summary
Many millennia ago, the Earth was a young and desirable planet. Powerful and rich with natural resources, the vicious megalomaniac, Shao Khan wanted Earth as part of his growing collection of conquered realms known as Outworld. To protect the Earth (a.k.a. Earthrealm) from Shao Kahn, Mortal Kombat - a tournament in which the fate of the planet is decided in battles between competitors from Earthrealm and Outworld - was created. Five-hundred years in the past, the monk warrior, Kung Lao defeated Kahn's demon sorcerer, Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat. When Kung Lao spared his life, Kahn imprisoned Tsung in the cobalt mines.
Kung Lao now had to train the next generation of warriors, who would give their lives to save the Earth. Kung Lao creates a partnership and friendship with two warriors
Siro, a former bodyguard and
Taja, an ex-thief. In the dark and mysterious city of Zhu Zin, Kung Lao and his new friends are guided and watched over by the thunder god,
Raiden. The three now battle various evils of both Outworld and Earthrealm, including an imprisoned Tsung, who swore eternal revenge on Kung Lao for his humiliating defeat and his ally; the sultry and seductive
Vorpax who is also imprisoned in the cobalt mines and has an agenda of her own.
Episodes
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Characters
Main characters
MK game series characters
Other recurring characters
Trivia
- In the episode "Debt of the Dragon," the Black Dragon organization is featured.
- The episode "The Master" features a character named Master Cho. It is rumored that he is the prototype of Bo' Rai Cho.
- Former WCW wrestlers Meng and Wrath also made guest appearances.
- The series originally aired on the WB Network and was later picked up by TNT, which aired the remaining new episodes as well as broadcasting the previous ones in syndication. The show was very popular, but according to the show's developer, Joshua Wexler, this resulted in higher budget costs for the show than anticipated. The cancellation wasn't announced at first and rumors of a second season circulated. However, TNT pulled the plug on the show leaving it with a cliffhanger ending. It was said that the last two episodes were a dream Kung Lao had, making what happened not true. The cliffhanger ending would have been resolved in the second season, which would have summed up the series and corresponded with the MK timeline.
- Former QVC model Dorian played the barmaid Magda in the episodes "Twisted Truth" and "Quan Chi".
- Martial artist J.J. Perry guest-starred as Sub-Zero in the third episode, "Cold Reality"; ironically, he briefly appeared as Scorpion for a fight scene with Sub-Zero in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
DVD Availability
The show has not been released on DVD in North America, but is available in the United Kingdom and Australia where it had enjoyed a later, more successful run on television. The complete DVD collection is currently available only in Australia (in two sets), as a number of the episodes were not included between the several incomplete packs released in the UK.
