Master Raiden is the god of thunder in Mortal Kombat. He thinks of terms eternally not human life span do to the reason that he is immortal. He also has other supernatural powers like thunder, flight, and teleportation. He’s outfit staid the same throughout all the Mortal Kombat games but different colors and designs. He’s always worn a Chinese hat called a conical hat. His hat got more advanced by getting straighter and wider. In the newer versions of Mortal Kombat his hat was made of metal not straw. His staff of power helps him control lighting plus he uses it as a weapon to defeat his opponents. His other weapon is a war hammer. The creators named him Raiden after a small, red-skinned demon that beats a drum to create lightning. His aperients look like the Taoist thunder god. He mainly watches over and protects the earthrealm. He’s a main part of Mortal Kombat, he tells people where to go through their visions.
His special moves in Mortal Kombat Deception are Lightning Bolt, Lightning Dash, Teleport, and Shocking Touch. Light Bolt is the move where Master Raiden launches a bolt of lightning at his opponent causing a shock of damage. It’s a good move to launch from a far or short distance. Lightning Dash is the move where he spins towards you surrounded by lightning. This move is great for short distances and to deal great damage. Teleport is where he teleports behind his opponent to get the higher advantage to defeat his opponents. It’s the perfect move to gain ahead in the battle or to change who is hitting who. Shocking Touch is the move where he touches someone with his hand that surrounded with lightning making a big explosion launching his enemy. Shocking touch can be used to deal lots of damage to his opponents. He has two fatality moves. His first one is where he shocks his opponent till he shatters then it bounces back to him and does the same thing to him. His second one is where he takes lightning from the air and shocks his opponent till he shatters. His only Hara-Kiri is where he causes you to shock yourself till you shatter.
Raiden became the protector of the Earthrealm ever since it was made. He fought against the Elder God Shinnok because in a war it threatened to destroy the Earthrealm. One of the areas of the war was the Saurian civilization, which forces the survivors to immigrate to another world. One of the survivors was Reptile and his survivors named the planet they moved to Zaterra. Raiden managed to defeat Shinnok with the help of the Elder Gods, then banished Shinnok to the Netherealm and secured Shinnok’s amulet of power in a secret location. That secret location a Temple of the Elements tucked away in the highest mountains of Nepal. Raiden charged four gods with guarding the amulet. The gods are the gods of Wind, Fire, Earth, and Water. The elder Sub-Zero stole Shinnok’s amulet from the temple for Quan Chi millions of years later. This caused Raiden to appear to one of the Lin Kuei warriors and instructed him to enter the Netherealm and steal it back before Shinnok use it to free himself. Raiden couldn’t retrieve it himself because his powers would dissipate in the Netherealm. Sub-Zero’s mission into the Netherealm was a successful and Shinnok was no longer a threat. Even though Sub-Zero got a false amulet from Quan Chi, Raiden never realized that Quan Chi would remain in possession of the true amulet for years.
In the original Mortal Kombat, Raiden was invited by Shang Tsung to compete in the Mortal Kombat tournament. Raiden accepted the invitation and took a human form to compete. He also was able to keep his elemental power of lightning during the tournament. In Mortal Kombat II, watching from high above, Raiden realizes how grim Shao Kahn became. Raiden warned Liu Kang and Kung Lao (the last people in the Shaolin tournament) of Shao Kahn’s threat. Raiden then disappears to the Outworld alone. Despite the souls taken by Shao Kahn on Earth, Raiden was able to protect the souls of Liu Kang and other chosen warriors from getting taken. Raiden decided to sacrifice his own immortality in order to help his chances to defeat Kahn after the Elder Gods refused to help him in Mortal Kombat Trilogy. At the end, Kahn’s forces were defeated causes them to repel the invasion back into the Outworld and restoring the Earthrealm to its rightful state. In Mortal Kombat 4, Shinnok again sought to rise from the Netherealm and conquer the realms but this time got the help from Quan Chi. However, with Liu Kang again uniting Earth’s warriors at the side of the Raiden’s Forces of Light emerged successful. Now granted by the Elder Gods, he turned over his position as the Earthrealm’s protector to Fujin.
As an Elder God, Raiden couldn’t interfere when Shang Tsung and Quan Chi killed Liu Kang at the Wu Shi Academy. Disgusted at his peers for their refusal to intervene, he gives up his position as an Elder God and gathered his trusted warriors to stop the Deadly Alliance. This time, disaster struck the heroes. The Earthrealm warriors Jax Briggs, Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage were killed in battle with a Tarkatan horde, Kitana was killed by Quan Chi, and Kung Lao was killed by Shang Tsung. In a desperate measure to stop the battle Raiden personally confronted Shang Tsung and Quan Chi. Raiden put up an admirable fight and managed to hold his own against both villains for a while, but when they combined there powers they were in the end too much for him. He returned to his feet when Onaga entered the chamber. Putting his differences aside with Tsung and Quan Chi, he assisted them in the attempts to repel Onaga, he released his godly essence and causes an enormous explosion. It obliterated the Dragon King’s tomb and killed both members of the Deadly Alliance but did little damage to Onaga.
After doing battle with the Deadly Alliance in the Netherealm, Raiden’s essence soon gathered again in the Earthrealm, but came back corrupted. This is proven that Raiden’s essence did not reform as he became a new god but a darker variants of himself. He had become furious with the way the people have treated the Earthrealm. He became more enraged when he learned that Shujinko had unleashed the Onaga by obtaining the Kamidogu of various realms for Onaga. Raiden’s patience caused his decision to take matters into his own hands. Removing Liu Kang’s body from its grave, Raiden took it to an underground temple that he had destroyed centuries earlier. Binding Kang’s body with enchanted shackles, Raiden spoke the enchantments sketched into the temple’s walls. He revived his former ally infusing Liu Kang with a thunderclap of lightning. The corpse of Liu Kang was now the enforcer of Raiden’s will. Raiden sent Kang’s corpse on a mission to wreak havoc on the people who Raiden thought did harm to Earthrealm. This caught the attention of Shinnok causing him to appear before Raiden and offered him an alliance. Raiden was told by Shinnok that he would help him in whatever he wanted, he would try to ensure the safety of Earthrealm. Raiden new of Shinnok’s deceptive nature, so Raiden accepted the offer to uncover Shinnok’s master plans.
Raiden’s story is further expanded in the Konquest mode of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, when Taven encounters him. Raiden informs Taven that he had struck a deal with Shao Kahn, agreeing to let the Emperor conquer all other realms except for the Earthrealm. In return, Raiden agreed to hunt and eliminate Taven, so that Shao Kahn could claim Blaze’s godlike powers. Raiden confronts Taven as Kahn, Onaga, Shang Tsung, and Quan Chi escape into a portal leading to Edenia. He is unsuccessful because he was defeated by Taven, and left unconscious on the ground. Taven was still in shock and disbelief at Raiden’s actions, he decides to follow the villains through the portal. Raiden would fought against Shao Kahn when they became the last surviving warriors. Shao Kahn emerged victorious, but Raiden was able to send a message to his past self.
Raiden returns and fights in the fighting game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. He plays the role in the Story mode of the game as the person who created Dark Kahn, which causes the Mortal Kombat and DC Universes to merge together. He also comes into contact with Batman when he rescues Liu Kang from Batman and his questioning regarding to merging of the worlds. Raiden attempts to electrocute Batman but has no effect because of batman’s insulated body armor. Raiden is able to teleport himself away from the UN Orbital Space Station with Kang. He later challenges Sub-Zero into a fight. Then he enrages Captain Marvel. After the battle between the two universes, he defeats Shang Tsung and Liu Kang. Realizing his horrible mistake, he teams up with Superman to defeat Dark Kahn. He imprisons Darkseid in the Netherrealm after he defeats Dark Kahn. In the end, Raiden returns to his realm to find out that the sun in his world has weakened him. Quan Chi offers Raiden a large jade amulet that would restore his powers. Raiden is given a choice between a life of servitude to the sorcerer, or mortality.
Raiden is the pivotal character in the newer Mortal Kombat. Taking place in the events of Armageddon, Raiden realizes that the world is in peril due to the events accrued during the tenth Mortal Kombat tournament (the setting of the original Mortal Kombat). During a mortal battle with Shao Kahn, Raiden transmits a message through time and space to himself at the time of the tournament. The Raiden of the past has been told of the knowledge of his future, he commits to using this information to alter the course of history to avoid the disaster of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. Although, he succeeds in fulfilling his vision it causes the death of nearly all of the Earthrealm Defenders, including Liu Kang.
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