Shao Kahn
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Sep 25, 2026
Joe McCormickHOST
This is the 10th tournament, so it's down to the wire now.
Robert LambHOST
You know, I guess maybe the Elder Gods put this system in place because they realized, well, not every world, every realm is gonna be able to muster up an army to combat, um, Shao Kahn's army.
Robert LambHOST
But maybe you could get together, like, five really good fighters, you know?
Joe McCormickHOST
Okay.
46 MINS LATER
Joe McCormickHOST
And it seems like everything's gonna be okay, but somehow you almost know they're setting it up for a twist.
Robert LambHOST
Yeah, because then, like, basically we get this, uh, again, CGI that has not aged well.
Robert LambHOST
Uh, suddenly, like, the sky erupts, and there is, like, this monstrous version of Shao Kahn, uh, the Emperor of Outworld, who does, does not look very good here.
Robert LambHOST
Um, they kinda, like- Put a lot of demon makeup on his face.
Joe McCormickHOST
This is the 10th tournament, so it's down to the wire now.
Rob LambHOST
You know, I guess maybe the Elder Gods put this system in place because they realized, well, not every world, every realm is gonna be able to muster up an army to combat, um, Shao Kahn's army.
Rob LambHOST
But maybe you could get together, like, five really good fighters, you know?
Joe McCormickHOST
Okay.
48 MINS LATER
Joe McCormickHOST
You know, it's, it's that feel-good Orbital track, and it seems like everything's gonna be okay, but somehow you almost know they're setting it up for a twist.
Rob LambHOST
Yeah, because then, like, basically we get this, uh, again, CGI that has not aged well.
Rob LambHOST
Uh, suddenly, like, the sky erupts and there is, like, this monstrous version of Shao Kahn, uh, the Emperor of Outworld, who does, does not look very good here.
Rob LambHOST
Um, they kind of, like, put a lot of demon makeup on his face.
KyleHOST
Oh, you know what? We didn't take the bad guy from MK, which would have been sick.
KyleHOST
Shao Kahn.
KyleHOST
I thought
BryanHOST
about it multiple times.
KyleHOST
Shao Kahn would have been sick.
KyleHOST
He just sucks.
KyleHOST
First one I would take, I took was Sub-Zero from MK.
DannyHOST
Hey, listen.
DannyHOST
[upbeat music] So Survive or Die is our final Patreon section where each week we get two games, characters, franchises, and we have them now perform Mr. Geoffrey Do Morgan, who is armed with Shao Kahn's armor and dressed in Earthrealm Jim's power suits, and ask the question, which one of these should have their brain smashed in and which one's gonna fight another day? Now, as we're talking Mortal Kombat 9, I decided to put that up against Tekken.
DannyHOST
Now, I imagine it was Tekken 5 at the time of this coming out.
DannyHOST
Yeah, it was Tekken 5.
DannyHOST
That's my only thought about it.
DannyHOST
Again, I could hear arguments both sides.
DannyHOST
And probably prior to that, prior to the devil forms, I might have said Mortal Kombat 'cause Shao Kahn is a bit of a, you know, a bit of a GOAT.
DannyHOST
Uh, hence why we use his hammer on this show.
DJ NikHOST
And there's a nice balance, I think, between her strength and the vulnerability underneath it.
DJ NikHOST
And you're spot on, I think, when it comes to the comparison and relationship between her and Shao Kahn and Gamora and Thanos.
DJ NikHOST
And I wonder whether that might have been on our writers' minds when they created this relationship.
DJ NikHOST
And with Jade, I really enjoyed what they did with her.
8 MINS LATER
Keith BlissHOST
And then Kano, you gotta love Kano.
Keith BlissHOST
Just because of the fact that he's still the asshole, but when he had the MacGuffin thing that they happened to need in his pocket was hysterical, he's like, oh, I got that thing! And he just...
Keith BlissHOST
pops it out of his pocket like oh you mean this and like yeah we've been looking for that he's like I've had it the whole time okay because he's the kind he's a klepto he grabs stuff he sees shiny things and he just holds on to it it just conveniently happened to be the thing they needed to make their Shao Kahn an immortal indestructible being conveniently.
Keith BlissHOST
That's fine.
JeffHOST
looked fucking killer back then.
JeffHOST
Shao Kahn looked better than the movie Mortal Kombat 2 that just came out last year.
KevinHOST
Or this
JeffHOST
year.
JeffHOST
I'm not talking about anything else about the build or the costume.
JeffHOST
I'm talking the pure and then how he carries himself.
JeffHOST
The actor, how he portrays Shao Kahn is like that's accurate.
JeffHOST
Holy shit, that's accurate.
Papa SanchezHOST
in this world that sort of, he kind of comes through.
Papa SanchezHOST
So it wasn't, I think they said that they were, a lot of the inspirations were stuff that they watched as kids, and basically it's like homogenized everything that you can think of from, from He-Man, Skeletor, um, being Shao Kahn, to like martial arts movies, um, ninjas, just all of the stuff s- stacked together.
Papa SanchezHOST
So when they, they were pushing, 'cause basically when they approached them in the beginning, uh, the, the higher-ups at Midway, they rejected the whole Mortal Kombat.
Papa SanchezHOST
I mean, this is before it was called Mortal Kombat, and they, they went through with this Universal Soldier thing, so they had the idea, and then they were gonna get Van Damme, they were gonna get real actors to sort of photograph and stuff like that.
19 MINS LATER
Andy SavageHOST
... at the start, 'cause I, I went to watch the, the footy at a mate's place, so by the time I turned it on, I was 12 beers deep and normally have the mental, mental capacity of a 13-year-old boy.
Andy SavageHOST
So I'm like, "Oh, here we go.
Andy SavageHOST
Katana's old man's fighting Shao Kahn.
Andy SavageHOST
This is gonna be sweet."
Lawrence AdamsHOST
Steve Ritchie voiced the Black Knight famously.
Lawrence AdamsHOST
He's also the voice of Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat 2, which I always have to mention whenever we're talking about Steve Ritchie.
Lawrence AdamsHOST
It features a split play field.
Lawrence AdamsHOST
You have the MagnaSave feature, which is incredibly cool.
Joe McCormickHOST
Mm
Rob LambHOST
... um, Shao Kahn from s- uh, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
Joe McCormickHOST
I haven't seen Cobra, but I kinda want to.
Joe McCormickHOST
I, I think I've, I've heard that it's, uh, over-the-top, uh, pursuit of, of 80s action movie themes actually does push it kind of into weird territory.
Buddaz and Soy Sauce SportsHOST
I don't hate him.
Buddaz and Soy Sauce SportsHOST
Shao Kahn.
Buddaz and Soy Sauce SportsHOST
Okay, Shao Kahn.
Buddaz and Soy Sauce SportsHOST
I'm not mad at Shao Kahn.
Buddaz and Soy Sauce SportsHOST
He impact and like I'm not mad at Shao Kahn.
Buddaz and Soy Sauce SportsHOST
I like Shang Tsung too though.
Buddaz and Soy Sauce SportsHOST
I was gonna say either Shang Tsung or Quan Chi but I'm not mad at Shao Kahn.
Buddaz and Soy Sauce SportsHOST
But Shang Tsung from number one.
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