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Baraka is a supporting antagonist from Mortal Kombat 9 to Mortal Kombat X, and a supporting antagonist turned anti-hero in Mortal Kombat 11. He is an Outworld champion who serves Shao Kahn in the first two NRS era games and later became Kitana's ally in the last one.
He was voiced by Bob Carter in Mortal Kombat 9, who also voiced Shao Kahn in the same game, Balrog in Street Fighter, Bojack in Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, Syn Shenron in Dragon Ball GT, Drum in Dragon Ball and Black Adam in MultiVersus, Greg Eagles in Mortal Kombat X, who also played Revenant Jax in the same game, Gray Fox in Metal Gear Solid, Grim in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, The Sandman in The Powerpuff Girls and Lobo in the web series of the same name.
Baraka is also voiced by Steve Blum in Mortal Kombat 11, who also voiced Revenant Sub-Zero and Reptile in X, Kyogai in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Orochimaru and Zabuza Momochi in Naruto, Sergei in Asura's Wrath, Ares in God of War, the Shadow Broker in Mass Effect 2, Killer Croc and the Electrocutioner in the Batman: Arkham series, Starscream in Transformers: Prime, Bullseye in The Punisher, Green Goblin in The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vilgax and Zs'Skayr in Ben 10, Count Vertigo in Young Justice, Amon in The Legend of Korra and Red Skull in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Biography[]
Mortal Kombat (2011)[]
Baraka took part in Shang Tsung's Mortal Kombat tournament and fought Johnny Cage, but was defeated by the movie star, who thought his fangs and blades were just special effects. Later on, the Tarkatan listened to Cyrax talking to Raiden and reported this to Shang Tsung, who sent Baraka and Sheeva to kill the Lin Kuei, thinking he'd turn against him. However, Cyrax beat the two of them. After the tournament was over, Baraka led his fellow Tarkata in attacking the Wu Shi Academy, capturing Sonya Blade in the process. Once Raiden and the other Earthrealm warriors arrived in Outworld, Jax faced off against Baraka, but the Tarkatan lost yet again. After Kitana found out the truth about her past, Baraka was commanded to guard the Tower where she was imprisoned and as he was ding so, also sorted the weapons that Shang had gotten from the Black Dragon Clan with another Tarkatan. He told the other not to mess around with the weapons and sent him elsewhere, when Jade arrived.
Baraka told her she was not allowed in and then she taunted him, calling him a good guard dog, and ordered him to heel. A fight ensued and the Tarkatan was beaten, saying Edenians had no loyalty, but Jade knocked him out. Baraka later watched Shao Kahn face off against Liu Kang and be defeated, then presuming he was dead, met with the other generals to discuss who would take over. The Tarkatan argued Mileena should take Kahn's place since she was his sole heir, but Kahn revealed that he was still alive and Baraka and the others bowed to him. He presumably later led the other Tarkata in Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm.
In his ending, all of Shao Kahn's minions were enraged when Baraka apparently killed their master, just as Earthrealm seemed in their grasp. However, it turned out that the Tarkatan had killed Shang Tsung, who'd been posing as Kahn, though this had not fooled Baraka, who had smelled the sorcerer's scent. His loyalty was rewarded and the Tarkata became Kahn's favored race.
Mortal Kombat X[]
Baraka makes an appearance in Mortal Kombat X. After the death of Shao Kahn, Baraka became a loyal servant to Mileena. When Mileena ambushed Kotal Kahn and his servants, Baraka was with her. However, after Ermac betrayed them and joined Kotal, D'Vorah, one of Kotal's enforcers, attacked Baraka. After an intense battle, D'Vorah managed to defeat Baraka. And after Kotal gave judgment to Baraka, D'Vorah performed a fatality on Baraka, by ripping out his heart and brain, killing him.
Baraka also appears in a flashback set immediately before the second tournament, where he and D'Vorah were loading Shaolin monks as prisoners aboard their ships. Baraka assured her that the wound that the Shaolin took during the raid were not fatal, but they were confrotned by Raiden, Liu Kang and Kung Lao. While his minions fought Kung Lao and Liu Kang, Baraka personally confronted Raiden, vowing to kill him before the tournament. Despite this vow, the Thunder God defeated the Tarkatan and his prisoners were freed.
Mortal Kombat 11[]
Baraka returns as a playable character in Mortal Kombat 11. He was revealed in a Mortal Kombat 11 event on January 16, 2019.
A time-displaced Baraka was brought alongside his time-displaced allies and enemies by Kronika's time anomaly machination to the future of the present day. Baraka is amongst the time-displaced warriors who are brought to the present-day Outworld's Koliseum, taking place after Kung Lao's victory against Quan Chi and Shang Tsung at the second tournament. After being defeated by Kotal where Baraka learned his future-self is dead, Baraka retreats with his allies, including Kollector with the aid of D'Vorah to be introduced to their new boss, Kronika, who claims to promises the villains the new eras they ever wanted.
Just as Shao Kahn begins to use Tarkatan shelter as his temporary main base, Baraka and his troops are guarding the Tarkatan refugees against Kotal's army. Despite Baraka being defeated by Kotal and time-displaced Jade, and almost being executed with his surviving Tarkatans, the argument between Jade and Kotal over changing Tarkatan's future redemption causes them ending up being captured by Shao Kahn, with Jade being tortured by Skarlet at Tarkatan shelter while Kotal is about to executed at the Koliseum. The time-displaced Kitana, under a request of Shokan's current queen Sheeva, gives Baraka a second chance to redeem himself and Tarkatan's future. Baraka finally joins her rank alongside his fellow Tarkatan, the present-day Erron Black, and all Shokan.
After Kitana bested Shao Kahn and became the Kahn successor of a now crippled Kotal, Baraka volunteers the final battle with his new allies against Kronika's army at Netherrealm, raiding her Keep.
In his ending, Baraka killed Kronika and took her Hourglass in the name of the tribe. He created a timeline where the Tarkatans were the conquerors of the Realms, and over a thousand years they conquered Edenia, Outworld and the Netherrealm, before challenging Earthrealm in Mortal Kombat, which Baraka oversaw.
Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath[]
Baraka now serves Kitana, new ruler of Outworld. When he ask Sheeva why post, he start investigate alongside with Erron and few Tarkatans, where they found carrying the coffin. Baraka wondered what they try to do with it as he went over to smell the Shokan, he noticed one of the Shokan was Shang Tsung in disguise and impaling him slightly under his left shoulder. Baraka ordered his subordinates to capture the group, but Shang Tsung to launch a fireball in self-defense that caused an accident one of the Tarkatans to slip into the acid pool and melt to death. Shang Tsung mockingly apologized, Baraka became enraged and attempted to charge at him, only to be stopped by Fujin. Baraka quickly got back up on his feet, enraged that Tarkatan blood had been shed and demanded that Sheeva atone for her sins. Sheeva stated that she had warned him in advance, but he had refused to listen. The two fought, with Baraka losing and being knocked out as a result.
Personality[]
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Relationships[]
Current Allies[]
- Kitana Khan (current ruler and former enemy)
- Outworlders
- Sheeva (former enemy)
- Shokan
- Reptile (MIA)
- Erron Black (MIA)
- Saurians
- Tarkata
- Ferra and Tor (MIA)
- Kotal Khan (former ruler)
- Jade (former enemy)
- Past Liu Kang (former enemy)
- Past Kung Lao (former enemy)
- Earthrealm (Former enemies)
Fomer Allies[]
- Shang Tsung
- Shao Kahn (killed by Raiden and the Elder Gods revived in MK 11)
- Cyrax (killed himself in MKX comics)
- Mileena (killed by D'Vorah in MKX game)
- Sektor (killed by Sub-Zero in MKX comics)
- Reiko (killed by Havik in MKX comics)
- Goro (dead)
- Kintaro (killed by Sonya, Cassie and Jacqui in MKX comics)
- Rain (MIA)
- Tanya (MIA)
- Motaro (killed by Raiden in MK 2011)
- Centaurians
- Noob Saibot (MIA)
- Hsu Hao (killed by Scorpion in MKX comics)
- Smoke (MIA)
- Kabal (MIA)
- Havik
- Chaosrealmers
- Mavado (killed by Cassie and Jacqui in MKX comics)
- Netherrealm Demons
- Wraiths/Revenants
- Quan Chi (killed by Scorpion in MKX game)
- Jarek (MIA)
- Black Dragon
- Kano
- Skarlet (MIA)
- Moloch (killed by Kitana in MKX comics)
- Drahmin (killed by Quan Chi in MKX comics)
- Sindel (MIA)
- Shinnok
- Red Dragon
- Daegon
- Onaga
- Frost
- D'Vorah (MIA)
- Kollector (MIA)
- Triborg (MIA)
- Geras
- Kronika
- Young Kano (from the past)
- Young Kabal (from the past)
- Young Kintaro (from the past)
- Young Sektor (from the past)
- Young Cyrax (from the past)
- Young Kintaro (soul taken by Shang Tsung and used as a fatality)
Current Enemies[]
- Skarlet (MIA)
- Rain (MIA)
- D'Vorah (MIA)
- Smoke (MIA)
- Jarek (MIA)
- Kollector (MIA)
- Tanya (MIA)
- Triborg (MIA)
- Daegon
- Onaga
- Shang Tsung (returns for DLC in MK 11)
- Netherrealm Demons
- Chaosrealmers
- Reiko (killed by Havik)
- Havik
- Centaurians
- Noob Saibot (MIA)
- Young Shao Khan (killed again)
- Drahmin (killed by Quan Chi)
- Old Kano
- Young Kano
- Black Dragon
- Mavado (killed by Cassie and Jacqui)
- Revenant Kabal (dead)
- Young Kabal (MIA)
- Goro (soul taken by Shang Tsung in DLC)
- Young Cyrax (dead)
- Young Sektor (dead)
- Revenants
- Revenant Kung Lao (dead)
- Revenant Liu Kang (dead)
- Revenant Kitana (dead)
- Revenant Sindel (MIA)
- Revenant Kurtis Stryker (MIA)
- Moloch (killed by Kitana)
- Red Dragon
- Geras
- Kronika
Former Enemies[]
- Earthrealm heroes
- Great Kung Lao
- Raiden
- Kitana
- Liu Kang
- Kung Lao
- Jax Briggs
- Sonya Blade (sacrificed herself in MK 11)
- Jade
- Johnny Cage
- Scorpion
- Sub-Zero
- Special Forces
- Old Kenshi Takahashi (died at the hands of Shang Tsung in DLC)
- Fujin
- Bo' Rai Cho
- Li Mei
- Sareena
- Kotal Kahn
- Erron Black
- Ermac (soul taken by Shang Tsung in DLC, the sorcerer can change into him)
- Ferra and Torr
- Reptile
- Saurian
- Shokan
- Young Earthrealm heroes (from the past)
- Young Liu Kang (from the past)
- Young Johnny Cage (from the past)
- Young Kung Lao (from the past)
- Young Sonya Blade (from the past)
- Young Jax Briggs (from the past)
- Young Scorpion (from the past)
- Young Sub-Zero (from the past)
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