In the 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot, an alternate-timeline retelling of the first three games, Kabal is a member of the NYPD's riot-control division alongside Kurtis Stryker, though his history as a reformed Black Dragon defector remains intact. Kabal challenges him to combat in response, but is defeated. Impressed, Kabal offers him a chance to join the Black Dragon, but Taven refuses. Kabal does make an appearance with Kira and Kobra in the game's Konquest Mode when he confronts the demigod Taven after the latter defeats Kobra and several fellow Black Dragon thugs. Kabal emerges victorious in battle, resulting in Mavado killing himself before Kabal raises his rival's disembodied head as a symbol of the Black Dragon's superiority. ĭue to never receiving an official biography in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (2006), Kabal and his recruits do not play a significant role in the game's plot, though, in his ending, he confronts Mavado for a third and final time in order to end their rivalry once and for all. In 2005 beat 'em up title Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, a retelling of the events leading up to Mortal Kombat II, a non-playable Kabal was the subject of an optional mission, during which he left the player his hook swords to use. However, Kabal kills Havik and takes the organ for himself. At Havik's request, Kabal brings his recruits to Outworld and, as depicted in his ending, assigns them to distract the Earthrealm heroes while Havik slays the Dragon King Onaga and takes his heart, which has the power to raise the dead. Kabal complies, recruiting Kira, who had impressed him by being able to do business with extremist terrorist organizations despite her gender, and martial artist turned killer Kobra after freeing him from police custody. Beforehand, a cleric of the otherworldly dimension Chaosrealm, Havik, brought Kabal back from the brink of death and instructed him to restore the same Black Dragon that he had long tried to disassociate himself from. This storyline briefly continues in Mortal Kombat: Deception (2004), when Kabal hunts and defeats Mavado and takes back his swords. Īs was the case with the debuting characters from MK3 onward, Kabal is not playable in Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance (2002), though he has a significant role in the game's storyline when he is killed in battle and has his hook swords stolen by Mavado, a leading member of the Black Dragon's rival, the Red Dragon clan. However, the assault had also resulted in Kabal abandoning his life of crime in order to fight alongside the Earthrealm warriors and successfully thwart Shao Kahn and his forces. After the thunder god Raiden chose him to help defend Earthrealm, Kabal became a target of the Kahn's extermination squads, who subjected him to a vicious attack that left him badly maimed and scarred forcing him thereafter to rely on artificial respirators for survival and a mask to hide his now disfigured face.
Making his debut in 1995's Mortal Kombat 3, Kabal was a member of the Black Dragon crime syndicate alongside Kano until Outworld emperor Shao Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm. He has also appeared in various media outside of the games.Īppearances Mortal Kombat games Reception to Kabal has been mostly positive, with him regarded as one of the franchise's most powerful fighters, although his Fatality finishing moves have been more scrutinized.
He possesses superhuman speed and uses a pair of hookswords as his primary weapon. Due to injuries suffered against Outworld's warriors, the character wears a specialized helmet with a built-in life-support system. Subsequent installments, however, give Kabal a more villainous depiction as the leader of a new Black Dragon clan in the original timeline and an undead revenant in the reboot. Chosen by the thunder god Raiden to help defend Earthrealm, he pursues redemption by battling invading forces from Outworld. He debuted in Mortal Kombat 3 (1995) as a former member of the Black Dragon criminal organization. Kabal is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios. John Tobias ( MK3, UMK3, MKT, MK:SF, MK:SM)
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