Rain fights valiantly
for the emperor Shao Kahn, but it would be
Kahn's own step daughter, The Princess Kitana
who turns Rain against him. Like Kitana, Rain's origins also come from
their former realm of Edenia. He learns that his father was once a general
in Edenia's army and died at the hands of Shao Kahn himself. Enraged at
the truth about his history, he joins Kitana in aligning with the Earth
Realm Warriors. But his allegiance comes under question when he mysteriously
disappears during an extermination squad attack. To prove his loyalty he
embarked on a suicide mission to destroy Shao Kahn and end the menace once
and for all.
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In the early MK
series, we had a yellow ninja, a turquoise ninja, a green ninja, a red ninja... I see
where this is going.... Midway's designers
rehashed the classic ninja design once more to make a pretty purple ninja (besides
Mileena) of course! At his debut, nearly all of Rain's original
animations were borrowed from the other ninja-clones. However, Rain had a pretty unique moveset and mannerisms that defined him. Midway later reinvented him in MK:
Armageddon, but like most characters in that game, he was a pretty hollow
design.
Rain's redesign in MK9 was a much better, more fleshed out version of him. For the
most part he's an entirely new character, but the MK dev-team threw in most of his
original moves for the old school fans. I think Rain's MK9 stance looks a bit silly, along with his spammy "water attack"... is he shooting his opponent with a water gun? Really? lol. Otherwise, Rain was pretty cool in MK9. His MK11 rendition looks better than ever. It's cool to see how far this purple ninja clone has come
since MK3: Ultimate.
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