Characters / Mortal Kombat: Armageddon

Mortal Kombat Main Character Index
Original and Reboot Timeline: MK (1992) | MK2 | MK3 | MK4 | Deadly Alliance | Deception | Armageddon | MK vs. DC Universe | MK9 | MKX | MK11
The New Era: MK1
Spin-offs: Mythologies: Sub-Zero | Special Forces
Non-video game: The Movie | Conquest | Defenders of the Realm | 2021 Movie
Individual Characters: Scorpion I (Hanzo Hasashi) | Sub-Zero I/Noob Saibot (Bi-Han) | Johnny Cage | Liu Kang | Raiden | Shang Tsung | Sub-Zero II/Scorpion II (Kuai Liang) | Kitana | Mileena | Shao Kahn/General Shao | Quan Chi

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Spoilers for the original timeline before Armageddon will be unmarked

Here, we're going to list the characters introduced in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon.

Every other character, including Blaze, can be found at their respective sheets.

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Playable

Daegon

Daegon

Voiced by: Tom Taylor

When Armageddon was foretold by the Edenian sorceress Delia, she and her husband the protector God Argus put their two sons Taven and Daegon into suspended sleep in order to fight and defeat Blaze when the time comes and prevent Armageddon. However, Blaze's capture by Onaga's holy men forced the younger broter Daegon to be woken up prematurely. Incensed by what was to become of them and the true nature of the quest, Daegon enlisted the help of Shinnok (Who manipulated the Edenian into believing that their parents favored Taven) to kill his parents. Daegon then formed the Red Dragon Clan with the intent of locating Blaze. Through the decades, Daegon used the DNA of his protector dragon Caro to create human/dragon hybrid soldiers, and took the gifts that were meant to aid both him and Taven in their quests.

When Taven eventually awoke, Red Dragon soldiers were repeatedly sent to hound him during his quest, and the two brothers eventually clashed swords prior to the Battle of Armageddon, where Daegon was soundly defeated.

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• Ancient Conspiracy: Started one of his own by establishing the Red Dragon Clan.
• Badass Longcoat: Though it appears to be a cape that has been modified to be a coat.
• Bald of Evil
• Big Bad/Big Bad Wannabe: Zigzags between these tropes in that while he is the primary antagonist of Konquest mode and Taven's Arch-Enemy, but he is also merely a pawn that is being used by Shinnok to advance his own goals.
• Cain: To Taven's Abel.
• The Cameo: So far, he has made two additional appearances in the new timeline.
  • He appears in Kenshi's Mortal Kombat X ending, and is killed in vengeance by him, Takeda and Taven for murdering Suchin and his own parents.
  • Before that, in Mortal Kombat 9 he, along with Kenshi, Frost, Sareena, and Reiko, can be sometimes be seen in the background of The Pit and Shang Tsung's Garden.
  • However, he has shown himself in the MKX comics. Being handed the blind swordsman who betrayed his clan by an armless Shokan has that kind of effect.
• Counter-Attack: Daegon's specialty is dodging out of the way of an enemy's strikes to deliver his own.
• Cult: The Red Dragon is described as such in the tie-in Comics to Mortal Kombat X.
• Death by Cameo: In Rain's ending in 11, we see his dead body suspended in a water sphere by Rain, alongside his brother. Rain killed both of them to take revenge on his father Argus for taking him from his mother at birth.
• Dual Wielding: Wields both his and his brother's Drakeswords.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Originally named "Doug."
• Evil All Along: At least in Taven's eyes.
• Goatee Of Evil
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Evil. Has one over his eye.
• Monochromatic Eye: His right eye.
  • Prophet Eye
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Subversion in that he was a decent person prior to being put into suspended animation and only became a villain after being prematurely awakened and subsequently corrupted by Shinnok.
• Self-Made Orphan: Apparently killed Argus and Delia upon awakening because Shinnok told him that they favored Taven over him. In Kenshi's ending in MKX this is shown in far better detail.
  "So you know. Yes, I killed them. I had to! Lord Shinnok warned me that they had decided to assist you! (...) With the very weapons Father gave us to use against Blaze. And now I will use them to destroy you. Fight!"
  • Subverted in his ending, where it is revealed that both of them feigned their deaths, ready to punish Daegon for his misdeeds.
• Spikes of Villainy
• Visionary Villain: Subverted. He goes to such lengths, including the creation of the Red Dragon Clan and seeking to kill his brother or anyone else interested, yet it is for the very simple goal of becoming Edenia's protector god and lacking any other ideological goal. However, the Mortal Kombat X comics do imply that that the portrayal of Daegon in the new timeline will be a straighter example.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He doesn't have much for topwear, besides pauldrons and straps.

Taven

Taven

Voiced by: Phil Ridarelli

As Armageddon drew near, Blaze sounded the call to awaken the participants of the quest set forth by Delia and Argus. Taven was awoken with no knowledge of the true nature of the quest. Taven traversed Earthrealm, meeting various Kombatants and obtaining a sacred set of armor to help him on his quest. Eventually, he encountered Daegon, who was awoken before him and intended to kill him and claim the prize for himself. After traveling through Neatherrealm and Outworld in hopes of finding more answers to his quest, he went to Edenia.

After defeating Scorpion, Taven encountered Daegon again, who revealed that he killed their parents and took Taven's intended sword. Taven defeated Daegon and was then approached by Blaze, who revealed that he is the one that is meant to stop Armageddon by defeating Blaze in Mortal Kombat. Accepting the inevitable after the quest has destroyed his family, Blaze rose the pyramid of Argus from the ground and fought Blaze as the Battle of Armageddon raged below.

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• Abel: To Daegon's Cain.
• Awful Truth: His brother founded the Red Dragon clan and was trying to kill him all along.
  Taven: Why are you here? [at the Red Dragon caverns]
  Daegon: This is my stronghold.
  Taven: Your stronghold? And these warriors...?
  Daegon: I founded the Red Dragon Clan many ages ago.
  Taven: There must be some misunderstanding. Your soldiers have been hunting me.
  Daegon: There is no misunderstanding. For years, my clan has been infiltrating every corner of Earthrealm searching for you. Scouting parties were placed in locations where you were likely to appear. At our parents' temple, for instance. (...)
  Taven: Why would you send your clan after me?
  Daegon: Isn't it obvious? I intend to kill you.
  Taven: What!?
  Daegon: The prize will be mine, Taven. I will not risk losing it to you.
• The Cameo: He is the man that Caro sent Takeda and Kenshi to awaken in Takeda's Mortal Kombat X ending, along with Kenshi's own where he joins them in killing Daegon.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has a few moments of this during Konquest mode.
• Death by Cameo: In 11, same as Daegon. See above.
• Determinator: Konquest Mode ending. Despite inadvertently hastening the onset of Armageddon, he makes it his duty as a god to prevent Armageddon.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Originally named "Bob."
• Failure Hero: He is unable to save his parents, his guardian dragon, is forced to kombat his power-mad brother and to top it off, he failed to stop Armageddon with Shao Kahn being the canon victor.
• Fighting Your Friend: After his fight against the Red Dragon mooks, Fujin appears before him, and asks him to return to Edenia. Taven refuses the order, because he wants to know why the Red Dragon tried to stop him twice. Cue the fight.
  Fujin: Stop, Taven!
  Taven: Fujin!
  Fujin: I sense that there's more significance to your actions here than it's apparent. I suggest you to return to Edenia immediately.
  Taven: I would like some information first. The Red Dragon have attacked me twice. I'd like to know the reason, and I'm not leaving until I find it!
  Fujin: Such ignorance! I will stop you — by force if necessary.
  Taven: I respect you, Fujin. You are a friend to my family. But I will not leave.
  Fujin: Then you leave me no choice. Fight!
  • And then, after defeating him:
    "I didn't want to do that. Fujin has been an ally for many ages. (...)"
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: After defeating Daegon in Konquest, he takes his stolen sword back. Changing to his weapon style in the final fight with Blaze reveals... the same damn sword he's been using the entire game. Maybe it changes shape depending on the user?
• The Hero: In Armageddon's Konquest mode, which serves as the game's story mode with him as point-of-view character and on a important quest to halt the end of all things.
• Hero of Another Story: Taven once repelled an invasion from Shao Kahn alongside, his father, his brother Daegon and their two dragons.
• Idiot Hero: Is pretty gullible all in all, including how slow he is to grasp the Awful Truth despite it being spelled out to him. Some of it can be attributed to how long he's been asleep.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He has grown disillusioned with his quest and cares nothing about achieving full godhood. However, he recognizes that quitting is not a viable option due to Daegon's corruption following his premature awakening and thus continues on.
• Phrase Catcher: How many times to other characters respond to something Taven says with "No, Taven!"?
• Physical God: At the end of Konquest.
• Sealed Good in a Can: He was trapped inside a cavern for a very long time in order to fulfill his parents’ quest.
• Spanner in the Works: His quest ends up derailing several villains' plans. For example, he stalls Sektor and his Tekunin long enough for the Special Forces to attack, helps fends off Noob and Smoke's attack on the Lin Kuei temple (including saving Sub-Zero's life), and breaks Quan Chi's hold over Sareena.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome
• Teleport Spam: His "Escape" attack.
• Time Stands Still: His "Time Stop" attack.

Non-Playable

Argus

Argus

• Anime Hair: Has spiked hair.
• Asshole Victim: Rain's ending in MK11 shows that Argus callously sold Rain to a poor family and left Amara to die of heartbreak by telling her that Rain was born dead. So when Rain kills him and his two legitimate sons, you feel more sorry for his mourning wife than for him.
• The Cameo: He appears in Kenshi's Mortal Kombat X ending, which shows his death.
• Divine Parentage: He's the protector god of Edenia. He's also the father of Taven and Daegon, and Rain.
• Faking the Dead: At least, according to Daegon's ending.
• God in Human Form
• The Gods Must Be Lazy: First wanted to kill the heroes to prevent Armageddon until his wife convinced him to do something a bit more complicated. Then he stood around for centuries and did nothing to protect Edenia, the realm he is supposed to protect, from Shao Kahn or any of the other threats.
• Jerkass Gods: Rain's ending in MK11 shows he's got quite the nasty side to him. To hide the results of his affair with Amara, Rain's mother, he pawned Rain off on a poor family while telling Amara that Rain was a stillborn child, leaving her to die of grief.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Wanted to kill both good and evil kombatants until his wife pointed out some were undeserving of death. Later did nothing to protect Edenia from the evils that befell. Supposedly benevolent.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Has a reaction like this in Taven's non-canonical ending, where instead of halting Armageddon by stripping the combatants of their power, Blaze's death made them all stronger than before.
  • Likewise, in Rain's ending, upon watching his bastard son win Blaze's power, he's initially proud of Rain's achievement until he realizes that abandoning Rain at birth did not make him a very benevolent person. And with his own ascent to Elder God status, he's forbidden from stopping his mad son's tyranny.
• Narrator: Of Armageddon.
• Off with His Head!: How he was "killed", according to Kenshi's Mortal Kombat X ending.
• Physical God
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Ok, so he's not exactly ugly, but his wife is a smoking hot bombshell.

Delia

Delia

• The Cameo:
  • She appears in Kenshi's Mortal Kombat X ending, which shows her death.
  • And again in Mortal Kombat 11 in Rain's ending, in which she is shown mourning the murder of her husband and sons.
• Cruel Mercy: The subject of this in Rain's 11 ending. Rain kills her husband for seducing his mother, then selling him to a poor couple and subjecting his mother to Death by Despair by telling her Rain was a stillbirth. He then kills Delia's own sons, but lets her live, so that she will feel the same pain his mother went through.
• Divine Parentage: She's a powerful Edenian sorceress with visions of the future. She's also the mother of Taven and Daegon.
• Faking the Dead: At least, according to Daegon's ending.
• Hot Witch
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How she was "killed", according to Kenshi's Mortal Kombat X ending.
• In the Hood: Her hood obscures her upper face.
• Lady of Black Magic: A powerful Edenian sorceress in a revealing, elegant dress implied to have had magical flame powers like her sons.
• Psychic Powers: Delia possesses the power to see into the future.
• Red Baron: She's known as the "Lady of Flame." It's been theorized that Delia had pyrokinetic abilities of her own, explaining her creation of the fire elemental Blaze and her sons' powers.
• Stripperiffic: Of the Underboobs variety. It's otherwise a rather elegant dress.

Orin

Orin

• Intermission
• Magical Guardian: Is in charge of protecting and guiding Taven.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: He’s Taven’s guide and protector, and he gets mortally wounded by Quan Chi.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes

Caro

Caro

• Breath Weapon: He dispatches the Red Dragon clan by breathing fire.
• The Cameo: Appears in Takeda's ending along with Taven in Mortal Kombat X. Takeda and Kenshi infiltrate the mountain where Caro is held seeking the killer of Takeda's mother. Caro divines the name of the killer and sends the pair to someone who would also have reason to confront the murderer, who turns out to be Taven. Together the three of them exact vengeance on Daegon.
• Magical Guardian: Is in charge of protecting and guiding Daegon, just as Orin is for Taven.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He somehow lost contact with Blaze, and mistook it for the start of Armageddon. This resulted in Daegon being awoken prematurely, leading to his corruption.
• Our Dragons Are Different:
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Once Taven frees him, Caro sends Taven after Daegon while promising to annihilate the atrocity Daegon created in his name and reduce the Red Dragon clan that enslaved him to "nothing more than broken bodies strewn throughout the hollows of the mountain."

Wu Lae

Wu Lae

The leader of the Tengu clan Taven encounters in his quest in Arctika. Said clan is a rival clan of the Lin Kuei.

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• Cool Mask: Wears a silver one.
• Mini-Boss: He is not even his own playable character in the arcade mode, merely a minor boss fought by Taven in Konquest.
• The Rival: Would appear to be a lesser one to Sub-Zero. The Tengu, Snow Ninja, and Lin Kuei are apparently not on good terms.
• Sinister Scythe: His weapon of choice.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: Even though Taven spares his life, the player still has the option of performing a fatality on him (which is required to unlock a bonus item).
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Not even mentioned in the Netherrealm rebooted timeline.

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