Sandbox / Mortal Kombat – Havik I

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Havik I (The Cleric of Chaos)

He's crazy! And for the same reason, you gotta like him!

Debut game: Mortal Kombat: Deception (Ryan Rosenberg)

Other appearances: Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Ryan Rosenberg)

Havik is from Chaosrealm which, as its name suggests, values disorder and chaos above all else. When Onaga returned and intended to use the Kamidogu to bring order across the realms, the Cleric of Chaos saw this as a threat and saw to it to halt the Dragon King's schemes. Aside from instigating chaos in Orderrealm, Havik was also responsible for saving Kabal from Mavado's attack, giving him the suggestion to revive the Black Dragon Clan. Havik intended to use the heroes to fight Onaga and distract them long enough to consume Onaga's essence and use the ability to resurrect the dead.

It is unknown if he succeeded in this, but he does show up alongside the Orderrealm denizens in the Battle of Armageddon.

He plays a role in the comic book prequel to Mortal Kombat X, as Reiko's adviser and the "Blood God" corrupter of the Kamidogu. Ultimately, he is decapitated by Hanzo Hasashi, with his head taken to the Netherrealm and subsequently crushed beneath Quan Chi's foot.

General

• Chaos Is Evil: Every Havik is utterly devoted to the notion of Chaos as an ideology of freedom. However, for one reason or another, their means of "liberation" makes them incredibly dangerous antagonists to the realms.
• Distinguishing Mark: Every Havik has a ghastly disfigured mouth, and a pin depicting a four-pointed star.
• Healing Factor: Every version of Havik possesses incredible powers of recovery, able to instantly regenerate severed limbs and even survive decapitation.
• Liberty Over Prosperity: Haviks desire absolute liberty without any sort of order to limit it, and the fact that they either forget or choose to ignore benevolent forms of order means their pursuit of freedom can have destructive and disastrous consequences.
• Practically Joker: A Havik's messed-up mouth and total devotion of chaos as an ideology draws a very strong comparison to the Clown Prince of Crime. The second Havik in particular is very similar to Heath Ledger's version of the character.
• Skull for a Head: One way or another, a Havik's face is gruesomely disfigured with a lipless, grinning mouth.

Tropes that apply to Havik I in the Midway and Reboot timelines

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• Affably Evil: He tends to display a polite disposition even when he is about to beat an opponent to death.
• Ambiguously Human: He has half his face ripped off and he can bend in ways that would kill most people, but it's unclear if he's some sort of zombie or if that's normal for Chaosrealmers.
• An Arm and a Leg: Played for Laughs, in Joker's MK11 ending where he pulls the fake handshake gag... except it's his actual hand. This is probably one of the many reasons why Joker connects with him easily.
• And I Must Scream: He is decapitated in the X prequel comics, with his living head being in the possession of two oni that most likely tormented it. Subverted Trope, as Quan Chi quickly stomps on it, turning it to mush for failing him.
• Animal-Themed Fighting Style: He uses Snake Kung Fu in Deception.
• Arch-Enemy: With Hotaru for obvious reasons.
• Badass Preacher: He's a Cleric of Chaos and can easily hold his own in a fight.
• Birds of a Feather: Non-romantic example, he and Joker immediately hit it off when they meet in the latter's ending.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: For him, Freedom and Chaos are synonymous and any sort of order is an affront to his definition of freedom. This is best demonstrated in why he seeks to aid Shao Kahn against Onaga. Despite the fact that both rulers are brutal in their governing style (with Shao Kahn possibly more so) and also share the goals of annexing other realms into Outworld, however Shao Kahn has no interest in the everyday activities of those he has subjugated (at least as long as they don't fail to pay him tribute nor seek to revolt against him) whereas Onaga is a Visionary Villain who is very interested in organizing the realms to his liking. Thus, the latter's effort to suppress chaos leads him to join with Shao Kahn by default.
• Breakout Villain: In contrast to his relatively small role in his debut game, Havik becomes a poignant threat in the Mortal Kombat X comics, bordering on being a Big Bad by virtue of corrupting the Kamidogu daggers with the curse of the Blood Code. He jumps onto being a Big Bad the moment he gains Shinnok's amulet by sacrificing Reiko. At the conclusion of MK1, an Alternate Timeline version of Havik is set up as the next Big Bad as part of Sequel Hook after Shang Tsung is dealt with for good, showing how far he's come from being a 'bit' villain.
• Call-Forward:
  • Turns out Kung Jin wasn't the only one wondering if the power Johnny Cage had skipped a generation.
  • In the MKX comics, Scorpion tears his head off to take care of him (and even this doesn't kill him). Raiden would later do the same thing to Shinnok.
• The Cameo:
  • Appears in Noob Saibot's MK9 ending. He also makes another reappearance in Joker's ending in MK11 where they get along swimmingly, to the point that the clown prince of crime actually considers him his bestie. Havik makes use of their friendship and Joker now owning the Hourglass to wreak havoc on Hotaru's home turf.
  • Has returned in the MKX comics as the advisor to Reiko.
• Catchphrase: "May Chaos break the rules that bind".
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder:
  • Given his whole purpose is to cause chaos, he is willing to do this without a second thought. For example, After Shujinko helped him out, Havik decides to attack him with the intent to kill. After Shujinko wins, Havik congratulates him on learning the Chaos way, which includes backstabbing.
  • In Kabal's ending in Deception, Kabal saw that Havik was going to use Onaga's heart to gain power and decides to backstab Havik for his own purposes, Havik was all too impressed by this Chaotic choice.
• The Corrupter: Implied to be this for Kabal. Kabal had reformed since 3, but when Havik resuscitated him after Mavado's attack, he was somehow able to rekindle Kabal's anarchist ideals.
• Decapitation Presentation:
  • He rips his own head off in his hara-kiri. What's he's presenting it to? The camera.
  • In issue #32 of the MKX comics Hanzo does the same thing to him.
• Dem Bones: One of his specials is a phantasmal projectile in the form of a skull. His general appearance also leans towards this, given his head resembles a skull.
• Even Evil Has Standards: A notable aversion in that he seems to be the only person in the entire Mortal Kombat universe who likes hanging around The Joker.
• Facial Horror: A striking part of his design is that the lower half of his face has his skull exposed. In the MKX comics he possesses Forrest Fox and forces him to invoke the Blood Code through self-mutilation, leaving Fox with a face that's somehow even more mutilated than Havik's.
• Foregone Conclusion: One of his primary goals in the comics is to completely erase Hanzo Hasashi from the equation and bring back his vengeful, out-of-control Scorpion persona. Given the events of the main game and Hanzo's large role in the storyline, this venture is destined to end in failure. And sure enough, Hanzo eventually tears his head off.
• For the Evulz: Or perhaps it would be better to say For The Chaoz. Havik only seeks to stir up as much chaos as possible, making him a foil to both the heroes and villains.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: The Mortal Kombat X comics reveals that he has a healing factor, hence why he can snap various pieces of his body and make it out okay in battle. Good thing too, because if he didn't Scorpion would have easily killed him at the Kang Temple. That said, he has trouble healing from having his head torn off, even if it doesn't kill him outright.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: His Batter Up Fatality consists of Havik tearing off his opponent's leg and then using it to knock their head off.
• A Hero to His Hometown: He is hailed as a hero in Chaosrealm and considered a psychotic terrorist by all others.
• I'm a Humanitarian: His Human Pencil Sharpener Fatality. His mouth is the pencil sharpener, by the way. When his meal is finished, Havik actually chokes on and regurgitates some meat chunks.
• In the Hood: His alt. gives him a hooded cloak.
• I Reject Your Reality: Fancies himself to be Above Good and Evil and just going around to spread chaos and anarchy.
• Killed Off for Real: In the MKX comics and new timeline, Quan Chi stomps on his severed head, reducing it to chum.
• The Man Behind the Man: To Reiko in the second timeline. Keep in mind that Havik's main objective is to spread chaos, something which the Outworld Civil War and the Kamidogu, that he corrupted, are doing well on their own.
• Meaningful Name: Exactly What It Says on the Tin, really.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Has blank white eyes going with his skeletal face.
• Neck Snap: One of his moves has him do this to himself. And it heals him.
• No Name Given: Mortal Kombat 1 implies that "Havik" is simply the Nom de Guerre of a man devoted to chaos and freedom. If so, then this character has no name, as he is only called by the pseudonym "Havik" or his title "Cleric of Chaos."
• No One Could Survive That!: Despite having his head crushed and seemingly killed for good in the MKX comics, it's implied in MK11's DLC Aftermath that he's still alive, as Shang Tsung mentions that Havik will keep Geras "entertained" as Shang Tsung sends Geras to Chaosrealm. Granted, since this was after the time-merger, Shang Tsung either could have been referring to an unseen Past!Havik or was simply unaware that Havik was dead.
• Off with His Head!: How Scorpion takes care of him in the MKX comics.
• Rubber Man: To an extent. Havik can freely contort his body allowing him to do insane feats such as twisting his torso like a corkscrew and snapping his own neck to regain health. In order to keep things fair, he's still affected by Fatalities that invoke breaking limbs.
• Savage Spiked Weapons: His main weapon style is using a giant spiked mace, it's not the most sophisticated weapon but considering Havik's chaotic nature and brutal fighting style. It's very fitting.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: For Shujinko in Konquest mode. In order to teach the man, he has to go all out and be unpredictable. Whereas Shujinko thought it was an unpredictable and unorthodox training exercise masked as a fight to the death, Havik explicitly tells him that he was indeed trying to kill him.
• Stance System: Had Snake and Tang Soo Do in MK:D. Keeps the latter in Armageddon.
• This Is Gonna Suck: If he's knocked off of the Sky Tower in Deception, Havik will briefly stop screaming to proclaim, "Man, this is gonna suck!" before resuming his scream.
• The Unfettered: As noted under Blue and Orange Morality, he despises any sort of order of which includes moral restraint.
• Villainous Friendship: He strikes a chord with the Joker in the latter's tower ending in 11, presumably due to their very similar philosophies, and very notably one of the few characters to ever be on the Joker's wavelength.

New Era Havik (MAJOR Unmarked Spoilers for MK1)

Titan Havik (Cleric of Chaos)

Portrayed by: Jacob Craner (English), Raymundo Armijo (Latin American Spanish)

An alternate version of the previous timeline's Havik, who claimed the Hourglass and fully enveloped his universe in his twisted vision of chaos. Appearing in the ruined Dark Timeline, he stands in awe of the battle of Armageddon that took place there, which gives him an idea...
The normal Havik of the New Era is not the Cleric of Chaos, but instead Dairou, who can be found here.

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• Adaptational Ugliness: Havik was never a pretty sight in prior timelines, but his Skull for a Head was bloodless. Here, he sports a gory red disfigurement.
• Blood Knight: Titan Havik finds the carnage of the Battle of Armageddon to be awe-inspiring, so much so that he wants to start another war of comparable scale.
• Establishing Character Moment: The very moment we see him for the first time, Havik drops a morningstar to the face of an agonizing and armless alternate Jax Briggs, showing himself to be cruel and merciless.
• Evil Is Visceral: Titan Havik is covered with red scar tissue, and his face is even more disfigured than that of his counterparts in either the New Era or previous timelines.
• Faux Affably Evil: He talks about a critically injured Jax's struggle to stay alive in an almost admiring tone, but follows that up by cruelly crushing the helpless and unarmed (figuratively and literally) man's skull.
• Forever War: When his version of Kenshi laments that the Battle of Armageddon had to end, Titan Havik ominously replies that "next time, it won't".
• Identical Stranger: While they look similar, the playable "Havik" of the New Era is actually an alternate version of Dairou, whereas Titan Havik is the previous universe's Cleric of Chaos.
• Irony: Havik of the New Era is a Bomb Throwing Anarchist with an irrational hatred of all authority figures, whereas Titan Havik rules his own universe as a god, is accompanied by loyal followers, and dresses in a noticeably regal fashion.
• Sequel Hook: While the tower endings tease possible future plotlines and returning antagonists, Titan Havik appears in The Stinger of the story mode itself, setting him up as the next major threat to the realms.
• Sadist: He amuses himself by letting his morningstar hover over a maimed and helpless Jax's head for a moment before dropping it.
• Savage Spiked Weapons: Since he's based on the original Havik, as opposed the new timeline's Dairou, he carries a very intimidating morningstar. He shows off his savagery by sadistically letting the spiked ball hover above an armless Jax's head before dropping it down.
• To Create a Playground for Evil: He desires a repeat of the interdimensional war to drown all timelines in chaos, for no reason other than because he thought it ended too quickly the first time. Even Dairou has nominally loftier goals than that.