— Shujinko, the game's main character.
Mortal Kombat: Deception is the sixth canonical installment in the
Crazy Awesome and
Bloody Mortal Kombat franchise. It was released for
PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2004 and for
GameCube in 2005, and it takes place right
after Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance.
At the end of that game,
Shang Tsung and Quan Chi managed to bring back Outworld's ancient army. The opening cutscene brings us to they fighting Raiden. Once Raiden is down, they start fighting each other, with Quan Chi defeating Shang Tsung. However, while he was rejoicing with his victory, someone appears.
It's Onaga, the resurrected Dragon King, who wants Outworld back. Quan Chi and Shang Tsung tried to bring him down, with
Raiden joining them later. In the end, neither the three of them could stop Onaga, and Raiden, in a desperate move, tried to do his most dangerous move... which has proven to be fatal only for the trio, as Onaga managed to survive to that and without taking much damage. With Raiden and the Deadly Alliance gone, now there's only one ruler.
It turns out that, while the events of previous games were taking place, Onaga, disguised as an Elder God emmisary, tricked a youngster named
Shujinko into getting six
MacGuffins for him, across the realms. This, plus Reptile's body being used as a host, managed to bring back the Dragon King to life.
So, now, without any leader, and with five of the heroes being killed in battle, Sub-Zero trapped in the Netherrealm, and his pupil Frost being...
frozen, the survivors of the battle against the Deadly Alliance (Kenshi, Bo'Rai Cho, Li Mei, Scorpion and the aforementioned Sub-Zero) are on their own against the forces of Onaga, which included the Tarkatan army, led by Baraka. Raiden, corrupted by Onaga's magic, became disgusted with the humanity in general, and revived Liu Kang as a zombie, sending him to a massive manslaughter. Kang's spirit, however, stays with Ermac, to help him save his friends.
Aside of the aforementioned
Onaga, Shujinko, Baraka, Ermac and the aforementioned returning characters from the past installment, the game managed to brought back several of the characters from past games, such as
Tanya, Jade, Mileena, Kabal, Nightwolf and
Sindel, while adding several new faces such as
Kobra, Kira, Ashrah, Hotaru, Havik, Dairou and Darrius. There's also a sub-boss team called
Noob-Smoke, comprised of, you guessed,
Noob Saibot and his minion
Smoke revived and reprogrammed in order to serve his new master, and two
GameCube exclusive characters also returning:
Goro and
Shao Kahn, included due to the lack of online play in said version.
Deception follows the 3D path the MK series has taken with
Mortal Kombat 4 and
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance. It also brought back the Stage Fatalities, which were absent in the previous installment,
now doable even during the match, and increased the mayhem by adding several stages more than two traps, a
Combo Breaker system, and a
hara-kiri move, which the character can use to avoid the Fatality. And, as you've seen above, it's the first
Mortal Kombat game which assumes that
The Bad Guy Wins. (Ok, it's the
Big Bad Duumvirate from the previous game, but still.) Oh, and it's the first
Mortal Kombat game to feature online play, in the Xbox and Playstation2 versions.
There's also a
Playstation Portable version called
Mortal Kombat: Unchained, which included all of the aforementioned playable characters of above (including Goro and Shao Kahn) and added the Deadly Alliance versions of
Jax, Frost, Kitana and
Blaze, plus an Endurance mode.
Followed by
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
The game has examples of:
- Farts on Fire: Uggh. Who knew Bo Rai Cho had the stinkiest Fatality in Mortal Kombat History.
- Hotter and Sexier: What Deadly Alliance started, this game cranked it up a few notches. With the notable exception of Ashrah, just about every playable female has at least one Stripperiffic outfit.
- Irony: The original Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat had the classic "Spine Rip" Fatality, which involved ripping the opponent's head off with the spine still intact. Scorpion, who originally sought revenge against the original Sub-Zero over the death of his clan and family, adapts the classic Spine Rip Fatality as his own.
- Pull this on ether Sub-Zero(The current one) or Noob-Saibot( The Original Sub-Zero) to really see a Death by Irony
- Kill 'Em All: A great amount of the kombatants, including nearly all of the original cast, especially the Earthrealm characters (Johnny Cage, Sonya, Kitana, Jax and Kung Lao), are killed off at the beginning of the game.
- Meaningful Name: The second name of the game, "Deception". It's about Onaga tricking Shujinko, who played a big part of the deal in reviving the former.
- La Résistance: Mostly notably Darrius.
- Mini-Game: "Chess Kombat" and "Puzzle Kombat".
- Nostalgia Level: Many of the arenas.
- Offhand Backhand: One of the loading screens shows Kenshi doing this to Kira via telekinesis... into a wall.
- Oh Crap: The opening movie comes with one for the player, as the first shot is of the stairs leading to Shang Tsung & Quan Chi's base from the previous game littered with the corpses of Johnny Cage, Kitana, Sonya, Jax and Kung Lao, and one in-universe when Onaga turns up.
- Precision F-Strike: If you knock Ermac off of the Sky Temple, you hear something you wouldn't expect from someone with his disposition.
"
RAAAAAAAAAAAGH,
SUUUCK IIIIIT!!! and it's very easy to confuse the S for an F."
- Shout Out: Check the page.
- Shows Damage
- Spinning out of Here: Jade has a move called Vanishing Winds where she spins around a cloud of green smoke and reappears behind her opponent.
- Terrible Trio: Kabal, Kira, and Kobra.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Havik seems to think so about being knocked off of the Sky Temple.
- Those Two Bad Guys: Noob-Smoke.
- Unwinnable by Design: Several of Konquest mode's questlines have no ending.
- Also in the starter town, you can accept a quest to deliver a pot to another NPC somewhere else in town. If you leave the town before completing the quest, you'll figure out that you technically can't get back into the town.
- What an Idiot: Raiden's thoughts about Shujinko's quest, in a nutshell. invoked
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