The bladed fans are a pretty neat gimmick, but they’re not enough. Kitana needs to step up her game if she thinks she’s gonna be cool. What has Kitana ever done that’s cool? She’s only ever second fiddle to Liu Kang or subservient to Shao Kahn. She’s fine, as a major figure in the lore and a princess, but she’s not the coolest. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah Kitana isn’t first on the list. Oh, she’s also got a bo staff, which definitely adds a couple of cool points! For some reason, Jade is really popular in the cosplaying community, despite her low key importance to the overall lore. She only ever usually gets to be Kitana’s handmaiden. Sometimes she’s good, sometimes she’s vaguely evil. The green woman ninja has only ever been a supporting character with not much story of her own. Oh Jade, always a bridesmaid and never the bride. But she remains a hidden, rarely used figure, and that takes her to the bottom of the ladies list! Apparently she’s one of Reptile’s race, which is neat. Then she went and got her own character design and back story. Have you ever even heard of Khameleon? She’s real and she’s weird! She started out as a hidden character who would randomly transform into the other lady ninjas. The guy put in the effort, worked hard, often got ignored, but he remains top robot! If only his color scheme was a bit more distinct from the black accent coloring. While Sektor and Cyrax were just evil robots, Smoke was constantly fighting to reclaim his human soul, doing what he could to recapture his life. Best friends with Sub-Zero, Smoke was a noble hero forced into a being a robot against his will. Smoke makes the entire Lin Kuei storyline work, and is easily the coolest of the cyborgs. He’d get reprogrammed a bunch of times, bouncing back and forth, but would largely fight for the side of right! This earned him a spot in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance over Sektor, so good for him! Plus, he was a black guy fighting with an Asian martial arts society. Both in the original timeline and I think in the new timeline, Cyrax would sometimes fight for the good guys. The yellow cyborg got a little better shake then his red counterpart. He was evil and red and never accomplished anything with his life. Of the three cyborgs, he’s the one that has never bothered to rediscover his human self and just spends his time being an evil robot. Sektor is the red-headed step-child of the Lin Kuei cyborgs. This list is purely based on character coolness and my own flawed and heavily biased opinion. It should be noted that I’m not ranking these characters based on their movesets or their worth as combatants. It worked so well the first time that Mortal Kombat copied themselves twice more, with women and cyborgs! So let’s rank those too! Join me after the jump for the definitive ranking! And if I messed up somewhere, please share your own thoughts in the comments!įirst things first, there’s more than just the traditional male palette-swapped ninjas. As such, we’re going to have some fun ranking and discussing all of those kolorful kooks! And I especially love every single palette-swapped ninja, no matter the crazy weird back story. For reasons I can barely explain, I am deeply invested in the Mortal Kombat lore. Mortal Kombat 11 comes out this week and features a couple of these characters. You know’em, you love’em, so let’s take a look at’em! And it’s a great lead into today’s topic: definitively ranking the palette-swapped Ninjas from Mortal Kombat. I’ve been sitting on that one for awhile, so don’t steal it. I’m going to say this right now to get it out of the way and establish it in stone for posterity: If I ever start a band, the band name is going to be “Palette-Swapped Ninjas”.
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