


Adaptational Jerkass: While he's no saint, Kano never did the crimes he committed in Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind, which included terrorizing small towns and deliberating unleashing a hodre of revenants so he could Take Over the World.Adaptational Badass: His counterpart in Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind is actually capable of killing a fully-powered Shang Tsung.In Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind, he was no problem staying the top dog and even uses Kronika's power to try to keep his position. Adaptation Personality Change: In his arcade ending in 11, Kano quickly gave up Kronika's powers due to a feeling of " Victory Is Boring" and " Wanting Is Better Than Having", and so reset the timeline so there's at least a chance of failure.Abusive Parents: His ending in MKX shows him torturing and beating the crap out of his son as part of the Black Dragon initiation.Abhorrent Admirer: Not a single female kombatant is charmed by him, and his lecherous comments often mutate into a more murderous statement afterwards.The two battle and Sonya nearly kills him until Johnny talks her down and instead he is arrested and leads the Earthrealm Special Forces to the whereabouts of Mileena's rebel encampment and Shinnok's amulet.ĭespite his arrest by Sonya, another Kano is later recruited by Kronika as part of her Evil Plan in Mortal Kombat 11, while the present-day one is freed by her as well. Afterwards, he escapes to Earthrealm and winds up in an Outworld refugee camp where is discovered by Sonya. Mileena pays Kano to assassinate Kotal Kahn but ends up losing to him in a duel. However one must never trust Kano too much as he also sells Mileena and her rebel armies his expertise as well, allowing him to supply both sides of the same conflict and reap the benefits all over.

When Kotal Kahn overthrows Mileena as emperor of Outworld, he immediately offers to give Kotal Kahn consultation and weapon supply services to secure a place in the new regime.

During the lead-up to Mortal Kombat X, Kano has been keeping on the down-low in Earthrealm following Shao Kahn's invasion and subsequent defeat but supplying various Outworld conflicts with weapons to keep himself in business. Pretty much, he's a race-betraying prick (although he gets his comeuppance late in the game by being frozen by Cyber Sub-Zero). Kano is pretty much the same as in the previous games in Mortal Kombat 9, but is a more willing soldier to Outworld than before, even going so far as to sell the forces of Outworld Earthrealm weapons to help in Shao Kahn's invasion of Earth. Before escaping their facilities, Kano explains to Taven that the Red Dragon Clan had been experimenting on him, in an effort to create Human-Dragon Hybrids, yet without apparent effects on Kano. In Armageddon's Konquest mode, Kano is found by Taven to have been held prisoner by the Red Dragon Clan for quite some time. During the events of Deadly Alliance Kano declared his allegiance to the Sorcerers however, he was attacked and apparently captured by Red Dragon member Mavado. Shao Kahn's act of promoting Kano, however, proved to be a lucky shot, as Kano was a very competent general. Kano managed to save his own life by convincing Shao Kahn to accept him as a weapons instructor for his armies, and later, during the events of Mortal Kombat 3, Sonya tossed Kano to his surmised death from the roof of a high building, only for Kano to be healed back to life by Motaro.Įventually, Kahn's forces were defeated. They were found and captured by Shang Tsung. During the battle, the island began to crumble because of Shang Tsung's defeat, and before they knew it, Kano and Sonya found themselves in a forest in Outworld. He entered Shang Tsung's Mortal Kombat tournament after hearing rumors that Tsung's palace was filled with gold and other riches after the final battle between Shang Tsung and Liu Kang, Kano teamed up with Sonya and Johnny Cage to fight Goro. A portion of Kano's face is covered with a metal plate as a result of wounds he sustained at the hands of Major Jackson Briggs prior to the events of the series, with the plated eye being a glowing red orb capable of emitting laser-like beams. Kano is the leader of the Black Dragon organization, a criminal empire of cut-throat madmen.
