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Revision as of 23:57, 8 February 2005 by 69.113.217.247 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Shao Kahn was a boss from Midway's Mortal Kombat video game series.
According to the Mortal Kombat storyline, Shao Kahn originally served as an advisor to Onaga when he ruled Outworld as the Dragon King. Allegedly, Kahn poisoned Onaga.
Leading whatever troops that did not commit suicide following Onaga's death, Kahn conquered the realm of Edenia, killed King Jerrod, and took Queen Sindel as his wife, raising her daughter, Kitana, as his own and had her trained as his bodyguard and personal assassin. Sindel took her own life shortly after the defeat because she was unwilling to live her life subservient to Shao Kahn.
Shao Kahn used Mortal Kombat to annex other realms into Outworld; his sorcerer, Shang Tsung, supervised Mortal Kombat in Earthrealm for five hundred years and unbalanced the furies to allow Outworld to subsume Earthrealm into its dimensional fabric. Unfortunately, a Shaolin monk, Liu Kang, defeated Mortal Kombat's champion, the Shokan prince Goro, and Shang Tsung, destroying five hundred years' work.
Shao Kahn ordered his wasteland mutants to destroy the Shaolin temple that Liu Kang called home and slaughter the monks, and then turned his attention to punishing Shang Tsung. As the sorcerer begged for his life, he told Kahn that if they organized Mortal Kombat in Outworld and invited Lord Rayden, he would have to accept or forfeit, unbalancing the furies and allowing Outworld to invade. Kahn accepted the idea, and restored Tsung's youth.
Kahn, flanked by the captured Earthrealm warriors Kano and Sonya Blade, watched from his throne as Earthrealm's warriors defeated his own; Rayden vapourized Kintaro, a Shokan on par with Goro, and Liu Kang reached the final match with Kahn himself.
Despite Kahn's vast power, Liu Kang's determination saw him through, and he defeated the despot. Unwilling to accept defeat, Kahn called his armies to destroy the Earthrealm warriors. They fled back to Earthrealm, out of Kahn's clutches, and he turned his attention back to Shang Tsung.
The slimy sorcerer gave him some more good news: he could resurrect Queen Sindel, in Earthrealm, and Kahn could reach across the border to claim her, which would merge Earthrealm and Outworld in the process. Kahn told him to do it, and when he reached across, the realms merged, and the souls of every living being in Earthrealm were ripped from their bodies.
Lord Rayden protected the souls of a handful of warriors, but Kahn sent extermination squads to kill them. Kahn was confronted by Kung Lao, a Shaolin monk and descendant of the warrior Goro defeated to become champion of Kombat, but Kahn crushed him. Rayden brought Liu Kang to fight him again, and the two of them wore Kahn down enough for him to recall his squads and retreat to Outworld, which stopped the merger and restored Earthrealm to its status before the merger took place.
Kahn decided to keep a low profile back in Outworld and allowed his enemies to believe he was dead. Time passed, and Kitana and Goro succeeded in restoring Edenia from Outworld. Shang Tsung returned to Kahn's court with the sorcerer Quan Chi, and they announced their undying loyalty to the master of Outworld. As they did so, they sprung on him, overwhelmed him and killed him. His skull-faced crown fell from his head and bounced to the ground.
However, it was not the real Shao Kahn that had died. In actuality, he created a clone of himself, so he could escape to regain power elsewhere.
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