Baraka (Mortal Kombat)
Baraka is a male demonic video game character who features in Mortal Kombat.
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Biography
Original Timeline
Barak was a male member of the nomadic mutant Tarkata race who served as savage warriors in Outworld that lived in the wastelands. He had a notable skill in combat that led to him being recruited into the army of the Emperor Shao Kahn. The Emperor came to dispatch Baraka along with his horde to cross over into Earthrealm to attack the Shaolin temple after the first Mortal Kombat Tournament. This attack resulted in luring Liu Kang going into Outworld in order to get revenge with this being part of the Emperor's plan. When Kahn was defeated, Baraka disappeared into the wastelands of Outworld where he successfully ought an uprising of a renegade race from the realm's lower regions. This resulted in him being recruited once more and took part in the invasion of Earthrealm. When Shao Kahn was defeated again, Baraka set forth on his own where he operated as a drifter for sometime.
Afterwards, he was sent to quell an uprising from a renegade race within the lower regions of Outworld. Following a victorious battle, he and his nomadic warriors returned to the service of Shao Kahn where he was sent to fight the formidable forces of Earthrealm.
Once again, Baraka returned to his nomadic lifestyle where he spent much of his time wandering the realm. One of these journeys led to him going to Edenia where he was offered a chance to rule the realm at the side of Quan Chi. The Tarkata was quick to accept and return to the battlefield under a cause though had his own goals separate from the Netherrealm sorcerer.
Reboot Timeline
During the Armageddon, Shao Kahn ultimately won where all of creation faced destruction but during the last moments of Raiden he managed to his past experiences back to his younger self. This created a change in the timeline as the younger Raiden was guided by the scattered visions of the future where he sought to avert this dark future.
In this time, Kronika the fabled Keeper of Time decided to bring balance to the realms by changing the timestream to create a new universe that she called the New Era. Her machinations caused changes in the timeline that brought people from the past into the present. Among those brought into the present was Baraka who remained loyal to the emperor Shao Kahn who had similarly been brought into this point in history. They came to learnt that Kahn had been killed in a failed bid to claim Earthrealm and that Outworld had fallen to the rule of Kotal Kahn. Baraka came to learn that his people had been exterminated under the new Kahn's rule but that the changes in the timestream had brought them back to life and this made him dedicated to Shao Kahn. The Titan Kronika had offered Baraka and the Tarkata a place in the New Era if they aided her with the Tarkatan warrior agreeing to the deal.
Overview
Personality and attributes
It was said that he did not like ghosts.
He did acknowledge the strength of another where he agreed to hear out Kitana after she defeated him in kombat.
Powers and abilities
As a Tarkata, he was a member of a savage race of nomadic warriors that were bred from denizens of Outworld with demons of the Netherrealm.
Notes
- Baraka was created by John Tobias where he made his first appearance in Mortal Kombat II (1993).
In other media
Television
Films
Appearances
- Mortal Kombat II:
- Mortal Kombat 11:
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