Mortal Kombat 1 (2023 Video Game)

Steve Blum: Baraka, Markon

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• Baraka : While the regime had changed, little else had. My people still suffered in silence, ignored by the rest of Outworld. Though now I knew Empress Mileena's secret: that she was also afflicted with Tarkat. If anyone would help, it would be her. But how to get an audience? Syzoth. He was the Empress's new emissary to the Zaterrans. I asked him to introduce us. At great personal risk, he agreed. And as I'd prayed, the Empress was willing to meet. Even better, she would visit the colony. She was shocked to see how we lived. She moved quickly to provide for our care and comfort. Thanks to the Empress and Syzoth, we Tarkatans are no longer pariahs. Until our disease can be cured, that will do.

• Sub-Zero : Your kind should be exterminated.

  Baraka : Disease does not make us disposable.

• Baraka : Your help freed my people. I must repay you.

  Reptile : Start by going easy on me.

• Li Mei : You weren't part of Syzoth's Shiva Ranatai escape.

  Baraka : I would've been a fool to step foot in Sun Do.

• Sub-Zero : Your affliction is divine punishment.

  Baraka : Actually, it is fate's cruel joke.

• Sindel : I won't let Tarkat spread unabated.

  Baraka : Herding us into ghettos isn't the answer.

• Baraka : You're late, Earthrealmer.

  Johnny Cage : Well, pardon me, Time Cop!

• Baraka : Give me one good reason to spare your life.

  Shang Tsung : I won't insult you by pretending there are any.

• Baraka : I can smell the blood on your hands.

  Havik : What you smell is liberation.

• Baraka : As a soldier, I swore the same oath you did.

  General Shao : But clearly only I remember what it means.

• Baraka : This is the last time we cross paths, sorcerer.

  Shang Tsung : I shall inform your next of kin.

• General Shao : You sabotaged my plans, Tarkatan.

  Baraka : Don't think for a moment that I'm sorry.

• General Shao : You served in the Daybreak Legion?

  Baraka : First to rise, first to fight, last to die.

• General Shao : Your affliction cannot harm me.

  Baraka : You're a fool to think yourself immune.

• General Shao : You may have been a soldier, but now you're a beast.

  Baraka : And I've never been more dangerous, General.

• Raiden : After infection, when do symptoms first appear?

  Baraka : Twenty-eight days later.

• Omni-Man : You've got a face only a Ragnarr could love.

  Baraka : And you have a face I'll enjoy flaying.

• Omni-Man : Viltrumite medicine could cure your disease.

  Baraka : What strings are attached to that offer?

• Sindel : You will be silent about Mileena.

  Baraka : About her disease? Or her affair?

• Johnny Cage : So far, I have no signs of Tarkat.

  Baraka : Perhaps Earthrealmers are immune...

• Johnny Cage : One of these days, Kitana will totally fall for me!

  Baraka : BAHAHAHAHA!

• Johnny Cage : Ugh! You should see the Tarkatan cosplay at CageCon.

  [blows a kiss] 

  Johnny Cage : Chef's kisses!

  Baraka : Followers mock my affliction?

• Baraka : [Baraka 1]  You're not diseased?

  Baraka : [Baraka 2]  Diseased? I was born this way!

• Baraka : You're late, Earthrealmer.

  Johnny Cage : Not my fault. My train to Busan got delayed.

• Baraka : If the Empress fails me, there will be blood.

  Kitana : You must be patient, Baraka.

• Baraka : If you need an executioner...

  Kitana : Shang Tsung will die by the Crown's hands.

• Baraka : There are still those who deny Tarkat exists.

  Kitana : Some minds can never be opened, Baraka.

• Baraka : The Empress wants to honor me?

  Kitana : Much overdue recognition for your service as tribune.

• Kitana : When you became ill, your assets were taken?

  Baraka : As required by your mother's edict, Princess.

• Kitana : I see you, and I worry about my sister.

  Baraka : You're right to be concerned.

• Kitana : The changes you seek must be made slowly.

  Baraka : My patience wears thin, Princess.

• Kitana : Shang Tsung has retreated to an island.

  Baraka : Give me three days. I will raise an armada.

• [Custom AI Intros] 

  Baraka : Beware of an Earthrealmer named Erron Black.

  Reptile : I know of him. He has hunted Zaterrans before.

• Sindel : Why do you call me a hypocrite?

  Baraka : Because I know of your daughter's affliction.

• Sindel : Your Tarkatans are given enough to survive.

  Baraka : Only by the skin of our teeth.

• Shang Tsung : I killed Syzoth's family. I can kill yours.

  Baraka : Tarkat has already finished them, sorcerer.

• Shang Tsung : If I made your disease a weapon...

  Baraka : You'd condemn all of Outworld to misery!

• Shang Tsung : I do not appreciate my laboratory's destruction.

  Baraka : I, on the other hand, revel in it.

• Shang Tsung : The hybrids I created from you...

  Baraka : Have been consigned to the Ten Hells!

• Shang Tsung : Shall I end your misery?

  Baraka : By dying? Be my guest.

• Shang Tsung : Why waste what little time you have left with me?

  Baraka : Because killing you will bring me joy in the afterlife.

• [Kriss reacting] 

  Ashrah : Quan Chi is close. The emanations of his evil grow stronger.

  Baraka : That is a powerful weapon.

  Ashrah : And my perfect ally. As I smite the evil it finds, I am further purified.

  Johnny Cage : Now I've down steps, so I'm all for self-help. But since when does a demoness want to be less evil?

  Ashrah : I had spent eternity damned to the Netherrealm. I had assumed that's all there was to existence. But when I saw Earthrealm, saw Outworld. Saw there was a better way to live. And that to have it, I needed to cleanse my soul. My sister demons were furious at my change of heart. Kia and Jataaka were the first to hunt me.

  Reptile : Quan Chi is also a demon?

  Ashrah : Actually, he's an Outworlder. But he mastered the dark magic needed for unfettered travel to my realm.

  [insect buzzing. Reptile's tongue snaps. Crunching sounds] 

  Johnny Cage : Any idea how he buddled up with Shang Tsung?

  Ashrah : They share a common benefactor. She plucked them both from obscurity, taught them everything they know. I've never met her, but there's no question that she is a sorcererss beyond compare.

  [Kriss reacting] 

  Ashrah : Quan Chi is near.

  Quan Chi : I am ready for your contributions. Execellent, Nitara. I need yours as well.

  Havik : Darrius and I have been thinking, sorcerer...

  Quan Chi : Do not try to renegotiate, Havik.

  Havik : We need proof that you'll deliver.

  Sareena : That he's delivered for Nitara's Vaeternians is all the proof you need.

  Nitara : Sareena's right. But of Quan Chi's magic, my realm's people are no longer poisoned by sunlight. We have finally escaped the shadows.

  Quan Chi : Rest assured. The spells you will receive will bring down Orderrealm's government.

  Havik : When will we have them, Quan Chi?

  Quan Chi : After the attack on Earthrealm... which could be called off if the soul stealer's efficacy isn't demonstrated promptly.

  [Quan Chi chanting in the distance] 

  Johnny Cage : Well this plot just got thicker.

  Ashrah : Earthrealm is in grave danger. Just one soul stealer can kill hundreds of thousands. If he unleashes a battery of them...

  Baraka : Millions will die.

  Kung Lao : He must be stopped.

  Ashrah : I will deal with Quan Chi. The four of you subdue the others.

  Johnny Cage : Whoa there, big fella. This stop's where you get off.

  Kenshi : You heard her! Millions could die.

• Peacemaker : Now that's a face only a mother could love.

  Baraka : [snarls]  Are you trying to get yourself killed?

• Peacemaker : What the hell's your story? Yikes.

  Baraka : No one's told you about Tarkatans?

• [Custom AI Dialogues from Chhai Tea] 

  Baraka : Why do you have a Hard time controlling yourself around Ashrah?

  Reptile : Can you blame me? She is so beautiful.

  [CLASH] 

  Darrius : You sure got over your dead wife and son quick.

  Reptile : Fuck you!

  Kung Lao : Wow, that's seriously messed up.

  Baraka : Don't be so neck-gative.

  Kung Lao : What the fuck.

• [Custom AI Intro Dialogues from Chhai Tea] 

  Liu Kang : May the Elder Gods help you find a cure for you and your people.

  Baraka : How about you do it? You are the Elder God!

  [CLASH] 

  Sektor : Data indicates that Titans are more powerful than Elders God.

  Baraka : Cure me, titan bitch!

  Kung Lao : Did I hear that correctly?

  Liu Kang : I'm a titan, not a miracle worker.

• Baraka : Jerrod's and Sindel's souls are both inside you?

  Ermac : Though neither of them rule us, Baraka.