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Characters / Mortal Kombat – Hanzo Hasashi

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Mortal Kombat Main Character Index
Original and Reboot Timeline: MK (1992) | MK2 | MK3 | MK4 | Deadly Alliance | Deception | Armageddon | MK vs. DC Universe | MK9 | MKX | MK11
The New Era: MK1
Spin-offs: Mythologies: Sub-Zero | Special Forces
Non-video game: The Movie | Conquest | Defenders of the Realm | 2021 Movie
Individual Characters: Scorpion I (Hanzo Hasashi) | Sub-Zero I/Noob Saibot (Bi-Han) | Johnny Cage | Liu Kang | Raiden | Shang Tsung | Sub-Zero II/Scorpion II (Kuai Liang) | Kitana | Mileena | Shao Kahn/General Shao | Quan Chi

Spoilers for Mythologies will be unmarked

Scorpion (Hanzo Hasashi)

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"GET OVER HERE!!!"
Debut game: Mortal Kombat (1992) (Daniel Pesina/Ed Boon)
Other appearances: Mortal Kombat II (Daniel Pesina/Ed Boon), Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (John Turk/Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero (Sal Divita), Mortal Kombat 4 (Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat: Deception (Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (Patrick Seitz/Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat 9 (Patrick Seitz/Ed Boon), Injustice: Gods Among Us (Patrick Seitz/Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat X (Patrick Seitz/Ed Boon, English; Octavio Rojas, Latin American Spanish), Mortal Kombat 11 (Ron Yuan/Ed Boon, English; Nico Millado, Face Model; Octavio Rojas, Latin American Spanish), Mortal Kombat 1 (Daisuke Tsuji/Ed Boon, Mirror Match only; Ron Yuan/Ed Boon, Kameo)
Non-game appearances: Mortal Kombat: The Movie (Chris Casamassa/Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (J.J. Perry/Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat: Conquest (Chris Casamassa/Ed Boon), Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (Ron Perlman), Mortal Kombat: Rebirth/Mortal Kombat: Legacy (Ian Anthony Dale/Ed Boon), Ready Player One (cameo), Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (Patrick Seitz), Mortal Kombat (2021) (Hiroyuki Sanada), Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (Patrick Seitz), Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind (Patrick Seitz)

Originally known as Hanzo Hasashi, he is the son of a former clansman who chose to live as an assassin, yet he is very devoted to his family and generally goes on and about the game, serving his own purposes and none other. One of the most recognizable characters of the game, he starts off as your typical Antihero, looking for revenge on Sub-Zero for having killed him. In the first issues of the game, Scorpion is shown to fail and be sent to Netherealm. He has a Heel–Face Revolving Door relationship with the second Sub-Zero, his former nemesis' younger brother. In 4, he ends up entangled in the machinations of Quan-Chi, who turns him against the younger Sub-Zero again. From Deadly Alliance onwards, he strikes a deal with the elder gods to destroy Onaga in exchange for his clan's revival.

In Mortal Kombat 9, Scorpion pretty much keeps the same role as the previous games, with the notable difference of being more willing to be Quan Chi's soldier, as Quan Chi's treachery has so far not been detected by him.... until the timeskip in Mortal Kombat X, where, with the aid of Kenshi, he severs his ties to "the darkness" and is leading an effort to rescue and train orphans stranded by the Netherealm War, forming a new Shirai Ryu in the process. He eventually finds out through Kuai-Liang that Quan Chi was the true murderer of his family, not Bi-Han, as he previously thought. With this in mind, he killed Quan Chi before partnering himself with Kuai-Liang and remained that way as of Mortal Kombat 11. His past Revenant self is pulled into the present by Kronika, who promises to rebuild the Shirai Ryu. The present timeline's Hanzo ends up assassinated by D'vorah, but not before successfully convincing his past self to join the forces of light against Kronika and lead the reformed Shirai Ryu in his stead. His last acts however end up being for naught, as both he and the past Hanzo are erased from existence following the Time Crash that Kronika causes.

In Mortal Kombat 1, the New Era incarnation of Hanzo Hasashi was an orphan boy until being taken under the wing of Tomas Vrbada and Kuai Liang as one of their first initiates of the newly christened Shirai Ryu.
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    In general 
Tropes that appear across all of Hanzo Hasashi's appearances.
  • '90s Anti-Hero: He fits the general criteria well. He was created in the '90s, and is a mostly neutral anti-hero character, who has a cynical view of the world. He also has a code name that is very fitting of the stereotype and has a backstory that plays out much like a Super Hero Origin story. He looks like a cross between eventual MK guest star Spawn and Marvel's Ghost Rider (who was one of his inspirations).
  • Action Dad: Father to Satoshi, father-figure to Takeda Takahashi, and one of the most dangerous assassins in Mortal Kombat.
  • Aesop Amnesia: Poor Hanzo doesn't ever seem to learn that his Roaring Rampage of Revenge will always make things worse, both for him and for the heroes.
  • Alliterative Family: With his wife Harumi.
  • Alliterative Name: Hanzo Hasashi.
  • Animal Motifs: Scorpions, duh.
    • The raised arm from his fighting pose in the first four games and the hilt of his swords (starting in Deception) evoke a scorpion's stinger, while the pauldrons on his shoulder for both costumes in 9 are also modelled after a scorpion.
    • As a kind of apology for his Animality in 3 not being a scorpion, the MK team gave him a giant scorpion form as one of his Fatalities in 4/Gold.
    • In MK vs. DC and MK9, it's also in the mask.
    • His appearance in Injustice outright makes the motif the most prominent part of him, with his scorpion leg sword hilts to even his infamous spear in the shape of a stinger.
    • The symbol for the reformed Shirai Ryu is a scorpion, with Scorpion's spearheads in place of the pincers.
    • In Scorpion's Revenge, he shows his son a scorpion escaping peril. He notes while it is certainly strong and fast, its will is its true strength. He remembers this after learning Quan-Chi was his family's true killer, allowing him to shrug off fatal wounds in order to exact justice.
  • Anti-Villain: Of the Noble Type. The best example in the entire series. Most characters in the series are either fully good or fully bad, but Scorpion is completely neutral, participating in the games' events for his own purposes. While he has exhibited a little bit of a conscience and his actions (unintentionally) help the good guys, when all's said and done, he's in it for himself and no one else.
  • Arch-Enemy: In both timelines:
    • The elder Sub-Zero (Bi-Han), for killing his family. In X, Hanzo realizes that he was sorely mistaken for murdering Bi-Han in anger due to the actions of the below party.
    • Quan Chi, for manipulating Scorps into killing Bi-Han when Quan was the real person responsible for his family's death.
  • The Artifact: In the first and second games, Scorpion wore a Lin Kuei uniform that was colored yellow to symbolize the cowardly nature of the Lin Kuei. In the third installment, Scorpion continues to wear a yellow uniform, despite learning in the previous game that Kuai Liang wasn't his clan's killer, and he still wears yellow from Deadly Alliance to Armageddon, knowing full that neither of the Sub-Zero brothers is responsible for his clan's death. In X, Hanzo wears a yellow uniform to a parley with Kuai Liang, and doesn't change the color of his clan's uniforms after making peace with the Lin Kuei. Logically, the only canon games where Scorpion should have worn a yellow uniform are 1, 2, 4, 9, X (before the Time Skip), and 11 (as Past!Scorpion before joining Kuai Liang's side).
  • Author Avatar: In a sense, he could be considered to be one for series' co-creator Ed Boon, who has gone on record several times noting that Scorpion is his favorite character and provides the voicework for Scorpion's "GET OVER HERE!"/"COME HERE!".
  • Back from the Dead: After being killed by Bi-Han in Mythologies, Scorpion is back as a wraith at the start of both timelines.
  • Bash Brothers: He becomes this with Kuai Liang after they've made peace with one another in both timelines.
  • Berserk Button: Bringing up his family and clan's death in all games.
  • Blade on a Rope: Scorpion's signature weapon is his "Spear", a kunai attached to either a rope or chain which he uses to drag the opponent towards him. The rebooted timeline swaps the rope for a long chain, and he can enhance his Spear with Hellfire for more damage.
  • Brainwashed: After Quan Chi resurrects Hanzo, the sorcerer lied to the Shirai Ryu that Bi-Han wasn't only his killer, but also his family and clan's murderer, and promises the spectre to kill others in vengeance for his clan's death. Scorpion accepts. What keeps Scorpion from slipping into "crazy" territory is that the man kept his sense of morality and honor.
  • Breakout Character: He was just another participant in the tournaments in the first two games to the point that he made no appearance in 3, but his popularity saw him get added back into the Ultimate update of 3 after initially being excluded in the base game. He would soon start to gain a larger story presence and become a sort of mascot to the series to the point that he's in the NetherRealm Studios logo and even featured as a guest fighter in their Injustice series. Plus, he got his own animated movie.
  • Breath Weapon: His signature Fatality involves him taking off his mask and shooting fire from his mouth. He gains it as a standard move in 11 that can perform a Brutality alluding to its original purpose.
    Dan Forden: "TOASTY!"
  • The Cameo:
  • Catchphrase:
  • Code Name: Before becoming the hellspawn known as Scorpion, Hanzo was given the title of "Sasori" by the Shirai Ryu's Grandmaster. Sasori is the Japanese word for "Scorpion."
  • Cool Mask: Scorpion's basic ninja mask would wind up turning into one of these as an armored guard once the games went 3D.
  • Creator Cameo: See all the Ed Boon co-acting credits up there? That's because the man's the one responsible for those two famous phrases. No matter who voices/plays Scorpion, Boon will always be the one to shout "GET OVER HERE!" and "COME HERE!". There have been two exceptions so far: the first was in Defenders of the Realm, where the iconic line was delivered by his VA, Ron Perlman (who was also a regular as Stryker). The second was in the 2021 film, where the line was delivered by his regular actor, Hiroyuki Sanada.
  • Evil Parents Want Good Kids: He's not really an evil man, but he is an assassin which is a very amoral line of work. Despite this, he wanted his son Satoshi to live a normal life and not be a killer like him.
  • Evil Sounds Raspy: Whenever Ed Boon does his "GET OVER HERE" and "COME HERE" shouts, he does so in a very low voice. A case of Vocal Evolution since Boon's voice wasn't so deep in the original game, becoming so in following installments. Other than that, his various voice actors tend to fall into Baritone of Strength rather than this trope.
  • Famous-Named Foreigner: They went right with "Hanzo" for a first name, but his surname, Hasashi, is not even a word.note 
  • Fatal Flaw: His obsession with revenge crosses from Revenge Before Reason to Revenge Before Intelligence. Throughout the franchise he makes hasty decisions, is easily manipulated, or allies himself with villains, in the name of taking revenge for his family and clan and restoring the latter, and more than once it's had dire consequences.
  • Flaming Sword: He uses his pyrokinesis to ignite his swords (and other weapons) in combat.
  • Good Parents: It's heavily implied that he was this to his biological son, Satoshi, prior to his death. For instance, he didn't want to push his son into the life of an assassin, instead wanting him to become a normal person and lead a peaceful life.
  • Guest Fighter:
  • Highly-Visible Ninja: Scorpion's bright yellow garb isn't exactly stealthy, which is ironic, considering that out of all the "ninjas" in the series, Scorpion is the only one who was once an actual Japanese ninja. The original manual tried to justify it by saying that he modelled his uniform after the Lin Kuei's and chose the yellow color as a Take That! to the clan, calling them cowards. In Japan, the color yellow symbolizes courage, which makes it better since Scorpion is Japanese while the Lin Kuei are Chinese. However, later games show that yellow was always a signature color for the Shirai Ryu.
  • Iconic Item: His signature Spear, a rope with a tipped Kunai at the end. His spear in Injustice is in the shape of a scorpion stinger.
  • Immune to Fire: He's immune to fire (at least in cutscenes), due to being a Hellfire Revenant.
  • Kill It with Fire: Again, his Fatality, where he burns the enemy to the bone. More recent games have also shown him using fire liberally throughout his moves.
  • Large Ham: Prone to shouting.
    • Besides "GET OVER HERE!"/"COME HERE!", Annihilation makes him yell "SUCKERS!" as he makes a getaway with Kitana in tow.
    • In the first movie, during his fight with Johnny Cage: "Welcome!" and "GET DOWN HERE!"
  • Latex Perfection: In his most recurring finishing move (fatality), Scorpion takes out his human mask to reveal a flaming skull underneath it. In normal gameplay, he does wear a yellow ninja mask with a black hood over on his head, and a somewhat human skintone is visible.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • While most likely named after Hattori Hanzō, his first name, Hanzo, is written with the characters "半蔵". The former means "half", and the latter means "to hide". His last name is written with this character "橋" meaning "bridge".note  Very fitting for a ninja that specializes in assassinations who has a tendency to wear bright yellow and can teleport.
    • As for the codename of "Scorpion", look at his stance in the sprite trilogy. The way he holds his fight looks like a scorpion's stinger.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: As a highlight of his undead condition.
  • My Greatest Failure: In both the Midway and original Netherrealm timelines, his murder of Bi-Han over a crime he did not commit. Not only does he lose the one chance he had of reviving the Shirai Ryu, but he later finds out that the man who revived him and later manipulated him into killing Bi-Han, Quan Chi, was the one who slaughtered the Shirai Ryu. Even worse, Bi-Han would be resurrected as a murderous wraith, rendering Scorpion responsible for all the evil Noob Saibot has committed.
  • Ninja: Of all the MK "ninjas", he's the only one who's actually from Japan. Sub-Zero directly says this to Quan Chi in Mythologies.
  • Offscreen Teleportation: He would later adopt vanishing in a swirl of flame instead.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: To Bi-Han in both timelines. Once he learns the truth of his family's deaths, he transfers this hatred to Quan Chi.
  • Our Zombies Are Different: Scorpion is a classic vengeance-driven revenant. Some material lists him as a Specter.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Quan Chi murdered his son alongside his wife during the Shirai Ryu massacre and shapeshifted as Bi-Han while doing so to frame him for the act.
  • Palette Swap: Of Sub-Zero, originally. The same is true in reverse.
  • Papa Wolf: He had a family as a human, but they were killed. And he believed their deaths caused by the Lin Kuei, hence his grudge against them. He goes back on his vow to protect the younger Sub-Zero after Quan Chi implicates him in the murder of Scorpion's family.
  • Playing with Fire: He started out with his Toasty Fatality, and gained more fire moves throughout the series.
  • The Power of Hate: If this emotion was a metal and Hanzo was a blacksmith, then Scorpion most certainly forged a BFS out of it. Subverted for his actual powers over hellfire though, which is actually the Power of Sorrow.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Serves as the red to Sub-Zero's blue, befitting their respective fire and ice motifs.
  • Reforged into a Minion: The first example in the series. He is resurrected in the Netherrealm to serve Quan Chi and Shinnok, and given his past expertise as a Ninja, he becomes The Dragon to the former.
  • Revenge: Pretty much the only reason he walks among the living as Scorpion. As a corporeal spirit of vengeance and rage, his only mission is to right whatever believes wronged him by any means. Unfortunately, this makes him susceptible to manipulation (as shown when Quan Chi dupes him into killing Sub-Zero, amidst the latter's protests).
  • Screaming Warrior: Scorpion is quite the loud fighter whenever in the middle of kombat.
  • Series Mascot: Netherrealm Studios' logo is him in silhouette, and he is without a doubt the most iconic and recognizable kombatant in the franchise, representing it in many guest appearances and cameos. Helps that he's Ed Boon's favorite character.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: He never pursued another woman despite his wife being dead for over 25 years, so it’s safe to say that he is this trope. Of course, he himself was a vengeance-obsessed spectre for most of that time, so new romance probably wasn't high on his priorities list.
  • Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Several of his outfits have a skeleton motif in them, alluding to his undead nature.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: The Scorpion persona is this, giving him access to hellfire and inhuman strength.
  • Tear Off Your Face: His trademark "Toasty!" Fatality has him doing it to himself.
  • Unfinished Business: He got to return from the Netherrealm as a spectre in order to kill Sub-Zero. He actually comes and goes depending on what's happened.
  • Unstoppable Rage: When Scorpion is on the warpath, run.
  • Unwitting Pawn: He served as one to Quan Chi before he learned the truth of his clan's demise from the younger Sub-Zero.
  • Warrior Undead: Before he was killed and returned as a spectre, Hanzo Hasashi was the greatest warrior and assassin of the Shirai Ryu clan. In addition to his control over Hellfire, he retains the martial arts skills that he had in life.
  • Wild Card: Strides the limit between good and evil. His only consistent motivation is revenge.
  • Wolverine Publicity: If a Mortal Kombat character makes a cameo in other media or franchises, it'll practically ALWAYS be Scorpion. He's been in Injustice: Gods Among Us, Drawn Together, Ready Player One, NBA Jam, and more. He's pretty much the franchise's poster boy. Sub-Zero is too, but to a lesser extent than Scorpion. It's notable that the silhouette of the figure in the logo of Netherrealm Studios (the current developer of the Mortal Kombat series) is none other than Scorpion. Probably enforced, as Ed Boon has said that Scorpion is his favorite character.
  • You Killed My Father: His vendetta against Bi-Han is this, as he murdered his wife and son during the Shirai Ryu massacre. He later finds out that Quan Chi is the actual culprit and he shapeshifted as Bi-Han to frame him of this wrongdoing, which leads Hanzo into redirecting his vengeance towards him instead.
  • You Will Not Evade Me: The reason for bringing his enemies closer with his weapons. Followed by a "Get over here!"

    Midway timeline 
Tropes that appear across all of Hanzo Hasashi's appearances from Mortal Kombat (1992) to Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (including Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe)
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After Bi-Han defeats him during the events of MK: Mythologies, he asks for mercy. The player is then given the (non-canon) option to grant it. It's worth noting that sparing Hanzo gets you out of fighting his spectre form in a later boss battle.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Played literally straight in one of his Fatalities, and then followed by neck snapping in Deception.
  • Big "NEVER!": When Quan Chi forcibly sends him back to the Netherrealm in 4. Scorpion manages to drag the sorcerer with him, eliciting a Big "NO!" from Quan Chi.
  • Dem Bones: As revealed during his signature Fatality, under Scorpion's mask his head is actually a flaming skull.
  • Doppelgänger Attack: In one of his fatalities from UMK3, he drags his opponent into Hell, where several copies of Scorpion maul the enemy. Cue Black Screen of Death.
  • Dual Wielding: Since Deadly Alliance he's always seen coming to a fight with a pair of swords on his back.
  • Exact Words: In Deception, the Elder Gods promised to bring back Scorpion's clan if he agreed to help them by slaying Onaga. Scorpion fulfills his part of the bargain, and the Elder Gods bring back Scorpion's clan... as undead abominations.
  • Graceful Loser: In Shaolin Monks, after Liu Kang or Kung Lao repeatedly him into a bed of lava, all he can do before the hellspawns take him is flash them a thumbs up before he's completely submerged in lava and killed.
  • Grappling-Hook Pistol: His "Kunai-rope" is a variant.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: Started as evil, went good by the end of MK2, went evil at the beginning of MK3 before going good again at the end of it, went evil again at the beginning of MK4 before going good again at the end of it, went neutral by Deception when he was recruited by the Elder Gods to kill Onaga.
  • I Shall Taunt You: His first appearance in MK: Mythologies involves him smugly declaring you will fail before running off cackling like a madman. Needless to say, not many players were willing to let him off the hook after that. Though given what Mythologies was like, it was practically foreshadowing.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: Starting with Deadly Alliance, he finally uses one.
  • Neck Snap: His Hara-Kiri (and the final blow of one of his Fatalities) in Deception.
  • Now, Buy the Merchandise: Parodied. His Friendship in II invites the player to "Buy a Scorpion doll!".
  • Off with His Head!: In Deception, he borrows the original "Spine Rip" fatality from Bi-Han and rips the enemy's head off with the spine still attached.
  • One-Winged Angel: Inferno Scorpion from Shaolin Monks, essentially Scorpion without his mask and damaged skin.
  • Pet the Dog: Aside from his love for his family, he discovered back in II that Sub-Zero was actually the younger brother of Bi-Han—the man he had killed in the last tournament—when he saw Kuai Liang sparing the life of his opponent. He decided to become the Lin Kuei's guardian from there on out of atonement.
  • Power Echoes: MK vs. DC gave his voice an ethereal quality.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: According to Deadly Alliance, Scorpion's true forte is... cooking. He's particularly good at chopping. And cake decorating.
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: In Armageddon, when launched on to the catapult Death Trap, Scorpion's voice raises quite a few octaves higher upon getting launched.
  • Skull for a Head: Only shown in his Fatalities, the movie, in Shaolin Monks, by way of a glitch in 4, his outro in Injustice, and his alternate costume in "Deadly Alliance".
  • Slashed Throat: In 2, Scorpion uses his kunai-rope-thing to slash the opponent's throat as part of a Fatality. Then he follows up by cutting the enemy in half.
  • Spam Attack: In the GBA versions you can "GETOVERHERE" quite easily.
  • Stance System:
    • In Deadly Alliance, he has Hapkido and Pi Gua as unarmed styles, and Ninja Sword as weapon stance.
    • In Deception, he replaces Pi Gua with Moi Fah, and Ninja Sword with Mugai Ryu (which probably is the name of his sword, but still).
    • In Armageddon, he has Hapkido as unarmed style and Mugai Ryu as weapon stance.
  • Stripped to the Bone: In MK vs. DC, Scorpion summons a pool of lava and drags the opponent in it. Moments later, the body is thrown back out of the pit, now reduced to a skeleton.
  • Teleport Spam: His "Teleport Punch" move introduced in 2, which gains a flaming effect in the 3D games.
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: His "Get over here!" line had "Bitch!" put at the end in Shaolin Monks. There was even a "get the fuck over here!" variant.
  • Your Head A-Splode: As a way to finish off his opponents in Deadly Alliance, by means of violently pulling on the rope attached to the kunai that he just lodged in the enemy head.

    Original Netherrealm timeline 
Tropes that appear across all of Hanzo Hasashi's appearances from Mortal Kombat 9 to Mortal Kombat 11.
  • Aesop Amnesia: 11 finally sees him outgrow this mindset and well and truly move on. Hanzo even appeals to his past spectre self to follow suit. This is then subverted in his Arcade ending, where the power of Kronika's hourglass is too tempting for him to pass up.
  • Back-to-Back Badasses: Becomes one with Sub-Zero (Kuai Liang) of all people at the end of Sub-Zero's Arcade Ladder in 9.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: In the X comics, Havik wanted Scorpion to come back. That plan had Gone Horribly Right, as Havik is now forced to endure a Fate Worse than Death at the hands of Moloch and Drahmin.
  • Berserk Button:
    Quan Chi: Scorpion, we can -
    Scorpion: My name is Hanzo Hasashi!
  • Big Damn Heroes: In the X comics, he saves Takeda from being killed by Havik... by ripping off Havik's head.
  • Bilingual Bonus: One of the characters to speak a native tongue other than English. Dialogue against Takeda and Tanya in X has him threaten them in Japanese:
    Scorpion: Itami wa kanjiru darou.Translation
  • Canon Name: Scorpion's rope-and-kunai combo was often called the "Spear" in the move lists of earlier MK games. Scorpion himself refers to it as his kunai in Mortal Kombat X.
  • Chain Pain: Ever since the rebooted timeline, the rope that ties his kunai has been replaced by a chain. Scorpion often weaponizes said chain, such as strangling Raiden with it as seen in the Mortal Kombat X comics.
  • Cool Mask:
    • 9 has him wear masks in both costumes that are stylized after a scorpion.
    • His mask is customizable as a gear option in 11.
    • His Kold War costume in X has him wear a hellish gas mask.
  • Cosmic Plaything: In his Arcade ending in 11, it is revealed that his family's deaths happen in every timeline possible. When he finds out there are other gods on Kronika's tier, he assumes they are the reason for his tragedy, and wages war against them.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Canonically, if Shao Kahn is to believed, the colosseum fight he had with Kuai Liang in the rebooted timeline went horribly for Hanzo.
  • Dem Bones:
    • As revealed during his signature Fatality in 9, under Scorpion's mask his head is actually a flaming skull.
    • Downplayed in 11; certain abilities added does give him a flaming skeleton look but even if you have his past specter self equipped unmasked, it shows his entire face when he was younger instead of a skull.
  • Devil's Job Offer: In 9, he's a servant of Quan Chi, the Netherrealm's equivalent of Satan.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight: Technically, in his own arms in 11. The past Scorpion cradles present Hanzo after the latter was fatally stabbed by D'Vorah. He uses his last breaths to convince his Revenant counterpart that the new Shirai Ryu are worth protecting.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": As seen above, after he regained his humanity during the events of X, he abandons the moniker of Scorpion, instead going as Hanzo Hasashi once again. Quan Chi addresses him as Scorpion on Chapter 9, causing his rage to peak and earning the sorcerer a fist before he beats him down.
  • Downloadable Content:
  • Driven to Suicide: Contemplates it in X in his arcade ending, after realizing that he nearly doomed Earthrealm by having his rage consume him again. Instead, Raiden opts for turning him and his clan into Earth's eternal protectors.
  • Dual Wielding:
    • Wields a pair of swords in his back in 9.
    • One of his variations in X ("Ninjutsu") has this as the focus of his fighting style. In particular, his canon appearance in the X storyline tends toward this, as it is the variation he uses in the story exclusively after his resurrection, considering he wants to limit using Hellfire.
    • As of X, he also has two Kunai.
  • Easily Forgiven: In X, Kuai Liang lets him off for brutally murdering Bi-Han and even became close friends with him. This is justified though as Quan Chi manipulated him into killing Bi-Han, meaning that Quan Chi is accountable for it which Kuai Liang outright tells him.
  • Everyone Has Standards:
    • His past self in 11; despite his willingness to work with Kronika and ally with a number of criminals and conquerors like the Black Dragon and the Revenants, he refuses to engage in unnecessary murder and outright tells Liu Kang in an intro that he did not participate in Geras and the Revenants' massacre of the Shaolin.
    • It's also heavily implied that Quan Chi and Shinnok made him completely subservient in X because they knew that Scorpion wouldn't aid them in conquering Earthrealm.
  • Eye Scream: His Fatal Blow in 11 consists of him throwing two spears into his opponent's eyes and driving them ever deeper.
  • The Faceless: Scorpion's facial features as Hanzo were only properly shown for the first time in X.
  • Gameplay and Story Segregation: If you choose to have Scorpion fight Sektor during Chapter 4 in 11, he effortlessly No Sells Sektor's flamethrower attack in the cutscene before the battle. During the fight itself, he takes damage from Sektor's flamethrower like anyone else.
  • Good Parents: Everything about X and Takeda's backstory seems to point to Scorpion being a pretty awesome adoptive dad. This also implies how much of a Family Man he could've been hadn't Quan Chi murdered his family in cold blood.
  • Hazy-Feel Turn:
    • His arcade ending of X has him being Raiden's new right-hand man. However, Raiden has returned to his dark persona once again, making Scorpion's alignment unknown.
    • One pre-fight interaction between the two in 11 is fairly cordial, if a bit stern. Raiden simply asks if Scorpion is committed to Earthrealm's defense, Scorpion says he is, and then Raiden says he will hold him to that vow.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam:
    • In 9, Raiden, having a premonition that Sub-Zero will become a greater force for evil if killed, tries to convince him to spare Bi-Han by offering to revive his family; and Scorpion agrees. Unfortunately, after defeating Sub-Zero and intending to spare him, Quan Chi goads Scorpion into killing him by showing him a vision of Sub-Zero murdering his wife and son. Sub-Zero becomes the wraith Noob Saibot, and Scorpion stays in Quan Chi's employ. His Arcade Ladder ending had him eventually find out the truth on his own, and then rather than tormenting Quan Chi in the Netherrealm, he flat out burns him to death. His alignment afterwards is unknown.
    • In the prequel comics to X in an apparent war between Earth and the Netherrealm, Kenshi somehow freed him "out of the Darkness"; he's still tapped into his Hellish powers, but is seen trying to aid those who lost families in the Netherrealm War by training them as a reformed Shirai Ryu.
    • Later still, in Chapter 9 in X's Story, he finds out the truth behind what really happened to his family and clan, resolving to make Quan Chi pay, but he comes to blows with the other heroes, as they need Quan Chi in order to free the Revenants. His arcade ending has him being Raiden's new right-hand man in atonement, so he isn't past redemption despite what he did.
    • His 11 Arcade Ladder ending has Past!Scorpion, who had joined Raiden's side earlier, succumb to the temptation of using Kronika's hourglass to avert his family's death, only to find that they die in every possible timeline. Instead of moving on and attempting to secure a better future, Scorpion chooses to hunt down the Titans that he believes are responsible.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Started as evil in 9, then finally stayed neutral-good in X and 11.
  • Hellfire: One of his variations in X has this name and focuses on his powers using fire that has been ever-present throughout the series. It is fueled by his sorrow over the deaths of his wife and child.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With the younger Sub-Zero. They won't stop gloating over how they're both each other's equals in 11.
  • I Hate Past Me:
    • In a mirror match in X, this is what the Scorpions discuss before fighting, no doubt because of his younger self's reckless desisions.
    • Chapter 10 of 11 has Hanzo encounter his younger self, and shows disapproval of his obsession for revenge and seeing the new Shirai Ryu as "pretenders and outsiders" for not being blood descendants. However, the compassion and death of the future Hanzo convinces the younger Scorpion to pull a Heel–Face Turn and atone for his actions.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His fate in the aftermath of the Battle of Armageddon (as seen in 9's intro).
  • Informed Flaw: According to Spawn's ending in 11, he and Sub-Zero constantly argue with each other, but this flaw is never shown in the story mode whenever they work together and get along like old friends.
  • Insistent Terminology: After his resurrection at the hands of Raiden's magic, he refuses to use the Scorpion mantle anymore, preferring others to call him by his real name or Grandmaster Hasashi.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even after being revived in X, he's still quite rash and short-tempered but he has grown a lot softer and empathetic. His parent-like relationship with a Takeda show this. By 11, the jerk part disappears and he's become a genuine Nice Guy and wise, experienced warrior.
  • Katanas Are Just Better:
    • He uses two katanas in 9.
    • Two of them appears on his back in his Ninjutsu variation in X.
    • He carries two on his hip in 11 that can be customized with gear.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • Scorpion has the nasty habit of repeatedly losing everyone he cares about, from his wife, son and clan to the second iteration of the Shirai Ryu he founded in the X prequel comic.
    • Challenge #20 in 9 has Scorpion beat up Mileena, because she made a teddy bear for him and HE HATES TEDDIES!
    • The Vita-exclusive Bonus Challenge Tower mission "I STILL Hate Teddies!" has him pile more pain on Mileena by not only beating the crap out of her but also choking the nonexistent life out of the teddy bear and subjecting it to the Subway's Stage Fatality!
  • Killed Off for Real: In 11, while the past version of him is still running around in the present day, the real Hanzo Hasashi has truly died, and since Quan Chi (the sorcerer who reanimated him) is dead, there's little-to-no chance that he's coming back or his past version getting restored as a human, permanently stuck as an undead Revenant.
  • Menacing Hand Shot: His pre-fight interactions with his opponents in X include a shot of him holding his chainblade in his hand and then dropping it to take hold of the chain before he goes into his "ready" stance.
  • The Minion Master: His Inferno Variation in X centers around him summoning a demon from hell similar to how Noob Saibot did in 9.
  • My God, What Have I Done?:
    • Has this reaction when he realizes that he killed the elder Sub-Zero unjustly. Hanzo's reaction is not only remorse for the pain he's caused Kuai Liang in killing his older brother Bi-Han (the aforementioned elder Sub-Zero), but also because he threw away his one chance to restore his wife and son]]. The sheer amount of self-disgust in his voice is palpable.
    Scorpion: (having witnessed evidence of Quan Chi's guilt in exterminating the original Shirai Ryu) Harumi... Satoshi...
    Sub-Zero: Had I known of my clan's complicity in the Shirai Ryu's extinction, our history would be different.
    Scorpion: I killed your brother because I thought he...
    Sub-Zero: Quan Chi is responsible for Bi-Han's death.
  • My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Delivers a pretty tragic one before giving a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Quan Chi, when the latter calls him Scorpion, in MKX.
    "My name... is HANZO HASASHI!!! You killed my wife... my son... and then you burrowed your way into my head... misdirected my vengeance... COST ME MY ONE CHANCE TO HAVE THEM RESTORED!!!!"
  • Nice Guy: Finally reaches this in 11. His short fuse has finally been quelled and he is shown to be more polite towards others. He even shows more sympathy and kindness to his past Revenant self, which is quite a contrast when his antagonistic interactions with his wraith persona in the comics and complete aversion to being referred to as Scorpion in the previous game.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Gets hit with this hard in X. He takes down Sonya, Kenshi, and Johnny Cage to free Quan Chi so that he can finally kill him. This not only results in the rest of the fallen heroes staying as revenants, but it also gets Shinnok freed and Johnny Cage (the guy who beat Shinnok in the first place) kidnapped. Even though it was all according to D'Vorah, Quan Chi, and Shinnok's plan, one must wonder how Hanzo's taking this. In his Arcade ending, he contemplates hara-kiri to atone for his rashness in Shinnok's revival.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
    • Hounded Quan Chi throughout the Netherrealm after 4 and delivered many of these on the sorcerer (Scorpion drew on strength from the 5th plane of the Netherrealm, whereas Quan Chi's sorcery was weakened).
    • Was on the receiving end of one delivered by Sub-Zero in 9 that was so brutal it's still being referenced by people who witnessed it well into 11.
    Shao Kahn: Now I remember you, Scorpion.
    Scorpion: I fought Sub-Zero in your Koliseum.
    Shao Kahn: And lost horribly, as I recall.
  • No Indoor Voice: Only applies to MK9 (and vs DCU), Scorpion will shout at anyone and everything in the name of vengeance. The only time he piped down a bit is when Raiden requested him to aid Earthrealm.
  • "No. Just… No" Reaction: In 11, one of his pre-fight banters with Johnny has him flatly refuse co-starring in one of his films. Twice.
    Scorpion: (monotone) The answer remains no.
    Johnny: (enthused) But you'd be co-starring with yours truly!
    Scorpion: Exactly.
  • No, You: When he confronts Bi-Han in 9 for murdering his clan, Bi-Han simply says, "To hell with your clan." Scorpion replies, "No... to hell with you!" before dragging him into the Netherrealm.
  • Not Distracted by the Sexy: In X, Tanya outright tries hitting on him during one of their pre-fight intros (showing some leg, to boot). He responds by threatening her in Japanese.
  • Off with His Head!:
    • It's also present in his "Split Decision" Fatality in 9, to the point of even slicing the head in half.
    • During one of the trailers for 9 he performs Kano's "Eat Your Heart Out" Fatality on Sub-Zero where he rips off their head, rips out their heart, then stuffs their head in the hole where he ripped out their heart.
    • His Fatality from X has a "Off With His Face" variation.
    • This is how he does Quan Chi in during the events of Mortal Kombat X.
    • He finishes off Raiden this way in the announce trailer for 11, although in this case he already destroyed Raiden's torso by burning through it with hellfire. Like the "Who's Next?" Fatality from the original X trailer, this also appears as a Fatality in-game.
  • Offhand Backhand: His "You're Next" Fatality in 11 finishes this way. After cutting off his opponent's head and kicking it up, Scorpion launches his spear at the head while facing backwards. This is easily shown with the aid of a camera mod, as shown here.
  • One-Winged Angel: Inferno Scorpion from Shaolin Monks (Scorpion without his mask and damaged skin) reappears in 9 on the 232nd floor of the Challenge Tower as an opponent for Kano.
  • Papa Wolf: Post regaining his humanity after 9, and his pseudo-adopting of Takeda, threatening said adoptee immediately brings out the raging hellspawn in Hanzo. To put this in perspective, he lost to both Raiden and arch-rival Sub-Zero in 9, but come the X comics, whenever Takeda appears to be in grave danger, Scorpion's rage powers him up so much that he manages to defeat Raiden by strangling him with his signature Kunai's chain; then in another battle, overwhelms Kuai Liang with raw willpower and hellfire. It should be noted that both opponents were being empowered by a Kamidogu Dagger at the time. Although in Kuai Liang's case, Hanzo wouldn't claim it his victory since Sub-Zero was worn out by the time the Dagger's power ran out, thus Scorpion outlasting him as a result.
  • Parental Substitute: When Kenshi was on the run from the Red Dragons following his wife's murder in the X comics, he had Hanzo take in his son Takeda for protection. For the next ten years, the Shirai Ryu was Takeda's family and Hanzo as his surrogate father.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • Post-9, he founded a new Shirai Ryu out of lost refugees with nowhere else to go, regained most of his humanity with Kenshi's guidance and pretty much adopted Takeda (Kenshi's estranged son). Then all of them are slaughtered by a blood demon, save Scorpion and Takeda.
    • Going by intro dialogue in 11, he's downright respectful towards Jade, acknowledging both her skill and her honor and even expresses empathy for her losses, saying they're not that different in that regard. He also displays a lot of goodwill towards Jax in the same game due to being former Revenants; both are aware of Jacqui and Takeda's relationship, and Hanzo does his best to prove that his surrogate son is more than up to the task of protecting Jax's daughter, even going so far as to declare that all of the Briggs' enemies will become the Shirai Ryu's in turn.
  • The Redeemer: Hanzo becomes this to his past self in 11, by appealing to his desire to see his wife and son again and then revealing to him that Kronika's New Era would resurrect Shinnok, who was the real culprit behind the Shirai Ryu's massacre. He succeeds posthumously, as after being killed by D'Vorah, his past self would go to the Fire Gardens and defect to the heroes' side.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the Blue Oni to his more hotheaded apprentice Takahashi Takeda.
  • Power Echoes: 9 onwards gave his voice an ethereal quality enhanced in X in his revenant form. His voice sounds more metallic in 11, largely due to his mask. When unmasked in his human form, however, there is no echo.
  • Pretender Diss: Scorpion's past self in 11 dismisses the new Shirai Ryu as "pretenders and outsiders," and serves Kronika to have the original restored. However, he's ultimately convinced of the opposite by his future self.
    Hanzo: The new Shirai Ryu are worthy. It is heart, not blood, which makes them warriors.
  • Primary-Color Champion: In 11, he's added some red to his yellow outfit and is now a full-fledged protector of Earthrealm.
  • Revenge Before Reason:
    • Double subverted in 9. Raiden tells him not to kill Bi-Han as Sub-Zero, so an even more evil being would show up. After defeating Sub-Zero, he actually spares him. Then Quan Chi shows Scorpion a vision of Sub-Zero killing his clan and family and... Sub-Zero is no more.
    • He falls victim to it again in X when he fights Sonya and the others because they were in his way of killing Quan Chi. The end result is ultimately Shinnok being freed.
    • Scorpion's MK 11's Arcade Ladder ending has Past!Scorpion vow to kill all of the Titans under the belief that they're responsible for causing his family's death in every possible timeline. He doesn't bother to look for evidence on how they would be able to accomplish such a thing.
  • The Rival: By the time of X, he is no longer an Arch-Enemy relationship with Kuai Liang, and instead is this, even to the point where they help one another.
  • Screw Destiny: In 9, Raiden tried to talk his way out of him murdering Bi-Han, because an even more evil being might be spawned from Scorpion's actions. It doesn't work for the Thunder God thanks to Quan Chi.
  • Shipper on Deck: Kind of hard to envision Scorpion of all people being this, but it comes with his being a Papa Wolf to Takeda. Hanzo's overall supportive of his relationship with Jacqui, and most pre-fight dialogues in 11 with her and Jax show him treating the Briggs family with nothing but respect. One of his intros with Jacqui even has him voice his approval of her, telling her in as many words that "Takeda chose wisely".
  • Split Personality: The X comic implies that he had split his mind into two: "Hanzo" embodies his humanity and "Scorpion" his wrath.
  • Stern Teacher: He took in orphans stranded by the Netherrealm War and trained them as the new Shirai Ryu clan, and his training is pretty harsh.
  • Stripped to the Bone: In 9, Scorpion summons a pool of lava, stabs his opponent with the kunai, surrounding them with the rope, and drags the opponent through the pool. Moments later, the body is thrown back out of the pit, now reduced to a skeleton.
  • Stronger with Age: In 11, the older Hanzo Hasashi is shown to be far superior to his past Scorpion self, overpowering him in a sword duel and effortlessly countering his spear technique before decisively beating him in an outright fight.
  • Tear Off Your Face: His Fatality in X ends this way towards his opponent.
  • That Man Is Dead: In X, on account of being resurrected by Raiden and freed of the Scorpion wraith by Kenshi, he absolutely hates being called Scorpion, instead going by his given name of Hanzo Hasashi.
  • Too Many Belts: His X costume, according to a promotional image.◊ He has over 40 belts on his entire outfit.
  • Took a Level in Kindness:
    • He's far nicer as Hanzo than he ever was as Scorpion, though some lingering anger issues persist. In Mortal Kombat X this trope is demonstrated in his own chapter when he told his underlings specifically "strike to wound, not kill" when he tries to exact his vengeance, and only if the Special Forces refused to give him Quan Chi. His old persona would never make that attempt whatsoever.
    • In 11, he's now unambiguously one of the good guys as Hanzo and steps up to protect Earthrealm alongside Kuai Liang without any friction between them. He even offers sanctuary to Raiden and the heroes at the Shirai Ryu's Fire Gardens, no questions asked. He even imparts this upon his angry past self. After fighting and defeating the younger Scorpion he tells him that the Shirai Ryu aren't just a bloodline but a close-knit community of warriors and that even though their family is gone they still have something worth fighting for. The younger Scorpion agrees to honor the pact to help Raiden and continues on with the original plan in Hasashi's place.
    • In spite of his aforementioned hatred of teddies, Scorpion's new Friendship finisher is him happily snuggling a humongous teddy bear. Kharacter Development at its finest.
  • Tranquil Fury: Ron Yuan's take on Scorpion is quiet with a lingering current of fiery anger underneath it, as opposed to Patrick Seitz's Kratos-esque Large Ham take.
  • True Companions: In 11, he sees the Shirai Ryu as this. Against Jacqui, Hanzo says that the "family bonds" among his clan are sacred and, against Kabal, states that the Shirai Ryu are family, not mercenaries. This also comes with a darker side: Jade warns him in one intro not to let his loyalty to his clan become an obsession after Scorpion had considered that he is nothing without his clan.
  • Uniqueness Decay: He came back as a revenant to get his revenge on Sub-Zero. In X, Quan Chi brings back all the dead heroes of 9 as revenants. Curiously, none share Scorpion's hellfire powers and he keeps them when resurrected. This was explained in the comic book by his ability to control hellfire actually stemming from his sorrow over the deaths of his wife and child.
  • Variable-Length Chain: In 9, a chain replaces the rope of his rope-kunai combo weapon.
  • Vengeance Feels Empty: If the way he hung his head after killing Bi-Han was any indication. He didn't even feel that cathartic after killing Quan Chi, as his unthinking drive for revenge ended up nearly dooming Earthrealm. It got so bad that he contemplated suicide. By 11, however, he seems to have made peace with himself.
  • The Worf Effect:
    • In 9, Kuai-Liang tracks him down and basically uses him as a bar rag to clean the proverbial tavern floor that is Shao Kahn's arena. His every appearance in the story-mode from then on involves him getting beaten up by various characters, such as Raiden when he goes to the Netherrealm.
    • In X, he suffers a deep wound from D'Vorah, of all people, before Shinnok instant KOs him via Amulet Blast. Though to be fair, that thing basically spells "Instant Win!" for whoever possesses it.
      • 11 takes this to its extreme, as this time D'Vorah fatally wounds him and he passes away in the arms of his younger self.
  • Worthy Opponent: In 11, he is shown to greatly respect Liu Kang, Kuai Liang, Kotal Kahn and the Briggs. In particular, he is very impressed that the Briggs take family as important as the Shirai Ryu and tells Jacqui that "Takeda has chosen wisely".

    The New Era (unmarked MK1 spoilers) 

Tropes that appear across all of Hanzo Hasashi's appearances from Mortal Kombat 1 onwards.

Hanzo Hasashi

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A young boy who attempts to rob Smoke in his tower ending, but is then taken in by him and Kuai Liang as the first and most promising initiate of the newly-formed Shirai Ryu.

  • Age Lift: This version of Hanzo is still a child when the rest of the cast*are already adults.
  • Age-Appropriate Angst: Like his previous incarnations, this Hanzo is noted to be very aggressive. Though given that he is orphaned and had to survive on his own before meeting the Shirai Ryu, it’s no wonder he turned out as such.
  • Canon Character All Along: While his role in Mortal Kombat 1 is limited to Smoke's ending, his name is only revealed at the very end of it.
  • Composite Character: This Hanzo has traits of Takeda from the second timeline, being trained in the arts of kombat by Scorpion at the behest of his ally (Kenshi and Smoke, respectively) after having lost his mother (and father, in Hanzo's case).
  • In Spite of a Nail: Hanzo still lost his original family by someone unknown (similar to his previous selves who usually lost his entire clan), explaining both his Street Urchin background and a similar anger issue like his previous incarnation. At least he's taken into benevolent hands to temper his issues this time.
  • Kung-Fu Kid: His martial arts skills impress Smoke enough to recruit him into the Shirai Ryu.
  • Street Urchin: An orphan boy living on the streets prior to attempting to rob Smoke.
  • Unrelated in the Adaptation: In both the original and reboot timelines, he was married to Harumi and they had a son named Satoshi before their tragic deaths, and his clan destroyed by Quan Chi. In Liu Kang's timeline, he's a teenager to become a Shirai Ryu initiate after Smoke and Kuai Liang were impressed by his skills.

     Invasion Scorpion 

Invasion Scorpion

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A Hanzo from an alternate timeline, raging that the only world where his wife was alive was one where she married his rival. He serves as the antagonist of Season 1 of Mortal Kombat 1’s Invasion Mode.

  • Arc Villain: Hanzo is the first antagonist of Invasion mode, establishing the game mode's premise.
  • Battle Couple: Liu Kang manages to find him a Harumi who became Scorpion as a result of losing her timeline's Hanzo. They then joined forces to fight the evil in her timeline, having bonded over their shared grief of losing their spouses to Quan Chi.
  • Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Hanzo's searched many timelines to find a still-living version of his wife Harumi so he could have her back. After the New Era's Harumi proves unreachable, Hanzo is presented with another alternate version of his wife, one who became Scorpion in his place and had also lost her husband. The two come together to fight the evils of Harumi's timeline.
  • Driven to Madness: Fruitlessly scouring various timelines for a version of Harumi who wasn't murdered by Quan Chi drove Hanzo to the brink of his sanity, and when he finally found one, the fact that she was married to his old rival-turned-friend Kuai Liang was the straw that broke the camel's back, setting Hanzo on the warpath.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Surprisingly, considering his status as the Big Bad for Season 1: The Spectre of the Invasion Mode. After stopping him, Fire God Liu Kang makes his own search for a timeline where Harumi is alive. He manages to find one where Hanzo was killed by Quan Chi and Harumi became Scorpion. Hanzo joins her, with the two of them fighting her Quan Chi and other threats in her timeline together.
  • Easily Forgiven: Despite becoming a multiversal threat and attempting to wipe out all life in the New Era in a fit of jealousy, Liu Kang shows him compassion and reunites him with another version of his wife. Likely due to the fact Liu Kang understands his pain along with the implication that he was stopped before he actually killed anyone.
  • Evil Is Petty: Hanzo poses an existential threat to the New Era due to finding his wife married to another man, even though this version of her never belonged to him.
  • If I Can't Have You…: His storyline in Season 1: The Spectre of the Invasion Mode sums this in a nutshell. With the plot centering around a Hanzo hopping from timeline to timeline in a desperate attempt to find a world where Harumi is still alive so he could be reunited with her, only to find her already dead in each and every one, and when he does find a living Harumi in the New Era timeline, he finds that she's married to Kuai Liang. Snapping from the accumulated grief and anger he goes on a rampage, declaring that if he can't have Harumi, no one will.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Wants to kill everyone in Liu Kang’s timeline since his wife is already taken by Kuai Liang.
  • Replacement Goldfish: He and another timeline's Harumi become this to each other, having lost their respective versions of each other to Quan Chi.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Hanzo drove himself half-mad scouring countless timelines to try and find a Harumi who had not been murdered by Quan Chi, finally finding one... who was married to Kuai Liang.

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