Mavado
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Mavado is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series.
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[edit] About Mavado
Introduced in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Mavado is unmistakably evil. In many respects, he embodies the underworld antipode of the equally evil Kano. Mavado relies on discipline and superior intelligence to fight, whereas Kano seems to rely mainly on scare tactics and brute force. In battle, he uses a pair of signature grappling hooks to augment his attacks, allowing him to propel himself quickly around the arena. Mavado is a leading figure, second only to Daegon, within the Red Dragon, an ancient criminal organization whose existence is known only to its members, and whose most prominent rivals are the Black Dragon, an offshoot of the Red Dragon which was led by Kano, but is now reformed under the leadership of Kabal. Mavado is a vicious, pitiless, and cruel crime lord.
[edit] Storyline
Mavado begins his journey in the Mortal Kombat series covertly. Since the Red Dragon's top priority is the extermination of the Black Dragon, and the Red Dragon desired to keep their existence secret, the Special Forces proved to be a useful tool to do the job for them. To that end, Mavado's instructed his subordinate, Hsu Hao, to infiltrate the Outer World Investigation Agency and help them in tracking down and killing the last members of the Black Dragon, a mission Hsu Hao performed to great success.
Years after the events of Mortal Kombat Gold, with Jarek seemingly killed by Sonya Blade, and Kabal presumably killed by Mavado himself (the latter's trademark hookswords being taken as trophies in the process), Hsu Hao's task was deemed over. However, Mavado was then contacted by the Deadly Alliance. Both sorcerers saw in the Red Dragon a great potential ally for their eventual domination of Earthrealm. Mavado was hired to fend off Kenshi, in return acquiring the opportunity to battle with Kano, at the time a general in the service of the Deadly Alliance. Mavado then instructed Hsu Hao to destroy the Outer World Investigation Agency's underground portal facility, shortly before travelling to Outworld himself.
During the events of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Mavado complied: he defeated Kenshi and had his fight with Kano; however, Mavado captured, Kano and had his Red Dragon minions bring him to their headquarters. Like his overlords Quan Chi and Shang Tsung, though, he had little time to revel in his victory. Shortly before Mortal Kombat: Deception, Kabal returned fully recuperated from his stay in Chaosrealm, and seemingly killed Mavado and retrieved his hookswords back.
In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, Mavado returns, apparently having survived. He is still seen wielding hookswords as a weapon, but these are presumably no longer Kabal's. In the game's Konquest mode, Mavado is seen in the Red Dragon's lair reporting to Daegon that the clan has located Blaze. Daegon then orders him to deal with his brother Taven while he prepares to leave. Taven defeated Mavado, but Mavado is able to escape using a hidden elastic rope to propel himself into a secret compartment.
In Mavado's Armageddon ending, he discovers that upon defeating Blaze, he gained the ability to control those who wear the Red Dragon emblem. He telepathically influences his clan to defeat their enemies, and then tattooed the emblem on them. He uses his new army to take over the world.[1]
[edit] Combat characteristics
[edit] Signature moves
- Grapple Hook Strike: Mavado catapults himself with his ropes at the opponent, kicking him. (MK:DA, MK:A)
- Change Sides Hook: Mavado uses his ropes to evade the opponent's attack by swinging to the side. (MK:DA, MK:A)
- Anger Management: A power-up move that adds strength to Mavado's physical attacks.( MK:A)
- Low Grapple Slide: Mavado flies forward with a kick, using a grapple hook to anchor himself. (MK:A)
- Escape Grapple: Mavado uses his grapple hooks to pull himself backward and out of harm's way. (MK:DA, MK:A)
[edit] Trivia
- Mavado was originally going to be called "Malvado", which is Portuguese and Spanish for "evil person". [1]
- In Deception's Konquest mode, Shujinko finds Mavado was looking for an assassin (which would end up being Hsu Hao) to work for the Red Dragon clan in Edenia.
- Mavado was poised to make the character roster of Deception, but was dropped in an early stage of development in favor of Kabal, who was a more popular character, and one many fans had been asking for.
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