Raiden's Possible Development Behind the Scenes?


Raiden in Mortal Kombat is the god of thunder. But here's a bit of behind the scenes that could have happened in creating the character for the game:

The name Raiden is the Shinto god of thunder and not in Taoism or Buddhism. However, when you take a look at Raiden's appearance, he resembles more of a Taoist god in human form. The costume design was also taken from one of the villains in "Big Trouble in Little China".

Meanwhile, the Chinese god of thunder is known as Lei Gong who uses a hammer. Did that explain Raiden's hammer in MK4? Raiden was known as Lao Ka to Nightwolf so he must also be known as Lei Gong in China. In fact, I thought Raiden should have been named Lei Gong instead. Other than that, Liu Kang was supposed to be Japanese but was made Chinese instead and I wonder why they failed to give their thunder god a Chinese name instead?

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