Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)

Hanzo Hasashi, better known as Scorpion, is one of the main protagonists and the mascot of the Mortal Kombat franchise.
Even though he has a neutral alignment, he has done some villainous acts. In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, he allied with the Forces of Darkness to kill Taven and Daegon, due to having a grudge against the Elder Gods for "restoring" the Shirai Ryu members as undead monsters and not fully humans. He is also the former servant turned archenemy of Quan Chi.
He is currently voiced by Ron Yuan. Prior to that, he was voiced by Patrick Seitz, who has been doing the role since Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, and by one of the co-creators of the series, Ed Boon himself, since the very first Mortal Kombat game.
== His Greatness and Evil Rankings ==
=== What Makes Him Great? ===
*In the third chapter of Mortal Kombat (2011), he defeated Kung Lao, Nightwolf, Sektor and Cyrax.
*He saves Takeda several times. Two examples of this are when he rescued Takeda from being pursued by a red dragon and the time where he killed Forrest Fox out of self-defence after he massacred his clan. He even chooses to takes in Takeda and adopt him, looking after him through his childhood.
*He snaps Raiden out of the kamidogu possession and saves Takeda when he is wounded.
*He stops a possessed Sub-Zero when he freezes a whole town and thaws out the town with his hellfire.
*He defeated Quan Chi by brutally killing him. Although Scorpion had selfish reasons for killing Quan Chi, the latter deserved it for exterminating the Shirai Ryu, murdering the former's wife and son and then lying to him about it.
*He defeated Havik and stopped him from plunging the realms into chaos.
*He is rather tragic as he was a kind and caring child until he and his clan were murdered by Quan Chi and he was later revived as a vengeful spectre.
*He is generally very remorseful for his crimes and seeks to atone for them by committing various heroic deeds.
*He makes peace with Sub-Zero and apologizes to him for killing his brother.
*He has a very sympathetic death, as he gets stabbed and mortally wounded by D'Vorah before giving his last words of wisdom to his younger self, which inspires him get over his family's death and fight against Kronika.
*Overall, he is one of the franchise's best and most popular, well-written and complex characters. Due to this, he spawned an animated movie counterpart of himself that appears in the Mortal Kombat Legends duology made by Warner Bros. of all companies and he even has an Inconsistently Heinous counterpart that appears in the live-action TV show Mortal Kombat Conquest and makes him much more heinous than he is supposed to be, as unlike that version who kills people for sadistic reasons, the original version of Scorpion only kills out of self-defence or understandable vengeance.
=== What Makes Him Heinous? ===
*He killed Bi-Han on Shang Tsung's Island before mocking Kuai Liang (Bi-Han's brother) and attempting to kill him by brutally torturing him half to death, showing that Scorpion has serious personal villainy towards Kuai given he killed his brother and tortured him in one of the most gruesome ways a Mortal Kombat villain can torture their victims.
*Even after his redemption, he is extremely wrathful and violent as he brutally kills all of his opponents.
*Even if he ultimately reconciled with Sub-Zero, he initially refused to make peace with him and attacked Frost as well even though she wasn't part of their feud.
*Despite defeating Quan Chi, he was aware that killing him would doom the revenants to eternal servitude to Shinnok and later the Netherrealm, some of which were his former friends. He even attacked his friends and had them tied up so they wouldn't stop him from killing Quan Chi.
*He is indirectly responsible for releasing Shinnok, as his attack on the Special Forces base rendered the heroes weakened, and Quan Chi freed from his imprisonment, so when D'vorah arrived, she only had to overpower Hanzo and give Quan Chi Shinnok's amulet.
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