Then you are ignoring what people say because you like Dark Khan so much. Try to be objective. People have explained in great detail why he's unoriginal and a lazy design. Be honest, are you saying that you couldn't have came up w/an idea like Dark Khan in under a minute? The thread starter asked for opinions. We are giving those about a character who sux. Relax.Hmmm. Those rules also say "no fanboy bickering". Be honest. Didn't that last statement sound like a perfect way to start fanboy bickering? MK has had extremely powerful characters for years. They've had GODS on the roster from day one. That's an extremely poor excuse for a reason people don't like D.Kahn. You can do better.
The idea, yes. The design, no. And that can be said for many different designs.
But you know the rules.
Actually, it's a good reason because there have been some who said that the MKverse is weak and that "gods are just a title". Now that it has a much more powerful character who makes the MKverse almost unbeatable, people wanna throw a hissy fit. And there's no fanboy bickering. I just don't get why out of every other character with a "lazy design", this one is the only one getting the most heat.
Darkseid = uber awesomeness
Shao Khan = a lamer version of General Zod (bow to me!), and a poor man's Onaga as far as MK bosses go
Dark Khan = gay incarnate
Well, how is he not unoriginal, and what exactly is unique about his recycled design?
Please, Shao Kahn is nowhere near Darkseid's level of coolness/awesomeness; no-one from MK is for that matter, not even Onaga, unarguably the coolest villain in MK.
Lazy Design - Nothing but Shao Kahn's face mask design on top of a body that highly resembles Blaze's body structure. Also, calling his main ability RAGE? That's really stupid.
Unoriginal - He's only original in the fact that there has never been a character like him before.
A fusion between two beings has been done long before. Also, there's the small matter of his name. Darkseid + Shao Kahn. Again, not original, and very lazy in fact.
It's akin to me meshing Kung Lao and Liu Kang together to create Kung Kang, or Liu Lao.
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I do see a resemblance between him and Blaze but they're not THAT much a like. There's plenty of designs like that anyway. And...what's wrong with RAGE? It makes sense looking at how it effects people.
Or look completely like him.
A lot of fused characters borrows parts of the characters' name they are fused with. What do you expect? Mr. Rage?
Well anyway, I think it has more to do with the fact that he doesn't look that much like Shao Kahn or Darkseid. You can easily distinguish him. Plus, his abilities aren't just mix ups of Shao Kahn and Darkseid. He actually has an ability unique to him (the RAGE).
Agreed. I'd like to point out though that Darkseid himself was disappointingly horrible in MKvsDC; Almost as much as Dark Khan. Seid's voice in that game not only sounded terrible compared to in the animated series, but was nothing like it as well. At least the voices of Batman and Joker sounded remotely similar to Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill, although granted, Darkseid didn't have nearly as many lines as those two characters, since he spoke only a little at the beginning and end of the story.
He also had no fatality. I blame Dark Khan.
Even that would've been a better name than Dark Khan. Onslaught doesn't borrow any part of Xavier's or Magneto's names now does he?
Never found Khan to be all that great. Even Tsung is more badass IMO, despite not being as apparently powerful.
Blaze's second design is remarkably like Dark Kahn's in fact. From the magma like flow of energy in their body, and the rock like body. Dark Kahn is pretty much a fusion between Darkseid & Blaze in terms of design, with a little bit of Shao Kahn thrown in. (face-mask)
If there are plenty of designs like that, it fails to qualify as original.
Yet he has numerous other factors that make him unoriginal and show signs of laziness on the part of the Creators. You say that he's original as no one else looks completely like him; I'll say that he's unoriginal as he makes people fight against each other.
This makes it original how exactly?
Rather, it's just lazy. We're back to the hypothetical situation of me naming a Kung Lao + Liu Kang fusion either Kung Kang, or Liu Lao. Both names are retarded, and show laziness on my part.
Mr. Rage would in fact be better than Dark Kahn. Or even Emissary of RAGE. Granted, EoR is more of a title, but they're better than Dark Kahn.
What would you name a fusion between Onaga & Mongul? If we go by the creators' method, we'd get Onagul, or Monga.
Starting to see the stupidity and laziness of their naming method yet?
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For the MK verse at least. He doesn't lord over other universes.
Yeah, he was rather disappointing. And his voice was rather gay.
To date, I can only find a handful of voices that can reach the level of badassery & awesomeness that Michael Ironside's Darkseid had.
Yeah, whoever named him is creative, when compared to the dudes that made Dark Kahn.
Also, me using that Liu Kang + Kung Lao (= Kung Kang/Liu Lao) fusion example to illustrate Dark Kahn's naming laziness, has made me realize that the names of those two monks are so bloody similar. >__>
Tsung looks even more badass in the sig I've made.
Also, I liked MK1 Tsung. Even MK2 Shao Kahn. They were rather badass when they first appeared, but subsequent appearances screwed that up.
The next badass villain was Onaga.
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Glad to see you finally admit he's a lazy design. &Nah, it's a very foolish reason. 1. People are against him because he sucks. 2. He doesn't make the MKverse unbeatable because a)He's deader than fried chicken IIRC & b) he doesn't and never has existed in the canon MKverse. He's just a poorly made character created for a poorly made game. Now you're just using a poor excuse to explain why people dislike him. As I said, you can do better. I might have to use one of those next time I change my username
Tsung in MK1 I didn't like much. MK2 Tsung and beyond was where it was at for me, even in MKvsDC where he had a pretty cool voice.
Yeah. Khan was all right in MK2 and MK3, but after that was when he started going downhill for me, and then came Onaga, the original true ruler of Outworld.
I put said "lazy design" with a parenthesis so that's not exactly what I think. And really, even if he didn't exist in MK canon, he's still part of MK. Also, all I'm hearing from you is that he's a poorly made character. That's pretty much it. I don't consider that a good enough reason.
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Even that would've been a better name than Dark Khan. Onslaught doesn't borrow any part of Xavier's or Magneto's names now does he?
I might have to use one of those next time I change my username 
because it needed to be here.
