If you look up the show online, you more than likely find one of the ‘Defenders of Stupidity’ videos, originally done by TheSwitcher of Two Best Friends fame.
Even he’s not immune to his dumb moments, however, especially since he gets lines like “Then kick your jets and JAM!” Raiden also ends up getting one of the best scenes in the series when he takes on Shang Tsung without using any of his powers and still manages to win. Given the rest of the cast, however, he comes off less like “wise thunder god” and more like “Put-upon babysitter trying to keep himself sane watching over all these whiners”. He’s probably the best character on the show, especially since his voice actor, Clancy Brown, makes him drip sarcasm with every line. Raiden’s probably the only character who hasn’t had his character ruined, probably because his voice actor, Clancy Brown, makes him drip sarcasm with every line. It’s an incredibly bizarre thing to mention on a children’s cartoon, and at no point is it ever brought up again. Stryker is now a germophobe who at one point, tells another character the story of when his wife left him. When he believes some calculations he did went wrong, they immediately shift all blame on him and start talking about how badly he screws up all the time. The entire team makes Nightwolf stay in their secret lair and be their computer geek while they go out and do all their fighting. Sonya’s kombat strategy, for one thing, involves her running headlong into the enemy while screaming “Kombat Time!” at the top of her lungs. Seriously, if it weren’t for poor Raiden around to babysit them, the first epsiode would have probably ended with them all killing each other. When the heroes aren’t fighting off the villain of the week, they spend most of their time arguing among themselves. The characters frequently use their special moves from the games, except for Stryker, who doesn’t get to use his gun because it’s a kid’s show. Almost all the fighting is done against non-humans like Tarkatans or cyborgs, which means it’s OK for the good guys to smack around people without soccer moms getting upset. Oh, and that green-clad ninja who turns out to be an acid-spitting lizard? That’s Komodai, not Reptile.
Oh, sorry, that’s not Baraka, that’s ‘Kabrak’, who is an entirely different character that just happens to be a general of blade-armed mutants. The show does a pretty good job of representing the different characters that had shown up in the series to that point, even more obscure bad guys like Rain and Baraka. Most of the episodes involve some kind of bad guy showing up with a bunch of mooks to take over Earthrealm.
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