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Jarek
First Appearance: Mortal Kombat 4
Last Appearance: Mortal Kombat: Armageddon

So we all agree Jarek kinda blows, right? It's extremely obvious in Mortal Kombat 4 that they had Kano planned, all mapped out, and then they created this schmuck with a goatee and just ported Kano's moveset there. He's got the knife throw, charge ball, and then his fatalities are laser eye (he has no actual laser eye though???) and heart rip. Like this dude was just ported to be this lame ass Kano replacement for reasons I just don't understand.

Armageddon... I don't know, improves him? But he still sucks. They give him an axe, a new armored outfit that actually looks cool, and a full on beard. But his little bounce move is the goofiest and his other moves are just kinda lame too, with the rope tug and such. But from what I understand, he was actually top tier in this game in competitive. Who would've guessed?

Most notably, he is the most hilariously awful entrant in MK4 in a game filled with hilarious awfulness. His endings he's in are so memorable with his goofy laugh and his random scream of panic as he falls into the abyss. Somehow he stood out over the rest of the awful voice acting, and that's what is key here.

But his story is equally weak. He's just another member of the Black Dragon and Quan Chi enlists him. He ends up being thrown off a cliff by Jax after he seemingly kills Sonya (but she survives) and he survives by putting his blade into the cliff wall, so that he can hide in Edenia. And then he becomes just a hilariously bad Mortal Kombat OC you would have created as a child. While he's away in hiding, he's so angry that he starts researching how to make the coolest fatality so that everyone will know he has the coolest fatality and then he shows Quan Chi his super cool fatality and Quan Chi was so impressed he said to use his cool fatality on everyone else.

Seriously, that's what they did with him in Armageddon.

Jarek isn't in the reboot timeline, sort of. I've been on the fence about including the Mortal Kombat X Komic, since half the time they said it was kanon and half the time they said it wasn't, but I think I'll include it. In the MKX Komic, Jarek is just a random Black Dragon member and he's just a stone cold badass kharacter in it. Nothing impressive. Nothing special. He's got a cool axe though.

So yeah, Jarek sucks. They never thought much of him. Nobody cares about him, and he gets remembered only as being completely hilarious in his MK4 endings. No sense bringing him back, honestly.

Rank: E-

Related Video: This guy has done a bunch of HD MK4 ending recreations. Relive Jarek being hilarious in this ending!

https://youtu.be/ZP0_BmVKf5s