Honestly, the concept of Goro and Kintaro is pretty good as Goro is represented as the dragons while Kintaro and his people are represented as a tiger as they are seen as natural enemies or rivals in Chinese mythos. I don't see enough people talk about this enough.
That makes me really sad, I always liked him more than Goro and Sheeva and I honestly don't understand why he isn't popular like them. To me is way cooler then them
Personally, I feel he's been misrepresented since he debut in MK2. His Kabal orgin was fine, but it should've been Motaro. I don't think he has much to offer in the NEW time-line, but I wouldn't mind playing as him if he were DLC. I'd rather FIGHT him though as a boss. He was SO hard, yet awesome to battle during my childhood. I want that THRILL again you get when you ACTUALLY defeat him. 😉👍
I sure hope so, since Goro and Sheeva have already been DLC we should be seeing Kintaro as DLC in MK12 hopefully. It would make sense. I really do hope Kintaro comes back someday and be better then ever, he's always been my favorite and he needs a lot more love
Used to see Kintaro as Goro's copy, but with what they fleshed out in the comic I really dig the whole hungry, plebeian yet immensely powerful warrior who found himself worthy of fighting for the Kahn. Clubber Lang vibes as well.
@@machomusprime50 omg same, I never understand why Kintaro is not liked much, I always liked him more then Goro and Sheeva. They are cool and all but for me they can't beat a badass tiger with 4 arms and that can breathe fire
I would love to see either a game, comic, or animated film that covers some of the old school Shokan/Centaur feud. Get to learn more about the characters of those races we already know, while meeting some new ones and expanding on that whole period of time.
@@KINGHAMSTERR I can’t remember back then we had magazines and friends talking in class with no internet so things like Ermac being and error in the code etc was more interesting just like kintaro possibility of being Goros grandfather. Because there was no instant answer destroying the fun of things like hidden characters etc
@@KINGHAMSTERR I can’t remember where the rumour started, it was often either a magazine or like i say friends talking at school but i never questioned it because a lot of the time things like Ermac being an error came from the same kind of sources and for many years it was thought he truly was an error but it was just Ed Boon being clever. I mean he still does things like that on twitter but the problem is we have people who data mine and then the net spreads the info so making mythos like that is harder these days. Mind you we have stuff like meteor towers which took a year to discover but now everyone knows instantly once someone finds it. Back then someone would find it but it would take time for word to travel. In the game tips on mk11 it says something about ermac with the words all jumbled like there is errors in the code again so i love little eastereggs like that reminding us of the old days. All my favourite characters came from them being hidden such as Reptile, Ermac and Noob Saibot. Would be cool to see what they would do with chameleon and the likes with today’s versions of the game.
Simple science can explain: clearly at one point a four armed monkey had sex with both a dragon and a tiger and both races were created as the resulting offspring.
him like MANY others (mostly 3d characters) are just killed off/written poorly and are highly under-appreciated by both fans and netherrealm. its sad, so many characters have so much potential.
Fun fact: Kintaro in armagedon in his ending he had four swords with the souls of scorpion, sub-zero, havik, and hontaro. And having the powers of fire ice chaos and order
Yeah I noticed the games got more difficult from 1-3 with each new game. Only way I ever beat Motaro was with my best character after MULTIPLE re-tries.
Everyone wants kintaro back but doesn’t wanna talk about how OP he would be as a playable character. A giant walking, four armed, tiger mutant, with blades on each arm, that shoots fire from his mouth.
He is one of my favorites espevially with his more feral look in the comic and I hated how he was treated. His death at Sonya's hands made me dislike her even more (Yeah Johnny and her are my least liked haracets and by extention Cassie who has the blood of both).
Kintaro has always been my favorite sub-boss. Finally getting to him on the mountain was a big accomplishment for me as a youth, and finally defeating him the first time felt like quite an accomplishment. Besides nostalgia, I just think his look is the most creative out of all of the original bosses.
Been back around to your channel rewatching some older vids and been catching up with your currents. Always love your content. Thanks for keeping it going ✊🏾✌🏾💪🏾🙏🏽
@@BopWorld2023 I know I was excited to fight him in game but then he gets killed off, like at least let him kill someone off and let the player fight him before offing him
Kintaro is my favorite Shokan and my most favorite sub boss from the original timeline. His MKX comic book look was the best feral design and would've been a great ally to Earth Realm if treated with the respect he deserves. I think it'd be best to have himself and Sheeva rival Goro and Motaro in MK12 instead of making that story dlc, because the story in MK11 is such a mess!
My first MK game being MK9 when I was little, Kintaro always stood out to me more than Goro. And despite what some people think, his design is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING in MK9! He needs to come back, whether he’s allied with Goro, or enineies.
Mortal kombat is a goated verse, it's so unique and violent, i love all the creativity of the games since the beginning. And kintaro is also one of the very cool characters that i have liked since childhood, i despised goro for being ugly, and loved kintaro instead, back when we were playing shaolin monks co-op and armageddon. I wish kintaro is gonna be explored further.
You gotta think, MK11 had the best possible reason for Kintaro to be in a Mortal Kombat game; the past characters are all pulled from moments before his fight in the Koliseum
I KNOW it's not cannon, but I've always preferred Kintaro's death at the hands of Lui Kang and Kung Lao during MK Shaolin Monks. It just is THE best send off for the character, but would mess up Kabal's origin. Really though I would've had Motaro responsible for Kabal's Origin OR Mavado if you think about it logically. 🤔 Good video as always though HBTW 👍
It was always a toss up between Motaro & Kintaro based off the designs. I love all types of mythology and centaurs are dope & who wouldn't love a huge 4 armed tiger 😂
I personally love all 3 Goro, Kintaro, & Sheeva are my favorites. I love all 3 them equally. 🙏🏻 I haven't really been exposed too much to Motaro to call him my favorite. 👀 So can't quite decide on him.
Little off topic but i believe the kintaro should've been a dlc character instead of sheeva. Allow me to explain. Sheeva was playable in mk9. In mkx it was goro so in mk11 I wished it was kintaro
Honestly, the concept of Goro and Kintaro is pretty good as Goro is represented as the dragons while Kintaro and his people are represented as a tiger as they are seen as natural enemies or rivals in Chinese mythos. I don't see enough people talk about this enough.
Interesting
I thought this was supposed to be pretty obvious, dragon bloodline vs tiger bloodline etc
@@Etticos. yeah idk why people would have to talk about it its kind of in your face
Kintaro = King of Tekken
Never thought of that. Interesting.
Kintaro is huge underrated character of Mortal Kombat never been in the movies, cartoons or shows and he's a original MK character.
That makes me really sad, I always liked him more than Goro and Sheeva and I honestly don't understand why he isn't popular like them. To me is way cooler then them
He just looked cooler, as far as a fighter, he was far inferior to both Sheeva and goro according to lore
@@gbtv3740 He's actually superior to Goro and Sheeva.
I've been hoping he was going to be in the newer games or in the new movie series
@@brianwatts5185 hes superior to sheeva, but deffo not Goro!
Kintaro is Goro after spending all night binge eating Frosted Flakes
This literally made me bust out laughing
That's what made him so GrrrrrrrrEAT!
Him throwing a fit that he wasn't invited in the first tournament so he tries to eat his feelings away.
One sunny morning in outworld gora ate a bunch of frosted flakes, the next morning
TTTTTHHHHEEEEEEYYYYY'RRRREEE GGGGRRRREEEEAAATTTTT!!!!!
they'reeeee gorooooeeat! lol
Semi-Related: I love Shang Tsung's MK11 fatality where he sends Kentaro's soul into the enemy
Based of his MK2 secret fatality, where he morphs into kintaro and punches the opponent in half.
@@johntoye6602 Oh cool
@@Holdenheroofheroes ua-cam.com/video/aAnQdNVIpj8/v-deo.html
Kintaro doesn't get enough Respect in the series,he needs to make a comeback in mortal kombat 12
Facts
Or as DLC. I’d pay
Personally, I feel he's been misrepresented since he debut in MK2. His Kabal orgin was fine, but it should've been Motaro. I don't think he has much to offer in the NEW time-line, but I wouldn't mind playing as him if he were DLC. I'd rather FIGHT him though as a boss. He was SO hard, yet awesome to battle during my childhood. I want that THRILL again you get when you ACTUALLY defeat him. 😉👍
I sure hope so, since Goro and Sheeva have already been DLC we should be seeing Kintaro as DLC in MK12 hopefully. It would make sense. I really do hope Kintaro comes back someday and be better then ever, he's always been my favorite and he needs a lot more love
I really want kintaro to return mk 11
Kintaro is honestly one of my favourite mk characters. So underrated.
Motaro need to return sad he wasn't playable in the NetherRealm MK games.
Motaro was always my favorite of the sub bosses and the hardest in my opinion, sad that we haven't seen him in his full glory since MK3/Trilogy
@@WarWxlfnah, mk2 has input reading, that shit was rigged lmao
The best mk history channel
He is good but gamerthumbtv has some more in depth mk lore vids.
@@D4NOMAUS absolutely better than gamerthumbtv imo
I didn't say either one was better just that gamerthumbtv was more in depth
HBTheWarrior is the king 👑
Kintaro has always been one of my favorite characters. I wish we could see more of the Tigre Shokan race 🤔
Same here.
One of my fur babies is named El Tigre....
@@shantellakaladypersephone8671 lol awesome. I love it ❤️ I’m a cat lover
@@tashonnas.8802 I love cats too but I have 3 pitties...they're my widdle babies, but El Tigre is my secret favorite 🥰
They are more scarier tbh
I BEEN WAITING ON THIS ONE!!! THIS CHARACTER NEVER GETS THE RECOGNITION HE DESERVES AND HE IS INCREDIBLY COOL!!!
I remember ripping of his head in Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks good times.
And being able to chuck it at Shao's face like it's a dodgeball rofl
@Sora Shiun'in Wtf are you still doing here? Go back to the fusion dimension!
Staggered Shao when you threw it at him too
Used to see Kintaro as Goro's copy, but with what they fleshed out in the comic I really dig the whole hungry, plebeian yet immensely powerful warrior who found himself worthy of fighting for the Kahn. Clubber Lang vibes as well.
He is an awesome character but very underrated
For real. I was WAYYYYY more scared of him than Goro as a kid in the arcade.
@@machomusprime50 ikr. I felt the same
@@machomusprime50 omg same, I never understand why Kintaro is not liked much, I always liked him more then Goro and Sheeva. They are cool and all but for me they can't beat a badass tiger with 4 arms and that can breathe fire
@@GlamrockBunBun Agreed!!
@@GlamrockBunBun I think its because he is a tigra. I think he is very cool
Motaro needs vengeance back as a full centaur. OR bring in a new centaur to MK. Technology has to have evolved enough to have a centaur in the game!
KINTAROOO!!! He defiantly needs a comeback very underrated , he has lots of potential
Man this man did a hell of a job in this research
Kinatro is one my favorite I really hope next game he be a playable.
My boy kintaro he's grrrreaaaat heh heh sorry for the bad joke
You're forgiven....
THIS TIME!
@@slinkbradshaw8674 thank u for your forgiveness
It's cool how they used Kintaro to burn Kabal in the reboot.
Agreed
Fingers crossed that Kintaro returns in Mortal Kombat 1. 🐯🐅
If they can update Kintaro's design to have him look a tiger, the least they can do is fix the other shokan so they actually look like dragons.
I would love to see either a game, comic, or animated film that covers some of the old school Shokan/Centaur feud. Get to learn more about the characters of those races we already know, while meeting some new ones and expanding on that whole period of time.
I hope kintaro will get some deserved love in the new mk universe.
I remember in the 90s the rumours was that Kintaro was actually Goros grandfather. Any other OG MK players remember this?
I remember
I thought he was his dad
@@KINGHAMSTERR I can’t remember back then we had magazines and friends talking in class with no internet so things like Ermac being and error in the code etc was more interesting just like kintaro possibility of being Goros grandfather. Because there was no instant answer destroying the fun of things like hidden characters etc
@@mikeRedMDK2032 no his dad is king gorbak
@@KINGHAMSTERR I can’t remember where the rumour started, it was often either a magazine or like i say friends talking at school but i never questioned it because a lot of the time things like Ermac being an error came from the same kind of sources and for many years it was thought he truly was an error but it was just Ed Boon being clever. I mean he still does things like that on twitter but the problem is we have people who data mine and then the net spreads the info so making mythos like that is harder these days.
Mind you we have stuff like meteor towers which took a year to discover but now everyone knows instantly once someone finds it. Back then someone would find it but it would take time for word to travel.
In the game tips on mk11 it says something about ermac with the words all jumbled like there is errors in the code again so i love little eastereggs like that reminding us of the old days.
All my favourite characters came from them being hidden such as Reptile, Ermac and Noob Saibot.
Would be cool to see what they would do with chameleon and the likes with today’s versions of the game.
basically what I took from this video:
kintaro cant swim
Now he is just a Shang Tsung fatality.
I'd love to see an in-canon explanation for the divergence in the two Shokan lineages.
Simple science can explain: clearly at one point a four armed monkey had sex with both a dragon and a tiger and both races were created as the resulting offspring.
I really, REALLY hope he's in Mortal Kombat 1.
I remember trying to beat him in MK 2 on my SNES. On VERY EASY mode. Must have taken me 100 tries.
I love this channel keep them coming man!! 💯💯
Hell yeah!! I been waiting so long for this video.
him like MANY others (mostly 3d characters) are just killed off/written poorly and are highly under-appreciated by both fans and netherrealm. its sad, so many characters have so much potential.
Fun fact: Kintaro in armagedon in his ending he had four swords with the souls of scorpion, sub-zero, havik, and hontaro.
And having the powers of fire ice chaos and order
meh, armegedon endings were wack and out of place
As a kid, I wiped Goro down. Kintaro was harder for me, and Motaro was just brutal
Yeah I noticed the games got more difficult from 1-3 with each new game. Only way I ever beat Motaro was with my best character after MULTIPLE re-tries.
Kinda the opposite goro and motaro were cakewalks kintaro would kick my ass
Fighting Motaro always had my adrenaline running, he is so intimidating.
Everyone wants kintaro back but doesn’t wanna talk about how OP he would be as a playable character.
A giant walking, four armed, tiger mutant, with blades on each arm, that shoots fire from his mouth.
Dead is me
Dude I'm slowly falling in love with Kinatro as a character. He is so underrated
Edit: nvm Kintaro can't swim.
That has the potential for a cool personalized fatality where the opposing character knocks him into a pool of water and he drowns like a dumbass
I hope he comes back in the next mk game
He is one of my favorites espevially with his more feral look in the comic and I hated how he was treated.
His death at Sonya's hands made me dislike her even more (Yeah Johnny and her are my least liked haracets and by extention Cassie who has the blood of both).
What's wrong with Sonya and Johnny? Yeah Johnny's a bit of a jerk but that was mostly his younger self.
I don't use Sonya much but Johnny my guy
You dislike Sonya more because she killed Kintaro while brainwashed and not making "her own" decisions?
That's a bit weird to be honest.
He was also a secret fatality for Shang Tsung in the old MK. He’d morph into Kintaro and punch the opponent’s torso off
And now I'm imagining Goro with Jax's arms
Neat neat
I hope Kintaro comes back as a DLC for MK1.
I really wish Netherrealm Studios will use Kintaro more. Dude is heavily underrated.
Kintaro has always been my favorite sub-boss. Finally getting to him on the mountain was a big accomplishment for me as a youth, and finally defeating him the first time felt like quite an accomplishment. Besides nostalgia, I just think his look is the most creative out of all of the original bosses.
Love your videos man. I watched so many history behind the warrior episodes. Keep up the awesome work.
I like how kintaro can turn into anyone and takes people's souls. He says ur soul is mine. Pretty cool
Been back around to your channel rewatching some older vids and been catching up with your currents. Always love your content. Thanks for keeping it going ✊🏾✌🏾💪🏾🙏🏽
Motaro Motaro Motaro. We need a reboot of this character in the new timeline, ASAP. I don't care if he's NPC or not.. he needs his just due.
He got a reboot. He got killed by Raiden in MK9. Poor Motaro! Deserved better
@@BopWorld2023 I know I was excited to fight him in game but then he gets killed off, like at least let him kill someone off and let the player fight him before offing him
My favorite Kintaro appearence is still in MK2. He looked scary. Now he looks way less intimidating with the fur and tiger face.
Yeah, it's almost like they tried to make him look more animalistic or something
ANIMALITY
Kintaro has been my favorite sub boss since the moment I first saw him.
We salute you soldier🐯
Kintaro is my favorite Shokan and my most favorite sub boss from the original timeline. His MKX comic book look was the best feral design and would've been a great ally to Earth Realm if treated with the respect he deserves. I think it'd be best to have himself and Sheeva rival Goro and Motaro in MK12 instead of making that story dlc, because the story in MK11 is such a mess!
yo brother 🤘🏻 longtime MK / fighting game fan here and your stuff is AWESOME, man! keep doin what you do. we love it 🤟🏼❤️
Man he got done nasty in the mkx comic I really wanted ta see him in mkx or mk11
My first MK game being MK9 when I was little, Kintaro always stood out to me more than Goro. And despite what some people think, his design is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING in MK9! He needs to come back, whether he’s allied with Goro, or enineies.
Boom! I was waiting for this one
I love that Scorpion just pulls up and cleans up shop for them
What cemented Kintaro as my favorite Boss Kharacter over Goro and Onaga was seeing him walk out in Shaolin Monks.
nice, im the 4000th upvoter!
I LOVE your videos HBTW! My favorite Sub Boss of All Time is Motaro!!! I hope we can get them all in another game some day :)
There's a strong chance that Kintaro will appear in mk11 because he was playable 2 times.
Kintaros's *Grrrrrreeeeeat!* 👍🐯👍
Vid request:who is your favorite and most hated mk character in your opinion
Tsu hao
I jus like when the guy says there name when u pick them lol “ Motaro Kintaro” shit sounds tight lmao 😂
Glad I'm not the only one who likes Kintaro and he's part Tiger somehow anyway makes my Chinese Zodiac Fire Tiger Happy
I want an ACTUAL anthropomorphic tiger to ACTUALLY become a playable character in the Mortal Kombat franchise FOR REAL AND FOR GOOD ONE DAY!
He’ll be preorder DLC for MK12. Mark my words
Bro !!!!!!!! You are great at story telling
History of Motaro was the best, hands down (all eight of them)!
i always liked Kintaro and respected as a proper boss within Mk2.
Kintaro is such an underrated character
He has a full character design model in MK11. He is in Shang's fatality. Why isn't he playable what's up with that.
Honestly, Motaro is my favorite although he hasn’t been in a lot of games I feel like he deserves to be in Mortal Kombat 12
Mortal kombat is a goated verse, it's so unique and violent, i love all the creativity of the games since the beginning. And kintaro is also one of the very cool characters that i have liked since childhood, i despised goro for being ugly, and loved kintaro instead, back when we were playing shaolin monks co-op and armageddon.
I wish kintaro is gonna be explored further.
Ngl, the Tigrons are kinda based. Four armed fire-breathing cat people just seems like pure mortal Kombat energy.
Kintaro was a beast in mk 2!!
I like how your channel went from nothing to something I really enjoy your videos! I wish I had the same motivation but UA-cam isn’t for me....
Everytime I get a HBTW notification, it feels like Christmas as a child 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When MK 2 initially came out, gaming magazines, specifically EGM, were claiming that Kintaro was Goro’s father.
You gotta think, MK11 had the best possible reason for Kintaro to be in a Mortal Kombat game; the past characters are all pulled from moments before his fight in the Koliseum
Thanks I also think kintaro looks cooler,
But Goro was the first and that design was awesome for seeing it for the first time.
Kintaro was a good character. I wished he would've lived.
He will in the next timeline/universe.
Or in any others out there.
I miss kintaro
Me too😔 i wish he wasn't dead
I KNOW it's not cannon, but I've always preferred Kintaro's death at the hands of Lui Kang and Kung Lao during MK Shaolin Monks. It just is THE best send off for the character, but would mess up Kabal's origin. Really though I would've had Motaro responsible for Kabal's Origin OR Mavado if you think about it logically. 🤔
Good video as always though HBTW 👍
You'd think that Outworld would have sent Kintaro to the MK tournaments on Shang Tsung's Island as an insurance policy.
It was always a toss up between Motaro & Kintaro based off the designs. I love all types of mythology and centaurs are dope & who wouldn't love a huge 4 armed tiger 😂
I personally love all 3 Goro, Kintaro, & Sheeva are my favorites. I love all 3 them equally. 🙏🏻 I haven't really been exposed too much to Motaro to call him my favorite. 👀 So can't quite decide on him.
I love army tiger warrior. I can’t wait for him to make his appearance in the next Mortal Kombat game.
Loved MK2! This character was an amazing boss!
Kintaro is my favorite sub boss. Playing as him in trilogy was awesome
Kintaro is my favourite of the bosses. Followed closely by Mataro.
That’s an awesome way to go out tho. That scene would go hard in a movie
kintaro’s design in the comics looks cool
MK2 was one of the first Mortal kombat games I played, so Kintaro is definitely one of my favorite sub-bosses.
Little off topic but i believe the kintaro should've been a dlc character instead of sheeva. Allow me to explain. Sheeva was playable in mk9. In mkx it was goro so in mk11 I wished it was kintaro
AWESOME VIDEO!
Goro and Kintaro to Motaro:
"Shokan deez nutz!!!"
One of the best NPC ever
That sucks! But I guess Kintaro will live on through Shang Tsungs Fatality 🤣
990th Liked........Thanks for the hard work brah👍👍👍👍👍👍