Favorite Mortal Kombat Character?

I'll start by saying that Mortal Kombat Armageddon has one of the best rosters of any fighting game for PS2. Also, the MK series has some of the coolest characters, fighting styles, and weaponry for any PS2 game.

With that said, I'll break down my large list the best I can.

General kombatants
Raiden (always been a fan, he rocks)
Liu Kang (I hate the shrieking, but I love the styles, combos, specials, and weapon), Stryker (good specials, nice combos and crazy weapon)
Nightwolf (nice specials, combos, sweet weapons)
Hotaru (cool costume, cool specials, good weapon)
Shujinko (cracks me right up, senile old man.. NICE specials and combos though), Kung Lao (he just rocks plain and simple..)
Kenshi (awesome specials and weapon skill)
Havik (he amuses me, has a cool image and backstory, cool weapon, and awesome specials)
Fujin (he's really cheap though)
Baraka (he's DIRT cheap to play against a friend with, but man he's cool as hell. Love the weapons, love the image, the whole nomadic warrior thing, he kicks ass)
Reiko (though I admit to him being about as cheap to use as Baraka is. Everything Reiko does rocks, his moves are smooth and acrobatic, cool combos, hammer, everything)

Ninjas
I'm a big fan of ninjutsu, I think having a nice variety of ninja characters is one of the things that got me interesteed in MK to start with.
Sub-Zero was always my favorite ninja. I love the whole concept, the storyline, the outfit, the abilities. I'll count Noob Saibot in the same line as Sub-Zero, as Noob is the original Sub-Zero. Noob kicks ass, and has one of my favorite weapons ever in his hammer. His shuriken throw rock. Scorpion too. Always loved the rope dart spear move, his almost gutteral yelling, his outfit, the fire bit, the fatalities, and his whole backstory with him being a spectre out for revenge. My other two favorites would have to be Rain, who I just think is cool and kick-ass with a nice sword, and Reptile, who I feel has one of the best storylines in the game, and awesome moves. I like all of the ninjas though, they rock. Some cool points to Ermac.

Cyber Ninjas
Since there are only three, I'll just have to pick a favorite. I'd probably go with Smoke. Sektor rocks hard too, and Cyrax is good. Smoke is actually one of my favorite characters to play as in Armageddon, he entertains me.

Sorcerers, demons/Oni, vampires, dragons
These are actually my least favorite types of characters, though I have taken a liking to Quan Chi recently, and Ashrah is pretty cool. Nitara is probably my least favorite character besides Moloch and Drahmin. Moloch sucks.

Female kombatants
I have three favorite females, those being Frost, Mileena and Jade. Frost kicks ass. Jade is one of my favorite characters in the game, partly because I'm a sucker for staff fighting. Mileena is one of my best, I often get flawless wins with her on any difficulty besides max, and she's also the only female that I *totally* destroyed Blaze with on Hard.

I'd also like to note that Blaze sucks big-time and is the worst MK boss OR sub-boss ever. :-\

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