SCORPION
 
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 210 lbs
Age: 42 years old
Origin when alive: Earthrealm
Origin after death: Netherealm
Species: Specter
Affiliation: Shirai Ryu, Worked for Shao Kahn and Shinnok
Styles: Hapkido, Pi Gua, Ninja Sword

Mythologies: Scorpion was a ninja hired by Quan Chi to acquire a map. On
the way Scorpion met with Sub-Zero of a rival ninja clan. Scorpion
taunted Sub-Zero and left to find the map. The two ended up finding it
at the same time so they dueled. Unlike Sub-Zero, Scorpion lacked the
special abilities necessary to win. Despite his pleading, Scorpion's
life was not spared. Sub-Zero tore off his head with the spine dangling
beneath. Unbeknownst to Scorpion, Quan Chi murdered the other members of
his clan along with his family as an act of gratitude towards Sub-Zero.

Scorpion was reborn a specter in the Netherealm, fueled by hatred and a
never-ending desire for revenge. In an odd turn of events, Sub-Zero
appeared in the realm on a mission. Scorpion confronted his rival and
desperately asked why he killed he and his family. Sub-Zero claimed
that the reason he killed Scorpion was because it was his way, but insisted
that he had nothing to do with the death of Scorpion's family. Scorpion
lashed out and challenged Sub-Zero, now with supernatural powers. Sub-Zero
won the fight and escaped.

Mortal Kombat 1: Scorpion found his way out of the Netherealm and entered
Shang Tsung's tournament. On the boat transporting the warriors, Scorpion
appeared before Sub-Zero with the warning of whom he was and what he
planned to do at the tournament. And his threats were not empty. In a
rematch against Sub-Zero, Scorpion had exacted his revenge and killed his
nemesis. There was nothing left for him after that. His freakish
appearance would have been too much for his family to handle and he had
no real reason to continue with the tournament. He disappeared into the
depths of the Netherealm.

Mortal Kombat II: News reached Scorpion (perhaps from Quan Chi) that
Sub-Zero had somehow returned and was going to take part in the new
tournament. Scorpion left the Netherealm again and followed Sub-Zero into
Outworld. During the tournament, Scorpion stared in bewilderment as he
saw Sub-Zero, the ninja who needlessly murdered him, actually spare the
life of an opponent. Later on the two of them fought one-on-one. After
an exhausting fight, Scorpion came out the winner. But he had a moment of
clarity. It wasn't Sub-Zero he was fighting, or at least not the one he knew
of. Instead it was Sub-Zero's little brother who continued the original's
legacy. Scorpion vanished and spared Sub-Zero's life. He vowed to protect
the younger Sub-Zero from that day on as a way to say sorry for his act of
vengeance a year earlier.

Mortal Kombat Trilogy: Shao Kahn tried to steal the souls of the
Netherealm. While it didn't work, it did give Scorpion the ability to
leave the forsaken realm. Scorpion wandered alone as a wild card in the
war until the day he came across Shao Kahn. Kahn offered him a spot in
his forces with the promise of the ability to keep him out of the
Netherealm. Scorpion agreed. But as he was supposed to attack some of
Earthrealm's warriors, he was shocked to see a red scar over one's eye.
It was Sub-Zero. Scorpion remembered his vow and turned on the emperor.
He was more than likely killed by either Kahn or one of Kahn's men.

Mortal Kombat Gold: Scorpion learned more about the death of his family from
Quan Chi. According to Quan Chi, who Scorpion apparently trusted, the
younger Sub-Zero was the one responsible. Scorpion aided Shinnok so that
he could eventually meet Sub-Zero again and make him pay. At the end of
the events of MKG, Scorpion and Sub-Zero clashed for the final time.
Scorpion won once more and taunted that he could finally rest now that
his family's killer was going to be dead. But Sub-Zero groggily
proclaimed his innocence. Somehow Scorpion believed him, and Quan Chi
himself verified it. Scorpion was told that he was nothing but a pawn to
kill both of the Sub-Zero brothers and that he was no longer needed. Quan
Chi banished Scorpion back to the fifth plain of the Netherealm, but
Scorpion rushed Quan Chi and grabbed onto him. When the spell had taken
effect, both Scorpion and Quan Chi were standing together in the pits of
the Netherealm.

Deadly Alliance: Scorpion had spent years thrashing Quan Chi until the
day when the sorcerer gained temporary allies with Moloch and Drahmin,
two Oni from the fifth plain. Though thoroughly beaten, Scorpion attacked
Quan Chi a second time. This time he was able to elude the Oni's attack
for the most part and chase Quan Chi into Outworld, though he landed in a
different spot. He tracked down Quan Chi and fought him, but Quan Chi
actually won and knocked Scorpion into a pit of acid. Again Scorpion
returned from the Netherealm (the SIXTH time) and entered Shang Tsung's
fortress so he could get at Quan Chi. But he accidentally found himself
in a room with Moloch and Drahmin. Scorpion gave them the fight of his
life and took them both on at once. But in the end he was overwhelmed by
their combined might. He was tossed into Shang Tsung's Soulnado, which
was a tornado of souls from the heavens. The purity of the Soulnado tore
Scorpion's body, fired up with evil and hatred and hell to shreds.

Deception: No information yet, but he's confirmed to be there.

Miscellaneous Facts and Notes:

Ed Boon supplied Scorpion's voice, but everybody knows that.

Scorpion's original bio claimed that he wore his yellow outfit to make
fun of the Lin Kuei's cowardly acts. As MKM shows, Midway had retconned
that since Scorpion wore the outfit before dying.

At no point did Scorpion become a specter because he was bitten by some
mystical scorpion like MK: Conquest claimed. God that was idiotic.

There's a contradiction about MK2's events dealing with the comic and the
game. In the comic, he attacks Reptile, claiming that he already knows
about that the two Sub-Zeros are different guys. But in his ending it says
that he realized it when Sub-Zero spared an opponent during the tournament.
I'll just go with the game's explanation on this one.

Weird thing is that in different forms of media, Scorpion has had
different versions of his spear move. In the movie he had a living
creature sticking out his hand. In the Malibu comic series he had a
spiked ball and chain. And in the cartoon he had a gold chain. Let it be
said that I pity the fool who messes with Scorpion's gold chains.

Scorpion is the only guy from MK1 to have retained his exact weight and
height for MK:DA. And to no one's surprise, Scorpion has the exact same
weight and height as both Sub-Zeros.

Make no mistake, Scorpion is no hero. Much like Akuma in the Street
Fighter series, Scorpion is neither good nor evil. He is just Scorpion.
If innocent people get in the way of his vengeance, then so be it.

He was a secret character in the arcade NBA Jam: Tournament Edition.