How old is sub zero in mortal kombat

Aside from flash-freezing opponents, Sub-Zero also has the ability to instantly conjure up an ice statue of himself to act as both a scapegoat and a 'landmine' of sorts as any who touch it instantly flash freeze. He has created many different kinds of ice constructs for offense and defense. Such ice constructs include swords, daggers, hammers, axes, spears, shields, walls, spikes, statues and more. He is one of the characters that are more oriented on defense thanks to his ability to counter attacks by freezing melee attackers who come into contact with him and being able to create several defensive ice constructs that usually freeze on contact such as icy orb traps, ice clones, ice barriers and ice armor.

Ever since he takes possession of the Dragon Medallion, the scope of Sub-Zero's powers and abilities has increased significantly. As a member of the Lin Kuei, Sub-Zero has attained a great degree of skill in many forms of hand-to-hand combat.

The Dragon Medallion and his ancestral armor increased and amplified his martial arts and ice-related abilities, as shown in his Deception Arcade ending. Throughout the Mortal Kombat series, Sub-Zero's abilities have grown more powerful; he was capable of killing an entire city's population while amplified by Blood Magik and was able to freeze a large building and shattered it with one punch.

As a cyborg, Sub-Zero's natural strength is further enhanced through cybernetics. While he has a noticeably lighter frame, he appears to easily be the strongest and most capable of the cyborg ninjas, not only for soundly defeating his former Lin Kuei brethren Sektor and his older brother , but also both Shokan champions, Kintaro and Goro single-handed at the same time.

He still retains his old cryomancy powers and wields the same skill he had when he was human, but these have been translated into a fighting style especially suited for his unique frame, taking attributes from both his original form and Cyrax.

While he can fire ice blasts in an instant from his chest cavity, he still performs the charging motion subconsciously to help focus his power.

He still retains the ability to shape the cold around his body into solid weaponry and thus, regularly uses an ice sword in battle, albeit with a different, much larger shape featuring a hand guard.

Like Cyrax, he has the ability to teleport by separating his limbs and reconfiguring at a different location. While he has lost the ability to make ice clones, he is instead given the ability to flash-freeze himself temporarily, passing the freeze to melee attackers for a quick counterattack.

Sub-Zero took off his mask, revealing his face, and told Liu Kang it was his elder brother killed by Liu Kang. Kitana asked for Sub-Zero's help, to which he agree. However, they were attacked by Scorpion. As Liu Kang rushed to the assistance of Sub-Zero, Scorpion teleported away from the battle with Kitana as his captive.

Afterwards, Sub-Zero is not seen again for the remainder of the movie. Sub-Zero was portrayed by Keith Cooke , who appeared as Reptile in the first movie. Sub-Zero has to prove he was trustworthy in "Kombat Begins Again", the first episode of the series, since his status as a Lin Kuei traitor cast a shadow of doubt over his intentions, especially with Sonya, who takes longer to be convinced. In the next episode, "Sting of the Scorpion", he confronts and is defeated by Scorpion, only to be succeeded by Liu Kang.

His last important episode is the 5th episode "Old Friends Never Die", in which he is attacked by former friend Smoke, and is able to free his soul and later take on the Lin Kuei Grandmaster. He appears in the epilogue of the story arc Battlewave , in which, wearing his MK3 attire, freeze a group of Lin Kuei while proclaiming the clan is corrupted and no more worthy of the services of Sub-Zero.

If there was any plannings to the younger Sub-Zero, they were never explored as the comic books ended before adapting the Mortal Kombat 3 stories. Sub-Zero and his brother are mentioned in the short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth , by Sonya Blade and Jax Briggs , in an attempt to gain Scorpion's trust, and get him to enter Shang Tsung 's tournament as Sonya Blade told Hanzo Hasashi that if he joined the tournament, he would get the opportunity to kill Sub-Zero.

Scorpion believed he was dead, but he was then informed that the one he had killed was the older brother. Kuai Liang, played by Harry Shum Jr. Contrary to most of his counterparts in other media, this version of Kuai Liang is portrayed as a man without morals or honor as he used Scorpion's son, Jubei , as bait to attempt to lure him into an ambush.

What happens to him is unknown, but it is implied he was killed by Scorpion. Mortal Kombat Wiki Explore. The Dragon Medallion also had the unfortunate effect of accelerating Sub-Zero's age. Sub-Zero decided to lend his aid and went on the dangerous mission to prove himself and earn the respect of his Lin Kuei followers.

He also took Frost with him, a powerful, promising young cryomancer like himself. After Frost tried to betray Sub-Zero and take the Dragon Medallion for herself, she was consumed by her own cryo powers. Sub-Zero searched Outworld for a suitable place to bury her remains when he came across a structure carved into the side of a mountain. He learned that the ruins were a holy place to a race of long lost people who developed the mastery over cold. Determining that he and Frost were these people's descendants, Sub-Zero leaves Frost's body in a sarcophagus there while donning the Dragon Armor of his heritage.

Taven and Sub-Zero defeat them before Taven leaves to finish his journey to reach Blaze. Sub-Zero is later one of the many warriors fighting for the side of good on the way up the pyramid leading to Armageddon. Sub-Zero once again is out for revenge for the death of his older brother. However, Raiden's attempts at changing the timeline to avoid Armageddon inadvertently leads to the Lin Kuei managing to capture Sub-Zero and convert him into a cyborg like Cyrax and Sektor instead of Smoke.

Despite this, Sub-Zero continues to fight on the side of the remaining Earthrealm warriors. Unsurprisingly, the majority of Sub-Zero's finishing moves involve ice in some way. In the alternate timeline of Mortal Kombat , Raiden attempts to save Smoke from being transformed into a Cyborg Ninja, only for Sub Zero to undergo the same progress.

After being disabled by Kabal, his mind and personality is restored by Jax and Sonya, who override his programming. They use this opportunity to use Sub-Zero as an Outworld sleeper agent, freeing prisoners defeating Goro and Kintaro simultaneously in the process and attempting to foil their plans. After meeting Noob Saibot and learning of his true identity many years before he would've done in the original timeline, Sub-Zero returns to the EarthRealm warriors base of operations.

Cyber Sub-Zero is shown defeating Shao Kahn, who in turn possesses Sub Zero, creating a new entity combining cyborg technology and Shao Kahn's powerful magic. Kold Fusion - Suicide attack in which Cyber Sub-Zero will enter a command before jumping onto his opponent, the resulting explosion killing both. Brain Freeze - Shurikens into the eyes followed by a ice charged shuriken which spins violently in the brain, making the opponent collapse. Sub-Zero cameos in Scorpion's intro in Injustice: Gods Among Us ; he is about to be finished by Scorpion when the yellow ninja is pulled through to the Injustice universe.

Sub-Zero himself appears as a playable character in the sequel, Injustice 2. This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. He learns of Scorpion 's vendetta against his older brother but has no idea why his life was spared.

And finally, it's time to show off the extent of his cryomancy in sabotaging the Mortal Kombat tournament before the Earthrealm's champions have a chance to harness their own special skills. Luring Jax Mehcad Brooks into his ice domain, Sub-Zero first stops the bullets shot from his gun, then freezes and cracks his beefy arms off before kicking the rest of his amputated body down a hole in the floor.

He makes spiky ice walls. And before you know it, it's the third act of the film and Sub-Zero is facing Cole Lewis Tan , a distant descendent of Hanzo Hasashi thanks to the baby stashed in the floorboards before Bi-Han killed the rest of his family.

It's here where the melding of fight choreography and special effects get especially fun, with Cole summoning Hanzo, officially Scorpion, out of Hell and Sub-Zero pulls out all the stops to kill him once again. He makes a sword out of Scorpion's frozen blood; he flings deadly ice darts at Cole; he creates an ice decoy of himself to dodge an attack. After shedding his armor and mask it's symbolic , Sub-Zero is finally bested and dissolves into pitch-black charcoal.

It took me a while to gather myself because I invested too much, probably, kind of crossed the line," Taslim said laughing.

He was later killed in the Outworld invasion, his soul claimed by the Netherrealm sorcerer Quan Chi. Sub-Zero served the demon realm during its subsequent war with Earthrealm. Returned to humanity by Raiden in the aftermath, Sub-Zero rebuilt the Lin Kuei--this time as a benevolent organization dedicated to the protection of Earthrealm.

This is the form that Kuai Liang took when he was transformed into a Cyborg.