At what point did Scorpion become more popular than Sub Zero?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Yeah but sub-zero doesn't even talks much...

Doesn't he even talk at all?

 

[Methodical]

Scorpion was my first favorite character when I played MK as a kid. "GET OVER HERE:

 

[Fckumeen]

Sub Zero for life

 

[Raiders]

sub zero was who I always rode with, but scorpion was always that dude everywhere I went. L Kang was my dude too with that bicycle kick.

 

[Steezy]

I was a reptile Stan

 

[Steezy]

Ermac too

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

They turned Scorpion into the Kratos of Mortal Kombat... similar back stories too..

 

[origiNel]

IMO it seems like they were both equally popular but Sub-Zero kinda lost a little popularity with the unmasking (even though the people of MK have smoothed that whole messy situation with the OG Sub-Zero becoming Noob Saibot, and Kuai Liang etc etc), which I personally didn't really have a problem with, once you realize his gameplay wasn't compromised (that 6 hit combo he had that involved all the punch/kick buttons, and that fatality where he raises you up, freezes you and breaks you in half ).


Also, once Mortal Kombat went into 3D, especially after Deadly Alliance, Sub-Zero became more of a slow, bruiser type of fighter while Scorpion has some speed to his fighting, and of course the casual gamer is gonna wanna lean more to the faster character, not to mention Boon being a Scorp fan.

Then again, Scorpion has one main thing, which Sub-Zero does not, which is...




I'm more of a Liu Kang guy (Liu had the juice from MK1-3 no question), but I like Sub and Scorp, they were both great in UMK3.

 

[origiNel]

Speaking of Scorpion...

 

[The Mad Titan]

When he started getting guest features in everything.

 

[Chris Cool]

sub zero was that dude for the longest, now he be getting shafted. they been going hard with it since he became the company logo though. i was @ him was getting his ass whooped in scorpion's injustice intro.

 

[feelosofer]

Scorpion and Sub-Zero were the Ken and Ryu of Mortal Kombat. They were about equal in popularity, but it seems in modern times, Scorpion is clearly getting that push, he's been the best if not amongst the best player in most of the recent games.

 

[iBrowse]

Sub Zero was the man until THIS came out

Oh my god not this game +rep

EDIT: gotta wait

 

[Reptile]

But yea Sub Zero was slightly more popular than Scorpion for a bit.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

scorpion has always been more popular

This is revisionist history, nikkas been yelling “get over here” for over 30 years. He had the best fatality in the original MK