Fighter ID

Dark display theme for Sektor
Mortal Kombat 4
3D Conventional Gameplay
Midway
Tags
finishing_moves
weapons
ultra_violence
Mortal Kombat Series
Release Dates
Arcade
10/15/1997
Nintendo 64
6/23/1998
Playstation
6/24/1998
Windows
7/23/1998
Game Boy
12/29/1998
GameBoy Color release
PlayStation 4
10/30/2025 Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection
Compilation release. Arcade version.
PlayStation 5
10/30/2025 Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection
Compilation release. Arcade version.
Switch
10/30/2025 Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection
Compilation release. Arcade version.
Switch 2
10/30/2025 Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection
Compilation release. Arcade version.
Xbox One
10/30/2025 Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection
Compilation release. Arcade version.
Xbox Series X
10/30/2025 Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection
Compilation release. Arcade version.
Windows
10/30/2025 Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection
Compilation release. Arcade version.
Fighters
Fujin
Playable Character Arcade
Goro
Boss Character Arcade
Unlockable for play in the Playstation, Nintendo 64, and Windows versions. Not available in the GameBoy Color version.
Jarek
Playable Character Arcade
Not available in the GameBoy Color version.
Jax
Playable Character Arcade
Not available in the GameBoy Color version.
Voice Actor Ed Boon
Johnny Cage
Playable Character Arcade
Not available in the GameBoy Color version.
Kai
Playable Character Arcade
Not available in the GameBoy Color version.
Liu Kang
Playable Character Arcade
Voice Actor Ed Boon
Meat
Hidden Character Arcade
Unlockable bonus skin for all characters. Not available in the GameBoy Color version.
Noob Saibot
Hidden Character Playstation
Available only in Playstation, Nintendo 64, and Windows versions (was a standard playable character in preliminary versions of the Arcade version).
Quan Chi
Playable Character Arcade
Raiden
Playable Character Arcade
Reiko
Playable Character Arcade
Voice Actor Ed Boon
Reptile
Playable Character Arcade
Unlockable hidden character in the GameBoy Color version.
Scorpion
Playable Character Arcade
Voice Actor Ed Boon
Shinnok
Playable Character Arcade
Unplayable boss character in the GameBoy version.
Face Model Steve Beran
Voice Actor John Tobias
Sonya Blade
Playable Character Arcade
Not available in the GameBoy Color version.
Motion Capture Kerri Hoskins
Voice Actor Kerri Hoskins
Sub-Zero (II)
Playable Character Arcade
Voice Actor John Tobias
Tanya
Playable Character Arcade
Face Model Lia Montelongo
Motion Capture Lia Montelongo
While they eliminated fully digitized actors for Mortal Kombat 4, many of the character's face textures were modeled after Midway staff members. Namely Steve Beran (Shinnok), and Herman Sanchez (Jarek).
Jarek
Shinnok
Much of MK4's newcomer cast originally started as returning characters, but they were replaced by pastiches to give the cast more new faces. Of note is the replacing of Kitana with Tanya; either Kitana was replaced late in development, or Eurocom (the company responsible for the home ports) designed a palette swap of Kitana for the home versions that was left unfinished; there exists in the coding of the Playstation, Nintendo 64, and PC versions a buggy recolored Tanya that is named "Kitana" and has a medley of moves from other characters. The console versions even give her the fan as a weapon. This faux Kitana can be access via game enhancer in the console versions and an external trainer program in the PC version. Whatever the case, Midway openly acknowledged that the blurry Kitana that appears in Liu Kang's ending uses the same model as Tanya.

This connection between the two characters may explain why Khameleon borrows a move from Tanya in MK Armageddon despite the latter not actually existing as one of the "female ninja" that Khameleon normally mimics.
Kitana
Tanya

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