Liu Kang, a young Chinese martial arts expert, learns that his younger brother was killed during a fight against the sorcerer Shang Tsung. The latter promised his master Shao Kahn, the emperor of Outworld, absolute control of the Earth so that evil and desolation would settle there for eternity. To achieve this, all he has to do is win the "Mortal Kombat", a titanic tournament whose winner has always been Prince Goro, a four-armed dragon man from the kingdom of Shokan. For his part, in order to protect the Earth, Lord Raiden, the god of thunder, pits several valiant fighters against Shang Tsung. Among them are Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, an action movie actor, and Lieutenant Sonya Blade, a member of the Special Forces.
