The Story of Rain, Mortal Kombat's Purple Ninja

I don't get it.

And then Prince wrote a song about him

I <3 MK

PURPLE RAIYNE!!!

I never meant to cause you any sorrow.

Fatality

Obligatory Prince comment.

Hard water?  Who's writing this stuff?

Wait, how do Lui Kangs legs fly off? Water pressure?

Purple rain motherfucker !

Pretty bad luck the resistance had with both Rain leaving and then him joining Shao Kahn.

I guess when it rains it pours.

Hey, look, another Ninja.

Man, the part where he rips Lui Kang's legs off was pretty gnarly.

Warning: Title may contain bad puns.
At least it didn't take the easy purple rain thing. Or downloadable rain info trickling in. Or rain storming into xbox live marketplace.

@NinjaMime said:

His fatality looks dumb, a shame really, with this powers you would think they would come up with something better.

Yeah, his fatalities are very generic and he's just a bland character in general. I was glad he was left out of the main game, but his popularity ensured he was always going to be DLC.

@Agent47: @Meowshi: I didn't make it up. Hard water is totally a real thing.

I'm not really sure if his new backstory is an improvement over the old one or not.

Compared to everyone else, the idea of him using blades of water (which I know if projected at the right pressure can cut through a lot of things) just doesn't seem all that menacing. Out of the 4 new people so far I'd definitely get him last, waiting on the 4th to see if they do some kind of package deal otherwise will just get Scarlet first & then Kenshi, after that I might grab the Rain DLC but probably not anytime soon.

Kenshi is the best ever. If you dont agree with me you should seriously consider agreeing with me.

Sweet! Rain DLC being released on my birthday!

Rain sounds like a dick.

@fox01313: They already are doing a package deal. Spend $15, get all 4.

I preferred his last backstory.

@Agent47: @Meowshi: I didn't make it up. Hard water is totally a real thing.

Hard water? I guess that's what they call... 
*ARI* 
"Heavy Rain" 
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

@NinjaMime said:

His fatality looks dumb, a shame really, with this powers you would think they would come up with something better.

Like what?

PURPLE RAIN. 
 
PURPLE RAAAAA-EEEEEEEEE-AAAAAAAAIN. 

I feel as if Mortal Kombat has been taken over by Vince MacMahon: every character has a gimmick. "He's the smoke guy; he's the ice guy; she's the blood charater; he's the blind guy; this one uses water..."

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Doink the clown in the next DLC.

@CookieMonster: someone always beats me to it.....

Help me w/ this: Character design wrt the look of each character is ___ in MK.

Does Rain ever have to take showers anymore?