Scorpion - A Visual History 

I think Injustice Scorpion works well because it's totally its own thing. Most of Scorpion's costumes in the main series are iterations of his classic look, whereas Injustice fully commits to being new and different.

One of the most consistently cool looking characters in all of media. Scorpion will always be the most iconic fighting game character alongside Ryu He’s gone through a lot of changes, but has rarely ever missed. Will always love him!

I might be a weirdo but MK9 Scorpion is my favorite skin. Was a fan when they brought it back in MK11. Looks great. Also Injustice Scorpion was pretty cool.

It's a shame that Scorpion's alternate costumes for MK11 weren't discussed, since I would've liked to see your takes on his Grandmaster Hasashi and Past Scorpion looks from the story mode.

Gonna miss Hanzo as Scorpion...what a run. Especially Patrick Seitz voicing the wrath so incredibly from MKX and Scorpion's Revenge

MK9 is peak scorpion for me. A resurrected ninja from hell should have a costume that fits his personality of pure vengeance.

I'm not a huge fan of the injustice costume, but I do love some of the ideas and themes. The reserved attachment to the physical representation of the Scorpion idea checks out. Fits in more with the superhero aesthetic. AND also makes me really want a game where scorpion uses a kusarigama. It makes so much sense.

The one thing that I really like about MK1's design philosophy is that the characters look very "real" to me in a way that MK11's didnt. Don't get me wrong, MK11 looks amazing, but MK1 characters look a lot more natural and I kind of enjoy that not every fighter is jacked or shredded. Li Mei straight up looks like a yoga instructor or runner from her body type, but then she's doing crazy scissor kicks in mid air and launching you into the air with a purple Chinese energy lion. It's almost a surprise that she's so badass based on her physical characteristics and I kind of love that. They made the characters look super appealing and realistic and let their move sets and abilities express why they're so powerful.

please keep this series going!!!

Love MK11 Scorpion. Adding red was a stroke of genius. I also like that the cloth portions of it look like clothes, and not a weird MCU costume

Deception was my overall favorite Scorpion Design since 1 grew up with it and 2 It looks amazing alongside with Shredder-Zero

Scorpion's design along "GET OVER HERE" will always be a memorable Mortal Kombat staple

Scorpion is my favorite MK kharacter ever,when i played MK4 in 2001(my first MK game)i instantly loved his moveset and visuals and the "Get Over Here" line is too iconic. My favorite MK kharacter ever along with Mileena and Kung Lao.

Max just casually skipped over the DA alt costume.. easily my favorite design of his with the fire skull. 10/10 costume

One thing, UMK3 wasn’t a reactive move to 3’s reception, they had always intended to release it later as a cabinet update, with even the promo video to arcade owners being told as such.

Scorpion’s MK9 costume is a 10/10 in MK11 though…

The MK9 & Injustice takes are insane lol

I openly said "Damn." when MKX Scorpion came up. It's peak for me.🔥🦖🤘

I absolutely love these visual history videos, keep em coming.

So glad you’re continuing this series for mortal kombat ! Max is like me, you give a character a hood and I’m definitely gonna love it. Giving scorpion one for his injustice and MKX design was the best thing to happen

I’ve always like Scorpions designs throughout the years of MK. My personal favorite design from Scorpion is MK Deception’s 1st costume. It has a lot going on and I do love the mask, the body outfit did it for me with the samurai-like outfit; the spike on his wrist personifies scorpions identity. I would give it a 8/10 MK11 scorpion design is without a doubt a 10/10🔥(Definitely looking forward to the next visual history)

Jim Lee is one of my first inspirations as an artist and i love his Scorpion design, no reason to feel weird about that at all. in fact i’d argue Injustice has some of the better character designs for the super heroes themselves as well. some feel a bit over armored if you translate them to 2d but in 3d they really work for me.

MK3 is actually one of my favorites in the franchise. That apocalyptic aesthetic, our realm being corrupted by outworld, the setting & soundtrack are great

Love how Scorpion looks in MK1 but my favourite scorpion outfit of all time is probably the main one from MK11 or the main one from MKX 💛

I like his injustice design.

Love this series so far Max, really hope you make more

Absolutely love this series !!! Keep going !

I'm loving this series, keep it up!

Love this series always so interesting to watch 🙌🏽

Damn it Max, you forgot to rate the "Cooking With Scorpion" costume from Deadly Alliance

Max needs to check the comics too. Because in the comics there some variation in the costumes.

I’m enjoying this series Max! Looking forward to more visual history.

I really love Scorpion and Sub-Zero’s MK1 costumes. I feel like they’ve been pretty under appreciated to this point though.

About the Armageddon Scorpion. I think what threw me off about it at the time was not only was it less busy, but the outfit just seemed too smooth and had different lighting or saturation, not sure how to properly describe it. Compared to the rest of the kombat kast with their detailed outfits, it was out of place with its simplicity. As an aside, I loved his alt in Deadly Alliance.

Scorpion is one of the best Looking Characters in the Franchise, especially MK, MK2, UMK3, MK vs. DC, MK9, MKX, MK11, and MK1 with the Vibrant Yellow and Gold Masks, Sub-Zero would be a Longer List.

I haven't played a decent chunk of the MK games so these visual histories are amazing! Love these new series(?) you're doing on the Visual History of characters

Scorpion is the most iconic character ever in Mortal Kombat. I like his MK9 and MK2 looks the most. Great video Max as always. I looking for more Visual History of MK characters. Can do Liu Kang next?

The snowblindcostume for scorpion was pretty amazing my opinion because it really made him look more like a demonspawn

He missed snow blind scorpion that outfit was awesome.

His Injustice design is my personal favorite.

I'm glad to see this continuing. There's definitely been some odd moments, but Scorpion has generally always been sick.

hope you make more visual history, this videos are amazing

Max essentially doing fashion photo review but with video game characters is the stuff of dreams

Tbh I prefer MK11's "O.G. Ninja" skin way more than the default MK11 design. That combined with the Tachijutsu Master mask and Wani's Tail spear are just 11/10.

I just adore Scorpion's designs in MK11, it's the main costume that looks the best... but you don't see it often if you play the story or customize him often. It's pretty rare to have him look awful... That's usually meant for live action takes at most, and Injustice's, which I like elements, but like most of Injustice, is busy city.

MK9 Scorpion is 10/10 MK11 Scorpion is like a 6 his MKX outfit gets a 3.

love this videos,dont stop doing them please

So far mk 1 is actually my favorite design for scorpion and sub zero because I love the cut, slick look. The more simple design look awesome.

Rain next?

The reason why he has so much armor in deception is because it was gifted to him by the elder gods after he was thrown into the soulnado from deadly alliance. He was gifted the armor and sent out to do the gods bidding

Mk deception scorpion design is super underrated to me. I really dig that design. His mk 9 and mk 11 are also top tier

MK4 Scorpion probably suffered a lot from the quality of 3d models at the time, maybe if it was made into a real costume like mk 1 to umk3 were it'd look better.

Even though some of his designs weren't my favorite, that doesn't make them any less cooler. Scorpion has had the best designs throughout the franchise

I do like his design in mk1 but like... it's Kuai Liang and not Hanzo Hasashi. That still bothers me a little bit that it's not Hanzo. I've heard a bunch of different rumors about what could be going on with Hanzo in this timeline and i dislike most of them. I've heard that he might just be chilling with his family and he's finally found that peaceful life he's been after for so long. I like that idea. I can get behind that. But then I've also heard that he might be the grandmaster of the lin kuei and the father of Bi Han and Kuai Liang. And I absolutely HATE that idea. If that is what they did with Hanzo in this timeline, not only do I personally think it's a stupid idea but it might also be a little culturally insensitive. I mean think about it, Bi Han and Kuai Liang are both Chinese names. Lin kuei is literally Chinese for "forests demons". So to make Hanzo Hasashi (a very Japanese name) the grandmaster of this ancient Chinese ninja clan and the father of these 2 Chinese men, that's kinda like saying: "eh Chinese Japanese same shit!"

Honestly love your content dood keep it up 👍 (Also I love hearing your takes on designs)

hell keep these vidoes coming. these are great

Loving this series. Hope you do this for every character. Scorpion has been one of my top 5 faves since the first MK game.

The 95’ movie Scorpion was so creepy. Those dead, soulless eyes. That mask design is my favourite.

One cool thing to point out about MK1 Scorpion is the level of detail and the quality of fabric he's wearing compared to his brother, the Grandmaster Sub Zero, who has more metallic adornments and higher quality fabric. Great visual language to tell you the status of both characters despite being part of the same clan.

They need to make Deception Scorpion a skin in MK1

Thank you for this one too!!

Max is amazing continue this series

Great idea for a series. Happy to watch these for every damn character in the game.

I just want to say, thank you for making your intro 10 seconds. A while back I was dealing with a LOOOOT of mental health issues (most of which made me EXTREMELY irritable no matter how much I tried to just cope and deal with things). I had an episode at some point and complained that the intro was 15 seconds rather than 10 (which is the increment that RU-vid allows you to skip forward on mobile) and I don’t know if you changed it because of the increment of RU-vid time skips and/or people with irritability or not… but I definitely appreciate it. I’m doing much better now a days (was like 4 years ago when I was doing that bad). Dealt with a lot of things that stress me out and blah blah blah…. But I’m definitely appreciative of the intro being shortened

Looking at your videos, I'm in a mindset at the moment where I come to appreciate what a lot of what you do. So many videos make me feel icky nowadays for various reasons, to the point where I don't want to watch anything. It's hard to explain and complex, but I came to realise I never have this with your videos. It's always in such good faith, with interesting insight and just SO reasonable in SUCH a seemless way. You simply keep a separation between the drama and factuality and good conduct while being fun as well. You vehicule this feeling and spread it. I really appreciate what you do and I am so glad you get such recognition for it. ❤

Deception Scorpion is sooooo clean

Really enjoying these visual retrospective videos

His design really jumps up a few notches once they started giving him a cowl rather than a ski-mask.

Dood! Thanks for a 3rd part of this!!!

Please keep doing these breakdowns they are epic 😩🙏

love these videos Keep up the good work

I love that Max is doing this. I need more man

Adding red to the costume was the best idea ever.

Honestly my favorite design was 11's. It’s something about the red highlights, hood, and katana blades that I really like. I’m also a huge fan of the simple but effective look that Scorpion, Sub Zero, and Smoke have with their Lin Kuei uniforms in the new Mortal Kombat 1.

There's a reason for the more golden colored and armored Scorpion around the time of Deception in the game's lore, it's not just them choosing to make him look more that way. He became the chosen warrior and Champion of the Elder God's, and was given a powerup and upgrade to his abilities, gear, etc... This explains the transition.

Love this series!

Mk11 is just gorgeous

I think this is the first time I've ever disagreed with Max. Scorp's MK9 costume is my favorite. Most badass skin he's ever had.

Scorpion rarely ever misses, you can tell hes their baby

Thanks for doing these Dood!!!!

I think the red parts on Scorpion might be a reference to the Error Macro glitch, because that specific glitch made his yellow suit red

Can’t believe you forgot the iconic cooking with scorpion

"I went to the world of final fantasy and look what I found!" oh my dude, I am rolling.

Deadly alliance is the best imo, love the ninja aesthetic with the addition of spikes plus the armor pads make him look sick

Max´s compliments: I dont hate it, I dont despise it, it´s not terrible

Deadly Alliance Scorpion is peak for me

MK2 scorpion "what's the difference between me and you?" MK1 scorpion " I'm not wearin hockey pads"

Deadly Alliance Scorpion still my favorite design to date, he never looked more badass

Max didn't verbally said it, but i guess that what makes Injustice Scorp work is the hood and the mask. And it shows that it works bc since then, he always has the hood design

MK11's probably one of my favorite Scorpions too. MKA and MKD aren't too bad either. The added red in MK11 and added White to MK11 Sub-Zero that make them look slick without loosing what they are meant to be.

You forgot cooking with scorpion

MK 11's design with the red added is my favorite as well. IT JUST WORKS for me!

MK11 Scorpion is incredible imho because there's something about the combination of hellfire combos and red that elevated his design. Seeing it come back for MK1 made me so freaking happy, and keeping the red in his default outfit was perfect.

His look in Deception is explained by the lore in the ending. Scorpion lost fight against Drahmin and Moloch and he stuck in the soulnado. Souls ripped apart him, but Elder Dods save scorpion's soul. Scorpion become a Elder Gods champion, cause they made a deal that the scorpion would kill the Onaga and then gods would cleanse him of the influence of the netherrealm and return his clan.

I do like the Injustice 1 design for Scorpion because it’s pretty much just exactly what you’d expect if you went to a DC artist circa 2011-2012 and said “design a badass hyper-violent anti-hero ninja warrior named Scorpion who drags people to hell”

Scorpion has never been bad. Boon's love for scorpion is the reason

Petition to get visual history of Sub-Zero next time

I like the designs from MK9, MKX, MK11 the most. I think we need an MK9 and MKX remaster collection on consoles.

Let's gooooo the poster boy scorpion, also keep this series I would love to see more.

Scorpion for sure design-wise has it consistently the best of all the male ninjas, with arguably Rain following close behind. Sub-Zero has his bad unmasked designs pre-MKX revenant, Reptile has more bad than good, Ermac has MK1, Noob Saibot being a black silhouette initially, and Smoke has his nanobot suit.