“ | You should rally your companions rather than mock your superiors. | „ |
~ Sub-Zero to Kung Jin |
“ | Sub-Zero: Why assume I will be easy prey? Cheetah: You lack Killer Instinct. Sub-Zero: I have engaged in Mortal Kombat. |
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~ From Injustice 2 dialogue intro |
“ | Patience, Bi-Han. There are many demands on Liu Kang's attention. | „ |
~ Kuai Lian to Bi-Han in Mortal Kombat 12 |
Kuai Liang is a character from NetherRealm Studios' video game series, Mortal Kombat. He previously fought Glacius in the 77th episode of Death Battle.
Fanon Wiki Ideas So Far[]
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- Ghiaccio Vs Sub-Zero (Completed)
- Sub-Zero vs. Glacius (Completed fanon version)
- Haku Yuki vs Sub-Zero
- Sub-Zero VS Human Torch (Completed)
- Mitsuru Kirijo vs Sub-Zero
- Ken Masters vs. Sub-Zero (Completed)
- Sub-Zero vs Killer Frost (Completed)
- Sub-Zero vs. Kolin (Completed)
- Sub-Zero VS Kula Diamond (Completed)
- Luigi vs Sub-Zero (Completed)
- Sub-Zero vs Mei (Completed)
- Sub-Zero vs Mizore Shirayuki (Abandoned)
- Sub-Zero VS Mr. Freeze (Completed)
- Ozai vs Sub-Zero (Completed)
- Queen Elsa vs Sub-Zero (Completed)
- Rundas vs. Sub-Zero (Completed)
- Ryu VS Sub-Zero (Completed)
- Ryu Hayabusa vs Sub-Zero (Completed)
- Sub-Zero vs Sasha Ivanoff (Completed)
- Sub-Zero vs Shouto Todoroki (Abandoned)
- Sub-Zero vs Stitch (Completed)
- Sub-Zero vs Tsurara Oikawa (Completed)
- Weiss Schnee VS Sub Zero (Completed)
- Zuko vs. Sub-Zero (Completed)
Battles Royale[]
Battle Record[]
WARNING: The following tab will reveal the numbers of wins and losses for the following character. Read at your own risk.
Battle Record
- Wins: 16
- Losses: 12
- Draws: 0
Possible Opponents[]
- Bad Mr. Frosty (ClayFighter)
- Genjuro Kibagami (Samurai Shodown)
- Granolah (Dragon Ball)
- Greninja (Pokémon)
- Ice King (Adventure Time)
- Iceberg (DC Comics)
- Iceman (Marvel Comics)
- Kopaka (Bionicle)
- Mitsuru Kirijo (Persona)
- Rei (Fist of the North Star)
- Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
- Speed of Sound Sonic (One Punch Man)
- Vega (Street Fighter)
- Vexen (Kingdom Hearts)
- Yumi (Senran Kagura)
History[]
Kuai Liang is the young brother of the previous Sub-Zero Bi-Han, codenamed Tundra, taking up his brother's name and uniform after he was killed by Scorpion during the events of Mortal Kombat. While an assassin in the Lin Kuei, his moral conscience about the clan's doings, including automation, drove him to defect from the clan.
Both during his exile and after returning to the clan, Sub-Zero has always come to the aid of Raiden and the heroes of Earthrealm whenever needed. After defeating Sektor, Sub-Zero became the Lin Kuei's new grandmaster and strives to reform the clan as a force for good.
Death Battle Info (Official)[]
Background[]
- Name: Kuai Liang
- Height: 6'2" | 188 cm
- Weight: 210 lbs | 95 kg
- Took up late brother's mantle
- Lin Kuei Grandmaster
- Descended from Outworld Cryomancers
- Chinese ninja warrior
Move Set[]
- Ice Blast
- Slide
- Ice Klone
- Cold Shoulder
- Tombstone Teleport
- Kori Blade
- Ice Hammer
Feats[]
- Dodged oncoming missile
- Survived double impalement
- Broke titanium with one chop
- Withstood reconstruction by Quan-Chi
- Survived Scorpion's Hellfire
- Defeated Sektor, Reptile, Scorpion & Batman
- Battled warriors from Earthrealm, Outworld, Netherrealm & beyond
Death Battle Info (Fanon)[]
Background[]
- Codename: Sub-Zero (Original and Reboot timelines) | Scorpion (Liu Kang's timeline)
- Original Codename: Tundra
- Height: 188 cm | 6'2"
- Weight: 95 kg | 210 lbs
- Occupation: Lin Kuei Grandmaster in the Original and Rebooted timelines | Founder of the Shirai Ryu in Liu Kang's timeline
- Younger brother of Bi-Han
- Descendant of Cryomancers
- Has a scar over his right eye in all three timelines:
- Cause in the original timeline unknown
- Given by Kano with one of the Kamidogu Daggers in the rebooted timeline
- Given to him by Bi-Han in their fight in Liu Kang's timeline
Powers and Abilities[]
- Superhuman Physical Prowess: Sub-Zero is physically superior and stronger than any normal person.
- Martial Arts Mastery: As the wise Lin Kuei Grandmaster, Sub-Zero has mastered many martial art styles, including Shotokan and Dragon Kung Fu. He has been seen using others such as Muay Thai and MMA fighting styles.
- Chi Control: Sub-Zero can perform a Neijin, the control of the practitioner's chi or "life energy" in martial arts to gain advantages in combat. Such advantages include increasing the power of his strikes twofold. {1}
- Stealth Mastery: As a Lin Kuei assassin, Sub-Zero has mastered the art of stealth.
- Soul Resistance: The Cyber Initiative strips away the souls of those who participate in the cyberization process, but Sub-Zero did not lose his soul during the process. He was able to stand unaffected in the presence of a massive soulnado without getting his soul drained from him. Even Quan Chi remarked that he had a resilient soul.
- Cryomancer Characteristics: As a human-cryomancer hybrid, he has inherited the Cryomancers' ability to manipulate ice and cold.
- Ice Manipulation: Sub-Zero's ability to freeze comes from freezing the surrounding air/water vapour or absorbing the air around him to release it as ice. Thanks to this ability, Sub-Zero has complete control over ice ranging from simple flash freezing to creating ice constructs.
- Ice/Cold Immunity: Sub-Zero is used to the cold temperatures of his land and is immune to his ability to freeze. Frost attempted to freeze her grandmaster's hands but simply failed to do so.
- Weapon Creation: Sub-Zero can instantly create different kinds of weapons out of ice including swords, daggers, shards, hammers, bucklers and axes.
- Elemental Intangibility: With a thought, Sub-Zero instantly turns his body into ice and becomes impervious to physical attacks. He uses this in conjunction with his teleportation ability.
- Teleportation: His ability to become ice allows him to teleport by turning into ice, shattering himself and reforming in another location. His highest recorded range is somewhere around a hundred meters, he teleported from the ground to reach a subsonic helicopter in the first chapter of MKX.
- Air Manipulation: He can also generate air or use the air around him to make a barrier that surrounds him and freezes anyone that comes into contact with it.
- Absolute Zero: If necessary, Sub-Zero can increase the temperature of his ice up to -500°F to reach absolute zero temperatures, freezing people at an atomic level. {1}
- Forcefield Creation: First seen in the MKX comics, Sub-Zero can create an omnidirectional bubble shield that protects him and emits a freezing aura.
- Weather Control: In MK11, Sub-Zero has shown the ability to disperse snow storms with a gesture.
- Pyromancer Abilities: Thanks to MK12, Kuai Liang has gained the powers of pyromancy instead of cryomancy. This gives him the power to produce flames, as well as coating his weapons with them. He can even create a fire elemental to help fight beside him.
Strength and Durability Feats[]
- Froze a large building and shattered it in one punch.
- Defeated and heavily wounded Scorpion {1}, a kombatant who could take down gods such as Raiden, a god who can create massive and destructive thunderstorms and Fujin, who stated that he can tear down mountains. {1}
- Can easily rip a spine from the human body, which requires 1 million Newtons/102 tons of lifting force to accomplish.
- Can shatter diamond blocks and titanium figures with a single chop like all kombatants.
- As the Lin Kuei Grandmaster, he fought on par with Taven, who bested Raiden, a god capable of destroying an entire temple with a self-destructive blast.
- Sits down from his own throne made of ice with no issue
- His ice is strong enough to withstand Scorpion's hellfire {1} which is capable of vaporizing mountain busters {1} (like Bi-Han [who defeated Fujin in MK: Mythologies which is still canon to the Current Timeline] and Raiden)
- Froze and defeated Goro and Kintaro in a 2v1 battle, both of them are Shokans who are capable of withstanding a nuclear blast from Kano and a massive earthquake from Tremor.
- Survived a blast of hellfire from Scorpion. {1} {2}
- Withstood Sektor's rocket punch to the face.
- Survived an explosion that destroyed an entire Cyber Lin Kuei base by using his ice to surround himself {1}
- Tore a Lin Kuei cyborg in half {1}
- Survived double impalement to the bowels from Scorpion (ouch) {1} {2}
- Chopped 9 layers of stone {1}
- Survived a deadly spell from Quan Chi that exploded Sub-Zero, leaving only his vital organs intact {1} {2}
- Can create ice cream (somehow?) (MK11 friendship) {1}
Speed Feats[]
- Dodged two lasers from Kano's eye and heart cybernetic implants. Keep in mind that lasers move at Mach 879655.5 speed {1} {2}
- Dodged a Lin Kuei cyborg's oncoming missile, Missiles usually move at around Mach 0.87 speed {1}
- Dodged multiple explosions from Sektor's missiles {1} {2}. Explosions usually disperse at a speed of Mach 23
- Kept up with Scorpion (even without Blood Magik) {1}, a combatant who can avoid getting shocked by Raiden's lightning {2}
Intelligence and Experience[]
- Has knowledge on hacking into encrypted systems, this proved useful in accessing Sektor's database in MK9 and his memories in MKX
- Bilingual. Knows fluent Chinese and English.
- Wise and skilled enough to train and teach an entire group of volunteers to become trained assassins.
- Mastered his control and power over the ice element from childhood, even kept training as a grandmaster.
- Bested Ermac two times, a being with knowledge of thousands of Edenian warriors who have lived and fought against Shao Kahn's invasion that lasted for thousands of years.
- Bested Goro, the champion of Mortal Kombat for over 500 years who has defeated many martial artists from the Shaolin and White Lotus.
Weapons[]
- Ice Weapons
- Can create daggers, icicle-like swords, axes, and hammers
- Kori Blade
- Created by freezing water vapour
- Strong enough to withstand attacks
- Possibly due to Dragon Medallion
Special Moves[]
- Ice Blast
- Blast of ice that freezes the opponent
- Enhanced version is a beam of ice
- Slide
- Slides across the ground and knocks over the opponent
- Can be followed up with twin palms, uppercut, or projectile
- Frost Bomb
- Creates ice ball, then smashes it between his fists, damaging close opponents
- Ground Ice
- Freezes the ground, causing opponents to slip or get stuck
- Radius can catch multiple enemies
- Can knock enemies into the air
- Ice Clone
- Frozen statue of himself that freezes opponents on contact
- Can also be thrown
- Ice Decoy (MKX: Mobile)
- Sub-Zero replaces himself with a Decoy, evading a fatal blow. {1}
- Ice Shaker
- Wave of cold air that freezes those around him
- Can freeze multiple attackers
- Ice Shower
- Ice projectile that falls onto enemies
- Ice Pillar
- Ice that travels underground then freezes and suspends opponents in the air
- Cold Shoulder
- Shoulder charge
- Tombstone Teleport
- Turns into ice and teleports behind the opponent
- Icy Counter
- Freezes himself, then counter-attacks against physical attacks
- Does not counter low attacks or special moves
- Ice Nugget
- Creates nugget of ice in the air that falls onto the opponent
- Unblockable
- Frost Hammer
- Forges ice hammer then slams it into foe
- Can be performed in mid-air
- Can bounce the opponent
- Barrier of Frost
- Creates a barrier or shield in front of him that freezes foes that touch it
- Ice Forcefield
- A spherical forcefield that quickly freezes anyone who touches it
- Frozen Aura
- Creates an armor-like layer of ice, reducing damage as well as returning it.
- Ice Port
- Disappears in a burst of ice, appearing behind or further back from the opponent
- Klone Charge
- Sends ice clone sliding towards the opponent
- Air Klone Kick
- Sends ice clone downward diagonally towards the opponent while in midair
- Ice Cubed
- While encased in his Frozen Aura, Sub-Zero performs an enhanced Ice Slide with the ice blast obliterating the opponent but saving their frozen head in an ice cube.
- Splitting Image
- Sub-Zero creates an ice clone of himself and shatters it with an Ice Burst, sending ice shards in the opponent's direction, impaling them through the head and body. Their corpse then freezes into ice.
Fatalities[]
- Snowball Grenade
- Throws ice blast that makes opponent explode
- Ice Shatter/Overhead Ice Smash/Freeze Slam/Ice Kick
- Freezes opponent, then shatters them
- Frosty!
- Breathes icy breath that freezes opponent, then they fall and shatter
- Spine Rip
- Rips off the opponent's head and their spine
- Taken from his older brother
- Skeleton Rip
- Rips out the opponent's entire skeleton
- Learned from Kano?
- Freeze and Throw
- Freezes opponent, rips off the head, then throws it and shatters the body
- Below Freezing
- Freezes their legs, shatters them, then stomps on their head
- Have an Ice Day
- Freezes opponent's lower body then rips off upper body
- Spinal Smash
- Rips out spine and skull through the chest, then freezes opponent and shatters them with spine
- Chest Kold
- Freezes middle of the opponent's abdomen, shatters the frozen part, exposing the spine, then grips spine, snaps it in two, then holds up the body by the spine and rips body in half.
- Bed of Ice
- Freezes surface behind the opponent, summoning many ice shards, kicks the opponent down to the shards, stomps down on the body, then raises more shards of ice that pierce the opponent's eye and body
- Ice-Cutioner
- Freezes opponent's body except hands and head, chops off head with axe, freezes head and blows it apart with a punch
- Frozen in Time
- ???????Creates ice clone holding spear, then slides under opponent, knocking them onto the clone's spear, impaling them. Yanks opponent's spine and head from their chest and spikes head on spear tip through eye
X-Rays/Fatal Blow:[]
- Deep Freeze (MK9)
- Cold Shoulder, then stabs through the opponent with bare hand, freezes liver, and headbutts
- Deep Freeze (MKX)
- Freezes himself (and opponent if they are right next to him), then catches opponent off-guard with a quick punch, then pulls out their entrails, freezes them into a sharp icicle and thrusts it into the opponent's eye.
- Chill Out (MK11)
- Slams twin ice axes into opponent's sides, kicks opponent to ground, summons a larger axe to cleave into opponent's face. Then hooks axe head on smaller axes and drags opponent along ground, winds them into the air and slams them down again with axe
Ice Ramps[]
- Allows for faster travel
- Can still attack while riding on and creating ramps
- From Defenders of the Realm
Dragon Medallion[]
- An artifact that gives increase his powers
- Requires strength and discipline to control its power
- His student Frost was frozen attempting to utilize it
- Possibly accelerates physical age
Ancestral Armour[]
- Once worn by Cryomancers
- Increases durability
- Ancestors can speak to Sub-Zero, guiding him in his next moves
Other Feats[]
- Alternative Timeline
- VS Scorpion win-loss record: 2-1
- Defeated Hotaru with Kenshi
- Aided in defending Earthrealm multiple times
- Defeated Cyrax, Ermac, Reptile, Sektor, and Noob Saibot
- Defeated Goro and Kintaro in a 2-on-1 fight as Cyber Sub-Zero
- Surpassed his own brother
- Survived and deflected (with ice) Sektor's "3000 degrees" flame {1}
- Easily killed Sektor {1}
- Reformed the Lin Kuei as a force for good
- Held his own against Cassie Cage, Takeda, Jacqui Briggs, and Kung Jin back to back in a training exercise
- Froze Frost in place after a battle with Scorpion (Hanzo Hasashi)
- Turned two metal doors made of iron and tantalum into ice and shattered it {1} {2}
Non-Canon Feats[]
- Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
- Froze Superman (Due to ice "magic" and powers shifting and rebalancing)
- Defeated Raiden (likely just a test), Deathstroke, and Batman
- Fought Scorpion in the Netherrealm
- Injustice 2 (DLC)
Faults[]
- Overwhelmed by the following:
- Smoke and Noob Saibot together
- An ambush from several Cyber Lin Kuei
- Killed in the Battle of Armageddon by Baraka
- Defeated by Kabal as Cyber Sub-Zero while under Lin Kuei's control
- Emotional baggage and desire to live up to Bi Han's identity has clouded his judgement more than once.
- Killed by Sindel as Cyber Sub-Zero
- Defeated by Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade as a revenant
- Once possessed by the Kamidogu dagger
- Despite his amazing powers, he is still mortal.
- In Defenders of the Realm, shown to grow weaker in hotter environments (cartoon canon, but does not apply to the main canon of Mortal Kombat and thus should not be used)
Alternative Versions[]
Cyber Sub-Zero[]
When Raiden altered the MK timeline, Smoke was saved from cyber-transformation, but Sub-Zero met this fate instead, turning him into a Lin Kuei cyborg. This would eventually be undone upon his death and revival.
Scorpion (New Era)[]
- When Liu Kang became the Keeper of Time, he had the Lin Kuei dedicated to Earthrealm's defense. Kuai's older brother, Bi-Han, holds the title of Sub-Zero while he has taken on the abilities and moniker of Scorpion.