We all remember Kenshi, the blind swordsman from “Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance”; but, do you remember the other character that made his debut in that game? That character in question is Bo-Rai-Cho. Now, 14 years after his debut, the drunken teacher of Liu Kang and the hat tossing shaolin monk, Kung Lao is back. Let’s get into his variations.

Barjutsu gives him access to a staff that is like a collapsible lawn chair, giving him several attacks. For example, a spinning attack similar to Leatherface’s triple overhead chainsaw attack, an anti air command grab, and several others including a wicked brutality involving his FWD 3, 1 &3 combo.

Dragon’s Fire makes the flask he carries alongside him red, meaning that if he does his forward or back 3, 1&3 combo, the opponent suffers burn damage.  And… he also attacks with flaming farts. No, seriously, he does that. It’s pretty effective when you think about it though because it creates new pressure situations. Plus, the brutality here is based on Raiden’s fatality from MK1 on the Super Nintendo.

Now, onto what everyone knows about Bo-Rai-Cho, the Drunken Master Variation. This variation gives him a stance and everytime he takes a sip of his drink, he gets more drunk. This affects his vomit move, however, after 10 seconds, he suffers from a serious migraine. He also has access to a spinning punch move during said 10 seconds, so there’s the good with the bad. The brutality here has him vomiting so hard that the opponent vomits for like 8 seconds straight.

Now with his X-ray, it’s unique in that it’s unblockable and does not break armor. What it does do is grab the opponent’s head, jumps up really high and tosses them down, cracking the skull. If that isn’t painful enough, he elbow drops them from the air, popping the neck. To top it all off, he stomps on the spine, snapping that in the process.

His Fatality, Booze Ya Lose is pretty much like this. He forces the contents of a jug down the opponent’s throat and then lights a match and tosses it in there for good measure. What happens next? The opponent explodes into gore and flying limbs before they realize what in the Realms (worlds) just happened. It takes gravity a good 3 seconds to figure out what in the wide world of Cubs baseball just happened as BRC walks away, because as we all know, cool guys don’t look at explosions, especially if they involve a flammable liquid and a match.

Bottoms Up, on the other hand, works a little differently. Like Booze Ya Lose, he forces the contents of the same jug down the opponent’s throat. The opponent then vomits so hard, their intestines come out, which is nasty as all Netherrealm. Bo-Rai Cho then stomps on the opponent’s gut and, much like Kotal Khan’s Tight Squeeze, the internal organs come out, only instead of it being like toothpaste, it’s more like brats on a barbecue.

I should also note that his Fart and Drop brutality is cool and funny, in a weird way. 

Well, we have one more stop on this hype train. Thanks for sticking with me.