Mavado

Mavado is a member of the criminal organization known as the Red Dragon and a villain from the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games .

Hunting the Black Dragon
Mavado helped with the Red Dragon's efforts to wipe out the Black Dragon organization, while at the same time keeping their existence a secret. To this end, they decided to manipulate the Special Forces into doing this for them and Mavado sent his subordinate, Hsu Hao], to infiltrate the Outer World Investigation Agency. When he was successful, Mavado ordered him to help the group track down and eliminate the remnants of the Black Dragon, which he was quite succesful at. Later Jarek was seemingly killed by Jax and Mavado fought and defeated Kabal, leaving him on the point of death and taking his hookswords for trophies. The Red Dragon's mission seemed over and they were soon contacted by the Deadly Alliance, who saw the group as excellent allies for their later takeover of Earthrealm. Mavado was hired to defend against the sorcerer's enemy, Kenshi, and in return, was offered the chance to fight against the final member of the Black Dragon, Kano. Quan Chi and Shang Tsung also asked that the Red Dragon destroy the Outer World Investigation Agency's techno portals, so as to prevent them from entering Outworld.

Deadly Alliance
Mavado did as the Deadly Alliance requested and commanded Hsu Hao to destroy the OWIA's underground portal facility. He then headed to Outworld through a secret portal in the Lost Sea and proceeded to track down Kenshi and defeated him. This got Mavado his fight with Kano and he won, but instead of killing his foe, he had his Red Dragon henchmen bring the Black Dragon crimelord back to their headquarters. However he had little time to enjoy his victory as a recovered Kabal attacked him and took back his hookswords.

Armageddon
Mavado survived his encounter with Kabal and later reported to Daegon that the location of Blaze had been discovered. He was then ordered to kill Taven, who had infiltrated the Red dragon's fortress, but was defeated and escaped with his elastic ropes into a hidden compartment.

In his ending, Mavado discovers that, upon defeating Blaze, could control anyone who wore the Red Dragon emblem. He used this new ability to make his Red Dragon hunt down their enemies and tatoo the emblem on them. Mavado then used this new army to take over the world.

Abilities
Mavado is a skilled martial artist and wields a pair of hookswords as his weapons. He also uses a set of elastic ropes with prongs on the end to he uses in a slingshot like manner to deliver strong attacks or evade attacks.

Trivia

 * Despite the Red Dragon existing before the Mortal Kombat tournament, Mavado and Hsu Hao were the first Red Dragon members to be featured in the series in 2002.


 * In Deadly Alliance, Mavado had the same voice actor as Sub-Zero.


 * He is one of the characters seen imprisoned in the Dark Prison stage in Deception. He was also available in the Krypt.


 * Despite Kabal getting his hookswords back, Mavado still uses the same hookswords in Armageddon.