Kano

Kano is the former leader of the Black Dragons and a villain from the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games.

Early Life
Kano acted as the leader of the Black Dragon organization, a cut-throat criminal organization, and clashed numerous times with the Special Forces. He also killed Lt. Sonya Blade's partner, which lead to her having a personal grudge against him.

Mortal Kombat Special Forces
At one point, Kano freed his partners, No Face, Tasia, Jarek, and Tremor from a Special Forces prison, telling them that he wanted their help in reforming the Black Dragon. Kano actually wanted them to slow down the Special Forces agents pursuing, while he ventured into Outworld.

While his cohorts fought against Jax, Kano headed into Outworld and began looking for the Eye of Shitian an artificat that would grant him great power. However Jax caught up with him adn defeated the criminal, using the eye to transport them to Earthrealm where he took Knao into custody. However Kano made his escape so as to compete in the Mortal Kombat Tournament.

Mortal Kombat
Kano journeyed to Shang Tsung's island to compete in his tournament, since he had heard that the sorcerer's palace was full of gold and riches, which he could use to fund the Black Dragons. Kano was free to take part in the tournament, while Sonya was forced to fight to keep her Special Forces comrades alive. They both survived, although many others died, including Sonya's men and Kano and Sonya teamed up with Johnny Cage to defeat Goro. During the fight, the two were sucked into Outworld, where they were found and captured by Shang Tsung.

Mortal Kombat 2
Kano was used as bait, along with Sonya to draw the fighters into Outworld. They were both freed by Jax, who saved Sonya and put Kano in custody. However the Black Dragon leader escaped back into Outworld.

Mortal Kombat 3
Though Kano was assumed dead by msot of Earthrealms warriors, he had managed to survive by convincing Shao Kahn to make him part of his army as an instructor of weapon, using his knowledge of Earthrealm's weapons. Kano fought against Sonya, but was thrown off to his presumed death by Sonya. He survived and was imprisoned by Motaro, but after the centaur's defeat at the hands of Sheeva, Kano was freed by the Shokan. The two originally planned to work together to kill Shao Kahn, but the Black Dragon leader turned on Sheeva in the improtant moments, resulting in her defeat. After this, Kano became The general of Outworld's army.

Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance
Kano's promotion to general by Shao Kahn proved to be a wise move on the warlord's part. He faced the strong tactics of Kitana and Goro and the overwhelming odds of their Ednian-Shokan army. Kano was succesfful in repelling their forces and returned to Shao Kahn's palace to see the overlord slain by Shang Tsung and Quan Chi. He swore his allegiance to the Deadly Alliance, becoming their general and was assigned to enslave a village to build a palace for the new Soulando. During this time, Kano was attacked by Li Mei and saved by Quan Chi. However he was forced to fight Mavado, who had completed a mission for the two sorcerers in exchange for this.

Mortal Kombat Armageddon
It is presumed that Kano lost the fight since he was encountered by Taven in the Red Dragon fortress. He explained to the demigod that the Red Dragon had been experimenting on him, as well as other clanmates, to transform them into Dragon-Human hybrids. Kano mentioned that they were trying something new on him, but leaves before elaborating. In his ending, he defeats Blaze, causing his to transformation into a black dragon.

Powers
Kano is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter and displays great prowess with knives, particularly his Butterfly Knives, relying on them instead fo special powers. He can however fire a laser out of his cyborg eye and tuck himself into a ball and fly at the opponent.