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OP, I gotta be honest, your hatred for Bi-Han is both so frustrating and amusing to me, it goes to the point that I don't even know if your question is even genuine. However, I felt like yapping anyway so even if you ultimately don't care, I'm happy to write this.
First of all, I think it's important to mention that I'm a big Lin Kuei fan overall. Bi-Han is not even my favorite Lin Kuei warrior, Tomáš is, but Tomáš is just my favorite MK character overall. But yeah, I just love every Lin Kuei character.
I also do hate Bi-han's MK1 ass and mostly, I hate what the writers did to his character. To be honest, this specific Bi-Han is so bad and ridiculous I find it hard to take him seriously so he ultimately makes me laugh more than anything. Anyway, Bi-han's characterization in this game is something I've already voiced my opinion on. Namely, that is not Bi-Han, that is a bad Sektor knock-off. I won't go over it again. Whatever, reasons under the cut.
Bi-Han is such a wasted character and I think there's a lot to explore and love, mostly as far as his original Midway self is concerned. Really, if we take Mythologies: Sub-Zero alone as a source because it's literally the Bi-Han Game™, I'm genuinely shocked writers never took Bi-Han's character further and instead chose to reduce him to a grunt-type villain because BOY-
As an opening statement, I want to say that I appreciate both Bi-Han and Hanzo equally and sympathize with both of them. However, I admittedly do tend to have more sympathy for Bi-Han, for the sole reason that his own trauma was completely erased and ignored by History while Hanzo's pain was never forgotten nor downplayed and essentially caused him not only to gain the sympathy of the other good guys but also to be redeemed and to be considered a good guy as well. It never happened with Bi-Han in spite of him being just as deserving of it in my opinion.
I'm a sucker for characters with childhood trauma. I consider childhood such an important and pure thing that shall never be tainted, hence my sympathy for characters whose childhood was stolen, broken. Although it was never explored, never outright said, Bi-Han is one of those characters.
The Mythologies lore literally says that Bi-Han and Kuai Liang were kidnapped by their own father and forcefully brought to the Lin Kuei temple in China to be molded into warriors. The boys' mother and sister were reportedly "never seen or heard from again" which, in MK and/or Lin Kuei vocabulary most likely means they were killed. Although it is never explored or outright said, it's safe to assume that a child who was kidnapped, uprooted, forced to follow a rigorous abusive training to become an emotionless killer and who on top of that, might or might not have seen his mom and baby sister being killed, would be understandably traumatized.
Going just a bit off-topic but that leads me to one aspect of the Hanzo/Bi-Han dynamic I love: they both know the pain of having lost loved ones. Hanzo lost his wife and son, Bi-Han lost his mother and sister. Hanzo is a grieving husband and father, Bi-Han is a grieving son and brother. The only difference is the age they were when they faced that trauma, the stage of their life they were at when they were broken. Hanzo is a broken man, Bi-Han is a broken child.
And that is not to say I infantilize Bi-Han. He's still a grown man who did bad things and who has an unfathomable amount of blood on his hands. However, I think of this forgotten background, his original background and to me, he'll always be that broken child at his core.
Not only that, but while Hanzo willingly joined the Shirai Ryu and chose to live the life of a warrior and assassin, Bi-Han was forced into it. They're both supposed to be neutral but the narrative changed in order to make Hanzo a good guy and Bi-Han a villain.
Which is why I have such a huge soft spot for Joe Taslim's take on the character, because he acknowledges Bi-Han's original background and fully integrates it into how he portrays the character on-screen.
It's so easy to paint Bi-Han as a pure evil asshole the way MK1 does when Mythologies is right here, existing as the Bi-Han bible. The game literally exists as the answer to the question "is Bi-Han good or evil?" and said answer is not a simple "yes" or "no". Yes, Bi-Han is a bad person because he's an assassin and his life of crime has tainted his soul which not only allows him to enter hell but also curses him to be sent there once he dies. However, this newfound knowledge is a genuine shock for Bi-Han who insistently asks Raiden if it is true, to which Raiden answers that only Bi-Han himself can change this if he actually chooses to. And while this cutscene is immediately followed by Bi-Han claiming to the Grandmaster that he vowed to serve the Lin Kuei, we know by now that this isn't entirely true, because Bi-Han never truly had a choice in anything... Bi-Han has also been shown to be able to show mercy as seen by him sparing Sareena for unknown reasons when he had previously slayed not only Hanzo but also Kia and Jataaka. Bi-Han aggressively rejects Quan Chi's offer to join the Brotherhood of Shadow when it would have been so easy for a true evil asshole to accept- which is something MK1!Bi-Han essentially does by accepting to join the Deadly Alliance, betraying his little brother in the process. Speaking of which, it's so obvious Bi-Han originally was a good brother in the previous timelines or else why would Kuai Liang seek to save him from the Netherrealm influence in Armageddon and why would he seek to avenge his big brother's death in MK9? Hell, I don't even like Battle of the Realms but Kuai Liang being outraged upon learning that Scorpion is to be taken alive and crying when faced with the man who killed his brother is such a nice touch.
You might have noticed already but I'm having a real hard time making this answer concise because me talking about characters I love implies me going on a full rambly analysis. The long story short is that I like Bi-Han because he is a sympathetic character to me, a broken villain/antihero who's always been a spectator of his own life and the claim that he alone can choose his destiny sounds like a cruel joke. I like him because he's obviously flawed and a bad person but is evidently bothered by this fact and refuses to give in to further evil until he's once again forced to (Quan Chi bringing him back from the dead as Noob Saibot to serve him when Bi-Han in his lifetime assertively expressed his refusal to join Quan Chi's side is once again a cruel instance of Bi-Han's inability to choose anything for himself, which Bi-Han himself claims when Raiden asks him to go to the Nether). Bi-Han also possesses redeeming qualities such as an obvious but unseen love for his little brother as well as the mercy he showed Sareena, resulting in her being freed from Quan Chi's control. I like Bi-Han because while he died a bad person, he was unjustly murdered for a crime he didn't commit and this fact still hurts him judging by one of his intro dialogues with Raiden in MK11 where he rightfully claims he wasn't given justice. I like him because he's considered one of the best Lin Kuei warriors but still manages to show some insolent attitude in the face of the Grandmaster himself. I like him because I like how cryomancy was developed in the past timeline as a form of magik that harms its users. I like him and I think he deserves better. I think he deserves at least the same level of love and compassion Hanzo is given instead of being turned into a pure asshole character because the people at NRS can only write manichean bullshit.
I like him because he's got an insane amount of potential but everyone squanders and ruins it.
I also like that he's an asshole in every incarnation of his character but while Mythologies!Bi-Han, MK9!Bi-Han and 2021!Bi-Han lean more snarky/insolent/smug sympathetic asshole, MK1! Bi-Han is just pure asshole.
The only thing I can respect when it comes to MK1!Bi-Han is that he killed his father/left him to die but that's going off the basis that his father is abusive in every timeline. I just pretend that Bi-Han from previous timelines killed his father too and I'm happy.
All these points are great and I agree with you, Rasta.
My hatred for him began with mk1, but I have been around the fandom since mk9, and in that game I do like the lore decisions made for the Lin Kuei and the Lin Kuei brothers specifically.
While I'm willing to admit that I have never consumed as much of the Midway lore and haven't played mk mythologies Sub Zero (simply because I couldn't really find the time or a suitable way to do that) I like his characterization in midway AND in Netherrealm era from what I have seen and heard people talk about.
He was a great and honorable fighter in the Legends movies and in 9 and given how Kuai Liang speaks of him he must've been a protective brother to deserve such a task from Kuai to want revenge for his death.
Especially in Battle of the Realms (which I didn't personally like but watched anyway) Kuai chased Hanzo all over the world for his vengeance and even in the temple of the elements, Hanzo shows him mercy and explains why he killed Sub Zero and I feel like he said it like he didn't find out that it was Quan Chi who set up both clans deaths just and only for the shits and giggles (committed to the bit but also dick move).
So I should've definitely clarified at the start of my crusade:
Yes, I do like Midway and Netherrealm Bi-Han. He's nuanced, an interesting character, and I wish they did more with him in the NRS era to make him more than an antagonist. But I mostly like him for his brother
I hate MK1 Bi-Han because he's stupid, poorly written, evil for the sake of power and being evil, treats BOTH HIS BROTHERS POORLY and for over three years I've been scrolling through my Tumblr page and every fifth post has always been someone simping (to say it VERY lightly) for him and completely disregarding his crimes and actions through the game and I got so spiteful that I made my rage known.
Also I like Smoke aswell, fav fighting game character ever of all time, easily in my top 3 fav people in fiction
Given that we never got to talk and know each other, I genuinely didn't know what to expect but I'm glad you're not a full-time raging hater who cannot be talked to or a troll.
I do understand and share the aversion to MK1!Bi-Han because not only is he poorly written compared to his OG self but I also find him to be very unlikeable and seeing people doing nothing but simp for him can be frustrating especially since I really don't understand how anyone could fantasize and lust over a dominant toxic macho who treats them like shit and degrade them- because based on the few things I saw in the tags back when MK1 was fresh and new, it was mostly just this. But hey, to each their own I guess. I hope for these people that they find themselves in good and healthy relationships irl tho.
I've seen people writing full analysis about Bi-Han in MK1 which might be totally justified but I'm sadly just too disinterested in most of the MK1 lore, which even includes the Lin Kuei, to care. The clan is no longer the same, Bi-Han is not Bi-Han, Kuai Liang is not Kuai Liang and I'm still unable to digest the Scorpion!Kuai Liang thing, Sektor is not Sektor... I'm obviously unable to dislike Tomáš and I actually love some aspects of his characterization they added to him but even he was criminally wasted and his new background is boring af, bring back enenra. Cyrax is doing well as a character and is actually closer to her MK9 self than most people realize. I love her in MK1 but she deserved more screentime and respect. She was unfairly mistreated when she did nothing wrong while this asshole Kuai Liang who treated her like shit for no reason was ultimately made into the Good One™.
I haven't played Mythologies: Sub-Zero either so perhaps I'll purchase Legacy Kollection to play it but I do adore the Midway Era and I've played the 3D Era games and yeah, Noob Saibot there is nothing more than another power-hungry villain, though I like to imagine his desire to take over the world and even have control over other people such as Smoke is his own corrupted way to reclaim control over his own afterlife after being denied the right to control his actual life. However, it's never explained that way so it's really just me trying to make interesting sense of things. Ultimately, he's pretty boring but I still think it's much better than his MK1 incarnation.
If you ask me, Bi-Han was really only done well in Mythologies and the 2021 movie even though they threw his original background out of the window. It admittedly bothers me but the way the character is used in the movie and the way Joe Taslim portrays him make it more than okay. Bi-Han in both movies has great moments, fight scenes and attitude. I hope they develop him in an interesting way in the sequels instead of relegating him to the grunt role.
MK9 was the start of his downfall in the games continuity. Don't get me wrong, I like his attitude here but that's also when he became an irrelevant jobber. And in Scorpion's Revenge? He shows up for two minutes and dies without even understanding what the fuck just happened to him which is both tragic and hilarious, not gonna lie. Plus, Bi-Han could have just been completely missing from this movie and it wouldn't have changed anything. The fact that the plot completely ignores Mythologies and isn't even an AU in which Bi-Han kills Hanzo's family like the cinematic universe renders Bi-Han's existence pointless. At the end of the day, he's just here to get his ass unfairly kicked by Hanzo in a cruel, unjustified but still pretty funny way.
So yeah, understandable rage lmao but I'm glad you're still willing to acknowledge the character used to be better and has always deserved better.
Only in Earthrealm can one have green eyes naturally. No one in Edenia or Outworld naturally has green eyes. Soul magik had to be involved at some point for the mutation to happen.
OP, I gotta be honest, your hatred for Bi-Han is both so frustrating and amusing to me, it goes to the point that I don't even know if your question is even genuine. However, I felt like yapping anyway so even if you ultimately don't care, I'm happy to write this.
First of all, I think it's important to mention that I'm a big Lin Kuei fan overall. Bi-Han is not even my favorite Lin Kuei warrior, Tomáš is, but Tomáš is just my favorite MK character overall. But yeah, I just love every Lin Kuei character.
I also do hate Bi-han's MK1 ass and mostly, I hate what the writers did to his character. To be honest, this specific Bi-Han is so bad and ridiculous I find it hard to take him seriously so he ultimately makes me laugh more than anything. Anyway, Bi-han's characterization in this game is something I've already voiced my opinion on. Namely, that is not Bi-Han, that is a bad Sektor knock-off. I won't go over it again. Whatever, reasons under the cut.
Bi-Han is such a wasted character and I think there's a lot to explore and love, mostly as far as his original Midway self is concerned. Really, if we take Mythologies: Sub-Zero alone as a source because it's literally the Bi-Han Game™, I'm genuinely shocked writers never took Bi-Han's character further and instead chose to reduce him to a grunt-type villain because BOY-
As an opening statement, I want to say that I appreciate both Bi-Han and Hanzo equally and sympathize with both of them. However, I admittedly do tend to have more sympathy for Bi-Han, for the sole reason that his own trauma was completely erased and ignored by History while Hanzo's pain was never forgotten nor downplayed and essentially caused him not only to gain the sympathy of the other good guys but also to be redeemed and to be considered a good guy as well. It never happened with Bi-Han in spite of him being just as deserving of it in my opinion.
I'm a sucker for characters with childhood trauma. I consider childhood such an important and pure thing that shall never be tainted, hence my sympathy for characters whose childhood was stolen, broken. Although it was never explored, never outright said, Bi-Han is one of those characters.
The Mythologies lore literally says that Bi-Han and Kuai Liang were kidnapped by their own father and forcefully brought to the Lin Kuei temple in China to be molded into warriors. The boys' mother and sister were reportedly "never seen or heard from again" which, in MK and/or Lin Kuei vocabulary most likely means they were killed. Although it is never explored or outright said, it's safe to assume that a child who was kidnapped, uprooted, forced to follow a rigorous abusive training to become an emotionless killer and who on top of that, might or might not have seen his mom and baby sister being killed, would be understandably traumatized.
Going just a bit off-topic but that leads me to one aspect of the Hanzo/Bi-Han dynamic I love: they both know the pain of having lost loved ones. Hanzo lost his wife and son, Bi-Han lost his mother and sister. Hanzo is a grieving husband and father, Bi-Han is a grieving son and brother. The only difference is the age they were when they faced that trauma, the stage of their life they were at when they were broken. Hanzo is a broken man, Bi-Han is a broken child.
And that is not to say I infantilize Bi-Han. He's still a grown man who did bad things and who has an unfathomable amount of blood on his hands. However, I think of this forgotten background, his original background and to me, he'll always be that broken child at his core.
Not only that, but while Hanzo willingly joined the Shirai Ryu and chose to live the life of a warrior and assassin, Bi-Han was forced into it. They're both supposed to be neutral but the narrative changed in order to make Hanzo a good guy and Bi-Han a villain.
Which is why I have such a huge soft spot for Joe Taslim's take on the character, because he acknowledges Bi-Han's original background and fully integrates it into how he portrays the character on-screen.
It's so easy to paint Bi-Han as a pure evil asshole the way MK1 does when Mythologies is right here, existing as the Bi-Han bible. The game literally exists as the answer to the question "is Bi-Han good or evil?" and said answer is not a simple "yes" or "no". Yes, Bi-Han is a bad person because he's an assassin and his life of crime has tainted his soul which not only allows him to enter hell but also curses him to be sent there once he dies. However, this newfound knowledge is a genuine shock for Bi-Han who insistently asks Raiden if it is true, to which Raiden answers that only Bi-Han himself can change this if he actually chooses to. And while this cutscene is immediately followed by Bi-Han claiming to the Grandmaster that he vowed to serve the Lin Kuei, we know by now that this isn't entirely true, because Bi-Han never truly had a choice in anything... Bi-Han has also been shown to be able to show mercy as seen by him sparing Sareena for unknown reasons when he had previously slayed not only Hanzo but also Kia and Jataaka. Bi-Han aggressively rejects Quan Chi's offer to join the Brotherhood of Shadow when it would have been so easy for a true evil asshole to accept- which is something MK1!Bi-Han essentially does by accepting to join the Deadly Alliance, betraying his little brother in the process. Speaking of which, it's so obvious Bi-Han originally was a good brother in the previous timelines or else why would Kuai Liang seek to save him from the Netherrealm influence in Armageddon and why would he seek to avenge his big brother's death in MK9? Hell, I don't even like Battle of the Realms but Kuai Liang being outraged upon learning that Scorpion is to be taken alive and crying when faced with the man who killed his brother is such a nice touch.
You might have noticed already but I'm having a real hard time making this answer concise because me talking about characters I love implies me going on a full rambly analysis. The long story short is that I like Bi-Han because he is a sympathetic character to me, a broken villain/antihero who's always been a spectator of his own life and the claim that he alone can choose his destiny sounds like a cruel joke. I like him because he's obviously flawed and a bad person but is evidently bothered by this fact and refuses to give in to further evil until he's once again forced to (Quan Chi bringing him back from the dead as Noob Saibot to serve him when Bi-Han in his lifetime assertively expressed his refusal to join Quan Chi's side is once again a cruel instance of Bi-Han's inability to choose anything for himself, which Bi-Han himself claims when Raiden asks him to go to the Nether). Bi-Han also possesses redeeming qualities such as an obvious but unseen love for his little brother as well as the mercy he showed Sareena, resulting in her being freed from Quan Chi's control. I like Bi-Han because while he died a bad person, he was unjustly murdered for a crime he didn't commit and this fact still hurts him judging by one of his intro dialogues with Raiden in MK11 where he rightfully claims he wasn't given justice. I like him because he's considered one of the best Lin Kuei warriors but still manages to show some insolent attitude in the face of the Grandmaster himself. I like him because I like how cryomancy was developed in the past timeline as a form of magik that harms its users. I like him and I think he deserves better. I think he deserves at least the same level of love and compassion Hanzo is given instead of being turned into a pure asshole character because the people at NRS can only write manichean bullshit.
I like him because he's got an insane amount of potential but everyone squanders and ruins it.
I also like that he's an asshole in every incarnation of his character but while Mythologies!Bi-Han, MK9!Bi-Han and 2021!Bi-Han lean more snarky/insolent/smug sympathetic asshole, MK1! Bi-Han is just pure asshole.
The only thing I can respect when it comes to MK1!Bi-Han is that he killed his father/left him to die but that's going off the basis that his father is abusive in every timeline. I just pretend that Bi-Han from previous timelines killed his father too and I'm happy.
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