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    24 September 2022

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    John Tobias just dropped a Twitter thread on the history of the Mortal Kombat fragon symbol. Also included was a little naming history as well.

    Taking to Twitter, John Tobias, original art director, designer, and co-creator of Mortal Kombat, detailed the creation of the iconic dragon logo the series has used since its first iteration.

    Here’s a recently discovered image of the very first drawing of #MortalKombat’s dragon icon. I designed the icon as both a symbol of our game and its fictional tournament… (thread) #MK30 pic.twitter.com/vVIDr4K9aP

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

    The image comes from fellow MK artist John Vogel’s video taped footage used to digitize my pencil drawing. We traced over the digitized image with pixels for use in the game… (2/9) pic.twitter.com/iiYkHIAw6B

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

    In the second of nine posts in the Twitter thread we see how the original sketch was digitized for use in the game.

    The inspiration to use a dragon as the fictional tournament’s symbol came from “Dragon Attack,” which was in contention as our game’s title before @noobde and I changed it to “Mortal Kombat.” Here’s my rough marker sketch of the marquee logo… (3/9) pic.twitter.com/g3UY2X2boX

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

    The inspiration to use a dragon as the fictional tournament’s symbol came from “Dragon Attack,” which was in contention as our game’s title before @noobde and I changed it to “Mortal Kombat.” Here’s my rough marker sketch of the marquee logo… (3/9) pic.twitter.com/g3UY2X2boX

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

    In the early days of Mortal Kombat, music seemed to play a pretty big part in its creation. In his third tweet we learn that the game was almost called “Dragon Attack” because of Ed Boon‘s affinity for Queen. Thankfully the name was later changed. Mortal Kombat just seems to roll off the tongue a bit easier.

    The name “Dragon Attack” came from @noobde’s love for the band Queen and their song of the same title. I used the colors described in the lyrics of that song on our eventual coin-op cabinet design… (4/9)https://t.co/0lLce4FpJh

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

    The inspiration for the dragon icon’s design started when John Vogel saw a golden dragon statue on the desk of Midway’s general manager, Ken Fedesna. John borrowed it to digitize for use in our game’s backgrounds. Here’s a frame from that footage… (5/9) pic.twitter.com/QTOQ3q6YLx

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

    Next Tobias shows us the original dragon that sat on the desk of Midway’s general manager Ken Fedesna, which was the inspiration for the logo. The original dragon statue was even digitized as well for use in the game.

    I saw the dragon statue and thought of using an Asian inspired dragon design as part of our coin-op cabinet’s side panel art. Here are my sketches… (6/9) pic.twitter.com/Lx9MCPCW1m

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

    I had been thinking of creating an icon to represent the fictional tournament, but also to brand the game with a symbol… like Superman’s “S” or Batman’s bat symbol. I used the dragon from my cabinet side panel sketch to inform the look of the dragon icon as our symbol… (7/9) pic.twitter.com/EV2NNQaXDg

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

    Following that, we see just how intricately woven the dragon is in the fabric of the first game. The same dragon that inspired the logo, also inspired the cabinet art. John was attempting to create something as iconic as the Superman “S” logo, or the Bat-symbol, with the dragon. Eventually, John and the team were made to choose which version of the logo was the “official” version for copyright purposes. They chose the right facing version.

    Up until MKII we used the icon facing both left and right. With Acclaim’s console releases, we had to pick one or the other for trademarking purposes. We chose facing right and it’s been that way ever since… (8/9) pic.twitter.com/XPMTEnuV2M

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

    Keeping in line with the version of the lore that Tobias has originally created, the dragon logo was a sort of play on the ancient yin-yang symbol, intended to represent the balance of the furies which played a major role in the lore at the time.

    Here’s my earliest icon doodle recently found by @youngsaibot while poking around an old sketchbook in my office. The eventual icon design was an attempt at replicating the yin yang symbol, which represented balancing of the furies- a core part of MK’s early fiction. (9/9) pic.twitter.com/youtSOn45T

    — John Tobias (@therealsaibot) September 22, 2022

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