Why is mortal kombat spelled with a k

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Is kratos in Mortal Kombat? How many Mortal Kombat games are there for the Nintendo 64? Mortal Kombat TomTaz TomTaz. Needleskane Wrote: Ummm, it looks better? What he said. K just looks and sounds better. Kirby or Cirby? Bad example. You could not trademark nor copyright the name if it is Mortal Combat because that is in common use and can easily be found in the dictionary. Much the Same as Playskool is spelled with a k and not a ch.

Since Kombat is not technically a word, it is copyrightable and since it was the early nineties spelling things wrong was cool as well. As for other things being spelled the same it was more of homage to the title. ShoeUnited ShoeUnited. Mortal Combat could not be used because that is common. Puto, ergo non est deus Non opus est, si pretium non habetis.

Why is Special K spelt with a "K"? User Info: TrashCanNumber2. SoaD posted Lol, that is exactly where I got it from. User Info: Breaker User Info: MKScorpion. Because they thought it looked cool. That's literally it. Some dude walked in and on the whiteboard with ideas for names he crossed out the C in Mortal Combat and put a K over it and it stuck. User Info: Spike Rosered. Because it's K-treeeeeeeme! We also have Meklord Astro Mekanikle. Deserves special mentions because in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Invoked with the Xyz monsters introduced in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL and the card sets. It's pronounced "ik-seez" and is a reference to spacial coordinates note three dimensions: its place on the mat, and the cards under it.

Humorously, up to the point of their announcement in the TCG, fansubbers of the show never caught that meaning, assuming it was "Exceed" because it was the closest-sounding actual word. Komix Bookz. DC Comics 's Professor Pyg. Generally considered a really silly title, one online reviewer referred to the first three issues as That Claremont Book.

Ironically, when, after 46 issues, the book was canceled and the writer moved the characters to Uncanny X-Men , the team was renamed "X-Treme Sanctions Executive. Gambit blames Rogue. I blame society. The name really exists so Bishop can go " Oh, Crap! It's coming true after all. In the first issue, Professor Xavier notes that it stands for "X-tra power!

And then there's Professor Xavier 's name: There's all the adaptations that pronounce it "Professor Ex-avier," just to make it clear to stupid viewers that there's an X in his name. The Spanish dubs fortunately make a point of pronouncing his name "Xavi-air". There is a comic where Xavier admits that technically it isn't pronounced like that — he just prefers it. Ah, the '90s. Thankfully, "the X-Treme" part rarely appeared outside of cover announcements of his guest appearances.

Although magik , pronounced with a long 'a' and a hard 'g', is an actual word in Russian; it means "magician". The question is if Chris Claremont knew that when he gave the Siberian mutant that name. Even earlier, there was Alex Summers, aka Havok. In both cases the "X" was the biggest letter in the cover logo. It went even further in the Age of Apocalypse crossover in the 90's, when Excalibur became X-Calibre.

Except that the "X-tinction" title had already been used multiple times throughout the history of the team. He probably just wasn't allowed to use it again.

When the second incarnation of the X-Force was threatened with legal action over their name, leader the Orphan simply changes it — to " X-Statix ". He says it came to him in a dream and he doesn't really know what it's supposed to mean.

This was a subject of a Take That! A Reality Warper villain briefly caused the team to transform into parodies of the X-Men and X-Force, and as such, everyone now had ridiculously misspelled names. In the second issue of Hyperkind , one of the newly empowered Hyperkind decides to adopt "Logic" as his Code Name. Another member the resident comic nerd of the team stops him, telling him to call himself "Logix" because, "That's how it's done! Drawing on the South American motif in his costume, a reporter dubbed him Aztek "with a 'K' — because of all the neat high-tech stuff he's got on his uniform.

So called to distinguish them from mainstream comics. Doubles or is it Funetik Aksent? It reverted back to being The Dandy at the start of The New '10s for its final years as a print comic. This trope was popular during The Dark Age of Comic Books and the Speculator Boom when comic creators were looking to make a quick buck off of original characters. The reasoning for using Xtreme Kool Letterz at this time was likely done to help insure that whatever name a creator came up with for their '90s Anti-Hero could be trademarked.

You can't retain the rights to "Strike", but you can retain the rights to "Stryke". Also, Frank Miller called Daredevil's first love Elektra , while "Electra" is the more common spelling in English; however it was justified by making her Greek. There was a short lived company in of course The '90s making creator-owned sci-fi comics under the banner of Tekno Comix.

A case of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurred with this in Spider-Girl - upon hearing about Kaine, Spider-Girl initially thinks that his name is Cane, and can't find any information when she tries looking him up. An interesting case is Dethstryk, the Big Bad from the Marvel series Ravage , as it's ultimately revealed to be a corruption of his real name, Mere deth Stryk er.

Komix Stripz. Krazy Kat is one of the very first examples. She had bit parts in George Herriman's assorted Sunday comics as early as , was called "Kat" by , and "Krazy Kat" by By the time she got her standalone strip in , she'd developed her personal dialect, a mixture of Spanish and Yiddish accents with Ks everywhere. Parodied in a FoxTrot strip. Jason buys a gory video game called Mortal Karnage that his mother dislikes, and she lectures him on how inappropriate it is: "You're too young for this sort of thing.

I mean, look at what it teaches: that human disembowelment is entertainment The campers react badly , and even Chris seems horrified when he realizes the Unfortunate Implications. Antz can be read as a misspelling of "ants", but also as "Ant Z" referring to the protagonist , an ant named "Z".

For this reason, it's often stylised as "AntZ". The film Rocketship X-M , where the titular spaceship's name is short for "Expeditionary Mission". Didn't help the movie either. From the silent movies, the Keystone Kops were the inspiration for many later examples. Although at this time, K's weren't meaning "cool," but rather "funny," as in "ha ha, those guys can't spell correctly. Zardoz has some curious spelling like this, but it seems to be meant more as Futuristic Fonetiks "applz" for "apples".

Not to mention the revelation that it's actually The Wi zard of Oz. American Dreamz parodies this. The title is the name of the show-within-a-show, an American Idol knockoff with a contestant played by Mandy Moore , who at one point sings a ridiculously vapid ballad with the chorus, "American Dreamz As her lowlife partner remarks "Classy, hunh?

Played for laughs, of course. The "Rekall" brand in Total Recall and the remake. The religious film C Me Dance. Pixxi de la Chasse in Repo Chick. Her parents obviously didn't think that Pixie was Xxtreme enough.

The low-budget direct-to-video film Vampiyaz , about urban bloodsuckers. Independence Day was widely marketed in posters and toys as ID4 - despite the fact that the inclusion of the '4' is completely redundant. Cryptz : The titular strip club is spelled with a z. It's always "Cobra Kai". Diary of a Wimpy Kid : One brand of carrot sticks is Xtreme Sports Stix despite them having nothing to do with sports.

One book Greg's mother hates is called "Xtreme Pop-up Sharks". One comic strip mentioned is called "Xtreme Sk8ters". A brand of shoes Greg buys is Sportsterz. The vampires in Carpe Jugulum express a desire to spell it "vampyres" , as the Y makes it look more modern.

Even though said spelling is probably older. Hix in Unseen Academicals , head of the Department of Postmortem Communications , is really named Hicks, but with his black robe and skull ring he "would have been mad, or let us say even madder, to pass up a chance to have an X in his name. Apparently his Card-Carrying Villain , by university statute, personality came with the placement of an X in his name.

Agnes Nitt's alter ego Perdita has the middle initial X "Perdita X Dream" , which stands for "a person who has a cool and exciting middle name. But pronounced "Fourecks" and named after a Real Life brand of Australian lager. One Doctor Who Expanded Universe novel has a character being dubbed "code-boy" by another because he spends a lot of time doing computer programming.

You know, writing code. He loses his real name and ends up known as Kode, likely because of this trope. In The Edge Chronicles , the academics of Sanctaphrax want to seem educated, and all the Leaguesmen want to sound like them.

The result is a lot of polysyllabic names. There is also the species of cruel humanoid birds called "shrykes". They are obviously named after shrikes, birds widely known for impaling prey on thorns, only with a "y" instead. The 5 is Silent. Oryx and Crake pictures a future where hyper-rich corporations call themselves things like HelthWyzer and RejooveNation with a straight face.

It's never explained, but one gets the feeling they have been forced to come up with these "creative" spellings because all the normal ones had been trademarked.

Unless they actually thought it sounded cool. He calls him "Stainlezz Steel". Same goes for most personal names in A Song of Ice and Fire. The letter "y" is particularly common. True for several titles as well. For example, "Ser" instead of "Sir". The bizarre spelling on the time-travel safari sign is the first clue the characters have that killing a butterfly in the past dramatically changed the future.

Star Island features an oversexed young pop star with the Stage Name Cherry Pye, who is proud to announce that her latest album will be titled " Skantily Klad , with all k 's. When he thinks they're on the highway leading to it, he gets super excited and begs the Downer's Grove gang to go there instead of their intended destination. Several names in The Wheel of Time are actually perfectly ordinary names that have been grossly misspelled.

Well, to be fair, Padraig is a legitimate Irish variation of Patrick in its own right and Birgitte is a legitimate Scandinavian variant of Bridget. It should be noted that in the Norwegian translation of The Wheel of Time , Birgitte's name is translated to the more exotic sounding Bergithe, as Birgitte is quite an usual name in Norway.

Lyve-Aktion TV. Networks: The shameless cable network Disney XD , which outright tells you they're both extreme and 'wit it', as the XD part is an "extreme! And as can be seen from the posters in their studio, all of their other artists have a 'Z' in their name too.

Ed Helms filed a report on The Daily Show about an insurance made especially for teenagers and concluded with a fake ad that said it even covers you if you break your coccyx while skating — spelled kokkyx.

Da Ali G Show is a chronic abuser of this, with such recurring words like "Respek" being used intentionally by the titular character, who referenced that all respect had been lost in the world since the word "respek" had been removed from the dictionary.

But of course Doctor Who : In "Resolution" , during the climax, the Thirteenth Doctor proudly announces that she has "skillz. With a zed. And if the segment doesn't have a 'C' in its title, they randomly insert a 'K' anyway. Impractical Jokers : Joe announces to a busy restaurant that he's quitting his job as a waiter to manage his boy band "The Yoloboyz with a Z on the end ". Their motto is "Hey! Do it, but do it with a Z!

The French series Kaamelott , parodying the Arthurian legends. A lone stylized "K" is also used prominently during the credits and even on fictitious heraldry. The author justifies this as being close to an ancient variant of spelling for "Camelot"; hence, here the effect aimed at isn't to look "cool" but "antiquated". This is primarily because the show's Transformation Trinket relies upon USB flash drive-like devices, each with a logo consisting of a stylized version first letter of its name that also represents its power for example, a volcano shaped like an "M" for "Magma".

Used tongue in cheek, since it's a Gag Dub show. The Price Is Right has a pricing game called Eazy az 1 2 3. The sketch is a commercial for the "Z-shirt" which is just a T-shirt with the letter "Z" on it , and Hart's character keeps asking what kind of shirt it is, using every letter of the alphabet in order "Is that an A-shirt? One character comments that he "wanted to call it Going to Other Planets , but the network said that shows with 'X' in the name get better ratings.

Not mandatory, thankfully. It is described in-show as representing the Sun rising above the Great Pyramid of Giza. However it was more likely a fluke that the symbol looks like a combination of those, even though it is "sort of" a letter in the canon, as it did only "become" a letter in a much later episode where we find out the Ancients DID apply sounds to Stargate symbols anyway.

In political satire The Thick of It , Emma wonders why people leaving hate mail on her boss Peter's blog spell "hate" as "h8". Johnny Xtreme, one of the most recurrent non-intern nor host, obviously characters in X-Play. He was pretty much the Anthropomorphic Personification of "extremeness".