Goro

:For goroawase, see Mnemonic goroawase system

Trivia

• As Goro had four arms, he could not be portrayed by an actor when the original Mortal Kombat games were digitized from real subjects. He was in fact a latex mold created from a clay sculpture. The mold was animated incorporating moves from another actor. This technique was later incorporated into the first Mortal Kombat movie as well.
• Goro's skin is either flesh colored or yellow in the games, but he was dark brown in the first Mortal Kombat movie.
• The creation of Goro lead to other successful Shokans- the other being Kintaro. The only dismal failure of other Shokans was Sheeva.
• Despite being a popular sub-boss, Goro has only been featured in 3 Mortal Kombat games- that being Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Mortal Kombat 4.
• Was the first of 4 Mortal Kombat superstars to have his own official comic book (the others were Kung Lao, Baraka, Mileena and Kitana).
• Throughout the Mortal Kombat media (the combination of the official video games, comic books and movies) only three men have beaten Goro in a fair fight- those three men being Liu Kang (as stated in Mortal Kombat the game, and in the official Mortal Kombat II comic book), Johnny Cage (as shown in Mortal Kombat: The Movie) and Sub-Zero the younger (as shown in the official Mortal Kombat Comic book: Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition II). Thus far, no women have beaten him.
• Fans reactions towards Goro were incredible, as they had never seen anything like Goro prior to Mortal Kombat's release.
• It was rumoured that Goro was to be a playable character in Mortal Kombat II. That rumour was finally put to rest when it was confirmed that Goro was not to be found in Mortal Kombat II. He finally became playable in Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Mortal Kombat 4 through a secret code.
• Goro also became playable in the Game Boy version of the first Mortal Kombat game, but player must beat the game first and enter a secret code to select him. There are also some changes made when playing as Goro. For one thing all of the current characters have been replace with new names, you get to fight in two mirror matches, the first one a Goro vs. Goro in the mirror match before the Endurance Matches and the second fighting against the actual Goro before Shang Tsung. Goro also had no personal ending in this game and he is also unbalanced enough to play. Goro had no fatality, only special attacks and all are a nightmare to execute.
• The Game Boy version of Mortal Kombat was the first MK game where you can actually get to control Goro.