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Even on Ermac’s Deception ending it says he could easily have taken all of those characters but “their defeat was not his objective.”

Ermac in the original timeline was so fucking cool. I love that upon being freed from Shao Kahn's control he, by his own freewill became good and not only taught Kenshi, but also guided Liu Kang's spirit and helped free the heroes from Quan Chi's control. What a G!! In the new timeline literally his only saving grace is who good his costumes looked in MK9 lol

One thing about Ermac in MKX. He's super fun and also really, really good. Story wise, everything went downhill in Netherrealm era sadly. But gameplay wise he was better every time. Honestly i expected Ermac to return in MK 11 as DLC, he's fan favorite after all.

I'll never forget watching the Ermac ending on KZfaq and reading a comment that referred to him as "soul gatorade". That dude had such a way with words.

I think the best way to redeem Ermac as a character would be to make him Skarlet's rival. Both are amalgamations of fallen warriors created by Shao Kahn, one of souls and one of blood (you could combine Skarlet's origin stories by making the orphan girl a vessel for blood magic), both are extremely powerful canonically but are almost always shafted by the main plot, both are wildcards with a tendency to break free of their masters. (Also both are red-clad ninjas who originated as rumors.) Maybe Shao Kahn keeps them from becoming too powerful by pitting them against each other. Could you imagine if they figured it out and decided to team up? They could be the most dangerous power couple in the MK universe...

Left out the most important detail. One of those souls in Ermac’s body, and the dominant one that informs his personality in the 3D era, is that of Jerrod, Kitana’s father. It’s why he turned face.

Ermac defeated Johnny Cage in MK9 at the Coliseum! Remember when Ermac broke Johnny Cage's leg? (Johnny beat Shinnok in the same timeline) MK11 Dialogue: Johnny Cage: Where is your soul brother Ermac? Shao Kahn: Why do you care Earthrealmer? Johnny Cage: Still owe him for my KNEE!

My favorite character by far. I like his telekinetic combat style more than anything else in MK. Regardless of what NRS did to him in terms of story, they gave him respect in gameplay.

Loved him in MK9. His alternate costume with the hood and mask is awesome. Plus his stomp fatality is hilarious.

Ermac has always been cool to me. I personally like the version of him where one of his souls is Jerrod and with the power of his will, gains complete control over the whirlwind of souls within and thus; control of the Ermac Body. Imagine where they could go with that story-wise. Like, oh...I dunno...teaming up with Kitana to defeat Shao Khan (and possibly Sindel; depends on if she is still brainwashed...or just pure evil...thanks NRS...)! But this is NRS so, of course, Ermac will forever be fodder despite his immense powers. Case in point; one of my favorite scenes ever involving Ermac is when Takeda tries to read Ermac's mind(s) but is overwhelmed with pain by "the chaos" within Ermac. This was such a great scene. Go back and look. Takeda is genuinely shaken by this. He is struggling to speak and even his combat stance is shakey as he tries to compose himself. His signature cocky attitude is nowhere to be seen. Takeda. Is. Afraid. To me, this was a telling scene where Ermac would defeat Takeda as Takeda has never fought an opponent like Ermac before and would need to seek out his father, Kenshi, to help him hone his powers and defeat Ermac in their rematch...but no. Through the immaculate powers of "Out With The Old, In With The New"; Takeda defeats Ermac with the same difficulty he would a common thug. He even makes a quip upon victory while forgetting an incident prior to the fight that would cause PTSD, but nah. What a wasted moment for some more character development for everyone's favorite Kombat Kid.

WAS, STILL, AND ALWAYS WILL BE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER. ERMAC IS EPIC.

The 4 horsemen of being disrespected: Reptile, Johnny Cage, Kung Lao, & Ermac. Please let there be redemption in MK12! 😭

Here after Ermac was revealed in MK1 Kombat Pack

"ermac made a heel turn, going from a villain to a good guy" That's a face turn, my guy.

6:17 is so awesome, seeing Ermac being escorted to the tournament is such a cool sight to see.

The adam and eve advertisement was given elder god tier delivery 🤣 love it

"You are one, WE are many." - Error Macro. What i love about characters like him, noob, and reptile are their clever little origins, just conjured from virtually nothing. Rumors, surnames spelled backwards, an easter egg of a secret fight. They then become fan favorites

All I gotta say is Mk9 Ermac ending, where he becomes Mr Steal Yo Girl.

Ermac is top tier in MKX in the right hands, he's in my roster of most played characters for sure.

Ermac got done so dirty

Ermac ain't the only MK character to fall

Dawgie, you made an ERRor! The myth was born because of MK II arcade cabin service menu (only available to owners/service technicians). It contains some statistical info as well as primitive error reporting. Among stats such as the number of Goro's wins and losses there was a "mysterious" entry: ERMACS. Some kid must have had a quick glance at the screen of a working tech and figured out its a plural or character named Errmac. In reality this is just a short hand for Error Macro (in other words an error counter or something like that; macro is just an ol'school hack for what's just an inlined function). When devs got a smell of the rumor they had their fun with it and started putting other funky but non functional stuff there.

They really did Ermac and Reptile dirty af

Ermac (and specifically, UMK3/MKT ermac) is one of my favorite mk characters of all time. Mostly because you needed to unlock him in umk3 to use him (a pseudo secret character), and because his combos do so much damage, he can easily do full life combos in the corner. It's funny, because when umk3 came out in arcades and info wasn't as readily available back then, he didn't seem that awesome to me. But if you now look up how to use him and match videos of him, oh man.

Finally an Ermac video! Thank you! Hoping he's redeemed in MK12!

I was going to say. He doesn’t beat Raiden or Fujin, than you said it lol. I hope he’s back in the next game. Very cool ninja

They did Ermac Dirty In MK11

As a wrestling fan I need to correct you: Ermac did a Face Turn Face is the wrestling word for good guy and a heel turn is when you go from face to heel

2:38 not that true. The wrestler that wins, is the one that the creative team chooses to win. John Cena is more popular than almost every opponent he has ever faced and he has lost to many of them.

I think it’d be a good series to find the strongest iteration of characters like over the years of MK when was Reptile at his strongest and explain why.

Kenshi, Kano, Ermac, Johnny, and Kotal are my fav mortal kombat characters, Unfortunately Kenshi and Ermac just has been totally been disrespected at this point which is crazy because is ermac literally can body anyone

Ermac is actually my favorite fighting game character so it stings that much more seeing how netherrealm is massacreing my boy

8:16 - " look at this picture ! Got a hxe to his left and a hxe to his right " Had me laughing under my breath since it's late night for me. The way he delivered that so effortlessly 😆😆😄😄😄😁.

I think it's bad ass that ermac was technically created by the fans, and he's literally a collection of different souls. It's almost as though he is the embodiment of his fan base.

This was amazing. It is sad how NRS continue to job so many good character. Ermac, reptile, barake, rain, mileena and so many more. No one from out world should lose to someone like Stryker... Mileena lost to him and ermac. And it's like how does a regular police officer. Stand a good chance against a ethereal assassin and a thousand soul in one ninja?

I would want to see Ermac in the next game as he is Jarrod like in his ending, but this time he has united the souls like a true king after Shang Tsung left Ermac for dead. Jarrod would lead the souls to the soul pit, where their body heals, resulting in their body reforming to be a perfect fusion of Jarrod and Ermac. This leads to him seeking out his family, easily winning a few fights to discover their location, eventually saving Kitana and Sindel from Shang Tsung's control in Shang Tsung's new lair The three would then lead the others in a rebellion against Shang Tsung, with Jarrod/Ermac using his souls to keep Shang Tsung from being aware of them, by tricking him into believing they were obeying his rule as they free the other heroes from his control. Ermac/Jarrod would naturally have a few more wins under his belt, until he faces Shao Kahn in order to let the heroes get to Shang Tsung. This would be the ultimate showdown as Ermac/Jarrod would call him out on his cowardice and cheap tactics that he used to kill him, before declaring that he will not hold back as well as promising to save his kingdom. The two would clash in brutal yet bloody Kombat, with Shao Kahn taunting the fallen king about taking his wife and daughter, enraging the fallen king, who in turn uses all of Ermac's power to paralyze Shao Kahn. Ermac/Jarrod would then float up to him and in a fit of rage, tear all of his limbs off with his telekinesis, finishing by violently tearing off Shao Kahn's head. I think that definitely would redeem Ermac and the fallen king Jarrod, instead of constantly being the punching bags of NRS.

TUDG: in mortal kombat deception, ermac was one of the good guys and helps them win Also TUDG: shows ermac fighting 5 of the good guys

Ermac is the greatest. Their doing him dirty in the new timeline but he will shine again. I just know it.

Ermac as dlc in mk1 makes me happy but also makes me salty that he’s not in the base roster. He’s been my favorite mortal Kombat character for like 15 years now and they’ve been doing him dirty…damn you netherrealm :/

At this point I feel like every one and every thing got done dirty in the NRS era. 3D era had such great and underrated lore I'd take that over the new timeline any day.

Ermac and Noob are my favorite MK characters, so they fact they get their cheeks clapped by weak characters is disappointing

Ermac is just so cool :)

man i miss ermac i was going to main him in mk11 but ofc my dreams were crushed

Do a Video on Killer Instinct. Edit: Also That Thumbnail is Hilarious

08:57 "he looks like a corpse and you can't relate to that" Oh,trust me,buddy I can

Take a shot every time he says “yer boy”

The fact they ended him with a literal fall... Why they had to make him look like a Hollow 💀

The only way I could see Striker beating Ermac is if Striker threw a grenade and blew up Ermac’s body and Ermac’s body is a container that holds the 1,000 souls. Once the container or body is destroyed, it releases the 1000 souls. Also, like you said, since Shinnock was defeated, nobody was maintaining air, max body, which probably made his body the container of the souls a lot weaker.

Ermac looked more badass in MK9

I also hate how they literally made him enemies with Jax and Jacqui in the new timeline for no reason since this was not the case in the original timeline. Another thing I hate is how far too many ignorant people think the MKX ladder ending is canon or the intro dialogues or krypt being canon (despite the devs confirming all of these things being non canon on their Twitter years ago) while also ignoring how contradicting they are to the main storyline and not to mention that Shang Tsung was taken from the past during MK1 when he was still old and before Shao Kahn sacrificed Shang to Sindel. Lastly I really despise how they finally gave him a cool look in MK11 and waste his design in the krypt. If it were up to me I would’ve replaced Cassie and Jacqui with Ermac and Smoke instead.

*Rips off Jax's arms* Why tf didnt he do that to striker

Take a drink every time he says “ya boy”

The fact that Ermac lost to a cop is hilarious it’s like Goten defeating Ultra instant Goku somehow. 😂

Drink every time you hear "Ya boy" and "Jobber".

Ermac was always my favorite character. Was pissed to see him disrespected like so many other characters in the Krypt.

Take a shot everytime he says "ya boy".

Never knew how Ermac started. He might be my 2nd favorite character in MK 👀 “Ya Boy”😂😂😂

Yeah Ermac should literally be a boss by himself!

Yeah I hate it where iconic MK characters gets done dirty and neglected just to focus on half of the generic MK characters. If Ermac returns in the future Mortal Kombat they need to design his costume better like give him a shaolin monks design cause that was my favorite Ermac design.

I think it's funny that in MK11 Noob just goes: "LMAO Ermac ripped your arms off" to Jax

Please say “your boy” more. Everyone loves that

Take. Shot Everytime he says “ya boy”

I actually like how he looks in MKX. Been an Ermac fan forever.

drinking game, drink everytime he says "ya boi"

FYI: A heel turn is when a good guy turns bad. What you meant was a face turn.

You said some variation of “ya boy” 28 times. So fuckin cool.

The Adam and Eve sponsorship caught me off guard NGL lol

Request: Rise and Fall of Lu Kang

This video broke my goddamn heart ! 😢 Ermac is among my most favs ... and they did him super dirty ! He's teuly one of the MAIN *wasted potentials* of Mk history ... first of all , hope he'll be in Mk12 and then hope they'll use him better in it ! 🔥

Ermac has been my favorite character since my first child was born! Her ultrasound picture looked like his mkx model lol

Ermac is my favorite character. I believe ermac was comprised of 10,000 souls not 1,000. That's why shang sung was drawn to him. If I'm wrong let me know.

At least he have fun playing poker with his friends now

MK9 Ermac is def my favorite of all the games the fit! the gameplay! the presence !

This videos is accurately done and I love it

Honestly, I'm making an MK fan game with Raiden as the final boss, and Ermac so far was the only character besides Liu Kang that made sense to beat Raiden one on one to me with no strings attached. Every other character either had to trick him or team up to take him down, that's how powerful Ermac used to be in the Midway Era. As they often said, "We are many, you are but one". Ermac should be god tier, especially at full power, they are a thousand souls in one body, living in perfect harmony and with the brain power to match it, they have ungodly reflexes and their telekinesis has been confirmed to be the power of some of those souls. They shouldn't job so easily, especially since it's been known that they can reform, why not turn them face again and have them slaughter every bad guy they meet until they're stopped by the BBEG?

I know this is an ermac video but stryker beating ermac was probaly one of my favorite moments because my boy stryker has been done plenty dirty too. But yeah ermac my guy what a fall from Grace

Ermac do be havin fresh kicks in armagedon

Ermac and reptile are 2 of my favorites so it hurt to see them done so wrong but hopefully it gets better for mk12

Ermac was my 1st player choice ever on MK deception, been my favorite since then❤

Ermac is so damn good

I’m excited to do a tower using Ermac in MKX. This is a good motivation to go

My boi Ermac, LETS GO! Also first.

Ermac is my favorite character. I had such a good time with him in UMK3 back in the day. Telekinetic slam for the win!

I consider myself pretty well versed in MK nerd lore, but I never knew about the Error Macro myth. Thanks Underdawg!

Ermac is just an evil version of Kenshi, basically the same character.

Deception Ermac is peak Ermac

Ermac just decided to give others a time to shine so he can show everyone who's the real mvp

In mk x he is actually dying cause of the lack of new souls

Cool fact: in the mobile game (mk mobile) there is a character called classic ermac and if he dies he explodes and takes some of the opponent's health this ability is called error macro referring to ermac's origin.

I miss Ermac. He's my favorite character and was my main in MKX. The way he was treated in MK11 was such a let down. Why give him a sick new design if you're just gonna throw him off a cliff? Hopefully, he'll be in MK1 like the leaks are saying he could be.

I think that not seeing Ermac or any other masked character added a special mystery to them. Also MK Deception is in my top 3 games since how well they added to the lore to this and other classic characters.

Take a drink when you hear “ya boy”

Ermac Should've bodied the earthrealm warriors in MK9 instead of Sindel.

“ your boi” lmao

And now he’s back

Was not expecting that as a sponsor 🤣

Drink each time he says, “ya boy.”

He is my favorite character he had so much potential what happened? This character will always be my favorite in the Mortal Kombat series

The run on sentence is strong with this one.