Necrid (Earth-19999)

Necrid is a character in the Mortal Fighter Series. His first appearence was in Mortal Fighter: Kombat. He was created for the MF universe by acclaimed comic book writer Todd McFarlane specially for Kombat, but his extreme popularity made Necrid an recurring through the game series.

Cursed
Necrid was once a great warrior. He fought in the King Iron Fist Tournament and won, but his weakness was his desire for absolute power. Seeking more and more, he eventually arrived on Outworld to dispute the Mortal Fighter Challenge, in which kombatants had to fight for death in order to acquire the Cursed Swords. Necrid almost reached this point, but he was betrayed by Shang Tsung and was brutally beaten up by Goro, mortally wounded. But, as he approached the sword seeking immortality, the evil spirit of the sword, Inferno, raised from inside it and beckoned him. Upon seeing the apparition, the fear he felt was so great that he, despite thinking it was a dishonor for a warrior, escaped. He managed to avoid the confrontation, but ended trapped in the vortex of Chaos that Inferno brought. Trapped there, his mind and body were warped and contaminated by the strong evil aura of that realm, eventually turning him into an abomination.

Mortal Fighter: Kombat
During Kilik and Xianghua's battle against Nightmare, Necrid sensed that the spirit sword's existence harmed him, so he jumped through the open void and escaped Chaos just as it was collapsing. Now on the Netherrealm once again, he soon discovered that he needed the evil influence of the void to keep himself alive. Out of instinct, and in constant pain, he attacked many travelers thinking they were "enemies", until one happened to carry a fragment of Soul Edge. The familiar aura softened his pain, and a "purpose" born in Necrid's mind: find the rest of the fragments so he can stop the pain. Necrid soon left on a journey to find other fragments.