Reptiles (Reptilia) are members of a class of air-breathing, ectothermic (cold-blooded) vertebrates which are characterized by skin covered in scales and/or scutes. They are tetrapods, either having four limbs or being descended from four-limbed ancestors. Modern reptiles inhabit every continent with the exception of Antarctica. Reptiles originated around 320-310 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, having evolved from advanced reptile-like amphibians that became increasingly adapted to life on dry land. Four living orders are typically recognized:
Aves (birds), which are not cold-blooded or scaly, are not included in this list. Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards, however, so some writers who prefer a more unified (monophyletic) grouping also include the birds: over 10,000 species.
Unlike amphibians, reptiles do not have an aquatic larval stage. As a rule, reptiles are oviparous (egg-laying), although certain species of squamates retain the eggs until hatching and a few are viviparous. Many of the viviparous species feed their fetuses through various forms of placenta analogous to those of mammals, with some providing initial care for their hatchlings. Extant reptiles range in size from a tiny gecko, Sphaerodactylus ariasae, which can grow up to 17 mm (0.7 in) to the saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, which may reach 6 m (19.7 ft) in length and weigh over 1,000 kg (2,200 lb).
Liu Kang (Chinese: 劉康; pinyin: Liúkāng) is a video game character from the Mortal Kombat series. First appearing in the series' first title, Liu Kang is portrayed as a Shaolin monk who enters the Mortal Kombat tournament to save his world, Earthrealm, from being destroyed due to having lost nine consecutive tournaments. Since his victory in the tournament, Liu Kang acts as defender from the Earthrealms along with the Earth's other warriors, his mentor, the thunder god Raiden, and his lover, Princess Kitana.
Liu Kang appears in most games as a playable character, including as the lead character from Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks along with Kung Lao, and has also appeared in the live-action films from the series and the comic adaptations. His character was created to be the hero of the series, with most of his moves being less violent and easier to perform than the ones from other characters. His critical reception was mixed, with some of them criticizing his gameplay while others noted him to be entertaining.
[first lines]::Reporter: This afternoon, Governor Muldoon once again responded to accusations that he had lost faith in the ability of the Deacon City police department to maintain order. He insisted Captain Jackson Briggs and his private unit have his full backing and support. He claims the situation is under control.
Jackson Briggs: [looks at a folder] Six foot one; born with a rare disorder called harlequin ichthyosis. The skin produces too many cells, causing massive diamond-shaped cells that can retain water. Condition: the eyelids are formed inside out. Life expectancy's two weeks - this guy's thirty. He likes to rip the heads off his victim's body; he stores the heads in his refrigerator, and when he's hungry he eats them. No fatalities or double flawless. Codename: Reptile.
Jackson Briggs: [looks at a second folder] Next up: Doctor Alan Zane, a plastic surgeon. His first victim likely accidental - the next two dozen were not. Zane couldn't take being a failed doctor, so he went psychotic and turned the knife on himself. He pierced his face, sharpened his teeth into fangs, and he even surgically attached a pair of ten-inch blades to his forearms. Codename: Baraka.
Jackson Briggs: The last contact we had with Baraka was through Johnny Cage. Yeah, that's right, the old action hero. After his movie career died, he needed work. We got him working for us undercover... [cut to Cage being attacked by Baraka]
Jackson Briggs: [tosses a third folder across] We have reason to believe this man, Shang Tsung, may be behind each killer. The night before Johnny Cage was murdered, he told us about a tournament this Shang Tsung is planning, some underground death match between the world's top fighters. Serial killers, assassins... which brings me to you. [looks across the table at the silent figure seated]::Jackson Briggs: Hanzo Hasachi. Before your incarceration, you were the top assassin of the Shirai Ryu, the most lethal ninja clan.
Jackson Briggs: [to Hasachi] We want to put you back on the streets. If this tournament exists, Shang Tsung will find you. And if this tournament exists, it's our one shot to take out Baraka, Reptile and the other maniacs who've turned this city into a killing field. We want you to join the tournament, and we want you to win it. We want you to do what you do best: kill them all.
Hanzo Hasashi: You know a great deal about me. Then you must know that I surrendered my freedom voluntarily. Now what you don't seem to know is that I can have I freedom back, whenever I choose. [handcuffs drop off him]::Hanzo Hasashi: So tell me, Detective Briggs, what could you possibly offer me in exchange for my help? [a female officer appears]::Jackson Briggs: Sonya Blade. Perfect timing.
Sonya Blade: [presents a folder] Sub-Zero.::Hanzo Hasashi: That man is dead.::Sonya Blade: These pictures were taken yesterday. [Hasashi looks at the folder]::Sonya Blade: The man you killed was his brother.::Hanzo Hasashi: No, impossible...::Sonya Blade: Sub-Zero is alive and well, and will be at that tournament. You want him, you got him.
[last lines]::Sonya Blade: Leave no survivors, understand? None!::Jackson Briggs: Hasashi, are you listening? Find Shang Tsung and finish him!::Hanzo Hasashi: Hanzo Hasashi is dead. My name is Scorpion.
Plot
Based on the popular video game of the same name "Mortal Kombat" tells the story of an ancient tournament where the best of the best of different Realms fight each other. The goal - ten wins to be able to legally invade the losing Realm. Outworld has so far collected nine wins against Earthrealm, so it's up to Lord Rayden and his fighters to stop Outworld from reaching the final victory...
Keywords: 1990s, actor, alternative-reality, american-abroad, bare-chested-male, based-on-comic-book, based-on-video-game, beach, blood, blood-splatter
Choose Your Destiny...
FIGHT!
Nothing In This World Has Prepared You For This
Kombat Begins
Flawless Victory
Test Your Might
Blade: Where the hell are we?::Cage: Do I look like your travel agent?
Cage: While you're at it, why don't you call my agent?::Blade: Do I look like your secretary?
Johnny Cage: This is where you fall down.
Jax: Trust me, Sonya!::Sonya Blade: I only trust one person, Jax, and you're talking to her.
Liu Kang: I guess you knew it would end this way.::Lord Rayden: Didn't have a clue.
Johnny Cage: You know, you gotta admire her. When she sets her mind on something...::Liu Kang: It's not her mind you're admiring.::Johnny Cage: It's true.
Johnny Cage: I'm in a hostile environment. I'm totally unprepared. And I'm surrounded by a bunch of guys who probably want to kick my ass... it's like being back in high school.
Shang Tsung: Flawless victory!
Liu Kang: You can look into my soul, but you don't own it.
[about Kano]::Shang Tsung: Why else would I have chosen such a disreputable-looking cretin? Look at him! No dignity, no manners... Yet in the realm of Earth, men like him can amass great wealth, and almost god-like power.::Kano: Yeah, and I'd like to get back to my amassing as soon as possible, if you don't mind! Now when do I get paid?
Plot
Six girls are on their way to Las Vegas to sing in a TV competition, but when their car breaks down, their only choice is to walk to a town they see in the distance. Little do they know that this ghost town is the hideout of a gang of drug dealing bikers. The bikers hold the girls captive, and only one man can save them....
Keywords: drugs, independent-film, murder
Where the road to Vegas crosses the highway to hell.
It's a good place for a bad time.
Plot
Terry Griffith has got it all -- looks, popularity, the perfect college boyfriend, and an article that's a shoo-in to win her a summer internship at the local newspaper... or so she thinks. When Terry's journalism teacher passes her article up in favor of a couple of pieces written by boys, Terry is convinced that sexism is to blame. Determined to win the internship at any cost, Terry goes undercover at a rival high school to resubmit her article... as a boy. But Terry gets more than she bargained for when she finds herself fending off a bully and the advances of an oversexed female admirer, and falling for her new pal Rick.
Keywords: 15-year-old, absent-parents, arizona, assumed-identity, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, beach, bedroom, bicycle, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship
Terry Griffith is about to go where no woman has gone before.
Buddy: Hey, no problem. Just a couple of clean American kids experimenting with sex.
Rick: Are those what I think they are?::Terry: I'm sorry...::Rick: Where do you get off having tits?
Denise: You were in the boys' locker room?::Terry: Yes!::Denise: Can I be your younger brother?
Rick: It's OK, everybody, it's all right. He has tits.
Terry: Budster, there's a half-naked woman in your bedroom feeding pizza to some fish, and she's all yours.::Buddy: Sounds too kinky for me.::Terry: Buddy, she needs you. I need you. You need her.::Buddy: Is she really half-naked?::Terry: Maybe more by now.::Buddy: What if you're lying?::Terry: What if I'm not?::Buddy: Good point - if I'm not back in a week, forward my mail.
Terry: You know, sometimes I just wish I was a guy.::Buddy: No, you don't! The male body needs sex at all times! It's a living hell!
[Buddy is trying to show Terry how to act like a guy by getting her to scratch her "balls". She's not doing too good a job at it]::Terry: Look, maybe my balls don't itch.::Buddy: All balls itch! It's a fact!
Terry: Aren't you embarrassed?::Buddy: Nope. I'm horny. Horny will kick embarrassment's ass anytime.
Terry: I'm just so confused.::Buddy: Of course you're confused. You're wearing my underwear.
[Terry, dressed in a tuxedo, is ready for the prom]::Terry: How do I look?::Buddy: Dashing.::Terry: My zipper's open.::Buddy: That was the dashing part.
Too dangerous to keep.
Too feeble to let go.
And you want to bite the hand.
Should have stopped this long ago.
Go now, youve been set free.
Another month or so youll be gorging on me (poisoning me on 2nd and 3rd times)
With your lovely smile.
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail,
Your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile.
Had you coiled around my arm.
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamond eyes?
But that was long ago. (chorus)
And I should have believed eve.
She said we had to blow.
She was the apple of my eye.
Too dangerous to keep.
Too feeble to let go.
And you want to bite the hand.
Should have stopped this long ago.
Go now, you've been set free.
Another month or so you'll be gorging on me (";poisoning me"; on 2nd and 3rd times)
With your lovely smile.
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail,
Your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile.
Had you coiled around my arm.
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamond eyes?
But that was long ago. (Chorus)
And I should have believed Eve.
She said we had to blow.
She was the apple of my eye.
It wasn't long ago. (Chorus)
Extraterrestrial
Down on the corner
So unfamiliar
And making me wonder
All of the robots
Around it are dying
Craving emotions
And constantly fighting
The sun came out and it didn't go away
No, it didn't
It didn't go away
Extraterrestrial
Counting his fingers
Handing out pamphlets
Of light to us sinners
The sun came out and it didn't go away
No, it didn't
It didn't go away
So unfamiliar
Making me wonder
'Cause it says that god
Is a soul masturbator
Higher vibrations
Frequency flying
Living in light
'Cause the light freaks out dyin'
The sun came out and it didn't go away
No, it didn't
It didn't go away
The sun came out and it didn't go awayhg
No, it wouldn't
When the world has seen the light, at the beginning of the day
You will let me call your name
'Cause I love you more than light
And it will always be this way, as long as I believe in life
When the morning comes too soon, and I am still without your love
You will let me call your name
'Cause I love you more than light
And it will always be this way, as long as I believe in life
Whatever happened to the girls I used to know?
Whatever happened to the places that we'd go?
When we were running in and out of time
But all the time we still believed in life
We were running in and out of time, but still believed in life
And when the day is almost done, and there is nothing left to say
You will let me call your name
'Cause I love you more than light
And it will always be this way, as long as I believe in life
Running in and out of time, but still believed in life
And when the day is almost done, and there is nothing left to say
You will let me call your name
'Cause I love you more than light
And it will always be this way
As long as I believe
As long as you believe
As long as I believe that you believe then I'll believe, I'll believe in life
As long as I believe that you believe, then I'll believe, I'll believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
I believe, I believe in life
(Weikath)
Coming from the sewerage creepin' thru the pipes
Born from modern chemistry a thing that is alive
Growing in this rotten crap at places no one wipes
Eating rats and stinking shit and all it needs to thrive
The scientists got no way to fight
For they can't find any weak point to get rid of it right
You live your life and you don't know what's goin' on
You just can't stop a thinking that the officials do you wrong
You're sometimes wondering what the hell bit your baby's arm
And the nuns at the holy mission can't keep the tramps from harm
Even thieves around dark corners too scared to leave the door
Frustrated businessmen needing a wank can't find themselves a whore
You won't believe 'till you know that it's real
From the pain in your stomach and the horror you feel
You need a shit so you head off to the loo
You're coming to the bog, now what you're gonna do !
Chorus There's the Reptile (Reptile)
Just see his eyes
Reptile (Reptile)
Can you see the beast arise
Chorus Reptile (Reptile)
Creepi
ng up on you
Reptile (Reptile)
There's nothing left that you can do
Solo: K/M
Chorus And there's the Reptile (Reptile)
Hidden till now
Reptile (Reptile)
But now it's there you don't know how
Chorus Reptile (Reptile)
Just watch it grow
Reptile
(Reptile)
And there's no more human being left but you
she spread herself wide open to let the insects in
she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been
she has the blood of reptile just underneath her skin
seeds from a thousand others drip down from within
oh my beautiful liar
oh my precious whore
my disease my infection
I am so impure
devils speak of the ways in which she'll manifest
angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress
need to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness
I now know the depths I reach are limitless
oh my beautiful liar
oh my precious whore
my disease my infection
Shedding your skin
It's falling to pieces
Feeling within
Body is cold
Cold to the bone
Bestial sin
You're trying to keep it
Feeling within
Spirit is old
Let me in
It can never happen
Biting me with a poisionous mouth
A venomous shout
Tear me apart
Chewing the gristle
Chewing it up
Spitting me out
Glowing eyes, staring eyes
Manifest of evil presence
With entities swept in disease of betrayal
A fall from paradise beyond redemption
Wrath child's afterglow
He who speaks of nightly treasures
He who wraps the serpent around my neck
He who pours poisonous wine in my chalice
He who lets me serve and slip away
And so I will take shelter
In the absence of the light
Hiding like a masked miniature in the dark
A revenant without relief it seems
For the art of becoming a progeny
And to be raised in such curse
Is to forever creep among have mortals
Infesting the dead in herds
Infesting the dead in herds
His grandeur of guidance in round trips obscure
He who immersed my hands in sullen throes
His paths on which domination linger
He who dares to prove the sanity of mine
He who speaks of nightly treasures
He who lets me serve and slip away
Black unearthly void creature crawling
Forbidden, forgotten, fairly underrated
Bastards in the shape of angels holding my hands
Passing me what is left of the wine
Bastards in the shape of angels holding my hands
Passing me what's left of the wine
Extraterrestrial
Down on the corner
So unfamiliar
And making me wonder
All of the robots
Around it are dying
Craving emotions
And constantly fighting
The sun came out
And it didn't go away
No, it didn't
It didn't go away
Extraterrestrial
Counting his fingers
Handing out pamphlets
Of light to us sinners
The sun came out
And it didn't go away
No, it didn't
It didn't go away
So unfamiliar
Making me wonder
'Cause it says that God
Is a soul masturbator
Higher vibrations
Frequency flying
Living in light
'Cause the light freaks out dyin'
The sun came out
And it didn't go away
No, it didn't
It didn't go away
The sun came out
And it didn't go away
No, it wouldn't
Too dangerous to keep.
Too feeble to let go.
And you want to bite the hand.
Should have stopped this long ago.
Go now, you've been set free.
Another month or so you'll be poisoning me
With your lovely smile.
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail,
Your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile.
Had you coiled around my arm.
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamomd eyes?
But that was long ago. (Chorus)
And I should have believed Eve.
She said we had to blow.
She was the apple of my eye.
Hold my heart in your cold clenched fist and squeeze until you bleed me dry
Take what you will of my life force and leave the pain behind
You would take it all from me and only leave my suffering
What not take my hope, you demon, you are welcome to that now
You my idol
You my teacher
You my laughter
You my crying
You my daybreak
You my sunset
You my living
You my dying
Twist the threads much tighter and to you my last breath will belong
You will know my broken form will honour you forevermore
I would give my life to you, my dreams, my talents are forgotten
What a trophy to inscribe beside the ones who've gone before
(x2)
You my idol
You my teacher
You my laughter
You my crying
You my daybreak
You my sunset
You my living
You my dying
Lace your kiss with cyanide and plant it when I contradict you
Razor-sharp are fingernails that trace a line to yielding pulse
Shower me with useless gifts, I'll drown in insincerity
Lover, take your love away and use it on yourself
You my idol
You my teacher
You my laughter
You my crying
You my daybreak
You my sunset
You my living