Smoke/Current Timeline

Biography

• Mortal Kombat 1: "As a boy, Smoke lived to hunt with his family. Their final hunt, however, ended in tragedy. Having accidentally trespassed onto Lin Kuei lands, they were attacked. Smoke was orphaned. Ashamed by his warriors' actions, the Lin Kuei's Grandmaster adopted Smoke. He raised him alongside his sons, Sub-Zero and Scorpion. Eventually, Smoke chose to make the Lin Kuei’s mission his own. But as he lacked his brothers' innate supernatural abilities, he set out to master practical magic. Having done so, he now joins them in Earthrealm's defense."

Storyline

In restarting the timeline, Liu Kang designed the fates of every inhabitant, including his old allies. In doing so, he designed the fate of Smoke to be human once again instead of becoming one of Quan Chi's minions as a Revenant. Additionally, while he is still affiliated with the Lin Kuei like in previous timelines, he was taken in by the Lin Kuei Grandmaster after the clan murdered his family out of a misunderstanding. Due to this, he is now the adopted brother of Bi-Han and Kuai Liang, better known in this timeline as Sub-Zero and Scorpion, respectively.

Mortal Kombat 1

Smoke, being referred to by his given name Tomas, is accompanied by Lin Kuei forces to Madam Bo's teahouse to demand payment from Madam Bo. There, farmhands Kung Lao and Raiden intervene to stop the clan's attack. Tomas engages them, but is defeated before his brothers, Bi-Han and Kuai Liang attack as well. After they are defeated, Liu Kang arrives to reveal the attack was actually staged to test both the farmhand's resilience. Tomas and the other Lin Kuei depart while Bi-Han and Kuai Liang accompany Liu Kang to Johnny Cage's mansion.

As later events develop, Tomas and his brothers are dispatched by Liu Kang to infiltrate Ying Fortress to capture and stop Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, powerful sorcerers whose destinies was altered from what Liu Kang had designed, and to disable any Soul Wells created. Tomas and his brother defeat the defending forces. Tomas remains outside to disable Soul Wells while his brothers enter inside. After some time, Kuai Liang returns, revealing to Tomas that Bi-Han had betrayed him and Earthrealm to side with the sorcerers. Bi-Han eventually catches up to them, where he is defeated by Kuai Liang. Tomas questions there next move, with Kuai Liang stating they will leave the Lin Kuei before taking Bi-Han back to the Lin Kuei palace.

As further events worsen, Tomas and Kuai Liang join the allying Earthrealm and Outworld forces. They discover that a variant of Shang Tsung had been manipulating events from the start. Tomas joins his allies in halting Titan Shang Tsung's plans while kombating variants of themselves from Titan Shang Tsung's timeline.

After the revelation of multiple timelines, Liu Kang forms a new Forces of Light to kombat an alternate version of Shang Tsung that had been meddling with the timeline by bringing in Titans and kombatants from other timelines to aid him in the upcoming battle. Tomas joins Liu Kang in kombating the upcoming threat.

Liu Kang arrives in Titan Shang Tsung's timeline with his Forces of Light to battle Titan Shang Tsung's Forces of Darkness. A battle ensues with kombat and death all around. Titan Shang Tsung summons a Titan version of Quan Chi, thus reforming The Deadly Alliance for the battle at hand. As the battle wages to the top of the Pyramid, a good version of the Deadly Alliance briefly fight the Titan Deadly Alliance before being quickly killed. At the top, the Titans fight Liu Kang and an ally, only to be bested by Liu Kang's ally in kombat. Liu Kang uses his Temporal Power to erase both Titans, but in doing so, causes the timeline seemingly begins to collapse. Running out of time, Liu Kang sends his ally back to their respective timeline before doing so with himself.

Back in their timeline, Liu Kang reveals that Tomas and Kuai Liang had defected from the Lin Kuei to start a new clan to succeed the Lin Kuei.

Ending

• Mortal Kombat 1 (Canonical): "Kuai Liang and I were working hard to build our new clan. But even with the help of his close friend, Harumi, it was difficult. The biggest problem was finding the initiates. Then, one night, while walking outside Harumi's compound, I was attacked. I thought at first it was a Lin Kuei assassin. But his strikes were uncertain, too angry. My attacker, it turns out, was a boy. Homeless and hungry, his assault was born of desperation. He needed money so that he could eat. It was looking at myself, fifteen years ago. I would've ended up just like him, if the Lin Kuei hadn't taken me in. So I took the boy to Kuai Liang, who also appreciated his fire. We made him our first initiate. The boy's name? Hanzo Hasashi."