A green cell indicates the character as playable (numbers in KI (2013) indicate the downloadable content season in which they were added), a red cell indicates that the character is not playable, and a yellow cell indicates that the character is a boss playable only via cheat code. Ironically, he has no fatalities, but he's incredibly powerful.The table below summarizes every single fighter in the series. It is confirmed that he and Gargos were rivals. Ultratech released him to be the final combatant in the tournament. He was trapped in a dimensional prison in the distant past. Eyedol: An ancient warlord with two heads.Its stage is a factory where it was built. It has two fatalities, one where it replaces its head with a machine gun and shoots the opponent, the other where it shoots a laser at the opponent. If it can prove its master capabilities, mass production will begin. Fulgore: A robot created by Ultratech.His stage is a rooftop of a haunted castle. The second where he stabs the opponent with the spike on his shield. One where he summons one of his skeleton friends and drags the opponent to Hell (SNES version: summons lightning and reduces the foe to ashes). After his death, he lost some of his memories, and serves Ultratech in order to return them. Spinal: A skeleton that was once a viking warrior.Its stage is an altar with marble flooring. The first one, it eats the opponent, The second it spits acid onto the foe, and the third it stabs the foe with its tail. The tournament serves to test its abilities. Riptor: A dinosaur created as an experiment by Ultratech.His stage is a chateau in a large mansion. One where he stabs the foe with his enlarged claws, the second where he slams the foe onto the screen. Sabrewulf: Count Von Sabrewulf is a werewolf, and is promised a cure if he wins the tournament.His stage is a rooftop of an ancient warehouse in a desert. One where he creates a pool of lava, which the foe melts into, the other where he shoots flames and reduces the foe to a pile of ashes. Cinder: He was a convict that was chosen for an experiment, only to find out that his body turned to living flame, but was promised to change back if is able to defeat Glacius in the tournament.The first one is where he turns into a gel-like mass and absorbs the foe (arcade only), the second where he turns into a puddle of acid which the foe melts into, and the third where he injects the foe with a substance that turns them to ice. Glacius: An icy alien from another planet who was kidnapped by Ultratech, but was promised to be released and returned home if he wins the tournament.One where he breaks the opponent's neck, and the other where he punches the opponent on the screen.
Ultratech promises him to return his title if he wins the tournament. He was stripped off his title and kicked out of the circuit when it had been discovered that he had cybernetic implants in his arms. TJ Combo: A former heavyweight boxing champion.
One where he rain-dances and summons a bolt of lightning onto the opponent, and other where he sends the opponent flying with his tomohawk, leaving various objects behind. He entered the tournament to find out what happened to his missing brother Eagle, who was in last year's tournament. Chief Thunder: A native American Indian armed with 2 tomahawks.His stage is the shrine Jago worships the tiger spirit. One where he meditates and a car falls down on the opponent, and the other where he stabs the enemy with his katana. Like Orchid, his mission is to destroy the evil within Ultratech. Jago: A Tibetan Monk following the tiger spirit.One where she gives the opponent a heart attack by unzipping her latex outfit and flashing her boobs, and the other where she turns the opponent into a frog (and at the player's option, she stomps on them). Her mission is to shut down the criminal syndicate Ultratech. Orchid is a very sexy secret agent in a green latex outfit armed with two lightsabers. Orchid: The main protagonist of the game and also the only female character. Ultratech also discovers a technology to make bridges between dimensions, and to also release from this dimensional prison a two-headed monster called Eyedol, an ancient warrior that was locked away along with his rival. Along with regular participants, experimental creatures created by Ultratech also fight in the tournament. Ultratech is a very powerful megacorporation (entities which, in this future setting, replaced all governments) which organizes a tournament called Killer Instinct.
It was released in the arcade and later to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Killer Instinct from 1994 is Rareware's first fighting game and was also made by Nintendo.