as being made with "care and attention paid to his previous iterations and looks to be a dominant force in the meta." As was the case with most of the cast of characters in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Nightwolf's appearance was critically panned. Newsarama dismissed him as "useless," and Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide called the character "dopey." Eric Snider of Film.com said of his opening dialogue exchange with Liu Kang, "I couldn’t hear the rest because my brain was exploding." 411Mania called his tutelage of Liu Kang "hippie Native American Yoda spiel." Kate Willaert of Game Informer sardonically remarked, "Nightwolf delivers the best line in the movie when he tells Liu Kang he must test his courage, and find his Animality. ... As a result, the film's final climactic battle turns into Primal Rage: The Movie." Io9's Alasdair Wilkins said of the character's depiction in the film, in particular the scene of Nightwolf knocking out Liu Kang with the hatchet, "Nightwolf isn't just a magical shapeshifting shaman who only exists to show the hero his destiny...he's also kind of an asshole." However, Doug Skiles of KillerMovies said in his 1997 review, "The only person putting forth anything resembling effort is Litefoot, who plays Nightwolf, at least for the whopping two minutes that he's on the screen." References Fictional Apache people Fictional Native American people in video games Fictional Vale Tudo practitioners Fictional archers Fictional axefighters Fictional historians Fictional knife-fighters Fictional shamans Fictional martial artists in video games Fictional taekwondo practitioners Ghost characters in video games Male characters in video games Mortal Kombat characters Religious worker characters in video games Shapeshifter characters in video games Video game characters introduced in 1995 Video game characters with electric or magnetic abilities Video game protagonists Zombie and revenant characters in video games