Why exactly would a cop work in the Mortal Kombat universe?
Unlike Sonya Blade or Johnny Cage, Stryker isn't sassy, funny or granted with the gift of having a personality - he's just a cop with nothing but a gimmicky gun.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.