History NightmareFuel / MortalKombat11

But as every title progresses through its DarkerAndEdgier plot, this one has eventually reached its DarkestHour, complete with [[Characters/MortalKombatKronika the most horrifically evil villain]] in the entire franchise. [[ArcWords As stated]], there are, in fact, [[FateWorseThanDeath Fates Worse than Death]].

--> '''Joker''': Meet the League of Misunderstood Maniacs! We're giving Orderrealm an enema! And when we're done, who knows where we'll crash next? [[ParanoiaFuel Maybe we'll come to]] ''[[ParanoiaFuel your]]'' [[ParanoiaFuel house]] and [[StuffBlowingUp slip live grenades under your pillow.]] Maybe we'll [[KickTheDog gut your favorite pet.]] Or maybe we'll just... '''''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou BREAK YOUR TV RIGHT NOW!!!!]]''''' '''''[[EvilLaugh HEE HEE HEE HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!]]'''''
-->('''''[[CameraAbuse BLAM!]]''' Through the shattered screen and sound of static, [[HellIsThatNoise Joker's distorted, maniacal laughter]] can still be heard'')

** Liu Kang erasing Shang Tsung from existence in the good ending is rather nightmarish as well. While Shang Tsung undoubtedly deserved it, seeing him frantically trying to crawl away from Liu Kang, terrified as his body disintegrates into sand is a rather frightening way for someone to go.
* During the confrontation between Sheeva and Baraka in the Dead Pool, negotiations go south when Shang Tsung "accidentally" knocks one of Baraka's men into the acid pits. Everything stops, as all parties watch the poor Tarkatan scream and thrash in agony as the acid bloodily consumes him. Even [[EveryoneHasStandards Baraka and Sheeva]] both look horrified to watch it happen. Then we get a cold look at Shang Tsung, [[TheSociopath who's clearly enjoying the show.]] He then has the audacity to [[BackhandedApology apologize]] while barely hiding a grin.

** Immediately before Shang absorbs Liu Kang's soul, [[NeckLift he puts him in a single-hand chokehold]] and taunts him with quite possibly the vilest, most ruthless line of dialogue that any incarnation of the character has ever said in the entire franchise - it is only ''this'' quote that truly exemplifies the horrible, disgusting depths of the '''absolute ''evil''''' that is Shang Tsung.

* While it is also an awesome moment there is something a little disturbing that Fire God Liu Kang, in order to guarantee the crown's safety, willingly let Shang Tsung have a NearVillainVictory that resulted in the brutal deaths or worse of most of his friends. Even Shang Tsung is visibly impressed by it, calling it "Deliciously coldblooded".

* '''[[BigBad Shang Tsung]]''' in general is terrifying. With his [[SatanicArchetype satanic aura, wicked cunning and penchant for black magic]], [[SmugSnake the man]] is practically an [[Really700YearsOld ancient, vampiric serial killer]]. The hellish Krypt mentioned above was all by [[SoftSpokenSadist his design]] and his shapeshifting capabilities are [[ForTheEvulz extremely predatory]] in nature, especially as a way to mock and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] victims. Plus, to be bested by him is [[FateWorseThanDeath a fate worse than death]], as your [[YourSoulIsMine soul will never rest]].
** His second intro, ''Crush Defiance'' features a {{mook}} making a run when he's [[OhCrap suddenly caught]], followed by him screaming in agony as he glows green and then [[DefeatEqualsExplosion explodes]] into a [[BloodyHorror spurt of blood]] as well as his [[YourSoulIsMine soul being captured by Shang Tsung]] from behind. What makes this terrifying is just how [[AlasPoorVillain agonized the mook sounds]] as his soul is being yanked from him and being [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killed gruesomely]], followed by Shang smiling at the aftermath of killing and [[YourSoulIsMine taking his soul from him]], an apt showcase of [[TheSociopath Shang Tsung's core personality]].

** His second intro, ''Crush Defiance'' features a {{mook}} making a run when he's [[OhCrap suddenly caught]], followed by him screaming in agony as he glows green and then [[DefeatEqualsExplosion explodes]] into a [[BloodyHorror spurt of blood]] as well as his [[YourSoulIsMine soul being captured by Shang Tsung]] from behind. What makes this terrifying is just how [[AlasPoorVillain agonized the mook sounds]] as his soul is being yanked from him and being [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killed gruesomely]], followed by Shang smiling at the aftermath of killing and taking his soul from him, an apt showcase of [[TheSociopath Shang Tsung's core personality]].

** His second intro, ''Crush Defiance'' features a {{mook}} making a run when he's suddenly caught, followed by him screaming in agony as he glows green and then explodes into a spurt of blood as well as his soul being captured by Shang Tsung from behind. What makes this terrifying is just how agonized the mook sounds as his soul is being yanked from him and being killed gruesomely, followed by Shang smiling at the aftermath of killing and taking his soul from him, an apt showcase of [[TheSociopath Shang Tsung's core personality]].

-->'''Geras:''' Be [[FateWorseThanDeath forgotten...]]

* [[BigBad Shang Tsung]] in general is terrifying. With his [[SatanicArchetype satanic aura, wicked cunning and penchant for black magic]], [[SmugSnake the man]] is practically an [[Really700YearsOld ancient, vampiric serial killer]]. The hellish Krypt mentioned above is all by [[SoftSpokenSadist his design]] and his shapeshifting capabilities are [[ForTheEvulz extremely predatory]] in nature, especially as a way to mock and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] victims. Plus, to be bested by him is [[AndIMustScream a fate worse than death]], as your [[YourSoulIsMine soul will never know eternal rest]].

* Shang Tsung's second intro, ''Crush Defiance'' features a {{mook}} making a run when he's suddenly caught, followed by him screaming in agony as he glows green and then explodes into a spurt of blood as well as his soul being captured by Shang Tsung from behind. What makes this terrifying is just how agonized the mook sounds as his soul is being yanked from him and being killed gruesomely, followed by Shang smiling at the aftermath of killing and taking his soul from him, an apt showcase of [[TheSociopath Shang Tsung's core personality]].

* While it is also an awesome moment there is something a little disturbing that Fire Lord Liu Kang, in order to guarantee the crown's safety, willingly let Shang Tsung have a NearVillainVictory that resulted in the brutal deaths or worse of most of his friends. Even Shang Tsung is visibly impressed by it, calling it "Deliciously coldblooded".

** In her "Scream Queen" Fatality, Sindel holds her victim up in front of her with her hair, then [[MakeMeWannaShout screams]] and screams and ''screams'' until their hips and legs fly off while their torso and face get ''flayed''. Then, just for good measure, she screams once more, [[NoKillLikeOverkill blasting said flayed upper body to pieces]].

** "Bloody Mess": Skarlet makes her return to Mortal Kombat 11 with a brutal and bloody Fatality that's just enough to make you wince with fear. Her new Fatality, Bloody Mess features her lifting the opponent's own blood in the air through their mouth and eyes, creating six stakes of it. The stakes pierce the enemy's chest, shoulders, heart and eye socket. Skarlet then approaches her opponent, while sadistically chuckling, then she presses the stake in their eye socket, causing the [[EyeScream impaled eyeball to pop out through the head!]] GROSS!

[[BloodierAndGorier The Fatalities are no slouches in this entry,]] and [[{{Overcrank}} the way the animations slow down and stop on the final blow]] only ups the pain factor. Suffice to say that [[https://www.rt.com/news/458864-mortal-kombat-game-developer-ptsd/ one of the game's developers was apparently diagnosed with PTSD while working on these fatalities]].

* The story prologue shows Raiden [[ElectricTorture slowly and brutally electrifying]] his ArchEnemy Shinnok for no reason other than to torment the fallen Elder God. Despite being [[CompleteImmortality completely immortal]], it's agonizing and he's not even interrogating him, [[ColdBloodedTorture he's just making him suffer.]] Shinnok is no saint, but Raiden just shocking him over and over knowing that he'll never die from it is just cruel...and ''then'' he decapitates his [[AndIMustScream ever-living head]] to present to the Netherrealm rulers as his warning, shown in TheStinger to ''X''. Dark Raiden even briefly sports a SlasherSmile as he's about to behead Shinnok.

** "Frozen In Time" is yet another gruesome spin on his classic Spine Rip fatality. First, he creates an ice clone wielding a spear and ice slides into the opponent, knocking them over his head and impaling them on the spear. He then punches into the opponent's chest and tears their spine out through the front, taking their head off with it. Not content yet, he then impales the head onto the spear through the back, [[EyeScream impaling an eye out in the process]]. Worse, depending on the character, the head is ''still screaming'' after Sub-Zero has already torn it off, [[AndIMustScream implying that the victim was still alive at some degree after their spine and head where torn off]].

** "Food For Thought" is absolutely nasty. He [[TearOffYourFace rips off the opponent's face,]] then the front of their skull. Then he tears out their brain and [[BrainFood takes a big chomp out of it]]. You can also hear the death rattles of the unfortunate sap that ends up being the recipient of this fatality. It's quite chilling.
*** What makes the fatality even more disturbing is how, if one looks closely, Baraka's eyes dilate as he sinks his teeth in; it makes him look less like a sentient, smart fighter and more like an unhinged beast.

** "Totem Sacrifice" has him summon a sacrificial altar, throw his opponent against it, then kick their head with enough force to separate it from the body, ''[[NauseaFuel with the spine still attached]]''. As if the brutality of it wasn't enough, he then summons a giant stone skull to crush his victim's disembodied head. Bonus points for one of the unlucky sap's [[EyeScream eyes]] flying at the screen when the {{Overcrank}} kicks in.
** "Kat Food" is quite the terrifying throwback to the animalities of the third game. Kotal Kahn uses his sickles to slice open the opponent's chest, and then he morphs into a jaguar, pouncing on the victim and ripping their throat out before grabbing the opponent's heart in his jaws and crushing it savagely.

** "Royal Execution" where she tosses her fans at the opponent, spinning like saws where they cut and float at the opponent's neck and waist, severing the opponent's lower half from their body while keeping the head and upper body afloat. As Kitana keeps the fans spinning, she calls back the fan from the opponent's now severed waist, causing the opponent's upper body to fall while the second fan keeps their head still afloat. As the fan returns, Kitana kicks the closed fan back to the opponent's head, where it pierces their forehead. The thing that's nightmarish is that her opponent is ''still alive'' for about half of the fatality before they are trisected.

** "New Species". Remember how D'Vorah killed Mileena in Mortal Kombat X's story mode? Well, her first fatality is similar to that, except ''even worse'', looking like something from ''Film/TheThing1982'' that would make Creator/JohnCarpenter proud. She first stabs her victim in the shoulders to bring them to their knees, then vomits bugs into their mouth. As the victim's body writhes and convulses, giant spider-like legs emerge from their torso and finally their head splits in half as a bug's head emerges and takes its place, basically turning their body into a [[NauseaFuel disgusting]] BigCreepyCrawly.

** "Good and Evil" displays just what kind of power an Elder God possesses. First she entombs the opponent in rocks leaving only their head poking out, and then she proceeds to ''[[GiantWoman grow many times their height]]'' and lifts her stilettoed leg to stomp them into the ground like an [[TheBaroness evil dominatrix]] would. But if you thought that ''that'' was terrifying, behold Cetrion's true terror as ''she enlarges so much that she is '''taller than the planet's diameter is wide''''', and she finally finishes off her fatality by shrieking out a ''massive ray of light'' to barrel down and destroy her enemy; bear in mind, she is opening her mouth as wide open as possible to fire a beam that looks big enough to destroy ''at least'' a country or two, but when it reaches the opponent no longer than two seconds later it is hardly bigger than they are wide, thus showing ''horrific'' levels of focus and precision on her part. What makes it scarier is if Cetrion is decked out in her "[[FallenHero Dark Cetrion]]" get-up (the same look she had in her own ending and in the last chapter of the story mode), making her look completely unlike a benevolent goddess of nature and virtue —and more of an evil goddess of death like her brother [[GodOfEvil Shinnok]].

** "Spinning Out of Control": Mileena is finally back in this game, and she's much more AxCrazy than ever before with her first fatality being ample proof. Here, she knocks her opponent to the ground before rolling up in the air and spinning around like a buzzsaw with both of her sais deployed (á la Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog), before launching herself at her opponent, vertically ripping into them like some of Kung Lao's classic finishers, only its ''not'' a quick (or clean) cut. Eventually, she rolls out completely, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe completely cutting the opponent in half]] as Mileena slides across the ground on her knee, [[BloodSplatteredWarrior completely covered in her opponent's blood]] as a massive shower of LudicrousGibs flies all over the place. If you look closely, you will see that Mileena's mask came off partway through if she wore one and you can see the opponent's blood dripping from her ''mouth'' afterward implying that it wasn't just her sai tearing into the opponent. All in all, it perfectly sums up Mileena's quick and sadistically brutal fighting style.

* Jax's Fatal Blow, "HONORABLE DISCHARGE" isn't that very gory but makes up for that with sheer brutality: Jax first punches his foe in the chest before punching their face 5 times before delivering a super punch at the end, then punches their stomach repeatedly with the last hit-making his opponent ''[[BloodFromTheMouth vomit blood]]'', clapping his superheated arms around the falling opponent's head, before shooting them ''[[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange in the face at point-blank range]]'' with his M67 grenade launcher sending the enemy across the screen.

* Baraka's "Stuck" brutality is essentially his klassic "Blade Lift" fatality, but now while he has them lifted in air, Baraka taunts them before ''swiping his blades to the side, cutting them in half''.

* While pretty much all the brutalities are terrifying in their own right, Geras' stone cold one-liners add to the horror of his brutalities, regardless if he's erasing you from existence or snapping your neck with one of your eyeballs popping out of its socket. His [[VoiceOfTheLegion voice]] doesn't make it any better.

* Nightwolf's "Pure Guts" brutality, in which he shoves his tomahawk into his opponent, embedding it in their thigh. The opponent then pleads for mercy before Nightwolf pulls the tomahawk up through their body, up to the neck, after which blood sprays out and the intestines spill out through the crotch. It could be a fatality in its own right.
* Joker's newest Brutality, "Deep Cuts", is perhaps one of the most disturbing brutalities due to how simple but realistic the execution is. Kicking the opponent into a wheelchair, Joker lets out a cackle as he turns the opponent around, readying a knife and '''[[SlashedThroat slitting their throat]]''' with it, blood spraying onto the ground as the opponent lets out final anguished gargles followed by a final twitch. While not the most eventful brutality, much like Leatherface's "Tenderizer" from the previous game, it can certainly be one of the worst; as having your neck slashed open would be far likelier than having your head uppercutted off.
** On the subject of the Joker, one of his post-Brutality taunts is to pull out a Jack-in-the-Box and wind it, revealing a standard clown head. However, if Joker performs his "Head Case" brutality, which has him launching said clown head out of the box and magicking it onto his opponent's neck (somehow), when he goes to wind the box again, out pops [[HeadInABox his opponent's head]] in its place. It’s a total Joker move, in that it’s [[BlackComedy equal parts funny and horrifying]].
* [=RoboCop=] gives us "Kase Klosed" which, similar to "Deep Cuts" mentioned above, deserves mention for how subdued, yet realistic it is. He blasts the opponent's legs to get them on the ground, then proceeds to unload a clip from his gun into the victim. As he falls back, he stomps the victim's arm to pin them down, blasts their hand off, then makes one last shot to the head to finish the job, as the opponent lets out a LittleNo. It's a display of police brutality made all the more disturbing when you recognize how eerily similar it is to how [[MythologyGag Murphy was killed by Boddicker's gang.]]

** "Chain Reaction" is really brutal as well, and it has Scorpion delivering his heated spear into their gut. Then he flips over them, dives into the Netherrealm with the chain still attached, then he moves into the position he was still in and leaps out of the Netherrealm, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cutting his opponent in half vertically]]. The fact that the chain was wrapped over his opponent's ''face'', causing them to scream in agony from the hot metal searing into their flesh doesn't help.

** "Frozen In Time" is yet another gruesome spin on his classic Spine Rip fatality. First, he creates an ice clone wielding a spear and ice slides into them, knocking them over his head and impaling them on the spear. He then punches into the opponent's chest and tears their spine out through the front, taking their head off with it. Not content yet, he then impales the head onto the spear through the back, [[EyeScream impaling an eye out in the process]]. Worse, depending on the character, the head is ''still screaming'' after Sub-Zero has already torn it off, [[AndIMustScream implying that the victim was still alive at some degree after their spine and head where torn off]].

** "You're Next", which is featured in the game's announcement trailer, is incredibly brutal and savage, and it has a flaming Scorpion lunge through his opponent's abdomen, leaving on their spine and burning insides. Then he decapitates, kick their head into the air and impales them through the mouth with his spear.

-->'''Shang''': ''Breathe, deeply,'' in your final moments, Chosen One. For now your existence ends in ''shame''. ''All the power that was once yours, is mine... '''FOREVER!'''''

** The simple fact that many in the Mortal Kombat Universe sees Joker as nothing more than a joke, unaware of just how deadly he truly is. Best example is when Joker asked Bi Han to compare their body counts. Bi Han is adamant that Joker doesn't come close to his, unfortunately, not only is it the opposite, Bi Han's is probably not even a fraction of Joker's, even Joker smugly tells him to look him up.

** "Spinning Out of Control": Mileena is finally back in this game, and she's much more AxCrazy than ever before with her first fatality being ample proof. Here, she knocks her opponent to the ground before rolling up in the air and spinning around like a buzzsaw with both of her sais deployed (á la Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog), before launching herself at her opponent, vertically ripping into them like some of Kung Lao's classic finishers, only its ''not'' a quick (or clean) cut. Eventually, she rolls out completely, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe completely cutting the opponent in half]] as Mileena slides across the ground on her knee, [[BloodSplatteredWarrior completely covered in her opponent's blood]] as a massive shower of LudicrousGibs flies all over the place. If you look closely, you will see that Mileena's mask came off partway through if she wore one and you can see the opponent's blood dripping from her *mouth* afterward implying that it wasn't just her sai tearing into the opponent. All in all, it perfectly sums up Mileena's quick and sadistically brutal fighting style.

** "You're Next", which is featured in the game's announcement trailer, is incredibly brutal and savage, and it has a flaming Scorpion lunge through his opponents abdomen, leaving on their spine and burning insides. Then he decapitates, kick their head into the air and impales them through the mouth with his spear.
** "Chain Reaction" is really brutal as well, and it has Scorpion delivering his heated spear into their gut. Then he flips over them, dives into the Netherrealm with the chain still attached, then he moves into the position he was still in and leaps out of the Netherrealm, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cutting his opponent in half vertically]]. The fact that the chain was wrapped over his opponents ''face'', causing them to scream in agony from the hot metal searing into their flesh doesn't help.

** "Nothing but Neck": Jacqui punches her opponents head into their body, then blasts what will become a viewing window in the gut. She then tosses a force field grenade into the head stump, which slices the body in half, lengthwise. The worst part? You can see (And hear!) the still-beating heart as it pounds against the forcefield!

** Sindel's ending, where she talks about how Shao Kahn murdered her husband Jerrod and forced her to be his bride... Only to reveal it's a lie and that ''[[EvilAllAlong she killed Jerrod herself]]'', [[AmbitionIsEvil seeing him as weak and Shao Kahn as the conqueror who could unite all realms under Sindel's rule]]. Then when she learns from Kronika that she dies and that Kitana will become the new Empress, she viciously beats her own daughter into submission then goes on to defeat Kronika, with the last scene showing Sindel being waited on hand and foot by Shao Kahn and Skarlet, with a despondent Kitana chained to her throne.

** "Royal Execution" where she throws her fan at the midsection and the neck of her opponent's body. The thing that's nightmarish is that her opponent is ''still alive'' for about half of the fatality before they are trisected.

--->'''Sindel''': I have no more family. No more rivals. ''No more gods''. I sit above them all, on a throne that unites all realms and all realities. Whoever you are, wherever you are, when you are before me, '''kneel'''. For I am Sindel, Empress of Time... [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen And you exist only to serve me]].

--->'''Baraka:''' Within a thousand years, ''all realms'' fell to Tarkatan blades... '''''and we have not run out of meat since! [[EvilLaugh DAH HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!!!]]'''''

--->'''Shao Kahn:''' For centuries, the tournament's Champion has gone undefeated. That Champion... ''[[SuddenlyShouting IS ME!!!!]] [[LargeHam HAIL THE KONQUEROR!]] '''[[LargeHam HAIL SHAO KAHN!!!!]] [[EvilLaugh MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!]]'''''

--->'''Baraka:''' Within a thousand years, ''all realms'' fell to Tarkatan blades...'''''and we have not run out of meat since! [[EvilLaugh DAH HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!!!]]'''''

-->'''Shang''': ''Breathe, deeply,'' in your final moments, Chosen One. For now your existence ends in ''shame''. ''All the power that was once yours, is mine...'''Forever!'''''

** His other Brutality victory animation is his signature x-blades pose, but even it seems...different. From when he whips out the blades to after he poses, Baraka's movements are [[AxCrazy visibly deranged looking]], his bestial nature barely keeping still after having violently slaughtered his opponent. It can even be interpretated that the reason behind his animalistic movements even after killing his opponent, is because ''[[BloodKnight he wants to do it again.]]''

* Frost's Fatal Blow, "TERMINAL BURROWING", starts out with freezing her opponent, surrounding the battlefield with ice spikes. She then charges forward, stabbing them with two icicles in the lungs while another impales them in the back. She grabs them, forcing them forward, breaking several more icicles before going [[EyeScream eye-first]] into one that goes all the way through their head. Finally, she tosses them up, where a final icicle stabs them through their head.