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''Mortal Kombat X'' is definitely a lot BloodierAndGorier than ''9'', and what better way to demonstrate that than with the new range of {{Finishing Move}}s, some of which are just downright sadistic ([[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill they died about three moves back]], you're just screwing with the corpse by the end). Not particularly helped by the incredibly gruesome sound design decisions. ''And'', just for that extra shock value, for most of them the camera keeps focusing on the deceased opponent as they die the most CruelAndUnusualDeath imaginable. [[ContentWarnings Viewer discretion is most certainly advised]]...

* In Scorpion's Stop Ahead, he burns [[TorsoWithAView a hole into his opponent's chest]], causing the heart to drop down into said hole, then they slump over for ''[[TearOffYourFace an entire face removal]]'' by sword; [[{{Squick}} the face slides off first, then the brain flops out next]], [[NauseaFuel all while their tongue twitches all over, all visible in its gory glory]].
* [[EvilSorcerer Quan Chi]] uses his mind control powers for Mind Game to make the opponent walk into a sword that just so happens to be at the same height as their mouth, impaling them straight through the head. You can hear the blade grinding against flesh and bone for extra Squick value. He then uses his telekinesis to lift the opponent up while keeping the sword in place, slicing them in ''half'' (Kung Lao's Diamond Cutter anyone?). He then slams them down, cutting through the top of the head to complete the bisection.

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''Mortal Kombat X'' is definitely a lot BloodierAndGorier than ''9'', and what better way to demonstrate that than with the new range of {{Finishing Move}}s, some of which are just downright sadistic ([[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill they died about three moves back]], you're just screwing with the corpse by the end). Not particularly helped by the incredibly gruesome sound design decisions. ''And'', just for that extra shock value, for most of them the camera keeps focusing on the deceased opponent as they die the most CruelAndUnusualDeath imaginable. [[ContentWarnings Viewer discretion is most certainly advised]]...

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* In Scorpion's Stop Ahead, "Stop Ahead", he burns [[TorsoWithAView a hole into his opponent's chest]], causing the heart to drop down into said hole, then they slump over for ''[[TearOffYourFace an entire face removal]]'' by sword; [[{{Squick}} the face slides off first, then the brain flops out next]], [[NauseaFuel all while their tongue twitches all over, all visible in its gory glory]].
* [[EvilSorcerer Quan Chi]] uses his mind control powers for Mind Game "Mind Game" to make the opponent walk into a sword that just so happens to be at the same height as their mouth, impaling them straight through the head. You can hear the blade grinding against flesh and bone for extra Squick value. He then uses his telekinesis to lift the opponent up while keeping the sword in place, slicing them in ''half'' (Kung Lao's Diamond Cutter anyone?). He then slams them down, cutting through the top of the head to complete the bisection.



* [[MindOverMatter Ermac]]'s fatality Inner Workings has him telekinetically lift his opponent and twist them around with several popping/crunching sounds. He then straightens them out again and then pulls ''most of their digestive tract'' through their ''mouth'' so far that the stomach is on the far side of Ermac. He ends with crushing the stomach into a bloody ball and throwing it to the ground, Ermac staring at the remains with a pleased expression while the body still hovers in the background with intestines hanging from the mouth.
* Mileena's Tasty Treat is just ''[[{{Squick}} eaugh]]'' - she foregoes using her sais and teeth and just plain tears apart her opponent with her bare hands. She then hunches over, scoops up the entrails with her hands and begins to devour them.
* Kenshi's My Puppet is ''incredibly'' cringe worthy. He telekinetically pushes the opponent's ribcage out through their back, and dangles them like a puppet from the tendons attached to each of their limbs. He then uses Sento to cut through the tendons, which causes the opponent to crash to the floor in a heap along with the ribcage. The opponent shuddering and emitting cries of pain, though, is what makes this finishing move truly unnerving.
* Johnny Cage's "Little Improv", where he knocks the opponent onto their face, grabs the back of their head, and starts smashing them into the ground, faster and faster with his shadow power. When he stops to observe his handiwork, the horrible gurgling noise the victim makes implies they're ''barely'' conscious even when their face is reduced to a mangled mess you can only charitably call an exposed skull before he just smashes their head into he dirt one last time.

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* [[MindOverMatter Ermac]]'s fatality Inner Workings "Inner Workings" has him telekinetically lift his opponent and twist them around with several popping/crunching sounds. He then straightens them out again and then pulls ''most of their digestive tract'' through their ''mouth'' so far that the stomach is on the far side of Ermac. He ends with crushing the stomach into a bloody ball and throwing it to the ground, Ermac staring at the remains with a pleased expression while the body still hovers in the background with intestines hanging from the mouth.
* Mileena's Tasty Treat "Tasty Treat" is just ''[[{{Squick}} eaugh]]'' - she foregoes using her sais and teeth and just plain tears apart her opponent with her bare hands. She then hunches over, scoops up the entrails with her hands and begins to devour them.
* Kenshi's My Puppet "My Puppet" is ''incredibly'' cringe worthy. He telekinetically pushes the opponent's ribcage out through their back, back and dangles them like a puppet from the tendons attached to each of their limbs. He then uses Sento to cut through the tendons, which causes the opponent to crash to the floor in a heap along with the ribcage. The opponent shuddering and emitting cries of pain, though, is what makes this finishing move truly unnerving.
* Johnny Cage's "Little Improv", where he knocks the opponent onto their face, grabs the back of their head, head and starts smashing them into the ground, getting faster and faster with his shadow power. When he stops to observe his handiwork, the horrible gurgling noise the victim makes implies they're ''barely'' conscious even when their face is reduced to a mangled mess you can only charitably call an exposed skull before he just smashes their head into he the dirt one last time.



* Unsurprisingly, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974 Leatherface]] has some ''VERY'' agonizing fatalities. Special mention goes to his "Hook And Sinker", where he knocks the opponent out with a hammer, puts a meat hook underneath their chin, and ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cuts them in half at the waist while they're still alive]]''. The fact that [[NauseaFuel their guts fall flat on the ground]] doesn't help one bit.

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* Unsurprisingly, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974 Leatherface]] has some ''VERY'' agonizing fatalities. Special mention goes to his "Hook And Sinker", where he knocks the opponent out with a hammer, puts a meat hook underneath their chin, chin and ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cuts them in half at the waist while they're still alive]]''. The fact that [[NauseaFuel their guts fall flat on the ground]] doesn't help one bit.
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* Jax's "Jax the Ribber" is just '''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill NUH-UH]]'''! He starts off with lifting the opponent up by the neck and ''ripping out their ribs and shoving them into their temple'', whereafter he performs a NeckSnap on the already-suffering opponent. The opponent can barely breathe before they fall dead on the ground.
* Unsurprisingly, [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974 Leatherface]] has some ''VERY'' agonizing fatalities. Special mention goes to his "Hook And Sinker", where he knocks the opponent out with a hammer, puts a meat hook underneath their chin, and ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cuts them in half at the waist while they're still alive]]''. The fact that [[NauseaFuel their guts fall flat on the ground]] doesn't help one bit.
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** The Alien proceeds to capture various Outworld species and causes the hive to explode in population, ending with a Queen spawned. Kotal Kahn desperately attempts to take out the hive, [[ShootTheShaggyDog but fails,]] ushering a new era for the Aliens.

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** The Alien proceeds to capture various Outworld species and causes the hive to explode in population, ending with a Queen spawned. Kotal Kahn desperately attempts to take out the hive, [[ShootTheShaggyDog but fails,]] ushering in a new era of prosperity for the Aliens.Aliens... and one of tyranny and fear for everyone else.



** Jason's ending tells of him carving a bloody swathe of destruction through the world, [[OmnicidalManiac indiscriminately slaughtering Earthrealmer and Outworlder alike]] and mentioning [[OneManArmy his body count to be in the hundreds]]. Meanwhile, Liu Kang, now the ruler of the Netherrealm, sees the potential in having such a powerful, immortal killer at his service for Konquest. He draws Jason into the Netherrealm, and offers the revenant an endless supply of victims to slaughter in return for his allegiance. [[EvilIsNotAToy Jason]] ''[[EvilIsNotAToy really]]'' [[EvilIsNotAToy doesn't take kindly to the offer]], responding by [[{{Gorn}} gutting Lui Kang and strangling him to death with his own intestines]].

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** Jason's ending tells of him carving a bloody swathe of destruction through the world, [[OmnicidalManiac indiscriminately slaughtering Earthrealmer and Outworlder alike]] and mentioning [[OneManArmy his body count to be in the hundreds]]. Meanwhile, Liu Kang, now the ruler of the Netherrealm, sees the potential in having such a powerful, immortal killer at his service for Konquest. He draws Jason into the Netherrealm, and offers the revenant an endless supply of victims to slaughter in return for his allegiance. [[EvilIsNotAToy Jason]] ''[[EvilIsNotAToy really]]'' [[EvilIsNotAToy doesn't take kindly to the offer]], responding by [[{{Gorn}} gutting Lui Liu Kang and strangling him to death with his own intestines]].

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** ' Jason's ending extends this, leading to Liu Kang's death. Which happens when Jason strangles Liu Kang with his own intestines.

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** Jason's ending tells of him carving a bloody swathe through the world, [[OmnicidalManiac indiscriminately slaughtering Earthrealmer and Outworlder alike]] and mentioning [[OneManArmy his body count to be in the hundreds]]. Meanwhile, Liu Kang, now the ruler of the Netherrealm, sees the potential in having such a powerful, immortal killer at his service for Konquest. He draws Jason into the Netherrealm, and offers the revenant an endless supply of victims to slaughter in return for his allegiance. [[EvilIsNotAToy Jason]] ''[[EvilIsNotAToy really]]'' [[EvilIsNotAToy doesn't take kindly to the offer]], responding simply by [[{{Gorn}} gutting Lui Kang and strangling him to death with his own intestines]].

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** Jason's ending tells of him carving a bloody swathe of destruction through the world, [[OmnicidalManiac indiscriminately slaughtering Earthrealmer and Outworlder alike]] and mentioning [[OneManArmy his body count to be in the hundreds]]. Meanwhile, Liu Kang, now the ruler of the Netherrealm, sees the potential in having such a powerful, immortal killer at his service for Konquest. He draws Jason into the Netherrealm, and offers the revenant an endless supply of victims to slaughter in return for his allegiance. [[EvilIsNotAToy Jason]] ''[[EvilIsNotAToy really]]'' [[EvilIsNotAToy doesn't take kindly to the offer]], responding simply by [[{{Gorn}} gutting Lui Kang and strangling him to death with his own intestines]].

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** Leatherface defeats Shinnok and decides to go after his crush, Cassie. He proceeds to mow down lots of Special Forces Troops and judging from the sound effects Takeda and Jacqui, right before offering her Shinnok's face to her as a present. Needless to say, she refuses. [[{{Yandere}} Leatherface then kills her]], [[ImAHumanitarian and gives the meat he gathered to his brother Drayton to make chili.]] It finishes with him setting to work on making [[TearOffYourFace Cassie's face]] [[FacialHorror into a new mask]], rationalising that "if she wouldn't be his girlfriend, she could still be his in ''other'' ways".
** Triborg's ending shows him raiding the S-F base after Shinnok's for the confiscated Cyber Lin Kuei data, killing Cassie, Sonya, and any one else who tried to stand in its way, then formed the Tekunin by using the saved brain waves of all his Lin Kuei brothers and sisters then used S-F supplies to create bodies for everyone.

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** Leatherface defeats Shinnok and decides to go after his crush, Cassie. He proceeds To get to mow her, he mows down lots of Special Forces Troops -- and judging from the sound effects effects, Takeda and Jacqui, Jacqui -- right before offering her Shinnok's face to her as a present. Needless to say, she refuses. [[{{Yandere}} Leatherface then kills her]], and [[ImAHumanitarian and gives the meat he gathered from the bodies to his brother Drayton brother, Drayton, to make chili.]] chili]]. It finishes with him setting to work on making [[TearOffYourFace Cassie's face]] [[FacialHorror face into a new mask]], rationalising that "if she wouldn't be his girlfriend, she could still be his in ''other'' ways".
ways". The final accompanying shot of Leatherface's hands holding up [[FacialHorror Cassie's bloody, peeled-off face]] to the camera is especially harrowing.
** Jason's ending tells of him carving a bloody swathe through the world, [[OmnicidalManiac indiscriminately slaughtering Earthrealmer and Outworlder alike]] and mentioning [[OneManArmy his body count to be in the hundreds]]. Meanwhile, Liu Kang, now the ruler of the Netherrealm, sees the potential in having such a powerful, immortal killer at his service for Konquest. He draws Jason into the Netherrealm, and offers the revenant an endless supply of victims to slaughter in return for his allegiance. [[EvilIsNotAToy Jason]] ''[[EvilIsNotAToy really]]'' [[EvilIsNotAToy doesn't take kindly to the offer]], responding simply by [[{{Gorn}} gutting Lui Kang and strangling him to death with his own intestines]].
** Triborg's ending shows him raiding the S-F base after Shinnok's death for the confiscated Cyber Lin Kuei data, killing Cassie, Sonya, and any one anyone else who tried to stand in its way, then formed the Tekunin by using the saved brain waves of all his Lin Kuei brothers and sisters then used S-F supplies to create bodies for everyone.

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