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This feels supremely loaded, and also fallacious; yknow that Scorpion, Liu Kang, and Raiden are Asian and are designed as such as characters, right? I also can't even find many complaints about Mileena's Race Lift; if it actually is a thing, I'd like to see citations on it.
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** Mileena has been criticized for not having a huge, fanged mouth like her previous incarnations and because the filmmakers choose a black actress to portray her despite Mileena having an appearance of an Asian woman in the games, with detractors ignoring that Mileena isn’t even human and therefore is not Asian or any other Earthrealm ethnicity. On the flip-side, the choice to have Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Raiden played by Asian actors instead of white actors like in their previous appearances hasn’t been met with, or received very little backlash.
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** Mileena has been criticized for not having a huge, fanged mouth like her previous incarnations and because the filmmakers choose a black actress to portray her despite Mileena having an appearance of an Asian woman in the games, with detractors ignoring that Mileena isn’t incarnations, not even human and therefore is not Asian or any other Earthrealm ethnicity. On the flip-side, the choice to have Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Raiden played by Asian actors instead of white actors like GlasgowSmile-style design featured in their previous appearances hasn’t been met with, or received very little backlash.''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''.
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** Where’s Johnny Cage? [[labelnote:explanation]]For people who ‘’are’’ familiar with the games, fans have griped and questioned the apparent absence of Johnny Cage.[[/labelnote]]
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** Mileena has been criticized for not having a huge, fanged mouth like her previous incarnations and because the filmmakers choose a black actress to portray her despite Mileena having an appearance of an Asian woman in the games, with detractors ignoring that Mileena isn’t even human and therefore is not Asian or any other Earthrealm ethnicity. On the flip-side, the choice to have Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Raiden played by Asian actors instead of white actors like in their previous appearances hasn’t been met with, or received very little backlash.
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* EpilepticTrees: Fan theories circulated around AudienceSurrogate Cole Young as soon as he was introduced, with the most popular believing him to be [[Characters/MortalKombatKuaiLiang Kuai Liang]], the second Sub-Zero. Other theories include him being relative of Scorpion, or a Johnny Cage CaptainErsatz.
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* EpilepticTrees: Fan theories circulated around AudienceSurrogate Cole Young as soon as he was introduced, with the most popular believing him to be [[Characters/MortalKombatKuaiLiang Kuai Liang]], the second Sub-Zero. Other theories include him being relative of Scorpion, or a Johnny Cage CaptainErsatz.CaptainErsatz, or Cage himself (either Johnny Cage is a stage name or the trailer dialogue and pre-release details are referring to Cage by the name of Cole for some reason).
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* TaintedByThePreview: The absence of Johnny Cage has led many people to swear off the movie or at least be concerned with why he's not there, and it became such a common thing to ask, movie review sites started to post their theories as for why he seems to be AdaptedOut in the movie.
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The allusion to Street Fighter in the article makes it clear that it's facetious.
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* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[labelnote:explanation]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631 much-mocked Jezebel article]] that claimed Chun-Li was part of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and had been left out of the film. An update reading "Chun-Li is not part of the Mortal Kombat megaverse. Wow!" just made it even worse.[[/labelnote]]
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* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[labelnote:explanation]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631 much-mocked Jezebel article]] that claimed facetiously joked that Chun-Li was part of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and had been left out of the film.film, joking that it "sounds like a pretty big plot hole to me that the ultimate [[Franchise/StreetFighter ''street fight'']] is supposed to be won by a ragtag team helmed by Sonya Blade" Many users on Twitter got outraged at the article, believing it to be serious. An update reading "Chun-Li is not part of the Mortal Kombat megaverse. Wow!" just made it even worse.confused people further.[[/labelnote]]
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* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[labelnote:explanation]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631 much-movies Jezebel article]] that claimed Chun-Li was part of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and had been left out of the film. An update reading "Chun-Li is not part of the Mortal Kombat megaverse. Wow!" just made it even worse.[[/labelnote]]
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* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[labelnote:explanation]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631 much-movies much-mocked Jezebel article]] that claimed Chun-Li was part of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and had been left out of the film. An update reading "Chun-Li is not part of the Mortal Kombat megaverse. Wow!" just made it even worse.[[/labelnote]]
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Not disagreeing, but provide actual proof that the article was satire. Even then, beware of Deliberate Flaw Retcon attempts (considering that Jezebel isn’t a parody site and literally nothing about the article suggests it’s a joke).
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* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[labelnote:explanation]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631 much-movies Jezebel article]] that facetiously joked that claimed Chun-Li was part of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and had been left out of the film. Many users on Twitter got outraged at the article, believing it to be serious.film. An update reading "Chun-Li is not part of the Mortal Kombat megaverse. Wow!" didn't help.just made it even worse.[[/labelnote]]
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* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[labelnote:explanation]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631 widely-mocked Jezebel article]] that mistakenly believed Chun-Li was part of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and had been left out of the film. An update reading "Chun-Li is not part of the Mortal Kombat megaverse. Wow!" didn't help.[[/labelnote]]
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* EpilepticTrees: Fan theories circulated around AudienceSurrogate Cole Young as soon as he was introduced, with the most popular believing him to be [[Characters/MortalKombatKuaiLiang Kuai Liang]], the second Sub-Zero. Other theories include him being relative of Scorpion, or a Johnny Cage CaptainErsatz.
* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[labelnote:explanation]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631widely-mocked Jezebel article]] that mistakenly believed facetiously joked that Chun-Li was part of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and had been left out of the film.film. Many users on Twitter got outraged at the article, believing it to be serious. An update reading "Chun-Li is not part of the Mortal Kombat megaverse. Wow!" didn't help.[[/labelnote]]
* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[labelnote:explanation]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631
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** While Kano's characterization in this film is mostly spot-on, the fact that he's one of Earthrealm's champions alongside his archenemies Sonya and Jax was met with mild bewilderment by some fans.
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** While Kano's characterization in this film is mostly spot-on, the fact that he's one of Earthrealm's champions alongside his archenemies Sonya and Jax was met with mild bewilderment by some fans. Others theorize that [[NeverTrustATrailer Kano being on the side of heroes is just a misleading edit]].
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The very first trailer has Sub-Zero slashing Scorpion with a dagger, then freezing his blood into an icicle which he uses to stab him.
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** While [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie the original film]] was well-received by fans and the first aversion to VideoGameMoviesSuck, it was criticized for being PG-13, cutting out the blood and death the games, even in their earliest incarnations, were famous for. This film is unapologetically hard R, with copious blood, gore, and death shown in the trailer, as well as hinting at several beloved classic Fatalities.
** The original film also had the characters of Raiden, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Reptile played by white actors instead of Asian ones (though Reptile is a debatable case, being from Outworld and, in the film, a statue brought to life by a CGI lizard-creature). No one really cared at the time, but in the years since, lack of Asian representation in mainstream media, especially those dealing with Asian martial arts, has become a topic of contention. This film sees Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Raiden played by Asian actors, and adds Kung Lao, also portrayed by an Asian, to the roster.
** While [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie the original film]] was well-received by fans and the first aversion to VideoGameMoviesSuck, it was criticized for being PG-13, cutting out the blood and death the games, even in their earliest incarnations, were famous for. This film is unapologetically hard R, with copious blood, gore, and death shown in the trailer, as well as hinting at several beloved classic Fatalities.
** The original film also had the characters of Raiden, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Reptile played by white actors instead of Asian ones (though Reptile is a debatable case, being from Outworld and, in the film, a statue brought to life by a CGI lizard-creature). No one really cared at the time, but in the years since, lack of Asian representation in mainstream media, especially those dealing with Asian martial arts, has become a topic of contention. This film sees Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Raiden played by Asian actors, and adds Kung Lao, also portrayed by an Asian, to the roster.
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* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[note]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631 widely-mocked Jezebel article]] that mistakenly believed Chun-Li was part of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and had been left out of the film. An update reading "Chun-Li is not part of the Mortal Kombat megaverse. Wow!" didn't help.[[/note]]
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* MemeticMutation: "Why isn't [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] in [franchise]?"[[note]]Spawned [franchise]?"[[labelnote:explanation]]Spawned from a [[https://jezebel.com/who-forgot-to-invite-chun-li-to-the-mortal-kombat-1846300631 widely-mocked Jezebel article]] that mistakenly believed Chun-Li was part of the ''Mortal Kombat'' series and had been left out of the film. An update reading "Chun-Li is not part of the Mortal Kombat megaverse. Wow!" didn't help.[[/note]][[/labelnote]]
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* NarmCharm: While the film will be straight-laced, it appears that it won't be afraid to indulge in this once in a while, what with end of the first trailer having [[MythologyGag Kano holding a human heart saying, "Kano wins!"]]
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* NarmCharm: While the film will be straight-laced, it appears that it won't be afraid to indulge in this once in a while, what with end of the first trailer having ending with [[MythologyGag Kano holding a human heart saying, "Kano wins!"]]
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** Some have also critiqued the deliver of Scorpion's [[SignatureLine "Get over here!"]], particularly that it doesn't have the same old intensity of the original game version.
* WinTheCrowd: The trailer was positively received thanks to capturing the spirit of the series with accurate depictions of the characters, impressive fight choreography, and some good old fashioned {{Gorn}} that was missing from the prior PG-13 movies.
* WinTheCrowd: The trailer was positively received thanks to capturing the spirit of the series with accurate depictions of the characters, impressive fight choreography, and some good old fashioned {{Gorn}} that was missing from the prior PG-13 movies.
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** Some have also critiqued criticized the deliver delivery of Scorpion's [[SignatureLine iconic]] [[YouWillNotEvadeMe "Get over here!"]], particularly in that it doesn't have the same old intensity of as Ed Boon's delivery in the original game version.
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** While Kano's characterization in this film is mostly spot-on, the fact that he's one of Earthrealm's champions alongside his archenemies Sonya and Jax was met with mild bewilderment by some fans.
* WinTheCrowd: The trailer was positively received thanks to capturing the spirit of the series with accurate depictions of the characters, impressive fight choreography, and some good old fashioned {{Gorn}} that was missing from the prior PG-13 rated movies.
** While Kano's characterization in this film is mostly spot-on, the fact that he's one of Earthrealm's champions alongside his archenemies Sonya and Jax was met with mild bewilderment by some fans.
* WinTheCrowd: The trailer was positively received thanks to capturing the spirit of the series with accurate depictions of the characters, impressive fight choreography, and some good old fashioned {{Gorn}} that was missing from the prior PG-13 rated movies.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: While the first trailer was well-received overall, the fact that the film's lead protagonist is apparently CanonForeigner Cole Young confused many fans who were expecting an actual ''Mortal Kombat'' character to be the lead, such as Liu Kang or Johnny Cage (who so far seems to have been AdaptedOut). It's especially jarring since Liu Kang is ''in the movie already'' and is widely considered the de facto protagonist of the series.
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** While the first trailer was well-received overall, the fact that the film's lead protagonist is apparently CanonForeigner Cole Young confused many fans who were expecting an actual ''Mortal Kombat'' character to be the lead, such as Liu Kang or Johnny Cage (who so far seems to have been AdaptedOut). It's especially jarring since Liu Kang is ''in the movie already'' and is widely considered the de facto protagonist of theseries.series.
** Some have also critiqued the deliver of Scorpion's [[SignatureLine "Get over here!"]], particularly that it doesn't have the same old intensity of the original game version.
** While the first trailer was well-received overall, the fact that the film's lead protagonist is apparently CanonForeigner Cole Young confused many fans who were expecting an actual ''Mortal Kombat'' character to be the lead, such as Liu Kang or Johnny Cage (who so far seems to have been AdaptedOut). It's especially jarring since Liu Kang is ''in the movie already'' and is widely considered the de facto protagonist of the
** Some have also critiqued the deliver of Scorpion's [[SignatureLine "Get over here!"]], particularly that it doesn't have the same old intensity of the original game version.
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* {{Narm}}: This exchange from the trailer, regarding Cole's dragon mark:
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The original movie was criticized for being PG-13, which didn't allow it to capture the true essence of the series' famous violence. This film will be rated R, and the trailer shows how it's BloodierAndGorier in explicit detail.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The original movie was criticized for being {{PG13}}, PG-13, which didn't allow it to capture the true essence of the series' famous violence. This film will be rated R, and the trailer shows how it's BloodierAndGorier in explicit detail.
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* WinTheCrowd: The trailer was positively received thanks to capturing the spirit of the series with accurate depictions of the characters, impressive fight choreography, and some good old fashioned {{Gorn}}.
