History YMMV / MortalKombat4

** Jarek, in the endings he appears, when he falls from the Cliff, he says "I'M SO GAAAAAY!".

* ToughActToFollow: Coming up after ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3''. This game is supposed to return to its' dark atmosphere and having exclusively two fatalities per character, as well as two stage fatalities. Sadly, this game lacked the charm of the first three games.
* TheScrappy: Jarek was hated by fans who felt that he was nothing but a re-hash of Kano's moves. This is because he was originally supposed to be Kano, but the developers wanted more "new" characters, so they reskinned him.
* SoBadItsGood: Jax's ending. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvfP5BQxaw There are no words for it.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxgQ94V9LXo All the Nintendo 64 endings also count as this.]]

* ToughActToFollow: Coming up after ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3''. This game is supposed to return to it's dark atmosphere and having exclusively two fatalities per character, as well as two stage fatalities. Sadly, this game lacked the charm of the first three games.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tanya is the only ''[=MK4=]'' character that appeared in a sequel that wasn't ''Armageddon'' and she is well liked and was requested many times for [[DownloadableContent DLC]] for ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9.''
** Reiko too. The speculation his ending caused may have had something to do with it.

** The GameBoyColor version was a cheap and unplayable bastardization because of technical and graphical limitations. With "music" that's complete ear rape and makes music in pirated bootlegs look ''good'' by comparison. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr6MNBzPdvA Prepare yourself.]]

** Reiko too.
* CaptainObvious: Baraka's ending ('''Quan Chi:''' The Elder Gods are dead, Raiden is dead, and thanks to you, Shinnok is dead. / '''Baraka:''' Everyone is dead! / '''Quan Chi:''' Yes, everyone in this forsaken realm...is DEAD!!! / '''Baraka:''' How do you rule a realm with no one in it!?!?)
* {{Narm}}: Pick an ending from any version and have fun.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Shinnok. He just didn't have the fear factor of guys like Shao Kahn or Shang Tsung, and on lower difficulty levels, he doesn't even use his special moveset changes. Especially jarring since he, as a fallen Elder God, he is supposed to be ''leagues'' above them both yet comes across as a 2nd-rate Shang Tsung.
** Even [[WordOfGod Ed Boon]] admits that Shinnok probably shouldn't have been the FinalBoss of ''4''.
** That being said, ''in theory'', Shinnok is quite possibly the ''best'' character in the game by a large margin. See his entry on the DifficultButAwesome page for more details.

* SelfPlagiarism: ''War Gods'', another bloody fighting game by Midway which was pretty much a beta-test for ''Mortal Kombat 4''.

* SoBadItsGood: Jax's ending. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvfP5BQxaw There are no words for it.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Check [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/MortalKombat the page]].

** The GameBoyColor version was a cheap and unplayable bastardization because of technical and graphical limitations. With "music" that's complete ear rape and [[BeyondTheImpossible makes music in pirated bootlegs look]] [[BeyondTheImpossible ''good'']] [[BeyondTheImpossible by comparison.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr6MNBzPdvA Prepare yourself.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tanya is the only ''[=MK4=]'' character that appeared in a sequel that wasn't ''Armageddon'' and she is well liked and was requested many times for [[DownloadableContent DLC]] for ''MortalKombat9.''

* BaseBreaker: Jax.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tanya is the only ''4'' character that appeared in a sequel that wasn't ''Armageddon'' and she is well liked and it's rumored she'll be [[DownloadableContent DLC]] for ''MortalKombat9.''

* SoBadItsGood: Jax's ending. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvfP5BQxaw There are no words for it.]]

* {{Narm}}[=/=]SoBadItsGood: Jax's ending. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvfP5BQxaw There are no words for it.]]

** Even [[WordOfGod Ed Boon]] notes that Shinnok probably shouldn't have been the FinalBoss of ''4''.

** When ported to home consoles, the graphics were greatly reduced, and suffered from LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading, which then lead to the UpdatedRerelease. Unfortunately, it was only for the Dreamcast, which was so buggy that it crashed often.
** The GameBoyColor version was a cheap and unplayable bastardization because of technical and graphical limitations.
*** With "music" that's complete ear rape and [[BeyondTheImpossible makes music in pirated bootlegs look]] [[BeyondTheImpossible ''good'']] [[BeyondTheImpossible by comparison.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr6MNBzPdvA Prepare yourself.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Sub-Zero's ''[=MK4=]'' ending, specifically when [[spoiler:Quan Chi's head rolls right in front of the camera after being blown up by Scorpion.]]
** The GameOver sequence [[ItsAWonderfulFailure sure as hell qualifies]]. It's not the [[ForegoneConclusion inevitable impact with the ground]]. It's the set-up, ''especially'' the music, what really drives the point it home. Five seconds of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10x5PGbcei8 this]] are more than enough to make you ''beg'' the character to ''just die already''.

* BaseBreaker: Jax

*** With "music" that's complete ear rape and [[BeyondTheImpossible makes music in pirated bootlegs look]] [[BeyondTheImpossible ''good'']] [[BeyondTheImpossible by comparison.]]

*** With "music" that's complete ear rape and [[BeyondTheImpossible makes music in pirated bootlegs look]] [[BeyondTheImpossible''good'']] [[BeyondTheImpossible by comparison.]]

** When ported to home consoles, the graphics were greatly reduced, and suffered from LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading, which then lead to the UpdatedRerelease. Unfortunately, it was only for the Dreamcast.