Trivia / Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm

• Dueling Shows: In spite of being its equivalent in the Action Extreme Team lineup, it inevitably was one to Street Fighter. While neither one was particularly groundbreaking (unlike their games), Street Fighter at least was better animated and received both a second season and a DVD release (albeit it's now out of print).
• Playing Against Type: Clancy Brown, normally a villain actor, playing a "good guy" in Raiden. It's one of only several of these types of roles he's done, with Captain Black from Jackie Chan Adventures,^note (also Super Moose in the same series; this show also features a Shock and Awe character who is a villain this time, Tchang Zu the Thunder Demon, whose voice sounds like Clancy Brown's voice for Uka Uka somewhat; The Other Wiki credited the role to Frank Welker, but his name never showed up in the two episodes where Tchang Zu spoke) Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers,^note This film's franchise tapped Romano for its animated adaptation ironically; also ironically, the lead actor from the film, Casper Van Dien, became Johnny Cage in the second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy in 2013. a doctor in Cowboys & Aliens and Lt. Hank Anderson in Detroit: Become Human being some of the few other good examples. A particularly ironic case, as he's playing Raiden, who was played by Christopher Lambert in the film - i.e. an actor Brown famously antagonized.
• Screwed by the Network: As with all the other original cartoons part of the Action Extreme Team, got screwed over when USA Network decided to scrap their cartoon lineup, citing their lack of flow into the other shows they were airing at the time.
• What Could Have Been: An episode featuring Shinnok was proposed, which like Quan Chi would make him appear in the animated series before being revealed in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero.