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** Averted when the victim is Jax, who's flayed corpse is just like the rest of the male characters, even though his arms are supposed to be completely mechanical.

** Going even further, one of the Alien's Brutalities involving a Face Hugger ends with a chestburster coming out of the opponent. If the victim had a hat (like Raiden or Erron Black) or some facial accessory (like Kano's eye or Johnny Cage's sunglasses), the Face Hugger will have it when it comes out.

* In Rambo's "Mission Accomplished" outro, he manages to visibly frighten the losing character before stabbing his knife into the ground by their head, complete with a shot of his opponent looking scared. That is, unless the opponent is the Terminator, who just looks at Rambo with little emotion.

** Jade's "Pole Dance", Kotal Kahn's "Totem Sacrifice", Skarlet's "Bloody Mess", Kabal's "Road Rash", Erron Black's "Death Trap", and Kollector's "Head Lantern" Fatalities, all of which involve one or both of the victims eyes visibly flying out, will not show an eyeball where Kano's faceplate is when used on him.

** ZigZagged with Cyrax and Sektor, who always bleed black blood, but their organs are still red. Baraka's "Food for Thought" Fatality and Skarlet's "Heart Condition" Fatality stand out the most because of this. Franchise/RoboCop also bleeds black blood, but his mechanical organs are properly stained with it. However, Robo has a different issue: the black blood shows up even when his still-organic head and brain are targeted, though the head's insides are properly colored red when exposed.

* The trick for Reptile's fight required a ginormous amount of GuideDangIt which involved not using the block button and performing a Fatality. The only moment in the match you're allowed to use the block button in order to trigger the secret battle is when performing Sonya's fatality, which requires it. The block button isn't a requirement for triggering this fight in the SNES version, however.

* Kratos has different animations for when he falls victim to certain fatalities. While the other fighters react with fear, Kratos does not, a design decision which, according to Ed Boon, was requested by Sony Computer Entertainment as they didn't want to make him look weak. (He IS a Spartan after all.)

** In Mileena's "Be Mine" fatality, Mileena will not eat Kratos' head after tearing it off, instead going right to throwing it away.
** When shrunk during Ermac's "Pest Control" fatality, rather than run around panicking, Kratos will instead challenge Ermac outright before being crushed (He's faced even bigger, after all.)

** When Stryker slams a grenade into Kratos' stomach during the former's "Have A Blast" fatality, Kratos does not panic before said grenade explodes, instead growling and trembling in fury.
** When killed by Kung Lao's "Razor's Edge" fatality, Kratos does not wave his arms in horror when being dragged through the hat and being cut in two.
** When hit by Noob Saibot's "As One" fatality, Kratos reacts to being bisected by a portal less so than other fighters do.
** When ensnared by Skarlet's blood pillars during her "Make It Rain" fatality, Kratos attempts to break free of his restraints instead of panicking.
** Kratos does not flinch when Kenshi throws his sword during the latter's "Split Ends" fatality.
** Kratos does not inflate when being filled up by Rain's "Bubble Burst" fatality.
** During Freddy's "Tell 'Em Freddy Sent Ya" Fatality, as soon as Freddy vanishes, Kratos prepares for a possible sneak attack instead of looking worried as others do. When tossed into the boiler in Freddy's "Welcome To My Nightmare" fatality, Kratos tries to grab at Freddy before the latter slams the door on his arm.

* Cyrax and Sektor's human alternates having different intros/outros, and the way they perform their special moves and fatalities is also changed. This actually plays into the competitive scene quite a bit, as some of the frame data between their human and cyborg forms are different and slightly influence their standings.

* When using Skarlet's Make It Rain Fatality on Sheeva, Skarlet will summon 6 blood pillars, to accommodate for Sheeva's 6 limbs (although this gets subverted otherwise as Sheeva's extra arms don't typically get special accommodation by the game, evident when using something like Cyrax's "Nothing but Net" fatality that dissects the opponent).

** If Franchise/{{Alien}} [[Franchise/AlienVsPredator and]] Franchise/{{Predator}} are chosen, they have a specific intro where both of them roar to each other.

* The intro sequences for Predator are rendered in infrared vision. Likewise, when choosing the "Hunter" variation (in which the Predator is unmasked), the color of the infrared vision changes, just as in [[{{Franchise/Predator}} the movies]].
** The infrared vision also displays Jason as no warmer than his surroundings.
* Predator's win pose is a cutscene of the Yautja placing his opponent's skull on his trophy mantle. [[http://i.imgur.com/bpR5NbL.png The skull changes shape (and sometimes color) for certain fighters, including a fellow Yautja]].
* If Film/{{Predator}} performs a Brutality, he walks off the field toward the background. If he wins on the Kove, Krossroads, or the Pit (which would have him walking off the stage), he instead boards his cloaked ship.
* If you perform the Skinned Alive Brutality, you do just that, unless you do it to an Franchise/{{Alien}}. When you do that, the Predator takes the head and leaves the body behind.

** Going even further, one of Alien's brutalities involving a Face Hugger ends with a chestburster coming out of the opponent. If the victim had a hat (like Raiden or Erron Black) or some facial accessory (like Kano's eye or Johnny Cage's sunglasses), the Face Hugger will have it when it comes out.

* Predator's "Certain Death" Fatality, when done against another Predator in either of its masked variants, has the final shot not blowing the head in half, but instead just apparently causing a powerful impact to the head. Why? Because the masks are made for protection and it's obvious they are designed to resist their own weapons. The final shot of the match will even be different, since the Predator will fall forwards instead of backwards.

** ZigZagged with Cyrax and Sektor, who always bleed black blood, but their organs are still red. Baraka's "Food for Thought" fatality and Skarlet's "Heart Condition" fatality stand out the most because of this. Franchise/RoboCop also bleeds black blood, but his mechanical organs are properly stained with it. However, Robo has a different issue: the black blood shows up even when his still-organic head and brain are targeted, though the head's insides are properly colored red when exposed.
* Averted with Frost and Jax, whose cybernetic bits are completely ignored in Fatalities. Jax's mechanical arms will have bones and muscle, and Frost will have completely organic insides even when her intros show otherwise. You can have Frost enter the fight by showcasing her robotic spine, only to end the match by pulling out actual bone. She also has red blood unlike fellow fully-cyberized kombatants Cyrax, Sektor, and [=RoboCop=], who all bleed oil.

* X-ray shots in the game now account for Kano's faceplate rather than giving him a generic skull.
* Like the "Scatterbrained" and "Bug Eyes" fatalities mentioned above, using Baraka's "Food for Thought" fatality on Kano shows only one eye on his skinless face.
* Unlike with the Shokan in previous games, Kollector's extra arms are taken into account for any fatalities he falls victim to, causing them to be severed properly instead of being harmlessly phased through. The same goes with Sheeva.[[note]]Fatalities were possible on Goro in ''MKX'', and he - along with Kintaro and Shao Kahn - could be finished off with one in a hacked version of ''[=MK9=]''.[[/note]]

* Shang Tsung's post-brutality win pose has him transforming into the opponent and laughing. Hack the game to make him fight Cyrax, Sektor, or Kronika, and he will imitate their laughs, even though the first two are story only opponents and Kronika is normally immune to being a victim of a brutality.
* If Kano is the victim of Johnny Cage's "Who Hired This Guy" fatality or a brutality (with multiple exceptions), the light on his [[ElectronicEyes Electronic Right Eye]] and chest will go out. Ditto for Cyrax and Sektor's visor.
* If Cyrax, Sektor, or Kronika are the victim of Jade's "Bow Before Me" fatality, they will be bisected normally, as apposed to replacing the body parts with full body copies of themselves.
* Kronika has a special line if she is the victim of Johnny Cage's "$500 Sunglasses" brutality. Since she’s an Arcade boss you should not be able to use any brutality on her, she says “Impossible!”.
* [[GuestFighter The]] Franchise/{{Terminator}} doesn't emote at all when fatalities are preformed on him, fitting as he ''is'' a machine. In addition, most fatalities that would reveal his organs and skeleton show that they are all machine parts, while keeping the organic layer of skin, blood, and muscle tissue visible where they should be[[note]]An early glitch with the Joker's second Fatality accidentally displayed organic intestines when it was used on the Terminator. This was eventually fixed in a patch[[/note]]. Franchise/RoboCop works similarly, with his machine parts being visible, though unlike the Terminator he has even ''less'' organic bits to him, so Fatalities that expose raw muscle on everyone else instead expose a metal layer between his outer chassis and his inner framework. However, anything that opens up his head will properly display his organic brain and raw red interior.
* In addition, Terminator's uppercut move is him firing his shotgun upwards instead of an actual uppercut. As such, his version of the universal "The Klassic" brutality, which normally [[OffWithHisHead uppercuts the opponents head and spine out]], instead has him simply [[BoomHeadshot blow their head off]].
* The Joker's "Party Pooper" fatality ends without the UI saying "Fatality". That's because [[ItMakesSenseInContext the sign that cut the opponent in half]] already says it. The same goes for the Tournament Stage Fatality, where the disconnected screen of the ''Deadly Alliance'' arcade cabinet fills in for the UI.
** Speaking of the Joker, an odd aversion occurs when Skarlet’s “Bloody Mess” fatality is performed on him wearing any of his costumes where his left eye is replaced with an 8-ball, as his normal eye will pop out instead, despite the 8-ball replacing it.

* Much like with the names on his bullets in ''X'', one of Erron Black's intros in ''11'' has him pull out a wanted poster with his opponent's picture on them. The listed bounty varies between characters; the most notable are Cetrion (just shy of a billion dollars) and Johnny Cage ( a mere ''$500''.)
** All of the fighters from the first game (minus Johnny Cage), as well as Shao Kahn, Kotal Kahn, Geras, the Terminator, Sindel, Fujin, Sheeva, and [=RoboCop=], are worth five million dollars.

* Much like with the names on his bullets in X, one of Erron Black's intros in 11 has him pull out a wanted poster with his opponent's picture on them. The listed bounty varies between characters; the most notable are Cetrion (just shy of a billion dollars) and Johnny Cage ( a mere ''$500''.)
** All of the fighters from the first game (minus Johnny Cage), as well as Shao Kahn and Kotal Kahn, are worth five million dollars.

** Jax ''does'' have one case of this, though: one of Baraka's Krushing Blows has him rip out some muscle tendons from the opponent's arm. On Jax, he instead rips out some wires, which also happens to [=RoboCop=].

** Averted with Frost and Jax, whose cybernetic bits are completely ignored in Fatalities. Jax's mechanical arms will have bones and muscle, and Frost will have completely organic insides even when her intros show otherwise. You can have Frost enter the fight by showcasing her robotic spine, only to end the match by pulling out actual bone.

** ZigZagged with Cyrax and Sektor, who always bleed black blood, but their organs are still red. Baraka's "Food for Thought" fatality and Skarlet's "Heart Condition" fatality stand out the most because of this.

* Unlike with the Shokan in previous games, Kollector's extra arms are taken into account for any fatalities he falls victim to, causing them to be severed properly instead of being harmlessly phased through.[[note]]Fatalities were possible on Goro in ''MKX'', and he - along with Kintaro and Shao Kahn - could be finished off with one in a hacked version of ''[=MK9=]''.[[/note]]

* [[GuestFighter The]] Franchise/{{Terminator}} doesn't emote at all when fatalities are preformed on them, fitting as they ''are'' a machine. In addition, most fatalities that would reveal his organs shows that they are all machine parts.

** Shao Kahn, Kano, and Sonya Blade in the Kahn's Arena stage.

* Aside from the unique pre-fight dialogue for every combination of kombatants ([[Funny/MortalKombatXPreMatchIntros we got you covered!]], some of the exchanges are changed or altered depending on the situation.

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* Aside from the unique pre-fight dialogue for every combination of kombatants, some of the exchanges are changed or altered depending on the situation.
** If Alien and Predator are chosen, they have a specific intro where both of them roar to each other.

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* Unlike the previous game, the pre-fight dialog avert this with the various skins, which almost always act as if their past self is saying them. This can lead to awkward situations such as Revenant Kung Lao denying that he's a revenant, Shao Kahn telling Dark Raiden that it's a shame that [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal Dark Raiden is gone]]]], and Cassie complementing [[spoiler:her mother's ''killer'']].

* In Erron Black's intro "A Day's Work," he throws the head of Hsu Hao on the ground and a pool of blood will appear on the ground when the round starts. The pool is even missing if the intro animations are skipped.

* The Joker's "Party Pooper" fatality ends without the UI saying "Fatality". That's because [[ItMakesSenseInContext the sign that cut the opponent in half]] already says it.

* Unlike the previous game, the pre-fight dialog avert this with the various skins, which almost always act as if their past self is saying them. This can lead to awkward situations such as Revenant Kung Lao denying that he's a revenant, Shao Kahn telling Dark Raiden that it's a shame that [[spoiler:[[KilledOfForReal Dark Raiden is gone]]]], and Cassie complementing [[spoiler:her mother's ''killer'']].

* The Secret fighters in Arcade Mode having no meter bar.
* Subverted with the Story Mode intro, which shows the aftermath of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'' with everyone wearing their "new" costumes instead of their older ones.

* There is unique pre-fight dialogue for every combination of kombatants. If Alien and Predator are chosen, they have a specific intro where both of them roar to each other.

* Sub-Zero has a specific dialogue for when he is fighting his revenant in the Lin Kuei Temple.
* Picking the Hanzo Hasashi skin for Scorpion will lead to unique pre-fight dialog with Sub-Zero and Quan Chi. The former asks if there can be no peace between them, and Quan Chi [[EvilCannotComprehendGood is baffled that Scorpion is no longer his wraith]].
* If a character's intro animation has them interacting with something that changes between variations, the animation will take that into account. Examples include Kano (who puts his knife on his waist in Cybernetic) or Mileena (who leaves her mask down in Ravenous).

** Against [[spoiler:both normal and Corrupted]] Shinnok, the bullet says "Shinnok".

* If Kano is the victim of Johnny Cage's "Who Hired This Guy" fatality or a brutality, the light on his [[ElectronicEyes Electronic Right Eye]] and chest will go out. Ditto for Cyrax and Sektor's visor.

* Kronika has a special line if she is the victim of Johnny Cage's "$500 Sunglasses" brutality. Since she’s an Arcade boss you should not be able to use any brutality on her, she says “Impossible”
* [[GuestFighter The]] [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Terminator]] doesn't emote at all when fatalities are preformed on them, fitting as they ''are'' a machine. In addition, most fatalities that would reveal his organs shows that they are all machine parts.