Mortal Kombat

Yeah, I mentioned that.

It's the shimmering spot in the quagmire that has been all other attempts for Mortal Kombat to branch out beyond its core game series. The film's sequel and spinoff series, on the other hand, had no such luck.

Netherrealm Studios has wanted to make a franchise out of Mortal Kombat pretty much since the series began, back when they were Midway Games. It's been a bumpy road. But that one movie was pretty cool.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 20th 2020 at 4:23:21 AM

They've had some pretty successful comic books actually.

There is nothing cult or obscure or minor about Mortal Kombat's present success. It's so successful that DC and Warner Brothers is perfectly fine with with its most popular and iconic villains appearing in it. It was one of the best selling games of 2019. Not fighting game. Games period.

With that said, and with as much success as DC and Warner Brothers has had with their countless animated adaptations, this has a decent change of going somewhere provided it's a good cartoon first and a Mortal Kombat love letter 2nd, given how mediocre this franchise's mythos and storytelling typically is outside the spectacle.

Edited by Hashil on Jan 20th 2020 at 10:25:28 AM

It depends, MK back after mk2 was reallys succesfull and as tobias said try to branch over ever since: special force, mythologies(who REAAAALLY spand the lore like ever before), shaolin monks, the two movies(one which is consider the first sucessfull videogame adaptation, maybe the only one), and animated series, a live action one, and so own.

This is presumably hyping up the upcoming film due next year, which has wrapped filming and is on target for early 2021 release.

It's ironic how averse this series is to actually letting the heroes kill. Kronika is the only villain Liu Kang has chronologically killed and according to Word of God, Kitana didn't kill Shao, she just blinded him.

What about Kang and Khan? Sure, Khan didn't die but that wasn't Kang's intention.

Well, yes. Kahn not dying automatically excludes him from the category of "villain that was killed by Liu Kang".

Liu Kang is supposed to be a Shaolin monk. Part of the Shaolin way is to always refrain from taking life. In fact, in the very first game, Liu didn't even have a Fatality. He had a butterfly kick to uppercut finisher that did not visibly kill his foe.

Original Timeline Liu Kang is one of the few characters I've ever seen where Thou Shalt Not Kill felt not only appropriate for the character, but also appropriately challenged by the narrative.

Modern Timeline Liu, on the other hand, does not give a f*ck.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 21st 2020 at 1:55:35 PM

He was also probably the only character to have a fatality that involved an arcade cabinet killing his opponent for him just so he won't get his hands dirty with the actual kill.

Doesn't he summon it?

He also turns into a dragon and eats them in the same game so

not exactly going for pacifism either way

Wait, wasn't that in later games, not the first one where he has no Fatality?

He turns into a dragon and bites people in half in 2 and than blows people up with fire and drops an arcade machine on them in 3, so he was a pacifist for all of 1 game either way.

Pacifism is hard man!

Especially during a death match. Something's gotta give.

Him sticking to it for even one game was impressive in the wake of all the carnage going on around him.

Found The Joker's second Fatality

Here's what happens when one Joker meets another.

Not only can this be interpreted as NRS trolling us over a potential Injustice 3, it's also a nod to the long-gestating comic series "Three Jokers" by Geoff Johns.

Quan Chi is shown how to do a long neck finisher

I wish the Joker got that Kano fatality where he stabs a guy’s neck then dances with the corpse. That’s a very Jokerish fatality.

Patrick Seitz gets to be Scorpion again.

I wonder if they got in contact with him specifically since he took Scorpion being recast pretty personally.

The YT video description says Scorpion is voiced by Jordan Rodrigues, though I guess that could be an alias.

Edited by JRads47 on Jan 28th 2020 at 11:22:57 AM

According to other sources Jordan Rodrigues is Liu Kang. IGN probably mixed up the voice credits.

He sounds exactly like Seitz in the trailer.

Also Seitz is saying he’s in.

It'll be interesting to see how the tournament progresses this time around.

• like the original movie where fights just happen wherever the plot needs them to?
• like mk 9 where Tsung can declare a match between multiple opponents, or in his private sex dungeon, or in the underworld?
• like the games where people on the same team have to fight each other, or have to fight everybody including the others from Earthrealm until they eventually face Shang Tsung?