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franchise with
Deadly Alliance,
with feverish anticipation. They were greeted with an opening scene of Liu Kang, the franchise’s hero, training at the Wu Shi Academy. The game’s narrator reveals that Quan Chi, one of the primary antagonists of
MK4, has escaped from his prison. We cut back to Liu Kang fighting off a disguised Shang Tsung just as Quan Chi pulls off a sneak attack. Shang Tsung snaps Liu Kang’s neck and steals the soul from his body.
Liu Kang’s death gave
Deadly Alliance a clean slate and a new narrative twist to freshen up a franchise that was beginning to grow stale. After middling reviews for
Ed Boon liked to keep secrets. During the development of the original
Mortal Kombat, he quietly sneaked in a hidden character named Reptile a green-colored palette swap of Scorpion without telling anyone.
“It was sort of an experiment to see how long it would naturally be discovered,” Boon told me about his hidden character, who required special circumstances to summon in the game.
Boon programmed the early Mortal Kombat games by himself, so he had carte blanche to include anything he wanted. This was the man who created the series’ first Fatality as a hidden finishing move. (It was Johnny Cage decapitating himself, because Cage was the only character in
It’s official: there’s now less than a month to go until New Line Cinema’s adaptation of gaming’s bloodiest fighting franchise returns to the big screen.
Similar to Paul W.S. Anderson’s fondly-remembered take on NetherRealm’s series back in 1995, director Simon McQuoid’s upcoming modernization serves as a retelling of the first
Mortal Kombat depicted in 1992’s arcade title of the same name, meaning almost every fan favourite character is guaranteed to be making an appearance. Where this year’s version will differ from its predecessor, however, is
how the story will be told. Scorpion and Sub-Zero, both equal in their status as mascots of the IP, are said to be central to the overarching plot this time around, with the latter – played by Joe Taslim – being presented as a major villain alongside Shang Tsung.
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As per the recent trailer, here are all the kombatants who are confirmed for the upcoming
Mortal Kombat movie: Cole Young, Sonya Blade, Kano, Jax, Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Liu Kang, Raiden, Kung Lao, Mileena, Shang Tsung, and Goro. Kabal (or at least the back of him) might also be in the trailer, as are Reptile and maybe even Smoke (Or Noob Saibot). Nitara is also in the film, though, sheâs not in the trailer.
Okay, so thatâs whoâs
confirmed for the movie. But you know what? Iâm looking at this list and Iâm seeing
a lot of