Now Viewing: mortal_kombatTag type: None Covers the entire series. A long-running and very popular American fighting game franchise famous for giving the winner an opportunity to finish their opponent in a creative and gruesome fashion (fatalities) and until Mortal Kombat 4, its use of digitized sprites. The series has been adapted into live action films, Television series, animation, and an online series. The games have sold about 30 million copies by 2012. The franchise was created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. Tobias left the franchise after the third game but Boon remains involved with it to this day. The original game was released in 1992 at the arcades and was also at 1 point originally intended to be a Jean Claude Van Damme based video game, but the actor was at the time working with another company on a video game that ultimately was never released. Without the actor's involvement, the creators decided to make an original fighting game inspired by Hong Kong martial arts movies though the character Johnny_Cage, a parody of the actor, is a remnant of the game's original concept. Tobias, cited the Hong Kong wuxia movies 新蜀山劍俠 (Eng. title Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain) and 笑傲江湖 (Eng. title Swordsman) as his biggest influences when designing the game. Its violence was shocking for the time due to being far more violent than most mainstream games made at the time, exacerbated by the use of a semi-realistic visual style since the sprites were based off of actors hired to dress up as the characters and perform the martial arts moves that the characters would use. Its brutal violence paved the way for more violent and envelope-pushing fighting games. The games were 2D until Mortal Kombat 4, but although the games continued to sell, the 3D Mortal Kombat games were generally considered to be inferior to the early 2D ones, which is perhaps why the 2011 Mortal Kombat game goes back to 2D although it uses 3D character models. Although the games are famous for their grisly carnage, adaptations tend to considerably tone down the violence and in some cases, remove the blood altogether. The violence was also toned down for the crossover game titled: Mortal_Kombat_Vs._DC_Universe. The 2011 Mortal Kombat game adds X ray moves, which are brutal attacks that gruesomely injure the victim and are visually depicted with X-rays. The game's models show the characters looking increasingly beat up the more damage they take. Even the winner of a fight will look terrible by the end of match unless the winner doesn't take any damage whatsoever. Starting with Mortal Kombat 2011, the games include guest fighters, usually from horror or similarly violent franchises like Nightmare on Elm Street or God of War. The first live action film adaptation is one of the more well received video game film adaptations most of which are generally regarded as being low quality. It also introduced the techno theme song Mortal Kombat (Techno Syndrome 7'' Mix). Although it has never appeared in the games, said song became especially popular and has been considered to become an unofficial theme song for the franchise. The movie's portrayal of Kano and Raiden has also influenced the games and the characterization of both characters was altered to be closer to the movie's portrayal. The series is set in a universe that is made up of six realms created by Elder Gods. The realms consist of Earthrealm (similar to the real world), Netherrealm (equivalent of hell), Outworld (ruled by Shao_Kahn), Seido (realm of order), Realm of Chaos, and Edenia. The original game consists of a tournament based in Earthrealm called Mortal Kombat, but as the series goes on, warriors from all of the realms become involved in larger conflicts where the outcome will affect all realms. The variety of realms also leads to a cast of characters where ninjas, cyborgs, demons, sorcerers, human martial artists, and US soldiers exist side by side. It is also common for characters to be combinations of the aforementioned categories. The series has a habit of replacing the letter c with a k in its words. Pinball game designer and Shao Kahn voice actor Steve Ritchie came up with this quirk when the creators were stuck on what to call the original game. The creators were thinking of calling the game Combat and somebody wrote the word on a whiteboard. Someone else decided to change it to Kombat on a whiteboard as a joke. Ritchie saw the word and asked Boon, "Why don't you name [the game] Mortal Kombat?" Like fellow fighting game series Dead_or_Alive, the series tends to give female characters who are old enough to have breasts, large_breasts. The outfits in later games have also become more revealing to further accentuate their assets. The series notably has a tendency to incorporate ideas that originated as fan rumors/speculation and canonizing them. For example, the character of Ermac was inspired by a rumor that there was a secret character named Ermac in the original Mortal Kombat, which was inspired by a mysterious counter listing 'Ermacs.' Ermac turned out to stand for Error Macro and Ermac does not appear in the original Mortal Kombat but the developers decided to create a character with that name and he made his debut in Ultimate_Mortal_Kombat_3. While ninjas are common character types in fighting games, the series has an unusually large quantity of them in the roster, inspired by the runaway popularity of the first two ninjas in the series, Sub-Zero and Scorpion_(Mortal_Kombat). Main Games: Mortal_Kombat Mortal_Kombat_2 Mortal_Kombat_3 Mortal_Kombat_4 Mortal_Kombat_Deadly_Alliance Mortal_Kombat_Deception Mortal_Kombat_Armageddon Mortal Kombat_(2011), sometimes referred to as Mortal_Kombat_9 Mortal_Kombat_X Mortal_Kombat_11 Spinoffs: Mortal_Kombat_Mythologies: Sub_Zero Mortal_Kombat_Special_Forces Mortal_Kombat_Shaolin_Monks Crossovers: DC_Comics Mortal_Kombat_vs_DC_Universe Injustice:_Gods_Among_Us God_of_War A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street Friday_the_13th Predator_(movie) Cast: Introduced in 1st game: Liu_Kang Sonya_Blade Johnny_Cage Shang_Tsung Scorpion_(Mortal_Kombat) Kano Raiden_(Mortal_Kombat) Reptile_(mortal_Kombat) Sub-zero Goro 2nd game: Kitana Mileena Jax Baraka Kung_Lao Jade_(Mortal_Kombat) Smoke_(Mortal_Kombat) Noob_Saibot Shao_Kahn 3rd game: Ermac Cyrax Sektor Chameleon_(Mortal_Kombat) Khameleon Sheeva Sindel Kabal Nightwolf Rain_(Mortal_Kombat) Kurtis_Stryker Motaro Mythologies Sub Zero: Quan_Chi Sareena Fujin_(Mortal_Kombat) Shinnok Lin_Kuei_Grandmaster Earth_God Water_God Fire_God Jataaka Kia_(Mortal_Kombat) 4th game: Meat_(Mortal_Kombat) Reiko Tanya Kai_(Mortal_Kombat) Jarek Special Forces: Gemini_(Mortal_Kombat) No_Face Tasia Tremor Deadly Alliance: Moloch Drahmin Mavado Kenshi Li_Mei Mokap Hsu_Hao Nitara Frost Blaze_(Mortal_Kombat) Bo_Rai_Cho Deception: Dairou Ashrah Darrius Havik Hotaru_(Mortal_Kombat) Kira_(Mortal_Kombat) Shujinko Kobra Onaga Armageddon: Daegon Taven Argus Delia Orin Caro Wu_Lae 2011: Kratos Freddy_Krueger Skarlet X: Cassie_Cage D'Vorah Jacqui_Briggs Kotal_Kahn Kung_Jin Ferra/Torr Balor Takahashi_Takeda Jason_Voorhees Predator Leatherface Xenomorph 11: Kronika Cetrion Geras Kollector Related: God_of_War A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street DC_Comics The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre Predator_(movie) Alien_(movie) Other Wiki Information Last updated: 10/24/21 6:40 PM by axel_allen This entry is not locked and you can edit it as you see fit. |
     
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