We always assumed that Earthrealm, where the MK games take place, didn’t have the same pop-culture landscape as our own earthly realm - but judging by the way super-criminal Kano reaches into his opponents’ chests and pulls out their still-beating ticker, he clearly has a soft spot for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Swap fire-based fatalities with Scorpion, though, and you’ve got yourself something special.

Our issue is really with the way developers Midway - like so many other studios in the early ’90s - turned female characters into caricatures. Special Forces soldier blows a kiss at her rival, which sends a glowing ember flying toward them, ultimately consuming them in flame. But don’t confine Scorpion to such suffocating moral frameworks! 5.

When you’ve got your enemy teetering on the brink of unconsciousness, are you gonna help them out of the ring - or are you gonna rip your mask off to expose a grinning skull, then spit fire at their feet until they go up in a gout of flame? The first one, we hope, since we live in a civilization with a social contract and all. “Guess the perp… lost their head,” you can almost hear him say. Johnny Cage’s decapitationĪlways the cocky asshole, Cage winds up and lands an uppercut so devastating it knocks his opponent’s domepiece clean off - then reaches behind him and whips out a pair of stunna shades, David Caruso-style. Photo Illustration: Save As/Medium Source: Mortal Kombat / WB Games 7.

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