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Mortal Kombat 11

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Mortal Kombat 11, released in 2019, is a fighting game whose roster of guest fighters and pre-fight banter is packed with references to other films, comics and games.

10 Interesting Facts About Mortal Kombat 11

Interesting Facts (5)

  1. #001

    Kollector's four arms meant two acrobats had to stand side by side during motion capture to play the character, and Ed Boon remembers the headaches and laughter it caused in the studio.

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  2. #002

    Patrick Seltz, who voiced Scorpion in Mortal Kombat 9 and 10, was not told that Ron Yuan had taken over the role in Mortal Kombat 11 and found out from the trailer.

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  3. #003
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    After release, dataminers leaked upcoming DLC characters from the Nintendo Switch version of the game. The roster included returning fighters such as Nightwolf, Sindel, Sheeva and Fujin, along with guest characters The Terminator, Spawn, The Joker and Ash Williams. Sheeva and Fujin eventually appeared in the 2020 "Aftermath" DLC expansion, but Ash Williams never showed up; Robocop took his place as another guest character.

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  4. #004
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    Once Johnny Cage is unlocked as an announcer, one of the nicknames he gives Frost is Elsa, after the character in Frozen (2013). Several fighters call her that in the pre-fight intros, and she answers, "Why does everyone keep calling me that?"

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  5. #005
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    Only a handful of endings skip taking the hourglass. Spawn wanted nothing to do with it, even though it could destroy his enemies and lift the curse on his soul. Robocop held it only briefly, using it to witness his employers' corruption before letting it go. Rambo weighed using it to end all wars and secure eternal peace, then walked away rather than lose what remained of his humanity to the madness.

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Production Story (1)

  1. #006

    Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa reprises his role as Shang Tsung from the 1995 film adaptation of the series in Mortal Kombat 11, though he was not cast until later in development. Because the character would use both Tagawa's voice and his physical likeness, several changes had to be made: Shang Tsung was pulled from the main roster so he could be added later as a downloadable content (DLC) character with the updated likeness. This also led to a significant portion of the game's story being altered, and Shang Tsung's part in the plot was cut.

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Characters & Cast (2)

  1. #007

    Kano was originally British; he became Australian after Trevor Goddard played the character in the first Mortal Kombat film, a performance the creative director liked so much that the accent became a permanent part of his identity.

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  2. #008

    One of Johnny Cage's brutalities, in which he throws his sunglasses at the opponent and points at them before they die, echoes his classic line to Goro in the original Mortal Kombat movie.

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Easter Eggs & References (1)

  1. #009
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    In one pre-fight exchange between Robocop and the Terminator, Robocop asks, "Haven't we done this before?" The Terminator replies, "I have no record of a previous encounter," and Robocop answers, "We have met. I'm sure of it." The lines nod to Dark Horse Comics' early-'90s Robocop vs The Terminator run, which was also released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Gameboy, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #010

    According to co-creator John Tobias, Oddjob from the James Bond film Goldfinger was a deliberate inspiration for Kung Lao's hat.

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