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Mortal Kombat: Songs Inspired by the Warriors

Executive producer JFK (of the DJ/production duo MSTRKRFT and Death From Above 1979) used various electronic artists to create songs based on individual characters from the MK franchise, as well as creating a song of his own for the project.


Book of Swords

The film featured four actors from the 1992 video game Mortal Kombat II: Ho Sung Pak as Lang (the role being a nod to and a play on words for his MKII character Liu Kang), Richard Divizio (a nod to Kano), Daniel Pesina (a nod to Johnny Cage) and Katalin Zamiar (a nod to Mileena).

Brian Eddy

After the closure of Midway's pinball division in 1999, Eddy moved to Midway's video game division, where he worked on Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, and several games in the Mortal Kombat franchise.

Brian Kesinger

In Wreck-It Ralph Kesinger's voice is used for the Cyborg, a character based on 'Kano' from Mortal Kombat.

Game com

While they were able to obtain game licenses like Wheel of Fortune, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem, and Resident Evil, none of the games sold in great numbers.

Gaming Target

In 2006, the website published a satirical article showcasing how to use the "Kreate a Fighter" option in the video game Mortal Kombat: Armageddon.

Hanzel und Gretyl

During the same year, Hanzel und Gretyl's song "9D Galactik Center" appeared in New Line Cinema's Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and was also played at the 1997 MTV Music Awards.

J.J. Perry

He then played Scorpion, Cyrax, and Noob Saibot in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (Chris Casamassa was supposed to reprise as Scorpion but was working in Batman & Robin, though he would return in Conquest), and appeared in the MK: Conquest TV series, this time as Scorpion's main rival Sub-Zero, in addition to doing stuntwork for the main character of Kung Lao.

Jesse F. Keeler

In 2011, Keeler produced and composed tracks for the Mortal Kombat reboot.

Killer Instinct 2

Team Elimination Battles, in which one has to finish his or her opponents off with Finishing Moves (finishing moves similar to Mortal Kombats Fatalities, which can be executed immediately) instead of simply depleting their life bar with normal moves, or they will simply return later on in the match (however as the computer player will sometimes use Gargos as the last opponent, victims can be removed from play anyway as he lacks a finishing move).

Unlike the Mortal Kombat Fatalities, however, the KI2's finishing moves do not feature brutality or dismemberment.

Kung Lao

The Great Kung Lao was featured in the television show Mortal Kombat: Konquest as the main protagonist and was portrayed by Paolo Montalbán.

Lance Sweets

When they first met each other Booth conjectured that the worst thing that had ever happened to Sweets was that he "lost at Mortal Kombat".

Lexi Alexander

At the age of 19, she became world champion in both, retired from professional fighting and moved to the US, where she landed the part of Kitana in Mortal Kombat: Live Tour.

MK5

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, the fifth game in the Mortal Kombat series

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance

To help promote the game, American rock band Adema recorded a song for the game titled "Immortal" and made a music video for it that featured Scorpion.

Mortal Kombat: Deception

The Fatalities were developed by a group of animators led by Carlos Pesina; they comically considered Mileena's Fatality in which she eats the opponents' neck as the most disturbing due to how her "sexy moves" are modeled from Pesina.

Mortal Kombat: Rebirth

Known for productions with a completely different appeal as dance film You Got Served and the musical Fame, Tancharoen took two months to produce everything.

Mortal Kombat: Special Forces

Although Mortal Kombat: Special Forces was only released on the PlayStation, it was also supposed to be released on the Nintendo 64, as evidenced by an IGN interview with John Tobias.

Ninja Hayate

The game's battle music may have been sampled by The Immortals in their techno hit "Mortal Kombat (Techno Syndrome)", the theme song to the 1995 film adaptation of Mortal Kombat.

Ninjak

After the release of Mortal Kombat, its director Paul W. S. Anderson attempted to obtain the rights to Ninjak and produce a feature film of the second incarnation of the character.

Richard Divizio

He also appeared in Mortal Kombat II as Baraka, and reprised the role of Kano for both Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3, the latter in which he also played the masked hook swordsman Kabal.

Ryuji Ito

Ito, whose gimmick is reminiscent of the Mortal Kombat icon Liu Kang, has been known for competing in many deathmatches over the span of his career, including a Cage match variation which saw him defeat Kintaro Kanemura.

Sandcastles in the Sand

Barney makes two video game references, once when he says 'Finish Him!' from Mortal Kombat, and shortly after, when he makes the sound of Pac-Man's death animation.

Sandra Hess

She is best known for her role as Sonya Blade in the film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, and Lieutenant Alexandra 'Ice' Jensen in the television series Pensacola: Wings of Gold.

Serge Houde

He also starred as The Doctor in Episode 9 of Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Kevin Tancharoen's web series anthology inspired by the popular video game of the same name.

Shang Tsung

In the Mortal Kombat: Konquest TV series, Shang Tsung was portrayed by Bruce Locke as a sorcerer eager to take revenge on the Great Kung Lao, who had defeated him in Mortal Kombat.

SpaceGhostPurrp

All of his songs feature beat production by himself with many samples, such as train whistles, female porn stars, and drops from the soundtrack of the Mortal Kombat video game series.

Sprite comic

Sprite comics frequently use characters from well-known games such as Sonic, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, Mortal Kombat, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Mega Man, and Dragon Ball.

Studio Gigante

Studio Gigante was a Chicago-based video game developer established in 2000 by John Tobias, Dave Michicich, and Joshua Tsui, several developers of Midway's popular Mortal Kombat fighting game series.

Thea Realm Fighters

This fighting game by High Voltage Software was one of the Mortal Kombat rip offs developed in response to Mortal Kombat popularity.

Two-player video game

Two-player mode can have players cooperating in a team as in Final Fight, competing against one another as in Mortal Kombat, or alternating like Mario (Player

WWF in Your House

Just like WrestleMania, In Your House is not a wrestling game in the normal sense, as it is heavily influenced by Mortal Kombat.


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