Everyone’s clamouring for . Forget it. I thought I wanted it too, but I was wrong and so are you. Batman kicking the Joker about while Superman slams Lex Luthor against a wall giving him irreversible spine damage is what we’re used to. Likewise, seeing Scorpion fling a hook into Sub-Zero’s gut while Kitana and Shao Kahn slap each other silly is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mortal Kombat tradition. Another game of either doing the same thing again would be old news, but Batman going toe-to-toe wi𝓰th Reptile? Shinnok thr𝄹owing down with Black Canary? Sign me up.
Injustice launched a little after Mortal Kombat vs. DC U𝄹niverse in 2013🌃, branching out to create an entirely new story. Mortal Kombat similarly rebooted in 2011, putting the two on completely different trajectories. Now, they’re cousins that never hang out at the family BBQ and I’m the grouchy aunt that’s gotta make ‘em talk. Little do they know they’re best friends.
Mortal Kombat🦂 and DC have a lot in common. Cyborg and Jax bonded over their robotic parts and traumatising past, while Batman and Scorpion fought for screentime as the most popular characte🔯rs, the divas they are. Hell, Scorpion butted heads with Joker and had no time for his bullshit, walking away the second he started talking. If only Bruce had that iron will, eh? It was a crossover that would’ve sounded ludicrous in the ‘90s, but it happened and it made for one of the most fun Mortal Kombat games to date, purists be damned.
It was my introduction to the wider DC Universe. Before that, I’d played Lego Batman, watched 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Nolan trilogy, and seen snippets of the cartoon before school, although the brooding bear with daddy issues was never as fun as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spider-Man. It was also my introduction to Mortal Kombat, a double whammy of things I’d end ꦏup still loving 15 years later. I’ve got a Lego Batmobile on my TV stand and an embarrassing amount of hours in Mort✅al Kombat 11. As weird as it sounds, crossovers are good jumping on points because they throw so many characters and ideas at you, leaving you to find your favourites and dig deeper.
But even for returning fans of both, it offered something new and fresh. It had two different stories, asking you to pick a side. Back then, it was DC in a heartbeat; who the hell are Kitana a♔nd Liu Kang? I had no idea. But now, I’m not so sure. I think I’d pick Mortal Kombat because nobody will ever top Kenshi or Jade. Yet each side was more than a superficial throwing down of the gauntlet. You weren’t pledging allegiance for a few brownie points in the menu or maybe a neat little banner. It changed the entire story, letting you experience it from a different perspective.
That not only added something totally new to Mortal Kombat, but it gave the story replay value which is something it hasn’t had before or since. It’s rare I’ll replay MK sto𓄧ries and I never would back-to-back because they’re just long movies where you take control of the wheel in fights. But with a split perspective, you&r💧squo;re missing out if you don’t try the other path.
MK11 and Injustice 2 are very similar games and the next in line has to shake things up to keep it all fresh. With the growing trends of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:multiverses, time travel, and cro𝕴ssovers (oh my) in films and games, there’s no better way to move both series forward than by pitting them against each other once more—and going back to something that most have forgotten.
