Mortal Kombat 1 Needs More Gaming Guest Characters

Summary

Ever since Mortal Kombat's soft reboot in 2011, there has only been one gaming guest character, the PlayStation-exclusive Kratos.
Mortal Kombat (2011) also featured Freddy Kreuger, who unlike Kratos started a trend of themed characters. We still get slasher icons to this day.
Guest characters may be controversial but they are an incredibly inventive way to celebrate Mortal Kombat's influences, the classic action and horror movies as well as the more contemporary comic book spectacles, but NetherRealm can't forget its gaming roots.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:NetherRealm has been dabbling in guest characters since the soft-reboot of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mortal Kombat in 2011, which introduced 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War’s Kratos and Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Kreu𒀰ger to the tournament. But only one of these starte🎀d a trend.

Thanks to the success of the Springwood Slasher, horror icons have become a very common guest archetype in Mortal Kombat. It makes sense given how gruesome some of the moves in these games are, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:not to mention the fatalities. NetherRealm clearly had fun designing Alien’s Xenomorph, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s Leatherface, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees, and Predator’s… Predator, all with Mortal Kombat’s signature gorefest in mind. Yet Kratos is still the one and only gaming character tওo join the roster in 13 years.

Other trends have started since then, like the litany of action heroes and comic book characters, making it even stranger that Kratos was a one-off. Mortal Kombat 1 just anno🍸unced its 𒐪second Kombat Pack which includes three new guests, Scream’s Ghostface (horror), Conan the Barbarian (action), and Terminator’s T1000 (horror and action), right after releasing three fan-favourite comic alumni. Onꦛce again, no gamers.

In Defense Of Guest Characters

The lineup of Mortal Kombat's second Kombat Pack.

There’s a lot of backlash every time a guest character is announced, since a lot of fans would rather Mortal Kombat stick to Mortal Kombat, but I’ve always loved these additions. They’re an incredibly inventive way of celebrating where the series comes from by embracing its horror and action roots, and more recently, its comic book spectacle. They often draw comparisons to IP soup like Fortnite, but the attention to detail and thought that goes i🐻nto each of these guests is leagues ahead of any cosmetic. But Mortal Kombat can’t celebrate its history without also embracing video games, the very medium it helped foster so many years ago.

I don’t expect Mario to rip Scorpion’s spine out or Bella Goth to uppercut Sub-Zero’s jaw off, but there are so many picks that would feel right at home in the world of Mortal Kombat. Doomguy, Ezio Auditore, Pyramid Head, Jill Valentine, Gordon Freeman, Agent 47, Geralt of Rivia, Joel Miller, Lara Croft, Solid Snake, maybe even Ryu—the list goes on. Just imagine Mr. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life going to town ඣwith a crowbar like he’s the Joker in an orange HEV suit, or how about Geralt cleverly using his innate magical powers to stand toe-to-toe with Outworld’s greatest sorcerers?

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Kratos fit so well into Mortal Kombat 9 because gaming characters by natꦡure have so many unique, defining abilities and weapons ♒that set them apart from the crowd. It makes them the perfect candidates for distinct fighters on a roster where everyone needs a hook.

But for over a decade, the only time NetherRealm has ever stepped foot into that world with its crossovers is through a PlayStation exclusive that a good chunk of its players will have never experienced. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mortal Kombat 1’s support is far from over, even if it’s mired in controversy, so there’s time for that to change. I’m hopeful that we’ll see NetherRealm look inward at the medium it helped cultivate all those years ago, rather than sticking so rigidly to the action and horror movies of old that defin𒅌ed thisꦡ series way back in the ‘90s.