Hey, earthrealm. I'm Andrew and I wish I didn't waste all my cool moves in last week's Kung Fu video because today we're talking about
The controversial arcade classic came out 25 years ago, and it spawned a franchise that goes well Beyond videogames oh
Yes
Yes, almost
Everyone knows about the movie the first one is like literally the only good video game adaptation and the sequel is one of the best
worst movies ever made
Even if my boy Johnny cage gets punked out in the first five minutes
But did you know that there was actually a Mortal Kombat Saturday morning cartoon?
Or a live boring stage show that was basically Disney on ice with sub-Zero and Scorpion
We're going to cover all of that and more so go over here, and let me tell you about a few
Mortal Kombat spin-offs that you might not have heard of
Spin-off games let's stick with the games for right now there are 10 official fighting games in the combat Canon
That's if you count mortal Kombat versus the DC universe which you damn well better
Because it made injustice happen one of my favorite video game franchises of all time
Mortal Kombat has a ton of lore
and you know it's
Hard to tell stories through the medium of two people we've kicking each other's death who cares if it makes any sense
By a bloody sliver of health left
You better believe that there's no honor code of gaming and I'm just going to sweep it till I win
So they made a few games in other genres to fill out the world a little more like Mortal Kombat Mythology is : sub-zero
from 1997 it's a two and a half dimensional platformer that tells the origin story of our frosty antihero and
Shows how his duel to the death with Scorpion went down Mythology's is the last world Kombat game to use digitized Sprite?
Instead of polygons for the characters. I always thought that's a serious loss of panache when they made the switch
Mortal Kombat
4 is
ugly as sin
All 10 people sitting on the stairs pretending to bicycle kick any day the playstation version has these cheesy live action cutscene
They couldn't fit these onto the nintendo 64 cartridge, but I arrested in any way because the Nintendo 64 service was real
Mythology's use the same control scheme as the fighting games, but it's kind of a bad fit for a game
Where you fight multiple enemies at a time you even have to press a button just to turn around?
It's a huge pain in the ass
But it's not even the worst Mortal Kombat spin-off game that honor has to go to Mortal Kombat
Special forces it was a 3D beat him up for the playstation kind of like streets of rage meets tomb raider sounds sick, right?
It's an unfinished rushed mess
You're going to pay for this development was such a disaster a series co-creator John Tobias
Quit the company halfway through also classic character Sonya blade was supposed to be playable
But she wasn't she was actually cut from the game because there was such a scramble to get the mess done
Instead it just stars jack
She was never really been cool at least within the context of the series and Sonya Blaine would have been a way better choice
She had recognition she was in movies, and she had a way cooler mood said
I'm not going to start caring about a fighter
Just because you gave them big metal arms between games
whatever they tried to give Jax a personality, and I'll let you be the judge if the new
Blaxploitation in fire Jack's was a success or not too bad I have to take though that tavia so overlooked
It's very 90s
But the influence is there if you're going to play a Mortal Kombat spin-off try Shaolin monks for the PS2?
or the xbox it me tells the events of Mortal Kombat 2 as a 3D brawler starring Liu Kang and Kung Lao and it's
Actually awesome sure there's some backtracking, but it's cool to see a bare-bones fighting game story as a fully realized
Adventure, it's never really been released, but if you can track it down
Shaolin monks is solid let's move on to Mortal Kombat the live tour in the 90s
If there was a mega hit kids franchise
odds
are there was some kind of live touring stage show to go along with it like the mighty Morphin power Rangers or blue Spruce or
Sesame street and who could forget the legendary ninja turtles coming out of their shells tour I know I can't
Brought to you by who else?
But I'm not really sure why anyone thought that mortal kombat would be a good fit for this kind of thing well
No, okay. I actually have a pretty good idea
corporations tour appeals to a whole new age Category and live entertainment
Kids are spending millions of their own dollars on video games this whole promo video is gross
They know damn well that the appeal of world Combat is truckloads of gore
But they try to downplay it with this bullshit positive messages and cause-related tie-in what helps children be able to
be
concerned about violence Mortal
Kombat brought to you by Doctors without borders
Mortal Kombat
brought to you by the Make-A-Wish foundation
Yeah
It's a handed to them the performers tried their best and even if everyone look kind of embarrassed to be in their costumes it looks
Kind of awkward up there. You know being demons and
tongues and fighters in front of five-Year-Olds in their bored parents except for sonja
She was actually played by the same actress who modeled for her sprite in Mortal Kombat 3 which is a cool little nod to you
Know for origins and shang soon holds his own pretty well at this TV interview. My name is shang tsung
Alright. I don't know. Maybe it would have been cool
They have some pretty bitchin lasers going on and I could have really used those exclusive cheat codes
Because they gave out exclusive cheat codes back when the internet wasn't a thing kind of cute
but I'm sure baby me would have been disappointed by the kid-friendly lack of you know spine ripping and disembowelling it just just
Pushing eyes and people's skulls nonsense. It's a real shame
They could have had tarps covering the front row like lashes owned at Seaworld, but we have to thank Joe lieberman for that
Thanks, Joe the live show wasn't the only wildly age-inappropriate
Adaptation either they even had Mortal Kombat cartoons
Cartoon with a k the first Mortal Kombat cartoon was a straight to vhs
prequel to the first film called the journey Begin I remember renting this at the video store thinking it was the
Actual movie that somehow got released early, and I was not happy
oh
I think I'm going to hurl
He got some of the worst CG
I've ever seen even for the time this thing makes reboot look like ratatouille
And the 2d animation was pretty hideous you guys remember that ludicrous treat by the Saturday morning cartoons
You know the one from all the youtube poops
It's actually aired as a doubleheader with Mortal Kombat defenders of the realm, and you know it's not nearly of that
It's a pretty standard kid show for the era a bunch of highly marketable
characters fly around the world and Jet ship like dragons
And they're looking for magic portals or amulets or scrolls or whatever it definitely had better voice Palette Scorpion
Just bought a one-way ticket to the realm of lost souls clancy brown played raiden. You probably know him best as Mr.. Krabs
Okay, money. I mean no children or lex luthor in the DcAu what you're gonna wash your hands
No
Cuz I'm evil which is funny because lex luthor oh, Mr.. Krabs. They're pretty much the same person even cooler
He was the Kurgan in highlander opposite Christopher Lambert
Aka raiden in the first mole combat movie and striker was played by Ron
Mother-effing Perlman which is great but striker is the dirt worst
He's a regular dude with a gun completely invalidates the entire premise of Mortal Combat, it's it's fisticuffs
It's hand-to-hand Combat it whatever. I'm not gonna think about it once again. They tone down the ultraviolence
So there are no fatalities or brutalities or even babe a letís the best allottee
I guess they didn't want little kids keeping in their froot loops with a potato rip someone's heart outages
Make sense it even censored flashback to the movie like sub Zero's depth theme
Overall it wasn't a bad little cartoon
The Moral Kombat Franchise is still going strong
Even if it's not the global phenomenon that it used to be last
Non-game adaptation was that Mortal Kombat Legacy web series from a Few years back
The whole what a people Magic video game characters were in the real world man
That stick is pretty cringing, but the director took a tiny budget and turning to a pretty to take on the series
He was going to direct a new movie, but now Saul Crater James wan has taken charge of the reboot
I'm not entirely sold he's definitely got a handle on the gore
But I'm not sure what he's going to bring to the table that can top the flawless victory that that first movie truly did
Those are $500 sunglasses asshole
You know for the time being I think I'm fine with little combat just being a fighting game after all
It's the only fighting game where you can. Do shit like this
Hey guys
I'm Andrew and Mortal Kombat is actually a series. That's very near and dear to my heart
Mortal Kombat was one of the first games
I ever played which I think my parents didn't appreciate her like at all if you like this video
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