The Mortal Kombat classics, those born in arcades, are full to the brim with secrets. The fatalities themselves, the lethal shots, were part of the experience and some have even taken decades to appear. 30 years after its debut, there was still a lot of content to discover.
Everything stems from the recent leak of the source code of Mortal Kombat II, which allowed the curious and fans of the saga to take a broad look at all the material that was cut, buried and unused with respect to the final version of the game. Very juicy elements, indeed: new hits, completely original special moves and Unpublished fatalities.
From here we must start from something essential: one of the distinctive elements of the original trilogy of Mortal Kombat was that he used digitized images of actors. Once the poses were captured, they were edited for convenience to shape blows or special techniques.
Logically, some of these animations were left out of the final version for memory reasons or because they broke the balance of the game. For reasons of explicit violence, We know on good authority that it is not.
Unused Kung Lao Technique
Some of these unprecedented movements, in fact, were reused to give shape to Mortal Kombat Trilogy without the original quality of the recreational versions. Others never appeared or arrived in much later installments. However, thanks to the work and dedication of the fans, it has been possible to recover these loose pieces of the Mortal Kombat II They didn’t fit the puzzle.
New animations and never-before-seen fatalities
Thanks to the Twitter account of Pegasus Kid (@annoyingdog322) much of this unpublished material has been recovered. And the truth is that, as you will see, there is a lot and everything.
#5 An incredibly weird blue-skinned palette for Scorpion is in the ninjas’ files, idk what they meant by this… pic.twitter.com/u3HbXICBcP
At the outset, we find a color variant of Scorpion with bluish skin, like Avatar. If it is about Scorpion, of course.
#15 Another animation I forgot to post today but here it is! Named “Tornado” in the files, what could this be? Immediately makes you think of Sub-Zero but who knows, this one is not actually in the ninjas’ sprites but in the general BG sprites so… pic.twitter.com/HgRqEinDLW
In a matter of new movements we have some very interesting ones. From aerial techniques to movements for Jax or Reptile, new blows and combos for practically everyone and a kind of protective ice barrier executed by Sub-Zero. In addition to a good assortment of animations in between that they disappeared
And as a bonus round… Shao Kahn’s big hand from a scrapped fatality where he would put his hand in a portal and it would come out of the top of the screen, crushing P2! This one was messed up in the original sprite rips for the game, now not anymore! pic.twitter.com/HA8tf7Avzc
But the nicest thing is the appearance of new fatalities or animations that were left unanswered. From our finishing moves and animations for Johnny Cage and Kitana to some sort of super punch dropped from the sky like a colossus of Shao Khan.
