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Havent you been paying attention Long before the games started featuring cinematic story modes first seen in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, the franchise has been stretched out to nearly all forms of media. Its martial arts grindhouse mythology has been seen in comic books, movies, TV, and other places. The original tie in came in comic book form. Ive talked about Mortal Kombat comics at length before, so heres the gist of it. The first two games had one shot prologues that you could order off the arcade machines, written and drawn by series co creator John Tobias. Over the years, they would do the same type of gimmick for Mortal Kombat 4 the console version, Mortal Kombat Deception, and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Meanwhile, across 1. Malibu comics released a bunch of Mortal Kombat comics that very loosely followed the events of the first two games. Rather than a streamlined story, it took place over the course of various miniseries and one shots. They were pretty bad, though still a step up from Malibus attempt at a Street Fighter series. Currently, DC Comics is doing a weekly Mortal Kombat X prequel series by Shawn Kittelsen that has been released digitally. It has featured plenty of random names that dont appear in the latest game, such as Havik, Reiko, Kintaro, Sheeva, Skarlet, etc. Its a fun time, although Im not so sure if Nether. Realm Studios will consider its events canon when the next game comes around. Okay, so comics are out of the way. What else Well, back when they were readying the console versions of the first game, they released a special album. Mortal Kombat The Album wasnt the games soundtrack or anything so simple. In actuality, it was a ridiculous set of techno tracks by a group called the Immortals who put together various songs about the characters in the game. Everyone and their mother knows about Techno Syndrome, otherwise known as the games theme song, but all the other tracks were completely batshit. Most notable, in my opinion, is this wonderful, haunting song about the Chinese ninja warrior Sub Zero. It took me years to realize he was saying, Warrior with a mask, and not, Why do you wear that mask Not that one is all that much better than the other. There have been plenty of commercials for the games over the years, but the ad for the console version of Mortal Kombat II is where its at. It was put together by David Anderson and Bob Keen director of Lost World. While it doesnt have any more narrative than, game characters meet up and fight each other, its one of the most badass things done with the series and makes you wish the movies could have looked more like it. Check it out. In 1. Jeff Rovin known simply as Mortal Kombat. I myself have read it, but that was 2. The book was a prequel to the first game, featuring most of the roster and a few names from the second game I know Baraka showed up to sacrifice some poor sap at one point. A big chunk probably too big a chunk was dedicated to telling the story of the original Kung Lao and how he won the first tournament and then got dethroned by Goro. Otherwise, it takes place about a year before the first game, telling the story of Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, Raiden, and Scorpion working together against Shang Tsung, Goro, Kano, and Sub Zero. Sadly, Johnny Cage didnt get mentioned even once. The only weird thing I recall about the book was Scorpions backstory. Since the games lore had yet to name him Hanzo Hasashi, the novel explained him as being Yong Park, a Lin Kuei ninja who left the clan and was punished by having Sub Zero chop him up with a katana. Then his ghost merged with his adult son Tsui Park and they became Scorpion. Mortal Kombat The Journey Begins. It was put together by Threshold Entertainment, fittingly the same people who gave us Foodfight, the infamously bad animated movie about grocery mascots. As a free VHS rental at video stores, the animated prelude was a way to promote the new movie. Watch Mississippi Murder Online Forbes. It retold the events of the first third of the movie, only with far more exposition and a lot of awful animation. Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, and Johnny Cage all meet up on a boat, only theyre using the designs from the game, meaning Liu and Johnny never wear shirts. Sub Zero and Scorpion attack them until Raiden shows up to ward them off and never shuts up for twenty minutes. He tells them all the stories of Kung Lao fighting Goro, Goro killing his brother, Sub Zero killing Scorpion, and Shang Tsung killing some random dude. While the main story was shown in 2. D with lots and lots of reused animation to the point of adding slow motion in order to make it look fresh at times, the flashbacks were done via CGI. CGI animation wasnt a pretty sight cue angry Rebootfans in the comments and this was no exception. While the motion capture was fine, everything still looked like bad Sega Saturn cutscene footage. Finally, we got the movie, directed by Paul WS Anderson. People have lots of differing opinions on this one, but I absolutely love it. Its flawed to the gills, but it so fully embraces the campy mythology of what makes up the game when you get past the blood and guts and not quite as good as Street Fighter gameplay. It understood the ridiculousness of the games and didnt try to be something else. Thats why people constantly refer to it as one of the best or possibly only good  video game adaption. Part of it comes from how much fun everyone was having with it. There are so many fun performances that have since become iconic for some of the characters. Watch Spielberg Online Freeform more. Linden Ashby as Johnny Cage acts as our window by constantly making reference to how ridiculous everything is while powering through regardless. Trevor Goddard as Kano was so wonderful for how little he appeared that they ended up retconning Kano into being Australian in the games themselves. Christopher Lamberts Raiden added a loving smirk to everything going on. Cary Hiroyuki Tagawas Shang Tsung chewed almost all the scenery. Goro, created with animatronics and voiced by Kevin Richardson, was a delight to watch. Then there was Scorpions hand snake. That was odd. Two years later, we got the sequel Mortal Kombat Annihilation, directed by John R. Leonetti and. hoo boy. The first five minutes were the only time Ive ever considered walking out of a movie in my entire life. The first movie was based on the first game, which itself borrowed a lot from Enter the Dragon. The second movie was based on the third game, which had a complete mess of a storyline. It didnt help that the great cast and characters from the first movie were long gone. Robin Shou as Liu Kang and Talisa Soto as Kitana were the only ones to return. Kano, Shang Tsung, and Goro were already killed. Sonya and Raiden were recast. Johnny Cage was both recast and killed within the first few minutes. It was cheesy, but without anything holding it together to make it good on any level. Characters from the games would just show up, do something, then leave and never be mentioned again. Dialogue, acting, and most definitely special effects were worse than before. Funny thing is, the movie originally had a stinger to promote a third movie where Shinnok and Quan Chi were going to plot against the heroes. Knowing that a sequel wasnt in the realm of possibility, they wisely left that on the cutting room floor. Probably the best thing to come out of that sequel was the official website, where one of the people involved in the movie went on this huge, desperate, yet smug rant about how fans should help keep the movie from bombing by seeing it multiple times. As explained, they tossed in a bunch of random crap from the games with zero context out of love and therefore the movie is good.