Fatality (Mortal Kombat) - Notable Fatalities

Notable Fatalities

  • In December 1994, GamePro asked readers for their favourite Fatalities and three months later published the tally (all were from MKII):
  1. Jax's arm-ripping
  2. Sub-Zero's ice grenade
  3. Shang Tsung's soul sucking
  • In 1996, GamePro also criticized some of the finishing moves in UMK3 as "weak and poorly conceived", singling out Kitana's rabbit attack as an example and commenting: "Come on guys!"
  • In 1997, Baraka's "Lift'em-up" Fatality in Mortal Kombat Trilogy was given the third place in the category That's Gotta Hurt of Nintendo Power Awards '96.
  • In 2006, IGN rated Jax's MKII "Arm Rip" Fatality the 10th best gore effect in the video games, calling it "intensely violent while remaining absurdly hilarious".
  • Kitana shared #7 with Mileena for their respective "Kiss of Doom" and "Man-Eater" Fatalities on GamesRadar's 2006 list of "Top 7 Girls kissing girls", with a comment: "More visceral than sexy, sure, but the industry had to start somewhere."
  • 1UP.com' 2010 list of Best Fatalities in Video Games featured Dairou's MK:D Fatality and, ironically, the censored Fatalities of MK vs. DC ("Included not so much for the gore, but as a reminder that Mortal Kombat went from Dairou’s rib-ripping to censoring a headshot in half a decade").
  • In 2011, IGN published an article discussing progression of the finishing moves of the series' "four main characters" Sub-Zero, Liu Kang, Scorpion and Mileena.

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