According to Boon, his team "listened to what the players said about MKII and the Animalities that they thought were in there but really weren't. This style of Fatality debuted in Mortal Kombat 3. This finisher allows the player to morph into an animal and maul their opponent. In many games in the franchises there are also different types of Fatalities and Finishers: "Fatalities" also expanded into the shooter genre, most notably in the Gears of War series as "Executions". In the game ClayFighter 63⅓ the Fatalities were parodied in the form of Claytality. The 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph shows a cyborg resembling Mortal Kombat's Kano performing his signature heart-ripping Fatality move on a zombie.īy 1996, Mortal Kombat's creation had become a generic gaming term for a lethal finishing move in any game, including the official termed Fatals in the Killer Instinct series. The Fatalities were featured in ScrewAttack's " Top 10 OMGWTF Moments" due to the competition it gave to other games including Street Fighter II and how it popularized the arcades, as well as in 's list of top ten gaming memes. See also: Controversies surrounding Mortal Kombat The number of individual Fatalities varies depending upon the game while characters in Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance had only one, Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3 and its updates ( Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3) featured as many as four. Traditionally for the main and important characters of the games their Fatalities are usually a reflection of either their storyline or their special abilities: e.g., Sub-Zero's Fatalities have traditionally involved the use of his powers of ice (though his spine rip was found to be the most famous of the Fatalities), whereas Scorpion's storyline of a hellspawn ninja spectre involves the use of setting someone ablaze or using his famous spear. Usually, every character has their own special Fatality that must be performed at a certain distance from the opponent, the three distances being: close (means that the finishing move would not work unless the player is right next to the opponent), sweep (means that the player should stand a step or two away from the opponent, but still within the distance that a sweeping low kick should hit), and far (means at least one jump's length away from the opponent). Unlike special moves, a Fatality may require certain distances and quick button sequences in order to achieve the desired result. Tobias said: "When we watched players react to the Fatalities, we knew we had no choice but to give them more." Gameplay Then we thought, 'What if the player could do that to his opponent?'" Tobias and former Midway Games programmer Mark Turmell stated that initially no one at Midway expected players to find the Fatalities in the game. According to Boon, it started with an idea to enable the player to hit a dizzied opponent at the end of the match with a "free hit", and that idea "quickly evolved into something nasty." Tobias recalled it differently: "Our first idea was to use them as a finishing move for final boss Shang Tsung, who was going to pull out his sword and behead his opponent. The most notable additions were graphic blood effects, more brutal fighting techniques, and especially the fatal finishing moves (this was a novelty as the traditional fighting games ended with the loser simply knocked unconscious and the victor posing for the players). While creating Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon and John Tobias started with the idea of Street Fighter II style system and retained many of its conventions but tweaked others. The 1987 fighting game Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior had also featured blood and beheadings. The Japanese seinen manga and anime series Riki-Oh (1988 debut), along with its Hong Kong martial arts film adaptation Story of Ricky (1991), featured gory fatalities in the form of finishing moves similar to those that later appeared in Mortal Kombat. In the Japanese shōnen manga and anime series Fist of the North Star (1983 debut), the protagonist Kenshiro performs gory fatalities in the form of finishing moves which consist of attacking pressure points that cause heads and bodies to explode, anticipating the fatalities of Mortal Kombat. In The Street Fighter (1974), a Japanese martial arts grindhouse film, Sonny Chiba performs x-ray fatality finishing moves, which at the time was seen as a gimmick to distinguish it from other martial arts films. The origins of the Fatality concept has been traced back to several violent Asian martial arts media.
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