Mortal Kombat series facts for kids

Mortal Kombat is a series of fighting video games. It is known for having a very high level of violence, blood, and gore. The first game was so violent and bloody compared to other video games at the time that it was one of the games mentioned in the 1993 congressional hearings on video games. This later led to the ESRB rating system. Unsurprisingly, most games in the series are rated M for Mature, which means that the game cannot legally be sold to anyone under the age of 17 in most stores in the United States.

Guest fighters

Starting with the 2011 video game, well-known characters serve as guests for the games. Due to legal constraints, they only appear only in one game. There are two guests in MK9, four guests in MKX and five guests in MK11.

• Kratos (God of War/MK9 PlayStation ports)
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street/MK9)
• Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th/MKX)
• Predator (Predator/MKX)
• Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/MKX)
• Alien (Alien/MKX)
• The Terminator (Terminator/MK11)
• The Joker (Batman/MK11)
• Spawn (Spawn/MK11)
• RoboCop (RoboCop/MK11)
• John Rambo (First Blood/MK11)

Images for kids

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  Mortal Kombat II arcade cabinet's control board

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  Kung Lao's "Razor's Edge" Fatality being performed on Mileena in 2011's Mortal Kombat. NetherRealm Studios' Ed Boon described it as possibly the most painful-looking finishing move in the series yet

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  Cosplayers of Kitana, Reptile, and Sonya Blade at Dragon Con 2012

See also

In Spanish: Mortal Kombat (franquicia) para niños