The 6 Craziest And Dumbest Mortal Kombat Moments

STRYKER, KURTIS STRIKER

This douche was another low point. Previously Mortal Kombat had maintained a fairly consistent set of character motifs: 1970s grindhouse tropes duking it out with Special Forces and half the cast of Big Trouble In Little China. Kurtis was a totally rad guy who dressed like a pudgy ESPN-huffing dork’s idea of a SWAT commander and was insanely high-tier, bro! He was awful, and managed to set the low benchmark for character design in a game full of faintly unappealing swimsuit models and cybernetic banalities. He showed up again for an obligatory slot in the all-star Mortal Kombat: Armageddon dressed like Solid Snake for assholes. Hateful.

PEACE, LOVE, RESPECT, KOMBAT

This isn’t crazy or dumb, this is just amazing: back in 1994 Praga Kahn and Oliver Adams (two thirds of the Lords Of Acid) joined up to create Mortal Kombat: The Album. I have a theory: I don’t think either of these guys bothered to play the game! How else to explain the breezy, upbeat tone and lyrics directly taken from early promotional biography sheets? Johnny Cage gets referenced by his birth name (John Carlton!), Raiden “got no eyes” (his blank his eye colour was listed as “N/A”). The one everyone knows is Sub Zero (Chinese Ninja Warrior) but if I had to pick favourites it’d be these two: a pumping and highly inappropriate love song for Kano and a Scorpion track that seems to inexplicably feature Jimmy Somerville on backing vocals. Enjoy!