Mortal Kombat 1 fans already love Johnny Cage’s Roomba

Mortal Kombat 1When it launches on September, the game promises fans will be treated to deep cuts. The soft reboot of NetherRealm’s fighting game franchise will bring back classic versions of Sonya, Jax, and Kano, alongside reimagined versions of Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Raiden, and Liu Kang. Stryker is even in it! One of the best low-key updates to MK1 is a robot making its first appearance in the 30-year-old franchise: Johnny Cage’s Roomba.

Fans who played NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat 1. stress test last week discovered a few new details about the Roomba — which is almost assuredly not an official iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner — including that it will actually try to clean up the blood splattered across Johnny Cage’s nice marble floors.

Johnny’s robot vacuum behaves just like a real-world cleaner robot, bumping into objects and reorienting itself as part of its bloodlust for busting dust. It’s the kind of thing that some programmer at NetherRealm spent The Right Way to Buy too much time on, probably — and it makes for a nice little touch in Mortal Kombat 1.’s highly detailed stages.

Yes, if Roomba comes too close to you, it is possible to kick the robot.

Roomba, like everything else in Mortal Kombat’s universe can die a horrifying death. Here’s the vacuum dying by accidentally falling into Cage’s in-house pool. Hara Kiri is a new finisher that was introduced in Mortal Kombat: ReceptionMortal Kombat is back!

[Warning: The following video contains graphic content of a vacuum exploding.]

Johnny’s Roomba may need a firmware update ahead of Mortal Kombat 1.’s launch, however. Roomba attempts to clean the mess left behind after Kenshi has divided Kitana in two halves of beef.

The extent of Roomba’s abilities will only become clear when Mortal Kombat 1.Launches on September 19, 2018 on Nintendo Switch (PS5), Windows PC and Xbox Series X.