Mortal Kombat 1 characters leak, backs rumors about Homelander

Mortal Kombat 1’s roster will embody basic MK characters like Liu Kang, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Raiden, Kung Lao, Kitana, Mileena, and Johnny Cage in “reimagined” type, developer NetherRealm Studios says. It’ll additionally function a separate suite of combatants named Kameo Fighters, who can help gamers throughout matches.

And in keeping with a retail itemizing from Amazon Italy, Mortal Kombat 1 may also function visitor characters like Homelander from The Boys, Peacemaker from the DC Universe, and Omni-Man from Invincible. These characters will likely be included as a part of MK1’s Kombat Pack, an add-on included with the premium and collector’s version variations of the sport, in keeping with an outline of its contents.

Alongside these hyper-violent comedian ebook characters are a handful of different Mortal Kombat veterans: Quan Chi, Ermac, and Takeda, variations of whom might conceivably exist in Mortal Kombat 1’s setting.

Amazon’s itemizing additionally mentions 5 at present unannounced Kameo Fighters: Tremor, Khameleon, Mavado, and Ferra. Johnny Cage can be listed as a part of the Kameo Fighter roster, however it’s not clear based mostly on the itemizing if that’s particularly the Jean-Claude Van Damme pores and skin for Cage. Polygon has reached out to representatives for Warner Bros. to substantiate the retail itemizing’s accuracy and can replace when the corporate responds.

Mortal Kombat’s roster of visitor characters has usually been amusingly various, leaning on comedian ebook, motion film, and horror movie villains and antiheroes to flesh out its roster. The newest sport within the franchise, Mortal Kombat 11, featured John Rambo, RoboCop, the Terminator T-800, Spawn, and The Joker as visitor fighters. Previous video games have featured God of Conflict’s Kratos, Alien’s Xenomorph, and Friday the thirteenth’s Jason Voorhees as playable characters.

Mortal Kombat 1 will likely be launched on Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X on Sept. 19. The twelfth mainline sport in NetherRealm’s combating sport franchise sends the collection far into the previous, with Fireplace God Liu Kang trying to rewrite Mortal Kombat historical past with the help of a younger Raiden and The Nice Kung Lao.