10 Worst Fatalities in the Mortal Kombat Series

Any discussion of the Mortal Kombat series immediately brings up the thought of violence, blood and fatalities. Mortal Kombat is a fighting video game series known for their finishing moves, called fatalities, which would dispose of their opponent in some gruesome and violent way. Some of these fatalities were cool and some were silly but a few were also downright stupid or lame. These are the 10 worst Mortal Kombat fatalities.

10) Scorpion and Repitle's Animality
In one incarnation of Mortal Kombat they decided to introduce a type of fatality called an animality. Each animality would result in a Mortal Kombat character turning into an animal and mauling their opponent. Most characters had nothing to do with animals so the developers could just choose some random animal and who cares? Shouldn't Scorpion turn into a scorpion though, and reptile some kind of...I don't know...reptile? Instead Scorpion turns into a penguin and Reptile turns into a monkey.

9) Quan Chi's Neck Stretch
There are a lot of head-related fatalities in the Mortal Kombat series. Sometimes an opponent gets their spine ripped out, sometimes they get decapitated, sometimes they have their neck turned into a giraffe...wait, what? When Quan Chi jumps on the shoulders of his opponent we expect him to do something really cool. Instead he pulls on the opponents head and stretches their neck out like a giraffe.

8) Kabal's Scary Face
Kabal fatalitizes (is that a word?) his opponents by pulling off his mask and revealing his ugly face. The opponent is then scared and their soul leaves their body and runs away. Really? Listen, in the first Mortal Kombat I defeated the thunder god, a martial arts master, a skeleton that spits fire and a huge four-armed beast. I'm not scared of your ugly face. When I first saw this fatality my soul left my body so it could take a nap.

7) Johnny Cage's Triple Decapitation
Johnny Cage's Triple Decapitation occurs when he uppercuts an opponent and their head goes flying off. Then there is a second head that he does the same thing to and then finally a third head is also decapitated. The idea of this fatality stems from a glitch in a previous Mortal Kombat game where this happened on accident and the developers thought it would be humorous to do it on purpose this time. It wasn't.

6) Liu Kang's Arcade Machine
Liu Kang was a classic Mortal Kombat but while other iconic characters like Scorpion and Sub Zero were constantly getting cool fatalities Liu Kang was getting the short end of the stick. One of Liu Kang's fatalities was that he would disappear off the screen and then an arcade machine would fall on his opponent.

5) Kano's Flip Stomp
To combat Marvel vs. Capcom the Mortal Kombat universe collided with DC Comics. DC Comics was not crazy about the idea of their characters being decapitated so they had to tone down the fatalities and by tone down I mean crap on. Kano was one of the nastiest characters in Mortal Kombat but in the DC Universe he was reduced to stomping on his opponents chest.

4) Kitana's Kiss of Doom
When Kitana kisses her opponent on the cheek their entire body balloons up until finally it can not stretch anymore and they blow up. That doesn't even make sense!

3) Kabal's Inflating Head
The developers really did their best to even Kabal's coolness by giving him the worst fatalities. This nominee for worst Mortal Kombat fatality allows Kabal to inflate his opponent's head. The player then floats away like a little balloon.

2) Bo Rai Cho's Flaming Fart
Mortal Kombat is rated M for mature, not T for teen fart jokes. We want violence in our Mortal Kombat, not potty humor... Okay, maybe we do want potty humor, but at least make it funny potty humor!

1) Liu Kang's Flying Uppercut
The experience of playing Mortal Kombat for the first time is unlike any other video game experience. Fighters are ripping each other's head off, breathing fire, freezing each other or at least punching each other in the crotch. Then Liu Kangs breaks out a cartwheel followed by an uppercut? That's a fatality? Liu Kang's entire repertoire of moves is better than his actual fatality!