God, I fucking hate Liu Kang.

Batman's was...okay.....I guess.

Baraka went as well as a T rating could allow, I suppose.

The final one??

Well, if that's the case, I'm glad they chose the main characters so well to promote the game.

EDIT: Fatalities!

Liu Kang: 7.5/10

Oh my God.....I can't believe I am going to say this........but I LOVED IT!!!!!! And that is coming from someone who loathed the Arcade Drop machine in MK3.

Seriously, there is something AWESOME about this fatality, and I'm thinking that has to do more with nostalgia then anything else. I do wish Liu Kang would had done something cooler then just stand there with fiery fists. Wasn't it in MK3 that he sort of vanished in a weird effect or flames?

Its kind of dull to see him standing there doing nothing, but there is something SO COOL about the MK1 Arcade Machine that I can't help to love it.

It feels like some sort of easter egg, some form of nostalgia. And the MK1 machine looks so real and I think that the electricity or coins effect that come out of it looks awesome!

It would had gotten a higher score from me:
1.- IF Liu Kang had done something more
2.- IF they would had shown more angles of the Arcade Machine.
3.- IF there would had been A BIT MORE blood!
4.- And most importantly, IF JOHNNY CAGE WOULDNT HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM THE ART!!!!!!!

Sure, I guess I get *why* he isn't there (they fired the actor who played Cage for doing stupid stuff blablabla), but then, it would had probably been cooler to make the MK3 or Mk4 machine drop. Or make up a new one that has to do with MKvsDC that shows the MK characters that were chosen for the Kollectors Edition cover.

And even so, I'm happy they went with the MK1 machine. I just love the nostalgia this gives me.

Batman: 7/10

When I heard about this Brutality, I thought it sounded cool. Now that I've seen it, I still like it. Sure it could had been so much better (like all the ones we have seen so far), but that doesn't mean it's bad.

The sound effects are very cool, and I love seeing all those bats coming after the batarang that makes those wave sounds. Awesome! I like the screams and the way Kano moves (though it did take him a while to react imo).

I just wish there was A BIT MORE BLOOD to make all of this MUCH BETTER. Seriously, he doesn't have to die, but the floor should be covered in blood. SAME THING with Liu Kang's fatality. There should be a BIT more blood. I mean, we are not seeing any organs and body parts being torn, so, give us AT LEAST that (yeah, I just have to use CAPITAL letters to emphasize my points).

Overall, it could had been better. Kano should had been more dramatic, more pain sounds, and more blood.

Baraka: 3/10

.........................seriously. This is when LESS means MORE IMO!!!! This is the same sad and lame thing that happened to Shang Tsung's fatality. This Fatality is just NOT a Fatality. Doesn't Baraka slice you with his blades in an equal way during gameplay? This one was just as disappointing as Shang Tsung's.

WHERE in the world is the blood???? I mean, they show SOME of it during gameplay, so why is it so difficult or risky to show more in Fatalities??? What?! Fatalities SHOULD have blood, and while I am willing to can accept little of it in Fatalaties that in the past would had had a lot of it, I can't accept nothing at all, because the Fatality looks lame and stupid.

Sonya's and Catwoman's are two excellent fatalities that don't require the use of blood, but Fatalities like this one, DO need it! The death sounds from Rayden were boring and simple. I DO hope it's just him (even though that sucks as well for his character) and that the other fighters have more dramatic believable screams or death gasps such as the ones we have seen in Tsung's, Rayden's, and Sonya's Fatalities.

Superman's heroic Brutality SHOWS blood??? SO WHY can't Baraka show any??? There are just soooooooooooo many things that are messed up with this fatality. Fine, there won't be any decapitations or body dismemberment, fine....but at least make the impales that we see and the deaths more painful in sound and effect.

For example: If we would had seen blood in Baraka's slices that would had made it better, but, just an MK2 impale would had made this fatality rock. They could had shown the blade's piercing the victim with a cool camera angle, but if that's not possible, just a cool view similar to the one of MK2. Sure it would had been plain simple...but much better then this one that is elaborated and has no blood.

OR!!!!!!! Just imagine how AWESOME it would had been if Baraka would had just stayed with his blade's inside the victim's body AFTER he bends his back! It would had rocked if, while bending to throw him, he wouldn't had actually thrown Rayden and just made an arch with his back and stayed there, in a bended/arc position, impaling a helpless Rayden. That would had looked elegant and awesome!!!.......sigh.

Overall?:

1.- Catwoman: 9.8/10
2.- Sonya: 9.3/10
3.- Rayden: 9/10
4.- Green Lantern: 8.3/10
5.- Liu Kang: 7.6/10
6.- Batman: 7.4/10
7.- Wonderwoman: 7.2/10
8.- Sub-Zero: 7/10
9.- Superman: 6.5/10
10.- Shang Tsung: 4/10
11.- Baraka: 3.1/10
12.- Flash: 3/10

*sigh*

You know, some of the previous Fatalities aren't so bad, but these are my least favorite so far.

1. Liu Kang - The arcade drop fatality? Seriously? Isn't that one of the most loathed fatalities of all time? A damning example from the past games that fans pointed to that the MK franchise was becoming a gimmick and a joke? And yet they bring it back? As I said before... the only thing that fatality killed was a little part of my soul deep inside...

2. Batman - Batman's a brutal sonuvabitch. He's the goddam Batman and has beaten more than a few punks to bloody pulps. So it's rather disappointing to see a "Heroic BRUTALITY" where appearantly all that appears to happen is Kano starts throwing a hissy fit and curling up into a little ball as bats do nothing more than annoying him and scratch his hair...

3. Baraka - I KNOW I'm not the only person who saw that fatality and EXPECTED those razor sharp blades to either a) decapitate the opponent or b) slit his throat and let him BLEED to death. Instead, we get a rather unrealistic Soul Calibur-esque finisher where, apparently, the blades must be really dull and stabbing is fairly tame and bloodless. Soul Calibur's Nightmare has an impale move JUST like that... except it's a normal move.

Well, I'm disappointed with these finishers. None of them really had the grit and realism of the past few fatalities and appeared extremely withstrained and held back, like there was much more that could've been done but wasn't, either because of the rating or time constraints or just plain indecisiveness. I don't know, but my personal opinion is I'm not a fan of any of these new ones.

lame!!

By final, I of course meant this in "final before the game is actually out and you'll see all the fatalities anyway", even if they should happen to release more trailers.

Really lame.The ingame violence is more brutal.Fuck the finishers.

Yet another set of unimpressive finishers. I really can't comprehend
why they used the arcade fatality for Liu Kang of all things. It just looks
very cheesy and corny and I thought they were finished with that kind
of stuff. Didn't like it back in the day, still don't like it now. I'd have much
rather preferred watching Liu transform into a dragon and gobbling his
opponent whole instead. Or even have him use a fireball and blow his
enemy into non gory molecules or render them into a pile of ash.

Batman's brutality was what I expected pretty much. I just knew they
were going to incorporate bats one way or another. To be honest
there is nothing brutal about this finisher at all. Would have been
different if we could actually see the bats inflicting physical damage.

Baraka's was as expected as well, not much else he can do but slice
and dice, and even still it would have been a lot better if you were seeing
physical damage being done instead of him just hacking at someone
and there is not a scratch, or ripped garment to signify what he's done.

*sigh* I don't like being negative, I have been trying to put aside my
dislike of certain things I do not care for in this game, but I can't
ignore the lack of detail that went into these finishers as far as the
lack of visible physical damage that would have made them more
believable. It just looks like you're beating up on a mannequin.

i like the arcade drop. it's silly and doesn't make any sense what so ever but still i like it. i just wish we didn't have to see the body after it falls.

batman had a really stupid one. i mean what? can't kano just throw the sonar batarang thing somewhere else?

i liked barakas' though.

Liu Kang's was poor.

Baraka's and Batman's were well executed

I knew it, I said it in an earlier post way back that he would have the arcade drop. but nooooooooooooooooo, no one wanted to listen to me. jk. I did say it though

I hated Liu Kang's arcade drop fatality back then, but this one, I like it ! lol He better have his dragon fatality back too though.............. They got more than one fatality right ?

Batman's is great.

Baraka's is disappointing.

Liu's is funny the first time but after that it turns into a "Oh fuck here we go.." thing. How lazy is Midway that they can't do something better than that?

Batman's was better than I thought but it could use some tuning up. Best heroic brutality, but then again the competition is utter shit so that's not saying a lot.

Baraka's was a disappointment. It's like "ok fuck it just stab them and get it over with" It's not that bad but it isn't that good.

So far MK vs DC has the WORST finishers ever.

I'm surprised at how unsurprised I am at the complete lack of effort.

I know.

That's what annoys me THE MOST about Shang Tsung's, Flash's, Baraka's, etc.



Yeah...for some reason there is something cool in seeing the MK1 arcade drop. I like it. but........ (read down)



........But yeah.....THE DRAGON Fatality SHOULD had been in this game. --__--'

I can't believe anyone likes the first two.

I was under the impression that this game was going in a (for lack of a better word) more serious direction. All of the fatalities seemed more raw, really because of the T rating preventing opponents from being blown up or decapitated by a punch. Then we get Liu's arcade killer. Sure it's funny, but I wasn't looking for that much humor in this game. On top of that, it hardly looked like they were killed, and as was mentioned before, they edited out Cage on the side.

Still, Kang's fatality looked like a fucking masterpiece next to Batman's. Seriously, we're talking about a man who has a utility belt full of restraining gear. We're talking about a man who broke the Joker's neck just so he wouldn't have to kill him. What we get is a man who makes bats, really a pretty harmless animal, do little more than make the recipient look like a girly bitch. This brutality was even worse than Flash's. It wasn't even brutality, it was nothing.

Baraka's is definitely my favorite out of the three, and I still disagree with a lot of it. As plenty of people have already mentioned, the lack of blood hurts the fatality overall. When I see someone's throat cut, I want to see at least a little blood out of it. Still, the execution was nice. The only problem I had with it was the toning back of gore.

vampire bats aren't harmless o.o they have rabies and make holes in you to get your delicious blood. Still yeah the Batman should have had something a little better. It's golden compared to WW's or Flash's.

MKA dissagrees with you.

MK:A should keep it's mouth shut because it doesn't know what it's talking about. I liked MK:A's finishers. I got to choose how i killed someone, it was awesome.

I don't complain. It'll be a fun game to play.

I agree with Oracle.

MKA has the WORST finishers ever. I don't even want to call those Fatalities because they were nothing but an insult.

All of the ones we have seen for this game, even the lamest Heroic Brutality, are 100 times better then the stupid "Create a Fatality", which was only a silly lazy excuse not to give all characters original finishers.

- Batman has a great fatality, very creative especially the sound effects.

- Baraka was not bad too.

- Liu Kang awful, the worst fatality ever. Very out of the subject, it comes out from nowhere. Until now, I can't find the reason of thinking about including such a ridiculous Fatality and from MK3 too. If the MK team meant to be funny with the arcade Fatality, well it's not. It's just a stupid idea that doesn't fit Liu Kang at all.

Baraka's did not do him justice not one bit!

Batman's was just terrible. I hate how the cuts appear out of nowhere.

Liu Kang's was the only good one, except for the fact that the announcer says "Fatality!", but the victim is still moving.

Baraka's was bland but I suppose with the Teen rating they have to be careful with not only how violent the fatality is but also how dramatic it is, i.e slamming the opponent to the ground rather than have them hanging limp.

Batman's was a good idea but poorly executed. I love the idea of a swarm of bats attacking the player but the way it's been done is just awful. Again, the Teen rating wouldn't allow for a dramatic, bloody finish anyway.

Liu Kang's was...oddly good. Yes, I hated that fatality in MK3 and I would have preferred his old MK1 Teen Rating friendly finishing move to it, but it was still an improvement over the original. The timing of the cabinet is perfect and the fact that it sits on their chest rather than completely crush them is also better I think.

Because of the arcade's electricity is moving in his body.