With many returning classic stages, there is a possibility of many stages getting death traps/stage fatalities, where they previously had none.
One such example stage that has already been confirmed as having a new death trap/stage fatality is the Wastelands; this has been announced by Steve Beran in the recent interview with Kamidogu.com.

This thread link below lists the stages, stage weapons and death traps in the game.

The Stage weapon, Deathtrap, and multilevelled stage list ***Wastelands DT confirmed***(Tetra_Vega)


New/Returning Stage Death Traps:

The Armoury - Rock Crusher

Kahn's Arena - Grinders

The Prison (?) - Fans

The Subway - Train

Wastelands - Confirmed (Unknown, though I think this will involve being crushed by a statue.)

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Goro's Lair is missing the death trap/stage fatality it had in MK4, which involved an uppercut onto spikes ala the Kombat Tomb.
In my eyes this is a good thing, because having two many stages with death traps would lack a respite from them, short of turning them off completely. What needs to be done in MKA, is a rethink of the death trap trigger.

Currently, the moves that trigger death traps are completely illogical; some big hitting moves don't death trap, while jabs or sweeps do.
MKA could take a leaf from Soul Calibur here, as the death trap system in those games works very well and is triggered by logical moves and juggles.

This needs to be reworked.



On the subject of returning stages getting new death traps: What stages should have death traps and what stages should not?

Already completely unexpected stages have been given death traps. I never expected to see Kahn's arena with a death trap, for example.
The new death trap for The Armoury looks awesome to see in motion, but I expect there to be a trap in the opposite corner involving the molten metal.


In my opinion, some of the returning stages that should have new death traps are:


The Rooftops:
The death trap for this stage would be the obvious long drop, but it could be hidden behind the statues on either side of the arena: one hit into the statues causes them to become unstable, another causes the combatant hitting them to smash through and fall to his death in the street below. EDIT: Or you could smash through the side walls as some of you have suggested.

The Bank stage leading up to this should also have this death trap, except that it would be triggered by being hit into the bank's windows.
The death trap should not use the splattering effect used in the Sky Temple; it should look more realistic, and have the opponent crack the pavement with blood flying like the Pit 2 stage fatality.
The Sky Temple's version looked pretty poor to be honest.


Motaro's Stage:
This one would be simple; you fall down the well and into the soulnado, where you are ripped apart. By extension, this death trap would also belong to the returning Soul Chamber.


The Well:
The opponent can now be death trapped into the fiery furnace of this arena.
They try to crawl back out on fire, before tumbling back into the inferno.


The Living Forest:
This stage was in Mk2, Mk4, and MkD without a death trap. After seeing it in MKSM, the stage must return with this addition... And it must be *really* gruesome. The version in MKD was appaling; the trees didn't even growl or move.

There are many more of course.



The stages that should not have death traps are the ones where creating a death trap would just be going out of the way to add something to the stage; like adding a death trap to the courtyard would just be stupid. Adding a fire death trap to Liu Kang's tomb is also unnecessary. Out of returning MK1 stages, the only one that should have a death trap is the logical one; The Pit.
The death traps must be logical. That's not to say they can't be suprising or hidden, but that there must be some underlying reason to why they're here.

Those are just a few of my thoughts on death traps in MKA.

Any thoughts on this? Remember this is about the death traps and not so much ideas for stages.