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Mortal Kombat Is Bringing Back Bloody Animalities 29 Years Later: Here Are 6 Of Them

The zoological fatalities are part of Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns

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A Mortal Kombat fighter gets squashed by a hippo.
Screenshot: NetherRealm Studios / Kotaku

Revealed at Comic Con, Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns is the fighting game’s year two expansion and its adding more than just a bunch of random licensed characters like Conan the Barbarian. It’s also bringing back Animalities from Mortal Kombat III.

Everyone’s familiar with Fatalities, the brutal, stomach-churning deathblows first popularized in the original Mortal Kombat. But the series has changed things up every once in a while, from Mortal Kombat II’s Babalities which turned opponents into infants, to Mortal Kombat 3’s Animalities where characters transform into animals to reach new levels of carnage.

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The latter hasn’t been seen since 1995, but now they’re getting resurrected for last year’s Mortal Kombat 1 in its upcoming expansion. Out September 24, Khaos Reigns is $50 and adds Cyrax, Sektor, Noob Saibot, Terminator 2's T-1000, Ghostface, and Conan the Barbarian. It’ll also include a new fighting system, game modes, and Animalities. So far we’ve gotten a look at six of them from a recent trailer.

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Here’s Raiden getting blown up by a puffer fish.

Gif: NetherRealm Studios / Kotaku
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A scorpion pokes holes in Sub-Zero.

Gif: NetherRealm Studios / Kotaku
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Wolves rip apart Johnny Cage.

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A T-Rex skeleton launches Quan Chi into space.

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Scorpion gets a mouth cleaning from a gorilla.

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And Liu Kang getting eaten by a hyena.

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What other sleep-disturbing scenes await fans in Khaos Reigns? The latest game doesn’t seem to have had the same legs on it as Street Fighter VI and Tekken 8, but a fighting game renaissance lifts all boats. Fatalities are by far the most popular part of Mortal Kombat 1 and also the perfect way to get players to open their wallets in a microtransaction-laden genre. And who knows what might still get added to the game in Khaos Reigns and beyond? I don’t think Mortal Kombat 1 will be complete until we see a Xenomorph animality explode out of Gandalf.