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The 7 Best Original ‘Mortal Kombat’ Fatalities, Ranked

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2 min readApr 12, 2021

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7. Johnny Cage’s decapitation

Always the cocky asshole, Cage winds up and lands an uppercut so devastating it knocks his opponent’s domepiece clean off — then reaches behind him and whips out a pair of stunna shades, David Caruso-style. “Guess the perp… lost their head,” you can almost hear him say.

6. Scorpion’s “Toasty!”

When you’ve got your enemy teetering on the brink of unconsciousness, are you gonna help them out of the ring — or are you gonna rip your mask off to expose a grinning skull, then spit fire at their feet until they go up in a gout of flame? The first one, we hope, since we live in a civilization with a social contract and all. But don’t confine Scorpion to such suffocating moral frameworks!

5. Sonya’s kiss of death

The move itself is dope: The U.S. Special Forces soldier blows a kiss at her rival, which sends a glowing ember flying toward them, ultimately consuming them in flame. Our issue is really with the way developers Midway — like so many…

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