The 12 LAMEST Fatalities

The 12 LAMEST Fatalities

Join GamePro as we name the 12 most ridiculously stupid video game fatalities of all time!

There was a time when performing a fatality was an awesome reward where you further humiliated your defeated opponent by savagely mutilating them. But sometimes fatalities are just flat out lame. Here are our picks for the worst of the worst that span from the original Mortal Kombat to Ultra Vortek.

#12: Lui Kang's Death by Arcade Machine

Ok, Midway, you can make your jokes when it comes to Mortal Kombat. It's not exactly War and Peace, so we can chuckle when someone screams "Toasty!" after Scorpion sets fire to a dude. But meta-humor can only be taken so far. If you want to know where the line is, it's a few miles before dropping the arcade machine you're playing on your opponent. Oh, and this wacky finisher was probably the precursor to the creation of Friendships, so we have another reason to loathe this moronic fatality.





#11: The Flash's Tornado Slam from MK vs. DC

For some reason, the superheroes (and even the villains) of the DC Universe are unable to take a life--probably because they want to sell fewer comics than Marvel. That poses a bit of a problem when they're put into a game where you get extra points for murdering your opponent at the end of a match. Midway's solution was "Heroic Brutalities," in which the DC characters basically unleashed a devastating attack that doesn't quite kill their opponent. The lamest of the bunch has to be the Flash's tornado slam, in which the speedy superhero runs around his opponent, creating a whirlwind that carries the character, and then slamming him to the ground with a punch. Of course, The Flash could have probably just tossed him in the air with a speedy uppercut, but then you wouldn't be extremely disappointed by the volleyball spike at the end.





#10: Raiden's Mini-Raiden Friendship

Friendships, the fatalities where you befriended your stunned adversary instead of slaughtering them, were funny the first time you saw them, but ultimately were out-of-place in the Mortal Kombat universe, and mark the beginning of the decline of the series when it went from being a dark and serious fighting game to somewhat of a joke. The worst of the Friendship moves was Raiden's where he summoned Kidd Thunder, a miniaturized version of himself. Just watch the video and tell us you're not confused.





#9: Jax's Amazing Growing Man

Apparently American supersoldier Jax has mystical powers that he likes to keep under wraps. We can understand wanting to keep his hands from turning into giant spikes during a match (that would be the worst "stop hitting yourself" moment of all time), but if you have the ability to grow to 200 feet tall, you should probably unleash it at the beginning of a battle instead of the end.





#8: TIE: Scorpion's Penguin Egg Grenade (Top) / Rain's Baby Elephant Blast (Bottom)

There are dozens of absurd "Animalities" in Mortal Kombat 3. Johnny Cage morphs into a Kangaroo that kicks you off screen, Jade turns into a killer kitty that scratches you to death, and Reptile chases you away as a monkey (shouldn't his be a lizard?). It was hard to pick the silliest of MK3's Animalities and it ended up being a tie between Scorpion's, where he lays an explosive egg as a penguin, and Rain's, where he turns into a baby elephant that blows your skin off with his tiny trunk.





#7: Sindel's Killer Hair

Did you ever hear about that kid that exploded on the Gravitron ride at the county fair? No? That's because anyone who would have told a story like that would be disregarded as a class-a moron. He would then take his revenge on the world by joining Midway, getting a position on the Mortal Kombat 3 team, and then creating a lame fatality where someone gets spun to death.

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maranda

who's the guy who wrote this article? the grinch? scrooge?? friendship "fatalities" and babalities were extremelly funny, everyone loved them!!! it attracted more people to mortal kombat. also, mortal kombat 2 is the best one in the series!!!!!!!!!

denveraic

Great article, I love watching these old clips. I used to love 16 bit fighting games. Now SF is the only one really worth going back and playing seriously.

maranda

I never heard or saw that ugly "tattoo assasin" game, did midway sued data east???? the game looks awful

DJKennethA

Oh the Gravitron. Many good and sick times were had on that. Never ride it after you eat

ChitownShogun73

Oh that super nintendo MK. Everybody complaining about MK vs DC needs to play that version of MK and leave MK vs DC alone.

ryu_b

I liked the arcade machine and the Kidd Thunder ones.

Everything else made sense; Kano's Stomach Jump and Flash's tornado uppercut were incredibly lame. Flash's Quick Brutality made up for it though.

masterchief247

The SNES MK fatalities take the cake. Lui Kang's is so lame, the screen doesn't even turn black like the others. How about that last Sub Zero fatality when he double ices Raiden, elbows him into ice pieces, and than Raiden shows back up, iced from the knees down in full body form.

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