![]() Smoke indiscriminately kills eight billion men, women, children, and himself, just to embarrass his opponent after a fistfight. Smoke expels a few bombs from his chest, the camera pans way out to a distant view of Earth, and everything goes Alderaan. Smoke’s World-Destroying Bomb (Mortal Kombat 3)Though not a drop of blood is spilled on-screen, this finisher is positively genocidal. Watching the look of panic in the victims’ eyes might be the most disturbing element of this vivisection. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, helpless foes find themselves compelled to rip their own heads from their bodies. Taking some inspiration from the only good ten seconds in M. Shang Tsung’s Head-Rip (Mortal Kombat 9)Shang Tsung’s possession abilities are set to an insidious purpose with this disturbing finisher. It’s that half-second of agony after the genitals are mangled but before the head is split that takes this one over the top. Bond, I expect you to die.” I hear these words every time I watch Kung Lao create a spinning saw-blade with his hat, and then pull his opponent groin first onto the steel teeth, splitting the body. Kung Lao’s Sawblade (Mortal Kombat 9)“No, Mr. They each grab a leg, lifting the enemy spread-eagle, and then very slowly rip the screaming, writhing foe apart from bottom to top. Noob summons a clone on the far side of his opponent. Noob’s Split (Mortal Kombat 9)This one is almost too painful to watch. Beyond the thought of a still-living top half of a human body sliding down the wet throat of a dinosaur, the most brutal thing about this move may be the five frames of animation. Stryker invokes this Animality to bite his enemies in half and swallow their upper portion in a single gulp. ![]() Stryker’s Animality (Mortal Kombat 3)Stryker has a stupid hat and dresses like a dope, but he can turn into tyrannosaurus, and that counts for a lot in life. The real insult is Kano holding it aloft for the falling opponent to see just before the last oxygen leaves his brain. It isn’t so much the act of tearing a beating heart out that makes this fatality savage. Kano’s Heart Rip (Mortal Kombat)Kano comes of as a weak Terminator rip-off, but his signature move is a Mortal Kombat classic. ![]()
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