Mortal Kombat (video game)/Trivia


 * Acting for Two: Dan Pesina as Johnny Cage and the ninjas and Ho Sung Pak as Liu Kang and the elderly Shang Tsung (before they rejuvenated the character in Mortal Kombat II).
 * The Cast Showoff: Ho Sung Pak could actually perform the cartwheel kick that Liu Kang used as his fatality (it was one of his trademark attacks in WMAC Masters, for example). That's presumably why Midway stopped using it when Ho Sung Pak was replaced by Eddie Wong for the third game.
 * Fake Nationality: Chinese-born Liu Kang was portrayed by Korean-born Ho Sung Pak.
 * Fan Nickname: Scorpian's rope-and-kunai combo was often called the "Spear" in the move lists of earlier Mortal Kombat games.
 * Port Overdosed: Ported to every contemporary platform, including handhelds, and re-released many times since then in compilations and as a downloadable.
 * Urban Legend of Zelda: Too many to count, many of which would became Ascended Memes:
 * Nudalities. The rumor was Sonya's, not the males', since Most Gamers Are Male.
 * "Additional" Fatalities. This may have played a part in future games giving characters multiple Fatalities.
 * There were also rumors you could play as Goro. (You could on the home consoles with the help of a Game Genie, but not in the arcade. He is playable in the Game Boy port if you enter a secret code after beating the game.)
 * Probably the most famous example is Ermac. To elaborate, an early version of this game had a statistic in its DIP menu reading "Ermacs" (short for Erfor Macros) and sometimes it was said a glitch could turn Scorpion or Sub-Zero into a red-clad ninja fans named "Ermac".
 * Another, more minor rumor started after the home ports due to a glitch: if you fulfilled the conditions to fight Reptile during an Endurance Match, then you would fight both Reptile and a second, green tinted version of one of the regular fighters. There was speculation these were secret characters, but it was later proven just to be a bug.