Mortal Kombat the Journey Begins

A OAV meant as a tie-in of sorts to Mortal Kombat. The plots between cartoon and movie are more or less similar, with the same three protagonists - Liu Kang, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade - but with far less tournament and far more backstory.

You can see the first part here.

See also Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm.


 * Back-to-Back Badasses: This happens with the trio when they get ambushed by some Shokan Mooks.
 * Barehanded Blade Block: Every good guy does it.
 * Batman Gambit: To try and prevent Earth's Power Trio from reaching the island, Shang Tsung sics Scorpion and Sub Zero on them.
 * Catch Phrase: Scorpion says "Get over here!", whilst Shang Tsung says "Flawless Victory!" and "Finish him!" in one of the many, many flashbacks.
 * Combination Attack: Liu Kang and Johnny manage to pull one of these off in the Multi Mook Melee.
 * Conspicuous CGI: It may have been the 90s, the early age of CGI but damn do the 3D fight scenes look off.
 * Costume Inertia: Inverted for the Multi Mook Melee - Johnny Cage actually takes his Cool Shades off... then they're back on again.
 * No Ending: Though the film claims that the live action film that this was released for will pick up where this left off... Only it didn't.
 * Speed Echoes: In the mook battle.
 * Stock Footage: Quite a lot of the 2D animation is this.
 * Whole-Episode Flashback: The whole thing is pretty much Raiden explaining the events of previous Mortal Kombat tournaments over the aforementioned CGI.