Mortal Kombat 1’s T-1000 replace has added the enduring Terminator 2 villain to the preventing sport, and with it revealed how the builders at NetherRealm have dealt with its liquid steel kind within the face of the sequence’ trademark Fatalities.
The gory preventing sport franchise is known for slicing and dicing characters in all types of ugly methods, ripping out organs and even full skeletons. Some characters tear the very soul from their hapless foe’s physique, or break bones each which approach potential.
But none of this could work on the T-1000, proper? The T-1000 is made solely out of a liquid steel known as mimetic polyalloy, that means it might probably reform into any form it touches of the approximate dimension. And that’s precisely how the T-1000 works in Mortal Kombat 1, along with his moveset, Fatalities, and Brutalities all consistent with the character’s film guidelines.
Of course, in relation to harm being carried out to T-1000 within the sport, a few of these guidelines needed to be damaged. But as gamers have found, the builders at NetherRealm have carried out a improbable job making a customized search for the T-1000 when it’s on the receiving finish of Fatalities and different devastating assaults.
X / Twitter person @daehnny printed a sequence of movies displaying how the T-1000 reacts to being torn to items. We see that in Mortal Kombat 1, the T-1000 melts because it does within the motion pictures.
Mileena will eat something! pic.twitter.com/FNkvtKFRut
— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025
But we additionally see that in Mortal Kombat 1, the T-1000 has a skeleton of types and even an gut. And, to not get too philosophical, however on the earth of Mortal Kombat 1, the T-1000 has a soul.
But he does have a soul! pic.twitter.com/nDexvb6RVN
— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025
There are some cool visuals at play right here, with a dissolve impact for the T-1000 that makes the character look slightly extra distinctive than it will in any other case.
I like how the skeleton dissolves in the long run pic.twitter.com/w53f00DGlu
— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025
Apparently Quan Chi spells work on any sort of machine pic.twitter.com/DdJxYmB2BQ
— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025
And sure, it seems even the relentless T-1000 has a coronary heart.
Turns out even he’s able to loving. T-1000 has a coronary heart #confirmed pic.twitter.com/KilRsllwam
— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025
There are additionally distinctive results for when the T-1000 is on the receiving finish of a Fatal Blow, and we see the character flip to liquid kind when it is “lifeless,” which is a cool element.
and that is how the Fatalities look:
he turns utterly silver when he’s presupposed to be lifeless, such a neat element pic.twitter.com/Z3KTMhbTD8
— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 14, 2025
Of course, none of those Fatalities and Fatal Blows would truly kill the T-1000 had been Mortal Kombat 1 taking part in by the foundations established by the movies. But then, Mortal Kombat 1 has by no means actually made a lot sense. It’s about over-the-top, laugh-out-loud violence, and there’s no cause the T-1000 shouldn’t get in on the enjoyable.
Meanwhile, Mortal Kombat 1 gamers have been figuring out the T-1000’s Brutalities, and there are some cool Easter eggs in there, in addition to references to Terminator 2 itself.
Spamming some enter will flip T-1000 into liquid kind after brutality, I’m not sure of the enter however i managed to set off it a couple of occasions.@thethiny @iScreamFGC @interloko pic.twitter.com/BJEueaOKLN
— SHAAR (@ShaarYtube) March 18, 2025
T-1000 is the ultimate DLC character within the Khaos Reigns enlargement, and follows playable fighters Cyrax, Sektor, Noob Saibot, Ghostface, and Conan the Barbarian. Fans have questioned for a while now whether or not NetherRealm plans a 3rd set of DLC characters, or a Kombat Pack 3, amid questions concerning the 5 million-selling Mortal Kombat 1’s success.
Parent firm Warner Bros. Discovery has indicated, nonetheless, that it nonetheless believes within the Mortal Kombat franchise. In November, CEO David Zaslav stated that on the video games facet of issues, the corporate plans to double down on simply 4 titles, one among which is Mortal Kombat.
And simply this week, NetherRealm provided a primary take a look at skins primarily based on the Mortal Kombat 2 film which can be coming to Mortal Kombat 1 in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
Here’s is a sneak peek on the MK2 film skins in Mortal Kombat 1 🐉
Koming later this yr. pic.twitter.com/51Bkq6wGbX
— Ed Boon (@noobde) March 17, 2025
In September, Mortal Kombat improvement chief Ed Boon stated NetherRealm had selected its subsequent sport three years prior, however promised to assist Mortal Kombat 1 “for a very long time to return.”
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
