I have a love-hate relationship with mortal Kombat. I love its world and lore, but the actual quality of writing sucks a fat one a lot of the time. I love how kinetic and visceral the gameplay usually is, but I also hate how long it takes to get back into a fighting game when I take a long break, I love that it's a series that doesn't conform to anybody's rules but its own, but I hate how inconsistent it can be in many ways. But even while I do take extended breaks, mortal Kombat is another one of those franchises that I always find myself coming back to. Because there is an undeniable charm and campiness to it that inspires me to Wade through my own personal shortcomings when it comes to fighting games to really enjoy the series for what it is. But the great thing about mortal Kombat compared to some other long running franchises of its ilk, the lore is much more embedded into popular culture than you might expect. That's because mortal Kombat aside from being a long-running video game franchise in its own right, is one of the more prolific multimedia franchises that spawned from video games. You have movies, cartoons, merch, you name it. As such, the average person is more likely to be knowledgeable of the lore than say Tekken. And when it comes to the multimedia of it all, the movies are what I want to focus on today.

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