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Spoilers ahead for "Mortal Kombat II."

While movies based off of video games have had a checkered past historically, some of the best video games arrived over the past few years. Simon McQuoid's 2021 "Mortal Kombat" (which is streaming with a HBO Max subscription) is definitely on that list. The sequel is in theaters now, and brought back dead characters such as Kung Lao. And Liu Kang actor Ludi Lin spoke to CinemaBlend about his fight scene with the revived fighter, including that absolutely gnarly fatality.

The "Mortal Kombat" movies' R rating allowed for video game accurate violence, including some nauseating fatalities. Arguably the most iconic one in the first film was Kung Lao using his signature hat to cut Nitara in half, and it came back with more emotional stakes in "Mortal Kombat II" when Liu Kang fought a Revenant version of Kung Lao.
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00:00I think we had so many discussions around that because, I mean, if you look at that fatality, there's a
00:06lot in it, especially how it recalls to Kung Lao's fatality in the first movie. Do you know what I
00:11mean? And that was the fatality that every single person remembered. So in the second movie, I think the whole
00:16point was we had so much feedback from the first movie and we wanted to give the audience what they
00:22wanted. Also, we wanted to add another level of surprise. You can't just hand feed the audience.
00:27And I think that's how it came about. It's like, it's the perfect twist and it's heartbreaking. It feels like
00:32the first movie, for me, it feels like a bromance between Liu Kang and Kung Lao, how they were together
00:40anyway. And the second movie, it's like a heartbreaking, it's a breakup. It's a breakup story. It's a breakup story.
00:47It's sad.
00:48Yeah. So is there any spin-off for you guys to get back together?
00:50Yeah, you can have your own romance.
00:52Brokeback combat.
00:52The what?
00:53Brokeback combat.
00:57Brokeback combat.
00:58Brokeback combat.
00:58Brokeback combat.
00:58Brokeback combat.
00:59Brokeback combat.
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