News of Fighter Pack 2 is coming next week at Gamescom! The second trio of Injustice 2 DLC characters will be a feature of a special stream during Day 2 of the event, August 23rd!

The release of Starfire early this month concluded the first wave of add-on characters, following June's Red Hood, and July guest kombatant: Sub-Zero.

Ed Boon shared a teaser image for FP2 via Twitter [above], revealing only a dimly lit scene of urban damage, and a sliver of purple clad appendage. Foreground rubble slightly reminiscent of Solomon Grundy obscures the featured figure, whose purple and flesh tone evokes Starfire, or somebody new.

A spear planted in the wreckage could link to various offending characters, including DLC possibilities: Fatality, Circe, Hawkman, or Black Manta. The latter was seemingly confirmed in an Xbox Marketplace update published in July.

The existence of six further characters was teased in the first Fighter Pack 1 reveal trailer, where stand-out silhouettes all but announced Mortal Kombat's Raiden, and Black Manta. Further in-game teaser shadows supported these conclusions, along with diminutive Justice League hero: Atom. Speculation over the remaining figures has been wild and varied, to include: purple wearing Huntress, magic menace Enchantress, hooded zealot Azrael, and returning god of war Ares.

Answers will come during the live stream reveal, which is also set to feature an exhibition bout between electronic music producers Steve Aoki and Don Diablo. The action will commence 11:00am EST via the NetherRealm Twitch stream.

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Mortal Kombat Warehouse has turned 15 years old! The momentous milestone occurred July 30th, and I wanted to celebrate by uploading new content from a game also released 15 years ago: Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance!

I've extracted all the unlockable kontent from The Krypt: An innovation introduced in Deadly Alliance that tempted fans with a grid of 676 koffins containing (mostly) mystery rewards. In-game they're split into two categories: Koncept Art and Extras. I went a step further and made more categories after extracting and uploading the kontent to the site (easier said than done). Here they all are:

• Koncept Art: Characters Sketches: Drawings and illustration of main and background characters.
• Koncept Art: Renders: Renders and promotional content.
• Koncept Art: Arenas: Sketches of Arenas.
• Koncept Art: Concepts: Some of these didn’t make it into the final product.
• Koncept Art: Early MKDA: Preliminary images of the game.
• Koncept Art: Klassic: Sketches from previous MK games.
• Koncept Art: Movie Storyboards: Storyboards for the intro cinamatic.
• Koncept Art: Other Sketches: Stuff that wouldn’t fit other sections.
• Extras: MKDA: Pictures related to MKDA lore and promotion.
• Extras: Funny: Gags and comedic advertisements starring the cast.
• Extras: Klassic 1: Stuff from MK1, MK2, MK3 and UMK3.
• Extras: Klassic 2: Stuff from MK4, MKG and MKM:SZ.
• Extras: Merch: Merchandising, gear and action figures.
• Extras: Misc: Stuff that wouldn’t fit in other sections.
• Extras: Comic: MK Collector’s Edition Comic Book.
• Extras: Fighting Styles: Carlos Pesina showcasing all the fighting styles from the game.
• Extras: Staff: The people that made the game, and their computers.

Let me know on the forum if you have any feedback about the categories or anything else. I'll do a Krypt section for Deception and Armageddon before those games turn 15, hopefully soon. Maybe this year.

I don't always do an anniversary post but I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed to the site in one way or another during this 15 years.

Mortal Kombat Warehouse has been a proud and valued member of Mortal Kombat Online's hosted network since joining February 17, 2004. MK Online staff would like to thank for his many years of work and service to the kommunity. We congratulate him for achieving this outstanding milestone and look forward to many more years! Register to share your well wishes to the torum.

To be a hero or villain of the DC Universe you've got to be made of pretty tough stuff! All it takes is one super-strong smack from Bizarro, or strategic strike from Batman, and you're going to have a few broken bones. What would that look like? Wonder no more:

YouTube poster Timmy The Turtle used downloadable guest kombatant Sub-Zero to create the illusion by editing cli[ps of Mortal Kombat X-Ray attacks into footage of Injustice 2.

Gaze too closely at the video and you'll see the seams of Sub-Zero's appearance changing, as well as various kombat moves standing in for DC super-powers. Ignore that, and you'll get a convincing impression of what it would look like to see the likes of Black Canary, Brainiac, Bane, Robin, Gorilla Grodd, The Flash, Superman and Cheetah breaking bones!

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Mortal Kombat still has a while to go before it finds its way back to the big screen, but a teaser trailer for 2018 movie Ready Player One may have given fans something to get excited about! Watch the trailer below and see if you can spot which cameo got MK Online staff talking.

It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in a trailer replete with them. The sequence begins at the 1:30 mark, throwing characters into slow motion action in the middle and foreground. Slightly obscured by smoke and darkness, firing some kind of laser cannon is a character very closely resembling Kitana.

Ordinarily we wouldn't be jumping at Mortal Kombat shaped shadows, but Ready Player One tells the story of a dystopian future where society's only escape from grim reality is an interactive virtual reality system. Inspired by the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, the film has been called the "holy grail of pop culture", with the main character's main interests rooted in popular properties of the 1980s.

The web of reference comes thick and fast in the trailer, ranging from the DeLorean car from Back to the Future - to the towering robot from The Iron Giant. Examples both of the licensing power brought to the film by Warner Brothers and director Steven Spielberg.

Warner Brothers has owned Mortal Kombat since acquiring Midway Games in 2010. Fans will also have a much easier time spotting other WB licensed characters, such as Harley Quinn and Freddy Kreuger. Click the thumbnails below to enlarge their appearances in the trailer, and/or examine the suspected Kitana sighting.

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If the character in the trailer is indeed Mortal Kombat's Edenian Princess, she seems to be a fairly faithful recreation of the most recent Mortal Kombat X incarnation [see more]. Itself no mean feat, given the reluctance of filmmakers to render characters exactly as they are in the games. Kitana's last live-action appearance was in the webseries sequel Mortal Kombat: Legacy.

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Ready Player One is currently scheduled to be released theatrically March 30, 2018. Do you think Kitana will be there when it hits the big screen? Register to share your thoughts on the Media & Merchandise forum, and vote in the MK Online User Poll! Share this story across the OASIS by liking & sharing via @MK_Online and Facebook!

Beginning in May; MK Online summoned fandom from across the Earthrealm to determine a 2017 Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion!

The annual tournament tradition took on special significance this year in anticipation for the 25th Anniversary of Mortal Kombat! With history back in focus: Sub-Zero endured three months of eliminations to be crowned Supreme Champion! As it turns out, this wasn't the only competition the ice warrior was facing...

Around the same time as the Supreme Champion fan voting tournament: IGN assembled a cast of hundreds of characters for a Fighting Game Face-Off of their own!

The IGN field pitted Mortal Kombat icons against the best fighters from Street Fighter, Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Dead Or Alive, King of Fighters, Killer Instinct, and so many more! The likes of Liu Kang, Kitana, Sonya Blade and Jax represented MK. After a month of voting, IGN declared their Most Popular Fighting Game Characters:

Scorpion emerged from the multi-tranchise brawl the most popular of them all! It was a two-pronged advantage for Mortal Kombat in a Top 10 that peaked with counterpart icons from MK, and classic rival franchise Street Fighter!

Kombat's iconic ninja mascot relegated Ryu of Street Fighter to a surprising #2 spot! 2017 Supreme Champion Sub-Zero finished third in the overall tally, forcing red clad karateka Ken Masters out of the podium finish!

Raiden scored MK its third kombatant in the Top 10, scraping in at #9. The flying thunder god was unable to overcome his arcade psycho-powered rival: M. Bison. The Street Fighter II final boss finished just ahead at #8.

You can still contribute to the on-going tally of results by voting in automatically generating battles on the Fighting Game Face-Off page. IGN's full June count of the Top 10 is below.

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