With Ed Boon hinting at the *return* of a an ality for MKX, most folks seem to be predicting Animalities or Brutalities. And since someone else mentioned that Brutalities appeared to have been dropped from MK9, I'm leaning toward that being the reinstated ality.

That being said, I think it would be a nice change if Brutalities resulted in you beating the life out of your opponent rather than causing them to explode.

And (here's the kicker), what if this was enacted as a mini-game?

For example, you input the code to start the Brutality. Then a button prompt pops up near the bottom of your screen and if you press it in time, your character proceeds to punish the loser in a way that's unique to them.

Say, Raiden is the victor and he performs a Brutailty. X button pops up and you hit it. Raiden chops the opponent's neck, causing them to recoil. □ pops up, you press it in time, and Raiden throws his hands up to electracute the loser with arcs of lightning, burning the loser and sending him to his hands and knees. ○ pops up, you hit it, and Raiden gut-kicks the loser into the air. □ pops up again, this time faster, and Raiden strikes the loser with more lightning while they're airborne. Triangle comes up, again faster, and you teleport up with the opponent and snap his back with a powerful downward stomp kick.

The end result is a charred and broken corpse.

And that's how all Brutalities would function. Essentially as interactive mini-games where each input pops up incrementally faster and each input enables to player to perform the next move in the sequence (with a maximum of 4-6 inputs before the Brutality ends). Ermac could be as simple as different telekinetic slams and twists with each input, until the final input slams the losers body to the ground in a mangled mess.

Subby? Freeze a foe's arm and then shatter it. Next input, create an ice hammer and break the foe's jaw. Ect ect.

And when each input comes up, the game slows down a bit. So after subby breaks their jaw with an ice hammer, and the victim is spinning away from the force of the impact, they're flying back in slow motion as the next input comes up. If you don't hit the button before time elapses, time speeds up again and the Brutality simply ends at that point.

Just a fun way to beat the shit out of your foe without it having to be just some super long combo of punches and kicks. It's interactive, unique to each character, and has the same end result of a broken warrior at the end.

Your thoughts?