Mortal Kombat 1 Shows Off Conan the Barbarian Fatality

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Mortal Kombat 1 Shows Off Conan the Barbarian Fatality

Summary

  • Conan the Barbarian joins Mortal Kombat 1 as part of Kombat Pack 2 DLC on Jan 21, 2025.
  • Gameplay trailer showcases Conan’s violent Fatalities and agile fighter capabilities.
  • Mortal Kombat 1 continues to creatively add guest characters like Conan for entertaining ultraviolence.

Developer NetherRealm Studios showed off more from the latest playable character to join the Mortal Kombat 1 playable roster: Conan the Barbarian. The iconic barbarian will debut in Mortal Kombat 1 as part of its Kombat Pack 2 DLC on January 21, 2025.

Mortal Kombat 1 is shaping up to be one of the most interesting entries in the franchise, thanks in part to the way Mortal Kombat 1 reboots the longstanding series timeline, and paving the way for a number of new and creative interpretations of well-known events. In addition to reconfiguring Mortal Kombat lore, the series has also leaned into including multiple guest characters from popular films and TV series, such as Ghostface from Scream and Homelander from The Boys. The latest cross-dimensional character to join is Conan the Barbarian, based on the iconic 1982 fantasy film.

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While it might appear obvious that Mortal Kombat 1 has taken influence from another fighting game series with Conan, the reality is more nuanced.

In addition to confirming the release date of Conan the Barbarian in Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studios also debuted a gameplay trailer to show off how Conan will play when he joins the fray. The trailer displays Conan looking much as famed actor Arnold Schwarzenegger when he played the character in the film, chopping and slashing Kombatants like Quan Chi, Kenshi, and Sub-Zero with his sword. The trailer also shows off one of Conan’s brutally violent Fatalities.

Conan the Barbarian Brutalizes Quan Chi in Mortal Kombat 1 Gameplay Trailer

Conan the Barbarian’s Fatality is, like other Mortal Kombat 1 Fatalities, fantastically violent, and the one shown even has a medieval cast, in keeping with the style of the original film. Conan kicks Quan Chi against a conveniently-placed cauldron of boiling liquid, then lops his arm off. He then thrusts his sword into Quan Chi’s mouth, pushing him into the liquid and pulling out his clean, flesh-free skull. The trailer ends with a teaser for his Animality, in which Conan magically morphs into a huge bull to gore his enemy to death.

Despite a massive body full of muscles, Conan is a surprisingly agile fighter at close range. The gameplay trailer shows him dealing out lengthy sword combos at short range, but deploying almost no long-range attacks, except a humorous one where he tosses his own kameo fighter at his foe. Although Schwarzenegger himself doesn’t voice Conan in Mortal Kombat 1, voice actor Chris Cox makes a capable impression, as he did when he voiced the Terminator in Mortal Kombat 11, another character based on an iconic Schwarzenegger role.

Mortal Kombat 1 looks to continue the trend of inventive additions to its selection of guest characters. Many of them, like Peacemaker and Omni-Man, don’t initially seem like good fits, but turn out to be fun inclusions that diversify the game’s options for entertaining ultraviolence.

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