Why?!?!? Why is everyone supporting this?!?!? I love Mortal Kombat just as much as all of you guys do. And in the videogame world I tend to live and breath my Mortal Kombat. Why are you guys not upset at the fact that they merged these two franchises together? This is the worst idea ever, Mortal kombat has completely "Jumped the Shark" here, and a big chance of the game being rated "T"? Which makes the whole MK trademark "Fatality" system seem almost non-existant. Or if it is still intact then what?
Batman ties up his defeated foe for the cops to haul them away? Aquaman if a characted in the game calls his Seahorse friends to pelt the opponent with bubbles? Scorpion can tickle them with his spear tip. Wonder Woman can use her Lasso of Truth to make her opponents reveal valuable information about her next opponent. Heck Sub-Zero can have a snowball fight as his Fatality.
Ok besides the whole Fatality thing, most fighting games is just that. A fighting game, but to me Mortal Kombat was more than that. Each character had his or whole own life, an excellent bio and a written ending. Not like most other fighting games where you get a brief character bio, and a stupid visual ending, like in DOA or Tekken games. Or you get no ending at all like most fighting games. And now to merge it with DC Universe, I don't care what they do to the storyline it becomes preposterous already. This is like blasphemy in Mortal Kombat Universe, sorry just stating my opinion. And I am going to completely respect your but if you feel like flaming me, that is entirely fine, I will not verbally lash back. I'm just really upset at the thought of my favorite Fighting game series of all time going the way of every other bland fighter. Ever since this site announced the April 17th gamer day announcement I patiently waited like a kid at X-mas waiting for that toy he asked for, and instead being let down at the sight of a T-shirt saying "I love my Mom".
Doesn't look "Darker" and "Grittier" to me either though. I honestly would have been satisfied with a complete re-hash of Mortal Kombat 1. I'm still kind of waiting for Boon to come out and say "Ha ha, this is just a side project with DC. Here is the real Mortal Kombat 8" I am in such disbelief that he did this.
Anyway about the 20 characters, heh I'll just play along already... I agree with whoever posted the stuff about most of the Justice League for DC characters, and for MK they'll probably keep most of the popular names.
MK:
Scorpion
Sub-Zero
Stryker (I know, I know, Boon would never, but this is one of my personal favorites. Haha)
Kitana
Sonya Blade
Liu Kang
Shang Tsung
Goro
Baraka
Raiden
DC:
Batman
Superman
Wonder Woman
Aquaman
The Flash
Green Lantern
Martian Manhunter
Joker
Lex Luthor
Super Girl