If there's something I hate about fatalities is the redundancy of a single fatality doing several unrelated actions, each equally deadly.
Sometimes they're so redundant that one fatality can be split into two, each good enough on their own.
So my fatalities will be reworks of existing ones, eliminating this redundancy, making for more minimalistic, less childish fatalities.
Baraka
Fatality 1 split into two:
- He stabs both his blades into the opponent's torso, and whips them out in opposite directions. His opponent's torso is now cut into the shape of an S, and they collapse to the floor into a meaty mess.
- He puts his blades in a scissors position to the opponent's neck and cuts their head off at an angle, from the chin to the upper back of the head. He then pins the flying part with one of his blades. The camera turns to stare at the mutilated neck as the opponent collapses. Eliminate the completely unnecessary part where he splits the head in two and impales both halves.
Fatality 2:
- He stabs his blade upward into the opponent's face, and brings it out the top, bringing out the brain with it, which he then chomps on. No double face ripping.
Jacqui
- Eliminate the stupid initial frantical running as she shoots those mine things at the opponent. Why in hell is she running? Not only it's utterly pointless, but it also evidences the camera cheating, since there would be no distance for her to run like that.
Jade
- In the one where he impales her opponent through the head and splits them in half, first randomize the location in the head that the staff goes through. Then, eliminate the ridiculous spin thing at the end. Looking at the opponent's guts fall off into a pile is good enough.
Kung Lao
Fatality split into two:
- He throws his hat, which cuts his opponent's head off, and as the hat turns around, it splits the head in two again, at an angle. Camera follows both halves in slow motion, with Kung Lao receiving the hat in the background.
- He jumps in the air, taking his hat off as he goes up, then sinks into the ground, reappearing behind his opponent, splitting them in half as he goes up. The opponent collapses to their knees, both halves separating as Kung Lao does his victory pose.
Raiden
- Remove the "cutting opponent in three with electric swords" part from the fatality in which he makes the opponent's head explode.
Scorpion
Fatality split into two:
- He turns into the fire skeleton, does the superman thing through the opponent, and after they're there with their abdomen burned out, he kicks them in the torso, splitting them in half. The upper part flies away, and the lower half collapses to its knees.
- Takes out his katana and swings at the neck. He then roundhouse kicks the head, which flies away, only to be impaled by his kunai. Also I'd make the head's rotation random so that the kunai always goes through a different place (eg. mouth, eye, cheek, forehead).
Sonya
- She calls the air strike, the drone falls, pinning her opponent to the ground. The camera goes behind the drone, looking at the opponent's face, as the drone whips out a cannon and shoots a hole through it. The fatality ends with the camera looking at smoke coming out of the hole in slow motion.