Joe McCormick

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind · Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Mortal Kombat (1995), Part 2 · 25 Sep 2026 podcast

I think it's blue once they get back up on deck later also.

But so they're down below decks.

And then Shang Tsung invites in his two ninja warriors.

He says, these are Scorpion and Sub-Zero, the deadliest of enemies, but slaves under my power.

Tsung.

Yeah, it is weird that they're on the same team in this movie.

And I think they're trying to do a quick one-sentence retcon of that by just saying, yeah, they are enemies, but I've magically ensorcelled them.

Now, Rob, maybe you know more about the games than me and can answer this.

I have long interpreted the popularity of characters like Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile, and so forth in these games to be a sort of efficiency or cost-cutting move because they are the same animation with just different colors of the outer ninja wear.

Like, the animation could be exactly the same.

Yeah, it seems like the same character sprite except blue for Sub-Zero, yellow for Scorpion, and green for Reptile.

Yeah.

Okay.

So Sub-Zero comes up to Sonya and he like grabs the end of her gun and freezes the barrel off.

So now Sonya, she doesn't have her weapons anymore.

Scorpion, he holds up his hand and some kind of weird CGI creature with a beak and a tongue pokes out of his palm and.

This does tie into something in the games.

In the games, one of the special moves of Scorpion, the character, is that he would throw a spear that's attached to a rope that would hit you and then he could pull you over to him in a stunned state and uppercut you or whatever.

and he would say, get over here, or maybe just come here in the game.

I think they say get over here in the movie.

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