#battle of the realms

[lukachupacabra]

More often than not, if you catch me giggling to myself unprompted. It’s because that one line between Kuai Liang and Hanzo from BOTR plays in my head and takes me out at the most unexpected of times.

Kuai Liang (Sub-Zero): YOU KILLED MY BROTHER!

Hanzo (Scorpion): I did and I am sorry.

[laismoura-art]

How to make a guy know you like him?

...You blow him a kiss!

I can't believe I finished this piece, I've been working on this for so long!🥹💙💛

@mikka-minns Fortunately for Hanzo, Kitana was around to give Kuai advice before Sonya could get too creative!

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy some Battle of the Realms food! It was weeks worth of hard work, so please, some positive feedback would be highly appreciated!💛💙

[mlgmi316]

Watch the lightning, idiot. It's loud. You'll wake him up.

[cdr2002]

Mythologies Sub-Zero is full of rich storytelling and I’m tired of being reminded that NRS doesn’t understand it at all every time they make a forced ill fitting reference to it

[toomanyf4ndoms7]

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[cemfilmes]

#46 - Mortal Kombat Legends: Batalha dos Reinos

[ryukang1995]

Mortal Kombat movies ranked (from best to worst)

1. Mortal Kombat (1995) - the best

The movie may be PG-13, and it's definitely showing its age (especially in regards to the FX), but it's still a fun movie with a great cast, entertaining fight scenes and a truly amazing soundtrack.

2. Mortal Kombat (2021)

I actually don't mind this one. Sure, it has pacing and editing issues, but the FX, casting, fight scenes and fatalities keep it afloat for me. It can be much better, but it also can be much worse.

3. Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind

The best of the Legends animated movies, though that may not be saying much since it has such a weird choice for source material (seriously, Kano's MK11 ending?!). Still, the movie manages to make the most out of it.

4. Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge

I actually felt this one was kinda overrated. I mean, it's okay, and it does have plenty of gore, but the fight scenes were basic, and the way they handled the lore and characters left a sour taste in my mouth.

5. Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match

I simply don't care for this movie. I hate Johnny Cage in these animated flicks, so why should I care about a movie where he's the main hero?

6. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

I know some will question why I didn't put this as the worst, but while this really is an awful flick, at least I can laugh at the movie for how such a shoddy production can be released in theaters. Plus, it has a great soundtrack.

7. Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms - the worst

A "film" that doubles down on everything we all criticized other MK movies for, and manages to squander the franchise's potential worse than the NRS timeline ever did.

That's all for now. If you disagree with any of these rankings, it's all good.

[clannfearrunt]

Happy Grand Fest Gamers and Duelists

[arcana-shipper]

I will ALWAYS appreciate a good bottom!Scorpion piece Cause, for me, there isn't enough.

I certainly haven't seen any of such with MKL: BOTR Scorpion so it's just--

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[fizzlo-and-the-cubes]

Tool Daddy has been deployed

[bet-on-me-13]

The First Supervillain

So! A Typical "Early Start" AU where the events of The Show happen early in the Timeline. Like, in the 70's or 80's.

Danny never quite managed to fix his Public Perception, and even years into his career people still saw him as the Villain.

Coincidentally Valerie was seen as a Hero because of how often they were seen fighting. Even after they revealed their Identities and got together, they still had the occasional Battle. It was their love language.

His role as the Villain was Cemented when Pariah launched his Second Invasion of Earth after some dumbass accidentally freed him, and Danny took the Blame for it. Instead of being seen as the Hero who battled Pariah and stopped the Invasion, he was seen as the Tyrant to launched the Invasion in the first place, with Red Huntess being the one to defeat him in one final Ultimate Battle.

And honestly? He was fine with that. Now that he was the King of the Ghost Zone, he had the Authority to Regulate the Portal so villains stopped getting through. And that meant that he wasn't needed to stop random Ghost Attacks anymore. He could finally focus on College and his own Life, instead of sacrificing everything to act as the Protector of the Human Realm.

Val continued to be a Hero for a few more years, eventually retiring when it became Clear that the new generation of Heroes could pick up the Slack.

He went to College, got a Job as an Aerospace Engineer, and eventually proposed to Valerie.

About 20 years since his initial Accident, and he was doing great! He had moved into a humble home on the edge of town with his loving wife Val, his beautiful daughter Ellie, and his cute dog Cujo.

Yeah, life was good.

Until the day Danny accidently caused a Mass Crisis.

...

Superman was having some extreme trouble in dealing with his current Opponent. He had just been flying around the City, patrolling as Usual, when all of a sudden he had been attacked by a Flying Mech Suit.

At first he had assumed that Lex was giving it another Go, but he quickly realized that was not the case when the Armor seemed to Phase though solid matter in the middle of the battle. Lex had never made Tech advanced enough to do that on the fly.

This opponent was tough too. Strong enough and Durable enough to go blow for blow with him, and seemingly able to pull Advanced Weaponry from out of nowhere whenever he wanted. As tough as it was to admit, Superman as losing the Battle.

Then, without warning, the battle stopped. His opponent was staring at the space just behind him, with a look of pure dread. He turned around, and his heart stopped.

Floating behind him, staring right past him and directly at the Mech Suit, was the First Villain Phantom.

He looked much the same as when he had last been seen, although he was definitely Older. He had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes that seemed to stare right past him and into his very soul. He was wearing what seemed to be a costume of sorts, with an all black suit, white gloves, and white boots. Over his Shoulders sat a Cloak made of Stars, and above his head sat a Crown made of an Icy Blue Fire.

The Mech tried for a greeting, "Er- Hello t-Lord Phantom. How do you d-"

"Skulker."

"Y-yes?"

"What are you doing here? I thought I gave you explicit orders to stay in the Ghost Zone until further notice. You disobeyed me."

"Okay look. I got excited, that's my fault. It's just, I got anxious waiting. Can you really blame me? I've been waiting 20 years to take another Crack at the Human World, what's it matter if I left a few weeks Early?"

"I told you. You were supposed to wait exactly 20 Years, and you left Early. This calls for punishment."

"No wait!"

"Let's see how you feel after a few days as Soup."

The Villain pulled out a Thermos, and in a flash of green light, Skulker was gone, and the King was capping the Thermos. He then turned to Superman.

"I apologize for him, he decided to leave ahead of schedule." The King addressed him. "Now, Kryptonian. Rest and tend to your wounds, you will need to be in your best health if you want to continue saving the lives of those people below us."

With a dramatic flare, the King reached up and Tore a hole in Space. Through the Hole, Superman could only see an infinite Green Void, with the sound of screams cheering being heard through the rift.

The King departed through the Tear in Spacetime, and it closed behind him.

Superman tried to collect himself, and activated his League Emergency Comms.

"Attention All Founding Members, and Justice League Dark Members. This is Superman calling for an immediate Emergency Meeting."

He took a deep breath.

"Phantom is Back."

[laismoura-art]

Today is Brazil's Valentine's Day so it's time to reblog my MK Komics!!

Plus a little sneak peek of the new one I'm working on!

7th wheel🐉

I just re-watched Battle of the Realms with my siblings and did you guys also notice Jax just 3rd wheels everyone?

I mean, LiuTana and CageBlade had that kiss party in the end of the movie and even SubScorp had their whole "find redemption together" thing going on, but Jax was just... There. Poor guy! :')

[heartinhyacinth]

Thinking of how utterly pissed Hua Cheng (or rather hong-er) must have been to have finally grown taller/bigger than Xie Lian after so long of being small beside him…only to die and become a ghost fire, even smaller than he’d ever been in his mortal life. They reunited, but this time he couldn’t even touch him, couldn’t hold him, couldn’t save him. So small, he was. Always so small.

I just know he loves their height difference now that he’s finally the bigger one. Being able to rest his chin on Xie Lian’s head, scoop him in his arms, shield or warm his entire body with his own.

[imhyperfixatingrn]

Pili: So what's up with you and Pangi?

Lukey: Wdym what's up with me and Pangi? ...Um, we're good friends. He's helped me out a lot. And I'd like to do the same one day. [...] Why? What makes you ask?

Pili: I don't know, it's just... Some people get attached really easily.

Lukey: Who, me?

Pili: No.

Lukey: Oh, Pangi.. Well, I don't know... *stutter* I mean, do you think it's....? What are you implying?

Pili: Nothing.

[ryukang1995]

Real talk, I fucking hated Battle of the Realms.

Screenrant like a full month before Battle of the Realms comes out:

When Battle of the Realms actually comes out:

[ryukang1995]

Why Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms is trash

Earlier, I shared a post saying that I fucking hated Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms...I guess I should explain why that is the case.

Simply put, it's a rushed and overstuffed mess.

This "movie" has a lot of the same issues we criticize both Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and the live-action reboot for. The biggest example is the fact that they cram in so many characters, and give them no kind of characterization as well as limited screen-time.

For example, tell me Jade's character and backstory without prior knowledge from the games...you can't, because she has none (besides being an Outworld goon), just like in Annihilation.

Li Mei is an Outworld loyalist with no spoken dialogue, and has one quick fight scene where she gets bodied by Sonya. It's literally the same kind of treatment that Nitara got in 2021, for fucks sake!

Reiko is in both this film and in the reboot, and while he's TECHNICALLY better here than in that film, it's not saying much since, again, he has no real character, and only serves as someone for Raiden to beat up.

Cyrax, Sektor and Smoke might as well be Triborg in the movie because they seem to share special moves with each other (example: Cyrax shoots missiles like Sektor when Cyrax never did that in the games).

It's unclear as to why Baraka is in this film since we saw a Tarkatan with the EXACT same design as him in Scorpion's Revenge get killed during his chase scene with Johnny Cage, and they don't even bother explaining it.

Kintaro is...about what I expected...not good, but Jax rips his arms out, and it's the goriest the heroes get against the villains in this movie (more on that later).

D'Vorah is trash, 'nuff said.

Kung Lao has even less of a character than he did in the reboot. He doesn't even have a single interaction with Liu Kang before he gets killed by Shao Kahn, which is his only major fight scene outside of the opening, by the way!

Stryker is pretty much the audience character since he's questioning everything, but again, he has very little character before he dies.

And frankly, our main characters are not much better...

Liu Kang is set up as being the one who will beat Shao Kahn, even though he got his shit wrecked by Goro in Scorpion's Revenge.

Sure enough, Liu Kang beats Kahn...but there is no kind of arc or build-up he goes through outside of constantly showing concern and emotion over Raiden and Kung Lao getting beat up and killed.

And by the time he fights Shinnok (again, more on that later), his victory comes off as hollow and unearned.

Raiden is a dumbass in this movie. I suppose it's better than how he was in the reboot, but again, not saying much. Much like in Annihilation, he gives up his godhood for practically no reason other than to serve as motivation for Liu Kang to win.

Johnny Cage is fucking grating to watch in this movie. He's not funny, he spends most of the film simping on Sonya (much like Scorpion's Revenge, except to the 10th power), and he loses the first fight in the Outworld tournament to D'Vorah of all fucking people!

And he has such a shitty line of dialogue in the climax where he tells Sonya "all of this death and bloodshed was worth it just to meet you", and rather than telling him to fuck off and see a psychiatrist, she embraces him like the Tsundere she is in these films!

Sonya's character in this movie is literally "Johnny is not my boyfriend. Johnny is not my boyfriend". She only accepts him once she gets put in danger, and here comes Alpha Male Johnny to save the day...it's fucking pathetic.

Kitana has no character in this movie. Liu Kang and Raiden tell her that what she's fighting for is bad, and she suddenly turns on Shao Kahn just because of that.

Then she gets beat up by Shao Kahn, and chained to his arena so that Liu Kang can save her near the end.

I wouldn't say I hated Jax, but again, there was not much to him.

Same with Shao Kahn. I suppose it's better than Brian Thompson in Annihilation, but again, there was not much to him.

Shang Tsung is pathetic. Give me Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa any day.

Sub-Zero is literally just rage boner. I get that his brother was killed, but that's literally his entire character before he buries the hatchet with Scorpion.

The best character in the movie is literally Scorpion, who actually matured compared to the previous film.

The movie tries to juggle multiple plot threads. You have the Outworld tournament, but you also have Scorpion and Sub-Zero trying to stop Shinnok and the Cyber Lin Kuei from getting the Kamidogu to resurrect The One Being, and the whole thing comes off as rushed and unfocused.

And again, the climax is literally a repeat of Annihilation with Liu Kang literally turning into a giant dragon to fight Corrupted Shinnok fused with The One Being...and I thought Ed Boon hated that film, despite being a creative consultant on THIS piece of shit!

The fight scenes suck. A lot of them last about 10 seconds, making them too brief to be enjoyed. The longest ones are Liu Kang vs. Shao Kahn, which is wannabe Dragon Ball Z, and the aforementioned Kaiju battle.

For some asinine reason, the villains get the goriest fatalities in the movie whereas the heroes barely kill them outside of random goons in certain scenes...and this is supposed to be Mortal Kombat!

It does not help that you have some really poor and inconsistent animation throughout, likely a result of them rushing the movie and slashing the budget.

If I have to be brutally honest, this is probably the worst Mortal Kombat movie, besides Annihilation, because of just how much this movie squanders, and even then, there were aspects of Annihilation I liked more than this turd (the simpler focus, the main characters were better, SOME of the fight scenes, and especially the soundtrack).

Do yourself a favor, just stick to the games, or watch the 1995 movie again.