YouTubers React to Mortal Kombat X Fatalities

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Mortal Kombat!

Mortal Kombat.

- Alrighty.
- Oh my gosh.

(gasps) What?

Oh.

Oh, I love it!

(irked) You guys.

Talk about "sticking you
while you're down," huh?

Oh, are you showing me
all the fatalities right now?

(in game: agonized shrieking)

Oh, jeez.

Those are ribs. Those are ribs.
(disgusted) No.

The old Ribby Magoo.

Oh man, killed with your own rib cage.

It's like that perfect balance
of gore and comedy.

(in game: bones cracking)

- (in game: gurgling)
- (both) Oh!

Oh my god. Did that come out her nose?

Aah!

- Gosh.
- (game announcer) Ermac wins.

That was one of the most
creatively disgusting things

I've ever seen.

Is it over? Is it over? Please.

(in game) Yah!

(laughing in disgust)

- (in game: agonized cry)
- Ugh!

(both) Oh!!!

- Ugh!!!
- (game announcer) Ferra/Torr wins.

Ew, you can see all the organs.
Why am I still looking at it?

That's the definition
of "fatality" right there.

Aw yeah, whatcha gonna do, Jax?

(laughs uproariously)

(neck snaps and spurts)

Daaaamn.

(game announcer) Jax wins.

Who wouldn't use a neck as an ashtray?

(stifled laugh) That was great.

This is kinda funny, 'cause
it's Johnny Cage and his daughter.

All right. Think she's good.

Oh my god! She's dead!

(in game: gurgling, then smack)

(game announcer) Johnny Cage wins.

That was just excessive.

I can watch these all night.

(grunting)

- (in game: screaming)
- Dude, no!

- (in game: screaming)
- (in game) Here's Johnny.

(laughs loudly)

Oh yeah! Movie references!

- (game announcer) Fatality.
- I love this [bleep]. Oh!

I don't play video games,
but is this what they're all about?

Oh, there's more.

- (in game) Aah!
- Oh, this isn't going to be good.

No. No!

- (in game: crunch)
- (both) Oh!!!

Oh, it's so gratifying.

It's getting easier to watch.

- (game announcer) Kenshi wins.
- Yeah, yeah, Kenshi.

(snickering) That's so messed up.

It's so gory, but it's also--
it's kinda funny.

- (in game) Hyah! (grunts)
- Ew!

- (in game: grunt)
- Oh, the old shish kebab.

- (in game: crunching)
- (chuckling)

Oh... delicious.

Yeah, it's a shish kebab.

(quivery) Oh.

Who makes these games?!

Mileena's gross.

If you guys are gonna try to convince me

that this has a deeper
meaning, I'm leaving.

(grunt)

Oh, Goro, what're you gonna do?

Goro, she needs that.

- (Goro grunts)
- Oh!

(sick) Oh.

Well, she didn't have a chance.

Look how big
he was with his four arms.

Outstanding.

That was so scarring.

(sighing) Oh my god,
I'm so glad that's over.

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(Finebros) So all of these come from
the new Mortal Kombat game.

These are their new fatalities.
What did you think of them?

I thought that was awful.

Super-awesome.

I love it, I love it, I love it.

Watching them in succession,

I kinda realize why people think
kids are [bleep] up these days.

- Pretty gory, man.
- Yeah, it's a bit much.

It's weird that I couldn't
stop watching those.

It was kind of addicting,
and you kind of got used to it.

But that scares me.

Are kids gonna look back
on this and be like,

(high-pitched voice)
"Oh my god, so nostalgic!"

(Finebros) Do you think
they've gone too far

- with these fatalities?
- Yes.

I think this is definitely going too far.

I don't think this is
going any farther than

any other video game
that I've seen clips of.

How are you gonna stand out
in a world of millions of video games

if you don't rip out
people's body parts like that?

That's sort of what Mortal Kombat is.

Fans of the series would cry foul
if they didn't do that.

It should be sickening...

but I don't think it is.
I don't think it's too much.

They make it entertaining.

And, I mean, we know it's a video game.

Come on. "Here's Johnny"?
That's brilliant.

(Finebros) So have ever played
a Mortal Kombat game?

I have not.

I've heard of Mortal Kombat.
I've never played it.

I didn't play much growing up.

Mom not so much a fan.

Dude, yeah, man. Sega Genesis.

Mortal Kombat 3.

- Yeah.
- Yeah, I've played Mortal Kombat.

I remember when the game
got banned from the pizza shop.

I was shocked as a kid.

I would go to a friend's house who had it.

And I would look at the screen in horror.

And there's always this tension
when you hear, "Finish him."

You're like, "Oh [bleep],
he's gonna do it?"

And when he did it,
it was just, like, so gory.

I remember when games
were beginning to get violent like this,

like Mortal Kombat.

The blood and language and Duke Nukem.

You play and it's fun
and it's like watching a scary movie.

(Finebros) And what were the fatalities
like in those early games

- compared to these?
- A little more cartoonish.

It was much more profile.

It was never to that extent.

They were violent for back then,
but nothing compared to these.

It looked so cheesy.

They're pixelated,
and you can clearly tell

that they're just, like, you know,
photomapped real actors.

(Finebros) So even though
it was very tame in comparison,

there was just as much uproar
20 years ago about Mortal Kombat

as there is today.

What do you think about
the controversy staying the same

for 20 years, even though
the violence has gotten worse?

I just think, as long as there's
violence happening in real life,

people are gonna look
for something to blame.

I think video games are an easy scapegoat.

When is it going to get
to a point where it's like,

"What are we doing?"

Everything has gotten violent.

Everything's gotten more
sexy and more scandalous

to the point where you think,

"There's no way it could get worse!"

But people were saying that 10 years ago.

It's never gonna end. There's
always gonna be this controversy

in violence and entertainment.

There is a very, very clear separation

between real-life violence
and video game violence.

I don't think this encourages kids

to go out and perform similar acts.

We have a generation of people
who don't know anything

about what real suffering and war is like.

That's what I was gonna say, man.

There's people who grew in,
whatever, one of the world wars

or Vietnam or whatever, and they're like,

"Oh no, I've seen guts, man.
It's not that awesome."

(Finebros) If these were
the fatalities of your childhood,

do you think you could have handled it?

I think I would have been
a more corrupt adult.

No.

I think it would have scared me too much.

I would have been super-disturbed.

I was like a scaredy-cat as a kid.

And I feel like if a child
is playing this,

that's a failure on the parents.

My mother would have found
whoever's responsible for that game

and given them a talking to.

It doesn't affect me that much.

Would I let my children play this? No.

The age that I found Mortal Kombat,

I wouldn't let my kid play this. No way.

Kids are so desensitized.

You know what's impacting kids?

The fact that they're all
on their phones all day,

and they only have friends online,

and they're tweeting at celebrities

thinking they're friends with them.

All that [bleep]
is a little more impactful

than seeing a cartoon
of some guy ripping a heart out.

(Finebros) When new games come out now,

you can just go on YouTube and look up

and see all these finishing moves.

But it used to be you had
to find out from a friend

or figure it out yourself.

Oh, thank god for tutorial video games.

I play a video game
to relax and be entertained.

I don't wanna try.

I'm happy with the way it is.
I would look it up.

I'd look up all the cheat,
like Sims "motherlode."

It was the best. You could get
all the money in the world.

Somebody like me, who's never
gonna play this game in my life,

is watching it, having fun.

And that's just more exposure for them.

There was a thrill that
comes from playing the game,

putting in the right combination,
and then seeing it happen.

I used to be a really big gamer,
especially when I was younger.

I always felt more satisfaction
when I figured it out.

My friends were playing the same game.

I was like, "Don't tell me!
I must figure it out myself!"

(Finebros) So every Mortal Kombat
game that comes out,

they kick it up a notch
with more violent fatalities.

- But where do they go from here?
- I can kind of imagine.

More limbs come off.

Probably just do some
weird pretzel things with them.

Why am I imagining this stuff?

You can take a picture of yourself,

and then you could
put your own face on it,

so you could kill your friends
or your own mom.

Drive to Liu Kang's mom's house

and murder his mom as a fatality.

Oh [bleep]! That's actually cool!

Takin' out his penis
and just smackin' him with it.

All the women will be naked,
all the men will be naked,

and they're, like,
chopping off their wieners.

And, aah, the blood is blue and a wiener!
Who would have known?

(Finebros snicker)

Brings a whole new
meaning to "blue balls."

We need a 4-D immersive
experience, Oculus Rift goggles.

And somehow they have sensors

that go through our body
when we're getting a fatality,

and we feel like
we're getting ripped apart.

It's kind of violent,
but that's the future.

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