A pair of determine skaters on the Winter Olympics carried out a good tribute to Mortal Kombat through the occasion’s closing days that is properly price a watch.
The routine was created by Georgian skaters Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava, who used their look within the Olympics’ extra lighthearted Exhbition Gala to skate whereas dressed up as Kitana and Sub-Zero.
Collectively, the duo traded pretend punches to the combating sport franchise’s basic Techno Syndrome music. Fortunately there was no precise blood or fatalities on the ice, although the routine did finish with Sonya’s kiss of dying. Friendship? Not going.
Figure skaters Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava carried out a Mortal Kombat routine at an exhibition gala pic.twitter.com/FwqvQhgJ5a
— SuperSisi (@SuperSisi) February 22, 2026
“Dude,” reddit consumer Filmmakernick wrote, “this made me cry. Perhaps it is my sentimentality in my previous age, however that is one thing I by no means thought I would see on such a grand stage and on the Olympics?! What a cool second in MK fandom! What a gorgeous skating routine, too! Liked the costumes and Easter Eggs! It was stunning, man. :)”
“No backbone rip 2/10,” wrote umeys, who was seemingly much less impressed.
Final yr noticed the launch of the Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, a assortment of quite a few basic video games within the collection, newly-released throughout PC, Change, PlayStation and Xbox.
Up subsequent for the franchise typically is the Mortal Kombat 2 film, which can see Karl City reprise his position as Johnny Cage, starting on Could 8. In December, the movie’s producer Todd Garner responded to a barbed remark made at The Sport Awards throughout an look by the solid of this yr’s rival Road Fighter movie, at the moment due for launch in October. “I don’t climb over others to get forward,” Garner declared.
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