Mortal Kombat: 10 Craziest Features We STILL Can't Believe

10. Hara-Kiri

Mortal Kombat Deception could be accused of many things, but playing it safe was not one of them. Indeed, this PS2 title saw the advent of numerous different concepts, with Ed Boon and company seemingly throwing every idea they had at a wall to see what stuck. Most ideas were never seen again, but certainly deserved credit for their originality.

With one of the cornerstones of the franchise being the Fatality, several different concepts had been used as plays off of that original premise with the same inherent principle: to shame and embarrass your opponent for having lost the bout.

With the Hara-Kiri, the developers of Mortal Kombat gave the losers a chance to give one last defiant middle finger to their opponents.

Rather than waiting for whatever torture the victor chose to dole out, the losers of the match could instead perform a brutal fatality on themselves, depriving the winner of the match of a well-earned chance to gloat in their superiority.