10 Video Game “Mistakes” That Were Totally Intentional

5. Triple Decap - Mortal Kombat II

Plenty of players were bemused and amused when they came across a secret hidden fatality for Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat II. The move shows Cage performing an uppercut and punching off the head of his opponent. He then crouches down and performs another two uppercuts, which make another pair of severed heads appear.

This isn't actually a bug or a glitch, but it was inspired by one. In the first Mortal Kombat, a bug caused two heads to appear when players performed Cage's original fatality. Players loved the bug and thought it only added to the game's ridiculous, over-the-top sense of gory violence.

So the developers decided to not only keep the bug in the game's sequel, but to expand on it! They added in a third head and the 'Triple Decap' became one of Johnny's most memorable and amusing finishing moves.

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