Injustice 2: 15 Guest Characters NetherRealm Must Include

Spawn is good and all, but we can do better...

by Ewan Paterson
Mortal kombat guest characters
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NetherRealm studio head-honcho Ed Boon was back tantalising Twitter last week with a duo of his famous fan polls, asking followers two questions: What Mortal Kombat characters should guest star in Injustice 2, and what non-MK characters should do so as well?

Voting in the tens of thousands, fans made no qualms in electing Spawn the proverbial king of this particular poll. For those uniquely enamoured with Todd McFarlane's emblem of '90s iconography, Boon's teasing can only be described as encouraging. But this got me thinking, what other 'guest' characters would make awesome additions to NetherRealm's OTT rendition of the DC Universe?

Mortal Kombat has certainly been no stranger to pulling in various heroes and villains from the depths of contemporary pop-culture to pad out its rosters; the latest, MK X, had both Jason and Leatherface don the spotlight to accompany the usual brutality of the series with a cinematic spin, on top of appearances from the Alien and Predator, respectively.

Since Injustice is just, you know, a tad less violent, it's unlikely that any of these R-rated warriors will be getting a slot on the roster. There are, however, tonnes of potential characters to include that would fit right into the superhero motif, be they from film, TV, comic books, or otherwise.

What in particular should NetherRealm be looking at?

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15. Buffy Summers

Buffy vampire slayer
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One of the other options on Boon's poll, Sarah Michelle Gellar's eponymous teenage vampire slayer would feel right at home in any Injustice sequel, taking the ass-kicking slayer motif to perhaps its most iconic level since Wesley Snipes' Blade graced our screens in 1998.

Buffy's fighting style would obviously be acrobatic, more-so than most other characters in the Injustice roster. It wouldn't be particularly difficult to write her into the DC Universe either, seeing as how vampires have been a staple of the comic book lore for decades now.

Bring Sarah Michelle Gellar back for the role, and you could even have the recipe for the best guest character yet.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.