The ‘Mortal Kombat’/’Avenue Fighter’ Rivalry Contains Their Films

The Recreation Awards had loads of trailers, certainly one of which was surprisingly a have a look at the subsequent Street Fighter film. And its look there reignited an previous, long-lasting grude match towards Mortal Kombat. 

See, the second Kombat film is due out in May, but it surely didn’t make an look on the gaming ceremony. Against this, the Avenue Fighter forged was there onstage, the place comic Andrew Schulz, who performs the movie’s model of Dan Hibiki, threw shade on the lack of Mortal Kombat. “We’re not the one recreation that appreciates your patronage,” he mentioned. “There’s one other recreation on the market, in addition they flew from around the globe to be right here as a result of they respect you. So give it up for the entire forged of Mortal Kombat II!”

The viewers applaused, hoping to see Karl City, Joe Taslim, and whoever else additionally come on stage, however nah, no cube. Schulz mentioned that forged didn’t present as a result of “they don’t care about you. They solely care about cash. We care about cash AND you. Avenue Fighter FOREVER!” On the web, social media lit up on the dig, reminding older followers of decades-old beef between the 2 franchises that first took maintain within the 90s and nonetheless persists in some kind to at the present time. There’ve been some years the place they’ve each had a recreation launch, like Avenue Fighter 6 and Mortal Kombat 1 releasing again in 2023. Whereas the previous is in its third year of post-launch DLC, Netherrealm ceased development on Kombat 1 earlier in 2025 to give attention to its subsequent recreation.

Not everybody dug Schulz’s gag, although. Mortal Kombat II producer Todd Garner wrote that in contrast to the Fighter movie’s star, he “[doesn’t] climb over others to get forward,” however later added that he hopes for each motion pictures to be “huge.” (He additionally indicated advertising for his movie will ramp up within the close to future, which thus far has simply been that first trailer, a featurette from New York Comedian-Con, and pictures from that very same panel just for these in attendance.) Will that embrace some dig on the competitors? We’ll have to attend to search out out.

I don’t climb over others to get forward.

— Todd Garner (@Todd_Garner) December 12, 2025

Mortal Kombat II hits theaters on Might 8, adopted by Avenue Fighter on October 16.

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