Highlights
- Mortal Kombat 1 creative director teases potential downloadable content, including horror characters, through cryptic social media messages.
- Ed Boon posted an image with many iconic horror characters, some with check marks and others like Pinhead, Ghostface, and Michael Myers with a question mark instead.
- Previous Mortal Kombat games have included horror characters as DLC, and fans are speculating which characters may be added in the future, with Ghostface and Michael Myers being highly requested.
Mortal Kombat 1 creative director Ed Boon once again takes to social media to tease fans with additional potential downloadable content including some highly requested horror icons. Following its highly anticipated release, Mortal Kombat 1 has already seen a lot of success including positive reviews from critics as well as strong word of mouth from the community at large. Of course, the launch is only the start as Ed Boon and NetherRealm Studios have long teased that plenty more content is planned for the long haul.
Downloadable content and updates are nothing new for the Mortal Kombat franchise as the previous game not only brought new characters but a dedicated expansion which ultimately set the stage for the MK1 campaign. To this point, fans are already aware of the first Kombat Pack for Mortal Kombat 1, which includes some returning fighters like Ermac, Takeda, and Quan Chi, but also sees notable guest characters like Omni-Man, Homelander, and Peacemaker. However, there seems to be more on the horizon as NetherRealm's creative direct Ed Boon continues to tease fans with cryptic messages over social media.
Taking to X, Ed Boon posted an image comprised of many horror character icons like Freddy, Jason, Jigsaw, Pinhead, and more. The image features a series of green check marks and question marks with a simple caption that only uses two emojis: a dragon and a thinking face. Naturally, many have already begun to speculate that the image teases additional guest characters for Mortal Kombat 1, especially since the green checkmarks are over ones that have already been included within the series.
For now, Michael Myers, Pinhead, Chucky, Jigsaw, and Ghostface are the only ones with a green question mark over them, likely teasing fans about which character could be getting added at some point. For many fans of the Mortal Kombat franchise, Ghostface has been one of the more highly requested guest characters over the years alongside Michael Myers, with many comments continuing to push for those two in particular. Some have even requested a full Horror specific DLC pack with Chucky and Jigsaw as potential kameo options due to their smaller size.
The news should be too surprising as recent Mortal Kombat games have a long history with adding horror characters as DLC. It started with 2011's Mortal Kombat which added Freddy Kruger from the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, then continued into MKX which brought Leatherface, Alien, Jason Voorhees, and Predator. Then with Mortal Kombat 11, NetherRealm released a ton of surprising guest characters as DLC, focusing more on action-based characters like The Terminator, Spawn, RoboCop, and John Rambo. Either way, it's a good bet that NetherRealm has a few more surprises up its sleeve for future DLC, especially based on Ed Boon's teases.
Mortal Kombat 1 launches September 19 for PC, PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series X.
