Highlights

  • Peacemaker adds a hilarious edge to Mortal Kombat 1 with his over-the-top personality and brutal fighting style.
  • Mortal Kombat 1 nails Peacemaker's character, creating an exciting new fighter that should feel exactly how fans expect.
  • The one deviation to note is ultimately a positive, as though Peacemaker needs different helmets for each ability in his HBO Max series, it makes sense for gameplay purposes to combine them all into one helmet.

The addition of Peacemaker to the Mortal Kombat 1 roster has been an incredibly fun crossover, and with a character as interesting and fun as Peacemaker, matches have been given a hilarious edge. Mortal Kombat 1 is known for its brutality, and the DC anti-hero has brought an exciting and gore-filled fighting style to the game.

NetherRealm has made it clear that it has its eyes on adding some of the most notable characters from comic book franchises to the game, and the introduction of Peacemaker has proven to be a great fit. With the previous addition of Omni-Man and the upcoming Homelander character on the horizon, Mortal Kombat 1 is adding as many brutal comic characters as possible, and the game's handling of Peacemaker is a spot-on interpretation for the most part.

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What Mortal Kombat 1 Gets Right About Peacemaker

His Personality

One of the best aspects of Peacemaker is his over-the-top personality. Despite his brutality and willingness to do whatever is necessary in order to preserve peace, he's a character filled with great humor. Thanks to Mortal Kombat 1 getting John Cena to lend both his voice and likeness to the game's version of the character, Peacemaker feels exactly like the antihero many have come to love following The Suicide Squad movie and the Peacemaker show on Max. Each fight involving Peacemaker in Mortal Kombat 1 is filled with great quips and jokes that truly do the character justice.

His Brutality

What makes Peacemaker so compelling is that, while he has a great sense of humor and a fun personality, he can be incredibly brutal. Peacemaker's fatality kills are insane, and it gives some gloriously bloody endings to matches in Mortal Kombat 1. The character has a lot at his disposal in terms of combat, making him a versatile fighter to use. Whether it's a gun, his helmet, a bald eagle, or just a hand-to-hand melee, Peacemaker is a great character to use to keep opponents on their toes, and these various forms of combat add to his ruthlessness. Although his overall goal is peace, he doesn't care what actions have to be done in order to achieve that goal, and that contradiction makes Peacemaker both incredibly fun and frightening.

What Mortal Kombat 1 Gets Wrong About Peacemaker

His Helmet

Peacemaker has a pretty iconic costume, and one of the most notable features is his giant steel helmet. However, the Peacemaker TV show explained that he actually has a variety of different helmets that have their own specific abilities. Anti-Gravity and Sonic Boom are actually two separate helmets that Peacemaker uses, depending on which one is more useful for the situation. Mortal Kombat 1 combines Peacemaker's powers into one helmet, which deviates from the character. However, this is actually a good move on Mortal Kombat 1's part, as it wouldn't make sense for Peacemaker to constantly be switching through helmets. For Peacemaker to stack up against opponents during matches, the character has to be as strong as possible, and Mortal Kombat 1 taking the liberty to change how his helmet works just makes a lot more sense for the game's gameplay.

Despite the one deviation, Mortal Kombat 1 seems to have nailed interpreting Peacemaker in a way that makes him feel at home in the game. The Mortal Kombat 1 roster is stacked with impressive fighters, and throwing Peacemaker into the mix has put a hilarious and exciting new spin on fights. As the life span of Mortal Kombat 1 continues, it will be exciting to see if other notorious anti-heroes make their way into the game.