Mortal Kombat 12has received its first teaser trailer. The long-running success of theMortal Kombatfranchise has meant that a new game in the world-famous fighting game franchise was an inevitability. However, the question still remained if NetherRealm’s next game would be a newMortal Kombattitle,Injustice 3, or something else entirely.
Mortal Kombatcreator Ed Boon narrowed things down on Twitter, confirming that NetherRealm’s next game would either beMortal Kombat 12orInjustice 3. Some time later, a Warner Bros. Discovery executive let the cat out of the bag, confirming thatMortal Kombat 12was in development.Mortal Kombatfans are still waiting forMortal Kombat 12to get its full reveal, but rumor has it that it could happen at some point later this month.
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WhileMortal Kombatfans are still waiting for the full reveal, they have been treated to a brief, but interesting teaser. At the very end of a video thanking fans for supportingMortal Kombatthese past 30 years, fans can see what appears to be an hourglass dumping out sand. The camera then zooms in to focus on a single grain of sand, which then explodes. This has left some fans scratching their heads, but is likely a nod to theevents ofMortal Kombat 11’s story.
The rest of this article will have SPOILIERS for Mortal Kombat 11 and its Aftermath expansion
Mortal Kombat 11’s story was all aboutKronika, the Keeper of Time, and how she was manipulating time after the death of her son Shinnok. Kronika is able to do this using her Hourglass artifact, though by the end ofMortal Kombat 11’sAftermathexpansion, Kronika is long gone. TheMortal Kombat 11: Aftermathexpansion concludes with one of two endings: either Shang Tsung or Liu Kang gain control of the Hourglass and use it to create a “New Era” - essentially a brand-new timeline.
Based on this teaser, it seems likely thatMortal Kombat 12will be following up on the events of theMortal Kombat 11: Aftermathexpansion, though what that means is unclear. Perhaps it will forge ahead with a brand-new timeline that essentially reboots the story, or maybe it will closely follow one of the endings from the expansion and treat it as canon. Whatever the case may be, fans should find out more when the proper reveal forMortal Kombat 12comes.
Mortal Kombat 12is in development.
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