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Encyclopedia > Friendship (Mortal Kombat)
Johnny Cage giving Raiden an autographed picture for his Friendship in Mortal Kombat II
Johnny Cage giving Raiden an autographed picture for his Friendship in Mortal Kombat II
Cyrax performing the Charleston dance as his Friendship for Kano in Mortal Kombat 3
Cyrax performing the Charleston dance as his Friendship for Kano in Mortal Kombat 3

A Friendship is a finishing move introduced in Mortal Kombat II in order to soften the violence and the controversy that surrounded the Fatality in the original Mortal Kombat. Friendships allowed players to perform an act of friendship and goodwill towards their opponent rather than kill them after winning the match. This included giving a present, blowing bubbles, and turning into a snowman. To perform a Friendship, when the opponent is defeated, the player must perform a special button combination for their character and have won that round using only High or Low Kick. In Mortal Kombat 3 and its updates, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat Trilogy, the player had to win the round without using Block. Image File history File links CageFriendship. ... Image File history File links CageFriendship. ... Image File history File links CyraxFriendship. ... Image File history File links CyraxFriendship. ... Finishing moves in video games often involve the violent and gory death of the enemy it is performed upon. ... Mortal Kombat II (also referred to as MKII) is an arcade game and the second title in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Sub-Zero performing a Head Rip fatality in Mortal Kombat In the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games, a Fatality is a special finishing move that can be used against ones opponent at the end of the final match. ... Mortal Kombat has multiple meanings. ... Mortal Kombat 3 is the third game in the Mortal Kombat series, released in arcades in 1995. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Johnny Cage performing his shadow kick while Raiden sends a lighting bolt Mortal Kombat Trilogy is the second and last update of Mortal Kombat 3, following Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. ...


Whenever a Friendship was performed in MKII, the announcer (the voice of Shao Kahn) was heard incredulously muttering, "Friendship. Friendship?" while large, multicolored balloon letters would wiggle on the screen stating the name of the finishing move. When Friendships returned in MK3 and its updates, the announcer responded, "Friendship. Friendship, again?" in disbelief that such a thing would reappear in another game. Shao Kahn is a boss and recurring playable character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...


It is generally accepted that the introduction of Friendships to the Mortal Kombat series was intended to mock the parental outcry that the game was too violent, similar to Babalities. However, they were dropped from later games as the series returned to its dark roots, from Mortal Kombat 4 onward. They appeared in Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 3, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Babality is a finishing move introduced in Mortal Kombat II which allows players to turn their opponents into diaper clad infants. ... Mortal Kombat 4 (1997) was the last game in the Mortal Kombat series to have an arcade version. ... Mortal Kombat II (also referred to as MKII) is an arcade game and the second title in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Mortal Kombat 3 is the third game in the Mortal Kombat series, released in arcades in 1995. ... Johnny Cage performing his shadow kick while Raiden sends a lighting bolt Mortal Kombat Trilogy is the second and last update of Mortal Kombat 3, following Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


They make a quasi-cameo in MK:D's Puzzle Kombat, where the characters sometimes hand their foe an exploding gift. This partially mimics Baraka's Friendship in the regular Mortal Kombat games, with the exception that the "gifts" are offered during the fight, instead of after the fight is decided, and they explode. Also, in Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, one of Kung Lao's fatalities refers to his MK2 Friendship; after he pulls the rabbit out of his hat, the opponent makes a gesture as if not wanting it. Kung Lao then proceeds to smack the opponent to bits with the rabbit itself. He also has a hidden variation of this fatality not displayed in the ingame fatality list where he tosses the rabbit to the opponent, which then proceeds to savagely assault them, Monty Python style. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a film released in 1975. ...


Notable Friendships

  • Baraka: give his opponent a birthday gift
  • Johnny Cage: gives an autographed photo, which reads "To my best fan! Cage"
  • Classic Sub-Zero: scares the opponent with a snowman in a jack-in-the-box (MKT)
  • Cyrax: dances the Charleston
  • Drahcula: scares the opponent with a stone in a jack-in the box (?)
  • Ermac: creates a rabbit (MKT), scares the opponent with a computer in a jack-in-the-box (MKA)
  • Jade: pogo jumps with her staff
  • Jax: cuts out some paper origami dolls (MKII), plays jumprope (MK3)
  • Kabal: uses one of his hookswords to roast a marshmallow
  • Kano: blows a bubble with gum, and it pops on his face
  • Kitana: gives the opponent a cake (MKII), blows bubbles at the opponent (UMK3)
  • Kung Lao: pulls a rabbit out of his hat (MKII), plays fetch with a dog using his hat as a frisbee, and the dog appears to catch the bladed hat off screen as a yelp is heard then Kung Lao winces and shakes his head (MK3)
  • Liu Kang: breaks out into a disco dance (MKII), makes a shadow puppet of the MK dragon symbol (MK3)
  • Mileena: waters the ground near her feet to grow some flowers (MK2), looks at her unmasked face at a mirror, which shatters (UMK3)
  • Nightwolf: He performs a Raiden transformation, as a Mortal Kombat II arcade falls from the sky behind him (accompanied by the caption "I've never seen a Kano transformation" or "No, but I can do a Raiden transformation"). However, in the Nintendo 64 version of Mortal Kombat Trilogy, he instead juggles tomahawks
  • Noob Saibot: plays bowling (MKT)
  • Raiden: summons an infant version of himself called "Kidd Thunder". It was mentioned in the MK Card Games by BradyGames that he is Raiden's "favorite nephew".
  • Rain: summons water drops
  • Reptile: shows a Reptile doll, advertising it with the message "Buy a Reptile doll" (MKII), scares the opponent with a snake in a jack-in-the-box (UMK3)
  • Scorpion: shows a Scorpion doll, advertising it with the message "Buy a Scorpion doll" (MKII), scares the opponent with a skull in a jack-in-the-box (UMK3)
  • Sektor: hits a might test pole.
  • Shang Tsung: makes a rainbow with his hands (MKII), turns into the main character of the retro game Joust. (MK3)
  • Sheeva: spins plates on sticks held with each of her hands.
  • Sindel: kicks a football and states, "That was fun!"
  • Smoke (in his roboticized form): blows a loud horn.
  • Smoke(Human):He makes a sign that says "No Smoking" then looks on the ground and says "Aw..."
  • Sonya: waves her arms back-and-forth (MK3), a row of flowers grow (UMK3, MKT)
  • Stryker: In MK3, Stryker pulls out a school crossing sign and all the MK3 characters run across the screen. In Mortal Kombat Trilogy, all the ninjas (male, female and cyborg) run across. However, in the Nintendo 64 version of Trilogy, a dog pulling a small red wagon passes through holding baby versions of Sub-Zero, Sindel, and Jax.
  • Sub-Zero: shows a Sub-Zero doll, advertising it with the message "Buy a Sub-Zero doll" (MKII), covers himself up in a snowman (MK3)
The Mortal Kombat Universe
Principal Games Mortal Kombat - Mortal Kombat II - Mortal Kombat 3 - Mortal Kombat 4 - Deadly Alliance - Deception - Armageddon
Updates and Ports Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 - Trilogy - Gold - Advance - Tournament Edition - Unchained
Adventure Games Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero - Mortal Kombat: Special Forces - Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Main Characters Ashrah - Baraka - Blaze - Bo' Rai Cho - Chameleon - Cyrax - Daegon - Dairou - Darrius - Drahmin - Ermac - Frost - Fujin - Goro - Havik - Hotaru - Hsu Hao - Jade - Jarek - Jax - Johnny Cage - Kabal - Kai - Kano - Kenshi - Khameleon - Kintaro - Kira - Kitana - Kobra - Kung Lao - Li Mei - Liu Kang - Mavado - Meat - Mileena - Mokap - Moloch - Motaro - Nightwolf - Nitara - Noob Saibot - Onaga - Quan Chi - Raiden - Rain - Reiko - Reptile - Sareena - Scorpion - Sektor - Shang Tsung - Shao Kahn - Sheeva - Shinnok - Shujinko - Sindel - Smoke - Sonya - Stryker - Sub-Zero - Tanya - Taven
Information Minor characters - Factions - Realms - Species - Arenas - Glossary (Babality, Brutality, Fatality, Friendship) - Konquest mode - Storyline
Other Films - TV series - Live Tour - Gallery - MK comics - MK music - Old card game - New card game - Actors

  Results from FactBites:
 
UGO.com Games - Top 11 Mortal Kombat Fatalities (330 words)
Knowing full well that the Mortal Kombat franchise was pretty outlandish from the get go, the developers were never afraid of crossing a humorous line or two.
Shang Tsung's friendship was a great ode to the early days of Midway, as in a puff of smoke he transforms himself into a tiny little knight from Joust and flies away on his emu.
While most of the fatalities in Mortal Kombat require corporeal destruction, only Kabal was able to attack the psyche as well.
Mortal Kombat: Information from Answers.com (3879 words)
Mortal Kombat 4 brought the series into 3D, replacing the digitized fighters of the previous games with polygon models, while Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance was the first in the series to skip arcades altogether and go directly to consoles, a symptom of U.S. arcade market's dramatic decline.
The second-to-last installment in the series, Mortal Kombat: Deception, was released for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 platforms in October 2004 (with a Nintendo GameCube version released in February 2005 with two exclusive characters: Shao Kahn and Goro).
The Mortal Kombat tournament was originally thought to be a solely human conception, until later retcons revealed it to be universal among the series' featured Realms, created by the Elder Gods as a way for other realms to defend themselves against Outworld after it grew too powerful.
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