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Moist Kombat! To be serious for a moment though, I wonder if those squelchy fleshy sound effects in the pursuit of realism contributed to developers who worked on Mortal Kombat 11 suffering from PTSD.

200. Toasty! (Scorpion, MK)
199. Toasty! (Scorpion, MKX)
198. Toasty! (Scorpion, MK9)
197. Toasty! (Scorpion, MK1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRqlwAd1QSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkpIQ5RV7zg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIyIDaBMn0Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcIQ6HWnf_A
This fatality was quite surprising back in the day. Scorpion seemed to be just a ninja in the original, but his fatality revealed his true fantastical nature, as he took off his mask to reveal the skull beneath and breathed fire. This fatality or variants of it appear in most games, and that combined with the passage of time meaning Scorpion being an undead revenant has become better known means this fatality doesnt have as much impact as it used to. Despite that, it remains a welcome mainstay. The effect of the fire varies between games, as sometimes the opponent will simply be burned, while other times, like in MK1 or MK2, which dropped earlier in the ranking, the opponent explodes instead, so theres a bit of variety in this one as well.

196. Appetizer (Mileena, MK1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL0mFheszdU
Mileenas new Predator mouth is disturbing just to look at, and here she puts it to horrifying use with her most gruesome eating fatality yet. What makes this so nauseating is that she eats the brain straight out of the head and slurps it up. If she removed the brain first, or used her hands to eat it more tidily, this wouldnt be nearly as effective.

195. Melted (Erron Black, MK11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wFYUo9yww
Last time we saw Erron Black, he just shot his opponent. This time, he shoots them again, but its a bit more inventive than that. Rather than just shooting to kill, he shoots to make sure he wins at the floor is lava. Adding a head stomp on top of that definitely crosses the line into cheating!

194. Sandstorm (Erron Black, MKX)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X4UrWz3ivM
Erron again, with another fancy grenade. Its neat to see a drowning fatality that doesnt use water, and sand is a creative substitute for that. When it comes to things you dont want inside you, sand has to be up there. Its coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

193. Kat Food (Kotal Kahn, MK11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sefjY8_VVJk
Thundercats ho! Since he wasnt around in MK3, Kotal Kahn missed out on getting an animality, but this fatality makes up for it. Getting a thematically appropriate animal immediately makes it better than most of the old ones, which seem to have been chosen via names out of a hat (Reptiles a monkey? Sure, why not.) I think this would have been better without the opening with the scythes, and have Kotal transform at the start. The additional setup seems unnecessary when he could simply open the opponent up with his claws. Who would win in a fight, transformed Kotal or Kazumi Mishima with her real tiger uppercut? Place your bets!

192. The Beast Within (Liu Kang, MK9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfMVW8tU3tY
Liu Kang turns into a dragon again. Not a lizard, he doesnt do the tongue thing! This version ranks above the original partly because of improved graphics, but moreso because of the dragon now bearing a greater resemblance to the dragon in the logo. Killing your opponent with Mortal Kombat itself is quite a flex.

191. Kick Precision (Li Mei, MKD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Ab0oPCqcE
Mileena had a similar fatality in Deception where she kicked her sais at the opponent, but this feels like an improved version of it. There were plenty of heads being uppercutted off of people lower down the list, but this one gets points for putting the head to good use and continuing the fatality after the decapitation. With a kick like that, Li Mei would be unbeatable on the soccer pitch!