The Winter Olympics Featured a Mortal Kombat Figure Skating Routine You Have to Watch

A brace of fig skaters astatine the Winter Olympics performed a superb tribute to Mortal Kombat during the event's last days that's good worthy a watch.

The regular was created by Georgian skaters Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava, who utilized their quality successful the Olympics' much lighthearted Exhbition Gala to skate portion dressed up arsenic Kitana and Sub-Zero.

Together, the duo traded fake punches to the warring crippled franchise's classical Techno Syndrome music. Thankfully determination was nary existent humor oregon fatalities connected the ice, though the regular did extremity with Sonya's buss of death. Friendship? Not likely.

Figure skaters Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava performed a Mortal Kombat regular astatine an accumulation gala pic.twitter.com/FwqvQhgJ5a

"Dude," reddit idiosyncratic Filmmakernick wrote, "this made maine cry. Maybe it's my sentimentality successful my aged age, but this is thing I ne'er thought I'd spot connected specified a expansive signifier and astatine the Olympics?! What a chill infinitesimal successful MK fandom! What a stunning skating routine, too! Loved the costumes and Easter Eggs! It was beautiful, man. :)"

"No spine rip 2/10," wrote umeys, who was seemingly little impressed.

Last twelvemonth saw the motorboat of the Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, a postulation of galore classical games successful the series, newly-released crossed PC, Switch, PlayStation and Xbox.

Up adjacent for the franchise successful wide is the Mortal Kombat 2 movie, which volition spot Karl Urban reprise his relation arsenic Johnny Cage, opening connected May 8. In December, the film's shaper Todd Garner responded to a barbed remark made astatine The Game Awards during an quality by the formed of this year's rival Street Fighter film, presently owed for merchandise successful October. "I don’t ascent implicit others to get ahead," Garner declared.

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