In Mortal Kombat 1, the T-1000 Has a Skeleton, Intestines, a Heart, and A… Soul?

Mortal Kombat 1’s T-1000 update has added the iconic Terminator 2 villain to the warring game, and with it revealed however the developers astatine NetherRealm person handled its liquid metallic signifier successful the look of the series’ trademark Fatalities.

The gory warring crippled franchise is celebrated for slicing and dicing characters successful each sorts of gruesome ways, ripping retired organs and adjacent implicit skeletons. Some characters teardrop the precise psyche from their hapless foe’s body, oregon interruption bones each which mode possible.

But nary of this should enactment connected the T-1000, right? The T-1000 is made wholly retired of a liquid metallic called mimetic polyalloy, meaning it tin betterment into immoderate signifier it touches of the approximate size. And that’s precisely however the T-1000 works successful Mortal Kombat 1, with his moveset, Fatalities, and Brutalities each successful keeping with the character’s movie rules.

Of course, erstwhile it comes to harm being done to T-1000 successful the game, immoderate of those rules had to beryllium broken. But arsenic players person discovered, the developers astatine NetherRealm person done a fantastic occupation creating a customized look for the T-1000 erstwhile it’s connected the receiving extremity of Fatalities and different devastating attacks.

X / Twitter idiosyncratic @daehnny published a bid of videos showing however the T-1000 reacts to being torn to pieces. We spot that successful Mortal Kombat 1, the T-1000 melts arsenic it does successful the movies.

Mileena volition devour anything! pic.twitter.com/FNkvtKFRut

— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025

But we besides spot that successful Mortal Kombat 1, the T-1000 has a skeleton of sorts and adjacent an intestine. And, not to get excessively philosophical, but successful the satellite of Mortal Kombat 1, the T-1000 has a soul.

But helium does person a soul! pic.twitter.com/nDexvb6RVN

— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025

There are immoderate chill visuals astatine play here, with a dissolve effect for the T-1000 that makes the quality look a small much unsocial than it would otherwise.

I similar however the skeleton dissolves successful the extremity pic.twitter.com/w53f00DGlu

— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025

Apparently Quan Chi spells enactment connected immoderate benignant of instrumentality pic.twitter.com/DdJxYmB2BQ

— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025

And yes, it turns retired adjacent the relentless T-1000 has a heart.

Turns retired adjacent helium is susceptible of loving. T-1000 has a bosom #confirmed pic.twitter.com/KilRsllwam

— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 18, 2025

There are besides unsocial effects for erstwhile the T-1000 is connected the receiving extremity of a Fatal Blow, and we spot the quality crook to liquid signifier erstwhile it's "dead," which is simply a chill detail.

— dähn 🇧🇷 (@daehnny) March 14, 2025

Of course, nary of these Fatalities and Fatal Blows would really termination the T-1000 were Mortal Kombat 1 playing by the rules established by the films. But then, Mortal Kombat 1 has ne'er truly made overmuch sense. It’s astir over-the-top, laugh-out-loud violence, and there’s nary crushed the T-1000 shouldn’t get successful connected the fun.

Meanwhile, Mortal Kombat 1 players person been moving retired the T-1000’s Brutalities, and determination are immoderate chill Easter eggs successful there, arsenic good arsenic references to Terminator 2 itself.

Spamming immoderate input volition crook T-1000 into liquid signifier aft brutality, I'm unsure of the input but one managed to trigger it a fewer times.@thethiny @iScreamFGC @interloko pic.twitter.com/BJEueaOKLN

— SHAAR (@ShaarYtube) March 18, 2025

T-1000 is the last DLC quality successful the Khaos Reigns expansion, and follows playable fighters Cyrax, Sektor, Noob Saibot, Ghostface, and Conan the Barbarian. Fans person wondered for immoderate clip present whether NetherRealm plans a 3rd acceptable of DLC characters, oregon a Kombat Pack 3, amid questions astir the 5 million-selling Mortal Kombat 1’s success.

Parent institution Warner Bros. Discovery has indicated, however, that it inactive believes successful the Mortal Kombat franchise. In November, CEO David Zaslav said that connected the games broadside of things, the institution plans to treble down connected conscionable 4 titles, 1 of which is Mortal Kombat.

And conscionable this week, NetherRealm offered a archetypal look astatine skins based connected the Mortal Kombat 2 movie that are coming to Mortal Kombat 1 astatine immoderate constituent successful the future.

— Ed Boon (@noobde) March 17, 2025

In September, Mortal Kombat improvement main Ed Boon said NetherRealm had decided connected its adjacent crippled 3 years prior, but promised to enactment Mortal Kombat 1 “for a agelong clip to come.”

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