Mortal Kombat 1 holds a lot of secrets and callbacks to the OG characters and stories from 20 years ago. Kameo fighters are essentially the skins from the MK Trilogy, and well, even Omni-Man has a reference Fatality to the 1995 MK3 videogame in Mortal Kombat 1. Toasty!
Omni-Man has arrived at Earthrealm for more than a year now, and he has two unique Fatality moves just like the other kombatants in Mortal Kombat 1, one of which takes place in MK3. You heard that right. The Omni-Man train Fatality is in fact in the Subway stage of the MK3/MK Trilogy.
A user with a pair of eagle eyes has found this easter egg and posted it on Reddit. As you can see, all the small details down to the trash can beside the pillars are identical to those of the MK3 Subway stage. Now we didn’t have a Fatality to hold the opponent against a speeding train in the old days, but Omni-Man does the job here in Mortal Kombat 1.
It’s worth mentioning that Mortal Kombat: Armageddon back in the 3D Era also featured a Subway stage similar to MK3. It did come with a stage Fatality to throw the opponent under the train, which was way better than the freestyle finisher moves of the game itself. Also, MK9, being the rebooted version of the MK Trilogy, had a Subway stage as part of the story and probably a nod to the OG MK titles.
Mortal Kombat 1 has rebooted the story for the third, or probably the fourth time if we count the events of MK11 and the time travel of OG characters to their future. And with starting a new timeline, callbacks to what has come before are quite inevitable. However, NetherRealm Studios really did have the chance to alter the exact same events in a more grounded narrative in one singular timeline without the multiverse, and it’s missed it. For now, at least.
