Awesome / Mortal Kombat 11 – Pre-Match Intros

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• Baraka vs. D'Vorah has awesome ones. Some of these can especially be satisfying to hear given how much of a Base-Breaking Character the latter is. It's even more awesome if Baraka does indeed finish D'Vorah with one of his fatalities, both of which involve stabbing.
  Baraka: Your kind are vermin, D'Vorah.
  D'Vorah: The Kytinn say that of Tarkatans.
  Baraka: I will kill you all.
  
  Baraka: There's soon to be a stabbing.
  D'Vorah: And you will be the victim, Baraka.
  Baraka: Shut up and DIE, bug!
  • Speaking of D'Vorah and her past victims…
    Mileena: The scheming gnat returns.
    D'Vorah: To again end your life, you disgusting clone.
    Mileena: It is you who will be kissed by death, D'Vorah.

• Sub-Zero gets a subtle Badass Boast against Skarlet.
  Sub-Zero: Minus three degrees Celsius.
  Skarlet: What is that?
  Sub-Zero: The freezing point for blood.

• Sub-Zero makes it clear that Earthrealm stopping Shao Kahn before was not a fluke, and they will gladly do it again:
  Sub-Zero: Earthrealm's stopped you before.
  Shao Kahn: Because the Elder Gods intervened.
  Sub-Zero: It is my turn.

• Two for Raiden vs. Shao Kahn are also excellent ones:
  Raiden: So much for your dreams of eternal empire.
  Shao Kahn: Yet again you thwart me, Raiden.
  Raiden: As it was, as it is, as it shall be.
  
  Raiden: Decades pass, yet still we are locked in kombat.
  Shao Kahn: To live is to fight, Raiden.
  Raiden: Then you, once again, must die.

• Noob's attempt at intimidating Cassie fails spectacularly once he mentions who his master is.
  Cassie: Talk about throwing shade.
  Noob Saibot: I am Shinnok's wrath.
  Cassie: Shinnok is my bitch.

• Shao Kahn also picked the wrong words to spout at Cassie.
  Cassie: Takin' you down, asshole.
  Shao Kahn: Unlikely, pathetic whelp.
  Cassie: That's what Shinnok said. ^note "Your father's powers will not save you. You cannot hope to survive!" for the exact context.

• Frost returns as a Cyber Lin Kuei and has gotten even more arrogant than her past incarnations. It can be cathartic (as well as hilarious) to listen to other characters knock her down a peg.
  • Erron Black calmly bruises Frost's massive ego not once, but twice.
    Erron: You trained with the Lin Kuei?
    Frost: I'm Sub-Zero's best student ever.
    Erron: You're all broth and no beans.
    
    Erron: What's your beef, Frosty?
    Frost: Just Frost, idiot!
    Erron: Don't be such a snowflake.

  • Noob Saibot also gets a chance to bruise her ego with his sharp tongue.
    Noob Saibot: One clan will rule the New Era.
    Frost: That clan will be mine, Bi-Han.
    Noob Saibot: Kuai Liang would be a better Grandmaster. ^note Bonus awesome: This from the same person who hates Kuai Liang more than anyone else and thinks Kuai would make a poor Grandmaster, so he knew how bad Frost would be and chooses to help his brother despite the bad blood. Maybe the former, older Sub-Zero isn't truly gone after all.
    
    Noob Saibot: Kuai Liang was a fool to trust you.
    Frost: A fool to doubt me. Like you.
    Noob Saibot: I do not doubt your hubris.
    
    Noob Saibot: You know nothing of cold.
    Frost: You never conjured ice as cold as mine.
    Noob Saibot: Death is the coldest ice.

  • Nightwolf points out how Frost's evil actions are utterly pointless.
    Nightwolf: Your defiance had no point.
    Frost: I should've let Sub-Zero oppress me?
    Nightwolf: Discipline isn't oppression.

  • Shang Tsung gets his chance to point out how her enhancements do not make her perfect.
    Shang Tsung: Your enhancements are impressive.
    Frost: Yet somehow you're unimpressed.
    Shang Tsung: Many fatal flaws remain.

  • Kotal Kahn also gets his chance:
    Kotal Kahn: Sub-Zero was wise to dismiss you.
    Frost: What do you know about it, Kotal?
    Kotal Kahn: That bad soil yields no bounty.
    
    Kotal Kahn: I despise you as I did Mileena.
    Frost: You have problems with strong women?
    Kotal Kahn: Those who seek stations above their faculty.

  • And so does Scorpion. Doubly impressive is how Frost, despite their horrible blood, lets Scorpion talk!
    Scorpion: Sub-Zero's mistake with you is obvious.
    Frost: Share your wisdom, Scorpion.
    Scorpion: To be trained, you must be tamed.

  • Even Kung Lao, as arrogant as he is, agrees with everyone's opinion on Frost.
    Kung Lao: Sub-Zero should have spanked you more.
    Frost: You lecture me about discipline?
    Kung Lao: At least I respect my elders.
    
    Kung Lao: What have you done to your body?
    Frost: Allowed Kronika to make me the greatest.
    Kung Lao: To think, all I needed was a hat.

  • Spawn takes her to task about her Deal with the Devil.
    Spawn: Was selling your soul worth it?
    Frost: I still have mine, you undead freak.
    Spawn: Guess you didn't Read the Fine Print.
    
    Spawn: You don't know your limits.
    Frost: My power comes from a Titan.
    Spawn: I'll kill your Titan next.

  • Fujin rubs in how little her enhancements actually accomplish.
    Frost: Fujin?! I killed you!
    Fujin: You would do better, spitting in the wind.
    Frost: I'll spit on your grave!
    
    Fujin: Was sacrificing your body worth it?
    Frost: I'm the perfect weapon now.
    Fujin: Then how is it you still fail?

  • Rambo calls out her Self-Serving Memory towards her dismissal.
    Frost: Our so-called superiors failed us both.
    Rambo: In your case, it's the other way around.
    Frost: Those are vicious lies.

  • Even someone like Shao Kahn, whose Fatal Flaw is also arrogance, thinks she's too much talk for her capabilities.
    Shao Kahn: You want to lead my armies?
    Frost: Good luck finding anyone better.
    Shao Kahn: A street urchin would do better! ^note Bonus awesome: this is the same guy who took in Skarlet, so he would know how well a "street urchin" could do.
    • On the flip-side, Frost proves to Shao Kahn that turnabout is fair play.
      Frost: You're smaller in person, Shao Kahn.
      Shao Kahn: And you're an even bigger brat!
      Frost: Touched a nerve, didn't I?

  • She also spares Jacqui Briggs nothing with a No, You comeback:
    Frost: What do you see when you look at me?
    Jacqui: A cheap, second-gen knock-off.
    Frost: I said look at me, not you.
  • Johnny tries to take her down a peg. Frost flawlessly counters it:
    Johnny: What's up, Frosty the Snow Chick?
    Frost: Your time, Cage.
    Johnny: Clever girl…
  • Johnny does manage to get in a barb though:
  Johnny: Normally, I don't judge having work done.
  Frost: Kronika perfected me, Cage.
  Johnny: Have you looked in a mirror lately?

• Baraka makes it clear that he and his tribe are done being cowed into submission by Shao Kahn:
  Baraka: Tarkata demands respect, Shao Kahn.
  Shao Kahn: You'll get the back of my hand.
  Baraka: We are done fearing you!

• Noob Saibot is also welcome to barb Shao Kahn with his tongue. This one also doubles as hilarious:
  Shao Kahn: Serve me and conquer realms!
  Noob Saibot: Name one realm you control.
  Shao Kahn: Sharp tongue for a dead man…

• Still in the topic of Noob, a particular intro shows that in life, Bi-Han might've been more cultured than it appears.
  Noob Saibot: You will drown in eternal night.
  Cassie: How Andrew Lloyd Whatever of you.
  Noob Saibot: You will sing of pain for me!

• It seems Kotal Kahn has found a workaround to Geras.
  Geras: Kill me and I become stronger.
  Kotal: Then I will fight you To the Pain.
  Geras: I am not familiar with that phrase.

• Shang Tsung returns and has some beef with Raiden.
  Shang Tsung: I will torment you for eternity.
  Raiden: Do your worst, Shang Tsung.
  Shang Tsung: And now a taste of things to come…

• Nightwolf faces Geras, Geras is not impressed:
  Geras: I faced Nightwolves before.
  Nightwolf: I will be the last.
  Geras: So said all the others.

• Johnny Cage shows why you shouldn't threaten his family:
  Johnny: Stop sniffin' around Cass and Sonya.
  Kano: Can't. I'm like a dog with a bone.
  Johnny: You're gonna be a dog with a fist up its ass.
  • Similarly, Johnny is furious when he learns of an old friend's fate:
    Shang Tsung: Master Boyd sends his regards.
    Johnny: YOU killed him, didn't you?/Ashby!Johnny: You KILLED him, didn't you?
    Shang Tsung: Your 'Sensei' was helpless against me.

• Jade knocks Cetrion off her pedestal:
  Jade: Please, hear my words.
  Cetrion: Mortals have no wisdom for gods.
  Jade: Since when is ignorance a virtue?

• Feel free to count the number of fucks Nightwolf has to give Shao Kahn.
  Shao Kahn: I've never met an Earthrealmer like you.
  Nightwolf: That's the only reason you're still alive.
  Shao Kahn: Are all your people so confident?

• Baraka has one hell of a comeback for Sindel.
  Baraka: Empress Sindel?
  Sindel: Come and serve me, swine.
  Baraka: You'll be served on a platter.

• Cassie does not appreciate her mother's past self dismissing Johnny Cage. It's clear that for all his flaws, Johnny is a very good dad to Cassie.
  Cassie: I promise, he gets better with age.
  Sonya: Ugh. He's cheap beer, not fine wine.
  Cassie: HEY! That cheap beer's my dad!

• One Terminator is powerful enough to eradicate Shao Kahn's entire armies:
  Terminator: Your army is terminated.
  Shao Kahn: (enraged) How did you defeat so many?!
  Terminator: Superior programming.

• The one time Joker doesn't laugh:
  Geras: Kronika will reveal your true origins.
  Joker: What kind of sick joke is this?
  Geras: Without the mystery, you are merely a man.

• On the subject of Joker, no one is willing to let him walk away alive. Everyone knows what he's done and what he can do, and will do anything to put a stop to him. Permanently. Even the villains are in on it.
  Cassie: Mom told me all about you, Joker.
  Joker: Ooh! She must've been all smiles.
  Cassie: At the thought of me killing you, yes.
  
  Erron: You folding, or are you all in?
  Joker: How can I fold? This Joker's wild.
  Erron: You're about to be toes up, clown.
  
  Frost: So you're the infamous Joker.
  Joker: The man, the myth, the legend.
  Frost: All three die today.
  
  Jade: I've never met someone so horrid.
  Joker: Oh, sweetie, it was just a joke.
  Jade: You killed millions of people!
  
  Sub-Zero: You are as soulless as a Cyber Lin Kuei.
  Joker: But they lack my gift for witty banter.
  Sub-Zero: The realms will sleep well with you silenced.
  
  Rambo: You get what I'm gonna do to you?
  Joker: Even for me, it's Over the Top.
  Rambo: For what you did, it's justice.
  
  Spawn: Your Angel of Death awaits.
  Joker: (worried) You can't kill me! Heroes have moral codes...!
  Spawn: Who said I was a hero?
  
  
• Cetrion gets a pretty savage jab in on Sindel, suggesting that even Kronika wants her dead at this point.
  Cetrion: Your destiny is to balance the realms.
  Sindel: And how will I accomplish that?
  Cetrion: (her voice drops) By dying.

• Joker gets in a great "Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?" moment against Sindel when she tries to recruit him.
  Sindel: You may have the privilege of serving me.
  Joker: (laughs loudly and mockingly)
  Sindel: (her smugness devolves into pure rage) Did I say something funny?!

• Spawn makes his grand entrance into MK11 with an offer from one hellspawn to another.
  Spawn: Together, we can purge the Ten Hells.
  Scorpion: Only if you follow my lead.
  Spawn: All due respect, that's not in the cards.

• The cast's other resident wraith doesn't escape Spawn's venom.
  Spawn: Out of the shadows, Bi-Han.
  Noob Saibot: From which Hell did you spawn?
  Spawn: One even worse than yours.

• This bit between Spawn and Kano.
  Spawn: My chains'll hang you, Kano.
  Kano: I got a thick neck, cobber.
  Spawn: Easier to snap.

• A Spawn mirror match sometimes goves one of the players a chance to play as one of the Hellspawn's archenemies.
  Spawn 1: Sir John?
  "Spawn 2": Think again, Toast Face Killa!
  Spawn 1: Violator. How many times do I have to kill you?

• Shao Kahn has two particularly impressive ones against Spawn.
  Shao Kahn: Who is this? A new contender?
  Spawn: Hell's got a special place for you, Shao Kahn.
  Shao Kahn: Keep it warm. I'm not done living yet.
  
  Shao Kahn: Only one of us walks out of here.
  Spawn: You've sinned on a scale reserved for gods.
  Shao Kahn: And you can't beat that.

• As does Kotal:
  Kotal Kahn: I was a just and compassionate emperor.
  Spawn: You massacred entire tribes.
  Kotal Kahn: And how did you end up in Hell?

• The very first dialogue set revealed for Rambo and it delivers on the badass. Made all the better by being said in Sylvester Stallone's actual voice.
  Rambo: I'm taking you off the board.
  Kabal: Give it your best shot, soldier.
  Rambo: It'll be right between the eyes.

• Death won't intimidate a man like Rambo.
  Rambo: The air just got cold.
  Noob Saibot: Because your end is close at hand.
  Rambo: If it is, I'm Taking You with Me.

• He's never seen a freak like Shao Kahn before and he might be a bit worried, but Rambo is most certainly not going to back down in the face of Outworld's biggest despot or take any of his shit.
  Rambo: My god, you're big.
  Shao Kahn: (laughing evilly) Filled with dread, human?
  Rambo: Yeah, but don't judge me for it.

• Likewise, Rambo shows just how much he's gone through after Mileena tries (and fails) to roll some mockery on him.
  Rambo: Don't start a war you can't win.
  Mileena: Speaking from experience?
  Rambo: Yeah.

• Another savage barb by Noob Saibot.
  Noob Saibot: Welcome to the Brotherhood of Shadow.
  Rain: Must not I be dead to join your numbers?
  Noob Saibot: You already are.