Trivia / Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance

• Creator's Pest: Hsu Hao. See the franchise Trivia page for details.
• Development Gag:
  • Cyrax and Sektor were called "Mustard and Ketchup" during development. In Deadly Alliance, Cyrax has a combo named Mustard and another named Ketchup in reference to this.
  • Mokap is a tribute to Carlos Pesina, the guy who did some of the MOtion CAPture for Deadly Alliance.
• Real Song Theme Tune: "Immortal" by Adema was a tribute to the series, and its music video (which contains cutscene footage) was included as a special feature.
• Refitted for Sequel: Shares a page with the rest of the franchise.
• Stopped Numbering Sequels: This game was the first in the mainline series to not have a number attached to it, a tradition broken several real life years later, with Mortal Kombat X^note with X being the roman numeral for 10 and Mortal Kombat 11.
• What Could Have Been
  • Originally, Fujin was meant to be the lead of the game (as a carryover from his and Raiden's endings in 4, where Raiden became an Elder God and Fujin became Earthrealm's protector god in his stead). Due to fan backlash, Raiden returned.
  • There was supposed to be a male Vampire to compliment Nitara, but he couldn't make it into the game due to time constraints.
  • Mavado's first design◊ was more Spanish-influenced, but was deemed to be too goofy for the character and he was revamped into a more serious character.
  • Hsu Hao was originally named Kublai Khan (as in Genghis Khan; not to be confused with Shao Kahn). This can be seen his Mortal Kandies artwork from The Krypt and other concept art.
  • Several pieces of concept art reveal characters and arenas that were unstable to be implemented into the game, such as the Water Temple arena. One of the more amusing and intriguing "what-ifs" was Zebron, a prince from another world clad in a tuxedo who resembled an anthropomorphic zebra.
  • The game was originally going to be called Mortal Kombat 5; when they decided on using subtitles instead of numbers, it was going to be Mortal Kombat Vengeance. A humorous list of VERY cringey official titles allegedly proposed during development can be found in the Krypt; how much of this is real (it's probably no more real than, "Ed sarcastically suggested this and we thought it was too funny to not write down") or was seriously considered during production is probably better left unanswered.

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