{"id":109482,"date":"2020-02-22T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/ed_boon_would_love_to_see_a_mortal_kombat_character_in_smash_bros_ultimate"},"modified":"2020-02-22T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T01:30:00","slug":"ed-boon-would-love-to-see-a-mortal-kombat-character-in-smash-bros-ultimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/22\/ed-boon-would-love-to-see-a-mortal-kombat-character-in-smash-bros-ultimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Boon Would &#8220;Love&#8221; To See A Mortal Kombat Character In Smash Bros. Ultimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/687baccf5b5e6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/687baccf5b5e6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Mortal Kombat 11\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/687baccf5b5e6\/mortal-kombat-11.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/687baccf5b5e6\/mortal-kombat-11.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mortal Kombat 11\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>One iconic fighting series that hasn&#8217;t been represented in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> yet is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/mortal_kombat\">Mortal Kombat<\/a><\/strong>. While Nintendo or Masahiro Sakurai have never said anything publically about a character from this brutal and bloody fighter being added to the roster, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon recently told Shacknews he would &#8220;love&#8221; to see it happen.<\/p>\n<p>This was his exact reply when he was asked about the possible inclusion of characters like Scorpion and Sub-Zero in Smash:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For me personally (I can\u2019t speak for all of Warner Bros or anything), that would be kind of like a stamp of approval. It\u2019d be like being part of the gang and all that stuff. I would love to see that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, with Boon on-board, what is the likelihood of this actually happening? There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/no_smash_ultimate_dlc_expected_beyond_fighters_pass_2_no_future_smash_games_planned\">second round<\/a> of DLC fighters currently in development for Smash Bros. Ultimate, so there&#8217;s always a chance.<\/p>\n<p>In saying this, in November last year, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/street_fighter_30th_anniversary_collection\">Street Fighter<\/a><\/strong> producer Yoshinori Ono revealed Capcom had previously rejected Boon&#8217;s proposal to add a Street Fighter character to Mortal Kombat, as it &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/capcom_didnt_like_the_idea_of_a_street_fighter_character_in_mortal_kombat_wasnt_a_good_fit\">wasn&#8217;t a good fit<\/a>&#8221; \u2013 would Nintendo feel the same way about adding a character like Scorpion to Smash Bros?<\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like to see this graphic fighting series represented in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One iconic fighting series that hasn&#8217;t been represented in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate yet is Mortal Kombat. While Nintendo or Masahiro Sakurai have never said anything publically about a character from this brutal and bloody fighter being added to the roster, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon recently told Shacknews he would &#8220;love&#8221; to see it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}