Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992. The first game was originally based on an idea that Ed Boon and John Tobias had of making a video game starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
See also: Mortal Kombat X, Mortal Kombat (disambiguation), Liu Kang, Mortal Kombat: Deception, Mortal Kombat (1992 video game), Mortal Kombat (2021 film).