Fatality

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Fatalities are a means of ending a fighting game match by gruesomely murdering the loser. It was popularized as a finishing move performed at the end of a match in Mortal Kombat.

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Sub Zero beheading Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat.  This move was cited for helping found the Electronic Software Rating Board in 1992.     

Fatalities were made popular by the Mortal Kombat (Game) franchise and involve a gruesome (and occasionally comical) death at the end of the final round.

The move originated with the idea of awarding the victor a "free punch" at the end of a match. In the single player ladder, should the player lose to Shang Tsung (Character), his or her character would be beheaded by Tsung. This concept was eventually programmed for each playable character.

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• Abobo's Big Adventure (Game)
• Ballz 3D (Game)
• Battle Chess (Game)
• Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess (Game)
• Bio F.R.E.A.K.S (Game)
• Blood Warrior (Game)
• ClayFighter 63 1/3 (Game)
• ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut (Game)
• Cosmic Carnage (Game)
• Creatures 2: Torture Trouble (Game)
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (Game)
• Darkstalkers 3 (Game)
• Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (Game)
• Death Cargo (Game)
• Dual Souls: The Last Bearer (Game)
• Eternal Champions (Game)
• Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side (Game)
• Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance (Game)
• Gorebreaker (Game)
• Gothic II: Night of the Raven (Game)
• Kasumi Ninja (Game)
• Killer Instinct (Game)
• Killer Instinct 2 (Game)
• Manhunt (Game)
• Mikro Mortal Tennis (Game)
• Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight (Game)
• Mortal Kombat (Game)
• Mortal Kombat (Game)
• Mortal Kombat 1 (Game)
• Mortal Kombat 11 (Game)
• Mortal Kombat 3 (Game)
• Mortal Kombat 4 (Game)
• Mortal Kombat Advance (Game)
• Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection (Game)
• Mortal Kombat Gold (Game)
• Mortal Kombat II (Game)
• Mortal Kombat Mobile (Game)
• Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero (Game)
• Mortal Kombat Trilogy (Game)
• Mortal Kombat X (Game)
• Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (Game)
• Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Game)
• Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (Game)
• Mortal Kombat: Deception (Game)
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection (Game)
• Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (Game)
• Mortal Kombat: Unchained (Game)
• Nightmare Creatures II (Game)
• One Must Fall: 2097 (Game)
• Pong Kombat (Game)
• Pray for Death (Game)
• Primal Rage (Game)
• Red Earth (Game)
• Reikai Doushi (Game)
• Samurai Shodown IV: Amakusa's Revenge (Game)
• Samurai Shodown SEN (Game)
• Samurai Shodown V Special (Game)
• Star Wars Chess (Game)
• Survival Arts (Game)
• Tattoo Assassins (Game)
• The Apprentice (Game)
• Thrill Kill (Game)
• Time Killers (Game)
• Timeslaughter (Game)
• Ultimate Mortal Kombat (Game)
• Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Game)
• Viking: Battle for Asgard (Game)
• WWF Super Wrestlemania (Game)
• War Gods (Game)
• Way of the Warrior (Game)
• Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style (Game)
• Xenophage: Alien BloodSport (Game)

Concept details

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Fatality

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Games

• Abobo's Big Adventure (Game)
• Ballz 3D (Game)
• Battle Chess (Game)
• Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess (Game)
• Bio F.R.E.A.K.S (Game)
• Blood Warrior (Game)
• ClayFighter 63 1/3 (Game)
• ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut (Game)
• Cosmic Carnage (Game)
• Creatures 2: Torture Trouble (Game)
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (Game)
• Darkstalkers 3 (Game)
• Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (Game)
• Death Cargo (Game)
• Dual Souls: The Last Bearer (Game)
• Eternal Champions (Game)
• Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side (Game)
• Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance (Game)
• Gorebreaker (Game)
• Gothic II: Night of the Raven (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Mortal Kombat (Franchise), Star Wars (Franchise), DC Universe (Franchise), Killer Instinct (Franchise), Manhunt (Franchise), Darkstalkers (Franchise), ClayFighter (Franchise), Gothic (Franchise), Eternal Champions (Franchise), One Must Fall (Franchise), Might and Magic (Franchise), Dark Messiah (Franchise), Nightmare Creatures (Franchise), Battle Chess (Franchise), Samurai Shodown (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Scorpion (Character), Baraka (Character), Bi-Han (Character), Catwoman (Character), Cyrax (Character), Dark Kahn (Character), Darkseid (Character), Deathstroke (Character), Freddy Krueger (Character), Goro (Character), Jason Voorhees (Character), Jax (Character), Johnny Cage (Character), Kabal (Character), Kano (Character), Kenshi Takahashi (Character), Kitana (Character), Kronika (Character), Kuai Liang (Character), Kurtis Stryker (Character), Lex Luthor (Character), Liu Kang (Character), Mileena (Character), Nightwolf (Character), Reptile (Character), Sektor (Character), Shang Tsung (Character), Shao Kahn (Character), Sheeva (Character), Skarlet (Character), Sonya Blade (Character), The Joker (Character), Spawn (Character), Raiden (Character), Tri-Borg (Character), Fujin (Character), Sareena (Character), Onaga (Character), Jarek (Character), Ashrah (Character), Kotal Kahn (Character), Li Mei (Character), Meat (Character), Nitara (Character), Kollector (Character), Reiko (Character), Tanya (Character), Bo' Rai Cho (Character), Cthulhu (Character), Daegon (Character), Taven (Character), Shinnok (Character), Tremor (Character), D’Vorah (Character), T-800 (Character), Jago (Character), Fulgore (Character), Riptor (Character), B. Orchid (Character), Rasetsumaru (Character), Mavado (Character), Dairou (Character), Drahmin (Character), Hsu Hao (Character), Bishamon (Character), Spinal (Character), Chief Thunder (Character), Bad Mr. Frosty (Character), Sumo Santa (Character), Glacius (Character), Cinder (Character), Sabrewulf (Character), T.J. Combo (Character), Kim Wu (Character), Earthworm Jim (Character), Cetrion (Character), Maya (Character), Boogerman (Character), Ickybod Clay (Character), Taffy (Character), T-Hoppy (Character), Sauron (Character), Chaos (Character), Diablo (Character), Vertigo (Character), Armadon (Character), Blizzard (Character), Talon (Character), Leatherface (Character), Kronk (Character), Yoko (Character), Divine (Character), Geras (Character), The Homelander (Character), Omni-Man (Character), Kintaro (Character)

Locations

• Has locations: Kombat Tomb (Location), Nexus (Location), Soul Chamber (Location), The Armory (Location), The Balcony (Location), The Bank (Location), The Bridge (Location), The Pit (Location), The Portal (Location), The Rooftop (Location), The Subway (Location), The Temple (Location), The Tower (Location), The Wasteland of Outworld (Location), Shao Kahn's Battle Arena (Location), Kuatan Palace (Location), Tekunin Prison (Location), Sky Temple (Location), Dark Prison (Location), Goro's Lair (Location), Dragon King's Temple (Location), Quan Chi's Fortress (Location), Lumbermill (Location), Dead Pool (Location), Hell's Foundry (Location), The Golden Desert (Location), The Lower Mines (Location), The Slaughterhouse (Location)

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People

Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Animality (Concept), Babality (Concept), Brutality (Concept), Combo (Concept), Finishing Move (Concept), Decapitation (Concept), Projectile (Concept), Exploding Head (Concept), Heroic Brutality (Concept), Kiss (Concept), Electrical X-ray (Concept), Execution (Concept), Multiple Death Animations (Concept), Exploding Enemies (Concept), Ring Out (Concept), Poopality (Concept), Glory Kill (Concept), Quitality (Concept), Stage Fatality (Concept)