Game-Changing Revelations: Ed Boon Hints at an Epic Roster Expansion in Mortal Kombat 1

Highlights

Mortal Kombat 1 creative director teases potential downloadable content, including horror characters, through cryptic social media messages.

Ed Boon shared a picture featuring numerous renowned horror characters, some marked with checks while others like Pinhead, Ghostface, and Michael Myers had a question mark instead.

Horror characters have been incorporated as downloadable content (DLC) in previous Mortal Kombat installments, leading fans to speculate about potential future additions. Ghostface and Michael Myers have been particularly in-demand choices.

Mortal Kombat 1's creative director, Ed Boon, has once again taken to social media to tantalize fans with the possibility of more downloadable content, including some highly requested horror icons. Since its highly anticipated release, Mortal Kombat 1 has achieved great success, receiving positive reviews from critics and generating strong buzz within the community. However, this is just the beginning, as Ed Boon and NetherRealm Studios have consistently hinted at the long-term plans for additional content.

The inclusion of downloadable content and updates is not new for the Mortal Kombat franchise, as the previous game introduced new characters and an expansion that laid the foundation for the MK1 campaign. Fans are already aware of the first Kombat Pack for Mortal Kombat 1, which features returning fighters like Ermac, Takeda, and Quan Chi, as well as notable guest characters Omni-Man, Homelander, and Peacemaker. Nevertheless, the future holds even more surprises, as NetherRealm's creative director, Ed Boon, continues to tease fans with mysterious messages on social media.

Ed Boon shared an image on X social media platform that showcases various horror character icons, such as Freddy, Jason, Jigsaw, Pinhead, and more. The image includes green check marks and question marks and is accompanied by a simple caption consisting of two emojis: a dragon and a thinking face. Speculation has already begun among fans that this image hints at the addition of more guest characters to Mortal Kombat 1, particularly because the green check marks are placed over characters that have already been included in the series.

Currently, the characters Michael Myers, Pinhead, Chucky, Jigsaw, and Ghostface are the only ones with a green question mark, fueling speculation about which character will potentially be added in the future. Among fans, Ghostface has been a highly requested guest character, along with Michael Myers, prompting many comments urging for the inclusion of these two specifically. Some fans have even expressed interest in a full Horror-specific DLC pack, with Chucky and Jigsaw being suggested as possible cameo options due to their smaller size.

The news shouldn't be too surprising as recent Mortal Kombat games have a history of adding horror characters as downloadable content (DLC). It all began with 2011's Mortal Kombat, which introduced Freddy Kruger from the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. This trend continued in MKX, where Leatherface, Alien, Jason Voorhees, and Predator joined the roster. In Mortal Kombat 11, NetherRealm Studios surprised fans with an abundance of guest characters as DLC, with a focus on action-based figures like The Terminator, Spawn, RoboCop, and John Rambo. With all this in mind, it's likely that NetherRealm has more surprises in store for future DLC releases, as hinted by Ed Boon. Mortal Kombat 1 is scheduled to launch on September 19 for PC, PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series X.