Mortal Kombat 11 continues the NetherRealm Studios tradition of employing crossover characters in their fighting game titles. The likes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hellboy made their way in NRS's previous title, Injustice 2, and a plethora of horror movie icons such as the Xenomorph from the Alien franchise, the Predator, Jason Voorhees, and Leatherface made it into Mortal Kombat X. Continuing with this tradition, MK11 has its own cast of crossovers from an assortment of media.

The first Kombat Pack for MK11 launched with six characters, three of which were crossovers from other properties. With series favorites like Shang Tsung, Sindel, and Nightwolf joining the ranks, the Mortal Kombat 11 roster saw a splash of comic book love with the likes of The Joker and Spawn. Spawn himself had been widely requested by Mortal Kombat and NetherRealm Studios fans for a long time. Joining them was the T-800 from the Terminator franchise as a cross-promotion for the release of Terminator: Dark Fate. In Mortal Kombat 11's Aftermath DLC, Alex Murphy, known simply as RoboCop, was added to the game, creating a dream match for fans of both franchises. While a first for fighting games, this wasn't the first time both characters clashed in video game history overall.

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Players may (or may not) be familiar with a set of games from the 1990's called RoboCop Versus The Terminator, the first time these two worlds were brought together in a video game. Released on multiple platforms from 1993 through 1995, the two most common versions exist on the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. The Genesis version, in particular, was released as a loose adaptation to 1992's eponymous comic book series by Dark Horse Comics, with both versions telling a separate story and providing a different experience for fans of either franchise.

MK11 Aftermath's RoboCop vs. Terminator Origins

The Super Nintendo version of RoboCop Versus The Terminator tells the story of a soldier from the Resistance traveling back in time to destroy Alex Murphy, as a link between Skynet and the facility that created RoboCop has been discovered. Skynet realizes the plan and sends mass-produced Terminator units to the past in an effort to intercept their efforts. The Genesis version of RoboCop Versus The Terminator featured an alternate plotline where RoboCop is lured by Skynet into a confrontation with the ED-209. After defeating the machine, RoboCop uploads his data, giving Skynet the information they need to complete their war against humanity. RoboCop comes back online in the distant future, now faced with the responsibility of undoing his mistake.

Players of either game might also be interested in knowing that an NES version of RoboCop Versus The Terminator was also in production. However, despite the game being just about finished, production ceased and it was ultimately cancelled. Gregg Tavares, the man in charge of the NES conversion, stated, "It was a very bad game. The artists couldn't deal well with the limits of the NES, so it looks very bad and the designer was a recently promoted play-tester and he didn't really know what he was doing".

Fans of both RoboCop and Terminator have often wondered about a collision of the sci-fi titans ever since their debuts on the silver screen. So much so, in fact, that they were even the subject of an episode of Death Battle in 2014 as well. Followers of either series can see how this dream match has been a much discussed piece of science-fiction history, and while Mortal Kombat 11 was not the first attempt at pitting the two franchises against each other, it has proven to be the most successful.

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