I’ve lengthy since grow to be inured to Mortal Kombat’s grossout motion. There are solely so some ways to slice up a digital human earlier than it turns into passé, in any case. However NetherRealm’s newest DLC trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, which provides us our first take a look at The Boys’ deeply disturbed superhero Homelander combating within the sport, has discovered a complete new method to disgust me.
The trailer sees Homelander doing battle with Liu Kang whereas displaying off a couple of fatalities, together with one the place he burns via Liu Kang’s cranium together with his laser imaginative and prescient, and one other the place Homelander uppercuts Kang into the trail of a cruising jet liner. Frankly, although, nothing unsettled me greater than the trailer’s first few seconds, throughout which Homelander takes a giant slurp of scrumptious, edifying milk from a child bottle.
In the event you’re unfamiliar with The Boys, then with out delving too deeply into spoiler territory, as an example that Homelander has one thing of an Oedipus advanced, and the milk in query nearly actually didn’t originate from a cow. The logical a part of my mind tells me that, no matter the place it might have flowed from, seeing an individual drink milk should not be as inherently revolting as seeing somebody’s head exploded by searing sizzling lasers. However I can not argue with my very own response. Maybe it might be much less repulsive if Homelander drank his milk from a cup, reasonably than lapping it straight from the bottle like an all-powerful cat.
Milk-related antics apart, maybe crucial a part of the trailer is how Homelander sounds. Final December, Antony Starr revealed he wouldn’t be lending his voice to MK1’s model of the character, regardless of having executed comparable work for Name of Responsibility: Warzone beforehand. This leaves some massive purple boots for Starr’s alternative to fill, with mentioned alternative rumoured to be Chris Cox, who voiced the Terminator in MK11. Sadly, Homelander solely says three phrases within the trailer, so it is arduous to make a lot of a judgement name primarily based on that. However my preliminary response is that it is a satisfactory impression.
The trailer does not specify when Homelander will land into Mortal Kombat 1, though he’ll initially be accessible as a part of a Kombat Pack with a number of different DLC characters, earlier than turning into accessible for standalone buy later down the road. Additionally included in that Kombat Pack is Invincible’s Omni Man, who like Homelander is a twisted tackle Superman voiced by JK Simmons. Even with out Starr’s presence, I think about pitting them in opposition to one another will make for fairly the spectacle.
