A little ways back, NetherRealm Studios’ Ed Boon was asked about Intellectual Property (IP) holders, and how protective they are over how their characters die or fight in the Mortal Kombat games.
“They’re not as protective over how they die, they’re protective of how their characters kill, for sure,” said Boon.
However, it seems most IP holders are just happy to have their characters in a Mortal Kombat game, even if they ask for some minor tweaks along the way.
“Usually the experience we have, is they’re excited to see their character in Mortal Kombat,” Boon stated.
“It’s almost like a badge of honor when we put them in,” he said, noting that it’s a pop culture thing, showing how famous those characters are.
“A couple of times, they’ll say with a pose the character is doing, lift his hand up a little higher, and we’ll do that, but that’s the extent of that,” Boon said.
It makes total sense that most IP holders would know what they’re signing up for when they put one of their characters in Mortal Kombat, and it’s interesting that they’re worried about how they will be portrayed when they’re doing the fatalities that the series is so well known for — not so much when those same moves are being performed on them.
Video by Gareth Von Kallenbach.
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