Mortal Kombat 1 has seen its latest DLC character released via early access this week. None other than classic slasher icon Ghostface from the Scream movie franchise is now a fully playable main roster fighter in Mortal Kombat, and so far, the people seem to love them.
Despite all of the love and attention NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Games undoubtedly put into creating this character for the game, fans haven’t failed to notice that there appears to be have been a major missed opportunity here. None of Ghostface’s customizable gear pieces seem to give him the legendary “WAZZUP” mask from the Scary Movie series, but much like it always plays out, PC modders have got it covered.
Now, for those of you born after the ’90s (sheesh, I’m old…), you might be wondering what I’m even talking about here. To explain this whole thing, we have to take it back to about 1999 to 2000.
In 1999, a Budweiser beer commercial aired during that year’s Super Bowl that featured a group of friends who were essentially chillin’ and watching the game, some of them at their own houses. One friend calls the other on the phone to ask what he’s up to before a third friend walks into one of the rooms and yells out, “WASSSSUUUPP!”
The guys continue to say what’s up to each other in increasingly exaggerated ways until the word basically becomes “WAZZZZZAAAAAA,” and it culminates in several friends all on the phone together saying it to each other.
This commercial became massively popular and was being spoofed all over the place, including in the 2000 hit comedy film Scary Movie made by the Wayans Brothers. In it, the Ghostface killer (who was also extremely popular at the time) used his trademark phone call tactic to call one of the characters in the film, and instead of intimidation things quickly devolve into a spoof of the “WAZZUP” commercial.
Scary Movie also became massively popular at the time, and the mask featuring Ghostface sticking his tongue out and saying the catch phrase became another recognizable fixture for the slasher — even though it didn’t technically hail from the Scream movie series at all.
Which brings us back to today. Now that Ghostface is in Mortal Kombat 1, many fans were expecting NetherRealm to put the cherry on top and make the WAZZUP face one of Ghostface’s actual wearable custom gear items. Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the case, and it makes sense as adding something from Scary Movie likely would require other rights and legalities be put in order than that of the ones from the Scream series, which probably ultimately wasn’t worth it just for a single joke mask.
That being said, this PC mod does what the developers don’t, and some crafty fans have already gone in and added the legendary goofy face to Mortal Kombat 1.
There are a handful of mods going around right now, but the one we stumbled across comes from the mind of DazzyAllen. With it, the mod replaces any of the actual Ghostface masks in the game that you want.
When equipped, all three of the Ghostfaces get the mask change, and it looks pretty darn close to the source material.
Rights and legal boundaries aside, I can’t help but feel as though NRS and WB really missed a big opportunity here by not putting the mask in the actual game, though, there still might be some secret Brutality or some instance of it being in there that we just haven’t found yet.
You can check out some images of the mod below, and be sure to scroll further to see it in action complete with the appropriate audio added.
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