Vengeance drives every frame of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, a 2020 animated feature from director Ethan Spaulding that carries the long-running fighting-game saga into an 80-minute fantasy adventure. It pairs one warrior's private grief with a tournament on which the fate of humanity depends.
What is Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge about?
Hanzo Hasashi loses his family to a brutal attack he blames on the ice-cold mercenary Sub-Zero, and his own life goes with theirs. Cast into the Netherrealm, a place of endless torment, he is approached by the sorcerer Quan Chi with a bargain: serve, and return to the living world with the power to settle the score. Hanzo accepts and rises again as Scorpion, a restless spirit with a single purpose. On Earthrealm, meanwhile, the thunder god Lord Raiden is assembling defenders for an ancient contest. His picks are an odd trio: the Shaolin monk Liu Kang, Special Forces officer Sonya Blade and the self-regarding screen star Johnny Cage. Together they travel to face Shang Tsung and his Outworld champions in the Mortal Kombat tournament, where one failure would hand their world over. Scorpion's hunt and the heroes' mission move along the same road, and the story follows both until they meet.
About the cast
The English voice cast is led by Joel McHale and Jennifer Carpenter, joined by Jordan Rodrigues, Patrick Seitz and Steve Blum. Artt Butler, Darin De Paul and Robin Atkin Downes fill out the ensemble. Several of these names are familiar to animation and video-game audiences, which suits a project built on characters that players have known for decades.
Context & significance
Listed under action, adventure, animation and fantasy, this United States production opens the Mortal Kombat Legends line of animated features. Its source is a game series famous for larger-than-life fighters, rival ninja clans and a cosmology of separate realms — Earthrealm, Outworld and the Netherrealm — that settle their disputes through ritual combat. Spaulding's version puts Scorpion, one of the franchise's most recognisable figures, at the centre and uses his origin as the way into the wider tournament plot, so newcomers get the essential background while long-time fans see familiar faces gathered in one place. The fighting is intense and graphic in the manner the games are known for, so it is aimed at older viewers, not young children. Audience reception has been warm, particularly among followers of the series.
Watching Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge on Ktime
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can choose the version that suits your household. This page is free to read; playing the title requires signing in to a K-Time account. The service is built for Persian speakers abroad, with a full Farsi interface across its screens.