Warner Bros sitting on Mortal Kombat Ultra Girls (animated series for kids)

[DanarchyReigns]

From the Mortal Kombat sub-Reddit.

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Photos here: https://imgur.com/a/8KQKMXW

Basically, Warner Bros produced a Mortal Kombat spin-off for Cartoon Network that followed the MK girls in a style similar to Teen Titans Go or Thundercats Roar. Cassie Cage would have been the lead.

The leaker suspects that new executives want to shelve this due to possible backlash from parents and fans.

 

[ILikeFeet]

put it on HBO Max. I wanna see this

 

[Rowsdower]

The leaker suspects that new executives want to shelve this due to possible backlash from parents and fans.

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I can't imagine why there would be backlash /s

This is weird. Of all the games to make into a kids show...

 

[Weiss]

Kombat Time?

Kombat Time.

 

[SigSig]

"oh hey, I wonder if there's cool youtube videos about the heroines of that show I watch"
"oh"

 

[s y]

Those photos look not great

 

[Chance Hale]

Utterly bizarre

 

[BassForever]

Kombat Time?

Kombat Time.

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KOMBAT TIME!

This is hilarious

Can we get a dc super girls vs mk ultra girls cross over

 

[808s & Villainy]

For Mortal Kombat??
Also those designs are so atrocious I can't even tell who those characters are suppose to be

 

[Harpoon]

I'd actually be really curious to see what episodes of this are like.

 

[SalvaPot]

This looks fan-made.

Edit: The reddit thread is interesting, a loooot of info there, I don't like the art-style but it seems the show was made with passion so now I kinda want to see it.

Also, it bothers me that the leaker claims to leak it because WB didn't seem to want to and claims that the leak is to help convince the WB executives that they have to finish the series, usually this tactics are counter-productive. Also a run of 52 episodes for a new show seems excessive, usually you get a first season to test the waters.

 

[Melpomene]

For a brand that sticks the K onto anything that should start with C, I'm genuinely surprised they didn't go with "Ultra Girlz."

 

[Lycanthrope -R-]

This is fucking horrid and it needs to be put on the air right now. lol

 

[HotsauceDragon]

Saturday Morning Watchmen wasn't a freakin' instruction manual, you nitwits

 

[Weiss]

I mean realtalk Mortal Kombat X's main story was basically a teenage coming of age story for the Kombat Kids.

The gore is a formality at this point.

 

[Oneiros]

Dp

 

[Harpoon]

Some more pics:

 

[Annabel]

Would they seriously use MK ULTRA as a name though.

 

[BassForever]

Who was the coked out WB exec who said "what we need is a girls focused kid show, what IP do we have? Mortal Kombat that could work well it has a lot of female characters". Like why wouldn't you do Wizarding World Magic Girls? That would probably have fit the niche a lot better and given us tons of lgbt shipping to upset Terf Rowling. Would have been a win win

 

[Oneiros]

MK Ultra Girls lol

 

[Harpoon]

Who was the coked out WB exec who said "what we need is a girls focused kid show, what IP do we have? Mortal Kombat that could work well it has a lot of female characters". Like why wouldn't you do Wizarding World Magic Girls? That would probably have fit the niche a lot better and given us tons of lgbt shipping to upset Terf Rowling. Would have been a win win

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That Reddit post goes a little into that:

MKUG spawned from a higher up who was amendment that the franchise is marketable beyond extreme violence. It worked for the 1990s movie. He grew up with stuff like Robocop and the Rambo cartoons, so they saw the potential with merchandising. They already planned a line of figures and a mobile game that reskins the IOS MK free to play game. They did okay getting these designs in 3D but it's far from done. Progress has halted on the game which is also effecting the show.

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[Maximum Spider]

Little kid enjoys this show so they decide to go on Google to find out more about Mortal Kombat.

Finds this:

 

[Patitoloco]

MK ULTRA girls

 

[Beth Cyra]

Holy cats, if WB didn't know that Frost and Cassie are shipped together they are about to find out if those scenes are indicative of their rivalry/bond in the show.

 

[Derachi]

lmao "MK ULTRA" girls, huh

I guess the internet has been BRAINWASHED into thinking anything they see is real


This is fake, folks

 

[Slayven]

This idea is so insane I am going to call BS

 

[Bus-TEE]

This seems a solid idea if aimed at the wrong audience. They should 'age it up' and aim it at teens with some darker humour etc Perhaps not going as strong on the language and themes as the Harley Quinn show (which I really liked BTW) but there could still be an audience there.

The leaker suspects that new executives want to shelve this due to possible backlash from parents and fans.

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And they would have been right!

 

[Weiss]

Little kid enjoys this show so they decide to go on Google to find out more about Mortal Kombat.

Finds this:

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Yeah that is something worth thinking about.

Kids watched the Mortal Kombat movie and a cartoon was made, sure okay, but if they then went to go play the games this was the worst they were going to get.

The violence in Mortal Kombat, for how excessive it was in the early 90s, was still incredibly toyetic. It was the kind of thing you'd go "woah, brutal!" over at worst than seeing really gross unpleasant shit starting with MKX.

 

[Maximum Spider]

It would be a funny bait and switch if this turned out to be a Happy Tree Friends situation.

Also, Happy Tree Friends is something I haven't thought about in over a decade. (Gore aside, I apologize if it's aged poorly.)

 

[mindsale]

Would love to see fatalities on chibi MK characters.

 

[Protome]

Wasn't there another fake "leak" about a supposed animated show based on a property not that long ago? Is this just the new cool thing to make fakes for?

I refuse to believe anyone pitched a kids show with "MK Ultra" in the title lol.

Edit: I was thinking of the Crash Bandicoot cartoon "leak" which I also don't believe was real.

Leaked footage of Crash Bandicoot cartoon canned at Amazon after year in development over disagreements about script Rumor

https://www.reddit.com/r/crashbandicoot/comments/kvvml5/new_crash_cartoon_at_amazon_axed_yesterday_after/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

www.resetera.com

 

[Bus-TEE]

lmao "MK ULTRA" girls, huh

I guess the internet has been BRAINWASHED into thinking anything they see is real


This is fake, folks

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Good catch.

I didn't see that at all.

 

[dlemarc]

Is this the 80s? I thought we stopped making cartoons from R-rated shows and movies.

 

[Marcelo Guimaraes]

Didn't like the art style at all... impossible to recognize even the Ninja girls.
Fingers crossed they'll recognize KHAMELEON's existence cuz she deserves it(spoiler alert: they won't)

 

[Tom Nook]

I'll watch this. Lol.

 

[Ailanthium]

 

[19thCenturyFox]

F R I E N D S H I P is magic!

 

[Harpoon]

lmao "MK ULTRA" girls, huh

I guess the internet has been BRAINWASHED into thinking anything they see is real


This is fake, folks

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The thing is, the art style in this is similar to that of YouTuber RebelTaxi, who had apparently been working on something for WB that he wasn't sure was ever going to see the light of day. After this stuff was leaked, he locked his Twitter account for a bit and made tweets like this:




I think this is very real, and that someone just had a twisted sense of humour.

 

[buttzilla]

Would love to see this in action, definitely has a unique look to it that I dig.

 

[Galactic Specter]

This has such a crazy premise that I have to see it, the show sound like its completely self-aware of the source material it's adapting.

WB needs to release this show on HBO Max, don't let it become lost media like Star Wars Detours.

 

[Foltzie]

Huh. . . How in the heck did this get green-lit. . .

Did someone have a deck showing the success of the two DC Super-Hero Girls series and asked for IP they owned that could get the same treatment? This falls into BMX-XXX territory for weird MBA decisions.

EDIT: read the full reddit post, so yeah. Not the craziest idea when you think of Robocop the animated show.

 

[Maximum Spider]

Yeah that is something worth thinking about.

Kids watched the Mortal Kombat movie and a cartoon was made, sure okay, but if they then went to go play the games this was the worst they were going to get.

The violence in Mortal Kombat, for how excessive it was in the early 90s, was still incredibly toyetic. It was the kind of thing you'd go "woah, brutal!" over at worst than seeing really gross unpleasant shit starting with MKX.

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Yeah, the original MK had realistic sprites for the time but everything else was sooo over the top and cartoonish. Nowadays, MK is actually way too violent IMO and it's unsettling how crafted the gore is.

Imagine them making a new Rambo cartoon. JFC, one of the first things a kid would see whey the google Rambo is him ripping out someone's throat with his bare hands.

 

[grand]

This looks fan-made.

Edit: The reddit thread is interesting, a loooot of info there, I don't like the art-style but it seems the show was made with passion so now I kinda want to see it.

Also, it bothers me that the leaker claims to leak it because WB didn't seem to want to and claims that the leak is to help convince the WB executives that they have to finish the series, usually this tactics are counter-productive. Also a run of 52 episodes for a new show seems excessive, usually you get a first season to test the waters.

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52 episode runs are the norm for western animation. It's by far the most believable part of the rumor

 

[SalvaPot]

52 episode runs are the norm for western animation. It's by far the most believable part of the rumor

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That is the standard but usually they get a season, and if that season does well enough then the 52 episodes are greenlight for sindication/reruns. I don't think all shows get the funding for it from the start.

 

[Harpoon]

That is the standard but usually they get a season, and if that season does well enough then the 52 episodes are greenlight for sindication/reruns. I don't think all shows get the funding for it from the start.

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Teen Titans Go and ThunderCats Roar both got that number of episodes for their first seasons, so I think it's pretty believable for this one too.

 

[Weiss]

Is this the 80s? I thought we stopped making cartoons from R-rated shows and movies.

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Those were honestly a good idea.

Kids love experiencing media that's taboo, seeing R-rated movies and playing M-rated games is fun because they're not supposed to do it and they want it because adults tell them they can't. Robocop is cool but you can't really let an 8 year old watch the scene where Robocop gets all his limbs shotgunned off or that one dude getting doused in chemicals turning him into a horrible blob that splatters over a windshield

Creating a kid friendly spinoff is an easy way to give to a young audience a taste of something they can't have yet without including the stuff that makes it hard to watch in the first place. Can't really do that now, though, because ultra violent hyperreality pop fiction isn't as big a deal anymore.

 

[lazygecko]

MK Ultra, heroine... the jokes write themselves.

 

[Watchtower]

This seems a solid idea if aimed at the wrong audience. They should 'age it up' and aim it at teens with some darker humour etc Perhaps not going as strong on the language and themes as the Harley Quinn show (which I really liked BTW) but there could still be an audience there.

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Yeah this is my take as well.

There's a difference between saying Mortal Kombat can work without the ultraviolence and pitching something in the vein of DC Super Hero Girls.

 

[BassForever]

The thing is, the art style in this is similar to that of YouTuber RebelTaxi, who had apparently been working on something for WB that he wasn't sure was ever going to see the light of day. After this stuff was leaked, he locked his Twitter account for a bit and made tweets like this:




I think this is very real, and that someone just had a twisted sense of humour.

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Almost assuredly was/is real then, wonder if this leak will put pressure on WB to release it.

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

The thing is, the art style in this is similar to that of YouTuber RebelTaxi, who had apparently been working on something for WB that he wasn't sure was ever going to see the light of day. After this stuff was leaked, he locked his Twitter account for a bit and made tweets like this:




I think this is very real, and that someone just had a twisted sense of humour.

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Unless this is an elaborate April Fool joke that artsyle is definitely is his and has hinted he's been working on secret project for awhile