Mortal Kombat creator admits he\u2019s dying to make a Marvel vs. DC fighter Capcom\/NetherRealm StudiosAhead of the release of Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studio\u2019s Ed Boon speaks about the possibility of a Marvel vs. DC Comics fighting game. Mortal Kombat 1 is releasing soon, much to the delight of fans. The game was rumored for months before its eventual May 2023 reveal trailer, with players speculating about what NetherRealm\u2019s next game would be. Fans expected Injustice 3, given the past decade of NetherRealm Studios releases. However, another rumor gained prominence during that time, with many believing the next game would not be a sequel. Rather, they believed it would be a brand new, NRS-developed Marvel vs. DC fighting game. The rumor bounced around but never gained any legs as it seemed like a pipe dream. Now, in the lead-up to MK1\u2019s release, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon has admitted it\u2019s a game NetherRealm would love to make. Mortal Kombat\u2019s Ed Boon wants to make a Marvel vs. DC Comics fighting game Speaking exclusively with Comic Book, Boon talked frankly about his desire to create a Marvel vs. DC fighting game. \u201cI mean, we did a number of games with DC characters. When you\u2019re kids and you\u2019re like, \u2018Who would win in a fight, Mighty Mouse or Superman?\u2019 Just these dumb different universe things. There\u2019s part of us that still [has those] immature conversations,\u201d Boon said. \u201cTo me, Spider-Man and Batman would be the coolest thing in the world. So of course we\u2019d love to do that. But it\u2019s probably very difficult to jump that hurdle.\u201d Thanks to licensing agreements, Marvel and DC crossovers do happen in gaming; it\u2019s perfectly feasible for Batman and Spider-Man to hang out in Fortnite, for instance. But the idea of the two in a dedicated fighter has long been a pipe dream for fans. Nonetheless, the two franchises have had massive success in the fighting game realm. NetherRealm\u2019s previous duality of superhero fighters, Injustice: Gods Among Us and Injustice 2, were a huge hit with fans. The games took place in an alternate timeline where Superman killed the Joker and led a terrifying dictatorship called The Regime. Injustice branched out to become popular in comics, as well, most recently culminating in the Regime\u2019s Superman fighting the son of DC Comics\u2019 Superman, Jon Kent. Marvel has had its slew of popular fighters, but perhaps none more popular than the Marvel vs. Capcom series. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is still hailed as the pinnacle of fighters, the gold standard against which all other fighting games are measured. While the MvC franchise fell dormant after the mediocre reception of 2017\u2019s Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite when it comes to new releases, the series is still incredibly popular. UMvC3, for instance, managed to pull in hundreds of thousands of viewers at EVO 2023 during the Grand Finals. There is a precedent for the two crossing over, too. 1994\u2019s Marvel vs. DC (or DC vs. Marvel, depending on which issues you bought) pitted the two universes against each other in massive brawls, some of which were even determined by fan votes. Though the two companies seldom crossover today, the impact of Marvel vs. DC is still felt even today with characters like Spider-Kid almost making it into Across the Spider-Verse. Mortal Kombat 1 releases September 19 for PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mortal Kombat creator admits he\u2019s dying to make a Marvel vs. DC fighter Capcom\/NetherRealm StudiosAhead of the release of Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studio\u2019s Ed Boon speaks about the possibility of a Marvel vs. DC Comics fighting game. Mortal Kombat 1 is releasing soon, much to the delight of fans. The game was rumored for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}