I was bored and wrote this · 6:51am Jan 20th, 2021
Hey everyone. No real earthshattering news or updates to report. Been trying to get the motivation back to resuming writing.
I've also been playing a lot of Mortal Kombat 11 again over the past few weeks. It's a good (if dark) way to blow off some stress, now and again.
A while ago, on one of the forums, I saw a post about hypothetical fight banter between the Mortal Kombat characters and characters from Equestria Girls.
(...Yes, I know. Just roll with it, please.)
It was a fun little experiment at the time, and I enjoyed it enough that, about a week later, when I was bored and out of serious ideas, I wrote out a whole bunch of hypothetical pre-battle exchanges between NetherRealm's stable of kombatants, and Sunset Shimmer and her cast of supporting characters. 
(What can I say, I was bored, and my brain has weird ideas.)
Anyway, take a look at what I conjured up, for anyone remotely interested. XD
Science nerd versus evil sorceror--
Shang Tsung: "I have heard about your other self, 'Midnight Sparkle.'"
Sci-Twi: "I'm never turning into her again!"
Shang Tsung: "You waste your potential, my dear..."
Shadowbolt versus Shang Tsung.
Shang Tsung: “Why hold yourself back from achieving true greatness?”
Indigo Zap: “Because I’ve learned that having friends is a greater virtue than any win.”
Shang Tsung: *scoffs* “’Virtue’ is a lie the weak tell, to hobble the exceptional.”
Pinkie, you don't wanna know what his idea of 'food' is.
Baraka: “I was told that there would be food here.”
Pinkie Pie: “And you heard right! I have cupcakes, regular cakes, ice cream cakes and MORE!”
Baraka: “Tarkatans eat meat, not sweets!”
Clash of the cowpokes!
Erron Black: “One country kid to another… nice hat.”
Applejack: “Think that a compliment’ll save ya from a bruisin’?”
Erron Black: “Well, so much for manners, then.”
A joke that's gonna kill...
Joker: "Choose quickly! Your brother, or your baby sis!"
Applejack: "What are you saying!? What have you done with them!?"
Joker: "Tick-tock, dearie!"
Joker: “My condolences about your sister.”
Rarity: “Whatever do you mean? Sweetie Belle is just fine!”
Joker: “Hehehe! Someone’s in for a nasty surprise.”
If anyone catches the reference in this, I'll be impressed. XD
Joker: “Princess Amethyst, I presume?”
Princess Twilight: “My name is Twilight Sparkle.”
Joker: “Are you sure? Hah, guess the joke’s on me!”
The kindhearted one versus the immortal golem.
Fluttershy: "Why are you doing this?"
Geras: "So that one day, I might finally rest for eternity."
Fluttershy: "I feel sorry for you."
But all the same, beware the shy ones.
Fluttershy: "I can't let you hurt anyone else."
D'Vorah: "This One was told you care for all creatures."
Fluttershy: "Not when they kill for the sake of it."
Clash of the speedsters.
Kabal: "No way you're faster than me."
Rainbow Dash: "Check it! I can make a Sonic Rainboom faster than you can imagine!"
Kabal: "The hell's a Sonic Rainboom?"
Rainbow Dash: "What's your top speed?"
Kabal: "Faster than anything you can reach."
Rainbow Dash: "Challenge accepted!"
The damned and the redeemed.
Spawn: "I don't buy this reformed act of yours."
Sunset Shimmer: "Believe me, I'll never stop trying to make up for the wrongs I've done."
Spawn: "No one can escape their past."
Two former criminals exchange words.
Nightwolf: “Your past actions still hang over you.”
Sunset Shimmer: “I won’t let my past define my present.”
Nightwolf: “Just be careful you don’t forget the lessons it has taught.”
Flash Sentry looks for a way to help.
Robocop: “Joining the police is not a decision to make in haste.”
Flash: “I know! But I can’t stand aside and let my friends do all the fighting for me.”
Robocop: “Your dedication is admirable, Flash Sentry.”
Jax: “So, you think you’ve got what it takes?”
Flash: “For the sake of my friends? Anything.”
Jax: “Now that’s the spirit.”
Party planner versus Buddhist Monk.
Pinkie Pie: "Hee, what kind of fun are we gonna have?"
Liu Kang: "This is time for training, Pinkie Pie, not for a party."
Pinkie Pie: "What?!""But every time is time for a party!!"
Don't take the offer, Rarity.
Sindel: "I could use a new seamstress."
Rarity: "Whatever happened to your last one?"
Sindel: "Her results failed to live up to my expectations..."
Sunset ain't having it.
Sindel: “I admire your drive to take what you want from life.”
Sunset Shimmer: “Shut up! I don’t want a compliment from you!”
Sindel: “It’s a shame you faltered when the power was in your grasp.”
Sunset: “How could you betray your family?!”
Sindel: *laughs mockingly* “Didn’t you turn on your teacher, and use your lover as well?”
Sunset: “At least I realized I was wrong!”
The magician and the magical monk.
Trixie: "The Great and Powerful, Trrrixie, demands you teach her that hat trick!"
Kung Lao: "Sorry, this hat's one of a kind."
Trixie: "Trixie's not leaving here until she has answers!"
Hands to yourself, Emperor!
Shao Kahn: "Your friends will join my concubines."
Sunset Shimmer: "Try it and I'll rainbow-blast you to a crisp!"
Shao Kahn: "Ha-ha-ha. I look forward to breaking you..."
Johnny Cage's pinkest fan.
Johnny Cage: "Oh great, another fangirl..."
Pinkie Pie: "Oh my GOSH! Johnny Cage, ahhh! I loved you in Ninja Mime!"
Johnny Cage: "Okay. That's a first."
Dashing through the snow...
Sub-Zero: "I had a student like you once."
Rainbow Dash: "Oh yeah? I bet she was awesome, just like me!"
Sub-Zero: "Her ego and impatience were her ultimate failing."
Hellspawn on the hunt.
Spawn: "There's only one place your path will lead you."
Aria: "Let me guess, a jail cell?"
Spawn: "Try a mortuary slab."
Adagio: "Just a few notes and you'll be under my spell."
Spawn: *chuckles darkly* "That little trick won't work on me, Starlet."
Adagio: "In that case, I guess I'll just have to destroy you!"
Spawn: "Messing with people's minds is mighty low, Green Thumb..."
Wallflower Blush: "Wh-what do you want? The Memory Stone was destroyed!"
Spawn: "And now it's time to pay the piper."
Hasta la vista, Rainbooms.
Sunset: “Why are you trying to kill us!?”
Terminator: “All magic-wielders are marked for termination.”
Sunset: “Over my dead body, buster.”
Pinkie Pie: “Your robot boss wiped out all the people in your world?”
Terminator: “All humans are a danger to Skynet.”
Pinkie Pie: (horrified) “How could anyone think something like that?”
John, if you thought that the MK world was weird, you haven't seen anything yet...
Rambo: "You're actually a unicorn?"
Sunset: "I came to this world through a portal in a magic mirror, from the land of Equestria."
Rambo: "You don't say."
Rarity: "Oh darling! We've just got to do something about that hair of yours!"
Rambo: "I like it just the way it is."
Rarity: "Oh, *psh-shh*! Rarity will have you chic et magnifique in no time!"
Fluttershy: "I've heard about what you went through in the war."
Rambo: "I'm not looking for pity."
Fluttershy: "Don't mistake sympathy for pity, mister Rambo."
Hope you guys found this at least half as fun as it was for me to think this all up. 
"Don't mistake sympathy for pity" is a really good line.
lol nice :)
Great work, so far!
Are you planning on doing more?
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Thank you, I was quite proud of that one. I'm glad to see that you think it works.
Wanted to try and catch some of Fluttershy's "Silk Hiding Steel" nature.
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Thanks!
We'll see. I might try and do more sometime, 'cause Lord knows, there's plenty of other characters in the roster to work with here.
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It's really good. Fluttershy is kind, but that does not make her weak. I'd argue it makes her stronger. ANYONE can break something. Anyone can be cruel, it's not hard. But being willing to offer kindness to those who need it, or even to those you WANT to offer kindness to purely because you want to, that's a lot harder.
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Yes. Well said. Very well-said indeed. Particularly love this bit at the end:
"Only the weak succumb to brutality," is what pops into my mind when I read that. Fully agree, it takes a LOT more strength than people suspect to show kindness.
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Precisely.
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Thanks. Glad you enjoyed this.
Great set of lines! I'm surprised to hear that Rambo became part of the Mortal Combat series.
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Thank you! I had a lot of fun putting this all together.
Yeah, it sure threw me for a loop to see John Rambo on the MK roster. Someone at NetherRealm must like 80s movies: between him, Robocop, and Terminator in this game, and Predator and Alien in Mortal Kombat X, it almost feels like a who's-who of some kind.
Heh, this reminds me of a Fimfiction forum I was on years ago where everyone took part in making GAME OVER dialogues for all the MLP villains, like the Batman: Arkham games. (sigh) Hopefully I'll find it again one day...
As extremely limited as my knowledge of Mortal Kombat is, this was a very fun read.
The ones by Baraka, Joker and Spawn were my favourites.
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Wish I'd known about it before, oh well... (I was actually kicking around maybe following this up with a MLP vs. DC kind of thing at one point, actually - since NetherRealm also made Injustice and such.)
That sounds like a very fun forum.
Glad you enjoyed these! I enjoyed writing all of these, but I must admit that the ones for Joker and Spawn were particularly entertaining to come up with. (Shoot, they were part of the reason I even got the game, which was my real gateway into the larger Mortal Kombat series.) Also, good to hear that you liked the one with Baraka: putting him up against Pinkie Pie just felt right, in a very dark way.
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That'd be awesome! And hey, if you're ever stumped on intros, a blog with clash dialogues à la Injustice could be a possibility. The interactions always give me a good chuckle:
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Glad to hear it!
And yeah, doing that kind of "clash quote" thing could be a lot of fun too. I'd completely forgotten a bunch of those until you just reminded me.
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Or hell, maybe have the Equestria Girls have interactions with themselves. That could be fun, especially with Rainbow and Rarity.
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Ooh, that would *also* be a lot of fun.
I'll definitely have to keep that one in mind!