Mortal Kombat II (1993) Online

Cast overview:
	Richard Divizio	-	Baraka / Kano (voice)
	Ho-Sung Pak	-	Liu Kang (as Hosung Pak)
	Carlos Pesina	-	Raiden
	Daniel Pesina	-	Johnny Cage / Sub-Zero / Reptile / Scorpion
	Katalin Zamiar	-	Kitana / Mileena
	Anthony Marquez	-	Kung Lao
	Phillip Ahn	-	Shang Tsung (as Phillip Ahn M.D.)
	John Parrish	-	Jax
	Steve Ritchie	-	Shao Kahn (voice)
	Jon Hey	-	Raiden (voice)
	Vince Pontarelli	-	Speech (voice)
	Dan Forden	-	The 'Toasty!' Guy (voice) (as Dan [Toasty] Forden)
	Ed Boon	-	Scorpion (voice)

Fatality moves can be controlled manually, such as sliding their enemy off Tomb spikes, aiming Kung Lao's hat throw and intensifying Raiden's electrocution, as well as making Johnny Cage knock two or three heads off.

Baraka's first mask was bigger and looked like Shrek. It didn't work out. Afterwards they bought a Nosferatu mask and attached bigger teeth to it, which led to the Baraka as portrayed in the game.

Jax was originally going to be named Stryker, a name that would later be used for a whole other character in Mortal Kombat 3 (1995). The character eventually called Jax would have been in the first game in Sonya's place with her backstory if things had gone according to plan back then.

The name of the hidden character Noob Saibot is the last names of game creators Ed Boon and John Tobias spelt backwards.

Brian Glynn's sprites as Shao Kahn had to be increased to make him appear taller in respect to the other characters. In reality, Brian was one of the shortest actors on the set filming his moves.

According to John Tobias, Noob Saibot is Sub-Zero from the first tournament. In Mortal Kombat II, Sub-Zero is the younger brother of who is now Noob Saibot, formerly Sub-Zero.

No projectiles can harm Jade.

The "Toasty!" face is sound designer Dan Forden.

The Raiden Hat no longer exists, it was destroyed when Carlos Pesina fell on top of it towards the end of filming

First appearance of the characters of Smoke, Jade, and Noob Saibot (though none of them are playable.)

First appearance of Kung Lao, Baraka, Kitana, and Mileena.

Kitana and Mileena are over 10,000 years old.

It takes 250 versus battles to enable and play the classic video game, Pong (1972).

When the first Mortal Kombat was released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo, who had a family acceptability policy that included the prohibition of graphic depictions of death and excessive violence in games released on its systems, asked for the gore from that game to be removed and to tone down the more gruesome fatalities. Consequently that version sold poorly. As a result, Nintendo finally agreed to capitulate on those guidelines for Mortal Kombat II and allowed all the original gore and fatalities to appear in the US and UK SNES versions (the Japanese version was censored, such as having green blood), but still put a warning on the box. The SNES version was considered to be the best home version available and its sales reflected that.

First game to feature Shang Tsung in a young body.

First appearance of the now-iconic villain in the series, Shao Kahn.

Kano and Sonya are the only playable characters from the original not playable here. They appear as prisoners in one of the levels.

In the Forest stage, Jade or Smoke may peek out from behind the tree during a match.

Mortal Kombat II was released on Sony Playstation 3 in April 12, 2007, with an online play feature and upgraded graphics and sound.

In the Pit II stage, two characters based on Liu Kang stand on the bridge in the background. One swaps his red clothing for green and was known to fans as Hornbuckle for a long time because of a joke hidden in Sega Genesis & SNES versions of the game. The other was called Torch, at least until Midway feared legal action from Marvel concerning the Fantastic Four character the Human Torch; Midway then changed his name to Blaze and made him an official character starting with MK: Deadly Alliance in 2002.

Shang Tsung has a secret third Fatality in which he morphs into Kintaro to punch the loser's torso across the screen, leaving the legs standing as they were.

First appearance of Babalities, finishing moves that turn the opponent into a baby version of the defeated character.

First appearance of Friendships, finishing moves in which the winner offers the loser a token of friendship instead of dismemberment.

In Shao Kahn's arena, the audience only cheers when the boss attacks the player.

Daniel Pesina, who played Johnny Cage and all the ninjas, also worked as fight choreographer.

Baraka was at one point going to have a blade spin move, but this was removed to balance him out more. However, this move did eventually get restored for Mortal Kombat Trilogy (1996).

In Sub-Zero's ending, the guy unmasked in the Sub-Zero costume is not Daniel Pesina.

Shang Tsung laughs in his winning pose only in the Arcade and Saturn versions.

In the arcade version, the first round loops the first half of the music and the second/third rounds loops the second half of the music due to memory limits.

In the Sega Saturn version, the player cannot throw the CPU. If attempted, the CPU will actually throw the player.

The "Blue Portal" is a secret stage replacing Goro's Lair, found only on Sega Genesis.

Jax was originally conceived as simply a kickboxer, but the idea was scrapped due to potential similarities to Balrog and Sagat from the Street Fighter series. Then he was given a yellow martial arts gi and big metal hands that clanged upon impact. However, the outfit concealed much of the impressive physique of actor/bodybuilder John Parrish, so he simply went shirtless with long black tights. Game footage was actually shot with Jax wearing the yellow costume, and Parrish accidentally split the pants during filming. He had the bionic implants painted onto his arms for Mortal Kombat 3 (1995).

Steven Ritchie, who provides the voice of Shao Khan, is responsible for the franchise's name. He once sat in Ed Boon's office during the production of the first game where he noticed Boon's whiteboard had the word "combat" written on it, except some goofball crossed out the "c" and wrote a "k" near it. Ritchie then suggested "Mortal Kombat" as a play on the term "mortal combat" - that is, a fight to the death - and Boon later said it "just stuck" after that.

On very rare occasions, Jade or Smoke may appear in a geyser of fire right before a round starts to offer the player clues as to how to find them.

Richard Divizio played Kano in the first game and Baraka in the second game. But for public appearances he also acted as Scorpion.

Kyu Hwang and Michael Dow both were to play a character in the second game but their characters were cut out.

In 1996, Mortal Kombat II was released for Sony Playstation in Japan, selling only 1,000 copies.

Baraka was originally conceived as a ninja-like character with yellow and red robes and a human face, with hookswords instead of arm blades. These hookswords would later be used as the trademark weapon of Kabal from Mortal Kombat 3 (1995) onwards.

In the Tower and Portal stages, the floating characters wearing purple garments are monks.

Two additional fighters where planned to be made for this game. A female kickboxer named Cathy Long (Or Kathy?) And TuWang. They where dropped due to time constraints.

Raiden's name was originally spelled with an "I" in both Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 (as seen in the arcade versions). When Mortal Kombat was released to home systems such as Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive, his name became "Rayden". This was to avoid legal troubles with the already released aircraft shooting video game called "Raiden". Beginning with MK4, Raiden would have his name spelled as intended in all versions of every game.

Original concept art shows Shang Tsung with a demonic mask on.

In Mortal Kombats concept stage, a character was scrapped who was to have been Shang Tsungs daughter named Kitsune. She makes her debut now in Mortal Kombat II as Kitana!

Striker was a character that was converted to be in the original Mortal Kombat game. However after scrapping the original concept of a female character it was decided to change Striker to a female character and name her Sonya. Once again for Mortal Kombat II the development team.at Midway concepted Striker once more. However after some time developing the character the name was changed to Jax. Striker would again be concepted and finalised in MK3.

MKII introduced the juggling system.

Kintaro was originally going to look like the Kellogs Frosties Lion in a karate suit that resembled Ryu from Street Fighter. However it was soon decided to drop the outfit and give the character 4 arms like Goro and be a distant cousin of the previous games sub-boss.

Midway where actually excited to take on developing a Star Wars game after the release of MK1. However they found themselves ordered to make a sequel to Mortal Kimbat instead due to its overwhelming popularity.

The original concept was that all beings from Khans outworld had faces like Baraka and Mileena with the sharp teeth. This included Shoa Khan. It was later changed to what he is known as now.