Original Fatalities: Fatalities were the original type of finishing moves. They have changed the face of the genre forever. Originally, Fatalities were "dark, evil, and violent" ways to kill an opponent after winning the fight. MK4 returns to this style and features extremely gory Fatalities like the original ones. In fact, many of the original Fatals have been applied to MK4 in 3D while the other Fatals in the game are all-new, but follow the same line of violence.

Prison Fan Stage Fatality: The winner grabs his opponent by his/her left arm and leg, and begins to spin while holding the loser of the fight at roughly shoulder-height. The camera switches to a view right above the winner's shoulder, looking toward the opponent. The camera then goes back to a normal view of the action as the winner lets go of the opponent, tossing him/her into the large fan on the center of the back wall. The opponent is mutilated by it, in a shower of fresh red blood, and body parts falling out. The opponent's now-severed head then flies out of the fan and hits the camera, leaving a large stain of blood on the lens before dropping to the floor.

Goro Lair Stage Fatality: The winner uppercuts his opponent. The camera pans down and views the scene from a diagonal upward perspective as the victim flies up to the spikes on the ceiling.

Fatality 1: Shinnok throws something at the floor, and is immediately engulfed in flames. He disappears, and a swirling portal opens up right next to the opponent. Suddenly, a huge skeletal hand comes out of the portal, and grabs in the direction of the opponent. It grabs him/her, and wraps its long bony fingers around its now tiny body. It begins to squeeze, and after a few squeezes, the head of the opponent pops off, and blood squirts everywhere. The hand slowly goes back into the portal and Shinnok re-appears.

Fatality 2: Shinnok begins to levitate his opponent, and then dissappears into thin air, and a very large portal appears under the floating opponent. The camera zooms out, showing the entire portal, and in the center of the screen, the opponent, hanging lifelessly in the air. Suddenly, 2 huge skeleton hands come out of the portal. One hand goes to the left side of the opponent, and the other goes to the right side. Then, both hands clap, and come together at the same time, smashing the opponent between the 2 skeleton hands. Blood and body parts shoot all over, and the hands go back into the portal, before it closes and Shinnok re-appears.

Fatality 1: Raiden grabs his opponent and lifts him above his head. He then begins to shock him/her with his lightning powers. As Raiden is shocking his opponent, the camera slowly goes from a frontal view of the fatality to an overhead view. After around 5 seconds of shocking, the opponent explodes into pieces. The explosion is then shown from 2 different angles, the last angle being another overhead "birds-eye" view. The opponent's head flies up at the camera, then falls back down and hits the ground.

Fatality 2: Raiden, standing before the helpless opponent, raises his arm high into the air. His lightning staff appears in the palm of his hand, and he shoves the end of the staff through the opponent's stomach, impaling the victim. The thunder god then proceeds to send electricity through the staff to finish the victim off. He swings the staff down to drop the carcas to the ground.

Fatality 1: Large green clouds begin to form around Liu Kang, and he is soon engulfed in the mist. The mist slowly dissipates before revealing a huge green dragon, ala MK2, in Liu Kang's place. The dragon chomps down on its helpless opponent, taking in his/her whole mid-section. It then swings it around a few times before slamming it back to the ground, a bloody mess.

Fatality 2: The camera view zooms far away from the two Kombatants as Liu Kang grabs his helpless victim and throws him/her toward the camera. He then shoots a fireball at the body while it's still in the air. It hits the opponent's body, causing it to explode so that blood and bodyparts hit and stain on your camera view.

Fatality 1: Reptile runs up and tackles his opponent, and wraps his legs around the opponent's waist. He grabs the opponent's head with both hands, and begins to viciously chew away all of the flesh on his/her face. Blood shoots everywhere as the camera spins in a full circle around Reptile. Then, Reptile lets go of his opponent and backs away. The opponent stumbles back, and falls to the ground. The camera zooms in, showing the characters face, now nothing more than a bunch of blood and muscles attached to a skull.

Fatality 2:Reptile stands just outside of sweep distance as the camera shifts from its normal position to behind the dizzy opponent. From behind the opponent, we see Reptile beginning to levitate and float up into the air. Then, once he's made his way up, he vomits a whole bunch of acid spit straight down in the opponent's direction. The opponent screams in pain as the acid begins to burn away his/her flesh. Soon, all that's left is a bloody skeleton. Finally, Reptile comes back down to the ground and the camera zooms in on what's left of the opponent.

Fatality 1: Scorpion removes his mask revealing his skull for a head. He then shoots a blast of fire at his opponent, engulfing them in flames. The opponent goes running around on fire, helpless, with their arms swinging around, while Scorpion holds up his mask in victory.

Fatality 2: Scorpion is covered by an orange mist. As the mist clears up, he appears in the form of the insect from which his name was taken. He grabs the opponent's ankles with his claws, holding him/her in place. He then shoves his stinger right through the helpless victim's torso, and moves it around a bit. After a moment, he pulls, causing the victim's body to seperate; the upper half still on the tail. He keeps his tail above his body with the blood dripping on his back while his claws are still holding the ankles.

Fatality 1: Jax walks up and grabs both of his opponent's arms. He then puts his foot against his/her torso for balance, and begins to tug both of his/her arms. The opponent begins to bend over Jax's foot as he pulls harder and harder. Then, the right arm comes ripping off, then the left, shooting blood all over the place. Jax throws both arms to the ground, and the opponent stands there with blood shooting out of his/her arm sockets before falling to the ground.

Fatality 2: Both of Jax's fists begin to radiate a purple light. He continues to charge them up, and they begin to glow a brighter and brighter purple. Then, Jax takes both fists, and delievers a powerful slam to the opponent's head, crushing it to peices. The glowing fists explode into tiny purple particles and shoot in all directions upon impact. Blood shoots out of the opponents neck, as he/she falls to the ground.

Fatality 1: Reiko lifts his knee to his chest, and delivers a very powerful kick directly to the opponent's torso. The torso rips away from the rest of the body and falls to the ground, shooting blood everywhere. The head and the 2 arms remain suspended in the air for a split second, spinning, before they, too, fall to the ground.

Fatality 2: Reiko showers his opponent's body with shurikens. He then holds his last one to his eye for aim and throws it right between the victim's eyes. The victim drops to the ground.

Fatality 1: Johnny Cage grabs his opponent by the waist, and twists their upper torso 90 degrees, which breaks his/her spine. Then, he pulls up on the upper section of the opponents body forcefully, and it tears off, blood shooting everywhere. Cage holds it up while the camera makes a full 360 degree circle around the fatality. Finally, Cage throws it to the ground, where a puddle of blood forms.

Fatality 2: Johnny Cage stands close, and ducks right in front of his opponent. He then "charges" his fist, as it begins to glow with green shadows. After it is fully charged, he delivers a powerful uppercut to his/her opponent, with green shadows trailing behind. The opponent's head gets knocked right off of their neck. Blood shoots everywhere, and the head goes bouncing to the ground, while the body falls to it's knees, then to the ground, as well.

Fatality 1: Jarek delivers a strong punch to his opponent's torso, which punctures the flesh. Blood shoots out while Jarek moves his hand around inside the opponent's chest, trying to find the heart. Once he finds it, he pulls it out, and holds it up, still beating and dripping with blood.

Fatality 2: Lasers shoot out of both of Jarek's eyes. The large red beams stretch all the way across the screen. Jarek stands at sweep distance in front of his opponent, and looks up toward the ceiling. He slowly begins to look forward, bringing his head back down, which brings the deadly lasers closer and closer to his opponent. Suddenly, he swipes the lasers across the opponent's head, ripping it to peices. Then he takes another slash, this time aiming for the opponent's torso, which is also torn into peices by the lasers. Jarek performs his win stance with the lasers still emitting from both of his eyes.

Fatality 1: Kai grabs one of your legs and arms, and holds you up over his head. The camera circles around Kai as he holds his opponent up, and the announcer chuckles. Kai begins to attempt to pull you apart at the waist. After a couple of tugs, you break in half at the mid-section, and blood shoots everywhere. Kai drops the remaining 2 halves of your body to the ground. The upper half twitches and moves around as though its still alive before laying lifeless.

Fatality 2: Kai begins to levitate and floats up into the air. The camera angle shifts and ends up just behind the opponent's left shoulder, looking upward at Kai. Then, he shoots a large fireball straight at the opponent, and it hits his/her head, exploding it to pieces. The camera angle shifts again, this time panning upward towards the ceiling, looking down at the decapitated opponent at a "birds-eye" view, now dead on the ground, with his/her bloody head sitting a couple of feet away.

Fatality 1: Tanya walks up to her opponent, and kisses them on the cheek. She steps away as the opponent is looking embarrassed and puzzled. Suddenly, his/her arms bend in the wrong direction, then his/her legs, head, and torso all twist in the wrong direction. After a few seconds of being painfully suspended in the air, the helpless opponent explodes into pieces. Blood and body parts fly all over, and splatter on to the screen.

Fatality 2: Tanya jumps up on top of your shoulders, just as if she was doing her breaker move. The camera pans upward, showing an "above the head" view of Tanya sitting on her opponent's shoulders, with his/her head between her legs. Then, she twists her legs counterclockwise, turning the opponents head with it. Only this time, instead of just hyperextending it out of place as it is in her breaker, the head dangles there, and bobbles around on his/her neck, making cracking and crunching noises.

Fatality 1: Fujin does his Whirlwind Spin just like normal, and the opponent goes helplessly flying into the air. However this time, he/she stays up there. Fujin takes out his crossbow, and the camera angle changes, and zooms in to just behind Fujin so we can get a good look at the fatality. He shoots one of his green fireballs straight for the tornado, and blood and body parts go flying everywhere as the opponent explodes. It is then shown from two different angles, the last getting splatted with blood.

Fatality 2: Fujin stands at sweep distance, and begins to generate a huge gust of wind. He then directs it towards his opponent. The skin and clothes come peeling off of his/her body chunk by chunk, and soon a bloody skeleton is all that is left. Fujin continues to blow wind at the skeleton, and it goes flying to the ground. The camera then pans upward towards the ceiling, and zooms in on the bloody corpse lying on the ground.

Fatality 1: Sub-Zero gets behind his opponent, and grabs the top of his/her head. He then proceeds to tug furiously, and after around 2 to 3 tugs, their head gets ripped right from their shoulders, spine still connected. Blood shoots everywhere. The character falls to their knees, blood still shooting out of his/her neck. The camera zooms out and circles around Sub-Zero as he holds up the decapitated head, while the character stumbles to the ground, a puddle of blood forming near his neck.

Fatality 2: Sub-Zero raises his hands in a "Y" position. Snow and ice begin to fall from the sky and into his hands. After a few seconds, he takes his hands from the sky and points them at his opponent, shooting the ice at him/her, and deep freezing them like his Fatality in MK2. Then, the camera zooms way out and upwards towards the ceiling. Sub-Zero walks up to his opponent and uppercuts them, shattering them to pieces. Blood and chunks of ice go flying all over the screen.

Fatality 1: Quan Chi walks up to you, and grabs your leg. He lifts it up to his waist, and puts his left foot against your waist for balance. He then uses both hands to tug at your leg as hard as he can, while you're stumbling around on one foot. After a few tugs, the leg comes tearing off, with blood shooting out of your hip and the decapitated leg. Quan Chi then takes a swing at you with your leg, hitting you to the ground, still bleeding. He then beats you with it repeatedly. Each time the opponent makes an attempt to get up, he/she gets knocked back down by the leg. Without a doubt this is one of the most demented and hilarious fatalities in Mortal Kombat's history.

Fatality 2: Quan Chi mimics, or spoofs the 2nd Fatality of his opponent. For example, if he's playing against Fujin, and he wins, he'll perform Fujin's 2nd fatality, which is the Wind Skinner Fatality. If he happens to play against himself, he'll do his first fatality against himself, which is the Leg Rip & Beat.

Fatality 1: Sonya holds her hand to her mouth and "blows" her opponent a kiss. A pink energy ball is emitted, and slowly starts to float towards her opponent. The ball hits her opponent at the mid-section, tearing his/her body in half, sending pink sparks and blood everywhere. The fatality is then shown from 2 different angles, with the last angle getting splatted with blood and body parts.

Fatality 2: Sonya grabs her opponent's body by the waist on either side with her feet, while standing on her hands. She then lifts the victim into the air, forming a "T" shape, while she applies strength onto to sides of the victim. The victim's body splits in half, and she swings her legs apart, blood and bones fly.