Board Thread:Mortal Kombat Wiki/@comment-25163804-20151204045728/@comment-422853-20151209034426

73.161.32.121 wrote: 73.161.32.121 wrote: Ridley Prime wrote: Oh, I guess Leatherface's inclusion was actually to promote a new chainsaw movie that comes out next year, which I didn't know about till recently...

Ugh. I like to think that having more of such guests to begin with was mostly WB's doing, while Ed Boon/NRS only got to pick Bo Rai Cho/Tri-Borg for the KP. Yeah the guests dont even fit the sihoulettes the slasher movie might be bad too. but another possibility is that they chose Leatherface as a tribute to the actor who died recently.

I considered that initially as shown by my first post, but the timing doesn't add up. See, the actor passed away only a month ago, while KP2 was announced back in August or September, and it couldn't of taken less than a month to fully finish Leatherface's model for the game, among other stuff. Does make Gunnar Hansen's death a bit more tragic though due to the timing I guess.

There's hope that the new movie will help revive the slasher genre, but I'm not holding my breath for it.

And yeah, trying to make sense of Tri-Borg as though he's canon is dumb.