X-Ray Attack

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The X-Ray attack is a brand new move/feature that made its debut in Mortal Kombat (2011).

The X-Ray attack allows players to see and damage the muscles, the bones and internal organs of the characters. X-Ray attacks are based off of the character's personal style and gameplay, not just a copy of another character.

X-Ray attacks are the most powerful feature in Mortal Kombat (2011), it will do the most damage to your character. Hans Lo and Hector Sanchez have confirmed it being the strongest move in the game, that you will most likely not do more than 4 attacks in 2 rounds, because they don't want it to be the most overused feature in the game.

Each character has its own skeleton depending on its race. The Tarkata such as Baraka and Mileena will have the structure of a Tarkatan face, with sharp teeth. The Zaterrans will have a skeleton identical to a real reptile and the Shokan will have upscaled skeletons with four arms and bulk bones.

In order for the X-Ray attacks to work, there is a new super-meter made especially for the X-Rays at the bottom of the screen during gameplay. It has to be completely full in order to do an X-Ray attack. The super-meter fills up by doing special moves, combos and really damaging your opponent.

The Mortal Kombat team knew it was going to be a big feature once it made its debut at E3 2010. It was something the fans have wanted to see for a long time.

List of X-Ray Attacks

 * Scorpion: First he uses his teleport move, punches his opponent in the cheekbone of the skull, slightly cracking the skull open. The opponent falls down on his back, and scorpion stomps on the opponent's ribcage also cracking it open.
 * Mileena: She takes her hand and impales it into her opponent's stomach. She takes her hand out, and uses her knee to hit her opponent in the jaw of the skull.
 * Reptile: Takes two fingers and rakes his opponent in the eyes. Then reptile takes his hands and twists his/her neck. Finally, Reptile kicks his opponent in the stomach.
 * Sub-Zero: First, Sub-Zero reaches inside his opponent and grabs his/her liver, freezes it, and crushes it to smithereens. Then he reaches his hand back out of the opponent and headbutts on the side of his/her skull, cracking it open.
 * Sektor: Shoots a missile at his opponent, causing him/her to fly on the other side of the screen. Sektor quickly teleports from the ground, comes up and smashes his opponent in the bottom of the jaw, cracking the skull. Then Sektor powers up and uses his arm to pound his opponent's back, damaging the back of the rib-cage.
 * Johnny Cage: Johnny Cage punches his opponent in the crotch 3 times, causing his opponent to bend over. Johnny jumps in the air, and comes back down on the back of his opponent's rib cage with his elbow, cracking the spine and the back of the ribcage.
 * Kung Lao: He karate-chops his opponent in the neck, damaging the spine. As a reaction, his opponent bends over in pain, then Kung Lao karate chops the back of the neck.
 * Nightwolf: He quickly turns his opponent around in order for his/her back to face Nightwolf. Then, Nightwolf takes two tomahawks and impales them on both shoulders of his opponent, damaging the shoulders and the back of the rib cage. Then he kicks his opponent in the back, cracking the shoulder blades and the spine.
 * Sonya: She uses her legs to snap and twist her opponent in the neck, nearly breaking it. Then she uses her bicycle-kick move, lifting her opponent in the air. Then Sonya grabs her opponent with her legs, flipping her opponent down to the ground, landing upside-down on his/her skull cracking it open.
 * Cyrax: First, Cyrax shoots a missile at his opponent, causing him/her to fly in the air. Cyrax teleports into the air with his opponent, and kicks him/her in the back. Then Cyrax grabs his opponent by the hip and quickly lands back to the ground, giving his opponent a face-plant, damaging the jaw line and the middle of the skull.
 * Kitana: Kitana goes behind her opponent and impales her steel fans in the back of the opponent's skull. She teleports in front of her opponent, takes the fans out of the back of the skull, and stabs both of them into the eyes of her opponent, causing the skull to crack more.
 * Jax: He Gotcha-Grabs his opponent, and throws him/her directly above his head. He catches his opponent and grabs him/her in the back, backbreaking his opponent and damaging the lower ribs, the stomach, the hips and the upper knee. Then Jax throws his opponent back into the air once more and grabs his opponent, bending him/her on the back of Jax's neck, doing another backbreak move.
 * Ermac: Ermac lifts his opponent in the air with his telekintetic powers and turns his opponent upside-down. He lands his opponent onto the ground head-first, damaging the front of the skull and passes-out on the ground. Ermacs floats himself above his opponent, then landing on his opponent crushing his/her back, damaging the spine and the back of the ribcage.
 * Liu Kang: First, he does a kartwheel on his opponent, then takes his fist and punches his opponent in the bottom of the jaw. The opponent's skull cracks and loses teeth, causing him/her to fly in the air. Then Liu Kang karate kicks his opponent in the jaw damaging the skull even more.
 * Goro: Goro lifts and holds his opponent in the air with his lower arms. Goro takes his upper arms and squeezes his opponent's skull, causing it to heavilly crack in the jaw, the brain, the cheeks and allows his opponent to lose some teeth. Goro tosses his opponent in the air, grabbing him/her by the feet. Once the opponent is grabbed by the feet, Goro slams him/her onto the ground, damaging the skull even further and cracking his opponent's rib cage and spine open.