Toasty!

"Toasty" was an easter egg first featured in Mortal Kombat 3. It originated as an inside joke between members of the Mortal Kombat development team, and made it's way into the game via an image of sound designer Dan Forden appearing in the lower-right corner of the screen, making a funny face, and sing "Toasty!" when the player performed an uppercut. On the "Portal" stage, if players pressed down and start while Dan's face was still on the screen, then they could qualify to face Smoke. It has been rumored that if the player was Scorpion, and used the "Bloody Spear" special attack, and then made the uppercut and pressed down+start, that when they faced smoke, he would have a coloring fault where his color was exactly like Scorpion's yellow, although this has not been confirmed, and was attained from an unreliable source. The "Toasty" joke quickly became an element in Mortal Kombat and reappeared in many places, such as in Mortal Kombat 4, where Dan Forden would sing "Toasty 3D!" making a point of the fact that Mortal Kombat 4 was the first game in the series that utilized 3D graphics. It was also discovered in Shaolin Monks, where if the player pulled off a long chain of hits, that Dan Forden would sing "Toasty!", but his picture would not appear. If the player pressed start while Dan was still singing, then they would be awarded with 1000 experience. It has also appeared in Deception in two places. When playing Chess Kombat and putting the "Kill" spell on another player, Dan will sing "Toasty!" on rare occasions. In Deception's Konquest mode, if you want to acquire the Earthrealm Kamidogu without obtaining the password first, Shujinko will try "Toasty" as the password and gain access.