Hell

Hell (also known as Scorpion's Lair and Hades in the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis ports of UMK3) is Scorpion's original battlefield and a stage in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. It debuted in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. In here, an opponent can be uppercutted in a pool of lava nearby.

It was never clarified if Hell and the Netherealm are one and the same, or if Hell is just a part of the realm. However, in several instruction booklets of earlier games, it is often referred to as "Earth's Hell," further confusing the matter.

Hell returns in Mortal Kombat (2011), with a darker, updated look from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. The changes madei n the arena is that there are less Skull pillars, there is smoke in the background, there is no lava for a stage Fatality, the skulls glow with sparks and lava and there are lit skulls on the ground. This arena can also be seen in Scorpion's Victory pose in the game.

Film and TV appearances
Scorpion's Lair featured in the film Mortal Kombat. After fighting Johnny Cage in a forest on Shang Tsung's island, Scorpion teleports both combatants to an unspecified location, "welcoming" Johnny Cage on arrival, before continuing the fight. The arena is lit red and contains seemingly endless, randomly arranged networks of wooden bridges and scaffolds, along with the skeletons and weaponry of dead warriors.

In the TV series Mortal Kombat: Conquest, the same location is shown using stock footage from the 1995 movie along with new footage. It is here that Scorpion recruits fighters for his organization and it is implied that after his defeat in the episode "Warrior Eternal", Scorpion 'fell' through the Earth to this place.