His favorite Mortal Kombat character since the beginning of the
Ed Boon posing with John Tobias and Goro.
franchise has been Scorpion, to whom he also lends his voice until Patrick Seitz began voicing Scorpion starting in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.
He named the character Tanya after his own sister, Tania. Boon also named Sonya Blade after his other sister, Sonya.
Boon is a longtime fan of the late singer/songwriter Prince; this has long been attributed to the selection of ninjaRain's purple palette swap since the character's debut appearance in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995).
As a nod to another one of his favorite bands, Genesis, a code for the original MK game, accessible only for the Sega Genesis version, consists of pressing the buttons A, B, A, C, A, B, B in this order, spelling the name of their album Abacab (though with an extra "B"). As for the code, it enables a debug menu which can be used to allow gore in the game.
He has faced the winner of GameSpot's Scream It! contest in an MK battle. Users had to show that they were the biggest fans of the series by putting together a video and uploading it to the site.[2]
Boon has stated that he would like to see a Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter video game.[3]
He has stated in the past that his all-time favorite fighting game series is Tekken, and that he likes playing it in his spare time.
Coincidentally, actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who originally played Shang Tsung in the first Mortal Kombat film also took the role of Heihachi Mishima, one of the two antagonists in the live action film adaptation of Tekken.
Ed Boon currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest running voice actor in video games, having been the voice of Scorpion since the series began in 1992.
His favorite fatality is Quan Chi's Leg Beatdown fatality, whereas his least favorite is the Neck Stretch fatality, which also belongs to Quan Chi. This is ironic since both his favorite and least favorite fatality belong to the same character.
According to the E3 All Access interview with Ed Boon, his favorite video game company, and its consoles are Nintendo.
In Johnny Cage's Reveal for Mortal Kombat 11, Ed Boon's name can be seen during his Fatality.
His voice is also heard saying "Deadly Uppercut, Take one and two", along with his arms holding the action sign.
