Hara-Kiri

A Hara-Kiri is a finisher introduced in Mortal Kombat: Deception.

Overview

A Hara-Kiri is an alternate finisher where the losing player would cause their own death by using an input combination similar to performing a Fatality. While the player who's victorious will still win, the Hara-Kiri serves as a method of the losing player to be able to end the match on their terms instead of allowing the winning player the opportunity to finish them off. Hara-Kiri, in Japanese, (腹切) literally means "disembowelment."

Trivia

• Kenshi is the only character in Mortal Kombat: Deception who performs the traditional Hara-Kiri which involves self-disembowelment; while a Hara-Kiri is typically performed with a Tanto, Kenshi will use Sento to perform the Hara-Kiri.

• While the Hara-Kiri was introduced in Mortal Kombat: Deception, there has been suicide-based finishers in other games in the Mortal Kombat series. A few examples of suicide based finishers include; Cyrax's "Self Destruct" Fatality in Mortal Kombat 3 (and all ports) has Cyrax enter a code into his arm panel and subsequently explode, killing both fighters. One of Raiden's Fatalities in Deception has him releasing a ball of energy and throwing it at his opponent resulting in both of them exploding from the energy burst. Cyber Sub-Zero has a Fatality where he enters a code into his arm panel and jumps onto his opponent and grab them, the two freeze and quickly burst into shards of ice. In Mortal Kombat X, Predator has a Brutality where he presses a button on his arm panel before laughing with a timer being heard, ending with both fighters exploding.
• In Mortal Kombat X, Kotal Kahn has a Brutality titled Offering, which has the hallmarks of a Hara-Kiri. In it, Kotal does not harm his opponent in any way but will rather commit suicide by cutting his upper torso open, granting victory to his opponent.
• Hara-Kiri is similar to the ancient tradition of Seppuku.

Gallery

Kenshi performing the traditional Hara-Kiri.

Hotaru pulling his own head and spine off.

Mileena stabbing herself in the head with Sais.

Havik pulls off his own head and shows it to the player.

Sub-Zero freezes himself before shattering onto the ground.

Nightwolf killing himself with his own tomahawk.