'I Don't Climb Over Others to Get Ahead' — Mortal Kombat Movie Producer Reacts After Street Fighter Cast Threw Big Shots at the Mortal Kombat 2 Cast | The Game Awards 2025

One of the large surprises astatine The Game Awards 2025 was not lone the debut trailer for the Street Fighter movie, but the quality on-stage of the full cast. That’s right, the likes of Jason Momoa, who plays Blanka, Cody Rhodes, who plays Guile, and Roman Reigns, who plays Akuma turned up to hype up adjacent year’s Street Fighter adaptation.

And past came 1 of the highlights of the full amusement — astatine slightest for maine personally arsenic a lifelong instrumentality of some Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Comedian Andrew Schulz, who plays Dan Hibiki, went for the formed of Mortal Kombat 2 with a gag that surely got the attraction of fans online.

“We’re not the lone crippled that appreciates your patronage,” Schulz began. “There’s different crippled retired there, they besides flew from astir the satellite to beryllium present due to the fact that they admit you. So springiness it up for the full formed of Mortal Kombat 2!”

As the assemblage applauded successful anticipation of the Mortal Kombat 2 formed really coming retired onto the stage, Schulz revealed the truth: “I’m conscionable kidding. They didn’t come. They don’t attraction astir you. They lone attraction astir money. We attraction astir wealth AND you. Street Fighter FOREVER!”

The formed of the Street Fighter Movie conscionable threw BIG shots astatine the Mortal Kombat Movie Kast astatine #TheGameAwards! Oh it's on! 😤 pic.twitter.com/IbclswNMnq

“They conscionable started a war,” declared warring crippled streamer unCAGEDgamez. “Oh it's on!” Reaction from different fans was similar. "No 1 from this Street Fighter formed outdoing Scorpion and Sub-Zero," said different Mortal Kombat fan. "Hadoukens fired!" 1 instrumentality added.

Todd Garner, shaper of the Mortal Kombat 2 movie, besides chimed successful with a absorption of his own. Clearly a small enactment retired by the joke, Garner tweeted: “I don’t ascent implicit others to get ahead.”

But then, later, helium offered a much diplomatic assessment, portion keeping the anterior tweet live: “I anticipation they some are huge.”

This each leans into the long-standing rivalry betwixt Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, a rivalry that goes backmost to the ‘90s and banter-filled schoolhouse playgrounds. I’m aged capable to retrieve being forced to prime a broadside astatine schoolhouse portion secretly enjoying some games astatine home. But determination is simply a delicious afloat ellipse infinitesimal coming adjacent twelvemonth when, somewhat improbably, some Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat 2 deed theaters wrong 5 months of each other. Mortal Kombat 2 goes first, connected May 8, past Street Fighter counters connected October 16.

The lone mode we tin settee this is by yet releasing a Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter game, of course. NetherRealm improvement main Ed Boon has said aggregate times implicit the years that specified a crossover was a imagination of his, and helium successful information tried to marque it hap but negotiations with Capcom collapsed. Maybe now, with some games getting their movie adaptations adjacent year, the clip is close for a rematch?

As for Schulz’s joke, it was conscionable that and not worthy taking excessively seriously. Let’s retrieve he’s playing gag quality Dan successful the movie, truthful is astir surely going to get beaten to a pulp successful hilarious fashion. I ideate Todd Garner volition bask that one.

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