Supply: Warner Bros. Video games/ NetherRealm Studios / Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns / Cyrax
Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns is the primary main replace coming to MK1, and a few avid gamers are BIG MAD that two in style characters have been gender-swapped, and of them are Black.
In Mortal Kombat 1, because of the efforts of Hearth God Lui Kang, the sacred timeline was reset, ushering in a brand new period of peace and making some adjustments to the characters we all know from earlier video games.
Within the newest trailer delivered by NetherRealm Studios, we see these particularly with the 2 in style cyber ninjas, Cyrax and Sektor.
The primary trailer for the reason that enlargement’s announcement at San Diego Comedian-Con follows Cyrax, one of many six new playable characters becoming a member of the already expansive roster of fighters.
This model of Cyrax is a Black girl. She is a younger Lin Kuei warrior from the Zaki clan whose abilities are second to none, incomes her the distinction of donning a cyber go well with. She additionally has the distinction of serving instantly underneath Sektor, who has been gender-swapped this time.
Not like Sektor, Cyrax serves Lin Kuei and her grandmaster, Sub-Zero, on her personal phrases, which doesn’t sit nicely together with her mentor.
Whereas giving us her backstory, the trailer additionally exhibits off Cyrax’s spectacular moveset, fatality, and animality and needs to be obtained as simply one other trailer to get us excited for the Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reign’s enlargement, proper?
Fallacious.
After all, some of us are shedding their sh*t at the truth that each Cyrax and Sektor are not males. One individual specifically hopped on X, previously Twitter, to complain about Cyrax displaying her face and being Black.
This Is Not The First Time Cyrax Was Black
Hilariously, of us, we’re fast to remind him that one other model of Cyrax took the masks off, revealing himself as a Black man GASP.
There’s even an internet site calling the choice a “woke catastrophe” and alleging that the Montreal-based session studio Candy Child Inc. was behind the choice to vary Cyrax and Sektor in Mortal Kombat 1.
These folks severely must go outdoors and contact grass.
Social media has been clowning the oldsters who’re mad about Cyrax and Sektor’s adjustments; you may see these reactions within the gallery beneath.