The combatants -- er, sorry, "kombatants" -- in Mortal Kombat 11 have been slaughtering each other for six months straight by now. It turns out NetherRealm Studios has been keeping track of just how much everybody's been slaughtering each other during the 200 million+ hours that the game has been played.
The official Mortal Kombat YouTube account has released a video just how much death and destruction is on display, and the numbers go beyond brutal and well into the realm of ridiculous.
The most immediately-interesting detail is the tally of who has been killing the most and who has been savagely slaughtered the most. It's Scorpion for both.
This may seem surprising, but it makes sense when you realize that Scorpion is the most iconic and most-popular character -- er, sorry, kharacter. Both good and bad players have used him the most, meaning that not only has he racked up the most wins, but he has also racked up the highest percentage of the game's 346,522,493 fatalities.
A fun bit of trivia, actually -- if every man, woman, and child in the United States had their spine pulled out, that still wouldn't be enough fatalities to match the number that has been performed in-game. It's fun to note that if everyone on earth were crushed in a wine press, they'd squeeze out about 90 billion pints of blood -- far less than the 129 billion pints that were spilled in-game.
...maybe I have a different definition of "fun" than most?
Of course, this absurd amount of gore is par for the course for the Mortal Kombat series. The gore in the 11th installment is so graphic that one of the developers was reportedly diagnosed with PTSD after working on the game since it required the developers to research actual real-world violence.
Series co-creator Ed Boon has announced that Mortal Kombat 11 is the "end of the story" for the Mortal Kombat franchise, but that doesn't mean that Nether Realms is through with Mortal Kombat -- there's reportedly something big in the works for 2020.