7.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Mortal Kombat: Legacy (2011)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.6
Overview
The first season of Mortal Kombat Legacy is a prequel to the original game, explaining the background stories of several characters from the series and demonstrating their reasons for participating in the upcoming tenth Mortal Kombat tournament on which the first game was based.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Female Combat: Yes
Race Swap: Yes
Buddhism: Positive
Overview
The first season of Mortal Kombat Legacy is a prequel to the original game, explaining the background stories of several characters from the series and demonstrating their reasons for participating in the upcoming tenth Mortal Kombat tournament on which the first game was based.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The series is primarily an apolitical action-fantasy narrative centered on good versus evil, individual character origins, and martial arts, without promoting or critiquing specific political ideologies.
The movie features a visibly diverse cast that largely aligns with the established characters from its source material, without explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative primarily focuses on action and character development, and does not critically portray traditional identities or center around explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
The show features Skarlet, who uses her martial arts and blood-enhanced blades to defeat the male swordsman Kenshi in direct physical combat, demonstrating superior combat prowess.
The series features multiple race swaps. Scorpion, canonically Japanese, is portrayed by a White actor. Raiden, typically depicted as East Asian-coded in human form, is also played by a White actor. Kenshi, canonically Japanese, is also portrayed by a White actor.
The series positively portrays Shaolin monasticism, a branch of Buddhism, through the character of Liu Kang. His spiritual discipline, moral integrity, and martial arts prowess are directly attributed to his monastic training, presenting his faith as a source of strength and virtue.
The web series "Mortal Kombat: Legacy" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative focuses exclusively on the origin stories and combat encounters of its diverse cast of fighters within the established Mortal Kombat universe, without incorporating queer identities or storylines.
Mortal Kombat: Legacy does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The series focuses on the origins and conflicts of established Mortal Kombat characters, without engaging with transgender identity or related storylines.
The show adapts characters from the Mortal Kombat video game series. All major characters, such as Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Sonya Blade, and Johnny Cage, retain their established genders from the source material. No instances of gender swapping were identified.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.3
6.9
Critic Ratings
8.6
N/A
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