Mortal Kombat 1 promises deep cuts and fan service when it launches in September. The soft reboot of NetherRealm’s fighting game franchise brings back classic versions of Sonya, Jax, and Kano, alongside reimagined versions of Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Raiden, and Liu Kang. They even put Stryker in there! But one of the better low-key additions to it MK1 is a robot that first appears in the 30-year-old franchise: Johnny Cage’s Roomba.
Fans who have played NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat 1 stress test last week uncovered a few new details about the Roomba – which are almost certainly none officially iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner – including that it will actually try to clean up the blood splattered all over Johnny Cage’s beautiful marble floors.
Johnny’s robot vacuum cleaner behaves just like a real cleaning robot, crashing into objects and reorienting itself as part of its bloodlust to clean up dust. It’s something a programmer at NetherRealm released way too much time, probably – and it makes for a nice little touch Mortal Kombat 1‘s highly detailed stages.
And yes, if Roomba gets too close, you can kick it.
Like everything in the Mortal Kombat universe, Roomba can also die a gruesome death. Here the vacuum cleaner dies by accidentally falling into Cage’s own pool. The video below is the best confirmation we have so far of Hara-Kiri moves, a finisher introduced in Mortal Kombat: cheatingreturning to Mortal Kombat.
[Warning: The following video contains graphic content of a vacuum exploding.]
Johnny’s Roomba may need a firmware update first Mortal Kombat 1‘s launch, however. As seen in the video below, after Kenshi divides Kitana into two pieces of beef, Roomba tries to clean up the sloppy mess, but gets overwhelmed and tries to fly back to its home planet.
The extent of Roomba’s capabilities will only become apparent when Mortal Kombat 1 launches September 19 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X.