Point-Counter-Point: DC vs. Mortal Kombat

What is this?

I found myself wracked by a myriad of emotions upon seeing this very image. Something like confusion bordering on horror mixed with disappointment. Was it a joke? In some ways it makes sense. Somewhere in the line of Mortal Kombat's convoluted storyline, which involves an extra dimensional "Otherworld" which is controlled by vaguely Asian/Feline demon types that decide they need to cross over into the "Earthrealm" in order to destroy the world, enslave humanity, and steal everyone's souls in the most generically evil way, the plot had to cross paths with someone else's intellectual property. The DC Universe is equally muddled in its own mythology, so much so, that the entire universe had to be restarted in 1985 in order to get things making sense again, and that involved creating a multiverse where there are different worlds in which some fictions "really" happened and some didn't.

I assume on one of these Earths is where we will have Superman fighting a guy with spikes coming out of his wrists and so on. I would think that a C-List franchise (such as MK) seemed more likely to come up against something equally mediocre in quality. I'm thinking Mortal Kombat vs. Clayfighters, at least then they could keep the only original trademark of the series- people ripping each other's limbs off and spouting blood.

It simply makes no sense that DC Comics (perhaps DC Komiks for this outing) would tie themselves to this brand and this developer. It is like Disney letting the publishers of Juggs magazine put out a line of childrens books starring Mickey Mouse and a woman called "Chesty McGrue". I mean, Capcom vs. DC would be fabulous, they even have a history in making these types of games with their Marvel vs. Capcom series being among the most lauded fighting games in the history of the genre. DC would be giving their babies into the hands of a capable developer and at the same time the product could advertise itself as a sequel franchise to an already wildly popular set of games.

This concept reaks of inappropriate combining of worlds, like Abbot and Costello meet the Mummy, or Solid Snake running around in Super Smash Brothers. In fact, I think DC Meets Mortal Kombat would be a better description of the whole affair, maybe we could hope for the best that after a short exchange both parties go their seperate ways without even concieving the word "sequel."