Megan Fox Is In 'Mortal Kombat 1' As Nitara, A Winged Vampire

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I don’t know what’s going on with Megan Fox lately and her interest in demonic video games, but I’m here for it. A few months after taking part in a Diablo 4 ad campaign where she mocked players’ hardcore deaths, now Megan Fox is actually in a video game, playing Nitara, a new vampiric character in Mortal Kombat 1.

Mortal Kombat is close to running out of IP cameos that even make sense at this point (we’re about to see both Homelander and Omni-Man in the new game). So I guess now they’re having actors play themselves as…bloodthirsty Mortal Kombat characters.

It’s not just Megan Fox doing the voice here, they have very clearly modeled the character after her as well. Fox famously played a vampiric demon in Jennifer’s Body, a chronically underrated horror movie from 2009 in the wake of her Transformers debut that in hindsight, seems like it was ahead of its time. I would also suggest a more recent Fox horror movie, Till Death, where she plays a woman handcuffed to her dead lover trying to escape assassination. It’s good!

I’m not especially sure if Fox is really into video games or if this is just her agent lining up some solidly paying gigs across these gaming companies (Update: I have just been informed Megan Fox is actually a huge Mortal Kombat superfan, which rules). Can I just say I love the fact that she’s doing an interview about playing this vampire whose fatality is using someone’s intestines like a bungee cord, and she shows up wearing a fuzzy pink hat? Amazing.

Here are all the confirmed characters for Mortal Kombat 1 at this point, which includes Nitara:

Ashrah Baraka Ermac General Shao Geras Havik Homelander Johnny Cage Kenshi Kitana Kung Lao Li Mei Liu Kang Mileena Nitara Omni-Man Peacemaker Quan Chi Raiden Rain Reptile Scorpion Shang Tsung Sindel Smoke Sub-Zero Takeda Tanya

The game itself is out on September 14, just a week from now. I’m not sure if we’ll see any more surprise “this character is actually played by this celebrity” cameos (sorry, kameos) before then, but at this rate, who knows. This is one of the wackiest installments of the game so far, it seems, and it’s turning into a lot of fun. We’ll see how it does in a crowded year of incredible games, but I suppose it’s picked an okay release date, a week or two after Starfield and before Spider-Man and Call of Duty.

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