Mortal Kombat :The Live Tour publicity promo on KTLA 5

KTLA 5 News Los Angeles invited the actors of the Mortal Kombat: Live Tour to the station to promote their tour in 1996.

[@mediaparty312]

Damn, Shang Tsung got the hardest job trying to sell anything Mortal Kombat-related to parents in the 90's lol

[@sirmasterdan]

Shang Tsung has a fleeting moment of panic at 1:50 when he is asked about what sort of positive messages are in the show, but is able to make up some BS on the spot.

[@AZ-rg3rf]

I'm surprised none of the cast burst out laughing from that load of BS that he unleashed 😆

[@rairai5114]

Well, this was better than the second movie..

[@JTC.Productions]

Sergei M. OMFG YAS

[@Grubbo]

"Mother! You're alive!" "Too bad you... will go on a live tour!"

[@Chilling_Chilling]

@@Grubbo legitimately lold at this 😂

[@moves666]

The guy playing Kano used to work in a Deli around the corner from my house. He went from making my chicken cutlet hero's to being an agent of outworld LMFAO!

[@theungreatkahli]

Hahaha. You think he could get his buddy Kabal’s autograph for me?

[@jordongutierrez1219]

Thats hilarious

[@drkissinger1]

No one noticed when Shang Tsung had to step in and stop the host from creeping on Sonya?

[@KuWota2k]

Mad respect for Shang tbh

[@FlyingWalrusOP]

Why do I have a cat purring in my ear?

[@jkmiah33]

I was wondering

[@King.-Arthur]

It is 2 in the morning and it took me about three seconds to comprehend this comment. Then I made an audible "hiheh."

[@krumplethemal8831]

That's the cringe monster's laugh..

[@jakeo102]

It was the 90s man.

[@inthedeadhours]

*cheering* RINZLER!!!

[@Eidlones]

Reporter could not be less interested, until Sonya comes up, and he's instantly having the time of his life. I wonder why.

[@HyperRealityChannel]

Shang Tsung.... seriously? The stealer of souls and ruthless killer is talking about peace and postive reinforcement? I mean I would get it if it's Liu Kang or Kung Lao but Shang Tsung!? HAHAHAHA!!!

[@Holothurion]

The 90's.

[@LeonCorbusier]

Excuse me...but, the HOLY 90's. ;)

[@theungreatkahli]

What a bizarre, fun, hilarious time to be alive.

[@alexgeorge501]

KABAL has become a commando? KANO has a mustache? SHANG SUNG is a spokesman? jeez,,,,Shao Khan must of really let himself go on the "cheesy 90's" meter this time

[@fire_mace486]

not to mention baraka isnt even baraka. hes raka

[@strider1237]

I literally saw this play in St Louis in 95. Can't believe how much time has passed.

[@Grooveraider]

Yep, Kerri Hoskins in the flesh. Out of all the MK Live Tour cast -- Kerri was the only one actually digitized in the Mortal Kombat 3 game. As far as "Mortal mania" goes. I'll never forget the day I first laid my eyes on the original Mortal Kombat game. It was DANGEROUS !

[@phobosanomly9473]

It, umm, well, uh Mortal Kombat teaches teens to be positive. um.. and well.. screw it, lets just be honest. We are cashing in on a hot game right now and most kids want to come and see a fatality. Sorry kids, no fatalities on the tour. Peace! 1:41 - 2:10

[@elrodrigo6188]

THAT IS NOT BARAKA.

[@fireboy1996]

+El Rodrigo baraka is baraka....u get what u pay for son!

[@elrodrigo6188]

That's not Baraka

[@fireboy1996]

***** that is the baraka their money got them fool!

[@elrodrigo6188]

*burp*

[@LeonCorbusier]

Baraka in disguise. No more than that. But Baraka.

[@neil12011]

Sub-Zero is hyperventilating

[@XaeroDegreaz]

It might also interest you to know that he also did Johnny Cage, and Nightwolf on that tour. Nowadays, he's actually a fierce Christian apologetics minister o_O (mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_Durbin). Look him up on KZbin debating God's existence.

[@theungreatkahli]

Should’ve used his ice wand

[@PaladinRageOldsql]

Yeah Shang you taught us a lot about overcoming obstacles! Like that time, when you avoided your execution after messing up 10th tournament. Or that time when you and Quan Chi accidently whole Mortal Kombat.

[@bearlutz8114]

I come back to this every few years NEVER EVER FAILS TO MAKE ME TEAR UP LAUGHING!!!!

[@strafer8764]

The funniest things is when he's trying say they are teaching kids the difference between violence and martial arts. Yet the game's biggest drawing point was the introduction of fatalities. Sonya looks good.

[@Cap_Ed]

When you have a last minute group project and don't know what you're going to say...

[@7312hunter]

"Hey, mark im not asking you to look at her six pack here." "well let you live" Shang Tsung helped me better myself. and hes helping stop MS and illiteracy. Man, a real rennaisance man. they should have the Ultimate Warrior play Shao Kahn.

[@runningblind5784]

I saw this when I was like 12... It was awesome. This and the ninja turtles tour... Sindel and Kano were at a local video store doing a promo and my dad took me. I had just gotten out of tae kwon do, and I was wearing my gi. They asked me to show off my skills in front of a whole crowd. I was stoked. If we had gotten it on video, I'd be the "MK kid" and I would have owned the nintendo 64 kid!

[@famous305matrix]

1:40 “Get over here, I guess...”

[@neil12011]

Yellow Sub Zero Most underrated comment ever. 👏

[@natedoggcata]

lol'd so hard at Shang Tsung talking about "Positivity and how to do good things in their lives"

[@WaffleAfterHours]

I find it hysterical that a series involving violently killing your opponents would get geared towards children XD

[@happydragonpictures]

Like Power Rangers and Ninja Turtles before it, you knew the well was drying up when it's turned into a live tour - and dammit, I saw this show!

[@GoGoMic]

I just find it hilarious that mortal kombat is being the wholesome inspiration for kids and sclerosis.

[@kingpotato7183]

I'm gonna say it the girl that plays Sonia is hot

[@thenerdycomedian9686]

king potato So true!

[@painful-Jay]

king potato except she’s probably 50 now. Edit: 46 Bridgette Wilson

[@HylianWarrior01]

@@painful-Jay That's Kerri Hoskins.

[@JustErik92]

@@painful-Jay that's Kerri Hoskins from mk3 & mk4

[@LAH-oq7vx]

SIMP

[@Grooveraider]

I just love it when their fight sequence is over -- the actor playing Shang Tsung is doing his laugh without the actual laugh track XD

[@SmexyAsianGirls]

I love how Shang Tsung stutters when the anchorman asks him about how Mortal Kombat is being portrayed positively to children. It's Mortal Kombat lol. What kinda question is that XD

[@datriadx18]

Christ... only in the 90's would anything like this be taken even remotely seriously. I miss those days.

[@noizyme]

Damn, Sonya's a stone-cold fox.

[@mrwilsonflo]

Sweet baby Jesus I want a Mortal Kombat: The Live Tour jean jacket.

[@gravyarms]

The world needs more oldschool punch and kick sound effects.

[@shattapinks]

Is it just me, or is she the best representation of Sonya Blade that we've seen to date? She shoulda been in the Mortal Kombat movie. If it is Kerri Hoskins tho, she still looks good. Always been my favorite actor for Sonya Blade even if she really didn't "act."

[@Ghostofenzo]

The dude playing Shang Tsung is actor Sidney S. Liufau. He played one of Shang Tsung’s henchmen in the first Mortal Kombat film and security guard Paco in the film You Me Dupree!

[@daneofurexistence]

When I was a kid, I would have eaten this up. What the hell, I'm 28 years old and I still am.

[@Tsunade11]

Sonya wins!

[@MK1MonsterOck1989]

FATALITY!

[@userisdeadandarchived2995]

FLAWLESS VICTORY

[@delanochavez3504]

BABeALITY

[@SwishaSweetP]

I like scorpions alternate bananas face costume 🔥

[@figment1988]

it was the secret codes that are used in MK3. Thing was that the ad campaign, movie, and live tour featured 6 symbols, and they would add some interesting things such as prohibiting the use of throws. Some of them though did leave hints such as playing some pinball games like No Fear and Jack*Bot which if you did a certain action, it would give you a code for MK3.

[@smashOsmash]

rental reviews gonna send a new surge of viewers to this video :p

[@ELTheGeek]

That Shang Tsung laugh....super awkward lmao

[@TimothyB24]

I remember this tour! I wanted to go so badly

[@ELTheGeek]

Timothy Bolton lol..I thought it was cool back then. Looking back it's rather funny.

[@TimothyB24]

True

[@cannonfodder4000]

Ikr, I wish I could hear it

[@SniperWolfMGS]

You know... ive been around since the very first Mortal Kombat hit Arcades and i gotta tell you....I REALLY dont remember Kabal being a Zulu Warrior from the plains of Africa i mean it could just be that its been so long since ive played MK3. I also dont remember Kano using a pair of nunchuks but hey it for kids to um concerned about violence? and be positive???

[@josephandreuccetti8043]

He wasnt man he was from some type of species/group from outworld

[@scorpiousmagus]

I don’t remember Baraka wearing a balaclava either

[@ShorrockTech]

@@josephandreuccetti8043 You are correct sir! & that species/race is known as a Tarkatan

[@Malcham7]

1:39 I feel so sorry for the guy who is scorpion its like hes thinking to himself "oh my gosh i gotta get outta here"

[@theungreatkahli]

All he had to do was teleport away.

[@InflatableConan]

That, was pathetic

[@neil12011]

Kid: Mom, can we have Mortal Kombat? Mom: We have Mortal Kombat at home.

[@uptowndanram6753]

It couldn't be helped I guess. The franchise was making money like crazy, and to maximize those dollars they took it mainstream and, through action figures, comics, the animated series, and THIS, marketed to '90's young'ins like myself, who ate all of that stuff up. XD

[@GUnitGTAX]

Kabal looks like he's about to go into an air raid strike

[@ToruKun1]

The Mortal Kombat Read-a-thon tho

[@DoctorGenome]

Holy God. There was a Mortal Kombat READ-A-THON?! Please KZbin have video of this. I want to see Scorpion send a kid to hell for talking in the Library.

[@iownu92]

Sonya's a babe

[@kaismessiahbaby755]

That’s actually Sonya too! The motion capture actress for MK3

[@userisdeadandarchived2995]

Yeah shes hot

[@painful-Jay]

iownu92 Bridgette Wilson

[@SFCmrRaccoon]

who's here from Screw Attacks the desk of Death Battle?

[@ikerants745]

SFC mr Raccoon ✋️

[@anthonymojica1673]

SFC mr Raccoon me

[@King.-Arthur]

Here m8

[@ambiguousdash2.099]

ME 😅😅 What is THIS !!!!!!

[@brandonkeller1502]

SFC mr Raccoon me

[@xNIGHTWOLFx19]

How much were the tickets back then dang I wished I was born in the early 80s to see this as cheesy as it was the 90s were the best.

[@TonyRose]

I needed this today

[@MrNightOwl88]

Oddly enough, the guy who plays Shang Tsung in this actually played one of Shang's soul slaves in the MK1 movie.

[@esbeekay]

No joke I swear I remember going to this with my friend Matt when it came to Pittsburgh. I was maybe 11-14 at the time, I really don't remember much else but I was definitely there!

[@elhouse666]

I went to it as well when it was in Pittsburgh at the AJ Palumbo center. still one of the greatest moments of my childhood

[@neil12011]

22 years later, still MAD laffs.

[@stricklinr]

It's nice to Leonard from The Big Bang Theory as Sub-Zero, lol.

[@punipunipunisher]

Dreadlocked Pantless Commando, my favourite MK character.

[@sektormk6484]

this needs to be in cringe channel

[@OutlawOtaku]

I love how he stutters wheneve around Sonya.

[@35november]

Well... now that I have finally watched some stuff its really not the worst. Some decent choreography. Sonya looked fantastic... And I guess a positive message. Better than the Turtles tour lol

[@drweetabix]

Shang sung helping cure diseases. The guys changed big time wow.

[@rainBOSSBADdash]

I'm sorry it's just that the video keeps farting in one of my ears

[@elitebomber]

Preach on Shang Tsung! I didn't know Kabal was a zulu warrior.

[@samadams2315]

Would love to see what this looked like on stage for there show

[@josephandreuccetti8043]

Mortal Kombat and Street fighter were massive games back then and now

[@mattstorm6568]

Gee, really?

[@MajinGraveDigger]

Ke buena epoca, se extraña todo eso... Gracias por subir estos videos

[@DUFFYISBACK]

hahahaha love how he stayed in character

[@travistravesty7021]

I wanted to go on the live tour so bad but I had too many homeworks

[@KiDPANDA14]

holy crap i remember being a kid and seeing this on TV.

[@snick3610]

Baraka or jihadi john?

[@Epierce.]

Sonya looks perfect

[@matiasmakinen6689]

I was cringing so fucking hard while watching this holy shit

[@n0isyturtle]

My dad took me to see this as a kid, it was as legit. This looks like a different show though, the one I went to Jax was the main guy.

[@bobthegoat2k1]

I like how the announcer tries hitting on Sonya @ 2:56 and he randomly asks her a question @ 3:56

[@mattstorm6568]

The host is like "time to go tear my producer a new one!"

[@Grooveraider]

Actually, I never got to attend the MK: Live Tour. I just happened to catch the local news reporting on the event in Southern California. At the time, I was a gametech at a popular Amusement & Miniature golf center called "Sherman Oaks Castle Park". I had to work that day. Later on in the evening I was told the cast of MK Live was showing up ( which you saw in the other clip with Kerri playing herself )!

[@happydragonpictures]

When I was nine years old, of course it was, but looking back at it now, it was cheesy as hell. It's funny to think how much they were to trying to make a violent video game for its time like Mortal Kombat appealing to younger kids. Oh, how I miss those days.

[@theungreatkahli]

I do too. I remember when Rated R movies like Terminator and Aliens were marketed to kids. I had a T-1000 action figure and most kids in my school had Alien Xenomorphs from the film.

[@Spikero2]

I can't believe I went to see that show.

[@ElNingyou]

I vaguely remember this, I used to watch KTLA News every morning before school. 8:32, I would have been leaving about this time.

[@MisledDan]

The beginning looks a lot more like Soul Calibur than MK.

[@skippythealien9627]

part of me is still convinced this is a hallucination

[@bracc3364]

Legends

[@rextony22]

they should bring that show back again.

[@TheArchfiend]

I was waiting for Shang Tsung to grab up the reporter and suck out his soul. It never happened. I am sad now :(

[@Chubzdoomer]

Kano looks Japanese in this vid! It's still a fanboy's wet dream to see these guys going at it like this, though. Awesome video & favorited!

[@soulcalibur22]

i WENT to this show scorpion threw the harpoon. it missed the dude he was throwing it at so he picked it up and stuck it to his chest and "got over there!" hahahaha

[@isrv]

i dont think sonya was expecting that choke lmao all these comments and vid have me cracking upp

[@ionceateapinecone]

the fucking rumble in the back is killing me

[@DrEarthwormRobotnik]

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!

[@scorpiousmagus]

Dr. Earthworm Robotnik the 90s

[@Ilkvomit]

I went to the live tour at the arrowhead pond and man even back in 1996 it sucked. it was so cheesy and bad it could have been a live production of a Roger Corman movie.

[@wilfisk731]

Yeah but they taught you secrets on how to get further in the video game right?

[@Ilkvomit]

Raul Piccardi all it was were those cheap kombat kodes.... and from what I remember there wasn't one that made you get further in the game

[@thesweatleaf]

the kind in the gamer magazines?

[@Ilkvomit]

thesweatleaf yeah...those symbols that you entered during the vs. Screen

[@Simba2UU]

Better costumes than mk 2021

[@Eriol999]

Oh, man! I can't wait until you post the video you are talking about.

[@DoelowDaPilotman]

lol ... this is what happens when u let shang tsung speak for everybody

[@TheReelMJ]

Death Battle why y'all took us here lmao

[@hailstatic]

i totally just bought tickets to this.

[@fjl05]

thanks for the info, didn't think anyone was going to apply. :p

[@Deomolisher]

i know the person who played scorpion and the masked sub zero, Darius Wahrhaftig he actually teaches karate in newtown where i live, he's a really cool guy

[@Hizank07]

lol, baraka is a hood, kabal is suddenly an african warrior, but i'd still love to see this show. Looks beast.

[@ChromiumSilver]

Mortal Kombat is just plain awesome. NO other games got this kind of rep for a fighting game. We don't edcuate kids these days that games are just games. Look at how many young punks you hear on your mic these days. Personally, I think these guys are heroes. At least they got up early and did something cool. Pretending to be the characters you like is nothing to be ashamed of.