During an interview discussingMortal Kombat 11 , series cobalt - Lord Ed Boon unveil thatInjustice 2almost featured Neo fromThe Matrixfilms . The consultation comes just a few workweek off fromMK 11 ’s extremely anticipated button date .

Mortal Kombat 11 ’s roster has occupy out chop-chop in the last couple of workweek , no thanks in part to pre - reveal leaks . devotee can now expectNoob Saibot , Kotal Kahn , Erron Black , as well asmultiple versions of several Greco-Roman fighters . The game does n’t currently have any Edgar Albert Guest fighter announced ( unless Ronda Rousey vocalize Sonya Blade counts for something ) . It would seem to be a given , though , see Netherrealm ’s chronicle . BetweenMortal KombatandInjustice , characters such as Freddy Krueger , Alien ’s Xenomorph , Hellboy , and even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have made their bearing felt .

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biz Informerconducted the interview as part of theirMortal Kombat 11cover story . Among other question , both serious and humorous , interviewer Ben Hanson asked what the odds of Keanu Reeves ' iconicMatrixcharacter appear in the secret plan are . Boon categorically express there was a “ 0.0 % ” hazard of that befall . However , he did   partake in that at one time there was a “ middling close luck ” that Neo would have been a client fighter inInjustice 2 . For whatever reason , though , the batch decrease through .

The news repair honest-to-god rumors that began shortly beforeInjustice 2’slaunch . In May 2017 , Boon pinch a opinion poll asking fans who should portray Neo in the game if Reeves would n’t . Interestingly , the poll parrot included all former Batman actors : Michael Keaton , Val Kilmer , and George Clooney . Boon himself was also an pick - and won in a landslide . meditation then swirled that Neo would be included in the game ’s third DLC Fighter Pack . In actuality , that pack contained The Atom , Enchantress , and the TMNT .

Netherrealm flirted with Neo even further back than that . In a 2016 consultation withGame Informer , Ed Boon shared that Neo had been consider for a Edgar Albert Guest spot inMortal Kombat 9(aka the 2011 reboot ) . The report goes that while the studio bat around thought for guest fighters , Warner Bros. approached them with the proposition of using Neo . dedicate that WB owns bothThe Matrixfranchise and Netherrealm Studios , the crossing would have presumptively been an easy one to deplume off . Still , Netherrealm finally declined on the ground that “ The One ” just did n’t mesh well withMortal Kombat’sgory nature .

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While it would be indeed be bad to imagine Scorpio stabbing Neo ’s eyeball out of his skull , it ’s intriguing that this likely crossover continues to resurface . Maybe one Clarence Day Netherrealm will relent and finally let players slo - Show Me State dodge batarangs or bicycle thrill as the trenchcoat - wear phenom . If not , fan would probably assume thatMarvel crusade gameEd Boon ’s clearly concerned in wee as consolation .

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reference : Game Informer

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