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GET OVER HERE and watch the Mortal Kombat II panel from NYCC 2025, featuring Adeline Rudolph, Ed Boon, Jeremy Slater, Karl Urban, Martyn Ford, Simon McQuoid, and Tati Gabrielle!

Kitana (Rudolph), Johnny Cage (Urban), Shao Kahn (Ford), and Jade (Gabrielle) joined writers Boon and Slater and director McQuoid at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there to film the action

Features by Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer

Published on Fri Nov 21 2025

Mortal Kombat is coming back to theaters sooner than you'd guess, but not before they took the action to the global arena known as New York Comic Con 2025. In order to get fans properly hyped for the next chapter of the interdimensional battle saga, the sequel brought director Simon McQuoid, writers Ed Boon and Jeremy Slater, and stars Adeline Rudolph, Karl Urban, Martyn Ford, and Tati Gabrielle to the Main Stage for a panel that longtime fans of the game series don't want to miss. And thanks to Popverse's foresight in bringing a camera to the event, they don't have to.

This is one of the numerous panels from New York Comic Con 2025 that Popverse filmed. Consult our New York Comic Con 2025 panel video guide for a list of all of the panels we filmed, and when we'll be

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Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.