Anna Daniels
In the Free Guy trailer, Guy takes a shot at a new life by firing a literal shot at a robber carrying out a heist at his bank. The man, dressed in a cloud-patterned trench coat and wearing a skull face mask with the eyes cut out, falls to the ground in a heap. The camera then pans to show the damage that’s been done: the criminal is dead, left with a giant hole torn through his stomach.
It’s a gruesome wound, for sure, but it’s also potentially a nod to some interesting fatalities seen in the ever-popular, ever-violent video game series Mortal Kombat. Throughout the game series, several characters have shot, burnt, or punched a circle through in their victims’ torsos: Sub-Zero uses his fist to stamp a hole in his opponent’s stomach, D’Vorah leaves a gaping hole in her rivals using her infamous “Bug Me” fatality, and even Erron Black takes a circular chunk out of his Kombatants via his “Death Trap” move. But the Mortal Kombat fatality that most closely resembles the wound the baddie in Free Guy is left with is Liu Kang’s “Burn Out” move, during which the character makes his enemies’ torsos look like Swiss cheese by burning several holes into them.
Whether this nod to Mortal Kombat in the Free Guy trailer was intentional or merely coincidental, there’s no denying how cool it is.
Written by: Looper
