What's more awesome than Omni-Man joining Mortal Kombat 1? J.K. Simmons, the voice behind the Invincible character, returning to play the Viltrumite powerhouse in the NetherRealm Studios reboot!
Omni-Man's arrival in Mortal Kombat 1 was confirmed over the weekend at San Diego Comic-Con. Shortly afterwards, the co-creator of Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon, revealed in a live stream that Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons will reprise his role as the voice of Omni-Man. Simmons, who's best known as J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man universe, has previously voiced his role in the early versions of the Spider-Man games.
Invincible's creator, Robert Kirkman, also disclosed that the scene in Episode 1, where Omni-Man slaughters the Guardians, was inspired by Mortal Kombat fatalities, saying: Yeah, I was in the fatality meetings, I was in the voice recording sessions, and it was great because... I mean, look, when I did that sequence at the end of the first episode of the Invincible with Omni-Man just eviscerating the Guardians of the Globe, you know, that's me trying do to my best Mortal Kombat fatalities. I went into that meeting on the fatalities for Omni-Man, and I get to brainstorm with these people and come up with some cool fatalities. And then they started presenting things to me, and it was like 'Oh! I'm but a student, and these are the masters.' https://www.youtube.com/live/e1hNgfRbjOw?feature=share&t=14847