Mortal Kombat II
Mostly Nitpicking
Mostly Nitpicking
4.6 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 194 minutes
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Summary
Raise the minimum Cage!
This week Nando, DJ, and Diggins unlock their arcana and teleport into the podrealm to watch the second movie in this second Mortal Kombat franchise, Mortal Kombat II.
They nitpick the hits, the hats, and of course the Cole.
Recommendation
DJ - Droid Tycoon (game)
Diggins - Out of the Past (movie)
Nando - Temptation Island (series), The Punisher: One Last Kill (special presentation), Obsession (movie)
Plugs
Diggins' Substack - A Little Perspective
Mostly Nitpicking theme by Nick Porcaro
Logo by Michelle Chapman
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:08.2 | I am Nando. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm DJ. |
| 0:14.3 | And I'm Diggins. |
| 0:18.8 | And this is mostly dip-picking podcasts where we'd be a part of piece of pop culture |
| 0:22.4 | by looking exclusively to details. |
| 0:24.0 | Woohoo! |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.8 | Test your might. |
| 0:28.9 | I know what one Diggins was doing. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm not sure which one D.J. was doing. |
| 0:33.9 | You know, it's... |
| 0:34.3 | We'll find out later. |
| 0:36.5 | We sure will. I think I know what D.J. thinks he was doing. Oh, I think I know what D.J. was doing. You know, it's... We'll find out later. We sure will. |
| 0:38.1 | I think I know what DJ thinks he was doing. |
| 0:39.7 | Oh, I think I know what DJ was doing. |
| 0:41.4 | Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes more sense. Great. Okay, great. All great. Well, speaking of that, we're going to be talking about Mortal Kombat 2. I want to say 2026, but the second Mortal Kombat movie of the original ones was Annihilation. |
| 0:55.2 | So technically this is the first Mortal Kombat 2 movie. |
| 0:57.2 | This is the first movie movie. I want to say 2026, but the second Mortal Kombat movie of the original ones was Annihilation. |
| 0:55.2 | So technically this is the first Mortal Kombat 2 movie. |
| 0:57.3 | This is the first movie called Mortal Kombat 2. Yeah. So we got to talk about that. The big movie of the week, it's doing pretty well, I think. Like, it feels like people are talking about it. Yeah. I think it's performed, it had a better opening weekend than any of these ever have, which I mean, to be fair, the two that came out like 30 years ago, you know, inflation, it's probably a big part of that. That's true. And also they were terrible, but they were pretty cool. This one, maybe this one's also terrible, but maybe it's also. You know, I don't, I don't know if it's the 30 year glow up,up, like with Street Fighter or what, but I look back |
| 1:30.1 | on that first Mortal Kombat movie and I'm like, we didn't know how good we had it. |
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