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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Film · 1997ActionFantasyScience Fiction

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

8Based

AI Woke Score

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No detectable agenda — story first.

confidence: medium

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The Verdict

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a campy, effects-driven martial-arts fantasy with essentially zero identity messaging. Its diverse cast simply reflects the global fighting-tournament source material, and the film never stops to lecture. Whatever its (many) flaws, wokeness is not among them.

What the AI Flagged

Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.

Identity Swaps

5

Video game adaptation with characters cast in line with their source designs.

Girlboss & Male Demotion

15

Sonya Blade and Jade are capable fighters, but the film does not diminish or mock its male heroes as a message.

  • Sonya and Jade fight alongside Liu Kang and the male warriors as equals

LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content

0

No LGBTQ+ themes or characters present.

DEI Casting

10

Diverse cast fits the international fighting-tournament premise naturally.

Preachiness

3

Pure action spectacle with no sermonizing or messaging.

Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West

3

No anti-masculinity or anti-West framing; it's a straightforward good-vs-evil fantasy battle.

Source Betrayal

10

Deviations from the game lore exist but stem from goofy creative choices, not identity agenda.

  • Liberal reshuffling of game characters and storylines for cinematic effect

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Cast & Crew

Alison Savitch (Executive Producer) · John R. Leonetti (Director) · Brian Witten (Executive Producer) · Carla Fry (Executive Producer)

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