Fatality

Ritual may well explain both the intense shadow of death that normally hangs over the Greek tragedies, and also perhaps the feeling of the Fatality, which is, rightly or wrongly, supposed to be prominent in them.

The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides 480? BC-406 BC Euripides 1911

And now that Warner Bros. has bought up Midway primarily for Mortal Kombat, it's a good bet we could see "Fatality" return to the common lexicon once more.

Fight! SVGL 2009

The original game sparked controversy for its intensely graphic "Fatality" fight finishers, and yet the movies never managed to capture that on screen.

‘Mortal Kombat’ Reboot Is Not A Fatality » MTV Movies Blog 2010

And now that Warner Bros. has bought up Midway primarily for Mortal Kombat, it's a good bet we could see "Fatality" return to the common lexicon once more.

Archive 2009-08-01 SVGL 2009

- The word "Fatality" only drips blood, the word itself is not animated with oozing blood.

Mortal Kombat ][ SNES FAQ Moves and Secret Guide by Marty Chinn 1994

A summer's day in the woods with Audrey will put "Fatality" into its place and remove "the Recurrence of all things" to a very modest remoteness.

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

One wou'd think there were a kind of Fatality in Liberty, since scarce any Body can meddle either with the Word or the Thing, but they turn all topsey turvey.

'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation Aaron Hill 1717

However, the database, known as the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (

MotherJones.com Myron Levin 2010

- loser can stop you from doing your friendship even if completed, & it's declared a "Fatality"!

Mortal Kombat II for SNES glitch/secret list by Rat 1994

Green Lantern #41 - John Stewart is saved from the Orange Lantern Corps by … Fatality!?!

Quick Hits – Aliens, Last Days of Animal Man, Batman Comics, Incredible Hercules, and More 2009