first game replaced the "Spine Rip" with another finishing move due to its violent content, for instance the SNES port had a freeze and shatter finishing move due to Nintendo's "family friendly" policies. Unlike other returning characters whose moves remained intact, the spine rip Fatality was not carried over to Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3, (an explanation is because Kuai Liang was heroic compared to his villainous brother Bi-Han) but was brought back in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 as one of Classic Sub-Zero's finishers. However, the move was intentionally censored by Midway; right after he grabbed onto his opponent, the screen went black and only the resulting sound effects were heard. This was due to the development team choosing not to animate the spine rip fatality for each of the updated character sprites in the game. The Nintendo 64 port of Mortal Kombat Trilogy gives all of the younger Sub-Zero's special techniques and finishing moves to the classic masked version, due to the fact the N64's cartridge format had memory restrictions that did not allow the use of both masked and unmasked characters. The developers had to remove the "Spine Rip" from Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe as that game was aimed at a younger audience. Sub-Zero also gained a teleporting move in the game in which he freezes himself and falls back to the ground, appearing behind the foe. Sub-Zero is the only character to be playable in every iteration of the primary fighting game series. Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition, one of the two Game Boy Advance ports of Deadly Alliance, is the franchise's only fighting game not to feature him as a player character, although the elder Sub-Zero is present in his Noob Saibot identity. The action-adventure spin-off Mortal Kombat: Special Forces is the only game entirely without Sub-Zero. Other media The Mortal Kombat 3 version of the younger Sub-Zero made a cameo appearance in the epilogue of Malibu Comics' 1995 Mortal Kombat: Battlewave miniseries, in which he froze a group of Lin Kuei while proclaiming that the clan was corrupted and no longer worthy of his services. This subplot was never developed as the Mortal Kombat comic book series folded shortly thereafter. The elder Sub-Zero appears in the Mortal Kombat: Blood & Thunder comic series. François Petit portrays the elder Sub-Zero in first Mortal Kombat film. In the film, Sub Zero is mind controlled slave