wrote in 2022 that the Fatality "might actually be the most shocking, gory, and disgusting act of surreal horror to ever happen in a video game, let alone the Mortal Kombat series". Response to Ermac's alternate-media incarnations has been negative. His appearance in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was dismissed as "useless" by Seth Robison of Newsarama. Nathan Birch of Uproxx described him as a "forgettable red Scorpion clone" and his fight against Sonya in the film as "nondescript". Carl Lyon of Fearnet censured the character's design in Mortal Kombat: Legacy and his role therein as having "little development outside of an opponent ... that gets quickly dispatched", and while Gavin Jasper of Den of Geek noted Ermac's "pretty sweet fight scene" with Kenshi, he was also critical of his role in the episodes’ storyline. See also Sheng Long Cow level Notes References Extraterrestrial characters in video games Fictional axefighters Fictional Huaquan practitioners Fictional henchmen in video games Fictional telekinetics Genetically engineered characters in video games Male characters in video games Mortal Kombat characters Ninja characters in video games Undead characters in video games Urban legends Video game bosses Video game characters introduced in 1995 Video game characters who can teleport Video game characters who have mental powers