Ask any NetherRealm fan and they’ll probably tell you the same thing: Injustice 3 being released isn’t an ‘if,’ it’s a ‘when.’ There’s been no official confirmation one way or another, whether there are plans for a third installment of Injustice or not, but it seems highly unlikely that there’d be a reality where NetherRealm has completely abandoned its DC fighting game franchise to work exclusively on Mortal Kombat games for the foreseeable future.
Therefore, every tiny and seemingly insignificant morsel of an Injustice breadcrumb will suddenly catch fans’ attention until something official and substantial either lifts or lowers their spirits. It doesn’t necessarily help, then, that fans believe NetherRealm’s Ed Boon is stoking those flames on social media right now.
On Twitter/X, Boon—Mortal Kombat’s co-creator and Injustice director—has been posting a series of poll threads in order to gauge which Injustice 1 characters’ Super moves fans like best, with presumably arbitrary head-to-head pairings like Hawkgirl and Joker, Zod and Killer Frost, Nightwing and Raven, and Green Lantern and Cyborg. Understandably, Boon disabled comments for both rounds’ individual threads, leaving fans to simply cast their votes.
Of course, there are multiple reasons why Boon could be reflecting...
