Invincible VS devs want Mortal Kombat crossover, tease future content plans

The team behind Invincible VS is openly keen on bringing in guest characters from Mortal Kombat — and at Evo 2026, Game Director Dave Hall and Lead Combat Designer Bau Bautista made no effort to hide it.

When asked about guest characters in the vein of Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8, both developers were enthusiastic but set one clear condition: any crossover character has to fit the brutal tone of the Invincible universe. "I wouldn't want to put Mario or Luigi in there. That'd be cool, don't get me wrong, but I don't want to rip his head off," Hall said. That naturally led to Mortal Kombat, which got immediate approval from both. "NetherRealm, they're the best. That would be incredible," Hall said. Bautista was even more direct: "If there's an opportunity, I'm not going to say no to Scorpion." He also pointed out that crossovers are baked into Invincible's comic book DNA, so it wouldn't be out of character for the game to follow suit.

Guest characters are having a moment across the entire fighting game genre right now. Tekken 8 just announced Yujiro Hanma for Season Three, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is adding Kenshiro this summer, and Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII is headed to Street Fighter 6 in early 2027. Mortal Kombat itself has a long history of wild crossover picks — the Xenomorph, Homelander from The Boys, and even Omni-Man have all shown up in the series, which makes a reverse crossover with Invincible VS feel less like a pipe dream and more like a matter of timing.

Beyond guest characters, Hall and Bautista also teased more single-player content, a continuing story mode, and new mechanics added to existing roster characters down the line. One specific detail: Atom Eve was originally planned to have a revive mechanic at launch — similar to Immortal's canonical ability — but the team felt she wasn't in a finished enough state to add it responsibly. "We were like, 'Okay, let's focus now on what we can achieve and make sure she's solid as heck, and then come back to this mechanic,'" Bautista explained. The implication is that the mechanic could still arrive in a future update.