Mortal Kombat: Legacy is an American web series anthology that debuted on Machinima.com‘s YouTube channel on April 11, 2011.The show is an adaptation of the fictional universe of the Mortal Kombat video game franchise. The show’s premise originated with director Kevin Tancharoen‘s short film entitled Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, portraying the original game’s story in a realistic way, a concept he eventually submitted to Warner Bros. seeking the green-light for production on a re-imagined Mortal Kombat film. Warner Bros. refused to back the film, despite the attention and positive fan reception,but Tancharoen did receive the go-ahead to shoot the web series.

A group of martial arts warriors have only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion.

Mortal Kombat is an ancient tournament where the Earth Realm warriors battle against the forces of Outworld. Liu Kang and a few chosen fighters fought and defeated the powerful sorcerer Shang Tsung, their victory would preserve the peace on Earth for one more generation. Taking place now where the first movie left off, the Earth realm warriors live a short period of peace when evil forces from another dimension come to invade and wreak havoc on Earth. They are guided by the forces of Outworld leader, Shao Kahn and his generals such as: Motaro, Rain, Ermac, Sheeva and Sindel. Now Liu Kang, Raiden, Jax, Sonya and Kitana must defeat Shao Kahn in six days before the Earth realm merges with the Outworld.

Based on the popular video game of the same name "Mortal Kombat" tells the story of an ancient tournament where the best of the best of different Realms fight each other. The goal - ten wins to be able to legally invade the losing Realm. Outworld has so far collected nine wins against Earthrealm, so it s up to Lord Rayden and his fighters to stop Outworld from reaching the final victory...