Edward John "Ed" Boon (born February 22, 1964; 60 years old) is an American video game programmer who serves as both the game director for Injustice 2 and the creative director for NetherRealm Studios. Boon is best known as the creator of the Mortal Kombat video game fighting franchise along with John Tobias.
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- Ed Boon holds a degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- In addition to creating the Mortal Kombat series, Boon is best known for providing the voice of the franchise's mascot, Scorpion, namely for his infamous spear taunts and as well the voice of the "Gotcha!" grab for Jackson "Jax" Briggs.
- Scorpion is also Ed Boon's favorite Mortal Kombat character.
- Along with John Tobias, Boon is part of the namesake of the character Noob Saibot, better known as the older brother of Kuai Liang and the first Sub-Zero, Bi-Han.
- To coincide with the joke, his Twitter account is his name spelt backwards as "noobde".
- Boon himself would voice Noob Saibot in 2004's Mortal Kombat: Deception.
- The Mortal Kombat characters, Sonya Blade and Tanya were named after Boon's sisters.
- Prior to the formation of NetherRealm Studios, Ed Boon worked at NetherRealm's predecessor, Midway Games, for a period of twenty-two years. Also prior joining Midway and creating Mortal Kombat, Boon worked at Williams Electronics designing pinball machines.
- He holds the distinction of for the "Longest Serving Video Game Voice Actor" of the Guinness Book of World Records in June 2010 for voicing Scorpion in a span of seventeen years and eight months.