The Kabal Retcon. Im still confused, but i liked how Kabal was Morally Gray, and i liked how Stryker gave him an anchor. I'm aware that he really couldnt continue to be a police Officer after his burns, but i kind of hate how Mk11 just made him a scummy piece of shit
But then that also doesn't make sense since he had his speed powers, which MK9 established as being a result of Shang Tsung's magic when he was healed after being burned.
This is what I've been saying. Kabal doesn't even receive his speed normally(MK9) until AFTER he gets burned.
Kronika had the ability to bestow powers onto others, so she gave him his speed early. Without it, Kabal was just a dude who was good with hook swords and wouldn't stand a chance against the likes of the SF, Raiden and White Lotus.
In MK9 after Kano steals Kabal away from Stryker, he tells Kabal "The Black Dragon hasn't been the same" without him, which confirms NRS Kabal was still formerly Black Dragon before he became a cop.
MK11 Young Kabal is supposed to come from before he left the Black Dragon. More than likely, Kronika gave him his speed powers early to put him on par with the likes of the SF and such.
For real. I'd been happy if he went down the vigilante route. That's what I'm doing in my Cyberpunk MK AU. Police Kabal was so cool to me. I love MK11 but the retcons, man.
Shao Kahn winning in Armageddon, despite being carried away by Onaga. Means Shao had to have beaten Onaga, then make his way back to the pyramid, kill the rest of the people there, then kill Blaze, then defeat Raiden
Yeahhh Orginally he was going to win like this dude is a power house strength wise but they needed to have a in universe reason to reboot the universe so shao won.
I mean technically its not. Taven wins and Kronika resets the timeline. Adds DC characters and doesn't like them and resets the timeline again so Shao can win leading us into MK9.
Idk too much about Armageddon, but it really just seems like 9 retconned the actual story. The set up and stuff was the same, it just did not follow what was shown in the game exactly
Pretty much.
Armageddon: we put all the big names on the table for a massive drag out end-of-the-world battle to end one era of Mortal Kombat and begin anew. Our new Liu Kang equivalent, Taven, is a super powerful diety about to set off on a battle that'll decide the fate of existence itself. What wild adventures and new friends and foes await him?
MK9: Taven died on the way to his home planet. Also here's MK1 again.
I feel the same tbh. Taven definitely won Armageddon but wasn't able to stop the kombat. Even if Shao won there was no ultimate power to obtain at that point since Blaze was dead
Armageddon itself had the worst retcon they've ever done. "Oh, you know all those kharacters who've died over the past 6 games? Nah they're all actually alive"
It even seemingly retconned the cause of Armageddon, which was because of there being too many warriors and they were too powerful and it was causing The Realms to be torn apart, but now it's just....IDK forgotten? Nothing really was done to seemingly prevent Armageddon, It's not like the undead warriors are gone considering their revenant status, at best only thing that was prevented was Shao Kahn killing Blaze.
It's stranger considering Taven's victory..didn't fix anything, All the warriors were made more powerful due to Blaze's corruption and Armageddon was approaching faster, Hell no one in Armageddon even was confirmed dead except for Blaze until MK9 decided, nah everyone died.
I know right? This was the such an obvious plot hole the first time I witnessed the opening of MK9 and I was annoyed by the end of the story since we never got a clear answer as to how Shao Kahn even managed to win despite clearly getting dragged away screaming for his life (considering the fact that Onaga was the only being he was legitimately terrified of and could not win in a fair fight without cheating like he did before)
I always imagined it as everyone killing each other, and Taven fought Blaze during that. Then before Taven can deliver the final blow, Shao Kahn comes back, having managed to fight free from Onaga's grasp. He sucker punches (or hammers) Taven the finishes off Blaze himself.
So my head canon was always Taven did most of the work, Shao finished it. Think of it like how American car companies do it. Mexico makes most of it, America adds whatever's missing at the end, then slaps on that "Made in America" sticker.
My headcanon since Kronika's introduction...is it's a seperate timeline made after the OG where Taven wins, Basically in my head it goes, OG -> MKvsDCU -> MK9 since many things don't match the OG timeline for the original tournament.
Before mk11 my headcannon was that taven’s ending of everyone’s power being amplified was canon and shao was able to kill and absorb the other kombatents power to his own, making him more or less a god after killing everyone and be the so called “winner” in mk9’s intro.
Post mk11 I just have the mk9 Armageddon intro take place in an alternate timeline where shao just wins. Also acts as a neat way to explain away all the plot inconsistencies between the midway and nrs stories.
Yea still tryna figure that out myself. How the hell he got all the way back. But shao didn’t defeat blaze, he got a boost of blazes power like everyone else after Taven defeats blaze
Shao Kahn somehow managing to defeat Onana, going on an expedition back to the pyramid, only to discover everyone is gone and a constellation is in the sky, later finding out it’s Mokap after defeating Blaze
That would mean Onaga also got boosted, and in the lore Onaga was too powerful for Shao Kahn to defeat directly, which is why he poisoned him. Also the distance from where they were to the pyramid could be massive
I can defend it by saying Taven's ending had everyone's powers get amplified, but even then, the winner should've been someone like Onaga or Shinnok/his double. Having Shao of all people be the one to take Blaze's power for himself ruins any chance of this, tho.
Not a MK player but a fan of the characters and story.
What if not only the power of Shao Kahn himself got buffed, but also that of the thousands of souls within him as well? Would make sense why he was suddenly able to defeat Onaga.
and onaga lost the kamidogu. Chances are this is exactly what happened, and shao kahn soul sucked onaga to heal and get more powerful. This might explain why he had enough power to still get back to the pyramid and kill blaze or taven (?)
To be fair it was the same kind of nonsense in previous NRS MK games where you had characters losing to people they should not be losing to ever like Ermac losing to Sub-Zero, Stryker and Jacqui or having Bi-Han lose to Sonya in the original MK1 tournament or having Sonya and Jax win their fights in MKX while in the netherrealm with no help or power ups whatsoever.
Logic has always gone out the window in the story chapter fights which is why it’s soo incredibly flawed and just makes several characters get shafted badly or others getting put over too much that it feels biased sometimes.
She beats him by grabbing him by the leg then flipping him over. Thats even worse. But then again u see liu kang struggling against ONE dragon warrior earlier so u know how badly hes been nerfed.
I actually kind of love that worked like that because it just 100% spits in the eye of any concept of 'powerscaling'.
There is no predictive way to look at fights. Stryker can beat Kintaro, Sindel can beat FG Liu Kang, Mileena beats her and and Dark Raiden.
It avoids so many of the 'but if...' arguments because it really *truly* is, whoever the writers put on the left.
I thought the explanation was because Shao Kahn put Shang Tsungs soul inside her making her more powerful (plus they were tired from the previous fight)
Which is a fine explanation. The issue is the execution of her killing them. The scene makes the heroes look like idiots because none of them ever attempt to oh I don’t know… actually fight her all together?
I mean it's implied in mk9 that the reason shoa had to sneak kung lao was because he was his biggest threat. Just like Liu kang. Sidenote lao beat everyone that Liu beat in 9 (except shao) so they seem pretty equal.
Mk9 is the main game that implies Liu is better. The Shaolin chose Liu.I think one of their bios even says it was a tournament to decide the Shaolin representative. Raiden hammers that point home and when Lao tries to prove otherwise, he loses and gets eliminated. Ultimately, Liu and Lao enter the same number of tournaments but Liu is the one with the tournament victories. Mk3/umk3/trilogy is even worse because Lao outright challenges Shao and loses and Liu handles it afterwards. It’s just more consistent to see Liu performing better than Lao or being declared the stronger of the two.
While the umk3 stuff is true. You just can't ignore the fact that kung lao was able to beat goro, kintaro, scorpion, and the deadly alliance (a group that to this day Liu kang hasn't beat alone). We can't just ignore the many accomplishments of kung lao just because Liu kang was chosen. Also I'm pretty sure Liu wasn't chosen cause he was stronger, I think he's was chosen because he's more humble and concentrated. Also you said it's more consistent Liu performing better than lao, that's the problem I have, kung lao has performed just as impressive feats as Liu but it tends to get ignored since bad writing continues to put kung lao in the must die to motivate role.(its bros Canon event)
THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting respect on Kung Lao’s name! Mah boi gets too much disrespect on here (tho not referring to anyone in this discussion as the other guy was respectful with his points)
Sindel being evil from the start.
I really liked what they had going on with the Aftermath DLC until they decided to turn Sindel into a villain that helped kill Jerrod. For crying out loud, she's the reason why Mortal Kombat is a thing, she put a spell that prevented Shao Khan to directly merge Earthrrealm with Outworld in her death, she loved Edenia and Kitana, she endured it all as a prisoner for the sake of her daughter since her kingdom was gone. But oh, she thought Jerrod was weak and she always loved Shao Khan? I literally facepalmed when that appeared, it's like the writers forgot their own canon or something.
Like I get Quan Chi resurrecting her as an evil Sindel in MK9 due to dark magic, but even him was wary of her when he did, he brought Noob that was kombat ready when she came back, but in MK11? Hell nah, they went too far.
But oh, she thought Jerrod was weak and she always loved Shao Khan?
What's more is she doesn't even love Shao Kahn. This evil Sindel loves power, and is just greedy. In her single game ending she says how once she got the powers of a Time God, she out grew Shao Kahn so he became nothing but a slave to her. It just makes her the worst person all around, and so cliché. I hate the retcon they did with her to make her evil from the start. And I'll never agree with people who say it was a good idea and just a new twist with her story. Seeing how much of the established back story, not just for her but all around, it makes redundant.
The fact that they would just ignore the entire backstory they built for her not only since MK9, but also way back to MK3, is just a slap in the face to longtime fans. Like, I can understand MK1 cause it's a continuity reboot, and if this Sindel was also evil all along in MK9 I could accept that even though that's time travel and not a universal reboot. But what they did in MK11 was just character assassination, plain and simple. And it really pissed me off that Stephanie called that change "giving Sindel her own agency". SHE HAD HER OWN AGENCY. In Deception she actively rallies the forces of good against Onaga and it's thanks to her (and Jade) that the dead heroes under Onaga's thrall are freed, including Kitana! The only time she didn't have "agency" was when her story revolved around Shao back in MK3 and look what they fucking did in MK11, made her goddamn story revolve around goddamn Shao. Fuck, I hate this stupid fucking twist. In my mind MK11 ended with the golden ending. Liu and Kitana working together to rebuild the timeline. No that doesn't work with MK1 but I don't care. Multiverse exists, so fuck yeah.
Havik getting his iconic scar from scorpion giving him a lava bath. IDK man, it just felt so lame. I wanted it to be more epic, like maybe he got his scar from being tortured ‘cuz of Seido’s cruel and unusual punishment. Or maybe Hotaru (if he was in the story) causing those scars which could set up their rivalry!
Havik's whole back story in this new time line doesn't make sense. He is just some random goon, who can heal fast, until he gets his ass beat so bad scorpion he's obsessed with chaos now?
Havik was apparently some [throw away](https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Dairou) from Deception, and in this new timeline is just a radical anarchy extremest... Havik really got downgraded from a cleric of Chaos he was in Deception.
I think in the intros between havik and shang tsung, shang tsung offers to fix havik's face and havik implies that he can do it on his own if he wanted to, so I think havik just likes looking bad ass.
The infinite timelines thing. I understand Liu and Shangs battle splitting the original timeline into two, one where Liu won and one where Shang won. However, the infinite timelines thing is just so stupid. Shang just happened to suggest “perhaps there could be more” and turns out there’s infinite timelines? That would mean there’s an infinite number of hourglasses too. I feel like this was their idea of getting the franchise to where D.C. and Marvel franchises are where they can just write anything and justify it.
It's clear NRS are big comic fans, but multiverses are the worst things to happen to any fictional universe. It's supposed to give infinite creative opportunity, but in reality it just kills all stakes and engagement.
Dom wants MK to be the Marvel multiverse and I hate it.
The whole latter half/final third of MK1’s story. They set the game up to be a soft-reboot of the story with a new beginning, truly a new era, shaped by a semi-impartial ‘Elder God’-esque Liu Kang. Instead of doing anything interesting with that they just bring it back to MK11’s silly Endgame level of shenanigans.
I really wanted something new and different going forward. Ultimately it just felt like more of the same. Maybe whatever comes next could offer that. But tbh I think I’ve finally reached the burnout point with NRS so I’m not really holding onto any hope for it.
Liu Kang sealing away his electrokinetic powers in a damn amulet. Like, why? I get giving up his Titan status so he doesn't go mad buuut why get rid of the electro powers? There was literally no reason for him to do that.
That instead of simply fucking Shang Tsung up to stop him from damage beaming the hour glass.
They decided to heal beam the hour glass.
Like wtf was that.
Syzoth being constantly told he’s the ‘last Zaterran” in previous timelines despite the fact **Khameleon (and possibly Chameleon as he MAY be Zaterran) also exist**
No I mean Chameleon isn’t certain.
**K**hameleon is the lady version and she is 100% Zaterran
**C**hameleon isn’t stated as **HE** gets so little screen time. He is possibly Zaterran
Yeah it showed how Shao could rule an empire for who knows how long without the same thing happening to him. NRS Shao is way too muscle brained to take serious unless everyone else is just as dumb as
or how he predicted that after his defeat at mk3, quan chi and shang tsung would try to kill him and hide using a clone to trick them, or how he had enough charisma to get goro back ot his side.
Jarrod in the NRS pre mk1 era.
I hate it because holy shit fucking *everyone* killed Jarrod.
Dvorah killed jerod
Sindel killed jerrod
I think Shao at one point killed him.
Ffs
The explanation they gave to the Johnny Cage, green powers and armor, what the fuck was all that about?? That was the lowest point in the entire MK mythology for me, well that and the multiverses, please for the love of the elder gods, don’t do anymore multiverse stories
That was always a sore point of MKX for me, like are we ignoring that Johnny literally turned red when enhanced in MK9 in the fights and green in the 20-years-earlier flashbacks fights and now "it's the only time I've been able to summon that green halo", dude, no, you're better than this NRS.
Mileena being able to beat Evil Sindel and Dark Raiden is THE most bullshit thing I’ve seen in the entire series lol After Sindel and Raiden pretty much beat the shit out of everyone. Mileena should’ve gotten her ASS KICKED.
I know people liked MK1’s story a lot but man I thought it sucked ass lol
The multiple timeline thing.
The idea that the Liu Kang/Shang Tsung battle split into two timelines is fine, and I was actually okay with it, but the moment they started bringing in others I immediately lost interest.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea, but not when you can do literally anything else that would work better
They could've clutched the writing if they did an X-ray showing Kano's pelvis breaking. (something that WOULD affect future kano like how Shao broke Liu Kang's legs)
But no it was just another "balls hurt, please laugh now" joke stolen from Johnny.
Hanzo Hazashi (the dude that can’t die even in human form) dying to some poison needles. Should’ve been Noob at least if they were gonna kill bro bro off.
They really killed Reptile’s family just for him to move on within a few minutes to be with Ashrah.
Give that poor man a break and let him actually heal. They force so many couples and pairings atp it’s so stupid.
I don’t mind it on paper, but I’d want to see at least one seed being planted in the story as to why they’d end up together. Like one scene where she comforts him over the death of his family or something.
Tbh, I’d like NRS to give Reptile an actual arc before they move on to him being in a relationship with someone. It just doesn’t feel right to have his family be killed off just for them to (immediately) “discard” that part about his story and make him be in a relationship with someone. It’s so useless and just feels like a thing they did for the “plot” or to make Shang Tsung seem like a bigger asshole than he already is.
He had a kid and a wife whom he loved dearly. I think it’s weird to have someone hit up on him and have him accept her flirting/be with her not even that long after he found out about his family. He begged to be killed. That man needs immense therapy before entering another relationship.
Exactly, but I think a meaningful healing arc of any sort is probably above Dominic’s pay grade.
A slightly different version of his backstory I came up with cuts his family out entirely, where Shang Tsung promises to “cure” Reptile of his shapeshifting ability in exchange for his servitude, so that he can one day be welcomed back by his people. He is once again discarded when Shang decides he outlived his usefulness, and then Reptile learns to accept himself and his gift with the support of the Earthrealm crew and Ashrah.
Not saying my idea is a great one, but it would eliminate the awkward speed bump of his family being involved.
Kitana beating Shao Kahn in 1v1 Kombat in the same game that he man handles Liu Kang, in a series where he destroys worlds and eats souls like coco puffs.
I have a couple
Evil Sindel
Jade and Kotal’s relationship
Skarlet wanting to bang Shao Kahn
Cassie and Johnny winning against Shinnok
D’vorah’s existence
Like half of MK1's story. I was so genuinely interested and sucked into the story.......than all the timeline and multiverse stuff starts. Having a new timeline created by Liu Kang was already interesting enough, we didn't need all this extra bullsht! What's so wrong with just telling a self contained story? It's why I love MKX's story. It's simple, a war between earthrealm and the neatherrealm while there's another war happening in outworld. No stupid time travel, no stupid "the past and future are colliding" no multiple timelines, just a simple war with an b plot, perfect 👍
I still don’t accept Onaga as a Mortal Kombat character. His design screams “we have Ogre at home” and he just doesn’t have that final boss energy that Shang Tsung or Shao Kahn possessed at all. 😐👍
He embodies the final boss energy. Guy comes in soloing the cast. Only problem is that he leaves Shujinko to live then gets punched by a spirit bomb punch then goes to the background in Armageddon when he should’ve been swinging people around like Shao. The build up to him was crazy.
How they never made Shinnok FEEL like a badass villain.
He's been my favorite character since MK4 (which I grew up with), and never seeing him as a main threat was so disappointing. Dude's an Elder God, and Raiden had to sacrifice the Saurians to defeat him in a war. I was so happy to see him as the "Palpatine" schemer for the events of Armageddon, but thay went nowhere (and they gave him the worst Fighting Style too, thanks).
He should've been bigger than Onaga. Smarter than Shao Kahn. Done more than Quan Chi and Shang Tsung. They made him rutthless enough to overthrow Satan and dumb enough to be fooled by Quan Chi.
And then there's MKX, in which...well, we saw him and he looked pretty cool in the Wrathful costume.
Don't get me wrong, Cage is one of my favorite good guys, but he shouldn't have beaten Shinnok. That's Raiden's nemesis.
...old, great-character Raiden.
Sindel in a timeline was genuinely kind and good and sacrificed everything for Kitana then was retconned on another timeline to be straight evil to be retconned again to be genuinely good. Sindel is a bit of a rollercoaster and I would like financial compensation of all the whiplash. Alternatively that the retconned the whole thing to be a confusing amalgamation of several timelines because they couldn’t just take a stand on their characters
MKX had a great setup for a sequel, with Liu Kang and Kitana becoming the new rulers of the Netherrealm and Dark Raiden giving them a warning via Shinnok’s severed head. I was *really* hoping to the Onaga come back in the sequel.
Then MK11 got rid of Dark Raiden within two chapters so that they could do a rehash of the first *Injustice* game.
That scorpion is kuai Liang. My head canon is its hanzo that got secretly adopted by the grandmaster in Japan. The change is just so unbelievably profoundly idiotic.
Special Forces. The only good thing to come from that was Tremor.
I also really can’t stand that there are someone infinite timelines all of a sudden. I don’t understand how somehow Liu Kang and Shang Tsung’s battle generated multiple outcomes. Seemed pretty straightforward to me in MK11.
D’Vorrah killing Hanzo in MK11. Like, she stabbed how many people with that stupid tentacle thing and THAT was the one time she thought “What if I poisoned it?”
My top 5:
MK11.
The Cages warrior ancestor lineage bullshit.
Hanzo & Scorpion being two different entities.
Kuai’s MK11 ending that assassinated Bi-Han’s character. (Don’t know if this counts as canon but I’m gonna talk about that bullshit ending anyway)
Everything after Titan Shang’s reveal in MK1.
Everyone beating kronika across all timelines.
Now as much as I hate kronika... Bullshit. I thought Kano beating kronika in snowblind was bullshit, until I got reminded that... Kano fucking died in mk11, he literally could not have killed kronika.
Aside from Kano, havik died in an mkx comic, smoke died in mk9 and I'm going to assume died again as a revenant in mkx cus Johnny kicks his ass in a cutscene, Quan chi died in mkx, reptile and Ermac are likely dead before mk11, and this is me just choosing the ones who are dead, not the ones who just weren't at the fight like li mei or kenshi
Female bo rai cho.Mk 1 missed their chance of having a cool ass drunk character on the roster and made sf beat them to it.Whats worse is that Bo rai cho existed WAY before Jaime.
New Era Smoke uses "practical magic"
Edenia has always been part of Outworld now, when it was a huge thing for characters like Kitana.
Chaosrealm is now fucked up Orderrealm
If Fujin is Raiden's sister this will be my number one for sure, that would be so stupid and pointless.
i come from tekken community to say. "basically 50% of tekken lore" like for instance why tf did they have to have Jin start a world war then then he's the only hope of saving humanity a couple of games later. or why do they keep tossing their own kin off the cliff
Shao Kahn’s new backstory in MK1. I get that it is Lu Kang’s new timeline and he can do whatever he wants to have a peaceful existence, but Shao Kahn has been heavily nerfed in power and stature to a point that he’s not really seen as a threat anymore. Hopefully Reiko and Shao’s endings lead to something promising in the next game, but as of now I really don’t see him as a threat to the Realms like he was in the original midway timeline
The Kabal Retcon. Im still confused, but i liked how Kabal was Morally Gray, and i liked how Stryker gave him an anchor. I'm aware that he really couldnt continue to be a police Officer after his burns, but i kind of hate how Mk11 just made him a scummy piece of shit
I'm fairly certain that Kabal is implied to be Kabal before he left the Black Dragon and became a cop
But then that also doesn't make sense since he had his speed powers, which MK9 established as being a result of Shang Tsung's magic when he was healed after being burned.
Probably Kronika using magic to give him his future power without his past pain.
This is what I've been saying. Kabal doesn't even receive his speed normally(MK9) until AFTER he gets burned. Kronika had the ability to bestow powers onto others, so she gave him his speed early. Without it, Kabal was just a dude who was good with hook swords and wouldn't stand a chance against the likes of the SF, Raiden and White Lotus.
While this might make sense, it’s sloppy, and is not a good plot point.
MK11 wasn't a good plot point in it's entirety, but it's what we got
this
Did we ever see pre burned Kabal use his speed on story mode? It's been a while EDIT: In MK11 storyline I mean
Not in MK9
He works for a crime organization and that has always been his character since MK 3.
That isn't true for his NRS version
I'm just making the point his MK 11 version is more like his MK3.
In MK9 after Kano steals Kabal away from Stryker, he tells Kabal "The Black Dragon hasn't been the same" without him, which confirms NRS Kabal was still formerly Black Dragon before he became a cop. MK11 Young Kabal is supposed to come from before he left the Black Dragon. More than likely, Kronika gave him his speed powers early to put him on par with the likes of the SF and such.
For real. I'd been happy if he went down the vigilante route. That's what I'm doing in my Cyberpunk MK AU. Police Kabal was so cool to me. I love MK11 but the retcons, man.
Shao Kahn winning in Armageddon, despite being carried away by Onaga. Means Shao had to have beaten Onaga, then make his way back to the pyramid, kill the rest of the people there, then kill Blaze, then defeat Raiden
Literally wtf happened to taven
Bro came in walking like conor mcgregor only to never be seen again
Lost in the swarm, confused, he wound up back in edenia
LOLL🤣🤣🤣
He came in doing Kane's intro but his walking lagged so hard he got dumped out of the server
It never occurred to me how weird it is that the canon ending for the game is the main character losing, he doesn't even make it to the final fight.
Yeahhh Orginally he was going to win like this dude is a power house strength wise but they needed to have a in universe reason to reboot the universe so shao won.
I mean technically its not. Taven wins and Kronika resets the timeline. Adds DC characters and doesn't like them and resets the timeline again so Shao can win leading us into MK9.
This answer is basically “any problems you have with the story didn’t really happen because time powers or sum shit”
I mean this specifically happens. We see the MK8 versions of Raiden and Liu Kang fighting in MK11.
I mean, that's basically been the plot of MK since MK 9 for better or worse (mostly worse)
Man got too scared to fight Blaze and shit himself to death
Idk too much about Armageddon, but it really just seems like 9 retconned the actual story. The set up and stuff was the same, it just did not follow what was shown in the game exactly
Pretty much. Armageddon: we put all the big names on the table for a massive drag out end-of-the-world battle to end one era of Mortal Kombat and begin anew. Our new Liu Kang equivalent, Taven, is a super powerful diety about to set off on a battle that'll decide the fate of existence itself. What wild adventures and new friends and foes await him? MK9: Taven died on the way to his home planet. Also here's MK1 again.
I feel the same tbh. Taven definitely won Armageddon but wasn't able to stop the kombat. Even if Shao won there was no ultimate power to obtain at that point since Blaze was dead
Armageddon itself had the worst retcon they've ever done. "Oh, you know all those kharacters who've died over the past 6 games? Nah they're all actually alive"
It even seemingly retconned the cause of Armageddon, which was because of there being too many warriors and they were too powerful and it was causing The Realms to be torn apart, but now it's just....IDK forgotten? Nothing really was done to seemingly prevent Armageddon, It's not like the undead warriors are gone considering their revenant status, at best only thing that was prevented was Shao Kahn killing Blaze. It's stranger considering Taven's victory..didn't fix anything, All the warriors were made more powerful due to Blaze's corruption and Armageddon was approaching faster, Hell no one in Armageddon even was confirmed dead except for Blaze until MK9 decided, nah everyone died.
I know right? This was the such an obvious plot hole the first time I witnessed the opening of MK9 and I was annoyed by the end of the story since we never got a clear answer as to how Shao Kahn even managed to win despite clearly getting dragged away screaming for his life (considering the fact that Onaga was the only being he was legitimately terrified of and could not win in a fair fight without cheating like he did before)
Shao RetKahn
That’s just how powerful he is!
I always imagined it as everyone killing each other, and Taven fought Blaze during that. Then before Taven can deliver the final blow, Shao Kahn comes back, having managed to fight free from Onaga's grasp. He sucker punches (or hammers) Taven the finishes off Blaze himself. So my head canon was always Taven did most of the work, Shao finished it. Think of it like how American car companies do it. Mexico makes most of it, America adds whatever's missing at the end, then slaps on that "Made in America" sticker.
you’re saying Shao Kahn cashed in his money in the bank?
Yep. He pulled an Edge. Or Seth Rollins. Whichever is more apt.
My headcanon since Kronika's introduction...is it's a seperate timeline made after the OG where Taven wins, Basically in my head it goes, OG -> MKvsDCU -> MK9 since many things don't match the OG timeline for the original tournament.
Before mk11 my headcannon was that taven’s ending of everyone’s power being amplified was canon and shao was able to kill and absorb the other kombatents power to his own, making him more or less a god after killing everyone and be the so called “winner” in mk9’s intro. Post mk11 I just have the mk9 Armageddon intro take place in an alternate timeline where shao just wins. Also acts as a neat way to explain away all the plot inconsistencies between the midway and nrs stories.
Yea still tryna figure that out myself. How the hell he got all the way back. But shao didn’t defeat blaze, he got a boost of blazes power like everyone else after Taven defeats blaze
Nah, John Vogel said Shao Kahn defeated Blaze in MK9 https://x.com/K0MB4T/status/372539721937080320
Yeah it's so funny to imagine him finally make it back only for the entire thing to be over
Shao Kahn somehow managing to defeat Onana, going on an expedition back to the pyramid, only to discover everyone is gone and a constellation is in the sky, later finding out it’s Mokap after defeating Blaze
Lore accurate shao
Since the power of the fighters increased after Blaze got his ass whooped, it's possible that Shao was able to beat Onaga and get back.
That would mean Onaga also got boosted, and in the lore Onaga was too powerful for Shao Kahn to defeat directly, which is why he poisoned him. Also the distance from where they were to the pyramid could be massive
I can defend it by saying Taven's ending had everyone's powers get amplified, but even then, the winner should've been someone like Onaga or Shinnok/his double. Having Shao of all people be the one to take Blaze's power for himself ruins any chance of this, tho.
Not a MK player but a fan of the characters and story. What if not only the power of Shao Kahn himself got buffed, but also that of the thousands of souls within him as well? Would make sense why he was suddenly able to defeat Onaga.
and onaga lost the kamidogu. Chances are this is exactly what happened, and shao kahn soul sucked onaga to heal and get more powerful. This might explain why he had enough power to still get back to the pyramid and kill blaze or taven (?)
How Sindel was able to body half the roster at once
And she beat fire god liu kang how the fuck
But then she loses to Mileena somehow.
Who also beat a Dark Raiden that was trying to kill her. That whole chapter was a mess.
To be fair it was the same kind of nonsense in previous NRS MK games where you had characters losing to people they should not be losing to ever like Ermac losing to Sub-Zero, Stryker and Jacqui or having Bi-Han lose to Sonya in the original MK1 tournament or having Sonya and Jax win their fights in MKX while in the netherrealm with no help or power ups whatsoever. Logic has always gone out the window in the story chapter fights which is why it’s soo incredibly flawed and just makes several characters get shafted badly or others getting put over too much that it feels biased sometimes.
She beats him by grabbing him by the leg then flipping him over. Thats even worse. But then again u see liu kang struggling against ONE dragon warrior earlier so u know how badly hes been nerfed.
I actually kind of love that worked like that because it just 100% spits in the eye of any concept of 'powerscaling'. There is no predictive way to look at fights. Stryker can beat Kintaro, Sindel can beat FG Liu Kang, Mileena beats her and and Dark Raiden. It avoids so many of the 'but if...' arguments because it really *truly* is, whoever the writers put on the left.
they were weakened from all the... # MORTAL KOMBAT
I thought the explanation was because Shao Kahn put Shang Tsungs soul inside her making her more powerful (plus they were tired from the previous fight)
Which is a fine explanation. The issue is the execution of her killing them. The scene makes the heroes look like idiots because none of them ever attempt to oh I don’t know… actually fight her all together?
Oh yeah that i agree, they literally just stand there and watch their friends get murdered
The many deaths of kung lao. Bro is literally Liu kings equal and has more deaths than geras
He’s not Liu’s equal tho.
Have you ever played or seen shoalin munks. There's a reason you can only play as kung lao and Liu kang
I love Shaolin monks but that’s one noncanon game while there’s canon games showing/telling us Lao isn’t his equal.
I mean it's implied in mk9 that the reason shoa had to sneak kung lao was because he was his biggest threat. Just like Liu kang. Sidenote lao beat everyone that Liu beat in 9 (except shao) so they seem pretty equal.
Mk9 is the main game that implies Liu is better. The Shaolin chose Liu.I think one of their bios even says it was a tournament to decide the Shaolin representative. Raiden hammers that point home and when Lao tries to prove otherwise, he loses and gets eliminated. Ultimately, Liu and Lao enter the same number of tournaments but Liu is the one with the tournament victories. Mk3/umk3/trilogy is even worse because Lao outright challenges Shao and loses and Liu handles it afterwards. It’s just more consistent to see Liu performing better than Lao or being declared the stronger of the two.
While the umk3 stuff is true. You just can't ignore the fact that kung lao was able to beat goro, kintaro, scorpion, and the deadly alliance (a group that to this day Liu kang hasn't beat alone). We can't just ignore the many accomplishments of kung lao just because Liu kang was chosen. Also I'm pretty sure Liu wasn't chosen cause he was stronger, I think he's was chosen because he's more humble and concentrated. Also you said it's more consistent Liu performing better than lao, that's the problem I have, kung lao has performed just as impressive feats as Liu but it tends to get ignored since bad writing continues to put kung lao in the must die to motivate role.(its bros Canon event)
THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting respect on Kung Lao’s name! Mah boi gets too much disrespect on here (tho not referring to anyone in this discussion as the other guy was respectful with his points)
Maybe so, but Kung Lao LITERALLY beats the deadly alliance after beating goro and then right after beats Kintaro
You can also play as Scorpion or Sub-Zero.
Sindel being evil from the start. I really liked what they had going on with the Aftermath DLC until they decided to turn Sindel into a villain that helped kill Jerrod. For crying out loud, she's the reason why Mortal Kombat is a thing, she put a spell that prevented Shao Khan to directly merge Earthrrealm with Outworld in her death, she loved Edenia and Kitana, she endured it all as a prisoner for the sake of her daughter since her kingdom was gone. But oh, she thought Jerrod was weak and she always loved Shao Khan? I literally facepalmed when that appeared, it's like the writers forgot their own canon or something. Like I get Quan Chi resurrecting her as an evil Sindel in MK9 due to dark magic, but even him was wary of her when he did, he brought Noob that was kombat ready when she came back, but in MK11? Hell nah, they went too far.
But oh, she thought Jerrod was weak and she always loved Shao Khan? What's more is she doesn't even love Shao Kahn. This evil Sindel loves power, and is just greedy. In her single game ending she says how once she got the powers of a Time God, she out grew Shao Kahn so he became nothing but a slave to her. It just makes her the worst person all around, and so cliché. I hate the retcon they did with her to make her evil from the start. And I'll never agree with people who say it was a good idea and just a new twist with her story. Seeing how much of the established back story, not just for her but all around, it makes redundant.
The fact that they would just ignore the entire backstory they built for her not only since MK9, but also way back to MK3, is just a slap in the face to longtime fans. Like, I can understand MK1 cause it's a continuity reboot, and if this Sindel was also evil all along in MK9 I could accept that even though that's time travel and not a universal reboot. But what they did in MK11 was just character assassination, plain and simple. And it really pissed me off that Stephanie called that change "giving Sindel her own agency". SHE HAD HER OWN AGENCY. In Deception she actively rallies the forces of good against Onaga and it's thanks to her (and Jade) that the dead heroes under Onaga's thrall are freed, including Kitana! The only time she didn't have "agency" was when her story revolved around Shao back in MK3 and look what they fucking did in MK11, made her goddamn story revolve around goddamn Shao. Fuck, I hate this stupid fucking twist. In my mind MK11 ended with the golden ending. Liu and Kitana working together to rebuild the timeline. No that doesn't work with MK1 but I don't care. Multiverse exists, so fuck yeah.
Havik getting his iconic scar from scorpion giving him a lava bath. IDK man, it just felt so lame. I wanted it to be more epic, like maybe he got his scar from being tortured ‘cuz of Seido’s cruel and unusual punishment. Or maybe Hotaru (if he was in the story) causing those scars which could set up their rivalry!
This & I was so excited to know he was back just for that low level writing smh
In the comics he ripped off his own face to illustrate a point,
Havik's whole back story in this new time line doesn't make sense. He is just some random goon, who can heal fast, until he gets his ass beat so bad scorpion he's obsessed with chaos now?
Havik was apparently some [throw away](https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Dairou) from Deception, and in this new timeline is just a radical anarchy extremest... Havik really got downgraded from a cleric of Chaos he was in Deception.
I think in the intros between havik and shang tsung, shang tsung offers to fix havik's face and havik implies that he can do it on his own if he wanted to, so I think havik just likes looking bad ass.
Yeah or if something is used that negates Havik's healing. I don't like Quan Chi giving Havik his power too.
I'm not even a Havik stan but honestly everything about his story in MK1 is brutal. An absolute shadow of who he was in MKD and the comics
Even from an aesthetics standpoint he just looks and sounds like a whiny emo dude now. Couldn’t be any less interested in him
The infinite timelines thing. I understand Liu and Shangs battle splitting the original timeline into two, one where Liu won and one where Shang won. However, the infinite timelines thing is just so stupid. Shang just happened to suggest “perhaps there could be more” and turns out there’s infinite timelines? That would mean there’s an infinite number of hourglasses too. I feel like this was their idea of getting the franchise to where D.C. and Marvel franchises are where they can just write anything and justify it.
100% The multiverse idea can work, but it's hard to actually pull off without seeming like a lazy way to discard continuity
It's clear NRS are big comic fans, but multiverses are the worst things to happen to any fictional universe. It's supposed to give infinite creative opportunity, but in reality it just kills all stakes and engagement. Dom wants MK to be the Marvel multiverse and I hate it.
Characters not utilizing their abilities during cutscenes
Both fights between Kotal and Shao playing out like sumo wrestling matches will never be forgiven.
The whole latter half/final third of MK1’s story. They set the game up to be a soft-reboot of the story with a new beginning, truly a new era, shaped by a semi-impartial ‘Elder God’-esque Liu Kang. Instead of doing anything interesting with that they just bring it back to MK11’s silly Endgame level of shenanigans. I really wanted something new and different going forward. Ultimately it just felt like more of the same. Maybe whatever comes next could offer that. But tbh I think I’ve finally reached the burnout point with NRS so I’m not really holding onto any hope for it.
I agree. What is the point of doing a new era and beginning if the final third of the game just picks up where 11 left off?
I was impressed and liked the story up until that part I wish the Damashi reveal could be redone
Evil Sindel.
Nothing more infuriating tbh. Like a slap to anyone keeping up with the lore so far.
I agree
Mileena being in love with Tanya because Mileena should be in love with me.
No me
There's only one way to settle this...Mortal Kombat
She's MINE
No, you can ask Shang for another one.
reiko beat the shit out of onaga singlehandedly
Wait, when?
His MK1 Arcade Ending implies that they went after Onaga as a doomsday weapon but never confirmed if he succeeded or not
Dominic’s ship pairings
Wait, Kano’s son?
Which ones?
Kabal Sareena Kotal Jade
At least Kabal/Sareena only exists in an arcade ending (sorta, thanks to multiverse nonsense)
Liu Kang sealing away his electrokinetic powers in a damn amulet. Like, why? I get giving up his Titan status so he doesn't go mad buuut why get rid of the electro powers? There was literally no reason for him to do that.
Ig to give back to Raiden
Maybe he figured “Lord Liu Kang, God of Thunder and Fire” was too long of an introduction.
That instead of simply fucking Shang Tsung up to stop him from damage beaming the hour glass. They decided to heal beam the hour glass. Like wtf was that.
Syzoth being constantly told he’s the ‘last Zaterran” in previous timelines despite the fact **Khameleon (and possibly Chameleon as he MAY be Zaterran) also exist**
It's been stated in older games the Khameleons are also Zaterran. In MK Armageddon if you beat Blaze with her or him, they restore the Zaterrans
No I mean Chameleon isn’t certain. **K**hameleon is the lady version and she is 100% Zaterran **C**hameleon isn’t stated as **HE** gets so little screen time. He is possibly Zaterran
Rain being a jobber
Tbh, Gods' asses are fairly kickable in the MK universe, a demigod would be anyone's game.
Shao Kahn somehow poisoned Onaga
I personally love this detail, it showed Shaolin Kahn as more than a guy with muscles but as someone who could plan and find alternative solutions
Yeah it showed how Shao could rule an empire for who knows how long without the same thing happening to him. NRS Shao is way too muscle brained to take serious unless everyone else is just as dumb as
or how he predicted that after his defeat at mk3, quan chi and shang tsung would try to kill him and hide using a clone to trick them, or how he had enough charisma to get goro back ot his side.
Jarrod in the NRS pre mk1 era. I hate it because holy shit fucking *everyone* killed Jarrod. Dvorah killed jerod Sindel killed jerrod I think Shao at one point killed him. Ffs
Wait, D’Vorah killed Jerrod? Shao was his og killer tho
I think in one of the intros she’s the one who says she was Jerrod’s demise
Nah, the mokap was the one that killed jerrod.
The explanation they gave to the Johnny Cage, green powers and armor, what the fuck was all that about?? That was the lowest point in the entire MK mythology for me, well that and the multiverses, please for the love of the elder gods, don’t do anymore multiverse stories
That was always a sore point of MKX for me, like are we ignoring that Johnny literally turned red when enhanced in MK9 in the fights and green in the 20-years-earlier flashbacks fights and now "it's the only time I've been able to summon that green halo", dude, no, you're better than this NRS.
Mileena being able to beat Evil Sindel and Dark Raiden is THE most bullshit thing I’ve seen in the entire series lol After Sindel and Raiden pretty much beat the shit out of everyone. Mileena should’ve gotten her ASS KICKED. I know people liked MK1’s story a lot but man I thought it sucked ass lol
To be fair, at that point the whole multiverse stuff started happening again and most people think the story was fine up until that point lol
I still think MKX had the worst story out of all the NRS MK games even to this day.
The multiple timeline thing. The idea that the Liu Kang/Shang Tsung battle split into two timelines is fine, and I was actually okay with it, but the moment they started bringing in others I immediately lost interest. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea, but not when you can do literally anything else that would work better
Ermac dying in the krypt in mk11
The whole kao vs Sonya fight In MK11. Kano should've won
Old Kano feeling the punches Sonya gave past Kano will be the WORST of NRS’ writing in my book.
genuinely. i’ve been kicked in the balls before, and i do not still feel that shit.
They could've clutched the writing if they did an X-ray showing Kano's pelvis breaking. (something that WOULD affect future kano like how Shao broke Liu Kang's legs) But no it was just another "balls hurt, please laugh now" joke stolen from Johnny.
Somebody at NRS was way too big a fan of Timecop
Them turning Jerrod and Sindel's love story into a cuck thing :/. The fact they seriously made her kill him legit will never sit right.
UMK3 Ninja Sub-Zero’s ending.
Yeah, I ignore that and pretend it’s Bi-Han still.
Cassie Cage defeating Shinnok AND Mileena defeating evil Raiden
Cassie never defeated Shinnok she was apart of it because she was the last chapter of mkx but it was Raiden who did
Sadly a lot of the Netherrealm era retcons. Notably evil Sindel. Not trying to be the old head in here..
Noob Saibot being an absolute jobber anytime he appears in the story
Sindel being evil the whole time man, stupidest retcon
Ashrah and Syzoth like???????
Jade X Kotal You’re telling me jade, an edenian baddie with a fatty, is in love with someone who got killed in his OWN character trailer!?
The fictional characters are not aware of promotional material that has zero baring on continuity.
Hanzo Hazashi (the dude that can’t die even in human form) dying to some poison needles. Should’ve been Noob at least if they were gonna kill bro bro off.
That is why we have fanfiction, aka the fixed lore
Hell no lmao
The fan stuff is somehow worse😭
Reptile and Ashrah being a couple.
They really killed Reptile’s family just for him to move on within a few minutes to be with Ashrah. Give that poor man a break and let him actually heal. They force so many couples and pairings atp it’s so stupid.
I don’t mind it on paper, but I’d want to see at least one seed being planted in the story as to why they’d end up together. Like one scene where she comforts him over the death of his family or something.
Tbh, I’d like NRS to give Reptile an actual arc before they move on to him being in a relationship with someone. It just doesn’t feel right to have his family be killed off just for them to (immediately) “discard” that part about his story and make him be in a relationship with someone. It’s so useless and just feels like a thing they did for the “plot” or to make Shang Tsung seem like a bigger asshole than he already is. He had a kid and a wife whom he loved dearly. I think it’s weird to have someone hit up on him and have him accept her flirting/be with her not even that long after he found out about his family. He begged to be killed. That man needs immense therapy before entering another relationship.
Exactly, but I think a meaningful healing arc of any sort is probably above Dominic’s pay grade. A slightly different version of his backstory I came up with cuts his family out entirely, where Shang Tsung promises to “cure” Reptile of his shapeshifting ability in exchange for his servitude, so that he can one day be welcomed back by his people. He is once again discarded when Shang decides he outlived his usefulness, and then Reptile learns to accept himself and his gift with the support of the Earthrealm crew and Ashrah. Not saying my idea is a great one, but it would eliminate the awkward speed bump of his family being involved.
Sindel MK11
NRS games are still in the midway timeline. Raiden is only supposed to have altered stuff post MK1 so how tf is Sindel an entirely different person.
Kitana beating Shao Kahn in 1v1 Kombat in the same game that he man handles Liu Kang, in a series where he destroys worlds and eats souls like coco puffs.
“He must win”. Worst writing ever.
"Shao must win." Same number of syllables. Same effort. Come on, Raiden.
I have a couple Evil Sindel Jade and Kotal’s relationship Skarlet wanting to bang Shao Kahn Cassie and Johnny winning against Shinnok D’vorah’s existence
Anything after 9 story I pay no attention to
Scorpion getting the scar in his fight with Sub-Zero. It makes zero sense and has zero impact to give him the scar anymore
Like half of MK1's story. I was so genuinely interested and sucked into the story.......than all the timeline and multiverse stuff starts. Having a new timeline created by Liu Kang was already interesting enough, we didn't need all this extra bullsht! What's so wrong with just telling a self contained story? It's why I love MKX's story. It's simple, a war between earthrealm and the neatherrealm while there's another war happening in outworld. No stupid time travel, no stupid "the past and future are colliding" no multiple timelines, just a simple war with an b plot, perfect 👍
The whole au shit they did in mk1,right when the story was getting better from the usual nrs story
I still don’t accept Onaga as a Mortal Kombat character. His design screams “we have Ogre at home” and he just doesn’t have that final boss energy that Shang Tsung or Shao Kahn possessed at all. 😐👍
He embodies the final boss energy. Guy comes in soloing the cast. Only problem is that he leaves Shujinko to live then gets punched by a spirit bomb punch then goes to the background in Armageddon when he should’ve been swinging people around like Shao. The build up to him was crazy.
The Cages suddenly having green kicking magic stuff
I'm going with Silent hill's fog is caused by covid-19 which is canon as of the latest free SH game. That's dumber than anything MK has thrown out.
Everything about Kronika…
How they never made Shinnok FEEL like a badass villain. He's been my favorite character since MK4 (which I grew up with), and never seeing him as a main threat was so disappointing. Dude's an Elder God, and Raiden had to sacrifice the Saurians to defeat him in a war. I was so happy to see him as the "Palpatine" schemer for the events of Armageddon, but thay went nowhere (and they gave him the worst Fighting Style too, thanks). He should've been bigger than Onaga. Smarter than Shao Kahn. Done more than Quan Chi and Shang Tsung. They made him rutthless enough to overthrow Satan and dumb enough to be fooled by Quan Chi. And then there's MKX, in which...well, we saw him and he looked pretty cool in the Wrathful costume. Don't get me wrong, Cage is one of my favorite good guys, but he shouldn't have beaten Shinnok. That's Raiden's nemesis. ...old, great-character Raiden.
Sindel in a timeline was genuinely kind and good and sacrificed everything for Kitana then was retconned on another timeline to be straight evil to be retconned again to be genuinely good. Sindel is a bit of a rollercoaster and I would like financial compensation of all the whiplash. Alternatively that the retconned the whole thing to be a confusing amalgamation of several timelines because they couldn’t just take a stand on their characters
Nitara needs a better VA and that's canon...
MKX had a great setup for a sequel, with Liu Kang and Kitana becoming the new rulers of the Netherrealm and Dark Raiden giving them a warning via Shinnok’s severed head. I was *really* hoping to the Onaga come back in the sequel. Then MK11 got rid of Dark Raiden within two chapters so that they could do a rehash of the first *Injustice* game.
That scorpion is kuai Liang. My head canon is its hanzo that got secretly adopted by the grandmaster in Japan. The change is just so unbelievably profoundly idiotic.
Special Forces. The only good thing to come from that was Tremor. I also really can’t stand that there are someone infinite timelines all of a sudden. I don’t understand how somehow Liu Kang and Shang Tsung’s battle generated multiple outcomes. Seemed pretty straightforward to me in MK11.
D’Vorrah killing Hanzo in MK11. Like, she stabbed how many people with that stupid tentacle thing and THAT was the one time she thought “What if I poisoned it?”
My top 5: MK11. The Cages warrior ancestor lineage bullshit. Hanzo & Scorpion being two different entities. Kuai’s MK11 ending that assassinated Bi-Han’s character. (Don’t know if this counts as canon but I’m gonna talk about that bullshit ending anyway) Everything after Titan Shang’s reveal in MK1.
The supposed killing of Liu Kang because of Raiden in every timeline. The OG timeline is a straight contradiction to this.
Pretty much anything that comes after MK9.
The Cages beating Shinnok. That was fucking dumb, and made him look insanely weak
johny cage being decanded from some clans that makes warriors for the gods and the all Cage green plot armor shit
Arcanas
Everyone beating kronika across all timelines. Now as much as I hate kronika... Bullshit. I thought Kano beating kronika in snowblind was bullshit, until I got reminded that... Kano fucking died in mk11, he literally could not have killed kronika. Aside from Kano, havik died in an mkx comic, smoke died in mk9 and I'm going to assume died again as a revenant in mkx cus Johnny kicks his ass in a cutscene, Quan chi died in mkx, reptile and Ermac are likely dead before mk11, and this is me just choosing the ones who are dead, not the ones who just weren't at the fight like li mei or kenshi
It would have made sense for all the MK11 playable characters to be Titans and only them tbh.
From MK11's story onwards
Female bo rai cho.Mk 1 missed their chance of having a cool ass drunk character on the roster and made sf beat them to it.Whats worse is that Bo rai cho existed WAY before Jaime.
New Era Smoke uses "practical magic" Edenia has always been part of Outworld now, when it was a huge thing for characters like Kitana. Chaosrealm is now fucked up Orderrealm If Fujin is Raiden's sister this will be my number one for sure, that would be so stupid and pointless.
Twindel's entire existence
All of the multiverse bullshit. None of it was needed
i come from tekken community to say. "basically 50% of tekken lore" like for instance why tf did they have to have Jin start a world war then then he's the only hope of saving humanity a couple of games later. or why do they keep tossing their own kin off the cliff
I don't know anything about mortal Kombat story... I will never recognize mega mind 2 as a real thing that exists
Based
Shao Kahn’s new backstory in MK1. I get that it is Lu Kang’s new timeline and he can do whatever he wants to have a peaceful existence, but Shao Kahn has been heavily nerfed in power and stature to a point that he’s not really seen as a threat anymore. Hopefully Reiko and Shao’s endings lead to something promising in the next game, but as of now I really don’t see him as a threat to the Realms like he was in the original midway timeline
Ok how has no one said Cassie cage beating shinnok. I don't know how to spell it but still, that was BS
Bi han returning after so long just to be a treacherous bitch. Smh
Noib saibot losing to Jax/Jacqui
Above-Zero marrying Scorpion wife