Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140830173232/@comment-21005855-20140911230554

Uglyguy25 wrote:

Sorry, I've wrote a little too much about Liu Kang... That's what I get for liking psychology so much. But thanks for explaining the "25 years later" thing for me. In the way you said it, it still makes sense that Shinnok is the villain. Maybe the game happens in a span of 25 years because of Kotal's betrayal. Maybe he's the responsible for taking most of all of those new characters to the game, to fight for Outworld - Ferra and Torr, D'Vorah etc. That'd be why the MK X war would last for so much longer than the MK 4 one. To answer your first question. Liu Kang was all about just saving Earthrealm so, yeah, to a degree Liu Kang is obsessed in being a hero. But that wouldn't drive him to evil. Also, does disagreeing with someone make them selfish? Liu Kang disagreed with how Raiden wanted to do things and thought his way was the better way to do it. Raiden wanted Shao Kahn to win and that would mean the merging of Earthrealm to Liu Kang. Raiden didn't even bother to explain his motives. He just wanted everyone to trust him. If Raiden had explained himself then Liu Kang would've been okay with the plan I think.

Good point about the Legacy Liu Kang. He was very stubborn. I would say though that MKX Liu Kang is going to go the bad route because of the death of Kung Lao and then the death of everyone else including Kitana.

I think it was a little of both. He was the ego and the hero. Ego because he just had to be the one who beat the bad guys but the hero because he wanted to save everyone else.

And take in mind that Shinnok will only be the villain for just the first part which represents MK4. I suppose that he could be the big bad for the first two parts where Shinnok conquers Earthrealm and Outworld and then the next segment shows the Earthrealm/Outworld alliance defeat Netherrealm. But ultimately I think there's going to be a part for every five years. So like, five years after MK9 will be the MK4 story, then part 2 will have MK: DA and MK: D. Part 3 will have a struggle to prevent Armageddon, Part 4 will have life after Armageddon and part 5 would have the resolution of the Raiden/Liu Kang rivalry.