Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-882622-20150504162800/@comment-422853-20151015095933

Yellow Ledbetter wrote: To Ridley, Kittelsen left implied to me he will change Onaga's origins.

Also, Goro said that he knew about Onaga on Red Dragon's lore.

Onaga has nothing to do with Red Dragon, this affirmation is stillborn as non-canon.

By taking MK:A interpretation, Onaga was already dead long before Taven and Daegon were dormant and even before Shinnok's fall from grace. Onaga is likely one the very first rulers of Outworld.

And I know it doesn't mean it wouldn't have inconsistencies, but that's wrong, I mean, who would write a story that clearly misleads the original story AND the current story? I bet that if we, common people, that possibly a very few know how to draw, or to write scripts, would do a better job than them, because we do know what we are talking about.

Well, I do have my comments about Vogel's writings. I love Deception storyline, and thanks to him. What I really dislike about his writing is that he suddenly kills parts of the story because he wants. It's like taking out Taven and putting Shao Kahn. But they do not tell you what happened to Taven, if Raiden has beaten him, if Daegon did, if Shao Kahn did, you know, he just says "we wanted X before, but not it turns out to be Y".

But these comics have started pretty good. Then I played the game, and it's very obvious that the comic is almost talking about another story, because nothing fits, by the reason of the problems I stated above. It's unfortunate, but I think they wanted to create something only the creators, "vogelling" or not, could do.

Skipping from MK9 to MKX, holding our minds only to the info given in the latest, it's enough to have a linear storyline, no need of that circus created in the comics almost for nothing (except by what Draft said above: exterminate all 3D era). Ah, now I see what you're saying. If they changed Onaga's origin, then I guess it's safe to say they did the same with Shujinko and his quest as well, into something even more obscure... I think it could be interesting though if Orin & Caro were somehow connected to Onaga, since they're all dragons. But Onaga being connected to the Red Dragon clan itself seems like a copout, yeah.

True.

Deception's still one of my top favorite storylines of the series as well, but Vogel's clearly past his prime now as a writer of the series' lore. (not even telling what happened to Taven was lazy, yeah) I'd go as far as to say MKX's story killed much of my enthusiasm for where they could take the plot next, and if they ultimately just phase out Onaga and other potential characters out of the timeline, then I'll no longer really care for the series' story and mostly just get the next games for their good gameplay, etc.

With how MKX turned out, tells me that whatever new stories they come up with next will be terrible, with more new and mostly terrible characters introduced that have very little relevance to the story (bringing back Dark Raiden was terrible too IMO). Nothing really memorable anymore without nostalgia from the first games to fall back upon like with MK9, I guess.

The comics have killed a good chunk of the 2D era as well, not just the 3D era. Tell me things like Cyrax's death didn't feel needlessly forced with a straight face... lol If another season of the comics still happens and Onaga gets some good moments before going down like Reiko and Havik, I suppose I'll at least be moderately satisfied that they gave him some time to shine again somewhere, though won't make up for him not being in another game though like Reiko not being in MKX. Of course, I'd take almost anything they could have in store for him in the comics over him getting wasted by Cassie MarySue Cage like demon Shinnok.