Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-70.169.224.88-20150427184942/@comment-1392464-20150504211211

72.197.202.154 wrote:

Now granted, Shinnok technically still isn't as powerful as he should be. Despite the alternate timeline, everything that took place BEFORE the events of MK1 still happened exactly the same way in the original timeline. If that's true, then the "amulet" that everyone was placing so much importance on was actually a fake. Remember, Quan Chi gave Shinnok a duplicate, while keeping the original for himself. But even the fake amulet is still capable of devastating power, and I cannot see how Cassie can counter something like that so easily. I wouldn't be so sure. Of course it being an alternate timeline, it is expected to be different only from a given point in time, the beginning of MK1 in this case, because Raiden tried to change the way things worked. But for an alternate timeline there are an unexpected lot of things that changed unrelated to Raiden's interference, as Quan Chi's, Nightwolf and Baraka's pressence in MK1, as well as Sektor and Cyrax's, and also Reptile not only being a contestant, but also being one of the first guys to fight in Mortal Kombat timeline (wasn't he just keeping an eye?), the other beign Johnny Cage. Raiden did nothing there. As such, if we assume the new timeline has changes that don't relate to Raiden changing events, it could be perfectly possible that Quan Chi never gave Shinnok a fake medallion in the past.

The only diegetic explanation I find to this mess is: Raiden from MK:Armageddon blew it all sending his message to an already divergent timeline's past, and not his, effectively failing to save his own. Which is perfectly possible, seeing how dim witted Raiden is through MK2011.

Anyway, my point of view is all this "changes unrelated to Raiden" are plot holes derived from "artistic licenses", and guys at NRS didn't really think twice what they where doing.