Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-27844144-20160627000524/@comment-809585-20160725094423

There wasn't really anything going on to go with the idea that MKX was following MK4, aside from Shinnok and Quan Chi being the antagonists, I doubt they'd want to follow Deadly Alliance and Deception seeing as they've more or less made Shujinko a glorified mook in the comics who was the protagonist in Deception (a shit one), and seeing as how DA and D were pretty shit in terms of story and how they were pretty bad anyway.

Then again, Vogel's an incredibly shitty writer so he'll probably write up something they'll do it.

MK9 was really the only one to follow the primary events of the first three games, which it kinda needed to as it was a reboot with obvious changes to the story to stop it literally being a copy and paste story, MKX had almost no elements from MK4 to even be considered a reflection.