Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-25163804-20150227224724/@comment-21005855-20150304034855

Uglyguy25 wrote: @Dragonspyne Oh, now I see what you meant with "selfish". Yes, he had no reason to threaten Sonya or Earthrealm for not wanting or being able to help him.

But on the other hand, it might not have been a threat actually. Sonya took what he said as a threat, but what did he actually say? That if Earthrealm didn't aid him, it would share Outworld's fate (that's what the wiki says, sorry if it's different in the comic). I wouldn't take it as a threat because he was probably referring to Mileena, and he would be right. Shao Kahn almost destroyed Earthrealm in MK 9. Mileena is even worse than him and if nobody helped Kotal to stop her, wouldn't Earthrealm actually suffer again? How could he be threatening Earthrealm if he and his forces would be destroyed by her even before he had a chance to have his revenge on Earthrealm? And he also mentioned a promise he had made with Raiden after the "Netherrealm war": that their realms would cooperate.

If Earthrealm could not aid Kotal Kahn and Outworld according to the promise, then Kotal would be killed, Outworld would be taken by Mileena and Earthrealm would probably be next, just as Kotal tried to say, so they wouldn't really have a choice. Besides, it's not like Earthrealm can't do anything about it, as the story trailer confirmed: many new warriors showed up to help to save it, like Cassie, Jacqui, Takeda and Kung Jin. If this had happened the first time Kotal asked for help - and it could have happened, though with different warriors - there wouldn't be so many problems now. So it wouldn't be "help me or else" but "help because you promised". Then I suppose that would be more justified.