Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-5561191-20140928004542

Yeah. I really wanted to have him back to the game again, since he was very cool in MK 9, but I hadn't stopped to think about this detail. That King Jerrod must have taken over him now.

Btw, why did this only happen now, and not in the original timeline? The souls of Ermac in conflict because of Shao Kahn's death and Jerrod emerging to put order in it. I know, in the original timeline Shao Kahn didn't actually die in MK 3, but Ermac should have believed he did because he "wandered Outworld without instructions" until he was freed from the spells that bounded him to Shao by Kenshi in Deadly Alliance.

Again, correct if I'm wrong, because I didn't actually play Deadly Alliance, but how was Ermac before Kenshi found him and helped him to acquire free will? Was he looking conflicted in any way? If he was, wouldn't that indicate that he - and all of his souls - believed that Shao was dead, and so it would have gone just like in his MK 9 ending, with him getting mad? I can't see why Jerrod only appears to "help him" with his sanity in the alternative timeline, as he didn't do it when Shao Kahn was supposedly killed in the original one.