Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-27844144-20160627000524/@comment-422853-20160913213147

Everything about Shujinko, whether his character (or lack thereof), abilities, and everything was only due to the nature of Konquest mode, which was part of MK's odd way of storytelling at the time; going around, training with every available character to learn their techniques and things. Deadly Alliance had the mode too, except there was no character actually doing all the training with everyone, and that's where Shujinko came in for when they continued the concept in Deception, to make Konquest's training feel more organic, in addition to giving this character a story that tied-in with everything up to that point.

With how MK does things now though, a blank slate like Shujinko doesn't have nearly as much a point existing, even if he was made more unique. Don't mind seeing how his story further changes and ends though after being possessed by Havik in the comics, but other than that, I don't know what they could really do with him now.