Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-26339133-20150427183819/@comment-72.197.211.140-20150528231714

Well, for the Shujinko Q, you have to remember that the Kamidogu are no longer in the same form as they were in the original timeline. If that's true, then perhaps the details of the quest that Onaga told him about so many years ago have now been altered.

For Raiden being corrupted by two different means, the MKX version made a little more sense because we know the Jinsei was corrupted, and required some measure of sacrifice to purify it. Raiden simply assimilated the corruption into himself as that sacrifice.

In the original timeline, I'm not really sure on the details of the corruption. When his energies reformed, the corruption took place. Some had said it had something to do with the battle against Shang Tsung anD Quan Chi, others said Onaga might have had something to do with it, while a 3rd possibility was it had something to do with Shinnok's amulet and its presence.