Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-34018739-20190327152005/@comment-362861-20190510183143

I was hoping we would get to the subject about character portrayals lol. I have a bone to pick with this game. In MKX, which was what, 25 years into the future, they’re desperately trying to save their friends from Shinnok’s corruption. Now in MK11, they don’t give a damn.

“Don’t let the scars fool you, he’s fast”, “Kitana. “Empress” of the dead.”, and “Raiden was right, you’re a lost cause”.

Kabal fought for Earthrealm and justice and not only got VERY badly burned and lost his lungs, but then he lost his life on top of it. Kitana was one of few Outworlders who sided with Earthrealm, and Liu Kang fought for what he thought was right. To throw them aside just to move the plot along with this whole Kronika business to me was just sloppy writing, even if Quan Chi’s death meant they couldn’t be saved.

And the characters need to remember: spending nearly 30 years as an undead soldier of the damned cannot be good on a person’s mental state, and it’s them who dropped the ball on that. Having children, living lives, and then coming and saying “we need to save our friends!”? Nope.

I also feel as though if Jax were to betray his allies because of mental damage, he would have done so in MKX, not the game after when its shown he has mostly gotten over it by the end of X.

Scorpion straight up turning a new leaf because Hanzo told him to seems really flimsy, especially since the past Scorpion is still under the impression Bi-Han killed his clan. There was no elaboration on that.

Jade and Kotal’s romance, while charming, was so forced. Not once in MK9 was there mention of this (Kotal not existing, obviously). I think when she betrayed Shao Kahn with Kitana she would’ve been all “We need allies. Kotal would definitely join us in this fight.” if the character existed back then.

And the retconning. Ugh.