Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-4708902-20160816191251/@comment-4708902-20160819131652

Jayspyder wrote: Liu Kang has been my favorite Mortal Kombat character since I first played MK2 as a kid on my grandparents' sega genesis. Now that I think of it, he might've had something to do with red being my favorite color. But lately I feel like I might have a masochistic side since I keep returning to the series only to see him get continually shit on, starting with his sudden death in DA. I don't know why Ed or Vogel, or someone on the writing team seems to hate him so much. But MKX was sort of the straw that broke the camel's back.

I'd assume it's because from a storytelling perspective, Liu Kang is probably the least interesting of all the originals. But that's not neccisarily a bad thing. The main characters in George Miller movies are almost always the least interesting. Instead, it's the setting that takes center stage. For Liu Kang in current stories, their expanding him by giving him a dark side.