Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-4222221-20140620035906/@comment-4809082-20140716011920

Ridley Prime wrote: Macaulyn wrote: Talking about gods, have you thought what would happen if Raiden screwed up again and instead of Fujin escaping Shinnok's wrath, another of the elemental gods did, or maybe even Fujin and the other ones.

Also, I saw a compilation of Mortal Kombat Conquest's fighting scenes, and in the final ones, the Shadow Priests kill everyone, so, why isn't one of them playable yet? They were not like that in Shaolin Monks, but they were still worth having a playable representant, right? I wouldn't be opposed to that, like if we had gotten the Water, Earth, or Fire God back in some shape or form instead of Fujin (Wind God).

Conquest takes place in the universe of the movies, but it's non-canon. There was supposed to be another season though where pretty much everyone the Shadow Priests slaughtered had gotten revived and would eventually tie-in with the Great Kung Lao getting defeated and killed by Goro like we all know, but it got cancelled.

But yeah, the Shadow Priests in general have some freakishly otherworldly powers, like when you fight them in Shaolin Monks (though I haven't played that game). In the game's canon though they were said to be a bunch of Kahn's sorcerers trained by Shang Tsung or something, but in Conquest they were far more powerful than everyone, barring Kahn and Raiden. They are pretty annoying on MK:SM, they throw fireballs, do the soul steal move and cast lightning the same way Rain does. Also, you can't perform fatalities on them and is much better to push them into a pit then fighting them. Oh, and they fly.

I don't think they should appear as playable, they are too common, they work good as a a minor foe on an adventure game, but I don't think we should burn a slot with one of them.