Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-70.169.224.88-20150427184942/@comment-72.207.104.181-20150516091440

Dragonspyne wrote: Do you mean Quan Chi having the fake amulet? If the amulet was fake then Quan Chi just touching the amulet would make him immortal. Right?

It's really hard to say if the amulet was real or fake. There's certainly evidence to suggest it's real as well. For example, if you look back at the beginning of the game where Raiden used the amulet to imprison Shinnok within it. Now, if all those years ago Quan Chi had given Shinnok a fake amulet, how could it imprison him?

Of course, in the original timeline, in Quan Chi's MK4 ending, he DID say he managed to fool everyone this whole time. I guess one of the Qs that wasn't really answered was what powers the real amulet would have compared to the fake one.

We knew a little bit of Quan Chi's abilities while having the real amulet at his disposal, as well as Shinnok's abilities with the fake amulet. But I don't think we had ever been shown anyone who wielded both the fake AND real amulets, and what difference in power they would have between the two.