Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-21005855-20140627001148/@comment-1844049-20140630125206

76.120.93.41 wrote: Jayspyder wrote: I certainly won't be protesting if Liu Kang is in MKX, but on the chance he isn't, Kai is indeed the ideal replacement for him I believe. And since MKX takes place so far ahead in time (in multiple intervals), we could see an older Kai well into his quest for self-enlightenment, more wise and well...badass. Bo' Rai Cho's training of Earth's warriors (since he, an Outworlder, couldn't oppose Outworld himself in Mortal Kombat) I think makes him a bit relevant, like a major "supporting" character (not saying I want him as a playable though, lol). And yeah, Onaga's return was depicted as totally inveitable; I imagine that maybe the only way to prevent it would be to kill his Holy Men (who had subdued Blaze), and destroy the Dragon Egg. Absolutely, but I wonder if Raiden's even going to be cool on the information well enough to actually figure out what he would need to do for that. I mean, his Armageddon version sends himself a message saying "He Must Win" and expects for himself to understand what that means when the younger Raiden doesn't.

Also, didn't Deadly Alliance and Deception take place years in the future like say perhaps 25 years in the future since MK4? I know that it took place years later because of Sub-Zero's aging in Deadly Alliance. Yeah, Raiden's a god so of course he has to speak in riddles, lol. I mean really, would it have been harder to simply say, "Let Kahn invade!" before he got his skull crushed like watermelon? "He must win," is so damn vague, its like he wanted to send his younger self on a wild goose chase on purpose.

Deadly Alliance takes place around ten years after MK4. This is confirmed by Kung Lao's bio. But I remember learning this from the Konquest mode of MK: DA. There's actually a lot of information there regarding the story and what happens, as well as character histories (for example, in the MK universe, Bo' Rai Cho is the one who invented Drunken Boxing and brought it to Earth).