Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-173.217.197.6-20140910012332/@comment-21005855-20140917204152

Ridley Prime wrote: Surprised I didn't think about it before, but I kinda like the idea of Tsung going from working for Shao Kahn to Shinnok, the latter of whom could easily resurrect Tsung in the Netherrealm if the fallen Elder God willed it. And I mean a full resurrection, not as another zombie slave which would make Tsung not the kind of scheming/creative sorcerer he was before.

And I never got why they retconned Tsung being the one to suggest resurrecting Sindel, but Quan Chi doing it instead. I guess Quan may have very well set everything in motion though to make Tsung look useless so that Kahn would kill him then and there, etc.

By the way, I don't think Onaga actually NEEDS the Kamidogu for him to be resurrected. He just waited till all of them were gathered before revealing himself because they would give him an extra power boost (hence why his power starts to wane when you break them as you're fighting him in Deception). All he needs is a reptilian host body like Reptile's. If not him, then perhaps someone whose presumably another Saurian like Chameleon. I think the whole idea was that Quan Chi and Shang Tsung were sort of working with each other for a while now. Shang was the one who told Quan about the Temple of the Elements and I would imagine that Quan was the one who told about Sindel. So being that Quan in the Alternate timeline became involved I can see him just not telling Shang about Sindel and telling Shao instead.

Also, you're right about Onaga. However, I don't think it has to be a reptilian body.