Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-5503721-20190518202650/@comment-3087260-20190719182146

Ridley Prime wrote: Yeah, Geras was the best out of the newcomers this time, though that's not saying too much.

So here's a hot take I kinda just had earlier. With the original timeline Armageddon ending, Taven originally won; everything that happened in the intro happened as it did, with Onaga impliedly killing Shao Kahn, etc. But then Kronika rewinded and altered that particular event to work in Shao Kahn's favor with him winning instead, so the outcome would work in a way that ended in Raiden suffering the most.

There was the whole Raiden vs Liu Kang conundrum that happened every timeline thanks to her too, but it's how one can make sense of the whole Armageddon outcome retconning and stuff when you think about it. Although that's likely giving the writers too much credit since I don't think they came up with the idea of Kronika that far back, but still. Nah just armageddon was convoclted and Taven's ending showed that he failed to stop it.