Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-809585-20150114141553/@comment-21005855-20150115235342

Here's my two cents:

In the original timeline, Johnny Cage was killed by Motaro at the beginning of MK3 but resurrected by the Elder Gods in MK Trilogy via being convinced by Raiden but had to go back to being dead after the fight was over. In MK4, Johnny Cage convinced the Elder Gods to resurrect him again and he became permanently alive after that. In MK: Deception, Mileena dressed up as Kitana and no one knew that it wasn't Kitana.

Now, in this alternate timeline, it wasn't Johnny that died but Kung Lao. Raiden probably convinced the Elder Gods to resurrect him to help fight. During the fight, something must have happened that deeply disturbed Kung Lao and led him to a live of passivism. At the 25 year mark, Kung Lao comes back, saves Raiden's forces and then they have that conversation.

As far as Kitana goes, that isn't Kitana. It's Mileena in Kitana garb. We might see her as either a good guy (making her MK9 ending semi-canonical) or she's on the side of Kotal Kahn who is on Quan Chi's side and she's just there to mess things up and we'll see that at the end of the game. I suppose it could even be the fact that Raiden convinces the Elder Gods to resurrect both Kung Lao and Kitana. But what about Argus? He could be the protector god that gets the elder gods to resurrect Kitana.