Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-1084762-20150120234121/@comment-5561191-20150126010853

I think there are still chances of Liu Kang becoming a bad guy both because of what happened in MK9 and of Legacy. Last time we talked about this, we speculated that Liu Kang becoming "evil" in Legacy was because of NRS wanting to see how would fans react to this.

Nobody knows if he died or not in MK9, but in either way I think Quan Chi could try to take advantage of his anger at Raiden and try to bring him to his side. Of course, if Liu did die in MK9, that would be a lot easier, as he could be ressurected as one of Quan Chi's wraiths.

The fact that Liu Kang wouldn't be selfish enough to turn against Earthrealm just because of Raiden and that he has a great heroic spirit wouldn't count much in this case, because Quan Chi gets only what's worse in people (rage, greed, fear) to make them his servants. See Hanzo and Bi Han: Hanzo was a good warrior with lots of virtues, but Quan Chi used his anger and thirst for revenge to literally turn him into a fiend. Same for Bi Han, who was good as the elder Sub-Zero and did everything he could to save Earthrealm after inadvertently helping Shinnok with his amulet. In Legacy, he even wasn't the one to kill Hanzo and his clan, though I don't know if this fact is canon in the games as well. And there we have Noob, the bloodthirsty shadow assassin who can fight his younger brother to death without even thinking twice.

I'm not praying for Liu Kang to become one of Quan Chi's wraiths, just saying that if he did die in MK9 then that's much probable to happen, and also if he didn't escape Netherrealm with Jax, Kung Lao, Kitana etc. I don't even like the possibility of he having died, and prefer to think that he's survived that shock and flames, but what I really want to see is where his anger at Raiden will be taking him to. I just wouldn't accept it if they were suddenly friends again in MK X after what happened in MK 9, or if Liu Kang doesn't appear in the game at all. Also, you guys have to admit that with all of those scars and blind eye from Raiden's electrocution, he would now have the perfect visual for a bad guy.