Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-26339133-20150427183819/@comment-4565921-20150731211930

Draft227 wrote: Dynamo68 wrote: Draft227 wrote: Also, I like the idea of a new villain (which could be Raiden) but it can't take too long to Onaga show up, otherwise Shujinko would be dead (he was in his 60s in Deception, so it means Shujinko is in his 90s now, MUCH MORE older), and I don't want this to happen, and without him, Onaga can't return, because both Shujinko and Reptile were tools in the PROPHECY that the Dragon King would return.

But I don't doubt NRS would kill Shujinko off and avert any possibility of the Dragon King/Armageddon storyline, since they dislike the 3D Era characters so much and prefer to invest in new, uninteresting characters (Kotal Kahn is, gladly, a exception). Well, I somehow get the feeling that Shujinko's gonna die in the comics. Also, I don't think NRS ever said a peep about hating the 3D Era characters (save for Hsu Hao). Surely, most (if not all) of them can be redeemed. For now he is safe, he is being controlled by Havik like almost everyone. Me too, but I think he should stay alive and by the end of the comics he secrelt speaks to Damashi.

And yes, they do, because of the fans and because they pretty much either kill some of them (Reiko, Mavado, Hsu Hao) when they have the chance, or they put them in the game in unplayable appearances (Fujin, Bo' Rai Cho, Sareena, Frost), or they simply don't add them (Kai, Jarek). Well, I found out that Kai was supposed to appear in MKX's story mode, but got replaced with Bo' Rai Cho. Brian Chard (one of the writers) stated that Kai could very well return someday. As for Jarek, he's currently in the dungeon, along with Tasia and Tremor.