Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-70.169.224.88-20150427184942/@comment-72.207.104.181-20150517064404

Dragonspyne wrote: Interesting point about Liu Kang going up against Shao Kahn. I suppose if Shao Kahn was using all his powers he could've killed Liu Kang in MKII. The rules of Mortal Kombat aren't always clear. In the case of powerful characters, how do they even know how to limit their powers? Hell, take in mind that even if Shao Kahn is forbidden to use his full potential, what would stop him from getting pissed off and then using his full potential?

For here, I'm willing to bet this would depend on his plans for conquering Earthrealm in MK2 and 3. Remember the MK3 invasion was a backup plan, should the tournament in MK2 result in failure. It's possible that by the time of the tournament, Shao Kahn still didn't know if Sindel's revival would be successful or not, which would then nullify her ward.

If that's true, then we can interpret this to mean that by the time Liu Kang fought him in the MK2 tournament, SIndel's revival wasn't a complete success yet. And, as Shao Kahn saw it, without her revival being a complete success, he would have no backup plan AT ALL.

I hope that theory makes sense to you.