Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-4708902-20160114030151/@comment-4708902-20160206211032

HalcyonHusky wrote: Godzillavkk wrote: HalcyonHusky wrote: Godzillavkk wrote: HalcyonHusky wrote: Everyone be hating on Shujinko, I loved Shujinko At least he made up for his mistakes. I mean it's not exactly his fault, he was just a little boy when he was first fooled, so he can't be blamed for that, and by the time he was old enough to realize something suspicious any doubts were covered by the fact he grew up with years of faith, so he had no reason to give it any thought. And becides, the game wouldn't be called "Deception" if he wasn't decieved. In my prediction for the next game he is playable again and we also learn that the quest happened in the new timeline, but ended just before the tenth Earthrealm vs Outworld tournament. Wait that's right, part of Deception's Conquest mode took place BEFORE MK1/MK9 did so that means some of the stuff already happened, for instance being trained by Subzero's ancestor. Of course for him to be in the next game either Cassie's ending needs to be noncanon or he needs to be brought back to life.

He appears in the X comics. Also in the original timeline, DE supposedly happened one year after 4.,  We don't know how long 4 lasted in universe, but Shujinko was apparently almost finished since Deception takes place durring nearly the entire original timeline. The ending of Deception is essentially the ending of DA. In the current timeline, X, which is pretty much the new timeline's equivelent of 4 takes place over 25 years. In the comics we see that Shujinko has been guarding the Chaosrrealm Kamidogu but Havik corrupted him via it. So we don't actually know if he's on the quest or not, or if the quest even happened. He's alive in the current timeline according to the wiki so he's likely to not be dead at the start of the next game. We'll then have to see if the quest happened or not. If it did, I assumed it began earlier and ended shortly before MK1/9, hence his position in the comics.