Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-26339133-20150427183819/@comment-422853-20150731213520

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). Onaga can always find some other naive sucker to manipulate even if Shujinko dies. Plus he wasn't really necessary for his resurrection, only for gathering the kamidogu so that he would have more power. And we don't really know the limits either of whom/what Onaga can use for host bodies; Reptile may not be the only possible vessel the dragon king could use to return.

Shinnok's a 3D era character (as are Quan Chi and some others) and they still made him the main villain of MKX... I think you're going a little far with the whole "they hate every 3D era character" mentality. Onaga isn't really hated anymore than Shinnok, to my knowledge. Shujinko's known to be pretty unpopular though, so I have little doubt they'd kill him, but it'd give the dragon king's return a fresh new backstory, in the grand scheme of things.

And lolno to Raiden becoming a new villain. Even as Dark Raiden, that would go against his character if it meant intentionally threatening Earthrealm.