Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-5503721-20190518202650/@comment-24938557-20190526234031

I have no idea why they didn't straight up go to Onaga. Though Kronika wasn't a bad villain, the new games seemed to be following the pattern - MK1/MK2/MK3 - MK4, then MKDA, MKD, and MKA (though I don't know how would a new MKA work since the whole reason MK9 happened was to stop it from happening, but I could see the two new characters coming back).

But I think it's obvious MK11 had a lot of new stuff thrown into it. MKX foreshadowed the return of Shujinko, Taven, Daegon, and a bunch of other stuff that didn't even end up in the game. The only foreshadowed thing was Jade's return, and even then, the Mysterious Woman had nothing to do with anything (she should have been Kronika).