Board Thread:Mortal Kombat Wiki/@comment-24.154.0.21-20160202182832/@comment-1844049-20160417112826

Ridley Prime wrote: Jayspyder wrote: Ridley Prime wrote: Outside of when he got jobbed against a mary sue in a transformed state, Shinnok had decent treatment in MKX. :\ Anyone evil that isn't main villain status though are the ones made jokes now by the new timeline. No, they reduced Shinnok to a saturday morning cartoon villain who stops to teabag the heroes instead of outright killing them. "There will be no surprises from you, Mr. Cage!" Then why not just amulet blast a freaking hole through him already? Why risk getting beaten by Johnny again by just taking him prisoner? The narrative needs to justify this sort of thing but of course it doesn't. Its just the typical "bad guy gloating over the victory he has yet to solidify, thus giving the heroes a chance to beat him" trope. He was having D'Vorah use her insects to devour Johnny from within, so it was clear Shinnok was gonna have him killed after capturing him, but slowly to prolong his suffering; savoring his revenge, which honestly, wasn't really a factor to how he got beaten, since Cage was no longer able to fight by then anyway.

With Raiden's corruption now and whatnot, his final defeat wasn't without its price, either, so still don't agree that he was an ineffective villain, let alone a complete joke.

Do I think he still could've been executed better? Absolutely, but compared to original timeline/MK4 where he had nothing going besides looking like an idiot for falling for a fake amulet given to him by Quan Chi, he was okay here. Okay, you've made your case. We can agree to disagree.