Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-29547946-20171013193048/@comment-25561256-20171019002628

Ridley Prime wrote: It is odd that he had his elderly form in MK1, considering Goro was winning tournaments for him up until that point, so he had to have consumed dozens of souls of Goro's victims and such, yet he still aged? I guess the effect of maintaining his youth wore off over time until Shao Kahn revitalized him with his magic, come MK2. This is a good point and I've thought about it before as well. I don't have any evidence to back up my theory really, but I kinda always took his appearance in MK1 as an old man to portray that at that time, Shao Kahn was exclusively controlling Shang's souls, because Shang's soul chambers hadn't been built yet. So Shao, being the ruthless ruler he was, would refuse to give Shang any souls to reverse his aging until Goro won 10 tournaments in a row to conquer a realm. Something to that effect.