Board Thread:Mortal Kombat Wiki/@comment-25163804-20160120160829/@comment-24.154.0.21-20160122211335

If you think about it, although The Pit in MK9 bore strong similarities to The Pit II, including a second bridge in the background with characters battling on it (and even including a scene where it looks exactly like The Pit II from its non-canon appearance in Shaolin Monks), the stage we saw in MK9 was actually The Pit I. It was shown in Story Mode on Shang Tsung's Island as part of the tenth Earthrealm tournament, and we never saw a similar state during the Outworld tournament section of the story. Therefore, although it strongly resembled The Pit II, what we saw in MK9 was a super-retconned version of The Pit I, redesigned to look very much like The Pit II.

I was always disappointed that MK9 had no new DLC stages, and that we never saw any revamped versions of The Pit II and III. Now, this new Pit stage for MKX looks nearly identical to the one from MK9, which in turn looked nearly identical to The Pit II but was, in fact, The Pit I. Therefore, I wonder if MKX's version is meant to be a return to MK9's Pit I (which is in Earthrealm, on Shang Tsung's Island), or if we will be seeing a revamped version of The Pit II (which is in Outworld)?

I kind of hate that they retconned The Pit I to look so much like The Pit II (possibly suggesting that they were combining them into one), but I hope the MKX version turns out to be The Pit II. Unfortunately, since it's already been shown with spikes at the bottom (The Pit II in MK2 was just a long fall onto plane concrete), it looks as though the developers are either returning us to The Pit I (MK9 version) or have indeed retconned the two into one. That sucks.