Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-25166563-20171115061010

Liu Kang becoming evil was a huge boost for his value, character-wise as he was looked at as the least interesting hero of all the Earthrealm heroes. Kitana had a turbulent past as a hired assassin for Shao Kahn long ago, so she had some past familiarity with representing evil, by all means.

As a result of Liu Kang, Kitana and maybe Raiden being evil, I would suspect by MK11 that Tanya, Mileena, Rain, Reptile, Goro and Shang Tsung (some of the villains who once feuded with Liu Kang, Kitana and/or Raiden at various points when all were heroes) would've gotten a boost in credibility as fan favorites (storyline wise) since Liu Kang and Kitana currently are the top two villains in the MK universe, much more than even the most despited traitor from Edenia, the royal Edenian Prince, one of Zaterra's last two survivors, a formerly unbeatable Mortal Kombat Tournament Champion, Kitana's twin sister and the former mastermind of the MK Tournament combined.

With Edenia in disarray after Kitana, Jade and Sindel died and became revenants; a case can be made for Tanya to be a hero since she doesn't want the paradisical realm of Edenia staying on as a subset realm of Outworld any longer, Rain (if Tanya's MKX ending is not canon) is the last remaining of the two Edenians technically alive, Mileena might be used as a personal tackle dummy revenant for Kitana to torture, Reptile is given a proper chance under Kotal Kahn's Outworld reign, and Goro & Shang Tsung can revive their feuds with Liu Kang, only this time with Liu Kang as the villain and Goro & Shang being the good guys, just like how Tanya can revive her feuds with Liu Kang and Kitana with the two as villains and Tanya as the hero. 