Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-97.116.170.197-20160205021235

After seeing Shinnok's MKX ladder ending and his obsession with death I developed a theory about his origins.

I think that Shinnok is separate from the other Elder Gods (other than the fact hes a fallen elder god). Shinnok may be the MK universes version of the "Grim Reaper" or "Death". Millions of years ago he must have had some kind of falling out with the Elder Gods and decided to take his job a little too seriously.

This would explain why he calls himself "Death", his natural necromancy powers and desire to destroy all existance. When he revived The One Being and it absorbed all the other Elder Gods why didn't The One Being also absorb Shinnok? I believe it is because Shinnok was an Elder God it name only and was not a true Elder God since he is the Avatar of Death.

Shinnok was kicked out of Heaven for crimes against his fellow deities, that crime was probably trying to forcibly absorb them back into The One Being. 