Board Thread:Mortal Kombat Wiki/@comment-24.154.0.21-20160202182832/@comment-3303402-20160227011949

Dirtbag Daryl wrote:

lol, for starters, you can drop the condescending attitude. if you have something to say, I'm sure you have the capacity to not sound like a prick when you're saying it.

second, Smoke. already summed it up right there. Tremor is not an elemental, he has powers similar to one. it's pretty clear. it is never stated anywhere that he is one, outside of his non-canonical ending. why even try to argue that when it's already made clear by his ending that he WASN'T an elemental beforehand? I mean, did you think he just became an elemental again, but x2?

and finally, no, endings are not canon. their narrative can easily result in inspiration for later plotlines or story arcs, but they aren't canon themselves. MK9 is probably the best example of this. Liu Kang, Johnny Cage and a few others served as good bits of inspiration for where MKX's story headed. I am genuinely baffled by how you dismiss the endings like that. Scorpion's ending in Deadly Alliance has him ambushed by Moloch and Drahmin and thrown into the Soulnado, then his first-person bio in Deception states that's precisely what happened. Therefore, it's... mere inspiration? I'm not saying ALL endings are canon, or that some endings just serve as inspiration like you say (case in point, Sektor's MK9 ending - became Lin Kuei leader offscreen, but nothing to suggest the rest), but to label all endings as non-canon seems like willful rejection on your part.

Besides, going back to the matter of Tremor, isn't the issue of "He has the POWER of an Earth elemental" versus "He transformed into an Earth elemental" splitting hairs? Does it really make a difference if the ending went "He would transform into a superhuman with the equivalent power of an Earth elemental, thus giving him power akin to Raiden and Fujin"?

Honestly, though, the comparison of strength to gods is such a wonky matter in MK. I mean, what even IS the power difference between Elder Gods (Shinnok), Gods (Raiden and Fujin), Half-Gods (Rain), Elementals (Blaze), Transhuman Elementals (Tremor), and Anti-God Warriors (Johnny and Cassie Cage)? Each seems equally susceptable to guns, bugs, and arcane damage yet durable enough to endure grievous internal injuries... until the plot calls for it.

Anyways, this has been a silly argument. Respond or no, this is assumed to be my final say on the matter.