Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-25033529-20150505005712/@comment-1392464-20150505213256

The inmortality thing has lots of plot holes.

First of all, and answering to Squidmaster's question, I think the difference between Raiden and Shinnok' different grades of inmortality is that Shinnok is a Fallen Elder God, but is still an Ender God, while Raiden is just a God, and as such susceptible of "violently dying".

But, while it isn't the case in the alternate timeline, Raiden became an Elder God in the Original Timeline at the end of MK4, passing his title as protector of Earthrealm to Fujin. As such it is almost fine to assume that Elder Gos come to be, instead of beign born like that, answering to DLKMK1989. So the Elder part of the Title can be given and negated, as Raiden also rejected it some time after, when the Deadly Alliance came to be. If such is the case, Shinnok should reject his Elder title (as Raiden did), or it be negated by other Elder Gods, something that may not be a possibility as it didn't happen.

Summing up. Shinnok is perennialy inmortal because he is an Elder God, not just a God, and he is not willing to leave the Title. Because he is the bad guy.