Board Thread:Mortal Kombat Wiki/@comment-24.154.0.21-20160202182832/@comment-422853-20160417032114

Jayspyder wrote: Ridley Prime wrote: Outside of when he got jobbed against a mary sue in a transformed state, Shinnok had decent treatment in MKX. :\ Anyone evil that isn't main villain status though are the ones made jokes now by the new timeline. No, they reduced Shinnok to a saturday morning cartoon villain who stops to teabag the heroes instead of outright killing them. "There will be no surprises from you, Mr. Cage!" Then why not just amulet blast a freaking hole through him already? Why risk getting beaten by Johnny again by just taking him prisoner? The narrative needs to justify this sort of thing but of course it doesn't. Its just the typical "bad guy gloating over the victory he has yet to solidify, thus giving the heroes a chance to beat him" trope.

He was having D'Vorah use her insects to devour Johnny from within, so it was clear Shinnok was gonna have him killed after capturing him, but slowly to prolong his suffering; savoring his revenge, which honestly, wasn't really a factor to how he got beaten, since Cage was no longer able to fight by then anyway.

Like Shao Kahn, Shinnok's final defeat wasn't without its price, as Raiden had to undo an action by him which corrupted the thunder god's essence (not dissimilar to Onaga's presence corrupting Raiden in the original timeline), so agree to disagree on Shinnok being a complete joke.