Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-24.191.61.234-20151025011958

Now first of all, remember that this is only a theory and that nothing here is fact and there probably will be those who comment about some impossibilities or mistakes. Now, lets get to the actual theory.

Every Mortal Kombat fan, old or new, knows of the character Ermac. Everybody knows the gist of his character in the newer installments. He is a fighter infused with souls of many fighters into one host body. This theory discusses who some of the souls might be. What if I were to say that a majority of Ermac's souls are clan members of the Shirai Ryu and the Lin Kuei (Possibly Including Smoke and Bi-Han)? Now you may be having 1 of 2 thoughts about me saying that. One, "You're batshit crazy." Or 2, "But Ermac doesn't use fire or ice in his pool of abilities?" Let me explain, while Ermac does not have fire or ice, he does have similar moves to our main men, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Ermac has a ground and air teleport, and a projectile move in MK9. MKX expands on this by making his projectile in his "Master of Souls" variation freeze the opponent in place for a few seconds, and giving him a move in the same variation that allows him to go invisible for a brief period of time. (Going back to smoke but that's pretty much all I have.) The teleport move being compared to Scorpion's teleport, and his "Soul Ball" being compared to Sub-Zero's freezing ice ball. As of post MKX story, Kuai Liang and Hanzo Hasashi are alive with souls fully restored, so how could Ermac have these? The answer is, the dead Shirai Ryu clan, along with some dead members of the Lin Kuei, even possibly Bi-Han. Bi-han, as far as we know, is still a revenant living as Noob Saibot, which (by following the rules of the revenants in MKX) means Bi-Han's soul does not linger within him. This works well with MK9 story as well, as Ermac is created after Bi-Han's death and obviously after the Shirai Ryu assassination. Another thing about Ermac's disappearing move is that he doesn't gain this move until MKX, when Smoke is dead and resurrected as the revenant "Enenra". (Which, again, means his soul does not linger in his body.)  Ermac may also hold many souls of dead members from Reptile's race. This part is a little farfetched, although, referenced in an intro quote between Ermac and Sub-Zero, Ermac responds to Sub-Zero asking, "How many souls do you harbor?", with "We harvest that of thousands!". Following this theory, and Ermac's MK9 ending, Ermac holds the Shirai Ryu, some dead Lin Kuei members, possibly Bi-Han, possibly Smoke, and an Edenian king. Even if this all was true, all those could not possibly add to 1,000, let alone multiples of thousands. (Give or take maybe a few thousand or so being characters we don't know anything about.) This is just something to think about, and again, should not be taken as me stating this as fact. This is purely specualtion along with some theorizing. Maybe this influenced you to think about it yourself, and hey maybe even some will agree with me. So, I hope you enjoyed reading and happy theorizing.  