Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-4708902-20160816191251/@comment-1844049-20160820134446

Ridley Prime wrote: Jayspyder wrote: Liu Kang has been my favorite Mortal Kombat character since I first played MK2 as a kid on my grandparents' sega genesis. Now that I think of it, he might've had something to do with red being my favorite color. But lately I feel like I might have a masochistic side since I keep returning to the series only to see him get continually shit on, starting with his sudden death in DA. I don't know why Ed or Vogel, or someone on the writing team seems to hate him so much. But MKX was sort of the straw that broke the camel's back. Every character in the series (or at least hero) has their ups and downs, but I know how ya feel. That masochist feeling is pretty much how it was for me as a Cage fan until MK9; him repeatedly getting killed off like fodder in the original timeline (which happened at first due to the portrayer Daniel Pesina getting fired behind the scenes), and then being the only regular out of the MK1 cast to not even appear in MKvsDC (even though the game was lackluster)... That broke the camel's back for me at the time.

Since you mentioned Liu and MK2, I will say I probably used him the most in the arcade version, since the bicycble kick seemed like the move most capable of catching the AI off guard, and though I didn't care for him as much in the first game, spamming the flying sidekick was a godsend against Shang Tsung as the final boss. Yeah, like Cage before MK9, he deserves better right now. Becoming evil has done nothing for him but make him another jobber out of the kast, and going as far as wanting to destroy the same earthrealm he grew up to train to protect just to spite Raiden, isn't something I can see him logically doing anymore than you. Though he's not among my favorites, I do hope especially for you and other fans' sake that he becomes purified in the future.

And hey, red's my favorite color too, which was part of why I eventully took more a liking to Ermac. And I agree that Sonya was the least interesting out of the original MK1 kast. She was just kinda there as the token female, since no one else existed to fill that role/spot at the time. Cheers. I've always liked Johnny too, he was one of my mains in MK2011. But honestly, MKX has made me tired of him. That's why I don't get people who justify Liu Kang's kurrent treatment by saying it gives other characters a chance to be the hero. Liu has not been the final hero of an MK game since goddamn MK4. MK2011 doesn't count because Raiden was the focused on protagonist who defeated the final boss in that game. If anything, I'm just thankful they didn't retcon and completely strip Liu of his victories over Shang Tsung, Goro and Shao Kahn in the new timeline. But yeah, making Liu want to destroy Earthrealm just over a grudge against Raiden is like writing Scorpion to not giving a damn about the Shirai Ryu. Pure crap. I don't enjoy seeing my favorite character get continually screwed, so I think I'll be calling it quits.