Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-27485918-20151227214038/@comment-25561256-20170705021851

Guldir wrote: Godzillavkk wrote: Interesting. I know it's farfetched but the new timeline allows for further exploration, bring back characters so they can have backstory development and take the tournament to other realms to show the other side of MK such as realms who try very hard to get into the tournaments but never have any fighters to represent their realm or a realm always in fear because they're a peaceful realm that fears the day that they'll one day be conquered.

I know this is thinking too much into things but it's a nice thought to discuss. Although I do agree with the aspect of further exploration, obviously, for a deeper, more intriguing story, but the only real reason the MK tournament was created by the Elder Gods was to protect realms from Outworld so Shao Kahn couldn't just invade other realms and murder everyone, thus claiming it as his own. And it wasn't created storywise until well after Kahn had already conquered several hundreds, if not thousands of realms by sheer force. So now that Shao Kahn is no longer a threat, there wouldn't be any other tournaments happening among the other realms.

Now clearly, NetherRealm could just create new power hungry overlords from new or existing realms to do the same thing as Kahn was doing as a way to introduce new realms, but that just seems like a boring rehash of what we've already seen. I'm supportive of introducing new realms and exploring further the universe of MK, but I'd just prefer that to come to fruition in a different manner.