Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-34018739-20190327152005/@comment-422853-20190517193252

Jayspyder wrote: DLKMK1989 wrote: Any character that elicits a strong emotional response is a good character. That is ludicrous. Bad characters and bad stories elicit strong emotions in the audience all the time. It certainly doesn't make them objectively good or even competent (The Last Jedi, or MK2011's story comes to mind). People hate D'Vorah not only for killing two MK veterans in her first appearance but because even when she loses a fight she is able to scamper her way out of the situation like the grotesque bug she is. And then not only does she best and nearly kill Kotal, but she does successfully kill the face of the series himself. Again, all without facing any real consequences aside from young Scorpion slicing off her Ovipositors which can probably grow back. She's one of the worst characters introduced in MKX if only because she seems to be favored by the writers. Did you really just lump MK9 with The Last Jedi? Wow. I mean sure, the Sindel thing was bad, but the story still had plenty goodwill otherwise, while TLJ had basically no goodwill at all.

D'Vorah defeated Mileena in combat, she earned her kill there. Was kinda poetic justice too after how Mileena treated her in the comics (obviously I prefer Mileena as a character, but still). I forget the circumstances of how she killed Baraka, but he's back now, so whatever. Nothing was stopping them from bringing Mileena back too, other than negligence for the character I guess.

And Scorpion is Scorpion. Killing one was arbitrary when he had another one to take his place, especially after getting a timeline reset... again. D'Vorah's pretty much the next Quan Chi, and wasn't a huge fan of him either after awhile. Just hope Scorpion doesn't suffer too much character regression after the development he had up till now. /shrug

It's not hard to believe that Raiden fought zombie Liu in Armageddon prior to losing to Shao Kahn. Don't see the problem there. Also interesting to point out that one of the Raiden vs Liu flashbacks showed them on Apokolips, referencing their fight in the final chapter of MKvsDC, making the game canon in a way I guess, or at least one of the many timelines in which they clashed.