User blog comment:TheDarkPrinceReturns!/Worst MK games/@comment-1694362-20110714130243/@comment-422853-20110721172812

The whole meaning of MK? Now Liu's just being overrated. Guys like Scorpion even have more backstory than him...

Wasn't exactly fond of his zombie form when he came back after Deadly Alliance either, or the fact he used the same weapon as Cage (nunchucks), or that you couldn't use his little zombie chains as a way of attacking like at the end of the Armageddon opening scene. Liu just went downhill as a character in general up until MK9.

As for MK9 following the same steps as Deadly Alliance as far as Liu Kang, not true. This time, it was mostly his own fault for turning on Raiden, and then worse, trying to kill him. Kind of like what happened between them in Raiden's chapter from MKvsDC when Raiden was under influence of RAGE, but worse. Liu's future ain't lookin' too good either (based on his MK9 ending with him becoming a corrupt Elder God), which is more his fault than Raiden's. If any of those endings with him becoming an EG actually becomes canon though, I think it'll be a unique plot twist, personally. Plus he looked pretty cool as one.