Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-5503721-20160315022035/@comment-422853-20160315195605

Dirtbag Daryl wrote: there's no fuckin way they'd let a big player like Onaga be a comic-only story anyway, surely. oh well, the comic's done so we're fine. True. I don't know why I ever thought or feared the possibility of them making him a comic exclusive foe. I guess after the disappointment with MKX's story (at least from what the game's campaign provided), I began to fear/assume the worst for awhile, but as pointed out, Onaga's too much a game changer to the lore for them to do that to. Am sure he'll make some of the next story awesome even if others like Dark Raiden are still meh.

At the moment, I'm still most interested to see where they could go between Onaga and Kotal Kahn for the story. Just some of my ideas,

Onaga might still want the Outworld throne back upon returning, but he could respect Kotal in his own way for ruling Outworld into a better state than his would-be successor Shao Kahn ever did during his absecne and thus allow him to keep ruling/have some sort of alliance with Kotal while he focuses on bigger better things... Whether Kotal remains on friendly terms with Onaga could depend on what the dragon king's end goal might be and what it'd mean for the realms, but if they still make Onaga out to be this 'master of deception', he could manipulate Kotal and his Outworld ruling (hopefully without making Kotal look like as much a fool as Shujinko) to better his schemes. Then when all is said and done and Kotal realizes he was played, you have the revenge turning point, etc.

You could also of course just have Onaga be a straight up bastard to Kotal due to wanting Outworld back, but if they were to go there, I'd like it to be done without creating another civil war of sorts, as it'd be more redundant after the Kotal vs Mileena war in MKX. I guess you could do something like have a dethroned Kotal who has nothing left to lose, attempt to side with earthrealm again (much to Edgy Raiden's discomfort) to help stop the dragon king and whatever his end game is.