Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-208.36.136.2-20141029003917/@comment-21005855-20150420174339

Ridley Prime wrote: I don't think any of MK9's arcade endings were even canon if I remember right, so I definitely wouldn't jump to the conclusion that any of MKX's would be, much as I'd love for Ermac's, Mileena's, Kenshi's, and such to be canon.

And yeah, Shujinko going on assaults stealing souls like that seemed out of character. Or... maybe he had still being aging faster than we realized after touching the waters of the Chaosrealm, so he needed to do that to keep living. Then again, we never saw him train under someone like Shang Tsung to learn how to steal souls, so it still doesn't quite add up. I dunno. Would've been funny though if Damashi (Onaga's avatar) approached Cassie, telling her why she needs to collect the rest of the kamidogu after what she did to Shujinko. I believe there are aspects of the MK9 endings that have become canon but not every ending has a canon aspect nor is any of the endings truly canon. Liu Kang's is quasi-canon because he still blames Raiden for the near destruction of Earthrealm and for killing him. Johnny Cage's ending is also quasi because of his powers coming into full bloom. I can go on but I think we get the point.

And yes, I can totally see that happening to Shujinko. He ages rapidly to the 60-something year old man we saw in Deception and yet he's only supposed to be in his 20s or 30s. Stealing souls would be the one thing that he should do to keep alive.