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Does anyone have an HD or 4K image of the Aftermath expansion cover?

Mortal Kombat 1 (2023) presents itself as a reboot, feels like a remake, but is actually a continuation. Liu Kang promised that his New Era would be significantly different from previous timelines (the Original and the Alternative), but so far, it feels like we’re just seeing more of the same.

We’re still dealing with familiar villains like Shao Kahn, Shang Tsung, Quan Chi, Bi-Han, Rain, Havik, Nitara, Reiko, and Ermac. Mileena is still part Edenian and part Tarkatan, Baraka is still a Tarkatan, Reptile is without his family, Jerrod is dead, Kung Lao remains arrogant, and Cyrax and Sektor are still robots.

Despite repeating some character arcs, NetherRealm Studios (NRS) did manage to bring fresh perspectives to certain characters. Kitana and Mileena as blood sisters, Raiden as a new Liu Kang, Kenshi as a former Yakuza member, and Geras as Kang’s friend were all brilliant innovations. However, it seems NRS is hesitant to fully embrace a new direction for the series, likely fearing it won’t attract enough attention. Change is inevitable, and innovation is what keeps major companies relevant.

NRS had the opportunity to fully innovate with this game. The beginning, featuring Raiden and Kung Lao as farmer friends, was highly praised and was a brilliant start, despite the first scene showing a failed Shang Tsung making a pact with a mysterious woman—revealed to be Kronika, who should be eternally dead. Later, we find out this Kronika was actually Shang Tsung from a past timeline, where he perceives he defeated Liu Kang and became the Guardian of Time. While this ending promised us a DLC and future story continuation, it was widely criticized.

The multiverse concept in Mortal Kombat is problematic. Why? Because character deaths no longer carry emotional weight or impact the story significantly. If a character like Sindel dies, why care when there are countless other Sindels across different timelines? Just bring in a good Sindel from another timeline to replace her. This feels like NRS jumping on the multiverse bandwagon, which has quickly become overused and uninteresting.

As a devoted fan of the series, I fear we are stuck in the past. Mortal Kombat has shifted from being about defeating a powerful villain or participating in a deadly tournament to save your dimensional plane, to being about gods fighting gods with no emotional weight. NRS can still save the series, but at what cost? Creating yet another timeline? I doubt they can start a story from scratch. Instead, I propose creating an alternative universe where they can start fresh without having to invent another timeline.

As my grandfather always said, “Money brings power, and power makes a man miserable.”

I took a look at the Mortal Kombat storyline page and read things that I, who know a lot about the game's story, didn't know. For an example, Outworld suffered an attack from Netherrealm.

I didn't read the entire page, but there are some pretty inconsistent things there. Whoever wrote the page stated that Dreamrealm and Nightmarerealm are realms in Mortal Kombat, when they were mainly mentioned by DLC characters, who are not part of the main story. Furthermore, I saw that Malebolgia from the Spawn stories is listed as a canonical part of the Mortal Kombat plot, when he is not, at least for now.

The focus of this post is to call for more references and notes on that page, so that things unknown to most people, like Outworld being attacked by Netherrealm, are better explained. It would also be good to rewrite some chapters, like the beginning itself. I always believed that the One Being had created the Elder Gods and the Titans, not that they lived together.

With the release of Mortal Kombat 1 (2023), I saw many fans create couples between the characters. The most famous, of course, were Johnny with Kenshi and Mileena with Tanya. But in my opinion, all of these couples are wrong, despite Mileena and Tanya being canon.

For starters, Johnny and Kenshi. Why did the MK community start creating drawings of them as a romantic couple? Answer: because they had a friendly dialogue. Johnny was only kind when handing Sento over to Kenshi. It was just a gesture of kindness, because even though Sento is a sword from Kenshi's ancestors, Johnny paid for the sword, so Sento is legally Johnny's. But for some reason, people thought that Johnny and Kenshi are gay and secretly love each other.

Now, Mileena and Tanya. I believe this couple is forced, because the first time they are introduced as a couple (MKX), Tanya was probably just using Mileena for her own goals. Her biography reinforces this:

“Like Kitana and Rain, Tanya is an Edenian, a native of a realm konquered by Shao Kahn and merged with Outworld millennia ago. The Edenians have been fighting for independence ever since. Though she's a skilled kombatant, Tanya prefers more subtle means of achieving her goals. More recently she and Rain have allied with the ousted former Outworld empress, Mileena. Tanya and Rain will help Mileena regain her throne in exchange for the creation of a new Edenia. What will become of Tanya's relationship with Mileena thereafter, none can say...”

If you know Tanya, you know that she is used to betraying her allies. Tanya, in previous timelines, was a manipulator. Just like Reiko did in the comics, Tanya was probably sleeping with Mileena to gain her trust. That's what I believe. According to Liu Kang, he saw all the previous timelines and formed the new one with all the "good" aspects. But what does being together with Mileena improve in Tanya's life? In MKX, Mileena seemed to genuinely care about Tanya, so for Mileena, having Tanya as a partner would be a good thing. I thought it was a little forced that they were officially a couple in the new era, because, technically, it doesn't make sense.

The only LGBT+ person who is understandable in the franchise is Kung Jin. He's gay, but being gay isn't the character's focus. Yes, he feared not being accepted among the Shaolin because he was gay, but that was just part of his story. His focus is on saving Kung Lao, his uncle (in MKX, Jin and Lao are cousins ​​- in MK11, Jin is Lao's nephew).

Well, I wanted to talk about that.

Hey, guys! Some time ago, I saw here on this wiki that Mortal Kombat: Special Forces takes place seven weeks or seven months after Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero. Could anyone confirm this?