Talk: Riley Heligo/@comment-31463683-20170317190520/@comment-809585-20170325231113

Like most of the existing media franchises, the Mortal Kombat universe has several incarnations due to licencing contracts with other companies. The Mortal Kombat Lore has 5 timelines:

The main Canon incarnation (wich was cannonically rebooted)

The Malibu Comics incarnation

The Film & TV incarnation

The web-series incarnation

The DC crossover incarnation

And some standalone stories.

Here is a list of all those different timelines and their respective media arranged in chronological order.

Timelines[]

Canon[]

The official Mortal Kombat Storyline is composed by 11 videogames and 5 comics, all of them developed either by Midway or NetherRealm Studios. All the Mortal Kombat lore is originaly set-up in this incarnation.

Original Timeline (from the beggining of the universe to the Battle of Armageddon)

- Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero (action / adventure videogame)

- Mortal Kombat: Special Forces (action / adventure videogame)

- Mortal Kombat 1: Collector’s Edition (comics)

- Mortal Kombat (fighting videogame)

- Mortal Kombat 2: Collector’s Edition (comics)

- Mortal Kombat II (fighting videogame)

- Mortal Kombat 3 _{+ Ultimate 3 + Advance + Trilogy + Ultimate} (fighting videogame)

- Mortal Kombat 4: Limited Edition (comics)

- Mortal Kombat 4 _{+ Gold} (fighting videogame)

- Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance _{+ Tournament Edition} (fighting videogame)

- Mortal Kombat Deception: Limited Edition (comics)

- Mortal Kombat: Deception _{+ Unchained} (fighting videogame)

- Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (fighting videogame)

Current Timeline (after Raiden's Visions)

- Mortal Kombat _{+ Komplete Edition} (fighting videogame)

- Mortal Kombat X Comics (36 chapters comics)

- Mortal Kombat X _{+ Mobile + XL} (fighting videogame)

Malibu Comics[]

This continuity is composed of 6 comics mini series, and 4 oneshot comics.

Mini Series

- Mortal Kombat: Battlewave (6 chapters comics)

- Mortal Kombat: Blood & Thunder (6 chapters comics)

- Mortal Kombat: Goro Prince of Pain (3 chapters comics)

- Mortal Kombat: Raiden & Kano (3 chapters comics)

- Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition (2 chapters comics)

- Mortal Kombat: U.S. Special Forces (2 chapters comics)

One-shots

- Mortal Kombat: Kitana & Mileena (oneshot comics)

- Mortal Kombat: Kung Lao (oneshot comics)

- Mortal Kombat: Baraka (oneshot comics)

- Mortal Kombat 0 (oneshot comics)

Cinema & TV (1990s)[]

This continuity is composed of 2 live action feature films, 1 short animation, 2 series (1 live action and 1 animated).

Mortal Kombat: Conquest (22 episodes - live action series)

Mortal Kombat _{+ Novelization} (live action film)

Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins (animation short film)

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation _{+ Novelization} (live action film)

Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (13 episodes - animation series)

Crossover with DC Universe[]

This continuity has only 1 comic and 1 videogame and it is the result of a partnership between NetherRealm Studios and DC Comics, since both of them are companies owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (subsidiary of Warner Bros. and Time Warner).

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe - Limited Edition (comics)

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (fightinng videogame)

Web-Serie (2010s)[]

Mortal Kombat: Legacy (19 episodes - live action series)

Standalone Stories[]

Beside those 5 diferent continuities, there are also 6 other Mortal Kombat stand alone products that are cannonical disconnected from each other and from all the above timelines.