Mortal Kombat 1 - Is The Series Having A Identity Crisis? Retcons, Changes, Reboots 

I just don’t understand how Mortal Kombat went from a tournament to stop Outworld conquering Earthrealm to a game about multiverses

I legit think that onaga being the main villain would have worked. This multiverse crap has ruined the game.

RIP first timeline of MK. You will be missed.

In the past 2 MK timelines, there was a build in tension and stakes. 1st timeline went from Shang to Shao to Shao + Sindel to Shinnok to Onaga to literal Armageddon. 2nd timeline went the same except almost all the heroes died and became evil zombies, which makes the threat of Shinnok much higher because there are less heroes overall, and then leading to the time-manipulating Kronika as the biggest challenge (even though the story was done poorly). MK1 feels like you’re watching season 1, but then it skipped to the season 3 finale in the last chapter. It’s kinda similar to the Battle Of The Realms movie where it went from the tournament with Shao and then immediately going into the ONE BEING a.k.a the strongest thing in MK.

The multiverse crap turned me off for being invested into the storytelling in the new timeline.

The multiverse aspect really made MK1 feel less impactful, and it honestly makes the next game weaker since it raises the stakes so much.

I still can't accept the changes to Scorpion & Sub-Zero. I was very happy with Bi-Han & Kuai Liang being descended from Cryomancers. Them being brothers with completely opposite powers in the new era, just doesn't sit well with me.

They kinda dropped the ball on too many things. Never should’ve gone the multiverse route.

Imagine a story about Rain, Taven, and Daegon. And one about Order vd Chaos Realm.

The whole scorpion thing alone is so bad on so many levels and it’s great disservice to both Hanzo Hasashi and Kuai Liang. And it also makes ZERO SENSE if you think even just a little bit about it.

Random changes or change for the sake of change are not good changes

Granted, the whole thing of time travel in Mortal Kombat is and has just been done to death, just let that die, but I did actually like the whole different universes thing that "COULD'VE" been a good replacement and actually have been a decent storyline, but it's like they just said "Fuck it, we're just gonna clean up all and everything or rather take all the multiversal MK stuff and cram it all into a too loud, too long battle royal up a pyramid to stop the big bad(s) question mark?". Kinda like how in one series of Gundam, they tried to take all the timelines and universal threads from each separate Gundam universe and franchise in that universe and just squish them into one universal timeline so that everything would be canon that they called the "Correct Century". It.. didn't work out.

I hate the the timeline thing no more time travel they should have reboot it once and keep a consistent storyline like the old gen

Ed Boon: Lets reboot and take the most Character Developed Character and make them Scorpion. Script Writer: Ok. What about everyone else? Ed Boon: i dont care

13:52 I agree. I didn’t think I’d witness two reboots within 10+ yrs. I think they need to ditch the “heros always win” storytelling and let us play us villains in story mode to help flesh out the story and characters. The “jobbers” wouldn’t be jobbers anymore because we’ll actually get to play out their missions and storylines

I genuinely wish that some of the Outworld characters would win. Like Ashra or Li Mei, or Reptile - Make one of Them the main character, bring a different perspective on things, rather than always "earth's defenders".

I don’t really like the new Scorpion kinda wish he was still hanzo 😐 (Just My opinion)

This whole multiverse thing just shows a lack of originality and creativity. They just took the most overused resource in the world and just add a lot of crap. Also they ruined a lot of beloved old characters. Kitana, Johnny and Scorpion just to start 😢

The only things that really made the new era happen were the ceiling you spoke of and and the 25 year timeskip before MKX. There aren't many directions you can go after putting every character into their 50's. Besides that, Kuai Liang and Harumi ending up together is a problem that comes from the writing losing all of its subtlety. Of course, they had to take that her from a vague backstory character to put her in front of our faces. Exactly like Jerrod being inside Ermac, Cris breaking up with Johnny to show us his fall from glory etc.

While I am looking forward to where this new era with Mortal Kombat 1 onwards will go, I also think this Hourglass and alternate timelines stuff needs to go. I enjoyed MK1's story and "most" of the new ideas with the characters, but the series' lore and consistency are all over the dang place. MK1's story goes pretty smoothly but then goes off the rails by the last 3 or so chapters. The aforementioned McGuffins takes away the impact and any uniqueness from Liu Kang's efforts. Like, why make such a big deal about it when there are other realities/timelines with infinite possibilities? They're just not needed and the idea of Realms did that far better. In fact, the Hourglass(es) and timelines nonsense ruins that too. At least one thing I liked that MK1 started is that once a Titan is killed, such as Kronika, it is permanent. As well as if Hourglass Keepers also perish, their entire timeline goes with them. Sounds like good potential in future media to slowly get rid of all said McMuffins and the poorly executed Titans idea. 🙄

La sigh. really missing how Shao Kahn won everything in Armageddon now. MK1 was such a let down.

Smoke has been my favourite character since mk9 (as you can tell) and I’m somewhat disappointed to see him not really develop as a character in the story, as much as I love his bond with kuai liang I want him to grow as a person, not as a ‘one fight in chapter one-littlest lin kuei’ ninja. This could be said for kitana aswell.

Calling this game Mortal Kombat 1 when Sonya and Kano aren't even on the main roster ... That was the indicator that the game was in questionable hands

Benefited- baraka, reptile, li mei sindel and ashrah Detriment l- kitana, havik, reiko and rain Verdict is out on sub zero😅

I really wish onaga would COME AND concur ALL

I think they should try some other game formats, maybe like an rpg set in MK universe or something Idk theres so much potential outside of the classic fighting games

The Mortal Kombat franchise story and lore is completely botched.

Lui Kang messes with the timeline. Scorpion is now Sub-Zero's Brother. Rain isn't a demi god. Chaos guy is different a rebel. Lui Kang messed with this timeline a bit too much.

I'm just so disappointed they went with the multi-verse route 😢 💔

In new Mortal Kombat timeline one thing to note of Reptile's race, Saurians, their transformation from Lizard to Human seems to resemblance a form of therianthropy(Werebeast transformation) that makes it's quite possible that Saurians are humans with a werelizard affliction.

Fighting game devs are limiting the rosters with it being tied to the story.

In the words of 4th Snake " The Series is FOQ'D"

They run out of ideas. Play it safe. Take new approaches. Go back to basics. Been there, done that for MK. Like all other franchises with it.

They’ve made us fall in love with the storyline and characters just to ruin them and this is coming from someone who’s first video game was the very first mortal kombat and it was a bday gift back in 92

I'm telling you NRS fucked up when they went away from MK X and they should have built up characters like Kotal Kahn. They also should have kept the focus on Cassie Cage, Tekkeda, Jackie Briggs and Kung Jin. There was way more stories that could've been told. What they did to Kotal Kahn was unforgivable. It would've been great if he had a longer run as the emperor of Outworld. And I say Lou Kane is a great villain. I could've seen Tekkeda step into the role as the primary hero.

in my opinion this game is pretty good but the last two chapters were weak.. liu kang had to have a greater chapter and the last one is not necessary at all 🤷‍♀️

I was down for committing to the "New Era" but unfortunately Netherrealm couldn't and muddied up everything by reintroducing the multiple timelines again. Now I feel these characters aren't as important as when I first started the story because there will always be another timeline variant waiting to take ones place. Here's hoping they deal with this multiverse stuff and bring it back to 1 single universe so the stakes can be more dire.

I love the new timeline, I hope they drop the whole time travel thing after this game tho. Any case, I’ll only be okay with Kuai being Scorpion for now on, if Hanzo actually becomes Noob Saibot. I think it’ll be interesting

They didnt hit the reset button hard enough...😂😂😂😂😂

I was strongly convinced that NRS was going to give us the MK12 Great Kung Lao saga and delve into an unexplored prequel, but I guess they decided “hey let’s make this MK1 instead and tweak the characters origins” instead. I do like some of the characters new origins, like Mileena being Kitana’s biological sister rather than a construct (so I definitely see where Liu Kang was coming from). Same thing with the Hanzo situation.

I want to see the Oshtek and Kotal back

mk is the new marvel. the hate train is so weird. its like every man who loves to complain has a meeting each quarter and picks what their new negative obsession is going to be. the think pieces, comments, etc….its been months. move on

It's turning into dc comics. Where there's so many changes and retcons you can't even tell what story is true anymore.

I'll stick to the old timeline.

Imagine if the game was centred around the great Kung Lao's era

As an elder statesmen of of MK and its lore 😂, I say the change was great! Made me get hyped over characters I didn't love, giving other characters a much needed reboot and the series as a whole now has all in the dark and not walking down the same road again and again, somewhat. There is familiarity but it's a fresh take and leaves me in suspense not knowing where it could lead too. I think it only gets better from here.

Fighting games as a genre is competitive by nature. The fundamental flaw of MK as a fighting game is its focus more on story rather than the actual fighting. And the added problem is that, its competitors in the market, like Street Fighter, Tekken, Guilty Gear are all dead serious in fine-tuning their game mechanics while MK is busy trying to make a 6 hr story mode. Solution A: Fine tune the combo system, give mechanics more depth, no more guest chars, no more childish shock factor and for the love of God, no more sluggish animations. Solution B: or... Continue your current path but just stop trying to be a fighting game. Heck, for what its worth, MK should rebrand itself as a single player action/adventure game and find more success (thats what it tries to do anyways right?)

They should just ditch the character chapter stuff and make mini stories for each character

the thing is, to Hanzo exists in new time line as Scorpion, Kuai Liang has to die, he cannot became the new Sub-Zero because he has fire powers now, its not just tha mantle, and for Noob Saibot exists we will loose Sub-Zero or the cryomancer of the moment because noob is not a cryomancer, and Hanzo will need a new moveset that will never satisfy the fans because he is not scorpion... and NRS put them in the situation for no reason.... And Rain new design and role is a total piece of shit, MK11 Rain is so much better in any and all aspects possible

How's it going history behind the warrior how are u doing man

Can we please focus on how much efforts were put into the story building during MKX days...I don't hate mkx story at all. Even the comic gave us more depth to many characters. The whole issue is that NSR can't stick to one plot line. Unlike other MK fans....I play MK for Lore...for story....for character story and development. And NRS is just shitting on it. Right now....I would love to keep watching the 20 minutes of mk onslaught cut scenes over and over than to play mk1. MK onslaught got a far better storyline and plot twists than mk1....the recent Shinnok chapter is one great example.

mkx mileena wasn't a jobber, and she was her own character in the mkx comic too, new mileena is her own character sure but she's not as interesting

Mk1 plot is the worst thing about the game. It's even worse than invasions mode

I am so Glad For the new era to watch a different Take of some Characters Like baraka , Reptile and ashrah , and finally WE got to See subzero AS bihan 🥶

I dont get the whole “ppl are actually warming up to idea of Kuai liang is good as scorpion” cause literally all I’ve heard is constant strong universal Hate. It ruins him and benches hanzo and has no merits in change and is worst part of mk1 otherwise strong narrative.

I honestly don't give a rat's ass what Mortal Kombat does anymore! Woker Brothers just literally killed the franchise with MK1, while it was on life support since the reboot! That was the first game that literally had Mortal Kombat lose its identity; MK11was kind of a return to form, Potomac field experiment is what literally broke the camel's back! What's even worse is that the Scillers here are no better! If there's one thing that the DLC plot should do it's to literally destroy everything, restart time like Kronika did! Mortal Kombat is just a literal dead franchise without saving...

I feel when it comes to Mortal Kombat 1 the story i find it enjoyable in most parts. And others not so much. I really like that Ashrah, Mileena, Baraka, Reptile and Li Mei are getting some shine which is good. Even tho i wasn't the biggest fan of Raiden. I find human Raiden interesting. I like to see where they go with his story. I like that we got to see Kenshi before he losses his eyes. The Tarkat disease is story i like to see further explain in the story. Seeing Sindel back on the good side is good as well. The issue i have with this timeline is that it needs to switch things up instead of story majority good guy chapters.. Beside Sub-Zero and Shang Tsung. Other characters, especially villains like General Shao, Reiko, Havik, Rain, Nitara, and Quan Chi, need a chapter because if they don't get one, what's the point of having these characters. I also felt Smoke should've gotten a chapter since the last time he had one was in Mortal Kombat 2011. I don't mind changes like if you're going to have Kuai Liang be Scorpion, that's fine. If you're going to give him a love interest, that's fine as well. Just don't give him another man wife. How about creating a new female character. So, this version of Scorpion can be different than the original and give them a story. I understand Hanzo has been through much. I would rather his character died peaceful with his wife Harumi as the two created the Shirai Ryu and the two played a role in helping the Great Kung Lao and many other characters like Fujin, Nightwolf, Sub-Zero (Bi Han and Kuai Liang great grandfather) maintain peace in Earthrealm in this timeline during the past. Or I would accept Hanzo as an Elder God in this timeline if they still exist. The problem with Mortal Kombat is the muti verse stuff. It was fine in Mortal Kombat 11. But it should've gone back to it, roots defending realms, etc.

They should retcon everything after deception and just continue the midway timeline, with John Tobias at the helm

I really hate the chapter sistem in the story mode. 4 fights in a row playing has idk "raiden" i F know that in the story while im playing has him, he is NOT in danger. What would i do? Remove the F chapter sistem and have a story mode that i play with all the kharacters EVEN the villains. Instead of 4 F fights with only 1 kharacter, i have 4 fights playing with 4 diferrent F kharacters, 2 heroes and 2 villains if you wanna, in that way no kharacter will be a jobber, at least everyone won 1 F fight in the story mode.

I am like 75% with it, 25% could have not been changed, or like 25% of 4 people could have been better improving themselves (Havik, Nitara, adding Sareena 😅)

I’m all happy with change and really wanna see something fresh and new twist but I feel like Blaze and Onaga could have been utilized more

Why don’t they stop trying to make this stuff into a movie we should be invested in and go back to the basics: A fighting game about a tournament with fatalities and a dude with a ponytail and four arms. More often than not, simple is good enough. Look at a game like Virtua Fighter: A simple fighting game that focused on mechanics and gameplay rather than storylines and DLC. The same can be said about Dead or Alive. These are simple fighting games that center around the gameplay instead of appeasing casual fans with Warner Brothers DLC characters and cheap combo systems.

I like the new era for the most part! I'm not the biggest fan of the lore/design changes to Tanya and Rain, mainly because they've both had more impactful iterations in the past. They are not 100% horrible, but hopefully they have a course-correction like Sindel's. Rain being an apologetic high mage isn't as exciting as being a vengeful elitist half son of Argus, and Tanya didn't need to be Jade with a Twist, even down to the similar weapon.

Fans love to sh!t on MKX but at least it progressed the timeline. I love the new iterations of certain characters such as Kenshi & Cage's relationship, Baraka & Reptile having relevancy to the main plot or Liu Kang & Raiden literally being better versions of themselves😂. But NRS is really dropping the ball with consistency of character arcs due to a lack of trust & nostalgia heavy fandom . Takeda for example is someone I looked at in the same light as a Nightwing, Gohan or a Mile Morales. His story only with his father & Red Dragon (who are equivalent to the court of owls) had potential. I just hope they don't turn him into a time warping superhero because this Multiverse wave has to END.

Whole new timeline bs is trash

I have a better idea why couldn’t they make Hanzo stay as Scorpion but this time he has brothers Kuai Liang is tundra and Bi Han as Sub Zero

I think my biggest issue with MK1story is they decided to go full multiverse. I understand the game was being written when multiverses were all the rage and new, but by the time it came out I was tired of them and didn’t want them in MK. I was fine with just 1 other universe (Shang Tsungs where he defeated Kronika) bc it was built up in 11 and made sense. I didn’t like how there was a universe for every character as a titan. It felt like too much too fast. This should have been a small scale reboot dealing with Outworld politics and Shang manipulating things, and maybe the DLC reveals the other alternate Shang. Oh and Invasions should have been a more open, real time 3D beat-em-up in these maps. They don’t have to be huge maps, and character didn’t even need to be that deep. Just an expanded version of MK11 krypt. Maybe some npcs that give quests like kill a certain enemy or fetch quests. The board game thing sucks. It can still be a stand in for the krypt and a loot grind, just more fun. If it had that stuff plus the new gameplay it’d be one of the better MKs ever.

I just wish they kept going with the 2nd timeline after mkx. Making 11 a grounded story of the revenants and Outworld fighting earthrealm. That could’ve been the next deadly alliance 🤔

It was for something different especially with Bi Han Kuai Liang Hanzo, we seen that story too many times where Bi Han kills Hanzo (Quan Chi magic) Hanzo kills Bi Han, Bi Han turn into Noob the Kuai Liang rebuilds the Lin Kuei, now we have a evil Sub Zero a good Scorpion a young Hanzo who family and clan wasn't murdered plus we got Smoke now Im curious in how Cyrax Sector are handled something different besides the cyber initiative I love that Kitana and Mileena are now real sisters hopefully Jade is done well Reptile is cool again now lets see how they hanlde the love interest

I mean they could make Hanzo fall in love with scorpions daughter and he just doesn’t approve of it and they run off together or something and then something happens to them and then he comes back as a specter or something along those lines

I like to think of mk1 as a new way for mortal kombat that we shouldn’t know the history or lore behind it but just learning it as we play it but we obviously know about it so we get upset that things didn’t go as it once was.

There's a difference between remakes and reboots

I thought they should’ve just stopped at MK 11 as far as the Multiverse thing goes. They did a good job with the story and the gameplay. I felt like Mortal Kombat one was a huge step down and almost every way. Character design. Stages. The overall story. Etc..

My biggest problem is I just question if I should get invested in any of these changes. It feels like rather than solve a problem with good writing they are starting to default to a reboot as the solution

I mean... you may as well just call it Injustice 3

Honestly, the biggest issue for identity with the series is constant referrals to different timelines. TLDR: The real identity crisis is that it now feels like no plot points or character identities will ever stick for more than one or two games and the story will not consistently move forward. MK9 was done amazing in my opinion with a perfect balance of nostalgia and novelty, especially considering Armageddon and changes and company. New timeline done for the first time made sense and done perfectly well. MK11 referencing other timelines and bringing for ourselves was a mixed bag just do it a plot holes and using that at the expense of more plot points from MKX. So kind of annoying but not terrible solely due to timeline references. MK 1 *exasperated sigh* had every single thing possible pointing to setting up to a new error, which was perfectly fine when we were looking at going back in time and looking at a completely different time. A little annoying again to reset the timeline for a 2nd time again, but seem like it would have a big payoff. Then they took the payoff from us by showing us the modern day characters, and then did a captain falcon punch to the gut by unnecessarily referencing the multiple timelines YET AGAIN. The series identity is now focused on memories from the past or memories from alternate timelines, which I feel doesn’t work because that was not what the first nine entries in the series were about, it forces retcon, which is always a risky thing to begin with, but now we are doubling down on it, and on top of that, it prevents the story from going forward. Across all nine entries, the story was always moving forward instead of sidestepping or backtracking. Even in the first three original games where it was essentially the same villain or organization, the story and plot still moved forward.: The real identity crisis is that it now feels like no plot points or character identities will ever stick for more than one or two games and the story will not consistently move forward, which is a damn shame given how much they have to work with even 30 years into the series.

I think Kuai Liang being Scorpion ins this timeline/era was a teaser for the finale of the game where a lots of combined characters appeared

Not gonna lie I hated the story of mk 1 and a lot just doesn't make sense and you mention scorpion which I personally found pointless and proves my thoughts that the characters are the only by name and not the same characters. Meaning it's one thing changing the story in which the characters play a different role to the story and characters being changed to the point where they are just different characters in a different story.

MK is so lost nowadays… We gotta move forward with the New Era now here!

I think the identity crisis comes down to a lack of commitment to change. Armageddon aborted the progress of the original timeline and seemed to promise a fresh slate for the next game. Instead of proceeding from the aftermath of Armageddon, they rebooted the timeline and promised to take the story we knew and mix things up. MKX kinda did this by following up MK 1-3 with MK4 as expected, but then threw a curveball with the New Generation twist... which would have been fine if they kept up the momentum of the timeline changes and new story direction. Instead, they rebooted _again_ to start with MK1 _again._ At this point it feels like there's no use trying to follow the story because we can't trust them to stick with a storyline longer than one or two games before they wipe out history and start over again. There are no stakes, the characters keep shifting personalities game to game, and it's hard to feel invested. I suspect there must be some ethos within the creative team where there is a strong push to try new things -- which can be healthy -- but the problem is they're looking to completely reinvent the storyline (and the gameplay) at every single installment rather than letting things evolve in surprising directions organically. There is no consistency when every new game generates a completely new vision that disrupts everything that came before.

people would shut up if nrs did small weekly updates

Was hoping Fire God Lui Kangs' new world would be like Mortal Kombat Conquest, the TV Series, a group of new characters going around and exploring the New World, while having to help Lui face and convert versions of his past fighters. I wouldnt mind the multiverse angle or older versions of characters coming into the new world. It shouldnt of been the focus is the biggest problem

Okay so, I'm gonna be 100% real throughout. Change, while not a bad thing, is a very risky move, and MK1 definitely proved it. I still love MK1's story, in fact it's still my favorite story mode after revisiting the previous games. There are great changes in this timeline, characters who were villains (Mileena, Baraka, Reptile etc.) actually be good guys (Btw, while I agree that it came out of nowhere, I still really like the Reptile and Ashrah pairing), being a Tarkatan via a disease, and others changes that I won't say because I don't want to make this comment too long. There are changes that I am okay with, like Raiden pretty much being this timeline's Liu Kang, and Kuai Liang being Scorpion, but I still prefer Liu Kang being Earthrealm's champion and I especially prefer Hanzo as Scorpion (and Kuai Liang as Sub-Zero) as Hanzo Hasashi Scorpion is still my all-time favorite character in gaming. I'm still trying to get used to Kuai Liang being Scorpion and not Hanzo. Don't get me wrong, Kuai Liang Scorpion is pretty cool, but for someone like me, who's favorite character in gaming is Hanzo Scorpion, I still get pretty upset from time to time, even when I equip the Hanzo skin from Invasions season 1, it still doesn't feel the same, especially when intro dialogs still refer to him as Kuai Liang even with that skin on. While I still play MK1, because I still genuinely think it's fun (though that may be because I'm a solo gamer and I don't play online, at least in fighting games), I still go back to previous games, mainly MK 2011 and MK11 just to play as characters I really like more, especially Scorpion in MK 2011.

I really like your perspective on this and I will say my Empress Sindel has greatly benefited from this new era. Kitana and Tanya have not, however just to name a few. I think they are a little misguided in the sense that they feel they need to outdo the plot of the previous game which is why Titans and the multiverses were introduced. I also feel like it needed to have a slightly more darker/sinister tone. I think Mileena should've come to power differently. We know she is at odds with Outworld's people who feel Kitana should rule. I also think she should've developed a fatherly affection for General Shao inheriting his prejudices of Earthrealmers and he supports her and Tanya also helps her. With her Tarkat affliction (being caused by Shang Tsung in secret) she rallies the Tarkatans to her side who have been mistreated under Sindel and other Outworlders and a civil war ensues breaking Sindel and Kitana's hearts. With Mileena and Shao committing treason Sindel has no choice but to name Kitana heir apparent. Mileena looks into the distance contemplating her choice and we see her despair cutting to a shot of Kitana doing the same, both sisters saddened and reminiscing about their close bond as sisters. But Kitana realizes her duty to Outworld, her empress, and the throne and Mileena realizes that she must reclaim her birthright. But it turns out the plot of pitting the sisters against each other was orchestrated by the Deadly Alliance (Shang in particular) who would use this chaos to weaken Outworld allowing them to finish the opposing sides off and assume control providing them with power and souls. Long story short they are defeated and the story is finished. I would add more details but in essence no timelines, no multiverses, no titans, just an old-fashioned conspiracy and interesting character conflicts and development.

My big problem with MK1 is that they didn't give the new timeline an opportunity to stand out on its own. Halfway through the game it just fell back into the same timeline shenanigans MK11 was focused on and made the new timeline feel insignificant. Not fond of Good Mileena either but that's a subjective deal.

What I fear for Hanzo hasashi's character that he might end up like a frost like character and I really hope that they're not going to that direction for him.

MK1's Kameo system is what made me avoid purchasing. Too bad because I like what they did for the Edenians in the story

My biggest gripe was them casting a crackhead from an underpass to be Tanyas character. Like MK is where megastars come in

I imagine Titan Onaga will be the ultimate villian next or coming up. Wonder where they’ll go after that. Maybe Liu Kang will die and it’ll reset the timeline again but with all new characters this time

I need classic costumes!!

Some of your points are kinda contradictory. Like singling out MK11 having Kitana defeat Shao Kahn as a questionable writing decision, but constantly playing clips of MK1 Mileena when talking about good MK1 retcons even though she's been presented as a jobber throughout the entire series and is now inexplicably unbeatable and able to take down Dark Raiden, which is every bit as dumb and illogical as Kitana beating Shao Kahn (if not worse, since Kitana was at least capable of winning fights, whereas Mileena took L's to the likes of Stryker).

DEI at Warner brothers and netherrealm ruined it. Fans could write a better script

Hmm... Hystory, what do you think are the most wrong retcons from m1k? For example, I don't like the titan raiden from story mode (final chapter) to be the young one. It's said that the titans are the multiple results from the mk11 story, so that version of raiden (which appears during story mode) should have been a titan, but somehow, we have the same young 'human' raiden as a titan, without any explanation. Also, I don't like that some of the most requested kharacters were done dirty, like Reiko, who is just a mere Shao follower, or Nitara, who is just a jobber. I think she didn't need to be a real vampire this time, as things could have been more interesting otherwise. For example, in this timelines Dairou becomes Havik, so likewise, someone like Skarlet could have became Nitara, merging their backstories and giving us only one blood user (also, edenians and tarkatans were turned into outworlders, so vaeternians should have been the same, tbh). Also, I know there's a supposed aftermath leaked for m1k and I won't spoil it, but regardless of that, I think there's a few interesting ideas for the future. For example, Quan chi is becoming the sorcerer we all know, while Kuai Liang, Harumi and Smoke are creating the Shirai ryu with Hanzo. So what if Quan chi eliminates the three of them? We could then have enenra, Hanzo taking the mantle as Scorpion to avenge his masters (making this timeline one with two Scorpions instead of two sub-zeros), and Kuai Liang could become noob, giving Bi-han the possibility of a redemption arc, trying to save his brother.

MK1 has some good moments, great moments, and some real head-scratcher moments. I really enjoyed the Legacy Character videos this channel made.

It’s clear NRS had now clue what to do with this game

No more multi verse just 1 timeline please 😊

I like the new realm that lord liu kang made over the other timelines

The fact that they can just remake the timeline whenever they want makes it difficult to get invested in the story. It seems like everything they make gets retconned and swept under the rug by the time the next game comes out.

I always saw MK as "Black Wuxia" or in other words "Grim Asian Martial Arts Fantasy" but fuck it I guess because Multiverse is cuul.. 🤷🤦

At this point they needa hire you to write the story and plots