No no, you see... The car that Cole was in was trying to protect him and his family and failed to stop the other car from killing them all. Shang Tsung then capitalizes on the two vehicles animosity and creates Cyrax and Sektor from the wreckage, two machines locked in eternal conflict over the death of Cole.
Dammit, now I want to play MK Armageddon again just to do that. I'm just surprised TheFightersDen didn't do that yet. He did it for Art Lean, Fighting Monk, and Chan Kang hilariously enough.
It baffles me that Sonya wasn't Just the protagonist of that movie. She's a regular human, who had to learn what all this fantasy mortal kombat stuff is, so she's perfect for being a relatable entryway character, she has the only interesting "arkana" attaining arc of anyone because she isn't chosen and has to kill Kano to get it with underdog smarts, along with what's probably one of the better fight scenes against Kano, and she's a recognisable MK1 character, who's also recognisable to people who only know the original movie. You can even fantasy booking, actually put Johnny Cage in and he makes perfect sense as a gender flipped version of the love interest that the protag has tension and banter with and maybe has to rescue. Like am I taking crazy pills this seems like an obvious move, if you don't want to just have Liu Kang as the hero because he's "boring" or already knows what a Mortal Kombat is, and you don't want white guy Johnny Cage. Instead she has to exposition dump in a caravan to scorpions grandson. Cole Freeman who is Gordon Freemans brother.
@@Dtrust123 Even if the stated intent is not just no white men, but no white protags, then you could do a very similar thing with Jax. Minus the Johnny Cage romance plotline, unless they're going for a very bold interpretation of the characters. Sadly the only non-white female earthrealmer is Jacqui and she's distinctly second generation, unless Kira is supposed to be arabic, but no one is making a movie about Kira.
@@Jose-se9pu I can't imagine it would have been worse than Cole Fucking Young. My point is it wouldn't really be forced here, if you aren't just making the film about Liu Kang who is the de facto protagonist, Sonya is just as much of a candidate as Johnny, you look at her original MK1 lore, forced to fight to save her squad trapped after a mission gone wrong, that's pretty solid stock action hero stuff. Besides you never know, Kill Bill, Long Kiss Goodnight, arguably Hunger Games and Fury Road, there's some good female lead hollywood action movies every once in a while. People tell me Hanna was good but I never saw it.
Man everyone hates on Goro and honestly I do NOT think he looks bad, he's just horribly handled as a character. Also your top tier should just be the car, it's the most accurate to the source material of cars.
Honestly I think Maximilian Dood said it best Cole young’s arcana should of been him transforming into scorpion. He gets the powers of the scorpion because he’s tied to his bloodline instead of the stupid plot armor, and weird tonfas which make no sense to his character.
I wish we actually got a film with some villain love for once. It's always about how much of the hero cast they can ram in, and then the baddies are always just an afterthought. Shang & Mileena 👀
Most MK writers nowadays just can't write good villains. They tend to make the villains weak or incompetent and it's pretty infuriating if the villains had good records in previous writing only to be ruined in more modern writing.
@@darkemperortheobscureone694 true, we literally cannot get a crumb of villains winning without it being reversed. By a massive weeb & seeing great villains there all the time I wish MK took some notes & didn't constantly have fucking regular earthrealmers beat some of their most noteworthy villains
@@darkemperortheobscureone694 and even if they did try to get the villain concept, the execution is absolutely terrible(well 50/50 since Shang’s chapter was villains chapter done right) If u want to know what I’m talking about, I’m talking about Shao Kahn in Aftermath. This guy has to break powerscaling (e.g. liu, who has consistently beaten him 3 times in total, had onaga’s fire, red chi sorcery, teleportation, can summon a op dragon and geras, who is a time lord, sand god and can use death to gain strength which he did billion times meaning he should be op af but the fact that Shao won against him when he clearly should’nt just disrespects villains while not making a fuckton of sense, liu would have been acceptable if they stated that he had a soul buff) Also, they retconned his character into a stupid simp who cares about having a family. In previous games, he never ever cared for her romantically(only revived her in mk3 just to get a legal excuse for invasion, only invaded Edenia in deception just for the Edenian kamidogu, battered sindel out in Armageddon, only revived her in mk9 bcoz Quan chi literally said so and gave her soul away to Quan chi in the end of mk9). Having sindel being retconned to kill jerrod takes his and jerrod’s credibility (mk2 Malibu comics, Shao used Shang as a baby in order to distract jerrod bcoz he was too strong for him to face on and while jerrod was beating the lin kuei, he and Shang attacked him from behind and killed him, Sindel’s retcon basically undos that victory and gives us more reason to not find him a threat). On top of that, why on earth would he trust sindel, let alone Shang? She literally had him as her dog in her arcade ending with the hourglass and they were going for the hourglass meaning she could’ve had exactly the same motives. No way would Shao accept her as his wife after that and doesn’t even use his brain to tell himself that Shang is going to betray him
@@nadillasakinah950 what? Nightwolf? Kotal’s somewhat understandable as all he is doing is clapping cheeks all day (e.g. jade, d’vorah and apparently gonna do it with sheeva lol) But nightwolf has never been a romantic type of character at all. I see nightwolf shipped with sindel tbh considering mk9 lol Plus kk has his wheelchair
@@nadillasakinah950 I’m honestly surprised how they never done a direct storyline with these two given cultures had them being related. Most importantly, people were talking about the Indians vs cowboys between the two.
A "good" way to bring back Scorpion: Say he found Bi-Han in the Netherrealm, saw him in his Noob persona and Noob escaped because portals or something. He tracked him to Earthrealm where he found Kuai Liang. Thought he was Noob. Attacked him to realize he was wrong. Noob appears and attacks them both. And then they cooouuld go with Kuai Liang trying to restore Bi-Han, or Scorpion trying to kill him again. And Young won't be in the sequel to help Scorpion. Shame.
Adding on to Mileena's look from this movie, she looks like Jade. If the film makers did this because of diversity then they failed because I'm pretty sure her human side is supposed to look Asian. P.S.: Love the car crash explanation for why Cole and Raiden aren't in the next move
I to be completely honest don’t want any more movies from mk 2021 universe cause idk the first movie imo was just so bad I don’t want to see what they’ll do next since it’s just not mortal kombat Even scorpions revenge witch was not perfect was still enjoyable and still kinda stuck to the source material
Hopefully Johnny Cage, Kitana, Quan Chi, Noob Saibot, Jade, Reptile Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke, Kintaro hmm only 3-D characters I can think of that can be in the movie is Kenshi and Li Mei maybe Chameleon and Khameleon can get love in the movies we might see D'Vorah or Skarlet in the movies.
No, please not D'Vorah, she will kill Cole and Scorpion and then become more powerful than the One Being, essentially killing off everyone later and creating a universe where everyone loves her just as much as the characters she's killed combined. Based on her portrayal in the games, this is likely
Ok gonna be honest Cole Young had promise aside from the family I know a lot of friends of mine would disagree .But he has untapped potential after all he killed Goro.
I just realize that cole youngs daughter could summon scorpion with the gardening tool too lol because she does have hanzo hasashi blood in her. Kinda funny when I think about it. Aha
Sooo it may just be a me thing, but Sonya was actually possibly my favorite character in the movie outside Kano… No I’m not joking. It feels like she was actually pretty competently written and has a general arc in the movie, from being underestimated due to her lack of an arkana to managing to defeat someone with an arkana by using her environment to her advantage and actually earning her abilities. You can also kind of infer a lot of things about her character based off her living conditions. I think she kinda also works well off of Kano. I have similar feelings on Liu Kang. It feels like they kinda do an interesting role reversal by having Kung Lao seemingly being seen as the chosen one due to his clear status and the fact he was a descendant of the original Kung Lao. Meanwhile Liu Kang had to rise from the gutter in order to get the chance he has now, and has to try to rise to the occasion when the man he thought would win the tournament is killed right in front of him. It’s sad cause it feels like these some really interesting things they could have fleshed out more if they had more time, and also if they had been able to cut out Cole
BTW who will revive the dead characters in the next movie? And if they get revived what will they be revived into? Or should new characters take their place?
Honestly, I could see them killing off Cole Young in the first act in order to raise the stakes. I hope they do, I would much rather have Liu Kang be the protagonist as has always been the case, rather than have plot armor the character be the leader.
Is it possible to do a roster duster for MK9 if they did the original wipe the slate vlean time skip like Tekken 3 instead of the incontinuity reboot we got?
It would be cool if Cole takes on the Scorpion mantle, like have Kuai Liang or Noob kill his Family in a similar way like in the first Films opening and then classic scorpion comes in to give Cole his Powers an we have a New Scorpion, connnected to the old one with similar Motivations.
Hear me out. To Bring Sub Zero and Scorpion back, they make up a bullshit excuse that the sub zero that cole and scorpion fought at the end of the movie was Quan Chi pretending to be Sub Zero. This may sound dumb but if they do this it means one thing. Quan Chi will have been killed in the first movie and cannot return in any other movie. If they decide not to resurrect him
Hey snake, could you maybe do a quick video on who was on what side during the various tournaments? Just asking because I tried to have a bit of fun by making an actual tournament bracket based somewhat on MK 1 (it would be the same scenario of being the final tournament but have characters that first appeared later in a timeline like Kotal Khan and Nightwolf) with 8 outworld characters and 8 earthrealm characters but then I realised I didn’t remember whether certain characters like Kano, sub-zero, cyrax and sector were fighting for earthrealm or outworld during the first tournament. Sorry if you’ve already explained this elsewhere. If you have just point me in the right direction.
Idk why you are saying Cole McGrath shouldn't come back. They haven't yet adapted the part with the RF sphere and Kessler. The events of Infamous 2 are also still some ways off.
Cole Young shouldn’t have been a thing, Lewis Tan should’ve played a Black dragon guy that goes with Kano, Sonya and Jax or something and gets killed off.
Sheesh, all this Cole Young hate in the comments. I'm just grateful they didn't make him Alice levels of OP. Yes he killed Goro but with the way Netherrelm treats the top tier fighters, a regular Special Forces soldier could beat Goro, Kintaro and Shao Kahn at the same time and I wouldn't be surprised
Im gonna be honest, Raiden didn’t do it for me not because of plotholes of him being useless, but because it isn’t Richard Epcar lmao! At this point Epcar has become synonymous with Raiden for me, a fan of Netherrealm or not
His name is a metal gear reference. There are other characters refered to by the name "Snake". There was Liquid Snake, Solid Snake, Solidus Snake (and Naked Snake who picked up the Big Boss title so he probably doesn't count as a "Snake" after MGS3)
Lol nice another roster duster great stuff bro personally I don’t think there should be a sequel cause these movies are trash Scorpion’s Revenge is shite with maybe 5% redeeming quality and thats only the opening scene with Hanzo/Scorpion thats it and this was the movie that made me give up on any MK movie hence never watched or plan to watch MK 2021 which is a steaming pile of rancid fecal matter surrounded by flies and gnats why bother with a sequel at this point these movies are just as bad as the Disney “Star Wars” sequel trilogy. I wish you or someone like minded like you or me were writing for MK but at this point I don’t know if this franchise can be redeemed.
Johnny cage is not all that of a great character because he feels like a DLC Character given a lead role in a Mortal Kombat game. REMEMBER THAT TIME! WHEN NRS made an MK game where Johnny, Liu kang, Sonya, Raiden and the rest fought as a team to save the realms? Me Neither!
For what? His has no misunderstanding with Sub-Zero, He took his revenge and his family lineage lives on. He literally have no business in the rest of the series. He is done. His story is over and all we got from it was Cole Young.
@@SuperSky9 you’re not really an mk fan if you think he’s not coming back 🤷🏾♂️ like he died in the 1995 version and literally came back in annihilation
@@SuperSky9 plus let’s not act like noob saibot is going to be in the sequel, if they aren’t stupid they’ll go in that direction but tbh this movie was ass 😔 I feel like it’s not even worth arguing with you. Like how tf is noob going to unlock his powers?? Like they dropped the ball with this movie it’s really hard to even sit here and try to argue with you tbh. Too much energy for something I really unfortunately don’t care about
@@mannygomez3577 Annihilation was following the same timeline I told you in my first reply. The 2021 version solves all of those problem and removes any reason for scorpion to return. Also, Noob Saibot being in the sequel but he will be just that boss level thug for shang tsung.
