The Greatest Villain in Mortal Kombat History! 

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The biggest W for Shang Tsung in MK11 was being portrayed by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa again.

The fact that it's Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa returning for MK11 is enough, plus he has the crown for the perfect "you dropped this king 👑" not to mention the amazing theme he gets in the game, especially when he's stealing revenant Night Wolf's soul

6:05 Liu Kang was a secret unlockable character in deception, but the requirements were ridiculous. You had to beat the konquest mode, then travel to Edenia, go behind Jade's tent at midnight on Friday morning and open a secret chest. If you missed it, you'd have to wait an extra week.

I always loved how Mortal Kombat starts with Liu Kang vs Shang Tsung and ends with Fire God Liu Kang vs Titan Shang Tsung.

I'd love for shang to be the main villain of the next story, I think he's the most enjoyable to watch and most charismatic villain MK has had so far.

Trueunderdawggaming: Makes a video about Shang Tsung Also Trueunderdawggaming: 13:00 Shao Kahn makes the greatest comeback in villain history

Honestly despite how much a I dislike the mk11 story I can agree Shang carried the story in aftermath. His smug expressions and sly charisma was the only time a character in aftermath actually somewhat felt like a real character. And yes his reveal at the end was the most braindead and predicable one but it was done better than the original ending of mk11 lmao

"He can straight up use YOU to load up his OWN save file" has to be one of the greatest lines in HISTORY! You the Dawg! Internet Won!!!! Flawless Victory! 🙃

Shang Tsung will always be my favorite character and I cannot express how happy I was that after did him so much justice and made him the center of everything. I'm not the biggest fan of MK11 but im so happy that Mortal Kombat brought back ST to be the actual villain of MK

"In fact Liu Kang was killed so hard he wasn't even in the next game. Ya boy is out from Deception. Completely" Zombie Liu Kang: Am I a joke to you?!

"He just throws a fire ball every now and then" Those fireballs really fucked me up when I fought him in MK1. I had more trouble with Shang Tsung in his base form than when he shapeshifted lol.

Not even bad writing can make Shang Tsung less intimidating

Shang tsung hella fun in mk11 always get depressed when he uses smokes ability tho, really wanted smoke in mk11

Honestly HOPE the next game starts with Shang Tsung's ending from MK11. It's about time we get an MK game focused on the villains because 1) "the good guys always win!" is such a boring and played-out trope, and 2) the villains in the Mortal Kombat series are objectively more interesting than the heroes.

By the end of Shang Tsung's story he has: Revenant Nightwolf's, Raiden's, Fujin's, Shao Kahn's, Sindel's, Fire God Liu Kang's, AND Kronika's souls! Not to mention ALL the souls he previously had AND the Crown! Dude's a living Infinity Gauntlet, LOL

Shang Tsung: You guys shouldn't trust me, like seriously. Everyone: Here you go, have our entire blind trust Shang Tsung: *backstabs them* Everyone: *Surprised Pikachu face*

to me shang tsung is a good character he is the og villain of the franchise and i like how nobody trusts him and thinks he is a scumbag i like his character

Gotta love how having Shang Tsung as your ally means having to ask him when he is gonna betray you, not IF)

That about survive a fight whit Shao Khan for more than 1 second, is something i 100% agree on *flashbacks of Shao Khan's football shoulder taking 25% of your HP*

Shang Tsung started the first Trilogy and also the Argus Trilogy(Ps2 era) as a final boss in MK1 and Deadly Alliance. He's always the one started it all, and in MK11 Aftermath he become the final boss and a closure to Liu Kang Saga. Truly, an iconic villain.

Shang Tsung is always going to be my favorite villain in the mk franchise 🔥

As a long time Shang Tsung fan his appearance in MK11 was an absolute joy. Sure the overall story is pretty scuffed, but every second Shang is on screen is awesome.

For Armageddon, I don’t think the quick clash with Lui Kang’s Zombi body was final; the point was to climb to the top of the pyramid and obtain power which Shang Tsung nearly succeeded, Lui Kang’s chain hooks held him back from total victory and the beginning of MK 9 shows that in the introduction when the camera pans up the pyramid stairway. MK 11 is where he truly shines as the final boss for getting away with: stealing Nightwolf’s revenant soul to prevent him from being an ally, convincing Fujin and past Nightwolf from resurrecting Sindel in spite of the her retcon, getting Kronika to lower her guard before the final battle, tricking Fujin into giving him the crown to obtain a massive power up, and stealing both Raiden, Fujin, Shao Kahn, and Sindel’s souls when he didn’t need to be allied with them. I’m pretty sure the MK 12 will make Firegod Lui Kang the winner in the final battle but, the fact that the play had a choice in determining who the ultimate victor is means that this is the closest battle where Shang Tsung has ultimate victory.

Agreed. In fact I hope Shang Tsung's MK 11 ending is canon.

I like how mk aftermath make shang tsung the real threat and the ultimate enemy just like he was in the first game

Shang Tsung is Mortal Kombat's most notorious villain, he even betrays his Out World emperor Shao Kahn, many times over in the in the Mortal Kombat series, wether it's the original timeline or the new/current timeline NEVER trust Shang Tsung ever, because he will never stop to try and rule over all the realms, thanks for the good video on Shang Tsung TrueUnderDawgGaming nice job 👍

Not to mention he's perfectly portrayed by the awesome Cary hiroyuki tagawa! If it weren't for him shang tsung wouldn't have been one of my mains! Great video

I cried during the opening of Deadly Alliance lol I was also 7 at the time but yes shit hurt watching Liu Kang getting his neck snapped like that. Went out of my way to fatality Shang Tsung with everyone 😂😂

I've always said MK11 Aftermath, Shang Tsung's ending is the best in MK story lines. I like the fact that NRS changed the endings of its usually cliché story mode endings.

Shang Tsung is like the Starscream of Mortal Kombat. The guy always wants to take over and backstab his master(s)

I thought he was gonna do a plot twist when at 13:00 minutes he says "Shao Kahn had the greatest comback" or something like that

The reason why Shang tsung was given the ability to shape shift mk1 was because the creators ran out of room on the cartridge so they gave him that.

I love that shang tsung is more iconic and threatening with shao kahns soul powers than shao kahn himself

back when MK 2 came out people love his look... it was the early 90s tho

i agree i love shang tsung he’s a must character to always have in mortal kombat should’ve been in the base roster

"Ya boi, tha boi, catching hands, W, L, catching the L, drip" and many more. hearing these over and over again while binging his videos can be grating.

Shang Tsung ending needs to be the true ending to have a MK12 story that will bring something we haven’t seen before! Chaos and Order Realm! And the heroes who remain alive! Sick of the old same guys and I don’t want new complete character roster. Eww.

I actually hope for the Liu Kang ending because it would look dumb on Shang's part to let the heroes win against him with all of his scheming. If Liu won, and Shang cannot stay dead, it would make sense that Shang would be back in the next games.

I think a video for Kitana might be in order. "THE MOST ROLLERCOASTER CHARACTER THAT NETHEREALM HAS EVER MADE!"

12:53 I really enjoyed this video and I wish this as well. It would give that old school Deception vibe, coming into a new game where the heroes are either dead, wounded or captured. It could still introduce new and old characters and would set up for an awesome storyline

"Not even Dragonball characters can scale to this threat!" **Laughs hysterically in Zen-Oh**

Shang Stung's deadly Alliance design gives me castlevania vibes

Kronika did call Shang Tsung dangerous in the story mode. Why didn't you mention Shang Tsung got revenge against Shao Kahn and Sindel?

The biggest W for Shang Tsung in the NRS titles is having Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa play him again in MK11. All the other W's followed afterwards. 👍

I like the Shang ending better in MK11. In my opinion, if that's cannon moving forward then I'm all for it.

Shang Tsung is the best villain in MK history 🔥

Um… underdawg, Liu Kang is in deception, he appears as a character you can unlock in the konquest mode and you unlock him in Edenia at the end of konquest, he appears as zombie Liu Kang normally and has his normal Liu Kang as his alternate

Shang Tsung is my favorite MK villain. He was based on James Hong’s Big Trouble In Little China character Lo Pan.

ALSO in mk9 Shao Khan steals shang tsung's soul to give it to sindel but in mk11 Shao khan AND sindel get their souls sucked by shang tsung. Add this to the list of Ws please thank you very much😁

I hope mk12 story mode has 2 ways, one is Liu Kang's side story and other is Shang Tsung's. Now it may be too big but it would be cool.

I gotta say, I have a billion issues with MK11 and Aftermath... but boy do I love that they went full circle and once again gave some spotlight to the original Big Bad of Mortal Kombat (and had him fight the original hero). And not only that, they also had Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa reprise his role and he stole every single scene he was in.

I love Shang Tsung so much he's such a badass and by far my favourite MK villain

your script writing is S tier 10/10

The ending to MK 11 FROM shang Tsung is one of the greatest ending in video game history

I laughed so hard when underdog said Liu Kang died in deception. My oh my the fun that he missed is unbelievable LOL.

Then, in MK1, this same Shang Tsung got his own timeline, as well as access to other timelines. However, his absolute biggest W in this is being the one to teach another Shang Tsung and Quan Chi magic in Liu Kang’s timeline, which went against their designs.

I want Onaga in MK 12, I'd like Shujinko, Taven, and Daegon to return too.

“I too am allergic of being beaten to death” Me: *Same*

I hope the Shang Tsung route is canon. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa carried that DLC

Fastforward 1y later and Shang Tsung is still in mastermind behind it all, in MK1 too :))))

MK12 must get rid of the whole chapter thing, and let it be evened out because the chapter thing throws power scaling out the window

I'm not gonna lie, there's something about Shang Tsung's sprite in the first game that just terrified me as a kid and that feeling sort of lingered through the years.

12:48 goku and vegeta are multi universe busters now. goku when he first achieved ssg was a universe buster as shown when just trading hands with beerus threatened to destroy the entire universe (so a full charged ki blast not concentrated to one point could destroy the entire universe) goku by the end of super literally slaps ssg goku at the start of super IN BASE. cause he literally absorbed the power of ssg into his base form got zenkai boost out the ass and has SSB kaioken x 20. so he is literally thousands of time stronger.

Fun fact: the voice actor for mk11 liu kang was also the voice actor for mk11 fujin

Even though Johnny Cage is my favorite character MK11 Shang Tsung is my favorite overall character depiction in the entire series he’s the best.

I hope mk12 comes out soon enough that they still can get the use out of Cary’s acting

"Everybody that loved Lu Kang." I find that very funny because for almost 2 years before Deadly Alliance came out, there was a pole on the Mortal Kombat website asking which main character should die in the next game. Lu kang had almost 50% of the vote. Next was Sonya with 13%.

Shang Tsing doesn't need to be the strongest when he is the most cunning, which separates him from guys like Kotal and Shao they are just physically imposing brutes.

That’s the great part about the mk11 aftermath endings: they’re both canon.

Need Quan Chi and Ermac in MK 12.. such fun characters in mk10 #BeingBackQuanChi&Ermac

"He enslaves everybody which is the most gangsta thing"

Correction: technically Shang Tsung IS a sub boss in MK2 before Kintaro

You aint lying about the Deadly Alliance opening. Shit genuinely upset me when i was a kid lol i always skipped the intro after the first time because it was just too brutal.

In mk1 Shang was actually number three in terms of strength for the villains. Obviously Goro is above him but so is Reptile as he was Shang’s personal body guard meaning Reptile was chosen to protect Shang meaning at that time he could have been stronger than Shang

I hate to rub salt into Shang Tsung's wounds, but he was actually only 3rd strongest in the first Mortal Kombat. Goro was stronger than him (obviously), but Reptile was actually implied to be stronger than Goro! Remember that Reptile was meant to protect Shang Tsung from any immediate threats. That could only happen if someone managed to defeat Goro. That means Reptile would need to be stronger than Goro in order to protect Shang Tsung from anyone who managed to defeat him. That means the ranking is: 1. Reptile 2. Goro 3. Shang Tsung

Kinda hope that shang tsungs ending in mk11 is the cannon one. The opportunities are limitless! Other realms finally explore, shang tsungs force clashing with other characters like hotaru, havock, or idk onaga might size the opportunity to come back!

Quan-chi only won because he has Shinnok's ammulet, in this timeline, Shinnok's ammulet gives a super buff in power (as we can see in Quan-chi ending in MK4)

Accidentally said Shao Khan instead of Shang Tsung at 13:01 lol

Now that mk1 has multiple trailers I think both mk11 endings are cannon and that's how he is in Lui kangs new time line. I think he is trying to invade Lui kangs timeline now

My boy Striker really hit Mileena with the "STOP RESISTING" punch 😂

I didn’t know Shao kahn can be that fast until you said so, nice to know

Tell me Shang tsung don't look like lord farquad from shek in deadly alliance in that fmv

I find it funny how Shang Tsung can defeat Ermac in Armaggedom, when he gets easily bodied by Quan Chi. Ermac, after his character development ,should be the only character on Shao Kahn's side that could hope to face Shao Kahn and live. Unfortunately, like many characters in Netherealm's version of the story, he gets severely depowered.

0:20 That vacuum + Tom and jerry sound affect with kronikas defeat has me dying

Funny watching these now. "We don't know which endings cannon" mans wasn't ready for both to be

Stryker had so much drip in MKA it gave him the confidence boost to punch the sh## out of Mileena

Liu Kang's death was that generations Death of Optimus Prime, LOL

I want to see Shang Tsungs gameplay in MK1 so bad. And hear his voice actor. Im pretty sure most people are allergic to beat downs hahaha

13:00 you said Shoa Kahn instead of Shang Tsung. 😂😂

I would love to see a video on Stryker!

In mk mobile shang tsung got his mk9 voice but his mk11 voice is better I want this change in mk mobile

Shao Kahn isn't a villain, he is neutral. Yes Shang Tsung is the greatest villain.

When he said that not even DG characters can measure his power level I was waiting on the IT OVER NINE THOUSAND!!! meme🤣🤣🤣😅😅

Ok I know I'm gonna sound super nitpicky here so sorry. But the reason frieze is stronger than other members is because we know of 2 canonical members with a third non Canon one who was originally stronger before his golden form

12:45 , from the looks of the MK1 trailer. Both endings are canon in a sense.

Respect to Shang Tsung!

You tripped over the finish line saying shah Kahn lol at the end of the video

6:37 sooo true I thought I'm the only one that liked the 3d era custom the modt

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