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@@IkeFanBoy64 I never said they weren’t strong, just that they don’t do anything though funny how in the story they’re always portrayed as fodder, only time they were portrayed as strong was cetrion in Shang tsung’s island
You'd have to be able to name them first. All we know are Cetrion and formerly Shinnok and Raiden. They're good at being God though, look how little they do.
@Facebones2391 Argus. He's an Elder God, as well as bring the father of Taven, Daegon, and Rain. Not only that, but he and his wife were trying to prevent the upcoming Battle of Armageddon by giving the mortals one last chance to save the realms. Too bad the plan ultimately failed, as Daegon betrayed his family for the sake of power, and the Battle of Armageddon ended with Shao Kahn the victor.
3:31 - Man I can't help but feel sorry for Raiden here. He was far more "human" than most assumed, in fact he was as much a fallible human being as his followers, pretty much the underpaid work horse that had to pick up the slack for his golfing CEOs. And of course he gets all the blame for when shit goes wrong.
Shinnok and Cetrion must not be allowed to exist without Kronika. There's a reason Geras says in MK1 that Shinnok's amulet shouldn't exist. What other reason than Kronika's unaliving?
@nabilahmed579 Or they can just not be born to Kronika and never ascend to their Elder Godhood. Life finds a way with NRS's ways. Next thing I know, they'll be giving Sindel a sister in the next game if they actually regret killing Sindel herself too early in this new timeline. Just like they gave Shinnok a sister in MK11 out of the blue.
@@nabilahmed579kronika cant exist in another timeline،she was an original titan،but liu and others are just normal ppl that gained the power of a titan،they have other varients
@@sobhanamini3776I wonder what happend with the two timelines where Kronika won (The bad ending where she beats Liu Kang and the Kabal one where he brought her back to life ) did they just pop out of existence after they won
Yes, i do think it's lazy writing. I also think it's the writers being lazy most of the time, and don't have any ideas where to put the elder gods in the story
Interesting theory: what if the gods don't move because they can't? Existence is not dosed to be, all the realms should be one being, therefore in order to maintain it, the Elder Gods have to physically maintain it with their power. And that, being too taxing, holding up some aspect of existence alone, is the reason why even when threatened, they do nothing. They're holding it up until the end.
Bi-Han aka Sub Zero within MKM: Sub Zero defeated Shinnok. Thus if you use your logic, Bi-han should be stronger than Elder Gods by defeating Shinnok and same with both of the Cages.
Well, in the MKM Shinnok didn't have his real amulet but a fake instead while the real one was stolen by Quan Chi. Without the real amulet, he's no stronger than Shao Kahn which was also the reason of his defeat to Liu Kang in MK4. On the other hand, the Cages' power is just a bad retcon since their ancestors weren't even godkillers but god enforcers according to MK9. MKX retconned that which makes the Elder Gods look stupid like why would they try to breed warriors that had a power that specifically their kryptonite.
1:56 I would’ve said it’s like the mask of power from the Skylander books. My brain: Wait is that why I got into Mortal Kombat? Since Aurora is like Ashrah?
The Elder God's are so useless when it comes to someone who breaks the rules they sit there throwing their hands up saying "Not our problem". Now keep in mind in MK Armageddon Sub-Zero becomes an Ice God by accident and all of the sudden now they have to do something.
The moniker of “god” in modern fiction has become so watered down and whored out it means absolutely nothing anymore. Just use the term immortal or something.
You are misunderstanding a few things and here are some explanations: The Elder Gods swore not to directly interfere in the affairs of the realms after being deterred by their own actions in dismembering the One Being. That's also why lesser gods like Raiden needed to do their job after Shinnok broke the joint oath./ Kronika's story could have explained better that balance is needed because no one should be able to unite the realms. / Shinnok kills an elder god, Kronika absorbs Cetrion's power and kills every other elder god, except Shinnok, who is just a head at the end. There are no Elder Gods actually in MK1, because they are not restored by rewinding time./ No, no, no Shao Kahn is not so strong because of Blaze, but because the One Being's spirit was merged into one in the original timeline and it stayed like this despite the time reset, and Shao Kahn is possessed by the One Being while the unification of his body also begins./ The Elder Gods together with their amulets were only able to defeat the One Being. / Raiden while fighting Shao Khan on the Pyramid: Shao there about to win following the rules, so elder gods cannot stop him + Raiden later says that it was Kronika manipulation that hole thing + One Being spirit was combined, which already has a very strong effect, which is why the Pyramid must be activated in the first place. / Elder Gods didn't die often: Shinnok killed one + Kronika killed the rest / Shinnok was able to almost win against the Elder Gods in the original timeline because heaven is also part of the One Being, where they are weaker + Shinnok had his amulet, the elder Gods didn't have thiers. Thus, Shinnok killed one elder god but did not the rest. / Raiden win against Shinnok because he got his amulet which gives Raiden a huge power bonus...
So I'm 50/50 with the Elder God's. Lore, Comics & Books wise, I think they can be established pretty well to be prominent characters that are more spoken of, instead of seen. And when seen, their presence is felt. But as far as games, they are useless, and other than being mentioned, they don't need to be in them!
Wouldn't it be cool if we got a game where Someone managed to help The One Being peace its body back together and the boss fight was fighting him to put him back into Pieces?
What doesn't make sense is if elder gods don't care at all for living beings nor the realms themselves, why do they care if the one being is brought back?
One thing i always liked is that Ed Boon uses real weapons for his characters.Kung Lao uses a chakram,Aushra uses a kriss,and Scorpion uses a kunai rope dart.
Can you do video how invasion mode season tower in mk1 is bugged and keeps causing game to crash when ppl try to play it & preventing them from getting skins up to level 90?
Do A Video On Characters That Were Powerful As Hell In The Midway Timeline, But Stupidly Lose Most, In Not All Of Thier Fights In The Neatherealm Timeline.
Doesn't Liu even pull a Raiden's "By the Elder Gods!" when he sees Kenshi jacked up on return from Outworld? They exist even in MK1, so they can't be erased from existence, no matter how Liu crafts the timeline.
It’s a habit he picked up from raiden I bet, you know who likely said it every other minute. I’m sure they exist but probably have a different job since Liu fixed most of the worse problems and Geras watches the worse multiversal threats.
The job is probably more like a desk job at least in Liu Kang era Also I think is very telling that Liu Kang did not think to ask for help from them or even let them know what was happening at any point in the game
I we go back on time , we can see Raiden abandon his post of Elder God on the begin of MK Deadly Alliance because the elder god could nothing to stop the Deadly Alliance, latter they could do nothing for stop onaga return and the Armagedon.
Just add a motivazioni for binding them to the chairs as some kind of trade off for the stability of the realms/sigil,make them have some influence in the story as a divine guide
I hate the Elder Gods for what they do to Scorpion in MK Deception. Now that we have a multiverse setting we really really need a Scorpion kills the Mortal Kombat universe video game in the vein of shaolin monks. Let the vengeance specter just go HAM on everyone.
But this is a non sense. If the One Being represents the whole Universe, so the Elder Gods are part of it, which means that the Elder Gods are "self-destruction" components of the One Being.
I think Liu Kang already noticed the Elder Gods were useless already because their impartiality make end up making loop holes that other could exploit under those "rules".
*The following are the musings of a Salty SEAGULL named EARL who just shows up in my posts whenever he feels like it!* [EARL the Salty SEAGULL:] 1:05 - "So the NeatherRealm is literally the ONE BEING's um... Neather regions!"
I have played the story mode of every single Mortal Kombat game, and yet I’ve never heard one being I don’t think this is such an interesting bit of Lore
The Elder Gods are basically a running joke in Mortal Kombat at these point..... with fans joking about them upholding the "Sacred Suggestions of Mortal Kombat!"
I feel like as of MK1, the keepers of time have effectively replaced the Elder Gods buy proxy of being BEYOND their power. The Elder Gods may have been able to create multiple realms from what is basically the vast infinite that is creation, but the time keeper's power goes far beyond that.
My theory is that Liu Kang did away with the Elder Gods once he gained control of the Hourglass and reshaped the universe and the timeline. The only thing he couldn’t exactly change was Onaga/The One Being and had to defeat Onaga and make sure he couldn’t cause anymore problems himself. Liu Kang seems to be the only god in the current timeline until he had to summon Raiden from the MK 11 timeline. Geras is the next closest thing to a god we have in the current timeline.
What i don't get is: if in the beginning there was only the One Being and nothing else, and all life sprung from him being split into realms, where do the Elder Gods come from? 😵💫
They always seemed similar to Greek gods as far as personality to me. Wouldn't mind them coming back only if some of them appeared as playable characters
I find that most gods, deities, and supreme beings are just pointless to begin with. When the very things you write in the story can manipulate reality itself, then whatever rules of the universe you add to your writing soon becomes pointless and everything falls apart. You, as the writer, are the god of your own story. Don’t put yourself in your own story just to change rules as you see fit. Consistency is key.
I think that if we remember that in Greek mythology, the Titans created the guards and the gods betrayed their parents and took over. this very much seems like the same idea, so I don’t see it being that far off that elder gods will lose to a fallen elder God, and that a fallen elder God will lose to a regular God, like Raiden
I'd say keep them around, but get the writing right. Something like, the elder gods we know are not all the elder gods and the remaining ones are keeping them from interfering unless the rules are being broken as explanation for them not acting on Shao Khan's actions. That would also somewhat explain their lack of strength. The defeated the one being together, but the ones we got to know are only some of the elder gods who joined together to do so meaning they also just have a fraction of that power by themselves. If somebody like Shao Khan fails to follow the rules of mortal kombat and is getting caught cheating, that's when ALL the elder gods join in and that person would be struck with their entire power explaining why the elder gods would be feared and their rules being accepted despite one could be able to defeat and kill them.
Armageddon Shao Kahn did not kill the elder gods, he just mocked them because he found a loophole to merge the realms without breaking the rules of mortal kombat. The elder gods only care about 2 things. #1. Preventing villains from merging the realms. #2. Upholding the rules of mortal kombat (which is what has helped the elder gods a lot) So in order to do #1 you would need to complete #2, and unfortunately #2 is difficult to complete. But Armageddon Kahn found a loophole in Blaze and found a way to do #1 so the elder gods can't do anything.
The reason the elder gods didnt interfere with Khan was that in the original timeline, they never, in any actual instance, interfered. Were actively unable to, in fact, with mortal affairs. Raiden relinquished his elder god status in Deadly Alliance because of this. The new timeline, had new rules. For some reason the changes extended beyond just the moment raiden got a message from himself.
If the elder gods lack of interference in the original timeline seems shaky, deception had Onaga come closer than Armageddon did to merging the realms. They didn't even communicate with Shujinko, much less help him prevent what they were supposed to stop.
Still not fully over one of the writers of MK11 stating that Kronika, mother of two elder Gods, was above The One Being in terms of power. You can tell when people actually have respect for the material they're working with and when they're just trying to cash a pay cheque.
I can honestly forgive the idea of Shinnok killing the Elder Gods if ... A: Shinnok's fight with the Elder Gods was like Omniman vs the Guardians of the Globe where Shinnok won but took a look of damage. B: Shinnok uses a very powerful spell that incapacitated them. C: The 9 nine realms have slowly made them weak and they didn't want anyone to know that they were vulnerable but Shinnok somehow figured it out. Unfortunately the writing was so bad that it's unforgivable.
My suggest retcon it if it fits canon, and make it that a part of Existance is the mastermind, a physical manifestation. Them making fake replicias of the elder gods.
In the original timeline, the elder gods werent killed by Shao Khan. Blaze gave great power but he was more or less a device for either good or evil to win, as Delia disagreed with Argus's scorched earth designs and they gave their sons the trial to test who was right.
The battle of Armageddon, so as it is referred to, was foreseen, and Argus just wanted to kill 'em all. But he's a lesser god than the Elders, and their lack of involvement was typical impotence. "He must win" was a contrivance because they had already been breaking many rules of how the realms can be merged before the point Raiden was empowered. Stepping in at the last possible moment was their goal, impotent fucks. Shinnok was right.
Tbf pretty much all of the villains have been worthless so far in the latest games. Shao Kahn's biggest achievement in MK9 is killing Kung Lao like a coward, from behind. Noob is a noob, Quan Chi is a punching bag. Shinnok and Cetrion get beaten by the lamest SF characters. Then you have the worthless jobbers like Kano and Erron Black. The only even slightly threatening villains were ironically Shang Tsung and D'Vorah 😂 The writers for these games really need to step their game up. I am glad Baraka and Reptile are no longer jobbers but Shao is disrespected once again.
This video just makes me appreciate Warhammer 40k more, gods there are an actual thing and they are limited because they can't physically exist in the physical world, but their presence is felt
The one being comes from real mythology. The being and the becoming. The being is all, and the becoming is what turns it into things like trees and sea and me.
