@vapid you have me dying with your Jacqui speculation lol.
Real talk though, I legitimately want something awful to happen to Jacqui to at least give her some depth as a character.
1. Raiden rips off Jacqui's legs
2. Jacqui forced to replace legs with robotic kangaroo legs
3. Character Development
You could make literally dozens of 'what if' endings for Jacqui, all of which involve her dying or being harmed in some way - they'd all be comical, and in each of them it would ultimately turn out to have been completely needless, as after she's been killed it is revealed that she was innocent of whatever she was accused of, but by then it's too late. You could get some sort of Jacqui death meme going.
Aside from Raiden doing it (which is my favourite, as he'd regret it immensely after he is restored to normal and is told what he's done whilst he was corrupted) you could also have one in which Fujin creates some sort of mini-tornado inside her stomach, which slowly blows her apart - she'd be alive for most of it, screaming and crying as her stomach is ripped open and her limbs ripped off in different directions, and her entrails slowly spill out.
As her bloody, torn, lifeless corpse drops to the floor and her organs and entrails splatter across it, Fujin just looks down, closes his eyes, and says:
"I am sorry Miss Briggs; your death costs us all dearly, but we cannot afford yet another traitor in our ranks. I can only pray your death was swift and painless." (obviously it wasn't)
...then like five seconds later, Cassie runs into the Temple, sees Jacqui's remains, and is like "ohh shit, gross" and turns round to throw up. After she's been sick, as she's coughing and trying to compose herself, she tells Fujin that she's just found out from Johnny & Sonya that actually Jacqui was not only innocent, but a hero for bringing Shinnok's amulet back to Fujin. After she's said this, Fujin looks over at one of Jacqui's torn-off arms and sees it is indeed grasping the amulet.
Jax then turns up, sees the mess without seeing the head, and says "Damnnnn, someone gonna be PISSED!", smashes his fists together, then says to Fujin "Come on Windy, let's go pummel us some Geras" - at which point Fujin and Cassie both look at each other awkwardly and then nod, following Jax out of the Temple.
Other examples obviously include:
- Jacqui being made into a cyborg
- Jacqui becoming a revenant
- Jacqui becoming a zombie with chains, like Zombie Liu Kang
- Jacqui being horrifically burned like Kabal, and requiring breathing equipment and metal implants/augmentations
- Jacqui being killed by D'Vorah, like Mileena was
- Jacqui being given an unceremonious death in story mode, such as simply falling off a bridge or into a stage interactable - normally in this situation another character would save them (like at the end of MKX outside the Temple) but in this case her life isn't deemed to be worth risking anyone else for; as Cassie is about to run and grab Jacqui, Johnny grabs her arm, "No, Cass! Remember last time, with Kung Jin... it's not worth it."
