Swindle
Philanthropist & Asshole
Read through your posts, and it looks like you just hate Liu Kang.
Read through your posts, and it looks like you just hate Liu Kang.
I don't.
Cassie literally got super powers from her ancestry which powered her up enough with "the Glow" to defeat an also super powered Shinnok. Whether you like the fact the she was powered up is irrelevant, because in fact she unlocked the power to win the fight. It made sense story-wise, just like Sindel being powered up when beating/killing half the heroes in MK9 made sense.
Kitana is descended from gods. Also, the guy whose soul was powering up Sindel had been beaten by Kitana once already.
Nothing in the game states he beat him.
I don't remember there being a distinction between Hell and the Netherrealm, Lucifer is actually cited as being the former ruler of the Netherrealm in MKD.
Four times, you referred to him as “that Bruce Lee clone that shoots fireballs” instead of by his name.
Right, yet Kitana still shows literally nothing to suggest that she could take a prime Shao Khan, ever, no feat, no power up, nothing.
Exepting also Shang Tsung in MK1, and him and Quan Chi in Deadly Alliance.
So its either a towering brute or a somewhat slim sorcerer, and sometimes we get the brute as the sub-boss (goro in MK1, Moloch in MKDA). And then there's MKX Shinnok who is both lol
I'll be honest with you - as a kid i never treated MK1 Shang (MK 1992... MK Original...god, this about to become stupid) as someone boss-worthy, even though he is technically. Goro is the one and he's way more difficult anyway.
Johnny only died in the midway era because of OUTSIDE forces, if Pesina hadn’t been a doofus cage wouldn’t have sat out mk3.
It’s always possible that NRS Shao Kahn is weaker than midway Shao Kahn, he also could have under estimated Kitana just like he did Liu kang, the writing is all over the place with him.
It's almost as if this was used to setup the extreme danger and difficulty of the situation and it would be a once in a generation talent who could achieve it. Like say...a chosen one.
"They had an off day" is weak writing when you've spent forever establishing them as ass kicking machines. There are stories where that works, MK has never been told like one. I'd like it if it was, but it isn't.
And i would be 100% fine with all of this if it was actually in the story and not just head canon. As it was, it was out of no where and not "earned".
Haha, yeah.
Did they fight him together? I thought Lao had already "died" when Liu Kang fought Shao Khan.
Yeah, that was one of the reasons I liked him. But since MK9 he is not even a shadow of his former self.
The problem are the friends we made along the way.
not really, I enjoyed every bit of it
Nah it’s fun, this is a competitive fighting game forum. Everyone on here is a fuckin dork whether they like it or not.
It's "anything MK-related" forum now really. And there's no harm mixing in lore topics, i see nothing "dorky" about it.
Yeah I don’t mean it as an insult, I’m having fun with the absurdity of presumably a bunch of grown adults with full time jobs and full lives, spending their time arguing over MK lore. It’s awesome, and I’m glad that despite having to take on more responsibilities that I still have time to be a dork. I was 15 when I first started playing MK and I’m still a young guy, but I’m far busier than when I was a kid - building a career, working towards a Master’s degree, enjoying married life, and occasionally competing in powerlifting. I’m sure a lot of you guys are in the same boat or experienced something similar when you were my age. Not to be over dramatic, but I feel blessed to still be able to be a dork since a lot of guys get forced out of the hobbies they enjoy as life happens. I think this is an undeniably dorky conversation to have but I enjoy it, you don’t have to “identify” as a dork, but I am what I am, and I’m a fuckin dork. I love MK lore even if I am here more for strategy, tech, and meeting people to play with etc, I enjoy these topics.
