The only part of SF that was still reconcilable with the canon is that Jax killed the last few members of Black Dragon (the game actually lists them as "Terminated") save Jarek, who got away. Everything else is now directly refuted by MK9/X. The fact that now Tasia is alive and well (despite Jax having very specific dialogue about killing her) and the Black Dragon are still operating as a team then literally no part of SF can be true;
a) Jax didn't have metal arms before MK1
b) Jax never made it home safely after going after Kano/BD after whatever the fuck happened to all their Special Forces buddies
c) Kano did not betray the Black Dragon in favor of some weird amulet
d) Kano was never the last known or suspected member of the Black Dragon.
Just like MK9 retconed a few things, they seem to be doing the same thing in the comic / MKX lore. They actually do this every game as they NEVER take the previous game's story and just copy / paste it over. They ALWAYS change something. Tasia may have been marked as "terminated" in that game, and whose to say she wasn't actually killed, but officially she is alive now. That fact doesn't refute MK:SF's story at all, it just implies that something else may happened, or there is more story to tell there.
Tell me though, MK9 EXPLICITLY states and shows that many of Earthrealm's heroes died, but now they are just back in the comic. Logic would imply (just like the story actually does), that there are pieces to the puzzle here yet to be presented; why can't that be the same situation with SF and the comic? Why can't there be some story explanation rather than MK:SF being totally retconed?
Also...
- a) In MK:SF Jax was wearing prototype bio implants similar to what he was wearing when he was first introduced MK9...though the art was different. That is what Jax was wearing in MK3 as well, implants that covered his arms. MK9 changed the lore to where his arms were replaced fully after that Ermac encounter.
- b) I'm not sure what you are getting at here.
- c) How do you know? Kano "betrayed" the BD when he fell in league with Kahn, why would that be any different? Besides that, what would "betraying" the BD entail anyway? The BD is more of a gang rather than a proper organization. As the leader of the BD, Kano can do whatever he wants.
- d) What makes you say this? Your denial of MK:SF story? After the BD split from the Red Dragon, the RD made it their duty to hunt them down (this was decades ago in the story). Kano sort of rebuilt the BD, or at least was the leader that made the most noise in the modern era, and though we don't know if he was ever really a part of the RD proper, the RD treated him as a traitor. That being the case, pre MK1, just like MK:SF says, he could very well have been the "last" card carrying member not in custody or killed.
And besides that point in time, in MKDA it was actually stated that he was the last member alive (again maybe?), so yeah, he has been, and might have been multiple times, the last BD out there. Again, the BD isn't a proper organization, there usually isn't but a few of them at a time at any given moment...at least that is how it was. Things could be changing as we go forward though.
