When it comes to beheading Shinnok being the last straw for Kronika, it's kinda hard to say whether the reason it's bad to her is because Shinnnok is important for the battle of Armageddon (which is possible given his actions during that event), or simply because with Shinnok gone there really aren't that many villians left to threaten the realms, creating an odd sort of peace (revenants and murder happy thunder gods aside) that for some reason Kronika can't abide by (hopefully they go into detail as to why this balance is so important to her).
I think this only makes good and evil in MK something very black and white, and makes Dark Raiden an anti hero as most already saw, not a villain.
He is seen battling Netherrealm forces, Sonya storming the realm, and let's just imagine if he does what his MKX ending said, and notice that one of his intros - considering intros just for the sake of speculation - he is worried about problems in Chaosrealm.
I guess to keep his promise of destroying all those who threaten Earthrealm, he might not wait for someone to pose a threat, but to attack as soon as possible, and despite the fact these acts may look evil - even if he's an anti hero - they may be actually shifting the balance for good (and that doesn't mean that this is ok).
Guess Shinnok should have been imprisoned. Hopes for him to come back? Who knows. It seems Kronika needs him. I wonder if Raiden had not severed his head, what would he do. Go back to Netherrealm and have his ass kicked by Li Mei while planning to destroy the realms? Who knows. But to Raiden not sever his head, he should have stood Light Raiden, but for that Shinnok should not have poisoned the Jinsei.
I'm telling you guys, Raiden is not guilty of anything :shiner:
MK is so inconsistent with what is and what isn't fatal. They're doing a bad job at helping me understand why decapitating the God of Death is such a big deal. Like is that really it for Shinnok? "Not even you can kill an Elder God" he says, but I mean he cut your head off just like any other mortal and you seem to be just as incapable afterwards. Does it matter more because Raiden did it with Shinnok's own power or something? It's very confusing and I really doubt they'll explain it.
He surely was never creative with another immortal being. I think the big deal is not because he was decapitated, but because this happened, he's out of game, and he should be "father of all evil".
However, he doesn't stay as incapable, because he is actually alive. I think the real bad thing here is that Raiden is probably going to purge all evil of existence, and he started with the greatest evil of all (and I'm not exaggerating, Shao Kahn being purged was totally ok for Kronika).
