Hydro said:
You do have some good points. I would like to know how Shang Tsung can morph into anyone. They say once he takes their soul but, he can morph anyway? I know they will explain better how/why he turns into a younger form. Now as for the Sub-Zero thing, still unsure. I mean we know he just disappeared in his MK1 ending but, in Deception we find that he was killed and Noob Saibot. I would like to know how his younger brother fits into the MK2 portion cause that was him. Oh and in the old MK comics, Sub-Zeros younger brother was named "Hydro" I do mainly go by the games story as the baseline. I'm not sure if they will do any other games like this for other MK games like MK3, MK4, MKDA, MKD. Depends if it is pretty good. I would like to see on done around MK3 cause that did have a great story.
Shang Tsung was only able to turn into people
after he took their souls as far as I can remember. I have no idea what was going on in the intro. Sadly, I don't think they'll even bother to explain it. By the looks of it, the intro. was going based off of the game. Shang Tsung turned into Scorpion and shot the spear into Liu Kang. Liu survived it without a wound. Like in the video game, when you do a move that would normally kill someone, they live. Because otherwise we would die after one "power" attack. So like in the game, Shang can turn into
anyone. I think they were just letting everyone have all their powers, despite how ridiculous it was. Another example was Reptile eating Cage's head off. In the game, they can do that and Cage or any other kombatant would survive it. I still think there was no reason to do that, minus eye candy. The intro. to MK: Deception had them use their powers and it made sense. I don't understand why they couldn't do that here....
Sub-Zero? I have no clue what was going on there. It definitly looked like the younger Sub-Zero. Then again, I could be wrong. IF it was the older one, then it still makes no sense that he lived....
Malitor Greymaulkin said:
If you look at MK1-3 arcade games, Shang could always turn into any one of the kombatants.
Thats because its his "power" in the game. Story wise, he can only do that with the souls he stole.
Malitor Greymaulkin said:
The SubZero that you see in the intro is actually the Brother of the Original SubZero. The big battle in the intro is happening after the conclusion of the actual tournament. The original SubZero gets killed during the ACTUAL TOURNAMENT!
The younger brother had no bussiness being there. Not yet at least. Wasn't he sent because it had been some time since they heard from the older one? Also, I don't recall Scorpion and Sub-Zero(younger) fighting. Didn't Scorpion hunt him and watched him fight someone in the SECOND TOURNAMENT? He watched him spare the guy and realized this was not the same Sub-Zero he had died against and later KILLED.
Not to mention, that if this was after the "actual tournament", Kano and Sonya should have been captured. It was Jax's reason for entering the tournament.
Although, I think you raise a good point about this being after all the main fights. Perhaps all the bad guys fled there and were chased by the good guys? I don't know. It still has a lot of plot holes...
MaxDam said:
I agree with you, MK1 and MK2 are still the best because of the storyline. Imo they are trying way too hard to fill the plot holes like the example of the original SubZero now being Noob. It's like hey, there is not enough backgroung story for noob saibot, let's just say he's Classic Subzero. :roll:
I agree with that. I wasn't too much of a fan of them merging those two characters. I felt like it killed off of Noob Saibot. He used to be this loyal, but very mysterious member of the BOS. Now thats gone...
MaxDam said:
Like you said, Noob was according to MKSM, Noob Saibot was part of the brotherhood of the shadows. And now the brotherhood is just, well....Gone.
Yeah, the BOS I think was mentioned though at the end of Noob/Smoke's storyline though. Not much.
MaxDam said:
Remember how they just plain kill the Reiko theory by just saying that he likes wearing Kahn's helmet at nights, Reiko was one of my favorite characters in MK4/Gold and I liked the fact that he could have being Kahn. They made sound Reiko like a wuss.
I also hate the fact that Reptile is in desperate look for a master acording to MKDA storyline. meh
Yeah, I'm kinda hoping that the "helmet fetish" is not canon. I'd rather never have it explained than have it as that theory...
I too never understood why Reptile wanted to be a b***h so much. In MK II he was kind of "forced" into his dreary task. He simply wanted the restoration of his people. Even MK 4 kept that storyline up. Suddely, with Shinnok, Shao, and Shang all dead, he needs to find someone to work for? It did make Reptile weaker....
