But it's still canon bro lol.
All that shit still happened... Otherwise Liu Kang would be alive right now. He's dead because everything before the Armageddon STILL HAPPENED.
MK9's entire plot, exists because of previous canon.
Yes everyone's EFFORTS become irrelevant. But the process of which the story came to, is still canon.
Also about time travel Araknyd... You can't just use another story in this case a movie's explanation of time travel as if it's 100% true for Mortal Kombat.
There are multiple theories and possibilities of what would happen if time travel were possible.
when you go back in time can you grab yourself, and go back in time again and again and create an army of yourself? Or would that wipe out time?
Maybe each time you time travel and change something, THEN a new timeline starts.
Maybe when you go back and change, your previous time ceases to exist and is replaced by the new time line. AS in you can't go forward, only backward.
What if you go back in time, and you're just back in time in your younger body.
You can't just nilly willy say for sure how MK's time travel even worked.
It's not canon, bro.
All that shit happened in another timeline (the original one), not the MK9 one.
MK9's plot showed how this new timeline had skewed.
Notice how Raiden couldn't forsee Sub-Zero being captured by the Lin Kuei due to saving Smoke, or how he couldn't forsee Sindel killing everyone in the cathedral.
Why? Because as science-fiction time travel (in BTTF more specifically) explains, that old memory that was changed has been erased and replaced by a new / present time memory.
The process by which the story came to and end, was a greatly varied path.
As for time travel, Critical, MK9's plot of Raiden having "visions" is exactly the same theory of time travel as Marty and Doc in Back To The Future II, where they travel back in time to what they think is THEIR 1985, but it ends up being different, and they still retain all of their memories.
Same thing with Raiden.
He travels back into an alternate time, retaining all his memories from a future from another timeline.
Agreed, but I'm pointing out the most likely time travel theory, given the similarities.
According to BTTF's time travel theory, when you go back in time 1 of 2 things would happen if you see your past or future self:
1) Seeing yourself years in the future or past would put you into shock and you'd simply pass out.
2) The encounter could create a time paradox. The results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe.
According to MK9, when things change in MK9, Raiden cannot forsee those new events.
It seems like with MK9, the old timeline exists, but separately and wholly from the new timeline, meaning that since the timeline seems to have split, Shao Kahn's only hopes of stopping Raiden in the new timeline are either MK9 Shao Kahn coming back to life or old timeline Shao Kahn interfering with Raiden (during that Armagennon scene), before Dark Raiden's "He must win" prayer / message that he sends is complete.
He cannot simply reach across timelines.
The younger self (from the movie BIG) timeline theory is irrelevant with Raiden as he is an immortal being that does not age, as well as the fact that he is a God.
The fact that he sees these old timeline visions proves that the old timeline is still in tact and as a result MYTHOLOGIES is still in tact.
The only reason this is even being argued is because of that shitty soulnado theory.
Just let it be a new Sub-Zero and call it a day damn. It makes no sense to bring Bi-Han back as Sub-Zero. End of story.
Not really.
It could also prove that he time traveled into an altered past past and has retained future memories.
Whether or not the whole shitty Mythologies / Sub-Zero helping Quan Chi and Shinnok is true or not for this new timeline, MK9 Bi-Han Sub-Zero previously stopped the NetherRealm armies of Quan Chi and Shhinnok.
Just because YOU don't like the Soulnado theory, doesn't mean it's shitty.
For someone who complains that my Soulnado theory is shitty, I have yet to see you come up with anything better for your defense of Kuai.
I've stated various times that a NEW Sub-Zero would also be a welcome (a son or student of 1 of the 2 brothers), but you continue to shit on my theory, with no other valid debate or reason, just "Waaaah, it sucks."
