"Which one of our ninja warriors should we cyberize first?" "How about the two guys with robot names?"

Not using Sub-Zero's "Such wasted potential" quote from MK11 as the opening of your video is such wasted potential. Love your content though.

Kuai Liang's intro in that prequel comic is honestly hilarious though. "Sub Zero, secret assassin, here's my business card for my super secret clan who flies around in a private jet."

It's sad seeing him and the cyborgs keep being wasted.

i just notice, "his" body is the base they used on the cyber Kano skin i think

Daddy Snake giving us a quick treat while we wait for MK11's Kritique

Cyrax and Sektor literally have ingame models and movesets in MK11 but aren't playable. Its Rain and Baraka in MKX all over again.

The real waste was Cyrax not being playable in MK11

Mortal Kombat: Okay, I have a great idea! What if we have some of the characters get transformed into stronger forms like cyborgs or undead? Okay, that sounds pretty cool, so which heroes would have that happen to them? MK: Huh? No, none of the heroes. It'll only be the villains or unfortunate heroes who get turned into them and thus are no longer playable in the storymode. Oh...so essentially all of them will just be non playable and enemies? MK: With maybe one or two exceptions, yes. So...they are all destined to lose then? MK: Yeah, otherwise the story couldn't progress. So what you are telling me is that these awesome transformations that are suppose to make the characters stronger...will actually make them weaker because they will then be on the villain's team and thus never win another fight for the rest of the game. MK: Er...well...yes... So basically, whenever a character gets turned into one of these things, they become worthless then and are no longer a threat. MK: Yes... So how is it an improvement? At that point it just seems like a waste to even add that. You'd be going on and on about how strong the new forms are, then they never win so they just look like chumps. MK:.........Shut up! Chapter based storymodes where you only play as the good guys is a great idea!

It would have been ironic if Tobias DID save Kuai Liang's tech fascination detail on a computer.

Even my friend noticed Cyrax seemed a lot stronger without the cyborg parts, going from kicking ass to losing each fight afterword.

I always tought the Cyborg characters where there to look "cool" and that's it, i really feel like they never had a sense of direction for their stories as every Cyborg is almost never important in the main stories, being relegated to a side story which only involves them or being the henchman to another character or organization. Part of this is why i think Triborg even exists, a way to have every Cyborg in the game without having to think too much of a reason for it, making fans happy cause "look, it's the character you like, we ain't doing anything interesting with him or the others but here they are"

The Cyber Lin Kuei have always been shown as weak. In practically every form of media (Outside comics or when the plot demands they be competent) It's ridiculous throughout. Even if that was the intention, that by failing constantly it shows how the Lin Kuei was delusional to think cyberization was their future, but proved to be their undoing, it still just makes them dumb dumbs.

2:35 As far as the story is concerned. EVERYBODY is gone man.

I'd like to know Cyrax's origins too. I mean how the hell does a child from Africa (hes from Botswana, located in southern Africa) become a member of a Chinese clan of thieves and assassins? what impact would this have on the kid? how do other members view an outsider in their ranks (I can see Bi Han being rather resistant to his inclusion, Sektor and him becoming close considering they were always paired and Kuai Liang viewing him is more of a brother than Bi Han...not sure about Smoke or The Grandmaster)...why does he use Pulse Blades (lightsabers)

Excellent ideas. I especially like Cyrax being in favour of the Cyber Initiative because he doesn't understand exactly what it will involve. That's a neat and original take.

If Bo'Rai Cho was turned into a cyborg he would be mk's equivalent to Bender Rodriguez. Also if the grand master wasn't captured by the soulnado wouldn't that mean he was was a chosen warrior or did he make a deal with Khan prior to his invasion?

You know the funny thing about Cyrax being more against the Cyber initiative in the new timeline is that on top of that he's also unable to live with being a cyborg. Those are both Smoke's character traits, and I get the feeling they shifted this to Cyrax because in this time line they never had smoke converted. Also I think they might have retroactively fliped bi han and kuai liangs views on tech even during the original timeline given that noob ends up reprogramming smoke when he finds him during the events of deception

Holy sh$t i just realized something. Its not WASTED POTENTIAL its WASTED PLOT-ENTIAL

I think Cyrax is a great character but his story needs to be expanded more along with a more improved chapter run

6:40: I had been thinking that Kuai Liang and Bi Han was some sort of engineering and computer prodigies to explain how Noob was able to reprogram Smoke in Deception or how Kuai Liang was able to reprogram Cyrax in 3, or hack into Sektor’s database in X. Like maybe they went to school for this stuff to add to their repertoires and make them more efficient killers, like how Stringer Bell in The Wire takes business classes to make him a more efficient drug dealer.

A black dread head ninja assassin who joins the Earth Special Forces is so bad ass how could they just keep saying "forget that"?

It really is a shame cyrax wasnt in mk 11 along with sektor, the cyborgs are some of the characters that should be in every mk game like scorpion, sub zero, or raiden

These videos sadden me a bit, given how unlikely it is that NR will actually write a better story in MK12

As a longtime Cyrax mainer, I enjoyed this video thoroughly.

imagine putting jacqui and dvorah in ur game instead of cyrax

Gotta love it when The4thSnake uploads

Kuai liang: I like technology *Mk3 happen* Kuai liang: well shit

I like the idea of cyrax being against the cibernetics. I’ve always seen cyrax as bein a humble dude. Smoke should have been all for it

The biggest thing I have taken away from your MK vids is that nether realm needs to form a story groop out of disgruntled MK nerds to come up with an ambitious long turm story to tell over several games for the reboot.

NRS loves spilling the bucket when it comes to plotential for the Cyber-Initiative. Damn.

Definitely would've been a lot better use of a character slot than Jaqcui

they really need to hire you to review their story scripts

Imagine Noob Smoke vs Tetraborg, can’t call him tri when he has 4 forms

Mortal kombat 11: wasted potential

I may have came in at MK9 but hearing how NRS has ruined this story over the years really hurts my soul

Wasted potential about Smoke or Sektor?

You could have a giant wasted potential on the simple aspect of playing as the villain in story mode sections. Imagine this if you will just with MK11: Kronika is an elder god, not a titan, but she is a substantially old one and can still keep her family relationship with Cetrion and Shinnok. This would mean in Kombat, she would normally fight/be on par with Cetrion and Shinnok, though may be a bit more like Ermac's MK11 fighting style where she seemingly never touches her opponent. Regardless, her role is to watch over the timeline(s) and normally just wanting to avoid a massive armageddon style fuckup. However, she ends up going insane from various things having happened that lead to different armageddons, thus the awakening of The One Being, and so she keeps resetting the timeline and the constant rewinding leads her to being a nutjob in the current timeline. Now lets alter how her powers are used; when we fight her, she has the power of both Cetrion and the crown and the power of the hourglass. If she doesn't have all that on her, again, she's in the same "power" range as the other elder gods we know of. So lets do this: The story starts the same and the raid on the Netherrealm takes place with the player bouncing between Cassie, Jacqui, even Sonya. Things finally change when, out of nowhere, Geras shows up and suddenly the player is using him in a fight vs Sonya. Upon defeating Sonya, a fight that causes part of the temple to crumble and pin Sonya down, she hits the bomb timer, then Geras kills her by using his "Paused in Time" brutality, which sees every aspect of her being disintegrated into sands. Have these sands help power the hourglass and thus, enhance what Kronika can do, so she needs the energy of chosen warriors to kickstart the rewind. Kronika shows up after the temple is destroyed, but Emperor Liu Kang and Empress Kitana are too pissed to give her the time of day after their loss and attack her. Commence THE PLAYER using Kronika to fight a tag team of Liu Kang and Kitana (maybe with the added effect that The player is quite literally unable to lose due to an infinite timer and her HP never reaching zero). In this situation, Kronika is vulnerable to grabs and fatal blows and doesn't have the boss armor, thus feeling more like a typical fighter. After she proves her superiority to them, she then shows part of her power and rewinds the temple to it's state before destruction and promises them a "seat at her table" if they obey her. Now, when she perform's the time crash of MK2 running into MK11, it's somewhat sloppy, because the only chosen warrior she had at the time was Sonya but her power was enough. THIS DOESN'T NUKE EVIL RAIDEN (more on that in a bit). As the storyline takes place, older versions of characters are specifically targeted by Kronika and Geras due to them having "more powerful souls", thus more power to the hourglass when reduced to sands for it. We get some fun interactions of Old and Young characters meeting themselves, but then this is broken up by Geras' assaults; while the player may be playing as a hero, every time Geras shows up, you play as him and defeat a hero, which leads to them being turned to sand. Literally only Cutscene power is able to slow him down, as befitting his character. Old Johnny is slain before Cassie and Young Sonya literally pin Geras to a wall and blow him to pieces. Geras is enhanced after that, becoming the masked Geras at the endgame. Raiden and Dark Raiden eventually meet up, but butt heads over what should be done; Dark Raiden thinks that Shao Kahn's savagery could work against Kronika, whereas Good Raiden think's he's insane. Evil Raiden thinks the time merger is good and can help stock their numbers while Good Raiden feels that allegiances changed too much and the frailty of a past character dying kills off their present self is too much of a gamble. Kronika throws a monkey wrench into the whole thing as the various slain heroes gave her enough power to even fuck with a god and near the end of the story is where she nukes evil raiden with time shenanigans, but only AFTER she beats him in Kombat with the player using Kronika once again in a fight that you can't lose. This has the effect of casting doubt on Raiden; why not nuke his younger self? Why would she only take out his evil self and his corrupted views? Raiden starts to think that maybe his dark side had a point and was a threat to Kronika, and thus he starts getting more aggressive and stops seeming like the mentor Liu Kang could always trust. I could go on but I think I ranted enough here to get my point across: Kronika and Geras could be much more but are poorly used and Kronika is given a title (A Titan) that has no purpose in MK lore.

They really dropped the ball with Cyrax and pretty much everyone that were associated with Lin Kuei. I expected Cyrax to have some bigger role in MK11 but he just vanishes when they could have shown him assisting Sub-Zero and Scorpion in some way rather than sacrifice himself and not seeing again. I can't wait for Kuai Liang wasted potential. Like Cyrax, Kuai Liang does barely anything in story wise. They don't even show him react to Hanzo's death after he became allies with him. They could have scene with Kuai mourning over Hanzo's death and having interesting conversation with Past Scorpion where he tells about the events behind the friction between both clans including the deaths of Shirai Ryu and Hanzo's family, but no. He doesn't even get moment with his brother, Bi-Han or Frost, but instead Raiden gets to defeat her. A person that she barely knows, it should have been Sub-Zero. I guess NRS main hobby is character assassination. Great job the video, 4thSnake 👏💪:)

Who else agrees the Cyber Lin Kuei could be main antagonist material? I'm sort of bored with "evil overlord wants to conquer everything". Would be a great change of pace

Cyrax codename: Mustard

Ed boon straight up lied to us, they said we wouldn’t bring non playable fighters in the game, guess what? Can’t play as Cyrax and Sector

I don't know if Snake looks at the comments but the thing with Triborg believing he is Sektor would make an awesome fanfiction

Huh. I guess there is some interesting irony in Sub-Zero supporting the Lin Kuei cyberization project only to have it end up hurting two of his friends. Speaking of friends, I was wondering if it would be interesting to have Cyrax and Sektor start out as friends but fall out when the former realizes what the cyberization project is really about. I'm also curious if MK could pull an antagonist of human creation like an evil AI instead of the standard evil sorcerer or god.

It’s not really the video for this but during MK11’s time before release and the “Old School Vs New School” trailer. I had an idea where the time merger brings Bi-Han from MK1, before he has become Noob Saibot. Him and Kuai Liang would’ve worked together Instead of Scorpion. If they had used this it would establish their relationship before his corruption making Noob Saibot a better character knowing his relationship with Kuai Liang. And even better he could work with Kuai Liang to save his future Self but once realizing he is a lost cause, he helps Kuai Liang kill Noob Saibot.

I feel like they could’ve used Triborg for cyrax’s character in some sort of way. Maybe both sektor and cyrax try to fight over it as it maybe some sort of key to restoring him back to his original form. I mean they had to use magic to create some op cyborg like triborg. Perhaps, there may be hidden magic we don’t know in the cyber lin kuei and u can have cyrax unravelling them. That’s just my idea

His role in the rebooted timeline showed a little more conflict in his defiance of the cyber initiative. Wether or not it was fleshed our effectively is up for debate, I’ll give you that. But it did have some purpose. It showed more of how he didn’t want to become a cyborg; especially for newcomers to the series. I dint really care for the character anyway but...

I remember the time the community hated the concept of cyborg ‘ninjas’ . I miss those days.

Honestly, I wish they kept cyber subzero it would have been an interesting character arc for him.

So, random thought; How come Kwi Liang was able to regain his humanity after being cyberized first then become a revenant, but Jax still had to have mechanical arms?

I feel bad for Cyrax and Sektor. It’s sad. I hate how he isn’t playable in MK11. Same with Sektor. They both have End of round taunts too!

I actually really like your take on cyrax wanting to be cyberized. And having him be the one that helps others with restoring limbs and the like. That could actually fit into the story well. For the gear pieces they added into mk11 it could be him that gives you them. And something added to the story where Jax gets upgrades from the ninjas like a grenade launcher inside his arm for enhanced mobility. Wow they fucked up not going about it that way

I should be sleeping right now

I like how NRS gave sektor and cyrax Kung jin tekeda and kenshi the same treatment as jade Shang tsung sindel sareena baraka fujin And rain in the last game

Cyrax I thought as a character is interesting but man oh man he keeps getting screwed over

NRS: We put cyborgs in MK11 (they put it how NPC's and the unique cyber character have was Frost)

Do another wasted potential for Li Mei and Jade

So when you do these you’re intending these to go into go into the extended lore right? Not to say having this in the games wouldn’t be cool but even I as a writer have to admit that it seems a bit overwhelming to put it all in the game. Your videos are great by the way and I like a lot of your ideas.

Man, having Triborg come back and actually be in the story as a suped up Sektor, becoming the culmination of all four cyborg characters and heading the Tekunin would've been nice, especially in MK11's customization system. Meanwhile you could diversify Cyrax's moveset to make him play a bit more distinctly from his past self, as well as possibly give him some of Ronin Takeda's moves like the wrist beam swords and such

Too bad human cyrax had less screentime he looks dope 👍🏽👍🏽😎

Reptile, ermac, dark raiden, smoke/enera, and much more just wasted potential. Makes me wonder what happened to mortal kombat.

Cyrax is best Robo Ninja Sucks to see him wasted like he is

Have you ever thought about doing a Wasted Plotential about Quan Chi, in which you describe the original MK timeline as if Quan Chi had never existed? (One idea I had was that now a deadly alliance would somehow form between Shinnok and Shao Kahn)

These videos made me understand and care about the lore of a game i have never played before

Wasted pot/plotential could be said basically about everything Mortal Kombat

honestly after the story mode i never played this again lol

I've always liked cyrax more then sector and I wish he had a main part in mk 11 story

I miss Cyrax and Sektor...

I would've just liked to seen different perspectives on the cyber initiative instead of more than one person have the same point of view and outcome. In Mk9 it would've been interesting to see something like this: Bi Han: Against it, Knows what will happen during it, thinks that cyberization is a disgrace against tradition, Dies before initiative, turns into Noob Saibot, kills Cyber Sub Zero Sektor: For it, Knows what will happen, turns into cyborg, captures Cyrax after finding out what actually happens, Kills Smoke During invasion Cyrax: For it, Doesn't know what will happen, finds out eventually, warns Kuai Liang,captured by Sektor, forced into cyborization Smoke: Against it, doesn't know what will happen, only member to escape cyberization, saves Kuai Liang, gets help from Earthrealm members to restore Kuai Liang's freewill, gets invaded by Sektor, Cyrax and the rest of the Lin Kuei, Killed by Sektor while trying to hold off Lin Kuei cyborgs, becomes revent Kuai Liang: For it, knows what will happen and he thinks he needs an "upgrade" as he is currently not as powerful of a cryomancer as his brother, doesn't know that his freewill will be taken from him, warned by Cyrax but doesn't listen ,decides to turn into a cyborg, controlled by Lin Kuei but eventually freed by Smoke, realises that cyborization was a shit idea, watches Smoke be killed by Sektor, Eventually killed by Bi Han who is now Noob while Bi Han says he is a "Disgusting display of his beliefs" Still kinda shit but at least it doesn't cram one personality for two people each.

Great analysis! I'm also enjoying your fan-made stories on DA!

Was really looking forward to seeing this one. Thanks alot.

Almost at 50K bro, just keep making great videos!!

I’ve never actually gotten to play an MK game before but started learning about the lore by looking up bios and cutscenes from the original timeline games. After doing that I found that for some reason Cyrax was one of my favorite characters. I don’t know why but he kind of is, at least his story is one of my favorites. It’s a shame to see that the nether realm trilogy wasted him

Honestly when you finish all of these you gotta put them all into one video and say how all of the games story should've played out with your versions of the characters

Literally every Mk by Netherrealm is wasted potential

Since I'm not really sure where else to ask this, thoughts on them CONSTANTLY bringing up the Tekunin as a cheap reference, then just... never doing anything with it? It's always felt like a faction that could have gone somewhere to bring back old characters in interesting new ways, (Cyber Hydro maybe?) but instead we just got... barely Cyber Frost who felt more like a fetish thing, and never follow up on Triborg's existence. Yayyy...

I was disappointed that he was not in the game. One of my favorite characters next to sektor smoke and many others. I also hope that in the second kombat pack for Mk11 we'll get to finally play as Rain.

This is truly a damn shame that he was wasted like this because Cyrax is literally one of my top 5 favorite characters in Mortal Kombat

Honestly, at this point the only way we're ever going to see another MK title is if the writers just completely undo this new trilogupy and start again (having hopefully learned their lesson)

I hope we get human cyrax in whatever they do next him and kai to 😤😤😤

They could have had him fight against his programming and try to regain his humanity and free will. Instead he's just forcibly roboticised offscreen and becomes a henchman.

I like Mk11's version of the cyborg's. But Mk9 and Mk10 are the very best versions of the four Cyber Ninja's. Sektors amazing. Cyrax Beautiful. Smoke marvelous and Cyber Sub-Zero fantastic. Issue Cyber Sub-Zero needed more work in MK10. I might hate the idea of Triborg with a passion or the execution of the idea and design. But all in all 🔥🔥 🔥 design's for each of the Cyber Ninja's.

Cyber Initiative Is One Of The Coolest Initiatives ever made.

I like the fact u said “Seriously, what the fuck was that shit?” 5:55

Cyrax | Non-Playable Character Nuff Said

Good news for you terminaters ending isn't connected to the lin keui

Finally this guy takes out a video

I had no idea until now that Cyrax and Sektor in MK11 were from the original timeline, I just assumed that they were the current timeline versions but they didn't appear in MKX because they had no room in the story. The fact that it either wasn't immediately obvious for the entire duration of the chapter, or that I was so checked out by Chapter 4 that I wasn't paying enough attention are not good things for your cinematic story mode.

Feels like most of the MK characters are Wasted Plotential

The Cyborgs are my favourite... they did them fucking dirty in MKX (which was literally why Triborg was created so the OG Trio was "sorta" in that game) and *ESPECIALLY* MK11 where they're the only NPC characters you can fight. *STOP FUCKING THE CYBORGS OVER, NRS! THEY DESERVE AS MUCH CARE AS CHARACTERS LIKE SCORPION, RAIDEN, LIU KANG, ETC.!*

Probably the best ending to any video of yours. Also I agree, triborg should have tooken frost and sektors place in mk11.

Kuai Liang in the MK2 prequel comic look more like Johnny Cage. It's actually kinda bizarre to see him looking so modern.

I really like your videos and agree with almost all of what you say, but if you would be slightly more polite to netherrealm in your videos maybe they would watch your videos and take them seriously. Nice idea on king ermac vs ermac kahn by the way, I think that would be really cool.

4:34 Jesus look at the right where Sektor mercilessly uppercuts Cyrax

The idea of bringing Tri-borg back and having it think it's Sektor and it just puts the thought into my head of Tri-borg being told that it isn't Sektor, coming to this realisation, having a brief silence, then it's head suddenly exploding due to existensial dread.

I’m pissed with mk11 cyrax and sector are not playable characters instead they give us garage characters in the main roster

great video bro

Tobias probably over sought it by association with the comics or nobody from the comics told him this

0:26 don't look at Sonya

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