He even butchered his character, showing how far he’ll go to he evil

He even influenced his netherrealm self to retcon Sindel to be evil the whole time. Truly, one of the evilest man to ever live

“Midway good nether realm bad am i right guys”🤓

@@Saanfraanciscoyes

@@Saanfraanciscolol

The frustrating part is, that second quote was Netherrealm. That was their writing. How did it go so wrong so quickly?

@@RasenKamehamehaX100 I honestly have no idea. Injustice 2 and 11 is where the garbage really piled on. I dunno if they brought in some massively incompetent writing staff there, or if the past was just a fluke.

Much as I dislike MKSM story, Shao Kahn was total badass in this game.

@@RasenKamehamehaX100 I'm assuming that many of the writers at Netherrealm greatly dislike Trump and decided to write him in Shao Kahn considering all he did was get his ass kicked in 11.

That’s so metal

Thats messed up

@INFINITIVERSE OF SWAG the skull mask kitana wears.

Insanely so.

I have my own mortal combat RPG thing going right now and I'm going to use that because that is amazing!

But wasn't Jerrod turned into Ermac? Or was that just his soul?

@Irfan Alddin Not to mention, despite Shao Khan's flaws in the reboot, at least he wasn't beat up in the first minutes of the game by Johnny Cage, unlike Shinnok, which diminish him as threat.

@Irfan Alddin True, not to mention that the game would end with another reboot, which means it didn't matter who lived or died. In the end of the day, all the character would be erased by the restart of the universe. The creators could easly had Shao Khan killing everyone on screem and without any problem.

@Irfan Alddin They could even redeem Shao Khan even more as villain by having him be responsible for turning Sindel evil again. Rather then using that stupidy retcon of Sindel always been evil, the creator could had Shang Tsung working with Shao Khan to brainwash her again in the middle of the game, while the heroes were distracted. Then he would use Sindel to escape and kill the other heroes and after that kill Sindel, leaving him and Shang Tsung as the only fighters to battle Kronika. That would not only fix Sindel's story in MK 11 but also showcase Shao Khan been not just a strong badass but also a smart and cunning villain.

At least darkseid got some good stories in elseworlds. Like that one where he conquered Earth and nobody could do shit about it.

I kinda felt his origin in the new 52 was kinda like god of war and i do think having him and highfather related kinda works as it gives Highfather more of a reason to be hard on Orion to not let his nephew follow the same path as his in law

sub zeros side chick?

@@rickgrimesdirtyondatass5672 yeah, Frost. Sub-Zero's main chick is Scorpion if you're wondering

@@bectip2229 hold up,wait a goddamn minute!.. Frost Is Sub-Zero’s Side-Chick????(Are You Mad??!) even though He ONLY ever saw and treated Her as a Daughter He never have

@@peanutslaughter retcons

@@peanutslaughter it's a joke

oh god he even has Ronan's hammer

@OfficialRonin villains

@OfficialRonin then remind me about Ronan's motivation or interesting personality traits.

@OfficialRonin Name the leader of Hydra without googling.

@@DoihaDX but Shao Kahn unless it's MK11 Shao Kahn would kick Ronan to the curb

Bruh Dark Raiden vs Shao would be so fucking sick

@@ItsButterBean1020 what if Netherrealm did a spinoff game that reverses the positions of Raiden and Shao Kahn

@@chadpeterson5698 you mean where shao kahn is fighting raiden to protect outworld from dark raiden?

@@delta2372 yep

@@delta2372 Dark Raiden: today..i become THEE ELDER GOD!

Yeah but kotal Kahn sucks, everyone beats him. Still he’s done some very impressive stuff

I already get it that mk is dead when seen Warner Brothers logo instead of Midway.

Now serve me as we will kill earthrealm's allies. And who is Trump? All I know is Shao Khan!

I think he knew about Kronika because he was the god of Outworld or something

@@CandyJackalope yeah he was the guardian of outworld during onaga’s reign. Same way raiden (now lui Lang) is the guardian of earthrealm.

Not always one note tho, look at God of War 2018, it has so much meaning thanks to the older games. But i agree on that, just shoulda put the word "most" in that statement.

@@damsen978 I did use the word "most". It's the first word in the last sentence of my comment.

@@jeangentry6656 Not on that, on "any medium today" i mean, not every, only most.

If Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat II is your idea of a profound, nuanced character, Tolstoy would make you explosively shit out of your mouth.

@@LAVATORR shut up redditor

They're lucky he's not real.

Devin Waddell I agree.

Rasheed Shields that username was ruined and destroyed

They should have just left him out like Onaga, then brought him back (as the Badass we all loved growing up) in MK12.

Bee Mulu I agree, man. Could’ve been awesome if they saved him for the next game. But, no. Unfortunately, they failed to remain him a spectacular villain just like the older mk games. Missed opportunity.

They can't pay enough to him to restore MK to it's former glory

He speaks for the 90s kids the guys who grew up on quarter swallowing arcade cabinets the guys who spent $20 just to get dropped by khan in 30 seconds and hear hahaha I win

@@cameronjohnson9361 that was pathetic

he literally doesnt. just a fucking idiot with a youtube channel blabbering on about fucking nothing important.

@@boylial NRS apologist alert

@Patrick Bateman nah man for Kitana it wasn't even love. Maybe for Kotal cause Jade was there. But Kitana just hated his guts.

@@sergoldenhandthejust1495 only after you use Kotal to beat him causing him to run away

@@sergoldenhandthejust1495 plus if intros are anything to go by Kotal makes a full recovery

I was OK with them having Kitana beat Shao Kahn. Liu Kang always made less sense to me. She's got thousands of years or so of fight experience. He's a talented Shaolin but he's probably been training for 20-30 years vs her centuries. Shao Khan same thing. Having said that, having her win after Sindel did that 10 v 1 thing was ridiculous. For anyone to win after that kinda would be. Except someone exceptionally powerful like Raiden. I get Liu Kang is pretty much the most powerful but I never really get why, other then he's sorta the poster boy.

Shao Khan beat Kotal later, so I think they tried to play them up as equals. Which is still a downgrade for Shao Khan.

Twice as amazing since he also was playing Raiden..

“How dare you beg for death?!!” And it sucked that even his portrayal couldn’t escape the bad writing, as they always made Khan look like an idiot who didn’t even know that Shang Tsung was killing his spies in his own prison.

Raikage757 Shao kahn was one of my favorite all time mortal kombat villain in history. He was awesome and more menacing. Especially intimidating. Now, he’s a complete shadow of his former self. Turned him into a complete joke. By the way, shao kahn’s death in mortal kombat 11 still gets me angry to this very day.

@@rasheedshields4716 so how did he escape onaga's grasp in Armageddon after being kicked? I though onaga ripped out his heart, arm n finished him while flying away with him. To be honest, onaga should be the one beating Raiden to death.

Rasheed Shields what you don’t like kitana? No female WOKENESS for you

@@dayksteveforrealz4038 wtf are you on about? He might like kitana you never know. What he was trying to say is shao kahns death was crap and that kitana would never have a chance against kahn.

When will you learn!? Sure buddy so your butthurt that a character gets a upgrade basically?

Damn you guys bitch about anything ? Everything needs to be ruined to add an original twist .

Proud Beaner nope, that’s some shitty writing

Kitana beat Shao Kahn because he was just normal

@@proudbeaner696 That's a stupid logic

@@proudbeaner696 Not always, Onaga was always a bigger threat then Shao Kahn and I can probably say even Shinnok who both were nothing to Onaga.

He was a Kahn in the past, now he is nothing technically. But he just breaks Kotal's spine sooo

Kahn is in his Actual name since Onaga called him this during his rule as well as Raiden and the elder gods even in the new timeline stating when Shao Kahn usurped the throne

So just...shao?

he's Past Shao Kahn. the sole reason he faught Kotal was because he learned he took on the title Kahn. not happening if Shao is alive.

@@Ravathiel Past Shao Kahn is at least Raiden tier in terms of strength Kotal should have lost that from the get go this story sucks

Burns more than scorpion's village

"Bitch it took the elder gods to stop me, who are you?"

He did won in the original time line, before Raiden started to cheat...

How many realms did he conquer?

That's Shao Trump, that's Jade talking to, and not Shao Kahn.

There were scenes that basically made it pretty easy to assert his dominance in. Though it had the same problems of just having him sitting on his throne, being an idiot, and continuity errors, but actor, Jeffrey Meek did a cool job playing him and Raiden nonetheless

@@TheKpa11 i like him because he ID threatening without acting and talking like a brute... I like villains that can contain their villainy..yiu know what i mean?

glorilol 95 well I wouldn’t say he contained his villainy, the voice actor had him speak in a pretty deep voice casually, then when he lost his temper he makes his voice bark and he screams. He does have some presence, but that’s due to his position in the lore of MK, you just had to accept he was the big bad ruler who had power to assert himself when he needed to, which was rare.

I love how he was actually imposing in that show.

glorilol 95 he was actually pretty solid in that show tho Man deadass won

...who says "DRAT!" ...then the regular, human police arrest him... (look it up. That *_actually_* happened)

He should have stayed in the story even after his past self appeared.

Exactly! He was set up at the end of MKX so well only to get literally deleted after the 1st chapter of the next game... What was even the point?

I have a feeling the plot should have been quite different from what we've got. They teased Raiden as a new antagonist and hinted at Tsung's participance back in MKX but none of it happened. Dark Raiden could have been so cool, he could enforce his opinions on Earth's governments, try to control Special Forces to assault the Outerworld. He could be Earthrealm's version of Shao Kahn and it would have been sad to finish him off because of his long story as a protector of humanity, a hero, a good friend. But hell, yeah, let's instead have bald plain villainess whom will never see again as our antagonist, who has no backstory at all, jump in, say: "OMEGALUL" and ruin everything.

Bogdan Lin I just hope they get back on track with the next game and HOPEFULLY have similar events to MK Deception, like how MKX was similar to MK4

Past vs Future. Light Raiden vs Dark Raiden. By the end Light Raiden would come to realise there is a point where you go too far even if it is for the protection of Earthrealm. It writes itself! How could they miss such an easy opportunity!!!

I could’ve lived with show euron if they just added some of the mystical shit even just guiding a kraken back to fight Danny would’ve been good enough

i didn't knew this and i am now very disappointed

Euron is like old Shao Kahn, Emperor Palatinate and Griffith.

I just wish they'd added Victarion and fAegon because they are very cool characters.

Show Euron basically has two lines: BIG COCK and A FINGER IN THE BUM.

It's a solid representation of the whole thing, yes. The whole NRS situation does kind of remind me of the WWE not too long ago having a hard time writing new wrestlers into stardom/getting the most out of their ageing upper core while also having a disconnect with fans. At least, NRS has the solace that their games play fine and whatnot.

Thun Fish Wait... An intelligent strongman with abilities beyond his size pushed to dumb himself down to fit a certain set of criteria... I dunno if I'm thinking about George Steele or Paul Wight's early years as "The Giant."

Monkey Bone my theory is that they realized how badly they fucked up MK lore and just decided to scramble together an ending to the new trilogy, giving a flimsy excuse for all the contradictions and plotholes in the form of Kronika and resetting the universe again to make a more cohesive story in MK 12. Although that may be wishful thinking on my part

@@theoverlord3937 there is lore?

Amen

Im curious about your opinion on the Tekken franchise, because i sincerely believe that franchise jumped the shark, especially on the character storylines because other than the main characters, the others are given no context. Tekken 7 is a joke to me, and no amount of spectacular gameplay will change that to me. Sorry for my rant, but many fighting games are empty husks of their former selves.

Ed is just there to collect the check. And they pretty much just reboot the history to the beginning of times because they want to start from scratch, except of course they will sell us the characters we like as DLC, because not only did they ruin characters and story, they turned MK on a money grabbing joke.

The sad part is Ed Boone is still around. He could have fixed all this mess.

@@vilkopoljak7370 Tekken's story was pushed to the side with tekken 5 (effectively a tekken tag 1 update in terms of character models). All the characters you saw had very little connection to why they are there. Paul wanted to fight Kazuya (when in T4 he wanted to prove he was the greatest like he claimed after T3), instead he was defeated by Kuma and turned into Tekken's version of Dan Hibiki (despite his shortcomings prior to T3, he still held his own in terms of his personality rather than a walking playback machine), constantly espousing his greatness to everyone. Since than the tekken series started to treat its writing with less interest, turning the series into merely another title at evo. Tekken 7 is the last straw in this topic, what with bringing Akuma to the story, removing much of the classic cast and trying very hard to capture the serious tone of T4 (without the seriousness that defined that game or its depth).

"Magic"? The only thing he does is swinging that hammer of his, fucking Quan Chi is the one doing all the magic...I remember in the old timeline how it was Shao Khan who tough SHANG freaking TSUNG magic.

Actually Onaga is highly intelligent. Remeber Mk deception's Konquest where he tricked Shujinko.

@@Tyrik73 I know I was describing the current Shao Kahn as a brute. Onaga is my favorite villain but I'm terrified if NRS ever decided to bring him back

@@Jrockk999 True. They may butcher Onaga as well.

Tyrik Flood-Feaster they already did remember when fucking kitana said “I do not fear the dragon king”

Dude fuckin loose to reptile

H2ZV.1 he dies tho

They killed present!Scorpion by D'vorah, who they are pushing as the new hotness.

@@ShadowSumac when she is one of the worst video game characters of all time.

The funny thing is that Kotal in MKX is a joke. He loses to fkin Jin and only beats jobbers like Kano and the he puts the "kombat kids" into prison because "eArThReAlM cAn'T KeEp ThE aMuLeT sAfE" this could have lead into a war, but yeah, he is a competent ruler for sure. He is just not that violent, but that's all..oh wait, he would have killed all the tarkatans in MK11 Whoops

​@@herbalyzoltan409 The only good thing to come out of the new series is Barakas character "arc", they still did my boi reptile a dirty though >:(

@@herbalyzoltan409 They did Kotal dirty in that aspect, but what I feel most people don't understand about Kotal's decision to imprison the kombat kids is that the shinnok's amulet couldn't be kept in outworld because Mileena would get to it. Sonya chooses to guard it and Kotal lets her, only for Kotal to see later on that mileena has the amulet and that it's obvious that earthrealm fucked up in keeping it locked up. So when Mileena is captured and killed and the civil war is ended, Cassie goes "lol time to take this home". Kotal stops the kids because Quan Chi needs to get the amulet to free Shinnok so it'd be better to keep it in outworld where Quan chi isn't. His capturing of the kids was in case Raiden was going to pitch a fit over it. Moreso, the whole reason a fight took place between Kotal and Jin was because a commoner was going to be executed for stealing food (in a time of war where rations are in short supply), yet when the kids are imprisoned he *gives them food and water.* Had the kombat kids NOT broken jail, Reptile, Ermac, and Erron Black would have found them still in their cells even though D'vorah turned traitor and would be able to put two and two together to figure out that they aren't with her. Kotal's decision to capture the kombat kids when he invades earthrealm is also logical since Shinnok has consumed Earthrealm's Jinsei and he wanted a bargaining chip to pretend to be Shinnok's ally so that he would have time to defeat shinnok on his terms. Which makes me really curious as to how Shao Kahn would have gone about dealing with Shinnok... Pre NRS Shao Kahn, that is.

@@herbalyzoltan409 kotal is a joke. After the aftermath I think I can respect kotal at all

@Bunyamin Esen The question is how he would do that. Would he kill him? Would he imprison him? What would Shao Kahn ACTUALLY do?

At least Shinnok had a reason why he was easily defeated by Johnny and Cassie Cage and that is that the green halo is Anti God energy. Shao Kahn's defeat by Kitana's hands is inexcusable

@@chadpeterson5698 That Bullshit is just lazy writing.

Shinnok had presence and charisma in MKX. Yes, he was done dirty because NRS wanted Kombat Kids to be the stars, but at least they did good with his personality.

@@ShadowSumac Exactly. To Shinnok's credit, he was at least charming on-screen (and as easy he was in MK4, his end in that game in pretty nebulous all things considered... plus he was still entertaining...) and only got defeated by the script. Corrupted Shinnok should have a triple phase fight at least... Shao Kahn however, Yeah the old one was damn cool and imposing and more than capable of long-term scheming. The new one is a side of beef with a hammer...

@@saidi7975 And apparently under the heel of Sindel who inexplicably has been retconned into being evil all along. IDK, what current NRS writers smoke, when it comes to the old characters.

Though he wasn't too bad in aftermath

@@ronanaxe2794 he was I couldn't watch it the boringness

Yeah forget mk11 he is trash there and does nothing while he does way more in mk9

@@Darth-vade123 i mean...in MK9 he snaps Kung Lao's neck gets his shit rocked by Liu Kang comes back beats up Raiden and then he dies

@@andreadebernardis4390 that's not all he does

He still has an enormous vocabulary, so it seems like at least one writer remembered that he was supposed to be smart.

@@jackalcoyote8777 Yeah, but it's too bad that he no longer has the air of a big boss character. I mean, this is the dude responsible for the downfall of Onaga. Like, I headcanon that he poisoned Onaga for years to weaken him enough that he could kill him. Then after he "died", Shao Kahn framed Edenia as being the culprits and framed his invasion and subsequent conquest as revenge. This would then gain him the support, love, and loyalty of his people. In this headcanon, Shao Kahn uses his tactics, intelligence, and cunning to usurp power.

Too bad they were despised because they were shit

@@dictatorbison2704 I liked Shujinko( Hes mks Goku) and Dairou , and Hotaru and Havik.

Tyrik Flood-Feaster What do you like about Dairou other than his somewhat interesting backstory?

Havik, Onaga, Shujinko, Ashrah, Hotaru, Blaze, Taven and Daegon were all pretty good in my opinion.

@@shadow-squid4872 His design looks cool and i like his foot in the back fatality.

Hahaha no ive see more of him being slapped around like a battered house wife then anything all he's missing in the new one is tears and a bitchy little cry while running away flapping his hands at the wrist.

That’s…… honestly a great idea for an adaptation for Shao Kahn. He keeps the real reason why Mileena was created hidden from Kitana, while also turning Kitana against her father by making Jerrod out to be a horrible person and awful person and make it seem Sindel only “chose” Kahn because he was a good and better partner for Sindel to have and actually treated Kitana like a daughter rather than a tool to use. And the Reason Sindel offed herself is because she was left scared and mortified by her “abusive relationship” with Jerrod and the memories were too much for her to handle.

@@zakeermcconnell388 And when Kitana learns the truth she feels terrible for wrongly despising Jerrod. It is such an easy lie that he should have said it. It's not's like Jerrod can contradict it.

Neatherealm Shao Kahn would fight, get bitched slapped and then blame someone else for his fuck ups.

Midway also didn't knew what they were doing, thats why they went bankrupt lol

@@dictatorbison2704 Least in the story telling department they were more competent

@@radioactive_cosmicrays6968 Nope, they tried almost anything and it didn't made the story any better. The 90's MK was whacky, but at least told a better story

@@dictatorbison2704 No I'm compared it to the current era

@@radioactive_cosmicrays6968 Compared both are hit or miss. I personally loved the story of the reboot, and I also liked some of the subplots, like how Scorpion went from being an angry soul to form a bromance with Sub-Zero, and the introduction of new Characters like the Kombat Kids was interesting, as to show The Next Generation of new characters. MK11 was mostly weird and many times left scratching my head, but the ending just says "reeboot" of the story again. So I think MK12 will be more crazy, maybe they will include the concept of more crazy powerful beings, along with dimensions. It has a lot of potential TBH.

Indeed

Id prefer if Reiko was his son. Whether from Sindel or not.

@@ShadowSumac well that would make Shao Kahn even more evil since he made a death threat to Reiko in Deception and killed him in Armegetton

@@chadpeterson5698 Well, Shao never was a good person.

@@ShadowSumac yeah he is number 5 in my top 5 most evil villains in Mortal Kombat beaten by Onaga, Shinnok, Kronika, and Shang Tsung in that order. That's right I just said that Shang Tsung is the most evil villain in Mortal Kombat and I don't give a flip about what anybody tries to say to make him seem less evil since you can't can't make him seem less evil since he is pure evil so much so that even Kronika is scared of him.

@@ShadowSumac why not both. It's his son with the intention of being a new body if he dies. This would destroy Reiko's mind and replace him with Kahn.

@Trevor Anthony and MK11 Shao Kahn is a jobber

Well until Aftermath where he is finally back to some of his former glory

@@chadpeterson5698 ah yes you mean sindel's play thing as well as completelly outplayed by shang tsung... yes... there's a lot of glory here

@@chadpeterson5698 Kotal Kahn and Shao Kahn had it way more worse, in terms of ruination, then Sindel Shao Kahn: guy was not only strong but he was also ridiculously smart in the original timeline. He prepped a clone in DA just to make sure he doesn’t get killed by ST and QC. He managed to get mileena on his side without any effort at all. Waited for someone else to take down Onaga because he was OP as fuck. He also predicted betrayal from a mile away from ST. He also conquered many realms as well. To show that he actually had brains, Shao Kahn made a plan to use Shang Tsing as a baby in order to deceive Jerrod and attack him from behind bcoz he was too strong and it worked (mk2 Malibu comics) giving both Jerrod and Shao credibility. In the new timeline, he’s just a dumb brute. He lets liu kang free kitana without any consequences and all his plans go to quan chi. At least, he went out like a badass even though I was pissed on how they downplayed raiden. (U could have raiden defeat with his own power then have elder gods take his soul). In mk11, they buried him. He’s a major dumbass and loses to kitana due to plot. Aftermath treats him worse as they basically gave him a personality of 13yr old Tik Tok simp who is basically an attack dog. He doesn’t even sus out thotdel for her evil plans to make him his bitch (mk11 Sindel ending). Worst of all, people say they did him justice but he doesn’t have any official wins bcoz he has to share his chapter with someone else and then he goes out like a bitch to Shang tsung. Sindel’s retcon takes a giant shit on him as Edenia was hand given to him and the plan to deceive jerrod using a baby to stab Jerrod in the bank is no longer his which breaks power scaling to another level. He has no major achievements in this timeline. I would be fine with him defeating liu kang if they stated that he used the power from the soul chamber to buff him. Shao doesn’t even need help from thotdel as he can easily use soul majic to steal the two shokans souls and heal his eyesight. And why is he protrayed as a loving individual? After mk3, he gave no fucks for Sindel and he even batted her out in armegeddon( score pn’s video). He even gave her soul away to quan chi in mk9 so why does he care for her, not to mention we are literally past the mk3 section of the new timeline. If this was the OG version, he would’ve killed thotdel the moment he sused her out on her evil plan. Shao in this timeline is protrayed as a dumb, weak individual who needs help from other individual to get what he wants and he’s a massive attack dog to others with a personality of a Charlie d’amelio toxic fan Kotal Kahn: dude was a badass in the comics from burning rain, killling goro and gorbak, forcing reiko to use blood magic daggers to take him on and Shao Kahn actually recognising him as threat, leading him to be locked up in the flesh pits. Hell,havik had to use him so he can plan his chaos across all the realms. They also showed his more honourable side here than in the games. Mkx goes off with a amazing start with the character with him stopping the rebellion and having him defeat rain, Tanya, mileena, Kano and manages to hold off shinnok’s amulet when mileena’s holding out with his own power with the sun and survives. The moment his chapter is gone, he loses every fight, starting off with Kung Jin who is nothing like liu kang in terms of power and skill, they should have had kotal Kahn fake the loss and have him beat up Kung Jin but also respect him for having heart thus accepting the agreement...but nooo, they have to have a guy who is a fucking sun god and master of blood magic lose to a gay guy. Then he loses to jacqui. Then he loses his entire character about being the noble emperor due to the fact that he wants to appease Shinnok, the literal elder god of death who wants every realm burnt to the fucking ground just to fortify outworld’s defences for a stupid fucking reason. Mk11, same thing. Starts off very well with him beating skarlet, baraka, erron and able to knock down Shao for a while which is a huge benefit to kotal Kahn as it shows why kotal is locked up. The moment it is outside his chapter, he loses every fight. Worst of all losing to jade and why tf does he have a relationship with her when they never had any sort of interactions in previous games. Like Shao Kahn, it also makes him a braindead simp which basically his strong aspect of the character to being some stupid romantic type of character. He is also racist to Tarkatans which is not his character since he is meant to be a honourable and noble emperor. In Aftermath, he loses are justified while still bs as he is injured and not fully recovered. However, he is able to fight on the ship. What the fuck? He should be recovering and healing. They also don’t showcase his sun god abilities and his blood magic abilities and the same also applies to shao. He lasts only ten seconds with Shao Kahn before he gets beheaded by him. Wtf was the point of locking him up bcoz he was threat to SK? At least, have him severely injure SK before dying to show he is competent outside his chapter. He fucking knocked down SK ffs. They even retconned the fact that he tried to kill the kombat kids and said he was allies with them when he clearly wasn’t. At least, his gf(past jade) is alive and knocked out and he got a decent send off with a strong opponent, Shao Kahn, who shouldn’t need to break power scaling in order to win( cough cough heras and liu kang), killing him. Doesn’t change the fact that he lost in his own trailer If they r gonna fix both Kahn’s, get rid of the stupid relationships since it makes them look like incompetent braindead simps who can’t do anything on their own. For SK, if ur gonna do a relationship with him, u could have him expand his relationship with mileena or u could create a new character with a gold-digging power loving thot instead of butchering other characters who have established lore which they could’ve done if it weren’t for robocop. For KK, if ur gonna do a relationship for him, have it make sense and give it some sort of build up. Also, fix the fucking power scaling for these two so they can acc feel like powerful Kahn’s again. I personally feel that if a ruler is not in a relationship, it makes them more independent and badass, but that is my opinion Update: Shao Kahn has confirmed to win the fight against Kung Lao in rain and Kung Lao interaction dialogue which is better bcoz if thotdel did it, it would have broken power scaling by a landslide considering Kung Lao beat the alliance of Shang Tsung and Quan chi (apparently,thotdel’s murderer) who managed to kill clone Shao Kahn and liu kang

@@WinterburnVideos he also had the shit beaten out of him by the MK equivalent of Red Shirts in the form of Tarkatans’, so yeah even in Aftermath he’s still a loser.

Damn straight

Ya got It all wrong, d'vorah would of done It.

@@Carzeyday Everyone would have done it. Somehow independently of each other.

Netherrealm would retcon it to be like that even though Shao Kahn was evil before Shinnok fell from grace and before Quan Chi actually had influence on anything.

Shao Kahn does actually get a chapter in Aftermath but he beats Geras, Cassie Cage, Johnny Cage, Kung Lao, and Lui Kang. But loses to Shang Tsung

True but then again he also has to share it so technically the only confirmed win he had was lui Kang. So in total his record in MK11 is potentially 1-3 if we are being fair.

@@jamesaziz7004 but still beating Lui Kang is an achievement in among itself

Na I rather not play as a dumb brute his plan sucked he didn't side with kronika to back stab he just trusted shang tsung who backstabbed him also his redesign to can't even keep it consistent with the mk9 design which is better

Personally I thought that was the only thing they did right. It makes him look more inhuman.

@@Wright805 but it was never a thing so how did he get it

captain beastwinger Good question.

It was most likley a design choice in order to fit the more realistic artstyle (which is excesive by the way the character models use more vertices and polygons than needed, they should have stayed with mkx art style it used mid poly character models which in turn cut down on development time.)

Yep

Bane used to be that guy, but now general audiences only know him as "That guy who broke Batman's back once." And in games like Injustice, he keeps bringing it up which makes him seem less cool. Like that's his peak moment, the only credit to his name. Sometimes he ends up sounding pathetic in voice lines. Bane: "I broke the bat, you have no hope." Literally any metahuman character: "Are you sure about that?"

Junior Junior I think the only good Bane line I heard was in Doom, “First I broke the bat, now I break the man”

Junior Junior but anyways they use that feat as just oh he crippled Batman that’s all he does when he actually broke Batman, the line “break the bat” means more than just he crippled him, he spiritually and mentally broke Batman . The fact that Bruce didn’t want to be Batman even after defeating Valley and the fact that it took him a while to get his spirit back relying on Lady Shiva to help him get his spirit back. Bane broke more than just his spine he broke Batman’s spirit

@@magikplissken3158 Yeah, that was cool. But the more that moment is referenced, the less cool it becomes. Now Bane seems less capable since crippling a (very capable) mortal man is seen as such a high accomplishment to him. It limits him, Joker has done so many things to Batman and his allies. He only brags to push buttons but isn't stuck in past acts. Bane reduces all his cunning whenever he highlights that he broke Batman's back. He should mention how he found out Bruce's identity or manipulated Gotham to weaken him. Focus on that, the more he mentions the one physical act, the more he comes off as a dumb brute that go lucky.

Junior Junior Yea they just need better line work for Bane, maybe add more about how he outsmarts his opponents. The thing I also hate about Bane now is how he’s a trope too for big threat to Batman like Doomsday. In Gotham Bane is just King Snake(Bane’s dad), literally King Snake if they decided to give him Venom. That kinda diminishes Bane even more as a character since he’s just there to be a big threat to Batman. But back to the Injustice thing, they could’ve made him the leader of the Leigon of Doom, Bane rounding up villains isn’t new since he’s worked with Ra’s Al Ghul before and others. He can lead a squad too I forgot what it was but he lead a squad with Vandal Savage’s daughter but he served well

>Implying hes smart and charming like a mustache twirling villain

Yeah... about that. Holy shit you were right.

And NOW he's wiping the floor with people he's never beaten before.

I dig that show. Sure it was cheesy but it took its premise seriously and played it straight. It did good with Shang Tsung and Quan Chi too for my money...

And in MK11 Aftermath he's more powerful than his usual self by beating LUI FREAKING KANG

I am a god!

They Nerfed him so hard

@@chadpeterson5698 Because you're playing as him and at the end of this, it accomplishes nothing. He didn't even kill the supposed champion or the Edenian's princess.

Facts

(S)o (J)ust say (W)hat you want.

And now Shao Kahn has beaten Lui Kang in a fight

@@chadpeterson5698 at least thats more understandable than Kitana or Kotal beating Shao Khan.

@@michaelluna7025 which speaking of Shao Kahn also killed Kotal offscreen.

@Ice by also disrespecting Shinnok by saying he was worthless in a fight

It sounds awful! And what's worse, I feel like it was a conscious decision by the creative team to make him sound more like Donald Trump - cause that's funny, I guess... :|

You're not alone he sounds bad in my opinion too

I don't like it neither. It sounds too much like Atrocitus from Injustice 2.

Even in MK9 his voice was better...kinda like Kabal, now they both just sounds like that dude from the restaurant.

@@thetruej7872 not surprising, since Ike Imadi is the voice actor for both of them.

And now in Aftermath Shao Kahn washed Geras, Cassie Cage, Johnny Cage, Kung Lao, and Lui Kang but got mopped by Shang Tsung.

@@chadpeterson5698 DUDE RIGHT!?! I was telling my friends aftermath is just a response to everyone's complaints

@@ninjamonkey508 and a good one at that

@@chadpeterson5698 it is and it isnt. At some point me and my friends plan to Revisit and talk about it on my channel. If you wanna subscribe to hear our thoughts you can, mate. (Obviously not here to pull from 4thsnakes viewers tho)

And in Aftermath he's kicking everybody around except Shang Tsung.

@@chadpeterson5698 After getting Sindel's help. Before the only thing he needed help with was taking on the SSS-teir threat Onaga and Goro helped him with that. Here he's getting his ass beat by B-tier fighters like Kotal Kahn. He's cool but come on Shao Kahn wouldn't ever lose to fucking Jin. Or Jade.

And yet, the story that we are given is a million times better than pretyt much anything in the NRS era.

@@The4thSnake It is but, people who don't care to read wouldn't know that.

And i had even seen someone saying that people that complain about Kitana defeating shao are ''incels'' like what !?