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The fact that MKX’s story includes Scorpion making peace with Kuai Liang prevents me from ever claiming it has the worst story in the series.

They could have simply said the revenants are hollow versions of there former selfs meaning they are like zombies that can’t really adapt like there human counterparts but no there just weaker for whatever reason

I think to understand the green glow that the cage’s have, you have to go back to Johnny’s ending in Armageddon. It specifically says that he is descended from a race of elder gods. They just went for deep lore

For the acid attack of Reptile on Takeda's eyes, pouring water is a good solution 'cause if you add enough water to an acid solution, you will dilute the acid and it will be less dangerous Also in chemistry class, teachers told you to rince your eyes, if for some reasons, it make its way to your eyes, and for at least 10 min

Kotal: fought countless battles, can Control the Sun( he can smite people at will) teleport, blood magic, metamorph, heal himself using the Sun and blood magic. Lost to the mystery gang...

8:36 literally my question for almost every story mode event. Why didn’t you teleport? Why didn’t you use your powers and float? How are you cornered if you can teleport?

Honestly I think they should do away with the one character per chapter system they've had for a while now. In every game they've used it in everyone complains about plot armor because if the character of that chapter loses, then the chapter shouldn't continue so they make sure they can't lose. I think they should have you play as multiple characters through each chapter to help avoid this.

An issue I have with the story modes in these games is the fact they have largely moved away from the tournament concept but the story is acted (mostly) out via one-on-one fights. It always seems a little forced.

Green girl go brrrrrrr

Shit, Mileena probably actually meant what she said, and she actually wanted to die. Right before that, she said finish me so I can join my father. She and everybody knew she could get outta there if she wanted too. She knew she lost, her allies are either dead, retreating, or captured. She really didn’t have anybody to go to, no one else who’ll prolly help her, so she prolly just said fuck it, kill me

one more: in brazil, they invited a singer who had never worked as a voice actress or actress to dub cassie. it got so horrible that it made many players stop playing or look for an alternative to change the game's language.

Actually now that I think about it, Rain is the only character to actually use his teleport to gtfo of a bad situation lmao

I personally disliked MK11 story more: - everything is rewritten, technically, most of the things that happened, Di not matter anymore - worst, most boring villain - disappearance of one of the coolest, most badass characters (dark raiden)

The way mileena died was so weird. It looked like regular rope she was tied with so she should have been able to teleport. And we see in her throw in mkx and her intro in mk11 that she can teleport without sais so I think it was just weird

The power levels in MK games make me so mad. MK characters are great, and not just because of their appearance. Most characters have interesting and even deep lore. Look at Baraka. He is used as a low tier henchman, however his lore is awesome. He is the greatest warrior of a race conquered by Shao Khan and later hunted to extinction by Kotal Khan. I loved how he finally managed to free his people in MK11, however he didn't always want to free them. He was loyal to Shao Khan. Was this out of fear? Is Tarkatan culture like this? Is it out of pride? So many great questions and we don't get the answer to them because MK focuses on flashy action scenes that make no sense, which invalidate character's struggles, fears and goals. Look at how Kitana defeated Shao Khan. Is Kitana really stronger than an entire race of Tarkatans? Really...? This is just one example but all of MKs problems are because of power levels changing to fit the narrative. Kano fighting Kotal, Reptile losing to Jacqui, Stryker defeating Ermac and Kintaro, Ermac not killing Jax or Sonya, D'Vorah killing Scorpion, Shinnok not killing the entire camp when he is released etc. the list just goes on. I can't take the story, or the characters seriously because I know that they change to fit the current narrative.

I think the fact that Jax could deflect Liu Kang's fire/plasma balls with his arms without feeling any pain proves its an error that Jax was shown being in pain when Sindel stomped on his hands. NR was just too lazy to not make Jax react in pain when his hands ate cut off. Remember how the Terminator reacts in pain during fatalities even tho he's a robot? NR was just lazy

Does anyone else have a problem with how many times a dvorah related story problem is just explained with "Oh her bugs did it"? How multi functional can bugs be

Shinok just keeps taking the L He's taken the L in every single one of his appearances.

Shujinko: has trained under most if not all MK characters and traveled to every realm. Loses to glowy girl...

On the acid thing, remember that a lot of places where you can expect to be working with caustic chemicals have eyewash stations for the express purpose of using water to get the chemical out of your eyes. Idea being "yeah damage has been done, but it's gonna keep doing more damage the longer it's there so you need to get rid of it." Now I agree reptiles acid, given he can use it as a weapon, is crazy potent and Takeda at best should have been temporarily blinded, not "oh hey perfect vision", but the immediate reaction of flush the eyes with water was a good one, though she used improper technique to do it. It could have been the difference between permanent blindness or even death given how bad reptiles acid can be (I think he can dial the acidity around for different purposes personally), and possibly being able to see again. Cause let's be honest, if anyone here got acid in their eyes and someone had a canteen of water and did nothing to try to help you, you'd be pretty fucking pissed.

Remember the fight scene between Raiden and all of the revenants? I actually unironically love that scene. It shows off how powerful Raiden is and even after what he did he still was crushed by Shinok. However, because the revenants were shown to be so weak it never crosses your mind that Raiden could lose, because the revenants have only fought people weaker than raiden and have always lost so of course they would lose to a God. Think about how amazing it would be if they were roaming around being menaces kicking the ass of the cast just so when they get to Raiden he beats the All by himself. Not only would that give Raiden a legitimate and very awesome show of power. It would reinforce the hopelessness they wanted to show when shinok Stops Raiden as easily as he did.

I love some things in the story. But I also feel like they really really needed to polish a lot of stuff in the story. In the words of the famous Master Blue Berry Ice : Such wasted potential XD

Agreed with some complaints of fans, but I agree with you about Cassie vs Shinnok. It was very clear in the story that SHE was specifically his weakness because of the glow. I remember it being brought up alot in the story. It wasn't that she is stronger, it's like you said it's just the glow is Elder God kryptonite.

MKX is where the “it’s your chapter so you have to win” is taken to the EXTREME!!! 😂

I would definitely say with out a doubt that MK11 is the most hated. That story was a total clusterfuck of plot holes and retcons.

I always thought that kotal losing to Kung jin was due to probably still being weakened by mileena in chapter 2, after she blasted him with shinnok's amulet

I think the main problem was that we didn't get any real closure with the other characters we've been following for so long. They're still there, but it's like "oh well your old heroes are just evil now, but here's your newwwwww ones!!!" It was just too drastic of a jump for them to make, so the Kombat Kids were always kept at a distance from fans. For whatever you want to say about MK11, that story brought it back around to giving the OG cast a better send off, especially for Liu Kang and Raiden.

I appreciate how annoying the inconsisten power levels are but I also appreciate not having to end every single game playing as Raiden so the power levels make sense against the villain. I honestly think making Cassie a big enough badass to take on Corrupted Shinnok is doable but it wasn't done well. Like yeah it's kinda weird to think about any Cage being that powerful but I also didn't want the new hero to just be like, Liu Kang's kid or something. Imagine if it was something like Johnny goes off and rediscovers his ancient warrior roots and brings back that warrior order. Cassie would then be in position as a warrior that had trained her entire life to hone her unique abilities to become the hero Earthrealm needed. That seems like a believable enough underdog win to me. But super special military girl? Not so much

There needed to be more context with the green glow, Fujin tells Johnny that he was the one who blessed his ancestors so that raises more questions about their abilities.

Reminder that Bi-Han beat Shinnok without being: A God, the chosen one, or having Mediterranean plot boost.

Hit right on the head with Kotal bro I’m a big fan of the comics so when I seen how weak they made him look on MKX and MK11 it really pissed me off smh

MK11 saw this video and said: "Challenge Accepted".

Ermac in MK9:having bunch of souls in one body,having telepathic powers,beat the shlt out of everyone,ripping of Jax's arms,and been jober for Shang Thung and Shao Khan,been beated by an Cop with an flashlight, Gun, Nightstick and a taser and then made nothing else just to became an background NPC for the rest story Ermac in MK10:Where Shang Thung,where Shao Khan,becamed weaker than everyone around him,serving for richers(KK in an wheelchair),moving one box at the time,your minds/mind(is one body with many minds in head needs to be one mind that controls the body)been readed by an kid ,been beated by some kids and offscreen by some ninjas in blue pajamas or Sub Zero Great Character development

they wasted dark Raiden

A little defence about UnderDawg's opinion on Jax's arms (actually an attack I think): Yes, it does makes sense that his arms should sense stuff. BUT, he doesn't have to feel pain. I think him not feeling pain is also why he's so strong. He can punch the ground and through a skull but he doesn't look like he's suffering at all. Try punching the ground... feel that?

That's not the only one, lol. imo, Kitana vs Shao Kahn in MK11 was also one of the biggest joke that ever happened in this series. Like... wtf? That Kitana from MK9? Since when Kitana learn how to kick people ass?

IMO, i feel that way the next story mode should be structured is you should be able to play different characters for each fight, similar to street fighter v where you got to play some of the villians (M.bison, Vega, Necalli, Fang,) that way everyone can have a chance to shine and actually look like they can put up a fight and no one is'nt a jobber. one example: in sfv story mode, Vega beats Cammy in their first fight after escaping with Juri. in the Final act, Cammy defeats Vega.

I just didn't like the ending. It should've been Raiden.

All good points. I would’ve thought it more effective for the story for Shinnok to recognize the threat of the “green glow” on his plot to take over. Maybe attempt to not fight the Cage family until he “leveled up”. Just like Superman recognizes kryptonite can kill him.

Is it possible that Shang Tsung knew about Johnny Cage's hidden power? I know that it was long before the Neatherealm games, but in the live action movie, it was Shang Tsung who lured him into the tournament, and it was never really explained why. In their first interaction in MK9, Tsung tells Cage that "appearances can be deceiving" before making him the first combatant of the tournament. Given how old Shang Tsung is, is it possible that he knew about Cage's lineage and thought that his power could be stolen used against the Elder Gods?

For Jade, I guess they had some plans to use her mk9 ending. My disappointment wasn't that she wasn't in mkx but why she was a ravana... Revane... Rev... A zombie in mk11 without even a line of explanation.

I don't hate Jacquie, but I would've liked it more if we had a Lin kuei instead of 2 special forces. I'd rather have a shirai ryu and Lin kuei relationship.

11:51 acid does get diluted by water. However, it's not like pouring water on an acid wound somehow fixes the damage done by the acid or anything, it just stops the acid from doing even more damage.

I always never got Liu Kang being weaker as a revenant. He was literally The Chosen One, the champion of Mortal Kombat. Just seems stupid to nerf him even for the sake of Plot.

I’d guess based on the size of The4thSnake’s playlist, that Sindel’s retcon is the most hated story in Mortal Kombat. But for real, MK11 with its time travel bullshit, adherence to the awful chapter system, terrible characterisation, refusal to commit to development in the plot, massive franchise reboot and the WORST villain in all of MK.

Literal zombie Liu Kang from Armageddon was stronger than the revenant Liu Kang in mkx

Water does make an excellent diluter for acid so in a sense pouring water on it wouldn’t solve the pain instantly but it would severely weaken the acid

I've always thought they could do many of these fights/encounters better. They could've had Mileena bite and rip Devorah's jaw out, making that ripped out area turn into a bunch of bugs or even spew acid all over her, including the restraint which would free her but give Mileena severe burns to her body. Ermac could've been trying to learn the soul magic technique to steal souls since Shang Tsung was cautious with his creations.

How I missed Konquest mode. Because somehow it tells much more interesting story. Even the "One-time Hero" Taven got a great story arc in Armageddon.

I really hate mk 11 aftermath story mode recons so many past Mortal Kombat events.

I think eleven was the worst. Ten is alright. Deadly Alliance is my favorite. Which one, out of all of them including before Netherealm was your favorite and why? I liked the premise of Deadly Alliance and Raiden's voice.

I never understood why people thought cage was like dan or hercule. Johnny was actually a pretty decent fighter during the midway timeline and actually forced shinnok to retreat in Armageddon. If anything he is a lot like early paul phoenix , the potential is there but his attitude is not.

People should know by now that mk story modes never make sense as in mk9 Stryker was able to beat people like ermac and kintaro and everyone knows the whole mess with sindel.

in kano's arcade ending, it said he had a son. I wish he had somehow made it into the story mode

Water can dilute acid so it would be possible to use it to weaken an acid. That said, far far more water would have been necessary to dilute that strong an acid. Also it wouldn't heal any damage, just stop it getting worse, so by rights Takeda should be blind, unless it has some magical properties (completely possible in MK)

The Green Glow was explained if you win Armageddon with Johnny Cage

The power levels of the characters in mkx/mk11 are everywhere

All I want to see is some bad guys kick the crap out of earthrealmers. Have Ermac or Baraka nearly kill some of the decently strong character so they could have some wins and pose a threat and aren't just jobbers. Kind of sick of all of the outworlders being jobbers when they all should be strong fighters.

3:07 Unless one paid absolutely no attention to any MK11 trailers you knew it was Kronika

MKX is also the start of the career of the most hated character in the franchise D'Vorah, some may argue that Hsu Hao and Kobra are worse but that's because they are pointless and have no impact, D'Vorah is hated because she has too much impact and she always gets away with everything. It's honestly why she's my 4th most hated villain of all time.

I replayed MKX's history a while ago and it was quite fun. At the time of the game's release I thought the story wasn't good, but in retrospective it was decent. Chapters 1-4 are really enjoyable and probably the best part of the story. After that, Sonya's chapter really ruined the mood, considering how they treated Quan Chi and because I found Sonya really boring and unlikable compared to MK9's version. D'Vorah's chapter is an improvement, but the revelation that she worked for Quan Chi really ruined a character that worked really well in the comics as the loyal right hand of Kotal. At that point the story really goes downhill. Chapter 7 with Takeda is fine but uneventful. The flashback to his training with Hanzo and how he made amends with his father was the highlight. Not a bad chapter, but doesn't grab your attention after the two previous chapters and their flaws. Chapters 8 to 12 really had some awful decisions: the multiple beatdowns of Quan Chi, making Scorpion look like an idiot for releasing Shinnok, Kotal Kahn becomes a coward without reason, Cassie beating Corrupted Shinnok without a proper struggle... My main criticisms are the portrayal of Kotal Kahn and Quan Chi, who looked awful, as well as the win without build up for Cassie Cage. To be honest, I think MK11's story is actually way worse considering what they did to the canon. MKX story treats some characters poorly, but the disregard for the previous ten installments and continuous retcons without reason makes MK11's story the bigger evil. In summary, MKX's story is flawed in execution, MK11's story is flawed in concept.

Real quick, on the water + acid: It would dilute the acid but with how acidic Reptile's acid is it wouldn't do much. Some sort of weak base would help neutralize the effects, but that's bringing RL physics in. That's just from my memory, not a chemist though so anyone with more info please drop that knowledge!

12:00 hey! Chemistry major here! :) You do actually have to wash acid with water… (to dilute it as much as possible) but like for 15 minutes, not 5 seconds!

You’re supposed to flush out irritants; that’s why every high school chemistry lab has an eyeball wash station.

Hoo man, this has been a story mode I've been wanting to talk about. Now I just replayed it recently from the Steam sale, about a month or two ago so fairly fresh in my mind but I have forgotten a few things. Overall though my biggest point is from a story telling perspective, the ending is absolutely frustrating. The "green glow" this is fine, mostly. I understood it only beats gods and worked on Shinnok and all that, that was fine. The problem with the ending is the character of Cassie, honestly. In the context of MKX we spend very little time overall with her, we really don't know her character at all, but she's the protagonist at the end. She isn't really established, she gets her chapter at the very end and at that point all I knew is that she's a gal in the military. The rest of the "Kombat Kids" had quite the set up, Takeda reconnecting with his father and his mentor, learning about his mother, etc. Kung Jin having a heart to heart with Raiden and confronting himself, in a sense, and his past. Even Jacqui we see her relationship with her father and Takeda, but Cassie we just don't see any of that. They really either needed to spend a whole chapter with her earlier OR have one of the other kids be the one to defeat Shinnok. Just give them the green glow and say that it's a favor from the gods or something, it doesn't have to be inherited. Though on that note the idea that the green glow is 'genetic power' is a bit at odds with Kung Jin's story, that he's trying to escape his past and really be himself. Not tied to so much to his ancestors and that he can forge his own path. The green stuff kind of dumps on that. Additionally (I know this is in rant territory, but oh well) though I liked the story of MKX overall, honestly, I didn't really care for the 'military' aesthetic that it seemed to be obsessed with. I feel like more mysticism and occult would be better for Mortal Kombat. Which is sort of why also Cassie being the 'hero' seemed odd, I would have gone with either Takeda or Kung Jin just thematically. Though an argument could certainly be made for Jacqui as a surprise 'underdog' hero with all her tech fighting against the sorcery of the world, provided that the overall aesthetic had changed from 'military' to 'occult' like I mentioned earlier so the contrast is more apparent. Last little thought was with the Jax+Sindel scene shown in the video, I do think that whole problem could have been alleviated very easily if they just showed like a 2 second close up of Sindel's foot maybe starting to crush/break the armor plating on his hand, showing that she is incredibly strong and that his hands are in danger. Would instantly let people know like "oh yeah that probably hurts or at least I can understand that that MIGHT hurt him even though they are cybernetics"

11:52 You have to wash the acid away with as much water as possible. A little bit of it will not help. By washing the acid with water you're diluting and thus increasing the pH back to it's physiological level. Every laboratory has an eye shower to wash chemicals (including acids) out of your eyes.

so in short that green glow is the glow of plot armor

The worst part about MKX story was they were planning to kill off Mileena permanently.

Every MK game has some story and character flaws, but so far no game has story as bad as MK11, it's just baffling how much stupidity is involved there

I fairly certain that MK11 is the Most Hated Story

My hatred for the mkx storyline was quickly forgotten after I finished MK11. This sht was DOODOO

I mean in Takeda’s chapter ermac was destroying all the other kombat kids and it was shown how bloody strong Takeda is, in the comics when he fought Cassie and Jacque who were under the kamigodo magic

I have issues with this storyline, but I thought it was.. okay, at least. Surprisingly, I didn't mind the Kombat Kids because we actually got time to explore their arcs. Frankly, it was a better viewing experience than MK9 was for me before then, and as much a better viewing experience than MK11 was for me after. Even with that high a pedestal I'm placing the game on, I'd rather go through Injustice's or especially Injustice 2's story modes again any day.

The way I see it, if Sonya didn't delay Scorpion killing Quan Chi, Quan Chi would've been dead before D'vorah arrived with the amulet. The amulet Quan Chi used to release Shinnok right before Scorpion took his head off. Basically, Scorpion could've prevented Shinnok's return had Sonya not got in his way. But Sonya wasn't trying to stop Scorpion because of Shinnok... she was stopping him because Quan Chi was the key to freeing the remaining revenants - who were mostly irrelevant anyway.

For me It's a kind of a personal joke seeing Johnny Cage beign able to defeat gods because the one who voices him here in Latin America for the Spanish dub also voices Goku.

- Cage's bloodline being OP vs Elder Gods - Kotal being introduced as this new powerful Kahn just to become a jobber, then becoming a PhD in jobbery in MK11 - Ermac still a jobber (he lost to multiple random people in MK9 as well) - Evil Liu Kang not being a real threat because they wanted to give this Elder God guy the main villain status, despite not appearing during most of the game These are the 4 issues I had

Ain’t revenants weaker than their original forms and the cage’s powers like kryptonite for the gods?

Mk11 and aftermath are far worse than Mkx's story after thinking about it.

With the acid in the eye thing its actually normal to wash out chemicals from your eyes with water. Its actually required of businesses that have chemicals in their building to have eye washing stations.

This was a very pleasant video to watch! Love your theories, too, on why the Cage's green glow is perhaps a kryptonite to Elder Gods. I still don't like it, lol, but at least it makes more sense than, "This character has to win because it's her chapter...even though she's fighting *F^CKING SHINNOK* ."

What come to realize in the MKX story is 1. Quan Chi was punching bag 2. Shinnok was easily beaten by Johnny and Cassie 3. Johnny even survived a blast from Shinnok (who is a Freaking Elder God) 4. Plus you don't re do the the QTE's whether you press right buttons or not

I'm not the guy to hate a story because " muh favorite character got killed" too seriously 😐. However, they way HOW some gets beaten/killed matters more to me and powerlevels consistency should be measured accordingly. Otherwise, anyone could fight anyone 🤷‍♂️

Actually, if you get acid on yourself, water not only helps, but it is a recomeded way to help yourself. Acid has a pH of lower than 7, 7 being the standard pH value, and by pouring water on you, you raise the pH of that area, cancelling out the acid. So if the acid was lethal, Takeda would have lost his eyesight in seconds, but the fact that he didn't probably indicated that the acid wasn't that bad, so water was the right way to go to prevent any further damage.

Tell me you've never been in a lab without telling me you've never been in a lab: if you ever spill acid anywhere, please don't take this man's advice, please wash it continuously with water

I love MK story mode, i don't really care if it doesn't make a lot of sense or if it's a little convoluted, if it's fun, that's all right for me, and it's really fun

I liked it for the most part , I just think power scaling is absurd sometimes. Raiden, Scorpion, and Johnny’s chapters were great

I’m fairly certain characters don’t get weaker, the new characters are just simply stronger. Unless there’re any statements the Revenants are fodder. That’s just head canon.

This story mode at least makes sense. MK11 is such a mess and the ending leaves you feeling like nothing really mattered.

I like how Mileena has lips in this game they brought back her full tarkatan mouth in MK11 so the only reason they added lips was for that kiss of death scene

This game gives me mixed feelings, on one hand all the points you made are valid and i agree But on the othet hand this gamer gave us takeda, collector, kung jin, fera torr, erron black And probably the best scorpion sub zero team up we could have wished for

Honeslty I think MK X is great I think what I wish they would’ve kept would be the same design (somewhat) for Cassie, I think Ashley voiced her so well in MKX and her face looks a lot better, whereas in MK11 I find her somewhat annoying, idk if it’s just me but I wish they kept the MKX Cassie vibe

Honestly, everything in MK11's Story makes anything in MKX's story look like a Snake Eater level Plot

I mean I’ve always seen it as the green slow is literally the embodiment of plot armor 😂😂

I still think they did Ermac dirty in this game, he's my favorite Mk character and my 7th favorite character of all time.

I do love MKX, it was my introduction to the MK series and fighting games as a whole. And it still remains my favorite. And Corrupted Shinnok kicked my ass when i fought him for the first time, made that win all the much more satisfying.

Oh my GOD!!! THAT'S SO TRUE! I talked about this trash so much. I am glad someone made video about it, and that was the most disappointing and worst story ending in MKX franchise with contradictions, which doesn't make any sense. THE ENDING RUINED THE WHOLE STORY UTTERLY!!!

I think it would be cool if the revenants won every once in a while.

14:23 its also possible that shao kahn has the Anti-god glow like johnny and cassie and learned the secrets from Johnny's ancestral tribe of god killers, since the mortal kombat lore dates back to the dawn of time (not liu kang's but the midway timeline) and he learned the power should any god attemp to kill him like he did onaga

I hated how they portrayed the revenants, it ruined mk9 great lead up. They should've changed perspective and let you play as the villains a few chapters