Shao, did you forget the time you insta-killed Shang Tsung by ripping his soul out? Why don't you do that? Or like throw a fireball, or teleport? And Kotal, did you forget the time you blew up a ship with a sunbeam? And you can teleport too, why do you just let Shao fucking wrestle you until you're permanently crippled? They just wrestled each other, or hit their weapons together. How come nobody ever uses their powers ever? I was thinking about this when Shao Kahn and Kotal Kahn had their fights.
Every time an old version of a character punches their younger counterpart, shouldn't the old version feel it too then? How did they not think of that when they planned out all the old vs. Speaking of which, how can young characters and old characters even fight? When Sonya's fighting Old Kano and Young Kano at the same time, her stomping on Young Kano's chest hurts Old Kano too. They even show him being immune to fire earlier on in one of the branching path cutscenes: he no-sells Sektor's flamethrower.
But Scorpion is supposed to be immune to fire, it's said so in the MKX comic series (which is canon, a writer confirmed it and events from it are referenced). When Old Scorpion fights Young Scorpion, Old Scorps hits Young Scorps with a fire attack and it visibly hurts him. What, was the time we saw him as a cop in MK9 his first day on the job or something, was he hired a week after he left the Black Dragon? I need to go back and watch MK9, but I don't think this works out. Shouldn't he have been a cop at that point in time? Instead he's with the Black Dragon. He shouldn't have them.Īnother Young Kabal thing, how does this work out with the timeline exactly? The young characters are apparently taken from around Kung Lao's chapter in MK9. How does Young Kabal have his speed powers? He explicitly got them after he got deep fried by Kintaro, but he's not deep fried. she could've used it to break the rocks or something, probably. I mean, I know there wasn't anyone for Cassie to fight in that scene, but like. So why didn't it kick in when Sonya got buried under all those rocks? Like, it's a really specific power activation circumstance, and the circumstance happens, but the power doesn't activate. The Cage family super mode is supposed to kick in when Johnny or Cassie see a loved one in danger. This isn't a rant about the grind or whatever, it's about stupid things from the story mode.