I don't think there's anyone who wants Kung Lao in there more than me. But its entirely possible he doesn't return and stays dead.

So if he doesn't come back, I don't see why he couldn't have a cousin or something that takes up his mantle. I'd prefer the relative be his/her own person though, so not Razor hat. (If he does get a relative at all)

Kung Lao was "the last descendant". He doesn't have any cousins or brothers or nephews or anything.

Whelp there goes that idea.

Oh well let's not rule out the possibility for more retarded retcons...

I read somewhere that liu kang and kung lao are cousins.
Can someone confirm if this is canon or not pls? Razors edge?

What if he had a son though? Perhaps one that we didn't know about or HE didn't know about?

And I agree. Let's not rule out more retatded retcons lol.

The movie had Liu Kang be the last descendant of Great Kung Lao because Kung wasn't in it and they wanted to make Liu's "destiny" more part of the plot.

Liu's MK4 bio mistakenly referenced this detail because at the time, they were trying to make the games look more like the movie because the movie was so popular and they probably didn't want to confuse people with two different sets of lore (Another example would be making it look like Johnny Cage and Goro are rivals even though Liu is the one who beat Goro in MK1. Also, the LiuxKitana romance being shown onscreen for the first time, although that one was a Tobias invention that was always intended to be canon), but they gave up that effort pretty quickly as a result of the second movie sucking so bad that it nearly killed the franchise.

No other game in the series before or since has ever said Liu Kang is related to the Great Kung Lao, they ALL say "Kung Lao is the last descendant" which means he's the ONLY descendant left...so it's assuredly not canon that Liu and Kung are blood related.

In fact, Shaolin Monks (which isn't canon either, but still...) went far out of its way to establish that Liu Kang has his OWN ancestor who was a rival of Great Kung Lao, and when Liu won, that guy was honored, whereas Kung wanted to win to honor HIS ancestor.

A Shaolin Monk, I'm pretty sure, is supposed to be chaste, so he wouldn't be allowed to get with a woman and have a kid. Now, Kung Lao has always seemed like an extremely dedicated Shaolin, so it doesn't seem likely that he would have broken those rules. It was never mentioned that he might have broken those rules. There was no hint that Kung Lao had any sort of love interest throughout the entire series.

That's not to say that NRS can't just decide that he did have an affair with some woman, he did happen to knock her up, and there does happen to be a little Kung Lao junior running around somewhere. People do make mistakes and end up doing things they're not supposed to, after all. I mean, his ancestor the Great Kung Lao must have done something like that (if we assume Kung Lao is a linear decendant of his). Personally though, I think that's an awful idea because it's never been touched upon or hinted at ever in the Mortal Kombat canon and if they went with it it would seem like something NRS just pulled out of their asses.

The only Kung Lao I want to see is the Kung Lao we've had since MK2. But he's sat out games before, and I gotta say I vote this game as another one he sits out. Him and Jax, and many others, even though I hate to say it, are dead and should sit this one game out to pave way for some new faces. After MKX, bring them back with vengeance.

Remember back in MKDA, Liu Kang had his neck snapped then became a zombie in MKD? Well, that is what I think Kung Lao will end up like, but, not exactly looking the same. Bring him back undead as he looked in the Netherrealm.

Thank You!

Looks like reaching.

MK4 was released two years after the first movie. If they wanted to make Liu GKL's descendant to make games more like movie, they had plenty of opportunities to do just that with UMK3 and MKT. I don't see why they were waiting for two years after movie to introduce such thing into the MK games.

And nobody had changed golden rule: it is still canon if it's wasn't denied. And as far as I am aware nobody had specifically denied that Liu is GKL's descendant after MK4. Personal headcanon are not canon.

Are Shaolin Monks allowed to do the sex?

Liu and Kung left monk-hood to train for the tournament. That's why they don't shave their heads and wear orange robes.

Granted that there's no mention of the "White Lotus Society" anywhere in all of MK9, so that may have been retconned out.

Because nobody from MK3's bios were rewritten in the expansion games.

Only Ermac, Mileena, and Noob Saibot got new stories, in the jump from UMK3 to MKT, because their original bios were unfinished filler.



Calling Kung the "last" descendant of the Great Kung Lao, which several games since MK4 have done, IS denying that Great Kung Lao has any other living descendants.

That's basic literacy, man.

Kung Lao having a kid would be so out of the blue. Does he even talk to any women characters in MK9? It would be more believable if his long lost sister suddenly sent Raiden an annoying nephew.

Big deal.


Where exactly?

His MKDA Biography doesn't mention it and there is no mention of it in the MKDA Konquest either.

Just as I expected...
Silence.

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