Malice Wrote:
... I'd like Shinnok to be a little bit more bad ass this time around...
Bad ass enough to tell his amulet is a replica?
This story idea seems a bit pointless if you want it to
center around his pursuit of the amulet. Shinnok would just be chasing Quan Chi for the real amulet instead of worrying about his revenge against Raiden and the Elder Gods.
Remember, now... Shinnok "lost" his [fake] amulet to Sub-Zero in MKM:SZ. Quan Chi would have been the one to inform Shinnok of this being a replica. So Shinnok has no reason to pursue Raiden since he should know it's a fake.
So when you say you want it centered around his pursuit of the amulet, either Raiden steals the real one from Quan Chi (what makes Raiden all of a sudden know which is real and fake?) or Shinnok finds out (some how) Quan Chi tricked him and changes his focus on the sorcerer. I mean that just renders him powerless and not very bad ass. Both scenarios sound stupid to me.
Since Quan Chi indiscreetly wears and uses the amulet it in MK2011, obviously some one has to fucking know where the real one is.
Since Shinnok needs the amulet to escape the Netherrealm in the first place, he has nothing to look for. Even if Shinnok has the fake and Quan Chi has the original, in Shinnok's mind he has it. End of pursuit.
*Anticipates the arrival of RazorsEdge*
