Ninja_Mime Wrote:
Yes. It makes enough sense. And it would be kind of cool seeing the once Protector of Earthrealm going completely nuts. His sense of judgement will have gone out the window, and now he sees everything as a threat. Or something.
Fujin could take over his old position, though he doesn't necessarily need to fight. Sort of like Raiden in MK3.
He needs a cooler 'dark' look, though.
That doesn't make any sense at all. I say that because it's not a streaming course of events...given the personality traits he has. Really because he knows exactly what he's doing. So he's not crazy. What would happen? He'd just pop up, go crazy out of the blue, and try to defend earth against the people he's trying to protect? The White Lotus Society, the Shaolin Monks, and the remaining Gods/Elder Gods?....the rest of human civilization? What the hell'd be left....to protect? That's really what's being said with an idea like that. And I'm even considering MkAs' information about Raiden. It just sounds ridiculous of the character to me.
He's motivated to defend earth against real threats. It's a tough conversion for him to go from his current state,(actively pursuing real threats to earth) to a psycho evil Boss?...ridiculous transition.
The people who would likely confront him about his problem first are Fujin and Kung Lao....maybe Kai or Liu Kangs spirit if they happend to be with them. Individuals already aligned with Raidens main objective and the only real examples of people who could talk sense to a now ruthless protector.
The way I see it, Raiden is being too selective, and he's already playing this "puppet master" role with the actual evil individuals on the roster. Clearly distinguishing himself from a "bad guy role". Plainly, he doesn't have enough taint to represent evil...or even be perceived that way once individuals like The Elder Gods, Fujin, and Kung Lao understand what happened to him. Doesn't say they shouldn't go stop him, just saying that he should be held accountable for his course of action. Because what he's doing
is "un-godly".
Now as stated, Raiden is not evil. Since this is so, I have an idea that would even allow Fujin to assume the role of the protector of earth.
Listen, Raiden ressurected the corpse of Kang to kill right? So if I'm getting this right Raiden is in violation of his Gods-manship some how here. My opinion is that he should stand a trial of sorts before the elder gods. Maybe Fujin and Kung Lao successfully bring him to this "trail". At which point he
could be relieved of his taint if it's still there.....and his duties as a God. Same concept has already been used to make Shinnok a fallen god. Though not exactly the same idea here, this would be an oportunity to expose how that process works(character depth), keep the character aligned as a "good-guy", and let Fujin take over the role as protector of EarthRealm all at the same time. Everybody moves up the latter.
I think they should make Raiden human.
The point I'm making here is that he made more than a
few wrong decisions already and he should be punished//demoted for it. For "Un-God-Like Behavior"...or something.
It just oozes irony. To take that a little further, I think that without taint a factor, and since he did re-animate Kangs corpse in particular, he should be given the oportunity to redeem god-hood by proving it. He might even have a challenge from the elder gods to become the very thing he violated....the champion of mortal kombat. Trials and tribulations a-foot.
This way too, there's ample opportunity for them to kill him if they really needed to in order to "Start a-new" like they've been talking. As much as i would HATE that, this is because he would then be human, and reasonably seceptable to death.
That makes more sense to me because Gods have rules they have to abide by, and if they violate them....they are held accountable.
Judging by Shinnoks fall from the Pantheon there is a stucture there to deal with matters of this nature. You see, you can follow a concept like that.
"Raiden was once a God for millenia and even accomplished Elder God status at one point.....which he relinquished willingly shortly after. He battled the fallen elder god Shinnok at another point dubbed "the war of the gods", fought for his humans sometime before armegeddon to defend earth in Mortal Kombat and was beaten. He was tainted in the process after perfoming a sacrfice. The taint made him ruthless enough to re-animate a dead champions' corpes, a violation of his rules as a god. From that infraction and the havok the corpse reeked on any possible threat to EarthRealm, Raiden was demoted to his human form by the elder gods. Now, his objective as a human is to become the champion of mortal kombat and redeem himself in hopes of once again becoming the god of thunder and lightning." tah-dah
Not:
"Hey, let's make him evil because he's wearing black and has red eyes". That's fuckin stupid.
