I believe Raiden screwed up. Call me crazy but i wonder where ppl saw him abuse his powers though. I know he kind of took matters in his own hands at the end and the alliance with Quan Chi, sort of?

He's a question mark to me but at least he still has the chance to join a group of younger/new characters to try and help his dead comrades and i wish it'll turn well. But hey, since DA? Nothing has gone right for the good guys and Raiden is becoming a real asshole.

I wish he'll turn into that ol'good and strong Raiden that defied 2 sorcerers at the time once again but i also am aware that things might have been rebooted only so that they can kill off more chars in the sequel and make Raiden deserve to have his head chopped off. I'm not scared, he'll keep returning though. Unlike many chars that weren't developped yet and will most likely die if introduced.

Whatever happens to Raiden, i think he'll be standing at the end of the next game and ready to destroy the next threat, at all cost.

The developers are not that stupid in changing a crucial part of this story and make something pretend it didn't happen.

He's probably going to have a lot of people hate him, but he's most likely not going to have any kind of consequence coming from the other Gods. They did help him in the end of the story anyways, fighting against Kahn, so I doubt that he's going to have something serious coming from them. If they weren't going to help him, then that would be punishment.

If Kang is alive in the next game, I would like to see a fight between them, have Kang turn on his master and never forgive what happened, but not in a way where it leads to Raiden's death.

I can see this happening. Raiden ends up surprised when Liu Kang isn't dead after he heals his wounds. Liu Kang then forgives Raiden and begins to become the hero we know him to be.

Mark my words now, by the end of the next game we are going to see the rise of Dark Raiden and possibly see him become the boss of MK11.

Raiden just fits as the bumbling a-hole to me now. I suspect we will see fujin in the next game and everyone will start to turn from Raiden because he has lost his mind.

Personally, and I've said this before, I loved Deadly Alliance. Since Shang and Quan most likely won't be around, not Quan anyway. I believe a new deadly alliance of Raiden and Shinnok would be amazing. Two former gods rising up to take down Earth. It would make sense too, since everyone on Earth turns against Raiden, he then turns on them and decides to destroy Earth.

I see Raiden punished by the Elder gods and his powers & god status are stripped away. He'll be mortal.

@Scar_Subby

Serious? No offence but when Raiden wants to destroy Earthrealm then i guess i know the franchise has been killed off.

You know after further thought on this matter this could be a way to divert attention from Liu Kang as many people seem to want. What if Raiden is indeed stripped of his godly powers, and The Elder Gods give him a trial by fire as both penance and to prove he is worthy. Fujin of course could act as his replacement or maybe a guide in Raiden's quest to atone, and reclaim his status and in that time it gives Shinnok the diversion he needs to take power. Thus The Elder Gods tell Raiden that if he wants to be a god again his task is simple...prove his worth by defeating Shinnok. What ya'll think of that idea?

And by the by Raiden absolutely abused his power. He took advantage of people's faith in him, sent other people to do his dirty work and die(that "Unless directly challenged" baloney was priceless) even though he must've figured out early on that he goofed up somewhere(you think that his idea was to kill everybody who knows instead of admit he was wrong?), and even made that promise to Scorpion about his family and clan and we ALL know that Raiden couldn't do what he said he could do for Scorpion.Raiden doesn't have that kind of power, he's the god of static cling for Chrissake! I mean look at how hard Liu Kang tried to give Raiden the benefit of the doubt up until Kitana died...and look what that faith got poor Liu. The strength of will and character that it took Liu not to tell Raiden to piss off the second Kung Lao was murdered is stunning.