The Unofficial Mortal Kombat Oskar Awards! Part 1 (Spoilers Ahoy!)
The Unofficial Mortal Kombat Oskar Awards! Part 1 (Spoilers Ahoy!)
Greetings, one and all, to the 316th annual MK Oskars, where we seek to recognize and acknowledge the great contributions of those that make the MK universe so rich and amazing.
No, no, not you, game developers. Just enjoy your future GamePro award or something (that's still a thing, right?)
Anyway, without further adieu, let's begin the award ceremony. Grab some popcorn and get ready.
Best "Pulled a Blunder God" Award
Remember that time Raiden's poor leadership and incompetence wound up getting nearly EVERYONE killed?
("He was like a son to me... a son that I roasted alive like deep fried turkey.")
WINNER: SCORPION
Who best to pick up that torch and carry it than MK poster boy himself, Scorpion!
After nearly 20 years of being a narrow-minded, vengeance-fueled idiot whose rage blinded him and caused him to screw things up, at last we can see how he has grown... into a narrow-minded, vengeance-fueled idiot whose rage blinded him and caused him to screw things up. It turns out, beating up your allies, releasing a dangerous prisoner, assisting in freeing an immortal Elder God of death and destruction, and robbing your buddies of the chance to possibly save the rest of their friends from a life of hellish slavery doesn't do a lot to engender goodwill. Take a bow, Scorpion. You are MKX's "Blunder God" of the year winner!
Worst Mortal Kombat Mother
This is truly the game of the MILFs (Mothers I Love to Friendship). Never before in a fighting game have so many matriarchs beat the living tar out of people and enjoyed it. Granted, that sometimes means beating up their progeny. Whether it's Sonya abandoning her family, Sindel killing off her offspring, or Takeda's mom just having the poor fortune to die when he was eight, there weren't a lot of GOOD moms running around...
WINNER: D'VORAH
While D'vorah certainly seems to at least care about her brood and ensuring they're well fed, the fact she has literally thousands of children, most with absent fathers, and sends them out practically out of the womb to fight martial artists to the death would no doubt get her a few Child Protective Services calls and visits. Using some of them as little exploding bug grenades certainly doesn't help. Shape up, D'vorah. Your kids look up to you.
Best Mad Tea Party
There are just times when people say "screw it" and throw themselves a crazy little tea party to solve all their problems. It can get a little crazy, a little bizarre, but the best of us know that nothing helps more than a mad tea party.
WINNER: SUB-ZERO AND SCORPION
How do you resolve one of the most bitter, long-lasting, and famous rivalries of all time? By having some tea, sitting down, and talking it out like rational adults!...
... Which, in the world of Mortal Kombat, is practically the maddest, most nonsensical thing to ever happen in a universe where Johnny Cage can uppercut your head off three times, people shrug off broken bones like minor scratches, and death is less substantial than a Dragon Ball Z episode. Granted, Frost does pop in entirely out of the blue to liven things up, but this is, without question, the maddest thing to ever happen in the MK universe.
Best/Worst Girl-on-Girl Kiss
Anyone notice that Mileena has lips for the first time in this game? I wonder why they gave her lips?
WINNER: MILEENA AND D'VORAH
Oh, so THAT'S why they gave her lips... Congrats, girls. You win the Best Girl-on-Girl kiss award!... and also the worst.
You're also the ONLY girl-on-girl kiss until Netherrealm Studios adapts my "Kitana and Jade" fanfic for the game. Still waiting on that call, NRS.
Best New Beard
Want to show a character has aged, but don't want to make them look like a shriveled up prune wrecked by the passage of time? Give them a beard! Kenshi, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Jax, Kung Lao, and even Future Raiden all sport new crumb catchers, and even Kano's beard got even beardier as his hairline migrated south. But who wore it best?
WINNER: ERMAC
While all the others have new grin grass, only Ermac's truly takes it to the next level and makes it REGAL. That is some high class King Tut beard-action going on with our favorite mummified soul basket. Congrats, Ermac. You reign supreme on beards until Erron Black reveals his hidden handlebar mustache.
Worst Performance by a Villain in a Lead Role
Sometimes, you get a great Shao Kahn, snapping necks, invading dimensions, resurrecting hot queens to bang while cloning her daughter. Sometimes you get a Shang Tsung, stealing the souls of thousands of warriors over centuries of evil. Sometimes you get a Quan Chi, crafty and cunning and manipulating others to his own ends...
WINNER: SHINNOK
And sometimes you get a Shinnok.
With a staggering body count of... zero, a success rate of... zero, and the misfortune of being beating to a bloody pulp by a movie actor and then a hipster girl, despite being a juiced up immortal Elder God of death, Shinnok may have the look and the ambition, but when he quite literally is defeated by a selfie-taking college girl punching him in the balls, for better or for worse, your award for "worst performance by an MK villain" is cemented.
The "Chuck Cunningham" Award Winner
Sometimes, characters just vanish without explanation and we don't know where they are or what happened to them. Did the tornado take Noob Saibot to the land of Oz? Did Cyrax get hacked by North Korean spies? Is Sheeva still enjoying her vacation in Australia? Did Skarlet run off with Freddy Kreuger? These things happened, and it always gets annoying waiting years and years for answers.
WINNER: JADE
Poor, poor Jade. While even Stryker and Nightwolf get a shout-out, nary a peep is said about Edenia's number 1 pole rider. How she went from Girls Gone Wired nominee to MIA footnote is certainly a loss.
(We were all pigs back then)
Even Kitana uses her staff, but the dead, undead, or (maybe?) alive Jade is nowhere to be found, outside of a foggy, vague blur in Kitana's arcade ending. While her fate will no doubt show up in a later game (4 more years of waiting...), Jade wins the dubious honor of being MKX's most forgotten hero.
Best "Deus Ex Machina"
Mortal Kombat has always had extreme leaps of logic. A tournament decides whether you can invade another universe? Sure. The Netherrealm is just a place you can visit and, if you want, walk out of if you find the right portal? Okay. A crazy old man runs around finding sacred artifacts that accidentally frees a long dormant dragon king who fuses with a lizard person after a centuries old prophesy is fulfilled? Huh, well... even then, suspension of disbelief can only go so far. So how far did MKX go?
WINNER: THE CAGE FAMILY
Glowing Green Energy inherited from an ancient Mediterranean War Cult that makes one immune to certain attacks and powers them up when a loved one is in danger. At long last, our journey to "Super Saiyan" Cage is complete (death is already as temporary...).
Turns out, years of training in the mystical martial arts, lifelong devotion to the study of magic, chi-flow, and trained by the best and brightest of MK's warriors is still no match for being born a rich, privileged white girl who has the right parents.
... It's college, all over again.
Best "I'm Too Old For This Sh*t" Award
Twenty years is a long time, and not all of our heroes are as limber as they used to be. We've got middle-aged and senior citizens running around MKX like zoo animals on the loose. But you know there was going to be that one scene, that one where a character goes up to the veteran warrior and is all like "I'm retired. I put that life behind me." "C'mon, we need a guy like you. Just one more mission." "Alright... but just as a consultant..."
WINNER: JAX
At the very least, you can legitimately say this guy was rusty. And, of course, his "consultation" turns into "punch the undead denizens of hell invading our world" by the very next scene.
Danny Glover would be so pround, and at least Jax's "replacement" was a few shades more attractive and charismatic than Chris Rock.
(Though would that make Johnny or Sonya the Mel Gibson?)
Best Evil Queen
Strangely, this is a game with not one, not two, not three, but FOUR evil queens in it: Queen Sindel of Edenia, Queen Mileena of Outworld, Swarm Queen D'vorah, and Empress Kitana of the Netherrealm. That is a LOT of evil hotness going around. But which one was the best?
WINNER: KITANA
While it sucks that Kitana's agonizing life of misfortune continues without any signs that it'll get better, at the very least she can take solace that she ROCKED the "evil queen" getup better than anyone else did.
(Now she just needs to find a young baby girl to imprison or sacrifice and the circle is complete)
That concludes the first round of awards. Congrats to our winners and best of luck to our future nominees. Tip your waiters and remember to use Friendships responsibly.
No, no, not you, game developers. Just enjoy your future GamePro award or something (that's still a thing, right?)
Anyway, without further adieu, let's begin the award ceremony. Grab some popcorn and get ready.
Best "Pulled a Blunder God" Award
Remember that time Raiden's poor leadership and incompetence wound up getting nearly EVERYONE killed?
("He was like a son to me... a son that I roasted alive like deep fried turkey.")
WINNER: SCORPION
Who best to pick up that torch and carry it than MK poster boy himself, Scorpion!
After nearly 20 years of being a narrow-minded, vengeance-fueled idiot whose rage blinded him and caused him to screw things up, at last we can see how he has grown... into a narrow-minded, vengeance-fueled idiot whose rage blinded him and caused him to screw things up. It turns out, beating up your allies, releasing a dangerous prisoner, assisting in freeing an immortal Elder God of death and destruction, and robbing your buddies of the chance to possibly save the rest of their friends from a life of hellish slavery doesn't do a lot to engender goodwill. Take a bow, Scorpion. You are MKX's "Blunder God" of the year winner!
Worst Mortal Kombat Mother
This is truly the game of the MILFs (Mothers I Love to Friendship). Never before in a fighting game have so many matriarchs beat the living tar out of people and enjoyed it. Granted, that sometimes means beating up their progeny. Whether it's Sonya abandoning her family, Sindel killing off her offspring, or Takeda's mom just having the poor fortune to die when he was eight, there weren't a lot of GOOD moms running around...
WINNER: D'VORAH
While D'vorah certainly seems to at least care about her brood and ensuring they're well fed, the fact she has literally thousands of children, most with absent fathers, and sends them out practically out of the womb to fight martial artists to the death would no doubt get her a few Child Protective Services calls and visits. Using some of them as little exploding bug grenades certainly doesn't help. Shape up, D'vorah. Your kids look up to you.
Best Mad Tea Party
There are just times when people say "screw it" and throw themselves a crazy little tea party to solve all their problems. It can get a little crazy, a little bizarre, but the best of us know that nothing helps more than a mad tea party.
WINNER: SUB-ZERO AND SCORPION
How do you resolve one of the most bitter, long-lasting, and famous rivalries of all time? By having some tea, sitting down, and talking it out like rational adults!...
... Which, in the world of Mortal Kombat, is practically the maddest, most nonsensical thing to ever happen in a universe where Johnny Cage can uppercut your head off three times, people shrug off broken bones like minor scratches, and death is less substantial than a Dragon Ball Z episode. Granted, Frost does pop in entirely out of the blue to liven things up, but this is, without question, the maddest thing to ever happen in the MK universe.
Best/Worst Girl-on-Girl Kiss
Anyone notice that Mileena has lips for the first time in this game? I wonder why they gave her lips?
WINNER: MILEENA AND D'VORAH
Oh, so THAT'S why they gave her lips... Congrats, girls. You win the Best Girl-on-Girl kiss award!... and also the worst.
You're also the ONLY girl-on-girl kiss until Netherrealm Studios adapts my "Kitana and Jade" fanfic for the game. Still waiting on that call, NRS.
Best New Beard
Want to show a character has aged, but don't want to make them look like a shriveled up prune wrecked by the passage of time? Give them a beard! Kenshi, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Jax, Kung Lao, and even Future Raiden all sport new crumb catchers, and even Kano's beard got even beardier as his hairline migrated south. But who wore it best?
WINNER: ERMAC
While all the others have new grin grass, only Ermac's truly takes it to the next level and makes it REGAL. That is some high class King Tut beard-action going on with our favorite mummified soul basket. Congrats, Ermac. You reign supreme on beards until Erron Black reveals his hidden handlebar mustache.
Worst Performance by a Villain in a Lead Role
Sometimes, you get a great Shao Kahn, snapping necks, invading dimensions, resurrecting hot queens to bang while cloning her daughter. Sometimes you get a Shang Tsung, stealing the souls of thousands of warriors over centuries of evil. Sometimes you get a Quan Chi, crafty and cunning and manipulating others to his own ends...
WINNER: SHINNOK
And sometimes you get a Shinnok.
With a staggering body count of... zero, a success rate of... zero, and the misfortune of being beating to a bloody pulp by a movie actor and then a hipster girl, despite being a juiced up immortal Elder God of death, Shinnok may have the look and the ambition, but when he quite literally is defeated by a selfie-taking college girl punching him in the balls, for better or for worse, your award for "worst performance by an MK villain" is cemented.
The "Chuck Cunningham" Award Winner
Sometimes, characters just vanish without explanation and we don't know where they are or what happened to them. Did the tornado take Noob Saibot to the land of Oz? Did Cyrax get hacked by North Korean spies? Is Sheeva still enjoying her vacation in Australia? Did Skarlet run off with Freddy Kreuger? These things happened, and it always gets annoying waiting years and years for answers.
WINNER: JADE
Poor, poor Jade. While even Stryker and Nightwolf get a shout-out, nary a peep is said about Edenia's number 1 pole rider. How she went from Girls Gone Wired nominee to MIA footnote is certainly a loss.
(We were all pigs back then)
Even Kitana uses her staff, but the dead, undead, or (maybe?) alive Jade is nowhere to be found, outside of a foggy, vague blur in Kitana's arcade ending. While her fate will no doubt show up in a later game (4 more years of waiting...), Jade wins the dubious honor of being MKX's most forgotten hero.
Best "Deus Ex Machina"
Mortal Kombat has always had extreme leaps of logic. A tournament decides whether you can invade another universe? Sure. The Netherrealm is just a place you can visit and, if you want, walk out of if you find the right portal? Okay. A crazy old man runs around finding sacred artifacts that accidentally frees a long dormant dragon king who fuses with a lizard person after a centuries old prophesy is fulfilled? Huh, well... even then, suspension of disbelief can only go so far. So how far did MKX go?
WINNER: THE CAGE FAMILY
Glowing Green Energy inherited from an ancient Mediterranean War Cult that makes one immune to certain attacks and powers them up when a loved one is in danger. At long last, our journey to "Super Saiyan" Cage is complete (death is already as temporary...).
Turns out, years of training in the mystical martial arts, lifelong devotion to the study of magic, chi-flow, and trained by the best and brightest of MK's warriors is still no match for being born a rich, privileged white girl who has the right parents.
... It's college, all over again.
Best "I'm Too Old For This Sh*t" Award
Twenty years is a long time, and not all of our heroes are as limber as they used to be. We've got middle-aged and senior citizens running around MKX like zoo animals on the loose. But you know there was going to be that one scene, that one where a character goes up to the veteran warrior and is all like "I'm retired. I put that life behind me." "C'mon, we need a guy like you. Just one more mission." "Alright... but just as a consultant..."
WINNER: JAX
At the very least, you can legitimately say this guy was rusty. And, of course, his "consultation" turns into "punch the undead denizens of hell invading our world" by the very next scene.
Danny Glover would be so pround, and at least Jax's "replacement" was a few shades more attractive and charismatic than Chris Rock.
(Though would that make Johnny or Sonya the Mel Gibson?)
Best Evil Queen
Strangely, this is a game with not one, not two, not three, but FOUR evil queens in it: Queen Sindel of Edenia, Queen Mileena of Outworld, Swarm Queen D'vorah, and Empress Kitana of the Netherrealm. That is a LOT of evil hotness going around. But which one was the best?
WINNER: KITANA
While it sucks that Kitana's agonizing life of misfortune continues without any signs that it'll get better, at the very least she can take solace that she ROCKED the "evil queen" getup better than anyone else did.
(Now she just needs to find a young baby girl to imprison or sacrifice and the circle is complete)
That concludes the first round of awards. Congrats to our winners and best of luck to our future nominees. Tip your waiters and remember to use Friendships responsibly.
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That was one hell of a read and agree 100%.
And the award for best use of a gif goes to you, sir. 007 FTW.
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That was fun!
That was fun!
And the award for best use of a gif goes to you, sir. 007 FTW.
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Fist of all, hi to everybody!
Long time lurker here. Decided to finally post something here and give my thought about some things in some posts.
Thank you Garlador for this read, I remember your articles from long time ago and this one was as good and funny like those before. Good job and I'm eagerly anticipating the others.
Now considering Shinnok, I thought that were are just joking, but in case that your not then I must respectfully disagree with you.
I hate logs quotes on forums so I will explain one point of your last post at the time:
(sorry for long amount of text)
In a matter of fact in this rebooted time line Shinnok is in fact the master manipulator above Quan Chi, and actually IS the direct architect of the events of MK3.
The whole idea of invasion of Earthrealm, Sindel's resurrection even the fucking giant soulnado (which I'm not really fond that they took that away from Shao
) were all brought to Shao Kahn and executed by Quan Chi, and as we see at the end of MK9 were part of Shinnoks's plan actually.
He organized that event to make Earthrealm and Outworld pummel out (for the first time outside of tournament) and inflict real losses to each other, while in process he bolsters his army with the great champions. And it worked great...
Only events of MK1 and MK2 weren't influenced by him and were solely Shao Kahns work. (Actually idea for MK2 was Shang Tsung's apparently. :P Boy I hate that the made SK incapable of any real plan...)
One big lesson: don't ever measure a MK villain's (or in fact any fighting game villain's) effectiveness by playable fighter's body count.
Shang Tsung MK2 and MK3 Saho Kahn and Onaga killed how much playable charaters by themselves during the respective stories? That's right : ZERO, zilch...
(Motaro killed Johnny and Raiden blew up DA and himself at the beginning of Deception)
Only ones who actually did some respectable slaughtering were the Deadly Alliance and MK9 Sindel (which was a really poor way to do it). MK9 Shao Kanh killed only Kung Lao and by very bitchy move (very disappointing , as a SK fan I expected at least fatality murder after a straight fight).
Onaga even returned the dead back to life.. Sense something familiar here...?
Shinnok could easily kill all the old-timers in SF camp by one big blast from his hand, but he didn't. Why : because writers wanted the to show up in future stories, so he just knocked them down. And that's about all the logic there is in MK.
In short, Shinny was away from the event's for about 90% of the damned story mode, but if we want to count off-camera deaths, than next tho Shao absorbing earthrealmer's souls in MK3 I guess that unleashing the hordes of oni and demons on Earth at the begging of the MKX story certainly produced massive slaughter of civilians, which we didn't see because of very lame way story was presented (not talking about pure production values).
As for Cassie, I was bummed that Sub and Scorpion didn't finally get to be protagonists and beat the main villain at least ONE time, but I think that they choose the real successor to Liu Kang successfully. But, again because of LAME presentation this was done not as good as it should.
I'm (generally), OK with the whole " Green energy " thing, after all they had to pull something out of their ass to make someone a new protagonist. But that should be more than just : "My beloved is in danger! Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds (and gods) !!!!"
With no REAL explanation I decided to go with my head-canon that Jinsei in the chamber (still not corrupted totally), awoken by act of self- sacrifice added its power of the whole planet's life-force to and amplified "Cage Green energy" to the point that she's able to withstand Shinnok's death-based attacks.
Yeah, I pulled that out of my ass, but that's the only reasonable explanation that I can come with.
Than you if you managed to read all of this. I wish you everything best!
Long time lurker here. Decided to finally post something here and give my thought about some things in some posts.
Thank you Garlador for this read, I remember your articles from long time ago and this one was as good and funny like those before. Good job and I'm eagerly anticipating the others.
Now considering Shinnok, I thought that were are just joking, but in case that your not then I must respectfully disagree with you.
I hate logs quotes on forums so I will explain one point of your last post at the time:
(sorry for long amount of text)
In a matter of fact in this rebooted time line Shinnok is in fact the master manipulator above Quan Chi, and actually IS the direct architect of the events of MK3.
The whole idea of invasion of Earthrealm, Sindel's resurrection even the fucking giant soulnado (which I'm not really fond that they took that away from Shao
He organized that event to make Earthrealm and Outworld pummel out (for the first time outside of tournament) and inflict real losses to each other, while in process he bolsters his army with the great champions. And it worked great...
Only events of MK1 and MK2 weren't influenced by him and were solely Shao Kahns work. (Actually idea for MK2 was Shang Tsung's apparently. :P Boy I hate that the made SK incapable of any real plan...)
One big lesson: don't ever measure a MK villain's (or in fact any fighting game villain's) effectiveness by playable fighter's body count.
Shang Tsung MK2 and MK3 Saho Kahn and Onaga killed how much playable charaters by themselves during the respective stories? That's right : ZERO, zilch...
(Motaro killed Johnny and Raiden blew up DA and himself at the beginning of Deception)
Only ones who actually did some respectable slaughtering were the Deadly Alliance and MK9 Sindel (which was a really poor way to do it). MK9 Shao Kanh killed only Kung Lao and by very bitchy move (very disappointing , as a SK fan I expected at least fatality murder after a straight fight).
Onaga even returned the dead back to life.. Sense something familiar here...?
Shinnok could easily kill all the old-timers in SF camp by one big blast from his hand, but he didn't. Why : because writers wanted the to show up in future stories, so he just knocked them down. And that's about all the logic there is in MK.
In short, Shinny was away from the event's for about 90% of the damned story mode, but if we want to count off-camera deaths, than next tho Shao absorbing earthrealmer's souls in MK3 I guess that unleashing the hordes of oni and demons on Earth at the begging of the MKX story certainly produced massive slaughter of civilians, which we didn't see because of very lame way story was presented (not talking about pure production values).
As for Cassie, I was bummed that Sub and Scorpion didn't finally get to be protagonists and beat the main villain at least ONE time, but I think that they choose the real successor to Liu Kang successfully. But, again because of LAME presentation this was done not as good as it should.
I'm (generally), OK with the whole " Green energy " thing, after all they had to pull something out of their ass to make someone a new protagonist. But that should be more than just : "My beloved is in danger! Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds (and gods) !!!!"
With no REAL explanation I decided to go with my head-canon that Jinsei in the chamber (still not corrupted totally), awoken by act of self- sacrifice added its power of the whole planet's life-force to and amplified "Cage Green energy" to the point that she's able to withstand Shinnok's death-based attacks.
Yeah, I pulled that out of my ass, but that's the only reasonable explanation that I can come with.
Than you if you managed to read all of this. I wish you everything best!
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LOL and i agree About Shinnok being a horrible villain! He just seems so underwhelming and well....not scary every sub boss and main boss always strikes a 'fear' or oh shit feeling in me, but Shinnok just makes me feel like im fighting a really weak female kombatant lol
kennytwerking Wrote:
LOL and i agree About Shinnok being a horrible villain! He just seems so underwhelming and well....not scary every sub boss and main boss always strikes a 'fear' or oh shit feeling in me, but Shinnok just makes me feel like im fighting a really weak female kombatant lol
LOL and i agree About Shinnok being a horrible villain! He just seems so underwhelming and well....not scary
Absolutely not. Do you consider Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars weak?
Best villain always hides their enormous strength being (seemingly) weak facade.
For me that "old pervert" guide is more creepy than some silly big ass buffed monster...
Garlador Wrote:
Well, Palpatine had a screen presence Shinnok can only dream of, let alone being the unchallenged Emperor of the galaxy-destroying Empire crushing planet after planet with decades of ruthless invasion and control.
His authority is firmly established by his tight grip on Star War's number 1 villain, Darth Vader, who fears and respects him. His power is on a level far beyond anyone else in the entire series (sans Yoda, perhaps), and only his own arrogance leads to his demise, because he could kill Luke at any point but relished the idea of torturing him.
Even the prequels firmly establish how much of a physical threat he is by killing Mace Windu (the "badass" Jedi) and then going the distance with Jedi master Yoda, all while he directly and joyously ruins the lives of every single person in the series with decades upon decades upon decades of abuse and persecution.
Shinnok doesn't have anything on that scale.
SKHammer Wrote:
Absolutely not. Do you consider Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars weak?
Best villain always hides their enormous strength being (seemingly) weak facade.
For me that "old pervert" guide is more creepy than some silly big ass buffed monster...
Absolutely not. Do you consider Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars weak?
Best villain always hides their enormous strength being (seemingly) weak facade.
For me that "old pervert" guide is more creepy than some silly big ass buffed monster...
Well, Palpatine had a screen presence Shinnok can only dream of, let alone being the unchallenged Emperor of the galaxy-destroying Empire crushing planet after planet with decades of ruthless invasion and control.
His authority is firmly established by his tight grip on Star War's number 1 villain, Darth Vader, who fears and respects him. His power is on a level far beyond anyone else in the entire series (sans Yoda, perhaps), and only his own arrogance leads to his demise, because he could kill Luke at any point but relished the idea of torturing him.
Even the prequels firmly establish how much of a physical threat he is by killing Mace Windu (the "badass" Jedi) and then going the distance with Jedi master Yoda, all while he directly and joyously ruins the lives of every single person in the series with decades upon decades upon decades of abuse and persecution.
Shinnok doesn't have anything on that scale.
Well:
In original trilogy, Palpatione didn't even show up until last 15 min. of the last movie, didn't kill anyone and all the work and "bad things" we saw were done by his minions, just as someone else we are discussing.
But we all knew he's bad-ass.
That somebody else is also unchallenged ruler of infinite hellish dimension full of worst terrors imaginable.
From there he is orchestrated events of MK3 , prepared MK4, (in previous timeline he even got the heaven and murdered some of the Elder Gods) and he even united Army of Darkness for Armageddon, all time sitting comfortably in his chair.
Real bad guy doesn't need to get his hands dirty to accomplish things.
Also, prequel trilogy Palpy defeated (but not killed) Yoda after a long struggle, Shinnok crushed Raiden with one move of his wrist.
And yeah, he is also defeated only because of his arrogance : He's constantly gloating over enemies instead of vaporizing them the moment they arrive. Sense a pattern here?
I don't mean to say that he is the same quality of villain in terms of writing or anything else - Palpatine is the legendary archetype. But for MK standards he is close as it could get in this kind of cheesy lore.
Yeah he sucked hard in previous games, but now it is rectified, don't let the previous experience blind you.
I'm starting to think that people like to bash Shinnok only because his choice of hats.
Garlador Wrote:
Worst Mortal Kombat Mother
Worst Mortal Kombat Mother
>not Sonya
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This shit is rigged as bad as the Oscars!
Sonya became a general because of her independent workaholic tendencies leading her to choose her career instead of her kid.
She's the first openly deadbeat mom in games, chasing her obsessions while the father has to give up his career to take care of their child!
Now that's some motherfucking EQUALITY right there.
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