u/Comfortable-Eye-4046

When you revisit Mortal Kombat 9—the game that revived the most acclaimed franchise and revolutionized console fighting games—you notice certain flaws, or you spot simple solutions that could have prevented massive issues.

That said, the point I want to address today is this: since Raiden claimed to have visions of the past (the original timeline) during *MK9*, why didn't he simply tell Scorpion—after defeating Nightwolf—that it was Quan Chi who murdered the Shirai Ryu and his family?

After all, while he tried to avert the tragedy by promising that sparing Sub-Zero would lead the Elder Gods to resurrect the Shirai Ryu, wouldn't it have been easier to just tell him that the true killer—the one responsible for his own death as well as that of his family and clan—was the very same sorcerer who brought him back to life as a specter from the Netherrealm?

I started thinking a bit about the events of MK9 where Raiden managed to prevent Armageddon, but that's when it occurred to me to revisit that first timeline. Seeing Liu Kang's ending in MK4, where Kitana offers him the throne of Edenia, sparked a curiosity, or rather a question: if Liu Kang accepted the offer, would he still be alive in Deadly Alliance, or would he still be dead?

I'd like to think that if Liu Kang became King of Edenia, he would still be alive, because he would avoid the cruel fate of being turned into a zombie who follows Raiden's orders to destroy everything around him, where his soul couldn't re-enter that body until later, after he had already taken many lives, like in his ending in MK Deception.