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* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Spawn and Noob Saibot make statements which indicate that Alex Murphy's soul is damned, likely due to the process which created him. For his part, Murphy believes his soul is intact in spite of OCP's "efforts", as he tells Sub-zero.
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* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Spawn and Noob Saibot make statements which indicate that Alex Murphy's soul is damned, likely due to the process which created him. For his part, Murphy believes his soul is intact in spite of OCP's "efforts", as he tells Sub-zero.Sub-Zero.
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: In The Krypt proper, when he unlocks [[spoiler: The throne room]], he ''also'' no longer has any visible way out. In the game, he's also found dead [[spoiler: in the Shaolin Dungeon.]]
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In Geras' first scene, he calmly confronts Liu Kang and Kung Lao before being beheaded with seeming ease by the latter, only to rise again like the injury was nothing and bluntly inform the monks that he ''can't'' be killed. Even when temporarily defeated, he expresses respect for the Shaolin monks' spirit, but nevertheless follows Kronika's will to the letter.
* {{Hypocrite}}: His many expressions of loyalty and gratitude to Shao Kahn (and the criticism he throws at others for lacking them) ring a bit hollow when an intro with Shao himself heavily implies that Kollector embezzles from the tribute he collects on his master's behalf.
* VillainousValour: Kollector is proud of being a SelfMadeMan for climbing the ranks in Shao Kahn's service, and when captured by Kotal Kahn and facing execution, Kollector doesn't take it lying down, defending his actions and successfully lashing out at his captors amidst the chaos of the time merger.
* AntiRoleModel: [[spoiler:After he becomes Keeper of Time, Liu Kang looks to Kronika as a shining example of how ''not'' to fulfill the role, even giving up his power as a Titan so that he won't be tempted to begin an endless cycle of starting and restarting time to the point of madness, as Kronika did.]]
** [[spoiler:Even after her demise, Kronika continues to fill this role in ''Mortal Kombat 1'', as the New Era in which the game takes place exists in the first place the result of her battles with Liu Kang and Shang Tsung, who are revealed to have ''[[TheMultiverse both]]'' become Keepers of Time after Kronika's death, along with countless other Titans, all of whom defeated Kronika to take control of the Hourglass in their own respective timelines.]]
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* IDieFree: [[spoiler:Someone who stood as a Titan will never live as a slave, especially to one of her old slaves; Shang Tsung.]]
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* IDieFree: [[spoiler:Someone who stood as a Titan will never live as a slave, especially to one of her old slaves; slaves, Shang Tsung.]]
* ThePerfectionist: Arguably her defining trait, along with her {{pride}}; Kronika is obsessed with crafting the "perfect" timeline, and whenever one fails to live up to her expectations, she scrubs it and starts over. This fixation has long since driven Kronika insane, and the fact that even ''she'' has lost count of how many attempts she's made suggests that the perfect balance she seeks is impossible, [[DetrimentalDetermination not that that stops Kronika from continuing to try]]. [[spoiler:After Kronika's death, Liu Kang notably refuses to allow such an obsession to take root in himself, which is why he forsook his Titan powers after creating the New Era, not allowing the pursuit of perfection to destroy him as it did Kronika.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:In ''Mortal Kombat 1'', Geras implies that Kronika was once much more stable and benevolent before her obsession with balance and perfection drove her to madness as she fixated on creating a perfect timeline, only to face endless disappointment.]]
-->'''Spawn:''' There still a man under all that shit?\\
'''[=RoboCop=]:''' Bad language makes for bad feelings.\\
'''Spawn:''' Perfect. You're about to feel ''real bad'', motherfucker.
'''[=RoboCop=]:''' Bad language makes for bad feelings.\\
'''Spawn:''' Perfect. You're about to feel ''real bad'', motherfucker.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Scorpion brings him up to Raiden as if Kharon has been a known fixture of the Netherrealm for ages, but ''11'' is the first time he's ever been mentioned. Justified as his role as a ferryman is largely irrelevant to the kombat around him in the realms, given he is only truly important in this game due to needing to find a place between them on the Sea of Blood.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Scorpion brings him up to Raiden as if Kharon has been a known fixture of the Netherrealm for ages, but ''11'' is the first time he's ever been mentioned.mentioned ([[DownplayedTrope though Raiden doesn't know who he is until Scorpion and Sub-Zero, both formerly Netherrealm revenants, inform him]]). Justified as his role as a ferryman is largely irrelevant to the kombat around him in the realms, given he is only truly important in this game due to needing to find a place between them on the Sea of Blood.
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* For [[Characters/MortalKombatLiuKang Liu Kang]], [[Characters/MortalKombatRaiden Raiden]], [[Characters/MortalKombatJohnnyCage Johnny Cage]], [[Characters/MortalKombatHanzoHasashi Scorpion]], [[Characters/MortalKombatKuaiLiang Sub-Zero]], [[Characters/MortalKombatKitana Kitana]], [[Characters/MortalKombatMileena Mileena]], [[Characters/MortalKombatShao Shao Kahn]], [[Characters/MortalKombatBiHan Noob Saibot]], [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]], and [[Characters/MortalKombatKotalKahn Kotal Kahn]], see their character pages respectively.
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* For [[Characters/MortalKombatLiuKang Liu Kang]], [[Characters/MortalKombatRaiden Raiden]], [[Characters/MortalKombatJohnnyCage Johnny Cage]], [[Characters/MortalKombatHanzoHasashi Scorpion]], [[Characters/MortalKombatKuaiLiang Sub-Zero]], [[Characters/MortalKombatKitana Kitana]], [[Characters/MortalKombatMileena Mileena]], [[Characters/MortalKombatShao Shao Kahn]], [[Characters/MortalKombatBiHan Noob Saibot]], and [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]], and [[Characters/MortalKombatKotalKahn Kotal Kahn]], see their character pages respectively.
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Individual Characters: [[Characters/MortalKombatHanzoHasashi Scorpion I (Hanzo Hasashi)]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatBiHan Sub-Zero I/Noob Saibot (Bi-Han)]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatJohnnyCage Johnny Cage]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKano Kano]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatLiuKang Liu Kang]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatRaiden Raiden]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKuaiLiang Sub-Zero II/Scorpion II (Kuai Liang)]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKitana Kitana]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatMileena Mileena]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatShao Shao Kahn/General Shao]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatQuanChi Quan Chi]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKotalKahn Kotal Kahn]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKronika Kronika]]-]]]
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Individual Characters: [[Characters/MortalKombatHanzoHasashi Scorpion I (Hanzo Hasashi)]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatBiHan Sub-Zero I/Noob Saibot (Bi-Han)]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatJohnnyCage Johnny Cage]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKano Kano]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatLiuKang Liu Kang]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatRaiden Raiden]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKuaiLiang Sub-Zero II/Scorpion II (Kuai Liang)]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKitana Kitana]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatMileena Mileena]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatShao Shao Kahn/General Shao]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatQuanChi Quan Chi]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKotalKahn Kotal Kahn]] | [[Characters/MortalKombatKronika Kronika]]-]]]Chi]]-]]]
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* For [[Characters/MortalKombatKano Kano]], [[Characters/MortalKombatLiuKang Liu Kang]], [[Characters/MortalKombatRaiden Raiden]], [[Characters/MortalKombatJohnnyCage Johnny Cage]], [[Characters/MortalKombatHanzoHasashi Scorpion]], [[Characters/MortalKombatKuaiLiang Sub-Zero]], [[Characters/MortalKombatKitana Kitana]], [[Characters/MortalKombatMileena Mileena]], [[Characters/MortalKombatShao Shao Kahn]], [[Characters/MortalKombatBiHan Noob Saibot]], [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]], and [[Characters/MortalKombatKotalKahn Kotal Kahn]], see their character pages respectively.
* For Sonya Blade, check the ''Characters/MortalKombat1992'' sheet.
* For Sonya Blade, check the ''Characters/MortalKombat1992'' sheet.
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* For [[Characters/MortalKombatKano Kano]], [[Characters/MortalKombatLiuKang Liu Kang]], [[Characters/MortalKombatRaiden Raiden]], [[Characters/MortalKombatJohnnyCage Johnny Cage]], [[Characters/MortalKombatHanzoHasashi Scorpion]], [[Characters/MortalKombatKuaiLiang Sub-Zero]], [[Characters/MortalKombatKitana Kitana]], [[Characters/MortalKombatMileena Mileena]], [[Characters/MortalKombatShao Shao Kahn]], [[Characters/MortalKombatBiHan Noob Saibot]], [[Characters/MortalKombatShangTsung Shang Tsung]], and [[Characters/MortalKombatKotalKahn Kotal Kahn]], see their character pages respectively.
* For Kano and Sonya Blade, check the ''Characters/MortalKombat1992'' sheet.
* For Kano and Sonya Blade, check the ''Characters/MortalKombat1992'' sheet.
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!Guest Fighters
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!![[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} Spawn (Albert Francis "Al" Simmons)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't have a chance in Hell."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeithDavid (English), Creator/VictorHugoAguilar (Latin American Spanish), Philippe Dumond (French)
->Creator/{{Todd McFarlane}}'s iconic AntiHero creation. After being betrayed and murdered by his own government, Al Simmons was condemned to Hell for the wet work he performed as a CIA assassin. A demon king known as Malebolgia, however, had other plans: he offered Simmons a chance to reunite with his wife in exchange for his immortal soul. Thus, Simmons was reborn as an undead Hellspawn, or simply "Spawn". He was granted supenatural powers to fight petty criminals ''and'' lower demons, but Malebolgia's intent was to train him to serve in Hell's army.
->For other tropes which apply to him, check [[Characters/{{Spawn}} his own character sheet]]. This is only for these tropes which appear in this game.
[[folder:Spawn]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} Spawn (Albert Francis "Al" Simmons)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't have a chance in Hell."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeithDavid (English), Creator/VictorHugoAguilar (Latin American Spanish), Philippe Dumond (French)
->Creator/{{Todd McFarlane}}'s iconic AntiHero creation. After being betrayed and murdered by his own government, Al Simmons was condemned to Hell for the wet work he performed as a CIA assassin. A demon king known as Malebolgia, however, had other plans: he offered Simmons a chance to reunite with his wife in exchange for his immortal soul. Thus, Simmons was reborn as an undead Hellspawn, or simply "Spawn". He was granted supenatural powers to fight petty criminals ''and'' lower demons, but Malebolgia's intent was to train him to serve in Hell's army.
->For other tropes which apply to him, check [[Characters/{{Spawn}} his own character sheet]]. This is only for these tropes which appear in this game.
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!![[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} Spawn (Albert Francis "Al" Simmons)]]
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->Creator/{{Todd McFarlane}}'s iconic AntiHero creation. After being betrayed
->A mysterious goddess who oversees the flow of time, and
->For other tropes which apply to him, check [[Characters/{{Spawn}} his own character sheet]]. This is only for these tropes which appear in this game.
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* AbusiveParents: Kronika combines the worst attributes of emotional manipulation (Cetrion) and neglect (Shinnok).
* AccidentalHero: The past characters she plucked into the Koliseum during the time merger was taken from a time just after Kung Lao had beaten Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, meaning that she indirectly saved Kung Lao's life as Shao Kahn snapped his neck right after his next victory against Kintaro.
* AchillesHeel: Kronika is surprisingly vulnerable to being zoned due to the quirks of her moveset. For one, she can't crouch, so characters who can spam projectiles repeatedly can cheese her to death this way even on Very Hard. For two, she has no combo breaks, so the most she can do when pushed into a corner is to hold block until you inevitably break it, rinse and repeat. For three, her recovery frames are long enough to make her vulnerable to [[CycleOfHurting stun-locking]]. All of this combined made Kronika out to be possibly the easiest series boss to date, despite being its BigBad.
* TheAgeless: She is immune to the ravages of time, but can be killed through violent means unlike her son, [[CompleteImmortality Shinnok]].
* AllAccordingToPlan: Her armies are turned against her, her forces are bested, her enemies find her keep, yet she continues to claim that this is all part of her plan. It's only when Liu Kang and Raiden fuse that she starts to panic.
* AlphaBitch: She outranks The Protector Gods, The Elder Gods, and even the One Being. Yet she's far crueler than them all.
* AndThenWhat: [[spoiler:During Aftermath, Kronika gives the ArmorPiercingQuesion to aftermath-placed Raiden and Fujin: "Even if you defeat me, what then?" Kronika asks them even more questions, knowing that Shang Tsung will betray them and place the realms in a much worse fate. Raiden is unaware of the future events since he has not lived those events yet, while Fujin has already seen those events, but was too gullible for Shang Tsung's true intentions.]]
* TheAnnouncer: Shares round announcement duties with Shao Kahn this time around, her voice occasionally replacing the latter's. She can be selected permanently if you link your console account to the ''Mortal Kombat'' mobile game, which unlocks her in the announcer options on the console side.
* AntagonistAbilities: Her [[TimeMaster command over time itself]] renders mortals completely helpless to her power whenever she appears. The only reasons why Kronika hasn't instantly killed her enemies when she could is because A) she considers them to be [[CosmicPlaything mere pests]] unworthy of her attention and B) most of her enemies are past versions of current allies, and killing the former would erase the latter.
* AntiVillain: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While her goal of BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil isn't inherently evil, Kronika's idea of balance is about having her two children Cetrion and Shinnok pitting the realms against one another endlessly. Furthermore, [[spoiler:she has already wiped out countless timelines trying to put her plan into motion]].
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Her goal is this ''literally''. In her mind, a balanced universe means that both her children exist and endlessly fight each other. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] by Raiden, who points out that good and evil being equally powerful is literally the [[ForeverWar worst possible thing]]. In Geras's ''[=MK11=]'' arcade ending, [[spoiler:he realizes her quest to create the perfect timeline drove her to insanity.]]
* BaldOfEvil: Not a single strand of hair on her head, and not a single trace of good in her soul.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Even back in the original timeline, she was controlling everything, and everything was going according to her whim, including Armageddon, until Raiden sent his message to the past.
* BenevolentBoss: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. There is a definitive contrast between her more affable and reasonable behavior to her underlings and the more obvious cruelty of past villains like Shao Kahn. Despite not killing her minions when they fail, [[BitchInSheepsClothing she is just as uncaring towards her own like the others,]] seeing them as nothing but pawns in her scheme to build her New Era.
* BigBad:
** Of ''[=MK11=]''. The first female main antagonist of the franchise, Kronika decides to join the fray due to Raiden's repeated attempts to tamper with the timeline.
** On a bigger note, she is the true villain of the '''entire franchise''', [[GreaterScopeVillain as she was behind]] the events of the original and rebooted timelines.
** [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} in ''[=MK1=]''; despite appearing to be the benefactor for [[TheHeavy Shang Tsung and Quan Chi]], Kronika is still dead, and her appearance is being used by Titan Shang Tsung to obscure his role in trying to conquer Liu Kang's timeline.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: She forms this with Shang Tsung in the ''Aftermath'' DLC storyline.
* BigBadWannabe: Of the ''Aftermath'' DLC story. [[spoiler:Despite her best efforts, she is outplayed and ultimately defeated by Shang Tsung.]]
* BlatantLies: She promises absolute power and dominion over realms to almost all her followers and has no real intentions to uphold it even if it were possible. A few catch on to this during their arcade endings.
* BloodierAndGorier: ''Her own death'' at the end of Arcade Mode, compared to previous games since ''[=MK9=]''. She gets kicked into her own hourglass, shattering it. It eventually breaks and cuts off three of her limbs, as she desperately tries to get the crown. One of the shards slices her head off vertically, and Kronika is finally sucked into the hourglass, restoring it back to normal.
* BondVillainStupidity: Zigzagged and apparently justified. [[spoiler:Once Raiden and the other heroes figure out that [[LetsYouAndHimFight her machinations were pitting him against Liu Kang throughout countless timelines]], she appears before them and admits that the reason is to keep them from combining her power against her. According to her, the reason she's telling them this is because it's not the first time they've made this discovery, and still ended up failing to stop her to the point where she stopped keeping count of how many times this has happened. In the case of the current timeline, she kidnaps Liu Kang to have his revenant steal his soul, so that Raiden would have to face her without him. The only reason this backfires is that Raiden finally figures out a way around their current situation.]]
* BoringButPractical: [[spoiler:In the Bad Ending of the story mode, she kills Fire God Liu Kang simply by drawing a blade from her arm and beheading him, which is quite simplistic considering her vast displays of power through the game and her own Fatality.]]
* BrightIsNotGood: Her aesthetic is sleek metallic white with gold and silver accents everywhere, in contrast to previous antagonists, [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon but her intentions]] [[FauxAffablyEvil are no less omnicidal.]] Many of Kronika's allies even receive equipment upgrades with this trademark design as a symbol of their allegiance to the Titaness of Time.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In Kano's ''Mortal Kombat 11'' arcade ending, [[spoiler:Kronika willingly relinquished her power over time to him in exchange for her life.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: She's the first primary female antagonist in the series - and unlike Shinnok and Shao Kahn, who are both warlords, Kronika just wants to course-correct the timeline, which she considers as the right thing to do. This becomes a subversion as it's revealed that she's every bit as ruthless and uncaring as the other two, if not more so.
* ControlFreak: There's not a single character on her side that she doesn't treat like an underling to be ordered or a pawn to be duped. And that "balance" she pays so much lip service to isn't about stability or peace or any higher purpose; it's just her own preference for arbitrary symmetry.
* ConfusionFu: Part of the challenge she poses as a boss is that some of her attacks have extremely similar, if not outright identical, startup animations. For example, whenever she summons a large blue orb, it may either split into 4 projectiles in a downward spread, or it may fire an unblockable laser that sweeps across the floor and freezes you if you get hit.
* CoolCrown: Later in the story mode, she is shown to have a magical crown which is [[ArtifactofDoom a powerful artifact on its own]], [[spoiler:used to gather souls at Shang Tsung's island to further her schemes. It seems also able to strengthen in kombat whoever wears it.]]
* CrownOfPower: Kronika makes use of a crown that has been placed inside the Well of Souls used by the sorceror Shang Tsung so that the crown will amplify her power. Through her abilities and influence, she specifically arranged for the Well of Souls to exist for this purpose. [[spoiler:During their playable chapter, Jax and Jacqui Briggs try to confiscate the crown before Kronika can get it, and one of them will even use it against Kronika's daughter, Cetrion. They gain enough power from the crown to defeat even the Elder Goddess until Cetrion forces them to surrender it by threatening the life of their loved one.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She's the only ''Mortal Kombat'' FinalBoss who doesn't explode (Shinnok in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' and the [[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]] being exceptions) in Tower Mode. Rather, she gets cut to shreds by the hourglass shards, before one ''slices her head in half'' before it repairs itself while dragging her mutilated corpse into it. [[spoiler:She got off easier in story mode where Liu Kang turns her into organic glass and destroying her body]]. It's actually just as bad for her in ''Aftermath'' [[spoiler:which ends with her soul being stolen by Shang Tsung.]]
* CuttingOffTheBranches: And she's the one holding the shears. [[spoiler:The original timeline through ''Armageddon'', the timeline in ''[=MK9=]'', and every single Arcade ladder ending for every character in the entire series is revealed to have been alternate timelines that she allowed to exist in an effort to create a perfect, balanced history, and when none of them measured up she simply erased them and started again. This game is simply the first time we've actually seen her doing the pruning.]]
* DarkActionGirl: One who is notable for being the first female main antagonist in the franchise.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Despite her apparent return as Shang Tsung and Quan Chi's benefactor in ''[=MK1=]'', it's eventually revealed that Kronika is still dead, and her form is being used by Titan Shang Tsung for his own ends.]]
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:According to Geras in ''[=MK1=]'', once a Titan has been killed, they cannot be resurrected. Although Kronika ''seems'' to have returned in Liu Kang's New Era, it's revealed that her appearance has been appropriated by Titan Shang Tsung to manipulate his counterpart in the New Era; Kronika is still gone and has no apparent way to return.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Kronika displays the more negative side of the trope. She has spent countless eons trying to build her perfect timeline without ever giving up, but it has taken more than a toll on her sanity, as implied by Geras' Tower ending. Even when her plans get derailed, she is quick to fight with everything to win.
* DetrimentalDetermination: Kronika's obsession with crafting the "perfect" timeline has long since driven her insane, to the point that she's started and restarted timelines over and over again despite coming up short each time. [[spoiler:Her final attempt spells her doom twice over, as she is defeated and killed by both Fire God Liu Kang and her old pawn Shang Tsung.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:In "Aftermath", after Shang Tsung beats her and leaves her feebly crawling on the ground, he offers her the chance to serve him. She refuses, claiming she's a Titan and likely finding the idea of working under a mortal laughable even in her battered state. Shang absorbs her soul as a result and her body turns to dust.]]
* DestroyTheVillainsWeapon: In her arcade boss, after the Player destroys the Hourglass, the shards of glass hurl towards Kronika. Mutilating, and killing her.
* DevourTheDragon: [[spoiler:Before facing off with Liu Kang (in the main story)/Shang Tsung (in ''Aftermath''), Kronika commands Cetrion to sacrifice herself so that Kronika can absorb her Elder God soul for a boost. Cetrion reluctantly consents.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing:
** [[spoiler:When she senses the [[FusionDance merger]] of Raiden and Liu Kang, resulting in the birth of Fire God Liu Kang, Kronika is forced to admit that Raiden surprised her for the first time ''ever'' in all the timelines she's known him and to acknowledge that her defeat has become a distinct possibility.]]
--->'''Kronika:''' [[spoiler:[[OhCrap Out of desperation comes invention. I had not thought it possible for Raiden to surprise me]]. Our success is no longer certain. We must make haste.]]
** She certainly did not foresee Shang Tsung, Nightwolf and Fujin escaping the Void at all in ''Aftermath'', which allows her cotton on to the fact that things will go OffTheRails.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: While she is the Main Antagonist for ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''[='=]s main story, in the DLC story ''Aftermath'', she is quickly replaced with Shao & Sindel, and then killed by Shang Tsung.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In many ways, Kronika acts like a video game player obsessed with getting the best scores or results for her game. Her habit of rewinding or stopping time is akin to a player [[SaveScumming reverting to the latest saved game]], [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem restarting a game or cheating when things don't go exactly the way they want]]. An obsessed gamer is also obsessed with finding the so-called "perfect" game while being [[LackOfEmpathy unconcerned with everything else]], much like how Kronika sees everyone else in the story as little more than [[CosmicPlaything disposable playthings]]. Kronika is basically a cosmic example of an unhealthy obsession with a game.
* DrivenToMadness: Kronika's role as Keeper of Time, combined with her obsessive belief in the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil has turned her into a MadGod who starts and restarts time in a vicious cycle, struggling in vain to achieve her ideal timeline, making pawns of everyone, even her own children, to do so. [[spoiler:In ''[=MK1=]'', a desire to avoid a similar fate led Liu Kang to forsake his role as Keeper of Time, downgrading himself to Earthrealm's demigod protector and leaving the Hourglass in Geras' care.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: She appears to Jade in her ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' ending (albeit with a different appearance) and is implied to be the one giving Kitana a vision in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''. She now makes her debut in ''11''. One of the giant busts in the Jinsei Chamber in X also resembles her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{Subverted|Trope}}; Kronika is the mother of Cetrion and Shinnok, and ''seems'' to care about them, [[AbusiveParents but she treats her children as pawns]] and a microcosm of her insane belief in the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil. Even when she expresses something close to pity for Shinnok's [[AndIMustScream unenviable state]], her true concern is that [[ItsAllAboutMe her own design has gone awry]], and in Cetrion's case, [[spoiler:Kronika has her daughter sacrifice herself so that she can get a power boost ([[SenselessSacrifice one that does her no good]], not that that bothers Kronika)]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Just to prove that nobody likes the entitled, arrogant Frost, not even Kronika thinks highly of her, if the latter's non-canon ending is anything to go by. Even if Kronika herself has arrogance as a FatalFlaw.
** [[spoiler:She makes it a point to note just how treacherous Shang Tsung really is when she sees him rapidly backstab so many of his allies, culminating in the deaths of Shao Kahn and Sindel.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Kronika:''' You have no one left to betray.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She was smugly confident that she had played out every scenario with Raiden that she had nothing to lose [[LooseLips by telling him]] that [[spoiler:she intentionally pitted him against Liu Kang to ensure their combined might can never be brought to bear against her in every timeline she's destroyed]]. It backfires on her when Raiden [[spoiler:states she unintentionally offered him a [[TakeAThirdOption third option]] by fusing with Liu Kang, resulting in the [[FusionDance birth of Fire God Liu Kang]]]].
* EvilCounterpart: She is one to Raiden throughout the Story Mode when it comes to gathering followers. Kronika favors lying and manipulating and sees her allies as nothing but pawns and minions whereas Raiden treats his followers with respect and sees them as worthy friends and warriors. She is also the BigBad to Raiden's BigGood status.
* EvilGenius: She spends most of 11's main story scheming and observing. Using her underlings to hold the heroes back long enough for her Hourglass to gain enough energy to rewind time.
* FatalFlaw: Her weakness is {{pride}}, as she only truly cares for her selfish idea of cosmic balance and considered the lives of everyone else, including her own children, who happened to be ''Elder Gods'', to be beneath her concern. She was so utterly confident that she had played out every scenario with Raiden that she had nothing to lose by telling him that [[spoiler:she intentionally pitted him against Liu Kang to ensure their combined might can never be brought to bear against her]]. It should have been no surprise that [[spoiler:he would pine for an effective third option that she fed him on a silver platter]], as when she [[spoiler:senses the [[FusionDance merger]] of Raiden and Liu Kang, resulting in the birth of Fire God Liu Kang, she is forced to admit that Raiden surprised her for the first time ''ever'' in all the time she's known him and to acknowledge that her defeat has become a distinct possibility.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Spawn's ladder ending is one of the two endings where she isn't killed (the first being the bad ending) though she probably wishes she was. [[spoiler:For her crimes against the Realms and the Kombatants, Spawn throws her into Hell to suffer alongside Malebolgia for all eternity. Couldn't have happened to a nicer lady.]]
** Her fatality has her killing, then reviving, then killing, reviving, killing... and so on...her opponent, painfully rearranging their body each time. Given that she's a Time God, she could literally do this nonstop for all eternity. Or stop to do something else more important and pick up right back where she left off once that's been taken care of.
* FlunkyBoss: At 66% and 33% health, respectively (or only once at half health in Story Mode against Liu Kang), Kronika will retreat away from the stage and summon a random kombatant to fight the player in her stead. These summoned minions have reduced HP compared to their usual selves, and cannot use Fatal Blows. Defeating them will bring Kronika back into the fight.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Kano's Tower ending creates one for her, since she dies with the shards of her Hourglass but appears alive later to [[spoiler:relinquish her artifact's powers to him.]]
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Has this motif going on in both her outfit and on parts of outfits of Kombatants under her protection. This gets lampshaded by Jacqui when they first lay eyes on Jax's EvilCostumeSwitch. It's also worth noting that in Ladder Mode endings most Kombatants have their clothes altered to carry the motif after defeating her.
-->'''Jacqui:''' Those look like Kronika's design...!
* GreaterScopeVillain:
** Of the '''entire franchise''', as she serves this role in both the original and rebooted timelines.
** In Scorpion, Shang Tsung and Sonya's arcade endings, [[spoiler:they discover that Kronika was [[SequelHook only the tip of the iceberg]], as there are other Titans, ''some of which may be more powerful and worse than her''. It's hinted that [[AbusivePrecursors they]] are behind the various bad things that happened throughout the timelines. Sonya even forms her own god-squad to actively hunt down these {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.]]
* HatedByAll: Downplayed but still applicable. While she curries favor with a lot of allies, none of them actually trust Kronika to keep her promises to them of giving them exactly what they want in her "New Era". In their Arcade endings all of them betray her and kill her to take control of the Hourglass for themselves, or make her create their ideal timeline in exchange for mercy. [[spoiler:This also goes for Geras and Cetrion, who in their endings realize her ideology is madness and she must die for the safety of the realms.]]
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: In the Klassic Tower mode, she is killed by her own hourglass, which explodes into glass shards that slice her into pieces.
* HumanoidAbomination: She doesn't look that much different from Geras at first, but she's ancient and strong enough for her daughter to be an ''Elder God.'' [[spoiler:Notably, she's the most ''human'' looking Titan out of all them thus far shown, implying she may be far more alien than she already seems.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Her claim that Raiden's actions post-''[=MKX=]'' have wrecked her precious balance between good and evil and forced her hand rings hollow when it turns out that she has already erased the timeline countless times and in every single one of them, she has manipulated events to pit Raiden and Liu Kang against one another, resulting in both their {{Face Heel Turn}}s; meaning that she is responsible for the very things she blames Raiden for.
* IcyBlueEyes: She's a ruthless sociopath with shiny blue eyes.
* IDieFree: [[spoiler:Someone who stood as a Titan will never live as a slave, especially to one of her old slaves; Shang Tsung.]]
* ImmuneToFlinching: Kronika doesn't react to hits like the other kombatants, meaning attacks that force an opponent into a secondary hit state (such as being tackled) won't work on her and will whiff. This also means you can't use a Fatal Blow against her.
* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: [[spoiler:Her 'appearances' during ''Mortal Kombat 1'''s Story Mode are courtesy of ''Aftermath'' Shang Tsung posing as her.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Despite her claims, her goals are ultimately pretty selfish since it's not so much about balance as having things play out as ''she'' sees fit and getting antsy whenever things don't go as planned. [[spoiler:The fact that she ends up having the Elder Gods killed more or less proves this point. Keep in mind that she was mostly the guiding hand behind both the original timeline and the start of the new one. And both times were meant to keep Liu Kang and Raiden from stopping her.]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily: She's the mother of Shinnok. Let that sink in for a moment. This may have been invoked by Kronika, who shaped her son into being evil in order to fulfill her goal of a balance between light and darkness.
* JerkassGod: All she cares about is her goal of a "balanced" universe (read: one where the realms are locked in a ForeverWar). She is willing to kill, lie, and manipulate anyone (including her own children, Shinnok and Cetrion) to reach that goal, which benefits no-one but herself.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: In Chapter 11, she has Raiden's warriors frozen in time so she can gloat to him alone about how [[spoiler:Raiden and Liu Kang's combined strength is the key to defeat her. Between her chuckles and confidence of victory, she unwittingly gave the Thunder God an idea of how to thwart her.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:She engineered and manipulated Shang Tsung's entire destiny as a soul-stealing sorcerer for her own personal use. Unfortunately, much like Liu Kang, she completely underestimated Shang Tsung's capabilities, and is thus taken aback even further than in the main story when he, of all people, kills her and steals her soul after he becomes the new Keeper of Time.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In ''Mortal Kombat 1'', Geras tells Liu Kang that Titans cannot come back to life if they die. It serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that the Kronika that had been aiding Shang Tsung and Quan Chi is not who she appears to be.]]
** [[spoiler:However, a MirrorMatch intro between two Geras' reveals that Kronika is still alive in one alternate timeline and is still Keeper of Time there, possibly opening the door for her return.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Kronika only truly cares for her selfish idea of cosmic balance and considered the lives of everyone else, including ''gods'', to be beneath her concern. Throughout ''Mortal Kombat 11's'' story mode, she treated everyone else around her as either useful but expendable pawns (her allies) or laughably ineffective pests (her enemies). Kronika even seemed to treat her son Shinnok (representing death, darkness and vice) and her daughter Cetrion (representing life, light and virtue) as little more than tools to perpetuate the violent eternal struggle for BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil she deemed necessary to maintain her precious balance.
* LegionOfDoom: Forms one out of existing villains and groups across time, which includes Shao Kahn's Outworld empire, the Cyber Lin-Kuei, the Black Dragon, the Netherrealm revenants, D'Vorah, Frost, Noob Saibot, Scorpion's past self, and [[spoiler:the elder Jackson Briggs]].
* LetsYouAndHimFight:
** This is almost her entire MO across a universal scale: Her idea of balance is constant conflict between the realms, forcing them into an eternal give-and-take where no side truly turns the tide and defeats the other, and when peace seems too close, she instigates conflict anew.
** Exploited liberally by [[spoiler:forcing Liu Kang and Raiden into conflict in every timeline, to avoid their combined might disrupting her vision. She even keeps Revenant Liu Kang in reserve to fight Raiden as a safety precaution]].
** This is also her objective throughout Story Mode; when Revenant Liu Kang grows impatient at her inaction, she assures him that the heroes going through her pawns has left her to work on her hourglass unimpeded; better for them to fight Shao Kahn or Frost than her.
** Also does this in ''Aftermath''. [[spoiler:With the forces of Earthrealm flanked between the newly arrived forces of Outworld serving under Shao Kahn, Sindel and Shang Tsung as well as her own, she hopes to weaken everyone so that she can make her bid on getting her Crown back.]]
* LightIsNotGood: Despite the golds and whites on her outfit and status as a Time God, she is actually a deranged, MadGod. If anything, she is an outright OmnicidalManiac.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:Liu Kang as a Thunder and Fire God turns her into organic glass before breaking her arms, head, and body into pieces. The frozen look of [[ThisCannotBe disbelief]] on Kronika's face makes this even more satisfying.]]
* LooseLips: She was so utterly confident that she had played out every scenario with Raiden that she had nothing to lose by telling him that [[spoiler:she intentionally pitted him against Liu Kang to ensure their combined might can never be brought to bear against her]]. It should have been no surprise that [[spoiler:he would pine for an effective third option that she fed him on a silver platter]].
* MadGod: She hides it better than most, but Kronika is certainly not of sound mind. As her own servant Geras surmises in his non-canon Arcade ending, as well as in ''Mortal Kombat 1'', [[spoiler:it's likely because of [[SanitySlippage all her failed attempts at creating her own perfect timeline]]. Considering that she's erased countless timelines already and had to have been at it since the very beginning of time itself (to where she states that ''she'' lost count of how many times she had the conversation with Raiden)...]]
* {{Magitek}}: Everything related to Kronika (from the outfits and armors her underlings wear to the aesthetic of her keep) looks less like magic and more like highly advanced technology, although it seems to be a mixture of both.
* ManipulativeBitch: She deliberately chose potential allies who were fed up with their lot in life (or death) in the current timeline, making them all desperate to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans make things better by any means necessary]]. By offering these people a [[ResetButton chance]] to do just that, Kronika is able to gather [[LegionOfDoom a vast, loyal army]] in a frighteningly short amount of time. Unfortunately for them, they don't realize that Kronika is under no obligation to fulfill their wishes once the so-called New Era begins.
** For [[TheResenter the revenants of the Netherrealm]], she offered a timeline with Raiden [[CessationOfExistence erased from existence]].
** For [[EvilOverlord Shao Kahn]] and his followers, she offered a timeline in which they lead a [[TheEmpire multiverse-spanning empire]], free from the watchful eyes of the Elder Gods.
** For [[TheMafia Kano, his younger self and the Black Dragon clan]], she offered the chance to transform Earth into a VillainWorld where they can run rampant, unhindered by the law.
** For [[ItsAllAboutMe Sektor, Noob Saibot and Frost]], she offered each of them leadership of their own versions of the Lin Kuei, [[InTheirOwnImage shaped to their personal ideals]].
** For the revenant Scorpion from the past, she promised to restore his family and the old Shirai Ryu clan to life.
** For [[spoiler:the present Jackson Briggs, who had recently [[DespairEventHorizon lost his wife]]]], she promised a timeline in which [[spoiler:he [[ICouldaBeenAContender remains a proud soldier]] while his beloved daughter never enlisted in the army.]]
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Although she doesn't do the deed herself, she shows up after Raiden has incapacitated Shinnok's head to address the fallen Elder God. She is the first antagonist of the new timeline who is a completely new character and not an existing antagonist from the original course of events.
* MeaningfulName: The name Kronika is a feminization of Kronos, which means time.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler:She succeeds resetting the timeline during her confrontation with Fire God Liu Kang, only to be beaten by the latter. In ''Aftermath'', she is defeated by Shang Tsung upon making way into her Keep, only for Tsung to be foiled by Liu Kang, who would proceed to create the New Era. Either way, Kronika's desire for a perfect timeline is now rendered moot.]]
* MoralSociopathy: She truly believes she is doing the right thing. However, the way she does everything is so sociopathic that it ends up [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist making her look even worse]]. She says that it is important to maintain the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil, but what she wants is ForeverWar which will result in so much suffering for many people. She attempts to remove free will from the people of the timeline so she can have what she believes is the perfect timeline for everyone involved. Her arrogance prevents her from allowing any result that doesn't have her desired outcome.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Trying to pit Raiden and Liu Kang against each other for the umpteenth time backfired on her spectacularly. [[spoiler: As of ''Mortal Kombat 1'' it also paved the way for them and their allies to become Titans across separate timelines.]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:When Shang Tsung drains her soul in ''Aftermath'', her body dissolves into sand and vanishes, as opposed to everyone else, who leave corpses behind.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: If nothing else, she's efficient; she is actively working on her scheme to reset existence, even conjuring sand duplicates of other characters to buy her more time, in the final boss battle. [[spoiler:In story mode, losing a round to her gives her enough time to ''succeed'', resetting enough of the world to erase everything and everyone Liu Kang knows; beating her at that point just gives him an opportunity to ensure the next world is a free and happy one.]]
** Her reasoning for putting [[ManipulativeBastard Shang]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Tsung]] into the void outside of time is entirely out of the justified belief that he'd manipulate events to come out on top one way or another. [[spoiler:As seen in ''Aftermath'', a free Shang Tsung, especially one who is fully aware of Kronika's worries of him, manages to come out on top of literally everyone imaginable through pure guile and manipulation, ultimately resulting in her soul being stolen before she even had a chance to turn back time. Even if he was stopped by Fire God Liu Kang, she still effectively lost even ''worse'' than in the base game, where she at least managed to go the beginning of time canonically.]]
* NoSell: Kronika is immune to many aspects of the player's repertoire.
** She is completely immune to juggles, whether by way of abilities or combos. While she can still be knocked down by hitting her enough, none of the juggles will do anything beyond their damage values.
** She's also immune to Fatal Blows, only taking damage from the initial hit, while the rest of the combo will not commence. Krushing Blow combos, on the other hand, can still be performed, but Kronika will not take the increased damage and the cinematics will not play.
** Much like Shao Khan in ''[=MK9=]'', throw attacks are unusable on her and attempts to do so will leave you vulnerable to a good ass-kicking, possibly a fatal one in certain conditions.
* NonStandardGameOver: Entirely unique to herself, if you lose the final fight against her in story mode, she forms a blade to cut off [[spoiler:Fire God Liu Kang]]'s head, then announce that the New Era will begin.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: She wants to rewind time back to the beginning and restart it so she can restore what she sees as balance to the universe. Although her idea of a BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil entails her two children being locked in an eternal conflict that would result in [[ControlFreak pointlessly fighting just so that she can dictate how everyone's destiny unfolds]].
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Issues one to ''Shao Kahn'' by offering him a new empire to rule.
-->'''Kronika:''' My Hourglass requires protection while I work. Will your Outworld armies defend it?\\
'''Shao Kahn:''' ''[nodding]'' They ''shall''.
* OffscreenInertia: Similar to Quan Chi's leg beating fatality, Kronika never stops tearing and reattaching her victim apart onscreen.
* OhCrap: In the final chapter, she reacts with relative ''[[NotSoStoic panic]]'' when [[spoiler:the Liu Kang she has imprisoned disappears, having [[FusionDance merged with Raiden and his revenant self.]]]] She even admits that she's been caught off guard, and hurries to finish her plan before anything else can go wrong.
-->'''Kronika:''' Our success is no longer certain. We must make haste.
* TheOldGods: [[spoiler:She is the first known Titan of the Mortal Kombat universe, making her ancient and powerful by even the Elder Gods' reckoning. In Scorpion's and Sonya's ''Mortal Kombat 11'' arcade endings, Kronika was just the [[SequelHook tip of the iceberg]], with entire ''pantheons'' of hostile, ancient deities inhabiting the multiverse, some of whom ''may be worse than her''.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: With a few exceptions, she spends most of the game in her Keep. While this is justified as her preparing her Hourglass to reset time, whenever she decides to get involved directly, [[StoryBreakerPower she can stop time]] and everyone but gods are frozen. It's only due to {{Pride}} and BondVillainStupidity that she allows the heroes to take out her allies one by one, when if she cared to take a more personal role in her own plan, she could have probably pulled it off on her own.
* OrderIsNotGood: Considering her obsession with balance, she ironically comes hard on the end of Order, with the caveat of being her specific, selfish vision of an orderly universe.
* OurTitansAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Explicitly calls herself a Titan in one of the variant scenes in her Story Mode, and she fits as a creature older than even the Elder Gods. Scorpion, Sonya and Shang Tsung discover in their endings that she's hardly the LastOfHerKind.]]
* PeggySue: A negative version who uses her time manipulation abilities to constantly reset the timeline when her efforts to balance things don't play out as she wants. Then she tries again with new knowledge of what went wrong last go around. The events of ''11'' happen when she is about to figure things out for good and eliminate any variables that might disrupt her plan. [[spoiler:Then Raiden gives Liu Kang an EleventhHourSuperpower and things go completely off the rails for her, although she still technically succeeds in her goal of at least resetting things]].
* PetTheDog: Slightly. In ''Aftermath'' when [[spoiler:Cetrion blames herself for allowing Shang Tsung to obtain the Crown, Kronika claims it was her own fault for underestimating Shang Tsung's cunning.]]
** In Kabal's ending, she does apparently keep her word in giving what he wants in exchange for control of the Hour-Glass, probably because she now knows he can beat her, but still.
* PowerFloats: Appears in some cutscenes floating, with her legs vanishing.
* PragmaticVillainy: Unlike [[EvilOverlord Shao Kahn]] and [[GodOfEvil Shinnok]], she does not particularly enjoy the suffering of others and would not jeopardize her own plans for such. As a patient ManipulativeBastard, Kronika prefers a tactful approach. When working with allies, she discusses her plans with them and aids them however she could, such as providing aid and resources, usually through temporal manipulation. Despite this, Kronika had every intention of [[RetGone ending them all]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once they were no longer useful to her]]. In her own way, Kronika is even more ruthless and uncaring than either Shao Kahn or Shinnok.
* {{Pride}}: This is Kronika's most defining character flaw and it is understandable given that she is [[TheOldGods more powerful and far older than the Elder Gods themselves]].
* ProperlyParanoid: Learning of Shang Tsung's escape from the Void shows that Kronika fears Shang Tsung is too dangerous to be kept alive, lest he grows even more powerful. [[spoiler:Her assumptions of Tsung are proven right after witnessing his betrayal of Shao Kahn and Sindel]].
* PsychoticSmirk: Wears one in her Arcade Boss fights as she speaks to her opponent.
-->'''Kronika:''' Come, it is time... '''to die.'''
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The player is led to believe, in ''Mortal Kombat 1'', that the instigator of the conflict behind the story mode is Kronika, seemingly having survived the events of ''11'' and ''Aftermath'' despite all odds. It turns out, however, that "Kronika" was actually an alternate version of ''Aftermath'' Shang Tsung, and that the Titan herself is KilledOffForReal.]]
* ResurrectionDeathLoop: Her Fatality. She tears you apart telekinetically, and then rewinds time so she can do it again in a different way. She keeps doing this forever until you choose something from the GameOver menu.
* SatanicArchetype: And how! Kronika is very clearly the true devil figure in the franchise, even topping Shinnok in that regard. To elaborate, Kronika has a lot of incredibly Satanic elements surrounding her character, which include her being a GodOfEvil with a fetish-level obsession of supposedly keeping BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil, and yet [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist her plan is to actually destroy the universe countless times]] to [[ItsAllAboutMe satisfy her ego]] and remake the universe [[InTheirOwnImage in her own image]], is an [[TheChessmaster exceptional]] [[ManipulativeBitch manipulator]], she regularly [[TheCorrupter tempts and corrupts]] different people into becoming her allies (all presented like a DealWithTheDevil scenario) in order to further her deeds and kills them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once their work is done]], lies to her own allies and [[BadBoss treats them horribly]], [[{{Sadist}} enjoys the suffering of others]] and commits unspeakable atrocities [[ForTheEvulz for fun]], and further enhancing her Satanic qualities are her personality embodying each of the SevenDeadlySins and the brutal, enigmatic and unpredictable nature of her actions that evoke a NothingIsScarier feel to them. What ultimately seals the deal, though, is her appearance, with a [[LightIsNotGood color-scheme that evokes that of light]] and [[BrightIsNotGood brightness]] typically associated with angels, something very commonly used to describe {{Satan}} taking the form of an angel of light to disguise himself and trick humans, literally making her Lucifer.
* ShadowArchetype:
** She represents what Raiden could become if he started micromanaging mortals instead of guiding and respecting their free will, corrupting his mind over time. Also, when it comes to gathering followers, Kronika favors lying and manipulation, and sees her allies as nothing but pawns, whereas Raiden treats his followers with respect, and sees them as worthy friends and warriors. She is also the BigBad to Raiden's BigGood status. Geras's arcade ending even shows [[spoiler:that her repeated attempts to create the ideal timeline have taken a toll on her sanity.]]
** Kronika also becomes one to Fire God Liu Kang at the end of the story. Once Liu Kang gains access to the Hourglass, he chooses to let mortals control their destiny rather than controlling all aspects of their lives like Kronika did.
* SmugSuper: Through most of her appearances in the story, she's brimming with utmost confidence, assured that this time there's no way her plan can fail even when the Earthrealm warriors start taking down her forces over the course of the story and get closer to stopping her. After all, she's a Goddess of time and can easily just freeze or rewind things if she feels she has to. [[spoiler:Plus she's done this before in ''countless'' timelines. Even when Raiden does catch on to her, she erases that timeline entirely and starts anew. The difference this time is that she has stockpiled enough power to ''really'' control things to the point she can erase undesirables as she sees fit. However, once Raiden gives up his powers to Liu Kang and makes him a God who, you know, is also the Champion of Mortal Kombat, this begins to drop as [[OhCrap it's one of the few moments she notes something hasn't gone according to her will and is in jeopardy of completely derailing her plans]].]]
* SmugSnake: She gloats to Raiden about how [[spoiler:his and Liu Kang's combined strength is the key to defeat her. Between her chuckles and confidence of victory, she [[DidntThinkThisThrough unwittingly gave]] the Thunder God an [[TakeAThirdOption idea of how]] to thwart her for good]].
* SNKBoss: Her fights only last one round, but she throws everything, the kitchen sink and a few things that aren't even hers at the player. She is completely immune to grapples, fatal blows, and even certain specials, severely hampering the effectiveness of many characters. On top of that, she summons random fighters in her place (who have severely gimped health, but the damage they can inflict remains unchanged) at two thirds and one-third health, changes the stage once you kill them and gains a new ability with each shift. Her normal specials are actually even worse, such as summoning multiple homing projectiles, surrounding herself with a barrier of three sand balls, and her most annoying ability, an unblockable, extraordinarily fast laser that, should it connect, heavily damages your fighter, rewinds time for them (resulting in you being unable to attack), and leaves you frozen in the air for a few additional seconds just for good measure. And while you're being put through the wringer, Kronika can take all the time in the world to [[TeleportSpam warp around]], pulling off combos while you're completely helpless to do anything.
* TheSociopath: Despite her claims of doing what is right for everyone, Kronika carries many classic hallmarks of the trope. She has no empathy for those who are affected by her tampering beyond any superficial reasons that help further her plan, and she has wiped out countless timelines to get her desired outcome. Even within those timelines, she willingly destroys the bonds between allies to make them turn on each other whenever there is a threat to her plans. She manipulates people both by removing their free will in tampering with the timeline and in personal ways by (usually falsely) promising to give people what they want. She's incredibly prideful to the point that she won't allow any result that isn't her perfect BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil (read: her ForeverWar). Because of this, she has low tolerance for frustration whenever she doesn't have the upper hand in some way. And this pride removes any remorse she has for doing any of this, since she sees all of it as necessary to keep things in order (or, at least, her vision of what that order should be).
* TeleportSpam: One of many reasons why fighting Kronika can be insanely annoying on harder difficulties. Kronika will teleport around the stage when fighting the player, giving her both great zoning and getaway capabilities.
* TemptingFate: As the forces arrayed against her approach her fortress, she tells her allies that [[NothingCanStopUsNow their enemies]] ''[[NothingCanStopUsNow will]]'' [[NothingCanStopUsNow lose]]. [[spoiler:Shortly afterwards, [[SpannerInTheWorks Fire God Liu Kang]] is born from an [[DidntSeeThatComing unexpected]] [[FusionDance merger]] of Raiden and Liu Kang, the two heroes she [[LetsYouAndHimFight kept at each others' throats]] over countless timelines.]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In both giving and receiving varieties:
** Lose to her in Arcade, and she [[spoiler:grabs your character telekinetically to rip them apart. Then uses her TimeMaster ability to put them back together. Then [[FateWorseThanDeath rip them apart again. Then reconstruct. Then rip...]]]]
** Because this is ''Mortal Kombat'', Kronika gets as good as she gives. Defeating her in a traditional arcade ladder results in the most gruesome death of an arcade boss for the series. The Hourglass explodes and Kronika is quickly acquainted with a hail of broken glass, and every moment of it looks mighty unpleasant.
* TimeAbyss: To the point that ''her son and daughter are Elder Gods''. Considering that the Elder Gods themselves are timeless beings who observe the realms from the moment of their creation...
* TimeMaster: Kronika is a goddess who can control the flow of time itself. She can [[TimeStandsStill stop time]], create a GroundhogDayLoop (subjecting the player to [[AndIMustScream an endless loop of gruesome deaths]] in her Fatality), and pull [[AlternateSelf people]] and [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum objects]] from the past into the present. With the proper preparations, Kronika can use the [[AncientArtifact Hourglass]] at her Keep to [[AmplifierArtifact enhance her power]] to the point that she can literally [[ResetButton rewind the timeline]] to beyond the dawn of time itself. Other gods such as Raiden [[spoiler:and Fire God Liu Kang]] are [[NoSell immune]] to Kronika's control over time to a degree, since gods exist outside the normal laws of time.
* TimeTravelersDinosaur: The second phase of her boss fight takes place in the Prehistoric Age arena, where dinosaurs roam, and she is able to control one to make it attack your character.
* ViciousCycle: Kronika can control circumstances so that certain disastrous events are repeated again and again across different timelines in some form. In fact, this is the reason why Liu Kang and Raiden eventually [[LetsYouAndHimFight turn against each other]] in every timeline so far. All this was so that both of them would never join forces and become a [[SpannerInTheWorks true threat]] to Kronika's plans.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Slightly, as [[spoiler:Fire God Liu Kang]] starts adjusting to his powers and beating down all her revenant guards one by one, she begins to realize that her earlier fears are beginning to come to light and for once, her voice actually has alarm to it, starting to show cracks of her celestial facade.
** A more prominent one in ''Aftermath'' when [[spoiler:Shang Tsung manages to work around her influence and invade her Keep while wearing her Crown, forcing her to fight him while at the same level of power as he is, if not weaker]]. In this case, she outright yells at her subordinates to kill the person who incensed her.
* VillainousMotherSonDuo: Kronika is just as evil and scummy as her son, Shinnok.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Justified in her case. In chapter 3, upon freezing Liu Kang and Kung Lao in time, Geras brings up the possibility of finishing them right there, though Kronika retorts that she needs them alive otherwise their Revenant counterparts would cease to exist as well.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: She has the power to rewind time, but whenever a timeline doesn't go in her favor whether the heroes win or the villains, she resorts to restarting time to the point that she had gone mad. As a result, the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' happened because she wants to stop the heroes from having too much favor, and forcing Liu Kang and Raiden from coming into blows with each other. All of her actions until ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' is the main reason why Liu Kang avoided abusing his power and go mad if he even thought of perfecting his timeline, and gave up his Titan powers as a result.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: [[spoiler:At the end of the story mode, Kronika successfully [[ResetButton restarts the Mortal Kombat timeline]]. The only [[BittersweetEnding consolation]] is that Liu Kang ends Kronika's life afterwards, ensuring that, for the first time, the timeline is truly free of her meddling, and beating her without losing a round means she hasn't gone so far back that he can't save Kitana or anyone else.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Any character who defeats her in the arcade ladder will gain all her time powers for themselves. [[spoiler:In the Story Mode, Liu Kang becomes the new master of time after slaying Kronika.]]
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!Guest Fighters
[[folder:Spawn]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} Spawn (Albert Francis "Al" Simmons)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't have a chance in Hell."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeithDavid (English), Creator/VictorHugoAguilar (Latin American Spanish), Philippe Dumond (French)
->Creator/{{Todd McFarlane}}'s iconic AntiHero creation. After being betrayed and murdered by his own government, Al Simmons was condemned to Hell for the wet work he performed as a CIA assassin. A demon king known as Malebolgia, however, had other plans: he offered Simmons a chance to reunite with his wife in exchange for his immortal soul. Thus, Simmons was reborn as an undead Hellspawn, or simply "Spawn". He was granted supenatural powers to fight petty criminals ''and'' lower demons, but Malebolgia's intent was to train him to serve in Hell's army.
->For other tropes which apply to him, check [[Characters/{{Spawn}} his own character sheet]]. This is only for these tropes which appear in this game.
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* AccidentalHero: The past characters she plucked into the Koliseum during the time merger was taken from a time just after Kung Lao had beaten Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, meaning that she indirectly saved Kung Lao's life as Shao Kahn snapped his neck right after his next victory against Kintaro.
* AchillesHeel: Kronika is surprisingly vulnerable to being zoned due to the quirks of her moveset. For one, she can't crouch, so characters who can spam projectiles repeatedly can cheese her to death this way even on Very Hard. For two, she has no combo breaks, so the most she can do when pushed into a corner is to hold block until you inevitably break it, rinse and repeat. For three, her recovery frames are long enough to make her vulnerable to [[CycleOfHurting stun-locking]]. All of this combined made Kronika out to be possibly the easiest series boss to date, despite being its BigBad.
* TheAgeless: She is immune to the ravages of time, but can be killed through violent means unlike her son, [[CompleteImmortality Shinnok]].
* AllAccordingToPlan: Her armies are turned against her, her forces are bested, her enemies find her keep, yet she continues to claim that this is all part of her plan. It's only when Liu Kang and Raiden fuse that she starts to panic.
* AlphaBitch: She outranks The Protector Gods, The Elder Gods, and even the One Being. Yet she's far crueler than them all.
* AndThenWhat: [[spoiler:During Aftermath, Kronika gives the ArmorPiercingQuesion to aftermath-placed Raiden and Fujin: "Even if you defeat me, what then?" Kronika asks them even more questions, knowing that Shang Tsung will betray them and place the realms in a much worse fate. Raiden is unaware of the future events since he has not lived those events yet, while Fujin has already seen those events, but was too gullible for Shang Tsung's true intentions.]]
* TheAnnouncer: Shares round announcement duties with Shao Kahn this time around, her voice occasionally replacing the latter's. She can be selected permanently if you link your console account to the ''Mortal Kombat'' mobile game, which unlocks her in the announcer options on the console side.
* AntagonistAbilities: Her [[TimeMaster command over time itself]] renders mortals completely helpless to her power whenever she appears. The only reasons why Kronika hasn't instantly killed her enemies when she could is because A) she considers them to be [[CosmicPlaything mere pests]] unworthy of her attention and B) most of her enemies are past versions of current allies, and killing the former would erase the latter.
* AntiVillain: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. While her goal of BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil isn't inherently evil, Kronika's idea of balance is about having her two children Cetrion and Shinnok pitting the realms against one another endlessly. Furthermore, [[spoiler:she has already wiped out countless timelines trying to put her plan into motion]].
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Her goal is this ''literally''. In her mind, a balanced universe means that both her children exist and endlessly fight each other. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] by Raiden, who points out that good and evil being equally powerful is literally the [[ForeverWar worst possible thing]]. In Geras's ''[=MK11=]'' arcade ending, [[spoiler:he realizes her quest to create the perfect timeline drove her to insanity.]]
* BaldOfEvil: Not a single strand of hair on her head, and not a single trace of good in her soul.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Even back in the original timeline, she was controlling everything, and everything was going according to her whim, including Armageddon, until Raiden sent his message to the past.
* BenevolentBoss: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. There is a definitive contrast between her more affable and reasonable behavior to her underlings and the more obvious cruelty of past villains like Shao Kahn. Despite not killing her minions when they fail, [[BitchInSheepsClothing she is just as uncaring towards her own like the others,]] seeing them as nothing but pawns in her scheme to build her New Era.
* BigBad:
** Of ''[=MK11=]''. The first female main antagonist of the franchise, Kronika decides to join the fray due to Raiden's repeated attempts to tamper with the timeline.
** On a bigger note, she is the true villain of the '''entire franchise''', [[GreaterScopeVillain as she was behind]] the events of the original and rebooted timelines.
** [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} in ''[=MK1=]''; despite appearing to be the benefactor for [[TheHeavy Shang Tsung and Quan Chi]], Kronika is still dead, and her appearance is being used by Titan Shang Tsung to obscure his role in trying to conquer Liu Kang's timeline.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: She forms this with Shang Tsung in the ''Aftermath'' DLC storyline.
* BigBadWannabe: Of the ''Aftermath'' DLC story. [[spoiler:Despite her best efforts, she is outplayed and ultimately defeated by Shang Tsung.]]
* BlatantLies: She promises absolute power and dominion over realms to almost all her followers and has no real intentions to uphold it even if it were possible. A few catch on to this during their arcade endings.
* BloodierAndGorier: ''Her own death'' at the end of Arcade Mode, compared to previous games since ''[=MK9=]''. She gets kicked into her own hourglass, shattering it. It eventually breaks and cuts off three of her limbs, as she desperately tries to get the crown. One of the shards slices her head off vertically, and Kronika is finally sucked into the hourglass, restoring it back to normal.
* BondVillainStupidity: Zigzagged and apparently justified. [[spoiler:Once Raiden and the other heroes figure out that [[LetsYouAndHimFight her machinations were pitting him against Liu Kang throughout countless timelines]], she appears before them and admits that the reason is to keep them from combining her power against her. According to her, the reason she's telling them this is because it's not the first time they've made this discovery, and still ended up failing to stop her to the point where she stopped keeping count of how many times this has happened. In the case of the current timeline, she kidnaps Liu Kang to have his revenant steal his soul, so that Raiden would have to face her without him. The only reason this backfires is that Raiden finally figures out a way around their current situation.]]
* BoringButPractical: [[spoiler:In the Bad Ending of the story mode, she kills Fire God Liu Kang simply by drawing a blade from her arm and beheading him, which is quite simplistic considering her vast displays of power through the game and her own Fatality.]]
* BrightIsNotGood: Her aesthetic is sleek metallic white with gold and silver accents everywhere, in contrast to previous antagonists, [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon but her intentions]] [[FauxAffablyEvil are no less omnicidal.]] Many of Kronika's allies even receive equipment upgrades with this trademark design as a symbol of their allegiance to the Titaness of Time.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In Kano's ''Mortal Kombat 11'' arcade ending, [[spoiler:Kronika willingly relinquished her power over time to him in exchange for her life.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: She's the first primary female antagonist in the series - and unlike Shinnok and Shao Kahn, who are both warlords, Kronika just wants to course-correct the timeline, which she considers as the right thing to do. This becomes a subversion as it's revealed that she's every bit as ruthless and uncaring as the other two, if not more so.
* ControlFreak: There's not a single character on her side that she doesn't treat like an underling to be ordered or a pawn to be duped. And that "balance" she pays so much lip service to isn't about stability or peace or any higher purpose; it's just her own preference for arbitrary symmetry.
* ConfusionFu: Part of the challenge she poses as a boss is that some of her attacks have extremely similar, if not outright identical, startup animations. For example, whenever she summons a large blue orb, it may either split into 4 projectiles in a downward spread, or it may fire an unblockable laser that sweeps across the floor and freezes you if you get hit.
* CoolCrown: Later in the story mode, she is shown to have a magical crown which is [[ArtifactofDoom a powerful artifact on its own]], [[spoiler:used to gather souls at Shang Tsung's island to further her schemes. It seems also able to strengthen in kombat whoever wears it.]]
* CrownOfPower: Kronika makes use of a crown that has been placed inside the Well of Souls used by the sorceror Shang Tsung so that the crown will amplify her power. Through her abilities and influence, she specifically arranged for the Well of Souls to exist for this purpose. [[spoiler:During their playable chapter, Jax and Jacqui Briggs try to confiscate the crown before Kronika can get it, and one of them will even use it against Kronika's daughter, Cetrion. They gain enough power from the crown to defeat even the Elder Goddess until Cetrion forces them to surrender it by threatening the life of their loved one.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She's the only ''Mortal Kombat'' FinalBoss who doesn't explode (Shinnok in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' and the [[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]] being exceptions) in Tower Mode. Rather, she gets cut to shreds by the hourglass shards, before one ''slices her head in half'' before it repairs itself while dragging her mutilated corpse into it. [[spoiler:She got off easier in story mode where Liu Kang turns her into organic glass and destroying her body]]. It's actually just as bad for her in ''Aftermath'' [[spoiler:which ends with her soul being stolen by Shang Tsung.]]
* CuttingOffTheBranches: And she's the one holding the shears. [[spoiler:The original timeline through ''Armageddon'', the timeline in ''[=MK9=]'', and every single Arcade ladder ending for every character in the entire series is revealed to have been alternate timelines that she allowed to exist in an effort to create a perfect, balanced history, and when none of them measured up she simply erased them and started again. This game is simply the first time we've actually seen her doing the pruning.]]
* DarkActionGirl: One who is notable for being the first female main antagonist in the franchise.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Despite her apparent return as Shang Tsung and Quan Chi's benefactor in ''[=MK1=]'', it's eventually revealed that Kronika is still dead, and her form is being used by Titan Shang Tsung for his own ends.]]
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:According to Geras in ''[=MK1=]'', once a Titan has been killed, they cannot be resurrected. Although Kronika ''seems'' to have returned in Liu Kang's New Era, it's revealed that her appearance has been appropriated by Titan Shang Tsung to manipulate his counterpart in the New Era; Kronika is still gone and has no apparent way to return.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Kronika displays the more negative side of the trope. She has spent countless eons trying to build her perfect timeline without ever giving up, but it has taken more than a toll on her sanity, as implied by Geras' Tower ending. Even when her plans get derailed, she is quick to fight with everything to win.
* DetrimentalDetermination: Kronika's obsession with crafting the "perfect" timeline has long since driven her insane, to the point that she's started and restarted timelines over and over again despite coming up short each time. [[spoiler:Her final attempt spells her doom twice over, as she is defeated and killed by both Fire God Liu Kang and her old pawn Shang Tsung.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:In "Aftermath", after Shang Tsung beats her and leaves her feebly crawling on the ground, he offers her the chance to serve him. She refuses, claiming she's a Titan and likely finding the idea of working under a mortal laughable even in her battered state. Shang absorbs her soul as a result and her body turns to dust.]]
* DestroyTheVillainsWeapon: In her arcade boss, after the Player destroys the Hourglass, the shards of glass hurl towards Kronika. Mutilating, and killing her.
* DevourTheDragon: [[spoiler:Before facing off with Liu Kang (in the main story)/Shang Tsung (in ''Aftermath''), Kronika commands Cetrion to sacrifice herself so that Kronika can absorb her Elder God soul for a boost. Cetrion reluctantly consents.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing:
** [[spoiler:When she senses the [[FusionDance merger]] of Raiden and Liu Kang, resulting in the birth of Fire God Liu Kang, Kronika is forced to admit that Raiden surprised her for the first time ''ever'' in all the timelines she's known him and to acknowledge that her defeat has become a distinct possibility.]]
--->'''Kronika:''' [[spoiler:[[OhCrap Out of desperation comes invention. I had not thought it possible for Raiden to surprise me]]. Our success is no longer certain. We must make haste.]]
** She certainly did not foresee Shang Tsung, Nightwolf and Fujin escaping the Void at all in ''Aftermath'', which allows her cotton on to the fact that things will go OffTheRails.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: While she is the Main Antagonist for ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''[='=]s main story, in the DLC story ''Aftermath'', she is quickly replaced with Shao & Sindel, and then killed by Shang Tsung.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In many ways, Kronika acts like a video game player obsessed with getting the best scores or results for her game. Her habit of rewinding or stopping time is akin to a player [[SaveScumming reverting to the latest saved game]], [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem restarting a game or cheating when things don't go exactly the way they want]]. An obsessed gamer is also obsessed with finding the so-called "perfect" game while being [[LackOfEmpathy unconcerned with everything else]], much like how Kronika sees everyone else in the story as little more than [[CosmicPlaything disposable playthings]]. Kronika is basically a cosmic example of an unhealthy obsession with a game.
* DrivenToMadness: Kronika's role as Keeper of Time, combined with her obsessive belief in the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil has turned her into a MadGod who starts and restarts time in a vicious cycle, struggling in vain to achieve her ideal timeline, making pawns of everyone, even her own children, to do so. [[spoiler:In ''[=MK1=]'', a desire to avoid a similar fate led Liu Kang to forsake his role as Keeper of Time, downgrading himself to Earthrealm's demigod protector and leaving the Hourglass in Geras' care.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: She appears to Jade in her ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' ending (albeit with a different appearance) and is implied to be the one giving Kitana a vision in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''. She now makes her debut in ''11''. One of the giant busts in the Jinsei Chamber in X also resembles her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{Subverted|Trope}}; Kronika is the mother of Cetrion and Shinnok, and ''seems'' to care about them, [[AbusiveParents but she treats her children as pawns]] and a microcosm of her insane belief in the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil. Even when she expresses something close to pity for Shinnok's [[AndIMustScream unenviable state]], her true concern is that [[ItsAllAboutMe her own design has gone awry]], and in Cetrion's case, [[spoiler:Kronika has her daughter sacrifice herself so that she can get a power boost ([[SenselessSacrifice one that does her no good]], not that that bothers Kronika)]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Just to prove that nobody likes the entitled, arrogant Frost, not even Kronika thinks highly of her, if the latter's non-canon ending is anything to go by. Even if Kronika herself has arrogance as a FatalFlaw.
** [[spoiler:She makes it a point to note just how treacherous Shang Tsung really is when she sees him rapidly backstab so many of his allies, culminating in the deaths of Shao Kahn and Sindel.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Kronika:''' You have no one left to betray.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She was smugly confident that she had played out every scenario with Raiden that she had nothing to lose [[LooseLips by telling him]] that [[spoiler:she intentionally pitted him against Liu Kang to ensure their combined might can never be brought to bear against her in every timeline she's destroyed]]. It backfires on her when Raiden [[spoiler:states she unintentionally offered him a [[TakeAThirdOption third option]] by fusing with Liu Kang, resulting in the [[FusionDance birth of Fire God Liu Kang]]]].
* EvilCounterpart: She is one to Raiden throughout the Story Mode when it comes to gathering followers. Kronika favors lying and manipulating and sees her allies as nothing but pawns and minions whereas Raiden treats his followers with respect and sees them as worthy friends and warriors. She is also the BigBad to Raiden's BigGood status.
* EvilGenius: She spends most of 11's main story scheming and observing. Using her underlings to hold the heroes back long enough for her Hourglass to gain enough energy to rewind time.
* FatalFlaw: Her weakness is {{pride}}, as she only truly cares for her selfish idea of cosmic balance and considered the lives of everyone else, including her own children, who happened to be ''Elder Gods'', to be beneath her concern. She was so utterly confident that she had played out every scenario with Raiden that she had nothing to lose by telling him that [[spoiler:she intentionally pitted him against Liu Kang to ensure their combined might can never be brought to bear against her]]. It should have been no surprise that [[spoiler:he would pine for an effective third option that she fed him on a silver platter]], as when she [[spoiler:senses the [[FusionDance merger]] of Raiden and Liu Kang, resulting in the birth of Fire God Liu Kang, she is forced to admit that Raiden surprised her for the first time ''ever'' in all the time she's known him and to acknowledge that her defeat has become a distinct possibility.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Spawn's ladder ending is one of the two endings where she isn't killed (the first being the bad ending) though she probably wishes she was. [[spoiler:For her crimes against the Realms and the Kombatants, Spawn throws her into Hell to suffer alongside Malebolgia for all eternity. Couldn't have happened to a nicer lady.]]
** Her fatality has her killing, then reviving, then killing, reviving, killing... and so on...her opponent, painfully rearranging their body each time. Given that she's a Time God, she could literally do this nonstop for all eternity. Or stop to do something else more important and pick up right back where she left off once that's been taken care of.
* FlunkyBoss: At 66% and 33% health, respectively (or only once at half health in Story Mode against Liu Kang), Kronika will retreat away from the stage and summon a random kombatant to fight the player in her stead. These summoned minions have reduced HP compared to their usual selves, and cannot use Fatal Blows. Defeating them will bring Kronika back into the fight.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Kano's Tower ending creates one for her, since she dies with the shards of her Hourglass but appears alive later to [[spoiler:relinquish her artifact's powers to him.]]
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Has this motif going on in both her outfit and on parts of outfits of Kombatants under her protection. This gets lampshaded by Jacqui when they first lay eyes on Jax's EvilCostumeSwitch. It's also worth noting that in Ladder Mode endings most Kombatants have their clothes altered to carry the motif after defeating her.
-->'''Jacqui:''' Those look like Kronika's design...!
* GreaterScopeVillain:
** Of the '''entire franchise''', as she serves this role in both the original and rebooted timelines.
** In Scorpion, Shang Tsung and Sonya's arcade endings, [[spoiler:they discover that Kronika was [[SequelHook only the tip of the iceberg]], as there are other Titans, ''some of which may be more powerful and worse than her''. It's hinted that [[AbusivePrecursors they]] are behind the various bad things that happened throughout the timelines. Sonya even forms her own god-squad to actively hunt down these {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.]]
* HatedByAll: Downplayed but still applicable. While she curries favor with a lot of allies, none of them actually trust Kronika to keep her promises to them of giving them exactly what they want in her "New Era". In their Arcade endings all of them betray her and kill her to take control of the Hourglass for themselves, or make her create their ideal timeline in exchange for mercy. [[spoiler:This also goes for Geras and Cetrion, who in their endings realize her ideology is madness and she must die for the safety of the realms.]]
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: In the Klassic Tower mode, she is killed by her own hourglass, which explodes into glass shards that slice her into pieces.
* HumanoidAbomination: She doesn't look that much different from Geras at first, but she's ancient and strong enough for her daughter to be an ''Elder God.'' [[spoiler:Notably, she's the most ''human'' looking Titan out of all them thus far shown, implying she may be far more alien than she already seems.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Her claim that Raiden's actions post-''[=MKX=]'' have wrecked her precious balance between good and evil and forced her hand rings hollow when it turns out that she has already erased the timeline countless times and in every single one of them, she has manipulated events to pit Raiden and Liu Kang against one another, resulting in both their {{Face Heel Turn}}s; meaning that she is responsible for the very things she blames Raiden for.
* IcyBlueEyes: She's a ruthless sociopath with shiny blue eyes.
* IDieFree: [[spoiler:Someone who stood as a Titan will never live as a slave, especially to one of her old slaves; Shang Tsung.]]
* ImmuneToFlinching: Kronika doesn't react to hits like the other kombatants, meaning attacks that force an opponent into a secondary hit state (such as being tackled) won't work on her and will whiff. This also means you can't use a Fatal Blow against her.
* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: [[spoiler:Her 'appearances' during ''Mortal Kombat 1'''s Story Mode are courtesy of ''Aftermath'' Shang Tsung posing as her.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Despite her claims, her goals are ultimately pretty selfish since it's not so much about balance as having things play out as ''she'' sees fit and getting antsy whenever things don't go as planned. [[spoiler:The fact that she ends up having the Elder Gods killed more or less proves this point. Keep in mind that she was mostly the guiding hand behind both the original timeline and the start of the new one. And both times were meant to keep Liu Kang and Raiden from stopping her.]]
* ItRunsInTheFamily: She's the mother of Shinnok. Let that sink in for a moment. This may have been invoked by Kronika, who shaped her son into being evil in order to fulfill her goal of a balance between light and darkness.
* JerkassGod: All she cares about is her goal of a "balanced" universe (read: one where the realms are locked in a ForeverWar). She is willing to kill, lie, and manipulate anyone (including her own children, Shinnok and Cetrion) to reach that goal, which benefits no-one but herself.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: In Chapter 11, she has Raiden's warriors frozen in time so she can gloat to him alone about how [[spoiler:Raiden and Liu Kang's combined strength is the key to defeat her. Between her chuckles and confidence of victory, she unwittingly gave the Thunder God an idea of how to thwart her.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:She engineered and manipulated Shang Tsung's entire destiny as a soul-stealing sorcerer for her own personal use. Unfortunately, much like Liu Kang, she completely underestimated Shang Tsung's capabilities, and is thus taken aback even further than in the main story when he, of all people, kills her and steals her soul after he becomes the new Keeper of Time.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In ''Mortal Kombat 1'', Geras tells Liu Kang that Titans cannot come back to life if they die. It serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that the Kronika that had been aiding Shang Tsung and Quan Chi is not who she appears to be.]]
** [[spoiler:However, a MirrorMatch intro between two Geras' reveals that Kronika is still alive in one alternate timeline and is still Keeper of Time there, possibly opening the door for her return.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Kronika only truly cares for her selfish idea of cosmic balance and considered the lives of everyone else, including ''gods'', to be beneath her concern. Throughout ''Mortal Kombat 11's'' story mode, she treated everyone else around her as either useful but expendable pawns (her allies) or laughably ineffective pests (her enemies). Kronika even seemed to treat her son Shinnok (representing death, darkness and vice) and her daughter Cetrion (representing life, light and virtue) as little more than tools to perpetuate the violent eternal struggle for BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil she deemed necessary to maintain her precious balance.
* LegionOfDoom: Forms one out of existing villains and groups across time, which includes Shao Kahn's Outworld empire, the Cyber Lin-Kuei, the Black Dragon, the Netherrealm revenants, D'Vorah, Frost, Noob Saibot, Scorpion's past self, and [[spoiler:the elder Jackson Briggs]].
* LetsYouAndHimFight:
** This is almost her entire MO across a universal scale: Her idea of balance is constant conflict between the realms, forcing them into an eternal give-and-take where no side truly turns the tide and defeats the other, and when peace seems too close, she instigates conflict anew.
** Exploited liberally by [[spoiler:forcing Liu Kang and Raiden into conflict in every timeline, to avoid their combined might disrupting her vision. She even keeps Revenant Liu Kang in reserve to fight Raiden as a safety precaution]].
** This is also her objective throughout Story Mode; when Revenant Liu Kang grows impatient at her inaction, she assures him that the heroes going through her pawns has left her to work on her hourglass unimpeded; better for them to fight Shao Kahn or Frost than her.
** Also does this in ''Aftermath''. [[spoiler:With the forces of Earthrealm flanked between the newly arrived forces of Outworld serving under Shao Kahn, Sindel and Shang Tsung as well as her own, she hopes to weaken everyone so that she can make her bid on getting her Crown back.]]
* LightIsNotGood: Despite the golds and whites on her outfit and status as a Time God, she is actually a deranged, MadGod. If anything, she is an outright OmnicidalManiac.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:Liu Kang as a Thunder and Fire God turns her into organic glass before breaking her arms, head, and body into pieces. The frozen look of [[ThisCannotBe disbelief]] on Kronika's face makes this even more satisfying.]]
* LooseLips: She was so utterly confident that she had played out every scenario with Raiden that she had nothing to lose by telling him that [[spoiler:she intentionally pitted him against Liu Kang to ensure their combined might can never be brought to bear against her]]. It should have been no surprise that [[spoiler:he would pine for an effective third option that she fed him on a silver platter]].
* MadGod: She hides it better than most, but Kronika is certainly not of sound mind. As her own servant Geras surmises in his non-canon Arcade ending, as well as in ''Mortal Kombat 1'', [[spoiler:it's likely because of [[SanitySlippage all her failed attempts at creating her own perfect timeline]]. Considering that she's erased countless timelines already and had to have been at it since the very beginning of time itself (to where she states that ''she'' lost count of how many times she had the conversation with Raiden)...]]
* {{Magitek}}: Everything related to Kronika (from the outfits and armors her underlings wear to the aesthetic of her keep) looks less like magic and more like highly advanced technology, although it seems to be a mixture of both.
* ManipulativeBitch: She deliberately chose potential allies who were fed up with their lot in life (or death) in the current timeline, making them all desperate to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans make things better by any means necessary]]. By offering these people a [[ResetButton chance]] to do just that, Kronika is able to gather [[LegionOfDoom a vast, loyal army]] in a frighteningly short amount of time. Unfortunately for them, they don't realize that Kronika is under no obligation to fulfill their wishes once the so-called New Era begins.
** For [[TheResenter the revenants of the Netherrealm]], she offered a timeline with Raiden [[CessationOfExistence erased from existence]].
** For [[EvilOverlord Shao Kahn]] and his followers, she offered a timeline in which they lead a [[TheEmpire multiverse-spanning empire]], free from the watchful eyes of the Elder Gods.
** For [[TheMafia Kano, his younger self and the Black Dragon clan]], she offered the chance to transform Earth into a VillainWorld where they can run rampant, unhindered by the law.
** For [[ItsAllAboutMe Sektor, Noob Saibot and Frost]], she offered each of them leadership of their own versions of the Lin Kuei, [[InTheirOwnImage shaped to their personal ideals]].
** For the revenant Scorpion from the past, she promised to restore his family and the old Shirai Ryu clan to life.
** For [[spoiler:the present Jackson Briggs, who had recently [[DespairEventHorizon lost his wife]]]], she promised a timeline in which [[spoiler:he [[ICouldaBeenAContender remains a proud soldier]] while his beloved daughter never enlisted in the army.]]
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Although she doesn't do the deed herself, she shows up after Raiden has incapacitated Shinnok's head to address the fallen Elder God. She is the first antagonist of the new timeline who is a completely new character and not an existing antagonist from the original course of events.
* MeaningfulName: The name Kronika is a feminization of Kronos, which means time.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler:She succeeds resetting the timeline during her confrontation with Fire God Liu Kang, only to be beaten by the latter. In ''Aftermath'', she is defeated by Shang Tsung upon making way into her Keep, only for Tsung to be foiled by Liu Kang, who would proceed to create the New Era. Either way, Kronika's desire for a perfect timeline is now rendered moot.]]
* MoralSociopathy: She truly believes she is doing the right thing. However, the way she does everything is so sociopathic that it ends up [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist making her look even worse]]. She says that it is important to maintain the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil, but what she wants is ForeverWar which will result in so much suffering for many people. She attempts to remove free will from the people of the timeline so she can have what she believes is the perfect timeline for everyone involved. Her arrogance prevents her from allowing any result that doesn't have her desired outcome.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Trying to pit Raiden and Liu Kang against each other for the umpteenth time backfired on her spectacularly. [[spoiler: As of ''Mortal Kombat 1'' it also paved the way for them and their allies to become Titans across separate timelines.]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:When Shang Tsung drains her soul in ''Aftermath'', her body dissolves into sand and vanishes, as opposed to everyone else, who leave corpses behind.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: If nothing else, she's efficient; she is actively working on her scheme to reset existence, even conjuring sand duplicates of other characters to buy her more time, in the final boss battle. [[spoiler:In story mode, losing a round to her gives her enough time to ''succeed'', resetting enough of the world to erase everything and everyone Liu Kang knows; beating her at that point just gives him an opportunity to ensure the next world is a free and happy one.]]
** Her reasoning for putting [[ManipulativeBastard Shang]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Tsung]] into the void outside of time is entirely out of the justified belief that he'd manipulate events to come out on top one way or another. [[spoiler:As seen in ''Aftermath'', a free Shang Tsung, especially one who is fully aware of Kronika's worries of him, manages to come out on top of literally everyone imaginable through pure guile and manipulation, ultimately resulting in her soul being stolen before she even had a chance to turn back time. Even if he was stopped by Fire God Liu Kang, she still effectively lost even ''worse'' than in the base game, where she at least managed to go the beginning of time canonically.]]
* NoSell: Kronika is immune to many aspects of the player's repertoire.
** She is completely immune to juggles, whether by way of abilities or combos. While she can still be knocked down by hitting her enough, none of the juggles will do anything beyond their damage values.
** She's also immune to Fatal Blows, only taking damage from the initial hit, while the rest of the combo will not commence. Krushing Blow combos, on the other hand, can still be performed, but Kronika will not take the increased damage and the cinematics will not play.
** Much like Shao Khan in ''[=MK9=]'', throw attacks are unusable on her and attempts to do so will leave you vulnerable to a good ass-kicking, possibly a fatal one in certain conditions.
* NonStandardGameOver: Entirely unique to herself, if you lose the final fight against her in story mode, she forms a blade to cut off [[spoiler:Fire God Liu Kang]]'s head, then announce that the New Era will begin.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: She wants to rewind time back to the beginning and restart it so she can restore what she sees as balance to the universe. Although her idea of a BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil entails her two children being locked in an eternal conflict that would result in [[ControlFreak pointlessly fighting just so that she can dictate how everyone's destiny unfolds]].
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Issues one to ''Shao Kahn'' by offering him a new empire to rule.
-->'''Kronika:''' My Hourglass requires protection while I work. Will your Outworld armies defend it?\\
'''Shao Kahn:''' ''[nodding]'' They ''shall''.
* OffscreenInertia: Similar to Quan Chi's leg beating fatality, Kronika never stops tearing and reattaching her victim apart onscreen.
* OhCrap: In the final chapter, she reacts with relative ''[[NotSoStoic panic]]'' when [[spoiler:the Liu Kang she has imprisoned disappears, having [[FusionDance merged with Raiden and his revenant self.]]]] She even admits that she's been caught off guard, and hurries to finish her plan before anything else can go wrong.
-->'''Kronika:''' Our success is no longer certain. We must make haste.
* TheOldGods: [[spoiler:She is the first known Titan of the Mortal Kombat universe, making her ancient and powerful by even the Elder Gods' reckoning. In Scorpion's and Sonya's ''Mortal Kombat 11'' arcade endings, Kronika was just the [[SequelHook tip of the iceberg]], with entire ''pantheons'' of hostile, ancient deities inhabiting the multiverse, some of whom ''may be worse than her''.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: With a few exceptions, she spends most of the game in her Keep. While this is justified as her preparing her Hourglass to reset time, whenever she decides to get involved directly, [[StoryBreakerPower she can stop time]] and everyone but gods are frozen. It's only due to {{Pride}} and BondVillainStupidity that she allows the heroes to take out her allies one by one, when if she cared to take a more personal role in her own plan, she could have probably pulled it off on her own.
* OrderIsNotGood: Considering her obsession with balance, she ironically comes hard on the end of Order, with the caveat of being her specific, selfish vision of an orderly universe.
* OurTitansAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Explicitly calls herself a Titan in one of the variant scenes in her Story Mode, and she fits as a creature older than even the Elder Gods. Scorpion, Sonya and Shang Tsung discover in their endings that she's hardly the LastOfHerKind.]]
* PeggySue: A negative version who uses her time manipulation abilities to constantly reset the timeline when her efforts to balance things don't play out as she wants. Then she tries again with new knowledge of what went wrong last go around. The events of ''11'' happen when she is about to figure things out for good and eliminate any variables that might disrupt her plan. [[spoiler:Then Raiden gives Liu Kang an EleventhHourSuperpower and things go completely off the rails for her, although she still technically succeeds in her goal of at least resetting things]].
* PetTheDog: Slightly. In ''Aftermath'' when [[spoiler:Cetrion blames herself for allowing Shang Tsung to obtain the Crown, Kronika claims it was her own fault for underestimating Shang Tsung's cunning.]]
** In Kabal's ending, she does apparently keep her word in giving what he wants in exchange for control of the Hour-Glass, probably because she now knows he can beat her, but still.
* PowerFloats: Appears in some cutscenes floating, with her legs vanishing.
* PragmaticVillainy: Unlike [[EvilOverlord Shao Kahn]] and [[GodOfEvil Shinnok]], she does not particularly enjoy the suffering of others and would not jeopardize her own plans for such. As a patient ManipulativeBastard, Kronika prefers a tactful approach. When working with allies, she discusses her plans with them and aids them however she could, such as providing aid and resources, usually through temporal manipulation. Despite this, Kronika had every intention of [[RetGone ending them all]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once they were no longer useful to her]]. In her own way, Kronika is even more ruthless and uncaring than either Shao Kahn or Shinnok.
* {{Pride}}: This is Kronika's most defining character flaw and it is understandable given that she is [[TheOldGods more powerful and far older than the Elder Gods themselves]].
* ProperlyParanoid: Learning of Shang Tsung's escape from the Void shows that Kronika fears Shang Tsung is too dangerous to be kept alive, lest he grows even more powerful. [[spoiler:Her assumptions of Tsung are proven right after witnessing his betrayal of Shao Kahn and Sindel]].
* PsychoticSmirk: Wears one in her Arcade Boss fights as she speaks to her opponent.
-->'''Kronika:''' Come, it is time... '''to die.'''
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The player is led to believe, in ''Mortal Kombat 1'', that the instigator of the conflict behind the story mode is Kronika, seemingly having survived the events of ''11'' and ''Aftermath'' despite all odds. It turns out, however, that "Kronika" was actually an alternate version of ''Aftermath'' Shang Tsung, and that the Titan herself is KilledOffForReal.]]
* ResurrectionDeathLoop: Her Fatality. She tears you apart telekinetically, and then rewinds time so she can do it again in a different way. She keeps doing this forever until you choose something from the GameOver menu.
* SatanicArchetype: And how! Kronika is very clearly the true devil figure in the franchise, even topping Shinnok in that regard. To elaborate, Kronika has a lot of incredibly Satanic elements surrounding her character, which include her being a GodOfEvil with a fetish-level obsession of supposedly keeping BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil, and yet [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist her plan is to actually destroy the universe countless times]] to [[ItsAllAboutMe satisfy her ego]] and remake the universe [[InTheirOwnImage in her own image]], is an [[TheChessmaster exceptional]] [[ManipulativeBitch manipulator]], she regularly [[TheCorrupter tempts and corrupts]] different people into becoming her allies (all presented like a DealWithTheDevil scenario) in order to further her deeds and kills them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once their work is done]], lies to her own allies and [[BadBoss treats them horribly]], [[{{Sadist}} enjoys the suffering of others]] and commits unspeakable atrocities [[ForTheEvulz for fun]], and further enhancing her Satanic qualities are her personality embodying each of the SevenDeadlySins and the brutal, enigmatic and unpredictable nature of her actions that evoke a NothingIsScarier feel to them. What ultimately seals the deal, though, is her appearance, with a [[LightIsNotGood color-scheme that evokes that of light]] and [[BrightIsNotGood brightness]] typically associated with angels, something very commonly used to describe {{Satan}} taking the form of an angel of light to disguise himself and trick humans, literally making her Lucifer.
* ShadowArchetype:
** She represents what Raiden could become if he started micromanaging mortals instead of guiding and respecting their free will, corrupting his mind over time. Also, when it comes to gathering followers, Kronika favors lying and manipulation, and sees her allies as nothing but pawns, whereas Raiden treats his followers with respect, and sees them as worthy friends and warriors. She is also the BigBad to Raiden's BigGood status. Geras's arcade ending even shows [[spoiler:that her repeated attempts to create the ideal timeline have taken a toll on her sanity.]]
** Kronika also becomes one to Fire God Liu Kang at the end of the story. Once Liu Kang gains access to the Hourglass, he chooses to let mortals control their destiny rather than controlling all aspects of their lives like Kronika did.
* SmugSuper: Through most of her appearances in the story, she's brimming with utmost confidence, assured that this time there's no way her plan can fail even when the Earthrealm warriors start taking down her forces over the course of the story and get closer to stopping her. After all, she's a Goddess of time and can easily just freeze or rewind things if she feels she has to. [[spoiler:Plus she's done this before in ''countless'' timelines. Even when Raiden does catch on to her, she erases that timeline entirely and starts anew. The difference this time is that she has stockpiled enough power to ''really'' control things to the point she can erase undesirables as she sees fit. However, once Raiden gives up his powers to Liu Kang and makes him a God who, you know, is also the Champion of Mortal Kombat, this begins to drop as [[OhCrap it's one of the few moments she notes something hasn't gone according to her will and is in jeopardy of completely derailing her plans]].]]
* SmugSnake: She gloats to Raiden about how [[spoiler:his and Liu Kang's combined strength is the key to defeat her. Between her chuckles and confidence of victory, she [[DidntThinkThisThrough unwittingly gave]] the Thunder God an [[TakeAThirdOption idea of how]] to thwart her for good]].
* SNKBoss: Her fights only last one round, but she throws everything, the kitchen sink and a few things that aren't even hers at the player. She is completely immune to grapples, fatal blows, and even certain specials, severely hampering the effectiveness of many characters. On top of that, she summons random fighters in her place (who have severely gimped health, but the damage they can inflict remains unchanged) at two thirds and one-third health, changes the stage once you kill them and gains a new ability with each shift. Her normal specials are actually even worse, such as summoning multiple homing projectiles, surrounding herself with a barrier of three sand balls, and her most annoying ability, an unblockable, extraordinarily fast laser that, should it connect, heavily damages your fighter, rewinds time for them (resulting in you being unable to attack), and leaves you frozen in the air for a few additional seconds just for good measure. And while you're being put through the wringer, Kronika can take all the time in the world to [[TeleportSpam warp around]], pulling off combos while you're completely helpless to do anything.
* TheSociopath: Despite her claims of doing what is right for everyone, Kronika carries many classic hallmarks of the trope. She has no empathy for those who are affected by her tampering beyond any superficial reasons that help further her plan, and she has wiped out countless timelines to get her desired outcome. Even within those timelines, she willingly destroys the bonds between allies to make them turn on each other whenever there is a threat to her plans. She manipulates people both by removing their free will in tampering with the timeline and in personal ways by (usually falsely) promising to give people what they want. She's incredibly prideful to the point that she won't allow any result that isn't her perfect BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil (read: her ForeverWar). Because of this, she has low tolerance for frustration whenever she doesn't have the upper hand in some way. And this pride removes any remorse she has for doing any of this, since she sees all of it as necessary to keep things in order (or, at least, her vision of what that order should be).
* TeleportSpam: One of many reasons why fighting Kronika can be insanely annoying on harder difficulties. Kronika will teleport around the stage when fighting the player, giving her both great zoning and getaway capabilities.
* TemptingFate: As the forces arrayed against her approach her fortress, she tells her allies that [[NothingCanStopUsNow their enemies]] ''[[NothingCanStopUsNow will]]'' [[NothingCanStopUsNow lose]]. [[spoiler:Shortly afterwards, [[SpannerInTheWorks Fire God Liu Kang]] is born from an [[DidntSeeThatComing unexpected]] [[FusionDance merger]] of Raiden and Liu Kang, the two heroes she [[LetsYouAndHimFight kept at each others' throats]] over countless timelines.]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In both giving and receiving varieties:
** Lose to her in Arcade, and she [[spoiler:grabs your character telekinetically to rip them apart. Then uses her TimeMaster ability to put them back together. Then [[FateWorseThanDeath rip them apart again. Then reconstruct. Then rip...]]]]
** Because this is ''Mortal Kombat'', Kronika gets as good as she gives. Defeating her in a traditional arcade ladder results in the most gruesome death of an arcade boss for the series. The Hourglass explodes and Kronika is quickly acquainted with a hail of broken glass, and every moment of it looks mighty unpleasant.
* TimeAbyss: To the point that ''her son and daughter are Elder Gods''. Considering that the Elder Gods themselves are timeless beings who observe the realms from the moment of their creation...
* TimeMaster: Kronika is a goddess who can control the flow of time itself. She can [[TimeStandsStill stop time]], create a GroundhogDayLoop (subjecting the player to [[AndIMustScream an endless loop of gruesome deaths]] in her Fatality), and pull [[AlternateSelf people]] and [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum objects]] from the past into the present. With the proper preparations, Kronika can use the [[AncientArtifact Hourglass]] at her Keep to [[AmplifierArtifact enhance her power]] to the point that she can literally [[ResetButton rewind the timeline]] to beyond the dawn of time itself. Other gods such as Raiden [[spoiler:and Fire God Liu Kang]] are [[NoSell immune]] to Kronika's control over time to a degree, since gods exist outside the normal laws of time.
* TimeTravelersDinosaur: The second phase of her boss fight takes place in the Prehistoric Age arena, where dinosaurs roam, and she is able to control one to make it attack your character.
* ViciousCycle: Kronika can control circumstances so that certain disastrous events are repeated again and again across different timelines in some form. In fact, this is the reason why Liu Kang and Raiden eventually [[LetsYouAndHimFight turn against each other]] in every timeline so far. All this was so that both of them would never join forces and become a [[SpannerInTheWorks true threat]] to Kronika's plans.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Slightly, as [[spoiler:Fire God Liu Kang]] starts adjusting to his powers and beating down all her revenant guards one by one, she begins to realize that her earlier fears are beginning to come to light and for once, her voice actually has alarm to it, starting to show cracks of her celestial facade.
** A more prominent one in ''Aftermath'' when [[spoiler:Shang Tsung manages to work around her influence and invade her Keep while wearing her Crown, forcing her to fight him while at the same level of power as he is, if not weaker]]. In this case, she outright yells at her subordinates to kill the person who incensed her.
* VillainousMotherSonDuo: Kronika is just as evil and scummy as her son, Shinnok.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Justified in her case. In chapter 3, upon freezing Liu Kang and Kung Lao in time, Geras brings up the possibility of finishing them right there, though Kronika retorts that she needs them alive otherwise their Revenant counterparts would cease to exist as well.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: She has the power to rewind time, but whenever a timeline doesn't go in her favor whether the heroes win or the villains, she resorts to restarting time to the point that she had gone mad. As a result, the events of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' happened because she wants to stop the heroes from having too much favor, and forcing Liu Kang and Raiden from coming into blows with each other. All of her actions until ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' is the main reason why Liu Kang avoided abusing his power and go mad if he even thought of perfecting his timeline, and gave up his Titan powers as a result.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: [[spoiler:At the end of the story mode, Kronika successfully [[ResetButton restarts the Mortal Kombat timeline]]. The only [[BittersweetEnding consolation]] is that Liu Kang ends Kronika's life afterwards, ensuring that, for the first time, the timeline is truly free of her meddling, and beating her without losing a round means she hasn't gone so far back that he can't save Kitana or anyone else.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Any character who defeats her in the arcade ladder will gain all her time powers for themselves. [[spoiler:In the Story Mode, Liu Kang becomes the new master of time after slaying Kronika.]]
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!Guest Fighters
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!![[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} Spawn (Albert Francis "Al" Simmons)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't have a chance in Hell."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeithDavid (English), Creator/VictorHugoAguilar (Latin American Spanish), Philippe Dumond (French)
->Creator/{{Todd McFarlane}}'s iconic AntiHero creation. After being betrayed and murdered by his own government, Al Simmons was condemned to Hell for the wet work he performed as a CIA assassin. A demon king known as Malebolgia, however, had other plans: he offered Simmons a chance to reunite with his wife in exchange for his immortal soul. Thus, Simmons was reborn as an undead Hellspawn, or simply "Spawn". He was granted supenatural powers to fight petty criminals ''and'' lower demons, but Malebolgia's intent was to train him to serve in Hell's army.
->For other tropes which apply to him, check [[Characters/{{Spawn}} his own character sheet]]. This is only for these tropes which appear in this game.
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* DropTheHammer: One of his main weapons after pilfering it from the Krypt is none other than Shao Kahn's Wrath hammer. Which he makes great use of, not only as a Sledgehammer in wrecking parts of the krypt to give himself shortcuts and open up new paths, but as well as defending himself from Kytinn spiders and angry spirits.
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* MartialPacifist: Cetrion is as brutal as any kombatant in a fight, but she doesn't inherently ''like'' fighting.
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* CoolGuns: Both his Berreta-derived Auto-9 and the Barrett [=M82A1=]-based Cobra Cannon. Notably, in a game that otherwise [[AKA47 has modeled guns that are only slightly based on real ones]], both the Auto-9 and the Cobra Cannon are properly, accurately modeled here. It ''is'' possible to replace them with more original designs, however.
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* BadassBoast: When facing off with Sindel in ''Aftermath'', he responds to her attempts at intimidation with a Badass Boast that somehow manages to come off resigned and bitter.
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'''Geras:''' As she has done billions of times before...
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* BadassBoast: When facing off with Sindel in ''Aftermath'', he responds to her attempts at intimidation with a Badass Boast that somehow manages to come off resigned and bitter.
''Aftermath''.
-->'''Sindel:''' Your maker [[SuicideMission sends you todie, die]], Geras.\\
'''Geras:''' As she has done [[ResurrectiveImmortality billions of timesbefore...before. Each time]], [[CameBackStrong the perfection of her design grows closer]].
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* CreepySouvenir: One of his Fatalities has him tear off chunks of his opponent’s body, including their head, and stuff it in his backpack.
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** {{Zigzagged|Trope}} If there is something that the Kollector won't sink to, it's mostly for [[PragmaticVillainy his own self-preservation]] rather than any morals, including stealing from his people to pay his own debts to Shao Kahn. Sheeva outright lampshades he has no scruples.
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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: This is actually a characteristic of his race, the Naknada. They don't have names in the traditional sense, but are all named after their profession.
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* LeanAndMean: Compared to Shao Kahn's normal muscular Dragons, Goro and Baraka- and Shao Kahn himself- he's considerably slimmer. [[MusclesAreMeaningless He's still pretty powerful, though]].
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* NinetiesAntiHero: One of the most iconic and long-lasting examples in comics. He even has an alt that covers him in random pouches!
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* ArchEnemy: While Violator isn't Spawn's only major enemy, he takes a significant role in his rogues gallery and is his most recurring foe. He is frequently mentioned in passing and one MirrorMatch will have Violator in a Spawn get-up back for another rematch, causing Spawn to grumble about how many times he has to kill him. One match intro animation has Spawn walk up holding the Violator's head on a pike, which he plants into the ground. [[spoiler:Violator and his siblings also show up in Spawn's arcade ending, being hunted by his squad of demon-slayers.]]
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* BerserkButton: To put it bluntly... he "''fucking hate[s] clowns.''" Even ''Johnny Cage'' isn't exempt from it.
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* CapeWings: He can do this with his (Air) Leetha Glide ability.
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* CapeWings: He can do this with his (Air) "(Air) Leetha Glide Glide" ability.
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** In his Arcade ending, [[spoiler:Spawn manages to get their help in conquering the Netherrealm. The constant bickering between Scorpion and Sub-Zero shows why Spawn prefers to work alone.]]
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** In his Arcade ending, [[spoiler:Spawn manages to get their help in conquering the Netherrealm. The constant bickering between Scorpion and Sub-Zero shows why Spawn prefers to work alone.]]alone]].
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* PrecisionFStrike: Only once in one of the more memorable interactions in the game. After all, this is a killing machine that recommends any dickwads to chill out.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Only once in one of the more memorable interactions in the game. After all, this is a killing machine that recommends any dickwads to chill out.out, and Johnny Cage put him up to it.
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-->'''[=RoboCop=]''': For the company's benefit, not mine.
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-->'''[=RoboCop=]''': For the company's [[MegaCorp company's]] benefit, not mine.
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*UnwantedRevival: Alex was killed and then bought back as a cyborg, which was all arranged by OCP without any regard for the man himself. A fate Al Simmons relates to in one of their match ups.
-->'''Spawn''': So your ass got resurrected, too.
-->'''[=RoboCop=]''': For the company's benefit, not mine.
-->'''Spawn''': It's a [[FateWorseThanDeath special kind of hell]], isn't it?
-->'''Spawn''': So your ass got resurrected, too.
-->'''[=RoboCop=]''': For the company's benefit, not mine.
-->'''Spawn''': It's a [[FateWorseThanDeath special kind of hell]], isn't it?
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* GuestFighter: From the [[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} self-titled Image comic book series]]. Interestingly, he's the second ''Mortal Kombat'' guest fighter to have previously guest-starred in the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'',[[note]]having appeared as a fighter in the Xbox version of ''Soulcalibur II'' and both versions of ''Soulcalibur II: HD Online''[[/note]] the first being [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] in ''Mortal Kombat 9''.
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* GuestFighter: From the [[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} self-titled Image comic book series]]. Interestingly, he's the second ''Mortal Kombat'' guest fighter to have previously guest-starred in the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'',[[note]]having appeared as a fighter in the Xbox version of ''Soulcalibur II'' and both versions of ''Soulcalibur II: HD Online''[[/note]] the first being [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] in ''Mortal Kombat 9''.9''[[note]][=PlayStation=] 3 and Vita versions only[[/note]].
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* HappyDance: His Friendship features [=RoboCop=] dancing, complete with [[StylisticSuck a gold OCP chain on his neck, video static and '80s stereo system]] as [[JustForPun he does the Robot]] among other moves.
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* HappyDance: His Friendship features [=RoboCop=] dancing, complete with [[StylisticSuck a gold OCP chain on his neck, video static and '80s stereo system]] as [[JustForPun he does the Robot]] Robot among other moves.
