Trivia / DEATH BATTLE! S02E02 - Shao Kahn VS M. Bison

• Shao Kahn was shown using a fatality move on Kratos in the episode. Also Raiden was directly mentioned to have stopped Kahn by going back in time while Akuma almost killed M. Bison once.
  • Coincidentally, the second match of Season 1 was between Shang Tsung and Akuma, meaning this is the second Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter match to involve series antagonists whom both serve as bosses. Both Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn mastered similar sorcery and soul powers and Akuma and Bison mastered dark magic.
• According to Wiz's calculations, Shao Kahn conquered 10 realms, which could mean he either had control of or absorbed the souls of over 60 billion people if each realm had about 6 billion people.
  • Of course, this assumes that all realms have a constant, unchanging population, which makes no sense since ours does not. If we assume equivalency in population between unconquered realms at 500 year intervals over which the tournaments took place, he likely has an estimated accumulated 1.31 billion souls power
• Shao Kahn is the first Mortal Kombat character to win.
• M. Bison marks the second opponent who can survive their "death" through their soul possessing others (the first being Starscream and his "Spark", which is essentially a Transformer's soul). He's also the second opponent who lost after having their soul devoured by their opponent (the first, obviously being Starscream again). Though, unlike Starscream, M. Bison can't come back from having his soul eaten by his opponent. Not to mention Starscream's spark, unlike Bison's soul, is only capable of possessing Transformers and other machinery, not living flesh.
• Shao Kahn is one of the oldest characters in Death Battle history and is possibly the oldest of Season 2 (whether he is older than Majin Buu is unknown). His exact age is unknown but thanks to the billions of souls he devoured, he is over 10,000 years old.