History DethroningMoment / MortalKombat

''Franchise/MortalKombat'' may be one of the greatest fighting games, but there are those moments where you may want to perform a '''FATALITY''' on the writers/devs...

!Mortal Kombat 1

* Ferigeras: ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' has a blatantly moronic example of GameplayAndStorySegregation combined with DownerEnding in Reptile's Arcade Ending. Namely, [[spoiler: after [[FinalBoss Shinnok]] has been defeated, Reptile wishes to return back in time and pleads to Quan Chi (and Shinnok, effectively) to make it come true. Quan Chi considers this wish "impetuous", which agitates Reptile after a while. Long story short: Shinnok - the same FinalBoss who was just defeated by the player a short while ago - then pops up, grabs Reptile in a chokehold, states that Reptile "is in no position to demand anything" and then simply [[YourHeadAsplode blows his head up]].]] This isn't the only ending in which Shinnok remains victorious despite being the FinalBoss, as Tanya's and his own ending could attest to, but at least those two were still a victory for the player, if a [[TheBadGuyWins villain victory]] at that. This ending, however, blatantly and nonsensically punishes the player for winning as Reptile, and only furthers the latter's position as this franchise's CosmicPlaything.

*** Tropers/{{LLSmoothJ}}: If it actually expanded her character, it would be one thing, but they tried to justify it saying that "Her personality matches her look now" which is already a case of UnfortunateImplications, but that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is when you realize that (if I'm correct) this is the first game where Kitana looks distinctively Asian while her parents still look Caucasian. Sindel constantly talks about "privilege" as if it's just her character, almost as if the real reason why they changed her character was so they can portray her as the "Privileged White Woman" stereotype (Kollector even calls her a racist at one point). This on top of [[spoiler:Jax suddenly caring about ending slavery because the writers view Slavery as just a horrible thing that happened to black people]] among other things just show that they no longer care about the characters and have no problem changing them for the sake of virtue signaling and earn brownie points with certain people.

*** Tropers/{{LLSmoothJ}}: If it actually expanded her character, it would be one thing, but they tried to justify it saying that "Her personality matches her look now" which is already a case of UnfortunateImplications, but that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is when you realize that (if I'm correct) this is the first game where Kitana looks distinctively Asian while her parents still look Caucasian. Sindel constantly talks about "privilege" as if it's just her character, almost as if they real reason why they changed her so they can portray her as the "Privileged White Woman" stereotype (Kollector even calls her a racist). This on top of [[spoiler:Jax suddenly caring about ending slavery because the writers view Slavery as just a horrible thing that happened to black people]] among other things just show that they no longer care about the characters and have no problem changing them for the sake of virtue signaling and earn brownie points with certain people.

*** Tropers/{{LLSmoothJ}}: If it actually expanded her character, it would be one thing, but they tried to justify it saying that "Her personality matches her look now" which is already a case of UnfortunateImplications, but that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is when you realize that (if I'm correct) this is the first game where Kitana looks distinctively Asian while her parents still look Caucasian. Sindel constantly talks about "privilege" as if it's just her character, almost as if they real reason why they changed her so they can portray her as the "Privileged White Woman" stereotype (Kollector even calls her a racist). This on top of making [[spoiler:Jax suddenly care about ending slavery because the writers view Slavery as just a horrible thing that happened to black people]] among other things just show that they no longer care about the characters and have no problem changing them for the sake of virtue signaling and earn brownie points with certain people.

** Legomaniac90: As it turns out, Ed Boon deliberately did this, because to him the old version Sindel was a flat character who only existed as a brainwashed pawn or an extension of her husband; which is a flat out lie to begin with and makes her new character make even less sense considering she’s pretty much a rip-off of Shao Kahn in the new continuity.

* Shadow200: Sindel was already divisive after her showcase in 9, but somehow shockingly, 11 made her even worse. All the time beforehand we were told and led to believe that Sindel was a wise and benevolent Queen of Edenia who killed herself in grief after her husband King Jerrod died at the hands of Shao Kahn. [[spoiler: Turns out that was a big steaming pile of lies. We find out all this time she's been nothing more than a power hungry GoldDigger who cares nothing for anyone and latches onto others and in fact poisoned and killed Jerrod herself so Shao Kahn could conquer Edenia and she'd still be Queen.]] That is just plain terrible writing and CharacterDerailment. Its as if Boon and company are just coming up with whatever enters their imagination anymore regardless if it makes sense.

* Shadow200: Sindel was already divisive after her showcase in 9, but somehow shockingly, 11 made her even worse. All the time beforehand we was told and led to believe that Sindel was a wise and benevolent Queen of Edenia who killed herself in grief after her husband King Jerrod died at the hands of Shao Kahn. [[spoiler: Turns out that was a big steaming pile of lies. We find out all this time she's been nothing more than a power hungry GoldDigger who cares nothing for anyone and latches onto others and in fact poisoned and killed Jerrod herself so Shao Kahn could conquer Edenia and she'd still be Queen.]] That is just plain terrible writing and CharacterDerailment. Its as if Boon and company are just coming up with whatever enters their imagination anymore regardless if it makes sense.

** Tropers/DrZulu2010: If I have to play the devil's advocate for a moment, Liu Kang is no better in term of being an idiot. Sure, Raiden [[spoiler: killing him]] was bad but I can see as the tragedy of it. But the worse thing is that it an easily avoidable death if Liu lets Raiden go with his plan and let [[spoiler: Shao Khan win because he broke the rules of Mortal Kombat!]] Also, Liu's last words [[spoiler: "You have killed us all"]] ends up null and void since [[spoiler: after Raiden finally preventing Armageddon, or at least alter it, not only did the forces of good still have Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage, but in MKX, they also brought back to life Jax, Sub-Zero and Scorpion, the former of which has a daughter and the two latter reverting back as humans.]] So, yeah, Liu Kang. Raiden [[spoiler: "killed us all"]] the same way Ed Boon killed your credibility as the hero of the whole franchise.

** Legomaniac90: As it turns out, Ed Boon deliberately did this, because to him the old version Sindel was a flat character who only existed as a brainwashed pawn or an extension of her husband; which is a flat out lie to begin with and makes her new character make even less sense considering she’s pretty much a rip-off of Shao Khan in the new continuity.

* Shadow200: Sindel was already divisive after her showcase in 9, but somehow shockingly, 11 made her even worse. All the time beforehand we was told and led to believe that Sindel was a wise and benevolent Queen of Edenia who killed herself in grief after her husband King Jerrod died at the hands of Shao Kahn. [[spoiler: Turns out that was a big steaming pile of lies. We find out all this time she's been nothing more than a power hungry GoldDigger who cares nothing for anyone and latches onto others and in fact poisoned and killed Jerrod herself so Shao Kahn could conquer Edenia and she'd still be Queen.]] That is just plain terrible writing and CharacterDerailment. Its as if Boon and company are just coming up with whatever enters their imagination anymore regardless if it makes sense

!Mortal Kombat: Armageddon

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* Tropers/SoranTheMan: Taven's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1A3oxko6CQ ending]], aka the ending that was supposed to be canon ending before [=MK9=] thankfully undid this piece of crap. Say whatever you want about the story decisions in [=MK9=], but at least those had consequences! At least those led to something, both good and bad! But here?! You just went through the entire story mode (which sucked in almost every way possible!) wondering if Taven was going to be the the doom of all the characters or simply the bane of their powers once he became a god, only for him to recap everything that we already know by this point and then give us the ultimate kicker: nothing happened! The Kombatants didn't die and their powers were not removed. Taven (and the player) did everything for nothing! And it's not even in a dramatic way! It's just like "Oh well. That didn't work. Guess I better find another way". My word...
* Ferigeras: ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' has a blatantly moronic example of GameplayAndStorySegregation combined with DownerEnding in Reptile's Arcade Ending. Namely, [[spoiler: after [[FinalBoss Shinnok]] has been defeated, Reptile wishes to return back in time and pleads to Quan Chi (and Shinnok, effectively) to make it come true. Quan Chi considers this wish "impetuous", which agitates Reptile after a while. Long story short: Shinnok - the same FinalBoss who was just defeated by the player a short while ago - then pops up, grabs Reptile in a chokehold, states that Reptile "is in no position to demand anything" and then simply [[YourHeadAsplode blows his head up]].]] This isn't the only ending in which Shinnok remains victorious despite being the FinalBoss, as Tanya's and his own ending could attest to, but at least those two were still a victory for the player, if a [[TheBadGuyWins villain victory]] at that. This ending, however, blatantly and nonsensically punishes the player for winning as Reptile, and only furthers the latter's position as this franchise's CosmicPlaything.

* Xiristatos: ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' has a blatantly moronic example of GameplayAndStorySegregation combined with DownerEnding in Reptile's Arcade Ending. Namely, [[spoiler: after [[FinalBoss Shinnok]] has been defeated, Reptile wishes to return back in time and pleads to Quan Chi (and Shinnok, effectively) to make it come true. Quan Chi considers this wish "impetuous", which agitates Reptile after a while. Long story short: Shinnok - the same FinalBoss who was just defeated by the player a short while ago - then pops up, grabs Reptile in a chokehold, states that Reptile "is in no position to demand anything" and then simply [[YourHeadAsplode blows his head up]].]] This isn't the only ending in which Shinnok remains victorious despite being the FinalBoss, as Tanya's and his own ending could attest to, but at least those two were still a victory for the player, if a [[TheBadGuyWins villain victory]] at that. This ending, however, blatantly and nonsensically punishes the player for winning as Reptile, and only furthers the latter's position as this franchise's CosmicPlaything.

* Tropers/MightyKombat: Related to the Big [[spoiler:Sindel]] Massacre in Story mode, how they took Shang Tsung, one of the series' staple villains and literally fed him to [[spoiler:Sindel to power her up and justify her slaughter of a shitload of strong Earthrealm fighters.]] After his decent showing in the MK1 and 2 chapters were he's able to pull strings in a devious way mid tournament, and convince Shao Kahn of his worth by letting Kitana grass on him about his creating of Mileena, he ends up getting this? One of the series' interesting villains? Just feed him to [[spoiler:Sindel to power her up! It doesn't help Sindel's case that some of the Earthrealm fighters she killed were Stryker, who had not too long ago beat Kintaro and Ermac, and Sub-Zero, who literally bested Ermac and more importantly, beat Goro and Kintaro simultaneously.]] It really stings when combined with the lack of screentime that staple villains like Baraka and Reptile got (the latter doesn't even get any spoken lines!) It also stung how half of Shang's good moments and plans ended up handed over to Quan Chi instead, right up to the Sindel Resurrection Plot in [=MK3=] no longer being a plan Shao Kahn had at the ready for ten thousand years with Shang Tsung's help, but instead made up on the fly by Quan Chi while Shang Tsung stands there looking stupid (Which incidentally counts as a spit in the face for Kahn fans as well.)

*** Tropers/{{Knight9910}}: Oh good lord, yes! The sad part is that up until that point I actually liked MK9's version of Raiden. He actually seemed like a good leader and a decent person who was trying to do the right thing but didn't understand how... and then we get to that point... Let's take a look at his offenses here, shall we? [[spoiler: He abandons his followers when they need him most so that he can go make his deal, directly resulting in their deaths. He willfully betrays every single person who ever put their faith in him, selling them all out to Quan Chi. He kills Liu Kang, the person who up to that point was the closest thing he had to an actual friend, because Liu Kang didn't like his stupid plan.]] Granted, it's not exactly a MoralEventHorizon moment because Raiden does feel shame and remorse when he realize what he's done, but it's still a pretty epic CharacterDerailment, [=IMHO=] transforming Raiden from a good person to a complete moron.

* Tropers/SoranTheMan: Taven's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1A3oxko6CQ ending]], aka the ending that was supposed to be canon ending before MK9 thankfully undid this piece of crap. Say whatever you want about the story decisions in MK9, but at least those had consequences! At least those led to something, both good and bad! But here?! You just went through the entire story mode (which sucked in almost every way possible!) wondering if Taven was going to be the the doom of all the characters or simply the bane of their powers once he became a god, only for him to recap everything that we already know by this point and then give us the ultimate kicker: nothing happened! The Kombatants didn't die and their powers were not removed. Taven (and the player) did everything for nothing! And it's not even in a dramatic way! It's just like "Oh well. That didn't work. Guess I better find another way". My word...