@xanana3217
I love how dark raiden isn’t even bad. He’s just mercilessly good.
@butters1984
I just realized Ermac is such a side character that you can tell the entire story of MK without mentioning him.
@TheBattleRabbit860
Midway/Netherealm Studios handled the reboot in the best way possible: performing a full reboot back to the beginning and still preserving the storyline from all the previous games. Thank you for putting this all together!
@rodrigogonzalez4596
Raiden every 10 seconds: May the elder gods protect us. Elder gods: No
@EirinYagokoro
Things to know to avoid the world's destruction 1. The elder gods are useless 2. Don't touch Shinnok's amulet
@shahishtiaque6803
I like how if the Liu Kang ending becomes canon for MK12, the story essentially becomes full circle with the Great Kung Lao being trained to become the Earthrealm champion who defeats Shang Tsung in the first place 500 years before the events of MK1
@atcandotherthings4985
One major story point missed, Shang Tsung originally had won 9 tournaments until he was defeated by the great kung Lao, shao Kahn sent goro to participate and goro become the new champion who killed the great kung Lao and won 9 tournaments until he was defeated by lui kang in MK1
@cp37373
I really dont know why but I just love this deep and complicated story.
@adriang.4628
YOU MISSED A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO PUT KOMPLETE IN THE TITLE
@fableshearth2457
After watching this video, I now realize that, despite the Elder Gods creating the tournament to keep the realms in check and avoid ressurecting the Great One, they allow outworld to break the rules a LOT
@martialartist467
15:14 "Raiden tries to defeat the deadly alliance but the duo is too powerful even the thundergod" Shows picture of frost
@internetdailydeals
00:00 🎮 Overview of Mortal Kombat's deep story and history. 00:52 🌌 Origin of Mortal Kombat's universe with the one being, Elder Gods, and Realms. 01:47 ⚔ Creation of Kamidogu to shatter the one being, forming the main Realms. 02:39 ⚖ Elder Gods create Mortal Kombat tournaments to maintain balance and order. 04:01 🔥 Shao Khan conquers outworld, initiates tournaments to merge Realms. 05:17 🏆 Liu Kang wins the first Mortal Kombat tournament, defeats Shao Khan. 07:13 💥 Shinnok's escape, invades Earthrealm, defeated by Raiden and warriors. 08:32 🥋 Deadly Alliance between Quan Chi and Shang Tsung, facing Earthrealm heroes. 10:19 🔥 Onaga's return, chaos with revived Dragon King's Army, quest for kamidogu. 12:08 🔄 Shujinko manipulated by Onaga, Dragon King's Army threat. 14:19 🔪 Deadly Alliance's internal conflict, Onaga's return, Raiden's blast, corruption. 16:08 🌐 Onaga's plan to merge Realms, shattering kamidogu, shujinko's role. 18:01 🚪 Scorpion's revenge, Sonya's kidnapping, Liu Kang vs. Shao Khan, and impending apocalypse. 18:55 🔥 Taven and Dagon must defeat elemental Blaze to save the world from Armageddon, but rivalry emerges between them over who kills Blaze. 19:51 👑 Shao Khan reclaims emperor throne, wants to kill Blaze for ultimate power, Raiden sends message to his younger self to prevent apocalypse. 21:11 🔄 Timeline reboot in 2011, Earth realm heroes prevent Goro's victory, Raiden receives cryptic message, strategies to prevent Armageddon. 22:36 ✝ Raiden understands he must win consecutive tournaments, Liu Kang blames Raiden for friends' deaths, Earth realm warriors fight to save realms. 24:28 👫 New generation, older Johnny leads young fighters, resolve civil war in Outworld, Cassie takes over as Special Forces Commander. 26:17 🌀 Titans, elder god betrayal, chronicle wants to rewrite history, new timeline, Mortal Kombat 11 events unfold. 30:21 🔥 Fire god Liu Kang emerges, Raiden helps, Special Forces locate artifact, final battle against chronicle and her allies. 33:01 ⏳ Time manipulation, Raiden, Liu Kang, Shang Tsung form alliance to retrieve crown, confrontations, saving history from chronicle. 35:19 🌐 Cetrion's involvement, Shang Tsung's motives, sindel's return, challenges to retrieve crown, facing betrayals, preparing for final battle. 36:48 ⚔ Sindel and Shao Khan refuse chronicle, seek control of crown, join forces against her, confrontations, warnings of potential betrayal. 37:17 💥 Sindel under Shao Khan's control, Katana battles her mother, Xiao Khan's influence revealed, Katana loses. 37:42 ⚔ Shang Tsung betrays, wears crown, absorbs souls, confronts cronica, defeats titans, confronts fire god Liu Kang. 38:11 🌐 Two endings in Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath, Shang Tsung's rule or Liu Kang's new era, upcoming Mortal Kombat games announced. 39:04 🎮 Mortal Kombat Onslaught and Mortal Kombat 12 announced, Onslaught a team-based collection RPG, Mortal Kombat 12 continues the story. 39:32 🗨 End of the Mortal Kombat story, ask for favorite combatant, like and subscribe for more gaming content.
@treflippa2
I'm gonna need the gang to get together and hold an intervention for Raiden. His addiction to the rage has caused too much trouble lol But seriously Great video and even better telling of the timeline. Even someone like myself (a self proclaimed MK junkie since I was a toddler) still find somethings in the story to be confusing at times. This was a very well done presentation on everything especially the filling in on some of the spinoffs I never played (special forces & shaolin monks). Great Job Leaderboard!
@JakobeOG
The writing and cinematography in these games is super underrated, especially mk9-on MK will always have a special place in my heart
@zayzuess
Man what a time coming home from school playing MK Deception and Shaolin monks.
@coreyboyd28
Just saw the new cinematic trailer for the next MK game. its funny how they decided to call it MK1 instead of MK12 but I'm probably still gonna call it 12 for posterity's sake lol. Definitely excited and thanks so much for this timeline. Its always nice to be refreshed on MK info. Been a fan since MK SubZero days. That and MK 3/4 were my first MK games so its a big part of where my love for fighting games came from. Good times.
@dubcwherever
Boy, they’re really good at resetting this franchise every few years and keeping it interesting. Can’t wait to see what they do with this new era with MK1.
@xevan_knight_official
Mortal Kombat 1 the reboot came about explaining essentially that the battle between Fire God Liu Kang and Shang Tsung caused a severe rip in timelines and now the universe Liu Kang created and the one SHang Tsung created now exist along each other as well as multiple other timelines where each of the characters from MK 11 defeated Kronika and took her crown. Kronika is somehow revived or rather, Shang Tsung shapeshifted into Kronika and infiltrated Fire God Liu Kang's timeline to manipulate the fate of the Shang Tsung and Quan Chi from Fire God Lui Kang's timeline into working together to destroy Fire God Lui Kang's timeline to make it easier to merge his (Shang Tsung's) timeline into Fire God Liu Kang's own and make it one. Fire God Liu Kang made Geras the keeper and protector of the hourglass and So Geras warned him that someone was messing with Shang Tsung's and Quan Chi's fate but the hourglass would not reveal the identity of who this person was until very late. Fire God Liu Kang finds out eventually via Shang Tsung (the one with his own alternate timeline) that he was the mastermind behind the whole ordeal and that he manipulated the Shang Tsung and Quan Chi from Fire God Liu Kang's timeline and that they were just pawns for his grand design. This forces Quan Chi and Shan Tsung (from Fire God Liu Kang's timeline) to unfortunately team up to defeat Shang Tsung from his timeline. This is so fkn confusing with so many turns but if you read this far stay with me babe. So they fight, evil Sindel from Shang Tsung's timeline fights and defeats most of the people from Fire God Liu Kang's timeline and literally repeats a variation of the line she did from MK 9 (which was infuriating and a cheap cop out cause Sindel is MY GIRL FR FR) "Come forward if you dare, I will finish what Shang Tsung could not".......Like really NRS??! Y'all couldn't think of any other creative line?!? Anyway, Sindel gets defeated by Fire God Liu Kang's Sindel. FG Liu Kang and everyone retreats and Geras tells FG Liu Kang that he stored some serious power away for FG Liu Kang centuries ago that can help FG Liu Knag to scan the universe for other timelines, in case he needed to use it. But if he does use it, FG Liu Kang cannot go back to the timeline that he created. and so Liu Kang used the power to gather everyone from all the other timelines to help defeat Shang Tsung from his timeline and Shang Tsung's timeline comes crashing down. I hope that wasnt too confusing...its a lot to digest and I hope I explained it correctly
@MorganAndrew-Morganson-nu5oc
Since the new Mortal Kombat game is on its way and it'll be my first experience with the series, this video was great for helping me get up to speed with what's going on. I had no idea the story for Mortal Kombat was so involved.
@TheLeaderboard