Common sense will tell you that the mortals of earth won, and obviously Liu Kang was the winner.

Reiko's ending only happens if he won the tournament. AND HE DIDN'T WIN.

Genious.

Either Shinnok was killed in the betrayal by Quan Chi or Rayden killed him.

1) Liu Kang won- obviously since he is still the champion of mortal kmobat in the intro to MKDA.

2) Scorpion's ending happened in some way, because Quan Chi was in the Neatherealm along with Scorpion before they all escaped.

3) Unfortuantly, no one knows what happened to Shinnok really. Quan Chi has the amulet, so some part of his ending happened. Too bad Shinnok's name is no where to be found in MKDA... oh well.

I don't think Liu won MK4. He is still Champion of MK because of his victory in the first game.

What the hell? he won every MK Tornament, except for MKDA accorse.

Subzero_5th Wrote: I don't think Liu won MK4. He is still Champion of MK because of his victory in the first game.

"Mortal Kombat" was beyond the Shaolin Tournament for Martial Arts. In MK3 Raiden calls the events of the game "a new Mortal Kombat". So this must mean once Kahn cheated and took over the realm basically all rules were off, anything goes. Formal tournament or not, MK3 and MK4 were martial arts battles for the sake of the realms. So Liu Kang WAS defending the title.


We know for sure variations on Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Scorpion, Cyrax, Quan Chi, Raiden, Fujin and maybe Sonya's endings happened.

So based on that I would say the following went down in MK4. Not official, just speculation based on the facts...


The battle begun and with Earth getting the upper hand. Reptile probably realized his new boss Shinnok was gonna lose and bailed to return to Outworld. Baraka either bailed or was killed in battle. Jarek may have been killed in battle. Mileena either bailed or was killed, possibly by Kitana. Tanya was probably killed in battle after turning on the Earth warriors. At this point Shinnok's big guns, Reiko, Goro, ect. were losing or had already lost and Quan Chi realized the plan was a bust. He turned on Shinnok and went to deal with Scorpion and Sub-Zero personally, and that's when the events of Scorpion's ending happened. A weakened Shinnok then faced Liu Kang with it all on the line and was defeated and sent to the Neatherrealm forever. After it was over the events of Sonya's ending may have happened, if Jarek had made it alive. Then Raiden was promoted to elder god, Liu Kang turned down Kitana, and so on. The End.

Hmmm, so no one knows for sure. All the other installments of MK told how the previous ended. The MK team is getting sloppy.

Liu Kang is champion because of MK1. The rest were different battles without the championship on the line.

Personally, I think Rayden sould have won MK4, because Shinnok IS A FUCKING GOD. How could a mortal defeat a god?

Well gee, if you ask me, Shinnok didn't have any of his god powers in MK4. I'd say is pretty easy for a mortal to beat that weak pansy.

bell110 Wrote: Hmmm, so no one knows for sure. All the other installments of MK told how the previous ended. The MK team is getting sloppy. Liu Kang is champion because of MK1. The rest were different battles without the championship on the line. Personally, I think Rayden sould have won MK4, because Shinnok IS A FUCKING GOD. How could a mortal defeat a god?

Marc, Every MK game wasn't a tournament. Liu won the first MK. Nobody won the Outworld Tournament because Kahn was alive. In MK3 All of Earth realm's warriors involved in the battle allied to defeat Kahn and drive him out of earth and back into Outworld. Rayden won MK4.

Don't call me Marc.

If you look at the MKDA stragedy guide it gives you a bunch of shit info like the MK Storyline and who won, LuiKang is in all of them, except for MKDA.

I would not say the strategy guide is reliable. I do think it was Kang though, but that is just speculation.

But anyone saying they know for sure is BSing. So "Raiden won" is crap. It never says Raiden won in DA. He may have, he may not have. For all we know Kai won MK4.

Well I didn't want to write your name in full. So that's what I used.

And Strategy guides aren't reliable sources for storylines.

Either Shinnok was betrayed by his right hand, Quan Chi, or he was defeated by his ancient enemy, raiden.

the "ending" of mk4 happens as follows:

after revealing to shinnok that quan chi had the real amulet and shinnok had a fake, he destroyed shinnok. he then went and confronted scorpion, who had just defeated sub-zero, and confessed to the murder of scorpions clan and family....and as you know, scorpion grappled quan chi and both ended up in the netherealm..which leads to the events in mkda.
so, really there wasnt an actual winner...it appears shinnok was killed and the whole "war" was just delayed until mkda when quan and shang teamed up.

This much I do know, Liu Kang was the one to lend the final punch in Mk1 through 3, In MK4 intro, it says He's "Still undefeated Champion" if he wasn't the victor of MK3 (MKT w/e) they wouldn't have mentioned it... As for MK4, basically, every ending counts if it sorresponds with the Sequel(MKDA) and since in Kitana's Ending in MKDA, it said she wished that Liu accepted her proposal so many years ago, that tells us that the chances point to the fact that Liu Kang did kill Shinnok. After all, Shinnok never had the Original Amulet in the first place. Basically, as much as everyone was sick of Liu Kang's constant victory, he was the best... It wasn't until he was double teamed by the most notorious duo, that he was defeated... I'm not positive, but I believe that Liu Kang was the one to be the champion of MK4.

I remember one of the Midways officials say that there hasn't been s ingle winner since the first tournament. So that mean Liu won only MK1 and that's why He's still the Champion. He didn't win every MK.

and it had to have been Rayden who killed Shinnok or he was betrayed by Quan Chi

Why did it "have" to be Raiden?

That's a nice quote Marcel. Irrelevant, though. Strategy guides dont matta. There was only one Mortal Kombat. The others weren't real mortal kombats. MKII was an unofficial tournament in OutWorld, MK3, MK4 and MKDA were basically wars.

That's right. Strategy guides aren't reliable for the whole MK storyline

That's a nice quote Marcel. Irrelevant, though. Strategy guides dont matta. There was only one Mortal Kombat. The others weren't real mortal kombats. MKII was an unofficial tournament in OutWorld, MK3, MK4 and MKDA were basically wars


Raiden calls MK3 "Mortal Kombat" and several endings refer to it as "the third tournament".

While some things confirm MK3 as a 'tournament', most things dont. Most endings dont mention a tournament, and defenetly lead you to believe it's not. A tournament in MK3 was never mentioned in any bios, or in MK4/DA.
So I believe it was a war.

What bios/endings specifically confirm it's not? I can't think of any. The only time the word "tournament" is mentioned in MK3/UMK3/MKT is when it's saying it is one...

So basically my man Liu Kang didn't have to die. DAMN IT!!! At first everyone said they had to kill him off because he won all the tournaments so I was cool with that since he went out being the man. But now everyones saying he only won MK1? Now I'm pissed because that means he was killed off for winning one stupid tournament! I know Liu was the only person to be in every MK b4 MK:DA, but damn...now I hate MK:DA even more!

He might have only won the single MK, but he still saved the Earth a few times, whether it was an official tournament or not. Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn did lose to Liu Kang, and I wouldn't be surprised if he did kill Shinnok, so he still died a hero.

daclown Wrote: So basically my man Liu Kang didn't have to die. DAMN IT!!! At first everyone said they had to kill him off because he won all the tournaments so I was cool with that since he went out being the man. But now everyones saying he only won MK1? Now I'm pissed because that means he was killed off for winning one stupid tournament! I know Liu was the only person to be in every MK b4 MK:DA, but damn...now I hate MK:DA even more!