I think that one MK fan part had preferred that MKAr didn't have bios...

Vogel & Creative Team are delivering a great effort to unify all history, justifying "thousands and one" revives of Boon for his "beloveds" fans in this "dream game"... yeah, most of us, like Vogel, we didn't want this "dream game" (but a MKD/U great storyline sequel, althrough the MKAr Konquest storyline was good), but now we can't change this, so because you don't let criticize as 6 years kids and value as is deserved this great work?

Everytime that I read a new bio, I know that for the next game, no-one MKTeam/Midway "smart ass" can f'ck the storyline (including Boon, or at least he and Vogel they are agreed about what chars can die, and "die character =/= returning character... well, maybe except via "non-canon download extra pack"...)

Well you can't really torture a Soul I suppose, and he went through all the trouble of finding Shang a New Body.

Lol, I wonder if Shao Kahn would at Random whoop Shang's Ass knowing that if he accidently killed him, he would come back. (No Wonder Shang Dislikes him!)

In Shang Tsung's Meatpits...



Shang: Hey Meat...



Shang: No..



Shang: Hmmm, Dashing, yet so Familiar? I guess it will Do... =/


Anyway I liked the Bio. One of the Best So Far!

I must-a forgot about Motaro while I was typing, but I thought I put him on there.

Chameleon was just a "mistake" way back when, so I don't think so..



What's so ridiculous about the list? The idea that they would tie everyone who made a vow to Kahn--should he die seems like a pretty good way to get rid of alot of those older characters to me. ("The Captain, the ship, and all the ship mates go down with him Just like making a vow with the devil..lol)
Did I miss some people other than Motaro and the Centars? Are their other people on the list that shouldn't be there? What?




Oh. I see..
Still a hefty list though don't you think? at least 10-15 characters of the MkA roster die if he dies.....and even a couple of races= The Tarkata, Shokan, and Centaurs...."Poof!"

So...is the new body that was forged for Tsung the character Meat?

That's what I was thinking while reading the bio but later it says that he got more then enough souls to renew himself. It would have been a cool idea.

For once. Im gonna have to say this bio is crap! No where does it explain why kahn went after him at the top of the pyramid. Even though it was everyone for them self these 2 didn't even work toghter in the beginning. Secondly. it don't even state anything about his confrontation with liu kang. & last but not least his so called lust over quan chi's amulet.

This bio sucked. Sorry to say.

well, everyone betrayed each other on the pyramid, they all wanted power, and I think shao khan would do anything for it and so would everyone on the temple.

anyway, the intro is not even cannon so who cares.

Your asking for an explanation to things that do not even matter. At least for now. Maybe you forgot, but the bios take place before the Introduction video. So they have no reason to explain Liu and Shang's confrontation atop the pyramid. And do not forget that Shang Tsung didn't know about Kangs "ressurection", and was surprised to see him atop the pyramid.

Why would Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn even need to work together in the intro? Shao Kahns a big enough person to fend for Himself as he fights for the prize. Maybe you missed it, but Shang Tsung wanted the power to free himself from his pact with Shao Kahn. So why would he help Shao Kahn recieve the power? And why would he need to get Shinnok's Amulet if he can just get Blazes power?

Hmmm, going through Shao Kahn's bios and endings, nothing seems to indicate that he even knew about Shang Tsung and Quan Chi killing his clone. Which would easily explain why he gave Shang back a body so readily.

Shao Kahn more than likely realised his clone had been killed since Edenian forces occupied his stronghold, and probably figured it was the Edenians who took care of his clone, thus removing any suspicion of Shang, at least for the time being.

And for the person asking why it hasn't explained why Shao Kahn attacks him the into, it probably might be revealed in Shao Kahn's bio when it's released (probably simply him finding out the truth about his clone's death). Or we could just assume he attacked him since he was part of the crowd Shang fired that fireball at in the intro.

I really hope that Kahn is killed by someone in this game... It would be a really good way to wipe out 16 or 17 characters. None of those characters are really even important, anymore. They have had no real purpose since Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm.

I'm not sure what you thought I meant, but I meant ridiculous as in the death count would be insane if he did die, not that the list was stupid. I already said that this is now a possible to get rid of some of the cast if Kahn dies and if they swore an oath. If reflects the oath that he made his warriors swear on the MK Conquest series so he could spy on them.
As to the list, the rest looks fine though it's all up in the air lol.

I'm hesitant about what to think about this whole "if Shao Kahn dies, people who served him die too."

On the plus, I think this can be taken as an explanation as to how Shang Tsung's Mortal Kombat victories counted for Outworld even though he was originally from Earth (remember, they said that was the reason why Bo' Rai Cho couldn't fight for Earth). And I suppose it makes sense Kahn would do that....insurance to make certain no one tries to kill him.
But considering how many of Kahn's servants that have been trying to kill him...did he keep it a secret, which would defeat the purpose of this little insurance plan? Or did no one buy it, like Shang Tsung didn't....which seems a little goofy, IMO? Or is this little stipulation not going to apply to everyone who's served Kahn? And if that is the case...which I'm betting will be likely...who will it and won't it apply to?

That could actually be interesting. Suppose Kitana kills Shao Kahn...then Jade drops dead because it turns out she also pledged her soul to Kahn. Or any variation of that. Wouldn't that be a kick in the crotch, eh?

I'm still digesting this revelation, right now. Could be good...could also be the cause of a lot of problems.


Beyond that, the bio is pretty meh to me. Partially because I was never that interested in Shang Tsung.
But also just knowing what to expect. Every character has been brought back...so cheesey resurrections are inevitable. We know the storyline revolves around everyone fighting all over the pyramid...so every bio is going to be about what brought that character there. And in Konquest they showed the big bad guys teaming up...so the alliances (no matter how contrived) were inevitable. And it's Shang Tsung....are we surprised he wants Blaze's power for himself?

Awesome bio, but the question remains will Raiden officially become freed?

This will have to be done or said one way or another in MK8.Apparently after Fujin's bio, Fujin is unaware of this...

He just knows there's something wrong with Raiden, I'm curious about Quan-Chi's bio now.

Great bio overall though, I liked it.That's definitely Shang Tsung.LOL@ the people who think it's a 1st grade level bio....*long sigh* honestly for the people that rip every bio...answer this can YOU write us a better one?I think not... Ermac won't be harmed......he was freed back in MK:D.But for the record it was never Ermac's choice. Ermac was being controlled by Kahn back then so if you think about it.It wouldn't be fair for Ermac to die, the others however vowed volunteerily and gave their oath to serve Kahn. Kitana was playing Kahn....to survive and hide her true motive to help the good guys. I also can't see Sindel being killed either since well..for one she's already dead technically and also being controlled under Kahn's control at that point in time way back.My two cents on this.

Kenshi freeing Ermac probably cut him from Kahn's little plan. But Kitana WAS genuinely loyal to Kahn before she turned on him. Maybe she did pledge her soul to him...like a loving daughter would. Same might be said about Sindel when she was under his control.

Who's to say for certain?

One of the best. Really answers some questions. Bios like this are finally bringing MKA's story together.

This Bio also makes Li Mei's and Shang Tsung's Endings make some sense.

"I found more than enough at a place all too familiar to me: the village where Li Mei was born. I consumed each peasant's life force as Shao Kahn and Goro slew them one by one. I was renewed!"

Well now we know why she was pissed at him.

"Once I have the power and I am free of Shao Kahn, I will finish him and finally take the throne of Outworld for myself!"

Also if he couldn't sever the Bond, he just turned Shao Kahn into a weak Centaur that would pose no threat to his domination...not such a Bad idea.

Greatest suspension of disbelief would be the word I would use regarding Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn to be honest..



Chameleon and Motaro would die too (I'll be happy as hell regarding chameleon dying), Tanya has nothing to do with Shao Kahn, Also you forgot Khameleon. Sadly enough she may die also. Ermac was just an amalgamation of souls manefested into one form by Shao Kahn so he wouldn't be affected. Kano wouldn't be affected either. Isn't Rain a demigod? I don't think he would be affected. Millena was a clone of Kitana, I doubt that she would be affected since she was created. Does she even have a soul to begin with?



What if Meat really is shang tsung after he doesn't gain enough sould to regenerate his body.

Other than that, I guess its safe to say that It was due to Raiden blowing himself, Shang, and Quan Chi up that caused their souls to entertwine thus Raiden becoming dark. Finally, that loose end regarding Raiden is made.

Khameleon never served Kahn. Far as we know, she was always against him.

And Mileena does have a soul. Stated in MK3, when she died her soul went to the Netherealm.

Hmm, it's alright I guess...but it has it's sorta got it's contradictions like tgrant pointed out.
I wonder if Shang is somewhat weaker in MK:A now. When he died, did he lose all of his souls except for his own, which was transported back into a corpse? He's probably gained a lot of souls back, mainly from Li Mei's hometown. I don't think he's had enough time to get as many back as he used to have, though...so he might not be as powerful as he was.
As for some characters's souls still being binded to Shao Kahn, such as Jade, Kitana, Sindel, etc...it might have been possible for them to unbind their souls from him. I'm sure someone like Ermac, Nightwolf, or Raiden could know a possible way maybe.

Ehh, I don't know dude the gig with Kitana I always felt like she was really in no position to deny Kahn considering the circumstances you know?I mean if you think about it, she's obviously not nearly as powerful as Kahn is to take him out alone.

I mean if she said"screw you" you're not my real master/emperor Kahn would have just killed her long ago.

She did turn on him eventually, but I can't help but notice the timing of other heroes to back her up.There's no way she would have done so alone which is why I believe she was just buying her time by posing "loyal" to Kahn all those years.Also, I'm sure she didn't want to die by disobeying him either lol.

She was raised by Kahn since infancy. She believe he was her father and loyally served him until she learned the truth about her past...which was somewhat recently. AFTER that...yeah, she was only waiting for the right time to turn against him openly.

What I'm saying is BEFORE she learned the truth, when she was still genuinely loyal to him, who's to say she didn't pledge her soul to him?


If Kitana is one of the characters who could die if Kahn croaks, now I REALLY hope she's the one to take him out. Great ending to her story...sacrificing herself to destroy Kahn once and for all and taking all his minions down with her.

Besides that,another reason this bio is quite fascinating is because it shows that even death itself will not allow his minions to escape him. Really adds to his credibility as a tyrannical warlord.

Yes I know, exactly that's what I'm saying after she realized the truth it was I guess relatively recent but not THAT recent.I doubt she pledged her soul to him.Nobody I guess really knows for sure I would say no though if I was asked.

Her ending was honorable and noble (if it's canon)We'll see soon.

For all of the people complaining about "yet another resurrection": May I ask what do you want from the MK team? The characters died off. We actually saw Shang, Quan, and Raiden get destroyed in the blast. Raiden's Deception bio confirms that, if I'm not mistaken. So what do you want them to do?

"I thought Raiden's blast had destroyed us all. I was wrong. When I came to, I'd discovered that I'd rematerialized in in the lower bowel of an African elephant, and, after hours of straining past the anus of the animal, like Jim Carey in Ace Ventura 2, was pooped out a day later.

It seems that a vow I took to the dread lord Shao Kahn over a millennium ago, bound me to my master, and seemingly fatal harm would cause me to rematerialize in the bowels of pachyderms."

If the character is dead, and you want to play as them, please, give a plausible explanation as how they return.


Also, to the guy who thought "Death is a magic" It's not. It's not what they were implying. What they were implying, however, was that death is powerful unto it'self, and to be brought back from it would require a magic that could break the boundries of death.

Anyway, this is definitely the best bio so far, in my opinion, with Onaga's following very closely.

When will we ever get another bio from a female? Its been ages and so far we only got Sareena first as the new comer and Sonya at lucky number seven.

Hmmmm.....I honestly have mixed feelings about this bio.

I cant say I love it, which sucks because Shang Tsung is one of my top favorite characters and a true classic and icon of Mk.

The Positive

- It explains how Shang Tsung returns.
- The vow really adds suspense and interest to the storyline.
- Now we learn the possibility of Raydens radical change. His soul got mixed with the other two (why didn’t he say anything about this fight in his bio?).
- The mutilated grotesque bit about his body rocks! Probably the best of his bio.
- He killed Li Meis innocent people to get his original body.

The Negative

- The vow might rock for suspense, but if all who served him really will die because they promised loyalty to him...well, kind of a sucky ending for many characters.
- Shang Tsung working for Kahn....again. Its just.....so uninspired and really gets boring to read. Its like all the bios stating that X character is visited by Quan Chi to serve Shinnok....
- Kahn acting like he doesn’t care (hopefully that’s not the case and he is not aware of what really happened) about Shang tricking him. Now that’s stupid and really irritating. Hopefully Kahn doesn’t know it was Shang who killed the clone.
- For some reason, it doesn’t feel like its Shang Tsung who is speaking. Like, in Sonyas and Johnnys bios you really feel their essence, you really feel its them who are talking to you, their personalities. This Shang Tsung doesn’t sound that evil or mysterious.
- So they all go marching to the Edenian forces like a happy couple of 3 strange monsters, kill some people and Kahn seats on a throne....thats how he becomes Emperor again?......Not likely really. He can seat there all he wants, doesn’t mean he has gotten the power back. Not so good.

Overall, this bio is disappointing for Shang Tsung fans who expected cool things from the sorcerer. Its not bad, not at all, and I don’t think it was badly written either (though I understand what the other people are talking about), but it does lack that certain depth and essence that made Shang Tsung such an awesome deadly character.

Its disappointing, but its not that bad. Sucks we didn’t get something more powerful and interesting about Shang Tsung. What irks me the most is that he is working for Kahn again.

The whole circle of killing an enemy, and not really killing it and that enemy that never really died wants to be friends again sucks horribly and it has been used way too many times.

I still feel Jarek is the one who really got tossed off the cliff.



Sindel could had made the vow since she did marry him and became his Queen, even knowing it was Kahn who killed Jerrod and even though she hated him. If she married Kahn by fear and fright, why not take the vow as well?

Now MK3 comes to mind and seems to be tying a little part of that story. She was resurrected by Shang Tsung and his sorcerers, tricked to be evil, but she came back after death...to serve Kahn. Maybe Sindel did take the vow.

Kitana fits in the list as well since she originally served Kahn and gladly fought for him. She didn’t always hate Kahn, on the contrary, remember that it was only in the end of MK2 that she found the truth about her past, thousands of years after her servitude.

So it means more then 10 main characters would die because of that vow....kind of sucks imo, just feels a bit too much, though I must admit the suspense of knowing what happens and to who does the vow really apply rocks. What sucks though, is that they would all just drop dead because of it.



Hopefully all that is true. Im guessing that’s what really happened since it would be and sounds utterly stupid for Kahn to resurrect the sorcerer and be all happy about it without considering the fact that it was him who betrayed and “killed” him.

Maybe Kahn doesn’t have a clue about who killed his clone.



You know I have nothing against you MKF , but what makes you think others cant handle the art of writing? There are actually many great writers around and people who have studied and carried literature and the art of speaking and language in a high position, you know? Maybe even at professional standards.

So to answer your question, yeah, I think many could do better. But hey, Im not complaining. I love Vogel for doing what he is doing and so far, to me, no bio has felt like it was written by a seven year old (or whatever they say now), that’s exaggerated. Vogel is doing a great job and most of us truly appreciate his work.

Vogel YOU ROCK!!!! (just please don’t mess up any bios like you did with Jareks)



Shang Tsung is not “mutilated” in MKA because ethe bio states that Shang Tsung got his original body back after killing Li Meis innocent people and eating their souls.

I love that evil bastard.


Honestly......With a bit of creativity and a spark of imagination, you got a bio with no resurrections! (cool, it rhymed...rolls eyes).

All you need is to be creative and play with the world you control!

Soon after understanding Raydens desire, Shang Tsung could had created some sort of mystical soul shield that would had gravely weakened him but transported him away into safety, etc etc etc.

He could even had dissolved into thin air like he loves to do, etc etc.

I guess Im not complaining about this resurrection though, because it was needed to add that spark of depth they gave the story by revealing the vow and all of that. So its cool.

But yeah, it is possible to bring back characters that are supposed to be “death” without using the resurrection bit.

And besides, they have done it in the past by retconning some stuff or changing a bit of the story for better needs.

Like Jarek, though not entirely original, his survival is much better then a resurrection. Thank God they thought of that.