Now before you all come in here and start thinking I can't count, I know that MKA is the 7th MK game. So, why the title you ask? Well, this thread is here to present a theory which focuses around how some changes could have rendered MKA as MK6 and MKD non existent.
What madness is this you ask? Well, let me tell you. I was thinking about the story of MKD and in particular how Konquest ended. Onaga shows up after Shujinko gathers the Kamidogou. Now following both the stories for MKDA and MKD Konquest, we know that that both games Konquest stories pretty much happen in tandem with one another. As MKDA’s Konquest ends, MKD’s Konquest is also just coming to an end. The intro of MKD happens after MKD’s Konquest and that continues on into the main game.
Knowing that is the case, then Onaga has just gotten his body from Reptile as MKD’s Konquest draws to an end and he arrives in the Nexus. He then leaves from there after chasing Shujinko to go to Shang’s Palace and this is when the MKD intro takes place and leads into Dception’s story. How do we know MKDA’s Konquest ended here? Kitana’s and Kung Lao’s Konquest stories tell of them facing off against the Deadly Alliance. And this also means that Reptiles ending happened just prior to Shujinko arriving with the last Kamidogou in the Nexus.
And it is Reptile that could have been the key to the change I speak of. What would have happened if he didn’t follow Cyrax and Nitara? If he didn’t, would the Dragon King’s egg have hatched? If yes, whose body would it have occupied? Would it have been Cyrax’s or even Nitara’s? It also raises the question of how exactly did the egg just happen to begin to hatch when Reptile was before it? Perhaps as Shujinko spoke to Damashi when he got the last Kamidogou, Onaga used his power from beyond death yet again to start the hatching.
Now if the egg didn’t hatch and Reptile wasn’t there, would we have still gotten MKD? Sure Shujinko would have gathered the Kamidogou, but nothing would have happened. Onaga doesn’t appear to take them as he’s not alive again so would Shujinko have been introduced? If not, then we wouldn’t have had the Konquest journey. This in turn would lead to the Order and Chaos realms not being introduced along with the respective characters of those realms (Havik, Darrius, Dairou and Hotaru).
With Havik not introduced, he wouldn’t have shown up to save Kabal and so Kabal would probably be dead, meaning Mavado would still be alive and probably wanting blood for Hsu Hao’s supposed death and also, Kira and Kobra wouldn’t be in the Black Dragon.
Also, in regards to the games, MKD’s name probably would have been different. Or, it would be MKA, only there’d be no One Being. It could possibly have all ended with Quan Chi as victor just like in the MKD intro and he sets about taking over the realms with Onaga’s army. Remember that the intro takes place after Onaga’s rebirth. But, given that the Tarkata were ravaging Outworld under Onaga’s orders and that they killed the Earth warriors, would the 5 that died have overpowered the Deadly Alliance and defeated them? There’d be no Tarkata there to stop them. If so, then Raiden wouldn’t have gone all kamikaze as Onaga isn’t around and he wouldn’t have even have had to fight the DA.
Also, characters like Kitana, Kung Lao etc would be in MKD perhaps and characters like Baraka and Mileena would not have been. Baraka frees Mileena from the Edenia prisons in MKD and again this will have been under Onaga’s orders so Mileena also wouldn’t have been in MKD and there’d be no need for Sindel or Jade either. MKD’s main story would pretty much be rendered void.
One final thing is that had Dairou still made it, he’d probably have his awesome MKDA concept look, story and weapons. Others in the game would probably be affected by all of this change.
So how do you think MKD would have turned out had Onaga not been freed and who would be in it etc? And given the vast changes, how would MKA have turned out, if it indeed could come about?