He is Great. But I am sick and Tired of Him.
I'd rather give another Shot to the guy in your avatar.
And Shinnok, of course.

It would be cool to see a beat up weakened version of him in the Netherrealm, Would also be a cool excuse to have him as a balanced playable character.

I dont see what is wrong with having him as a playable character for his fans.

Though i would definetly rather Onaga but I find is chances slim. I think he will come around MK11 and even if he does :( I don't see him becoming a balanced playable character ever D: D:

but yea I still like Shao Kahn he's a beast I think he at least should be balanced and playable in MK10 and at most have a minor role in the story.

I really think it would be cool to have him all beat up looking and not wearing his helmet it would be a nice change to his character to see him at the bottom for once.

He was betrayed and poisoned, wasn't he? It's not like it was a fair fight. Onaga would win there.

I'm pretty sure he was, but apparently Shao Kahn got stronger because Shao Kahn must have managed to defeat Onaga one-on-one in Armageddon when he got carried off.

Either way, I think it's time for old king Kahn to take a step down for a while; at least one game but two or more would be better.

The whole point of MK9 was that Raiden needed to make sure Shao Kahn gets killed for good; otherwise he would end up killing everyone and winning Armageddon. I figure if he does come back, it will be after what would have been armageddon.

A two game absent seems about right. MK4, which will probably be represented in MK10, was sort of a midpoint between two Mortal Kombat trilogies. We've got 1-3, which was represented by MK9. I'm guessing MK4 will be represented by MK10 and Deadly Alliance-Armageddon will be represented by MK11. After that, anything goes.

Of course, this is just an assumption. Maybe MK10 will represent every game after MK3 or do something completely different. If my guessing is correct, though. I couldn't see Shao Kahn coming back any time soon.

Well actually Shao Kahn never defeated Onaga, Shao Kahn was an adviser to Onaga and then Shao Kahn poisened Onaga. I wouldn't call that handling him i think in a real fight Onaga would own Shao Kahn.

also there are alot of characters that are always in the game Scorpion, Sub - Zero, Raiden and Liu Kang so why shouldn't Shao Kahn return he is a good addition to the roster. There aren't really any powerhouses besides Jax we can play as, I wanted him playable in MK9 but he wasn't. He should definetly be playable MK10 it doesn't mean he has to play a role in story mode but he does have a fan base

I actually think Kahn was really cool when he was just a regular fighter in MKD. Goro, too. I wouldn't mind him (Or either boss Shokan) returning in a future title as a non-boss, though I'd rather it wait until after MK10.

Shao Kahn was a really great boss but nothing else imo. Seing him come back over and over kind of made him a blank character in my eyes. He should stay dead for a while and come back but as a boss or maybe a sub boss only.

Seing him as an underdog or a bottom feeder would only make me despise him. Sorry, i know that a lot of ppl still like him (Way more than me) but if he's not a boss he's nothing in my eyes. For a continuation of the story and a possibility to be granted with some new boss that i actually prefer or have a chance to end up as threatening as Kahn once was, i wouldn't miss him.

what is the vote thing you are talking about?

I think Shao Kahn should go on hiatus just for a little while so we can get through MK4/G-MK:D/U and then make his comeback in MK:A v2. BTW does anybody know what Shao Kahn is or was to make him such a powerful being because I'm starting to think that he might have been, or possibly still is, the Outworld Protector God corrupted by Onaga. And possibly be a "Brother God" to Raiden (And I believe Nightwolf calls him Hao Kahn). It's just a nagging thought and probably the wrong one, so how wrong am I Razor?.

That's mean :(
Shao Kahn should be atleast a DLC character in the next game. That way if people don't want him in there game, they don't have to.

Yeah, and then watch. He'll be a downloadable character that's too overpowered. People will complain about refuse to download such a thing, letting those who did buy the pack, suffer having one less playable character in their roster.

Of course, this will most likely never happen, it's a possibly theory that I don't mind bringing up. Of course, the moronic nature that made people say and do stupid shit, it's a possibility to think, "What if playable bosses were to have happened and they designed Kahn the way that he was in the previous game?"

Then you'd get people complaining and refuse to buy something that other people have.

Well I don't recall Nightwolf calling him anything different, and I wouldn't say Onaga is what corrupted him, we don't actually know why he turned evil...

But it was hinted in Deception and confirmed by Vogel on Twitter that Shao Kahn's origin is he was "Outworld's version of Raiden", the protector-God, and a benevolent one at that.

He did his job by serving as an advisor to King Onaga, until at some point his personality changed and he decided he'd rather rule Outworld than protect it, so he poisoned Onaga, denounced his godhood, and took the throne.
He and Raiden aren't really brothers in the family-sense, though. You could say they are, if you're speaking metaphorically, but they don't have parents and they weren't "raised" together and have no ties to each other, gods don't have childhoods, they just got blinked into existence by the Elder Gods as a group. The closest a god might have to a real brother is the other gods from his own realm because then they'd be close and work together, so Fujin would be more like Raiden's brother.

I do reckon, because the elder gods are "brilliant", He might turn up as their "Ultimate Weapon" against the One Being if they ever do that storyline again.

Other than that I'd say hes gone, gone.

We have had Shao Kahn as a boss alone in this generation of games in the MK/DC arcade mode, the story mode of MK9 twice and the ladder mode of MK9 so I think we've had enough of Shao Kahn for a while. He could do what Shang Tsung did and become a playable character but not in the sequel just yet.
Nightwolf calls Raiden Haokah but that's just another name for a thunder god. Cage calls him Rai-dude. The demigod Taven has family and he had the chance to become a god but that's an exception to the rule I suppose.

Thats what I thought, not family brothers but brothers in the sense that they were created at the same time by the Elder Gods, and are you sure he'd denounce his godhood because that would make him volentarily mortal like Raiden was in MK1 and he hates mortals plus I doubt any god could be stripped of their godhood unwillingly take Shinnok for example, he turned on his fellow Elder Gods, invaded Earthrealm, almost destroyed it trying to take it over and Raiden saved Earth but almost at the cost of an entire species (Saurians) who took off to Zaterra, but he wasn't stripped of his godhood just banished to the Netherrealm where he actually forcefully took over from Lucifer, and Nightwolf called Raiden "Haokah" (Thank you for that ^) which is this close to spelling sHAO KAHn.

It doesn't quite work that way.

See, godhood comes with rules. Raiden has to become mortal when he hangs out with his fighters because the ways in which gods are and aren't allowed to interact with mortals is restricted, like they're forbidden from competing in "Mortal" Kombat, or don't have all their powers in realms they're not from, and almost every game has Raiden traveling to Outworld.

A god obviously isn't allowed to just up and rule the realm he's supposed to be protecting. That's why Shao Kahn gave up his rank. Because it allowed him to be king and still keep his immortality. And he replaced whatever power he gave up, if any, by learning magic and stealing the souls of whole realms' populations. So as emperor, he's just as powerful as the gods, but he isn't restricted by the rules gods have to obey.

Also, Shinnok WAS in fact stripped of his godhood when he was banished to Hell. He was powerless when Lucifer was torturing him and needed Quan Chi's help to overthrow him. The power he wields now comes with the Throne of Hell.

But Shinnok put most of his Elder God powers inside his amulet when he made it anyway, that's why getting the amulet back is so important to him in Mythologies and MK4. With it, he'll be as powerful as an Elder God again and able to leave the Netherealm and try conquering the universe.

But Quan Chi has the amulet, and Quan Chi barely knows how to use it, he was still learning the things it can do, which is why he isn't all that much of a threat in Deadly Alliance.