Liu & Kitana -> NO.


Why did you put Sub-Zero/Tundra vs Sareena? If it was supposed to be Sub-Zero & Sareena then -> NO.


I don't care for the rest.

Me personally, I don't want relationships and couples to be added into the series. Sure there can be hints of a likeness amongst two characters, that's as far as I'll tolerate. But suddenly bringing romance into this is just something I prefer seeing in a game where there's more storytelling than fighting.



There was never really any love interest hinted with either Sub-Zero, especially with the younger one because I don't see anywhere where it said that "Sub-Zero had some sort of interest in Sareena."

If people are referring to how he was offering her a spot to stay within the Lin Kuei, I hardly see in that as a way of us knowing he's got some sort of crush on her.

With the older one, I don't see it either. Sure, he cradles Sareena in his hands after she is somewhat killed by Quan Chi in a cutscene in Mythologies, but I swore I didn't see any love or passionate feelings amongst that scene between the two of them.



If this were to appear in the future, I could see it happening but only if it was to save their home planet, that is if both of them are from the same planet. Though for some reason I see Reptile killing her throughout some story and he basically hates himself for killing what appears to be the only living thing that could have help restore his race.

I wouldn't mind them maybe having one couple or two introduced into the story. But I wouldn't want the whole roster coupling up with someone else. This mortal kombat were you fight to the death and some rips your head off. It's not supposed be all lovey dovey. But adding a couple might spice up the story, but it is definetly not need.

Stryker and Kabal.

Aw... No. No. Just no. Two of my fav characters? No. Just no. lol

Sub-Zero/Sareena is a case where they hadn't established a relationship, but you could see how one would start if they hadn't rebooted.

Granted, this is a matter of interpretation, but to my eyes, her MKA bio portrays her devotion and loyalty toward Sub as a little...over the top obsessive/desperate to please for someone who's just thankful to be granted asylum. She took his invitation of "welcome to the Lin Kuei, I hope I can trust you...now go to Earth and wait around till I get there." and responded with "I will secretly tail my new master and protect him because I couldn't bear to see him come to harm, even if it means following him to the Netherealm, the place I hate most in all the universe and was desperate to escape from!"
I'm pretty sure that's where the Sub/Sareena "shippers" (of which, I will admit to being one) got the idea that there was starting to be or going to be something between her and Kuai from.
At any rate, I never understood this whole aversion some people have to having characters find love interests in MK just because the plot is largely about fighting and violence. You notice that people never say the same thing about platonic friendships. Why's it okay to have Sub-Zero and Smoke care about one another, but it's suddenly not okay when it's Liu Kang and Kitana?
The fact of the matter is, ALL good stories have a little romance in them somewhere. Even Star Wars found time to have Han and Leia flirt around and eventually hook up, and it resulted in some of the funniest dialogue in Empire Strikes Back. Stories need to portray characters three-dimensionally, and to do that, they need to portray the full spectrum of human emotion, not just anger and hate and violence but the positives too, to show what people are fighting for or what their lives are like when they're at rest and not fighting all the time. It would be downright unnatural to have all these men and women on the same side and never see any of them form attachments to or develop feelings for one another. Love can be a MOTIVATION to fight, one far stronger than saving the world in fact, because it's personal.
Wanting to save Kitana was Liu's reason to fight in MK4, for example. Pain at the loss of his wife and son has always been Scorpion's motive. Half the reason Johnny Cage keeps showing up seems to be just to impress Sonya.
Hell, I'd even like to see that Baraka/Mileena pairing from the MK2 endings actually portrayed. Villains and monsters have needs too.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

I remember IGN had an article about which man princesses should be with. One of the pairs was Kitana and Kung Lao. Needless to say I agreed.

I sign under every word Razor just said.

When you include romance EVEN in a fighting game,it shouldn't be cheesy,but tasteful and even MK9 Story Mode showed us the epic dialogues between Johnny and Sonya. So I support romances,but as long as they are not cheesy.

Oh,about couples,since I was 6 I was playing MK2 and since then I always had a thing for Smoke/Jade pairing. Unfortunately,MK9 didn't have any interaction between them except the fact he mistook Mileena for Kitana and attacked her (and I doubt Jade has something for morons ) and the fact they both died and probably would be resurrected in some way hinted from their arcade endings.

Besides them,I wouldn't mind Sub-Zero/Sareena (IF NRS decides to include her), Johnny/Sonya FOR SURE,not just for one game. And maybe Mileena with anybody as crazy as she is,it will be fun,I even got funny story ideas if she really was chasing after Scorpion like in Tower Mission with a teddy bear,but I think it is just fanfiction territory.

So yeah, Sareena/Sub-Zero, Johnny/Sonya and Smoke/Jade for me. Don't want anything else,Kitana/Liu Kang was always disgusting me,it was TYPICAL romance story,especially them being on other sides first.

I SO WANT LIU & KITANA TOGETHER FOREVER! Somebody get Liu to pass the torch to someone else.

Couples are fine by me as long as it doesn't turn into most fanfictions with everyone and i mean EVERYONE having sex with each other!

Havik & Hotaru OTP imo

Hsu Hao always seemed like Mavado's bitch to me. He'd bend over and take it like any other skinhead in a badly scripted porno.

Hsu Hao's incapable of emotion because of his cybernetics. He'd be asexual.

Regarding Sub-Zero(s) and Sareena:

Her and Bi-Han, I could see.

Her and Kuai Liang has about as much support (in the games, not people's fanfics) as Sheeva/Motaro. Next please.

That's just plain inaccurate. She knew Bi-Han for only about three seconds but traveled with Kuai for part of Deadly Alliance and secretly followed and tried to protect him during Deception.
You only think she has a bigger connection to Bi-Han because her scenes with him in Mythologies were cutscenes, whereas her interactions with Kuai are only talked about in bio text. But just because it happened offscreen doesn't mean it didn't happen.

I would like to see an official mortal kombat love sirie XD scorpion reaping fire or his dead whife...baraka x meleena...sub-zero x frost(y)XD or sub-zero x kitana...lui kang x kitana...jonny cage vs jax for sonya but then they findout that in the fight kano allready reapt her...goro vs kintaro for sheeva...shoa kahn f*cks sindel again for the ... time ect.

Yeah, she followed her ally who took her in as thanks for helping his brother, and saved him from getting killed, ironically by said brother.

Well then, lovestruck soulmates CONFIRMED.

Seriously, I could say the MK3 feud between Sheeva and Motaro was really fueled by sexual tension the whole time and come up with the same amount of hard evidence from the game

Which is to say, none.

And yet, "her and Bi-Han, I could see." Those were your words.

So what I'm wondering is how you "see" that from one meeting that lasted less than a minute, but anyone thinking her and Kuai could happen from a much longer period of positive interaction puts you in such a prickly mood.
Just seems a touch hypocritical to me is all.

You miss my point Razor. I'm not saying that I do see, or particularly even want to see, a romantic connection between Sareena and Bi-Han either. But if we have to pair a Sub-Zero with her, at least pick the one shown to have some interaction with her. Again, SHOWN, in the GAMES. Not in your fanfics. And sorry but yes, if we didn't see it, it doesn't count. Because you can extrapolate whatever you like from text endings about her following and protecting him meaning a romantic connection but the evidence for that, or even attraction, is completely non-existant.

As opposed to say, Cage/Sonya, Liu/Kitana, or even Baraka/Mileena.

If you just wanted to see them get together that would be totally fine but I remember you ranting about Cyber Sub-Zero ruining the story because "he doesn't have a dick" (your words, not mine) and therefore can't procreate with Sareena, and MK9 is somehow contradicting previous story. Of course many things are retconned in MK9, but that's not one of them because you can't ruin something that never happened to begin with.

Seriously, I must've missed the God of War-style sex mini-game you could play with Sub and Sareena in prior games. Games being the key word here Razor, because you care more about the lore than the actual games it spawns from. You just like the thought of a Kuai Liang and Sareena couple, nothing more, nothing less. At least admit it to yourself even if you won't admit it to me or anyone else reading this.

This is where you keep losing me. Again, I have to point out...

Bi-Han: meets him once for less than a minute.

Kuai Liang: Joins his clan & travels with him for approx. a game and a half. That's not from what-if endings, it's from bios.
Now I dunno what point getting all sarcastic about non-existent sex scenes was meant to convey but you seem to be under the impression that I ever said a Kuai/Sareena romantic pairing canonically happened. But that's NOT what I said, so you're making an issue where there isn't one.
What I was saying before was the same thing you yourself said about her and Bi-Han: That I could see them getting together, based on the interactions between them in her DA thru Armageddon storyline. Yes, I would also like it if they got together, I never said otherwise, but that's not the argument.
The argument is the fact that you're giving me crap when the only difference between my "I could see it happening" and yours is you see it with a dude she's only ever said exactly three sentences to and I'm seeing with a dude she's spent some actual time in the company of, and you act like I'm somehow in error for that, which does not make sense.
P.S. The "robots don't have dicks" thing way back when was kind of a joke. My apologies if the deliberate absurdity of it escaped you, especially since you've apparently been hanging onto that one for months.

Just this instant, this idea came to me: a romantic angle between Mavado and Kano.

The idea is that these two used to be in a relationship, but for whatever reason, they had a falling out. It could be that Kano not only betrayed the Red Dragon, but never really loved Mavado in the first place. Their relationship was more sexual than anything in Kano's eyes, though he fooled Mavado into thinking it was much more than that.

Neither Kano nor Mavado have ever been revealed as straight. We've never even seen them interact with one another in a cutscene. So we can't say for sure there isn't any sexual tension between them.

No.
No, no, no.
They hate each other because they're from rival clans.
Besides, Kano was never in the Red Dragon, as the Black Dragon broke away from them some time ago (I'm pretty sure MK:DA mentioned this in Konquest.)
Therefore, they probably never really met, but they definitely knew of each other.
I don't think Mavado and Kano were getting intimate during the time Kano was being held captive/experimented on by the Red Dragon.
Yeah, they haven't been proven to be straight, but they haven't been proven to be gay either, so your point is moot. I have no problems with a gay pairing, but this is completely illogical, in my humble opinion.
Edit: From Kano's MK:DA Konquest:
"Aikido is a Japanese martial art developed in the first half of the 20th century by the founder of the Black Dragon clan, Morihei Uyeshiba."
So, for one thing, Kano did not found the Black Dragon (I think he was born in '58), so he couldn't be an ex-member of the Red Dragon.
He's a brutish thug, so he'd never join the (stealthy, rule-abiding) Red Dragon if the Black Dragon were an option. Thus, Kano and Mavado probably did not meet before MK:DA, unless in passing stand-offs.
Don't take this as ranting, as I just want to explain why this pairing seems 100% impossible.