Question about the timeline in years
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posted01/21/2013 06:45 PM (UTC)by
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Venkman28
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Recently, I was thinking about when the events in the MK universe take place just the games that we've played. I assumed the events of MK 1 took place in 1992 (reading the comic and looking at the fashion it's early 90's). So I thought of a timeline and was wondering by MK fans if this would be accurate. I'm also basing in on when the games were released.

1990- Mortal Kombat: Mythologies: Sub-Zero (I think it mentioned it taking place 2 years before MK 1. I never played Special Forces so I don't know when it took place)

1992 (Fall time)- Mortal Kombat

1993 (Time on Shang Tsung's island might be different in passing)- MK II

Between: Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks

1995 (Spring) - MK 3/Ultimate/Trilogy

Between: MK vs DC Universe (I know it's non-canon but it seems to take place after the events of MK 3)

Summer 1997- Mortal Kombat 4/Gold

Fall 2002- Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance
Mortal Kombat Deception
Mortal Kombat Armaggedon

1992-1995: Mortal Kombat (2011)

All take place within a period of a decade as Kung Lao's bio in Deadly Alliance has him learning the technique Bo Rai Cho taught Liu Kang in order to beat Shang Tsung in MK 1 (it stated a decade ago, so 10 years)
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01/20/2013 11:34 PM (UTC)
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There was a thread about this sometime last year, I think you may have even posted in it, where we had some of this nailed down, like Mythologies is 2 years before MK1, and MKDA is 10 years after MK1.

One point you forgot though is that Mythologies is also 10 years before MK4. So that'd be 2000 if MK1 were 1992.

The hardest to place, in my mind, has always been MK2. Because it's short enough after MK1 that the Tarkatans slaughter the Shaolin temple BEFORE Liu returns home from Shang's Island, and Liu, like, jumps into action right away when he finds the place slaughtered, there's no long period of downtime or anything like that...but Johnny had enough time when he got home to make "Mortal Kombat: The Movie" before running off to the Outworld tournament "to get ideas for the sequel". And realisticially, a feature film can take anywhere from like 9 months to two years to produce from scratch, so that's crazy.

And at the end of MK2, everyone goes home to prepare for an attack from Kahn that they're all convinced is coming someday soon...but they're still taken by surprise when the invasion starts. So they can't have had that much time to prepare between 2 and 3, it can't have been a year or more.
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01/21/2013 06:45 PM (UTC)
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Yes Razor, I think I we had discussed the timeline before. I was always wondering the time passing between MK 1-3.
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