How Mortal Kombat Characters Return After Being Killed

How Mortal Kombat Characters Return After Being Killed

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Ever wonder why Liu Kang dies and come back so many times? Or how Scorpion is actually alive? Here’s how Mortal Kombat characters return after dying.

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How Mortal Kombat Characters Return After Being Killed

In a series like Mortal Kombat, there are bound to be a lot of deaths. Many popular characters who die in the series somehow find themselves coming back in future games. This makes sense. If NetherRealm Studios stayed within the Mortal Kombat: Armageddon timeline there wouldn’t be any characters aside from Shao Kahn left. Dead characters aren’t just coming back for the sake for popularity, though. While fan (and developer) favoritism is a factor, there are also lore and story reasons for why and how Mortal Kombat characters return after being killed.

Scorpion, the face of the Mortal Kombat series, is an interesting case. Ever since the beginning of Mortal Kombat Scorpion has been dead, having originally been killed during the events of Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero before the first in-game tournament took place. Yet he technically lives as a Revenant, a resurrected inhuman soldier controlled by Quan Chi. He has Klassic costumes that make him appear as if he is alive and human, but canonically, he has been dead up until Mortal Kombat X.

Scorpion’s rival Sub-Zero is another example of a character returning from the dead in different ways. There are technically two Sub-Zero characters. The original Sub-Zero – who is killed by Scorpion – is named Bi-Han. The current Sub-Zero (the one with the scar on his eye) is Bi-Han’s younger brother Kuai Liang. Kuai Liang technically dies after being turned into Cyber Sub-Zero in the Mortal Kombat (2011) reboot timeline, but does eventually return to his human form. Kuai Liang’s brother Bi-Han also returns as Noob Saibot, a member of the Brotherhood of Shadow who reside in the Netherrealm, Mortal Kombat’s version of hell. Scorpion and Sub-Zero aren’t the only characters to return from the dead in Mortal Kombat, though. Many more have found themselves coming back one way or another.

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How Mortal Kombat Characters Come Back From The Dead

Mortal Kombat is filled with sorcerers. Quan Chi is considered to be one of the strongest sorcerers in the Mortal Kombat universe, which is why it makes sense that he is responsible for many characters being brought back from the dead to serve him as a Revenant. Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Jax, Jade, Kitana, Sub-Zero, Smoke, Stryker, Kabal, Nightwolf, and Sindel are all turned into inhuman Revenants by Quan Chi in Mortal Kombat (2011). Out of those characters, five of them return in Mortal Kombat X as playable characters: Jax, Kitana, Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and Sub-Zero.

Despite all of them canonically being dead servants at the beginning of Mortal Kombat X’s story, similar to Scorpion, they each have costumes that make them appear as if they were alive. Jax, Sub-Zero, and Scorpion are the only characters who are properly brought back to life in Mortal Kombat X thanks to Sonya Blade defeating Quan Chi, thus releasing them from his control. With Jax being revived early on the story, Jacqui Briggs was able to exist.

With Mortal Kombat 11 exploring various timelines some characters also found themselves returning from the dead, including Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, and Sindel, while others such as Shao Kahn return through coming to the future from the past. While past Liu Kang does end up becoming the god of fire and thunder, his present self was still a Revenant. The Great Kung Lao, ancestor of cousins Liu Kang and Kung Lao, also returns in Fire God Liu Kang’s epilogue upon rewinding time to that of the era of the ancient Mortal Kombat tournaments.

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If Liu Kang’s Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath ending is canon and the Mortal Kombat timeline starts over to that of The Great Kung Lao, it is not certain who will and will not be alive in Mortal Kombat 12. It does give NetherRealm Studios the opportunity to tread uncharted territory in the timeline before Mortal Kombat 1. If the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie is any indication of things to come, perhaps fans could see the in-game debut and true identity of Cole Young. Regardless of whatever comes next for Mortal Kombat, fans can likely be assured that some Kombatants will return, be it by magical resurrection or simply existing in the new timeline.

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