Mortal Kombat 2 Can Deliver On The First Film’s Failed Scorpion Promise
Mortal Kombat 2 is officially happening with Mortal Kombat (2021) director Simon McQuoid set to return, and the sequel has the opportunity to deliver the Scorpion story that the first film failed to. Despite an underwhelming box office result, Mortal Kombat was a streaming hit for HBO Max, leading to a sequel getting greenlight not too long after it. That said, the Mortal Kombat reboot was received with a lot of criticism, thanks to elements like the absence of Johnny Cage, the focus on an entirely new character, and the lack of Scorpion despite what had been promised during the marketing campaign.
As the first live-action Mortal Kombat movie for the big screen since 1997’s Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, it was logical for Mortal Kombat (2021) to be a sort of origin story. However, unlike the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie, the 2021 reboot did not feature the Mortal Kombat tournament. Instead, the new Mortal Kombat saw Shang Tsung and the Outworld champions trying to prevent the tournament from happening. Besides the Shang Tsung plan to kill the Earthrealm champions before the tournament, Mortal Kombat also dealt with the personal history between Scorpion and Sub-Zero, but with a focus on a long descendant of the Shirai Ryu, Cole Young.
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While Mortal Kombat has always been about a roster of champions, an argument can be made that Liu Kang and Johnny Cage were, for a long time, the franchise’s main characters. This was reflected in the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie, which told the story mainly through Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, and Sonya Blade’s point of view. Scorpion and Sub-Zero, on the other hand, were nothing but glorified henchmen in that film. However, more
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