The ending

Yes, at the end all of those characters died - including Kung Lao, Taja, Siro, Vorpax, Shang Tsung, Quan Chi, Siann, Omegis, Reptile, Kiri, and Kitana. We are left not knowing if Rayden still lives or not. Kahn may be keeping him alive to torture him. The series ends with Outworld and Earth merging and Kahn's extermination squads beginning to scour the planet. Of course, this was not intended to be the end, it was just a season finale cliffhanger like every other show. Unfortunately it got cancelled and we were stuck dangling over the cliff. The official MK website gave a brief idea of how season 2 would have started. It said that Rayden was still alive in Kahn's dungeon, praying to the Elder Gods, asking them why they have allowed this to happen. The Elder Gods then decide to undo everything Shao Kahn had done in breaking their rules. They bring everyone back to life and return them to where they belong - Shang and Vorpax in the cobalt mines, Reptile and Kiri to Zaterra, Kung Lao, Taja, and Siro back to Earth and so on. Thus, season 2 would begin and the show would go back to normal.

The show was a prequel to the movie, and thus it was always intended that the bad guys would win in the end, therby setting up the final tournament in the movie. Unfortunately, we did not get to see the ending that was intended, had the show continued. Any MK fan knows that Kung Lao is killed by Goro in the next tournament. That is why throughout the show, Lao has visions of his own death at the hands of a four-armed monster. This was intended to be the true ending to the series, Goro killing Kung Lao and starting his 500 year run as champion. Its a damn shame we did not get to see that.



"Wise man say, forgiveness is divine but never pay full price for late pizza."

I think the idea of a nightmare is better. Someone else had mentioned that it could all be a dream that Kung Lao has. Since his visions have becoming worse and worse it culminates with that last episode of season 1. I'm thinking if there was a season 2 it would be revealed that it was all a horrible nightmare to get Kung Lao back on track.

I actually like the idea of it being the Elder Gods that undo it instead of ow its just a dream.

A man can change his stars

Whatever those 3 demonic figures were (priests?) I really wanted to see all that had fallen victim to them join forces and destroy all three of them.