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Disgusting... turning Liu Kang gay...


WTF was that?

He's born into the gutter as an orphan who becomes a child prostitute and unlocks his power after killing his pimp?!?! WTF?!

Absolutely disgusting.

And to top it all off:

1: They race-swap Mileena for no apparent reason and the actress they got was neither a good martial artist nor notable in the role. It was literally blackwashing a character to be woke and it made the character worse for it.

2: They race-swapped Raiden with a guy who could barely speak English, and sleepwalked through his role with ZERO conviction. Christopher Lambert has never been a good actor but he played Raiden with convincing charm in the 1995 film. This guy -- when you could understand him -- made no sense with his character portrayal and was 100% forgettable.

3: Reiko in the game is an awesome and formidable character with an interesting story, but here he's a yelling big man played by what looks like Nathan Jones.

4: Sonya giving the exposition about Mortal Kombat and introducing the insufferable cole to the tournament made ZERO sense.

5: Turning Liu Kang gay was disgusting.

6: Kano was the only actor in the film with charisma (and it's sad that I was actually rooting for him to win against Sonya, that's how insufferable the "good guys" were).

7: Cole's wife fighting Goro and then trying to run him over with the truck was the most feminist bullcrap I've ever seen in a movie in recent times. I nearly eye-rolled so hard I could feel my head tilting.

8: All the Scorpion stuff was fascinating, well-filmed, decently written, and choreographed but it was too little too late. The entire movie should have been themed around Scorpion; Sanada also played him well. During the first ten minutes all I could think was "This would be an awesome movie if they just focused on Hanzo turning into Scorpion and coming back to get revenge against Sub-Zero", but no we get that awful garbage with Cole and his family.

9: I hope Cole dies in the sequel so they don't add him to any future games.

10: Everyone who said the 1995 film was better was right.

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If people doesn't mistake you and your best mate for a gay couple, he's not your best mate.

The best Raiden is of course Carter Wong, in Big Trouble in Little China. Since that's what Raiden is based on.

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7. Wow, a woman using a car as a weapon? Yeah that’s feminism 101. Are all gamers as smart and insightful as you?

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A woman using a car as a weapon against a four-armed monster who ate an axe attack and survived a barn cave-in... and she does so while the kid is in the car. What other outcome was she expecting other than to get crushed by his massive arms?

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Seeing homosexual content where there isn't any and ranting about it is a textbook sign of repression.

But if we're going to wildly extrapolate, I guess we could also look at your username: First syllable CYG, not too far removed from CIG, as in Cigarette. British slang term for a cigarette is a fag.

See? Logical conclusions for all!

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lmao!

Yeah, OP's making more fanfiction than your typical tumblr user.

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He wasn't as flamboyant as when Arthur Fleck morphed into the Joker, but there were definite Takei-vibes

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