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Safer_777 posted...

So even in the games you need like 10 straight normal victories to be really victorious? How come there are like 11 main games then so far? I mean don't Earthlings win the tournament each time?

Weirdly, the tournament was never really a major factor in the game continuity- the only game in the original timeline to involve an officially sanctioned-by-the-Elder-Gods Mortal Kombat tournament was the first one, and the "ten wins in a row and Outworld merges with Earthrealm" thing was a retcon that came later- the game itself has no mention of Outworld or Shao Khan, instead claiming that Mortal Kombat was a Shaolin tournament that had been 'corrupted' by Shang Tsung.

MK2 and MK3 both involved Shao Khan trying loopholes to claim Earthrealm without winning Mortal Kombat, then MK4 through Armageddon mostly had other villains trying to conquer the whole multiverse rather than Earthrealm specifically.

It wasn't until the timeline reset in MK9 that we got a proper in-game representation of the Mortal Kombat tournament as a means of protecting Earthrealm from Outworld.

(Also, ten Earthrealm wins in a row doesn't mean Outworld is permanently locked out, it would give Earthrealm the right to invade Outworld and merge it into Earthrealm, which would probably still result in the entire human race being pulled apart by monsters)
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