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what he doing walking around with all that ass..👀
the hoes gon love THIS
Nah fr though, they talk a lot of shit for people who SNATCH UP INFANT BABY GIRLS! I don’t think Li Mei is the problem…
i swear every time li mei opened her mouth they was just coming after her. I DONT LIKE THATTT. like i get why they’re upset but did they even try to hear her out?
edit: saw some tower endings, yea wtf. they’re legit mad at her for something she didn’t do???
mortal kombat ask game!
feel free to reblog for yourself / ask me these. i tried to make most of them as non-entry specific / non spoilery as possible, so they can be for multiple entries if you want.
who's your main(s)? (character you play as most often)
who's your favorite character(s)?
what character do you think is underrated?
what character do you think is overrated?
character you hate having to fight against?
how did you get into the series?
what was the first entry you played?
favorite entry in the series?
favorite entry-specific (re)design, if you have one?
favorite canon ship?
favorite non canon ship?
if you could pick a guest character, who would you pick? (can be as detailed as you want here)
if you could pick a character from any of the earlier entries to bring back, who would you choose?
which do you prefer doing first/more: completing the story mode or completing towers?
favorite fatality?
favorite stage?
favorite stage theme / ost?
opinion on any of the non-game media? (the live action films, mk legacy, the animated mk legends films, etc)
skin / kosmetic you want to be in mk1?
do you prefer hanzo hasashi or kuai liang as scorpion?
which character reveal for mk1 shocked you the most?
have you ever cosplayed an mk character? if you haven't, would you want to, and who would you choose?
do you have any cool merch? (figures, posters, shirts, etc)
Idk who needs to hear this (I do), but if everyone had a happy life where nothing went wrong ever, there wouldn't be a story to tell.
Not to mention a big facet of MK1 that is repeated, IDK how many times, is that Liu Kang gave everyone the freedom to choose. He laid the foundation for existence and then stepped back. Shang Tsung and Quan Chi made the decisions that led to them being a conman and a coal miner. Liu Kang didn't put them there. They put themselves there.
That scene where they're blaming him for their problems? That is them, deliberately choosing to shirk responsibility for their own actions and shifting the blame onto him because it is easier to believe that a Time God, who isn't even a Time God anymore, was conspiring against them the whole time than to believe that they are faced with the same consequences as everyone else. They would rather scheme and plot to get to power than get there honorably - and they end up doing the latter anyway once the ruse is discovered.
That is not the writer saying, "Hey! Look at this plot hole! Isn't Liu Kang petty for punishing them for a past that doesn't exist anymore?" That is the writer saying, "This is the type of personality that these two have. One of no accountability. One who believes that their problems are everyone elses fault." Because again, if you were paying attention to the story, and not taking that one scene out of context, you would have put Liu Kang giving up his timekeeping powers long before they came along together with the fact that they ended up where they are on their own.
The entire point to the story is that we choose our own destinies. That's what Mortal Kombat has always been about.
You may not like this story. You may even have valid criticism of it. But this is what they were trying to convey the entire time you were thirsting over Bi-Han's arms or Johnny Cage's ass.
Anyways I laughed my ass off here
idk abt y’all but
i fucking love mortal kombat
Bro these Liu Kang and Kitana leaks got me all the way fucked up, I didn’t even okay MK9 or MK1 yet but I’m tripping OUT! How am I already crying😭
Interesting idea:
Kuai Liang and Bi Han still have family in America from their mother’s side. Kuai Liang would love to meet them but Bi Han forbids it. He won’t admit it but It’s too hard for him, especially since he knew those family members as a child and fears their rejection. They’re humble kind people live in New York and own a mom and pop shop in Chinatown. Even years later they’re still reeling from losing their nephews, Their mother literally died from the grief of losing Bi Han and Kuai Liang.
the whole concept of mk1 liutana makes me WEEEEEEP like
liu’s created a better future for kitana. one where she can be happy. but he can’t be a part of that in the way he wants to. he just has to watch from afar and not at her side.
i’m going to cry over them sm when mk1 drops
I think I love the "Kung Lao is a slacker" viewpoint, because that means just about everything he does is natural talent.
So imagine how absolutely terrifying that man is when he decides to put effort into something.
I doubt anyone will see this but I can’t be left alone with my thought 🤷🏻♀️
Does anybody find the Umgadi thing a little…odd, don’t get me wrong I LOVE the thought of the Umgadi and love Li Mei but it’s the way it was executed kinda.
So the Umgadi are female warrior priestesses who defend the royal house, cool, but do they have to be TAKEN from they real homes as newborns and FORCED to defends 4 grown ass people with superpowers?
Like I could see if they wanted to do it and were grown or Atleast conscious enough to make the decision themselves…but just snatched, taken?That some Kuai and Bi-Han backstory stuff from the old timelines and we know how that went, the Umgadi just serve a better purpose(and Kunt).
And why did they blame Li Mei for the death of THEYRE father? This man has proven in all 3 timelines that he cannot defend his family or his realm, if he can’t do that then why even make him Ruler of an entire realm. Is he pussy or just weak.
I assume Jerrod was a good ruler, like Viserys from HOTD but not rlly ready to fight huh? Or he just can’t, but why blame Li Mei because he can’t defend himself or his family, and in this timeline we don’t even know who killed who yet!
johnny cage’s mom being a cop is the worst thing ever. like no she’s not. she’s a waitress at a diner that johnny would walk to after school and sit on top of the counter and drink a milkshake with extra whipped cream and promises her that someday he’s going to get enough money to pay her off for all the milkshakes he’s been getting for free
Hi
Li Mei's Kit: A Meta Analysis
I haven't been able to play the beta, but I find Li Mei's very VERY Chinese traits interesting. They leaned hard into them, and I wanted to take a moment to go all meta-geek about her fu lions and her fireworks.
Sometimes called "foo dogs", they're stylized lions and are used as guardian symbols all over China. MK has used them with great abandon throughout; they're pretty stereotypical. Traditionally, guardian lions are paired: one has a paw holding a ball, the other has a paw holding a lion cub. The one with the ball is male, the ball representing the world and the material; the one with the cub is female, representing nurturing/care and the spiritual. The female lion protects those inside, while the male protects the structure itself, and you can keep going down into layers here. Turtles on turtles, or lions on lions, as it were.
What's interesting to me is the guardian-protector angle of them and the choice of that for Li Mei. As an Umgadi, she would have been dedicated to protecting the royal family; the idea of being able to summon a spiritual guardian lion to protect her charges is a great note. When she fails in her service and leaves and becomes Constable of Sun Do, she absolutely does not leave behind her protectiveness, but in fact extends it to the capital at large. She's not just protecting Sindel and Kitana and Mileena now, it's everybody.
(and the best screencap I could find was a fu lion against Kitana, which amuses me on some level). The firecrackers are another spirit protection aspect, and I hadn't known about this moving to China. The folklore is that there was a monster who lived in the mountains that would come down to a village, terrorize it, and then leave. One year an old man shows up and spends a few days protecting the village; eventually he says "I can't do this anymore, I have places to go and things to do, but I'll help you protect yourselves". He teaches the community what to do: namely, Nian hates the color red, as well as loud noises like drums and music and… you guessed it, fireworks. Not only do they make for some pretty sweet particle effects, but they lean into that idea of protection again, a little subtle reinforcement that this is part of who Li Mei is. She's a guardian, and with her bright lights and loud noises, she's going to keep the bad things away. The last "big" element in Li Mei's kit that's new is her Sky Lantern. From a gaming POV it's a great anti-air move, and it actually leans into the historical side of things: they were used in China initially for military purposes, and then took on a non-military angle. Li Mei's kit leans into the military side of things, so these aren't unexpected.
But the sky lanterns do have a significance today that is less about the military, and more about family and reunions. Much like the fu dogs also have nuture/care and family tied into them, so do the lanterns - which means Li Mei has a whole boatload of "I will protect and care for everyone as my family". Especially since she was taken from hers and became a warrior-priestess. Despite - or in spite of - everything that's happened, Li Mei is going to continue to protect her family... which at this point is all of Sun Do. And just maybe all of Outworld, but only time will tell.