Onaga is mentioned in a couple of Geras's intros dialogues to Liu Kang of being a Titan treat more powerful than any other Titan. It has to be the original timeline Onaga they're talking about as the Titan that rules the other Liu Kang's timeline as well.
Seems like those mk fans just want a story like: * onaga shows up *onaga kills everyone. *onaga merges all the realms and/or timelines *onaga twerks on existence.
@@Axel_Kasaiwell isn't that the point of Onagas character who's cunning and manipulative always taking the opportunity to have complete dominion over everything literally, dude became the one being in his ending which showed how far he's willing to go, they really butchered his character here and again he didn't win in the og timeline as Shujinko was strong enough to defeat him but the ending proved how far he can go, hell we don't even prefer him winning he can lose too but at least have him put up a good showing like Thanos did in endgame
I’m not understanding , Ed Boon has revived the Mortal Kombat Saga . It is very entertaining . Since the beginning , but now it is more grand than ever - Liu Kang voice
As long NetherRealm Studios don't ruin Onaga as a huge threat I don't care if he returns cause NetherRealm had no problem burying Shao Kahn and Shinnok at all.
On one hand it does make sense for Liu Kang to try and neutralize Onaga like he did the other villains. On the other it means we won’t see him as the main villain for a long time as the endings for MK1 directly follow the main story so they are likely canon meaning this Shao and Reiko subplot of taming Onaga will follow up. That to me sounds like side villain territory.
@@Axel_Kasaia side villain who wanted to take the prize for himself like everyone on that alliance, even if he was a side villain so was Shao Kahn and Shinnok, Armageddon didn't have any main villain here other than the forces of evil where everyone was willing to backstab each other for their own goals
@@vikingfromnorth45Dominic should just be fired by this point, dudes been around for more than five years and did nothing to the franchise but ruin the villains who are meant to be the highlight of the games
Since MK1 felt like a Deadly Alliance Requel it makes sense that the next time we see the next Game will take place with Deception, I love that the Endings are 100% Canon and that they’re building up Onaga, Just Because the Dragon King doesn’t have his intelligence it doesn’t make him less Dangerous, he can work as the Doomsday of the Franchise.
Still a downgrade tho, we don't need our legacy characters butchered like this, if these writers don't know how to write these characters might well as leave them alone instead of making shitty references where they dumb down the character, these writers even shamelessly stole Onagas plotline from the game and gave it to Shang Tsung and Shinnok
Ed Boon went on record saying when asked why Onaga did not appear in the story. He was basically never considered. It was always going to be deadly alliance with 3d era characters thrown in for nostalgia.
@@MarioLopez-rn2bswell the writers have shown how much they like to character assassinate Onaga, stole his storyline in mk deception twice in the terrible battle of the realms movie and giving it to Shinnok who btw has shown to be nothing but a weaker villain than Shao Kahn ruining him too and now in mk1 with them stealing again and giving it to Shang Tsung who does nothing with it btw
Onaga needs his own separate game and should be main villain in it. And Shujinko should be the protagonist Hoping that Reiko’s ending and Kung Lao’s ending are teases for MK 2
Onaga has been teased so much in the past games I just accepted he’s not coming back. And now he’s not that great of a threat with Titans going around and alternate timelines. Unless they do Titan Onaga for the next game which will mean another timeline story (we already have three games about changing the timeline just let it go)
Y'all forget the one being Onaga who's supposed to be stronger than all the characters combined as the one being is the mk multiverse itself, we don't need Titans (self inserted characters) anymore as all they did is ruin the mk lore, if these writers don't know how to write 3d era and legacy characters then they should leave them alone instead of bastardising them like this further pissing off long established fans
To be bonest it's not whatever writers they have, it falls down to Ed Boon. Had John Tobias not left, the story of MK could have been better than it is now.
It actually makes a ton of sense. Avatar Onaga and True Form Onaga. It's like Darkseid and the New Gods in DC Comics, and the Cosmic Entities in Marvel Comics.
I want Onaga back in MK2 as the main villain, but I don’t want him to be a one and done villain. He should be built up like Marvel did Thanos and he should always be around to pull some strings and cause problems.
I always wanted *Onaga* to make a Comeback as the Main Antagonist since the Midway Era, rather if NRS does his Character Justice or Assassinated is up for Debate, his Absence is very long Overdue.
That's why I'm glad he doesn't come back. No matter what NRS does, obnoxious onaga fans will complain, so why bother? Better to mess with them by only teasing onaga 😂
I'm actually glad Onaga isn't in this game (yet) because there's no way for NRS' writing team to bring Onaga justice. Hopefully, they won't do him dirty.
Makes sense , Goro was also teased as a vessel for Onaga in that same game Being half dragons , the Shokans are practically Onaga’s descendant or distant relatives (same for Reptile and his people)
Yeah it wouldve been cool to see Onaga as the main villain here. We didn't need Titan shamg tsung as the main villain heck I would've argued for Havik to be the secondary boss then reveal Onaga as the big one
I was just about to say that same thing. And I think he should win at the end. Maybe not trying to become The One Being and merge the Realms, just rule them or control the Hourglass.
@@Terminator-ht3sx They really dropped the ball with that. How CRAZY would it have been for Liu Kang to go out of his way to neutralize Shang Tsung, Quan Chi, and Shao Kahn, and end up getting ONAGA instead.🤣🤣🤣🤣...man that would have been LEGENDARY...but sadly it never happened.
I knew Onaga wasn't going to show up. Didnt make sense if they were resetting the timeline and for him to show up in the very beginning. Plus I've never had faith in Dominic's writing for these games.
Dudes a trash writer at best, has done nothing but rip off Onagas plotline which is done by other writers too showing how unoriginal they are they can't write a cohesive story
If i don't know any better, but i kinda hope Onaga makes a return in the game. But Havik on the other hand will basically be like Kang The Conqueror which he will be seeing the events of the previous games and will get to control the Hourglass. So he's gonna be in charge with the Dragon King basically like Darkseid.
Onaga NEEDS to come back in the next game. His strength seems to be intact, but his intellect has been nerfed hard. He needs to regain it and be the big bad threat again.
@@Layd36 A good servant this time since he's no longer bound to Kronika. Geras's allegiances must be neutral for no matter who's running the hourglass.
My kind of guess is theyre gonna do 2 DLC packs based on the success of aftermath in Ed Boon directly stating they have a long list of characters plan for DLC; it also fits their trend of giving fan service to multiple 3-D era games all in this one. It makes it Lohr wise. Easier to have two or more DLC packs when there is a lengthy story to allow opportunities.
Usually when an animal is tamed, it follows the the one that tamed it. If Onaga is in an expansion DLC or the next game, will Shao Khan be at his side, will it be Reiko or both?
I honestly hope that Onaga doesn't return for one simple reason - he'll be ruined. For some reason, NRS has proven incapable of handling it's biggest and baddest villains. Look at Shao Kahn: he was OK in MK9, in MK11 he was an idiot and now he's an absolute joke who jobs to midtier characters. Look at Shinnok: fallen Elder God gets knocked out by barely experienced teen and after that is unceremoniously decapitated and promptly forgotten about. Look at Kronika: she was supposed to be the most dangerous foe MK gang has ever faced yet it turned out that she's a moron who ruined her own plan. Even Titan Shang Tsung in M1K made that same mistake by revealing his whole plan to the heroes and former associates for no reason whatsoever. There's no reason for me to believe that they wouldn't turn Onaga into just another bumbling buffoon who gets defeated in the most underwhelming way possible.
Well they are literally giving them the MCU treatment making villains incompetent af and with no wins but just losses, these writers should leave these legacy characters alone if they continue to ruin them, like Kronika even if she's trash was original but still had Shao Kahn into a sub boss instead of another character, like if these writers don't know how to handle these characters then just leave them alone and stop shamelessly ripping off their plotlines and come up with something original instead even if they are trash, hell I do get the feeling these are star wars writers thrown in seeing how trash the writing is
For the record i like alot of their portrayals. Kronika and the other gods were iconic. Fighting games go so fast tho and people expect a new one atleasst every five years
It should be noted that Havik might not necessarily be the bad guy for the expansion. He may very well be the next boss for invasion mode which will have multiple seasons
You don't know the new onaga has absolutely no mind. Old onaga had a mind and people could still call him a monster. Shujinko says demon, but close enough
Onaga was always a character they built up as this huge threat, but they made him so weak. He is tricked and poisoned by Shao Khan. Then he's not even powerful enough to withstand Shao Khan in Armageddon. It's like he's unpopular with developers because they didn't handle the other villains like this. They even had Shujinko defeat him in Armageddon. They even gave us a revamped Shinnok.
@@ultimamage3i wasn't completely against onaga coming back as a villain until people started acting like he was the only one that mattered. That's why I prefer him being a monster to be tamed. If they brought the other villains down a notch in the new timeline, onaga shouldn't get special treatment 😂
What everyone wanted was for Havik to be the main villain of MK1 and Onaga tease at the end. It didn't happen. Instead Havik was a jobber and having you play and beat Titans means Titan Havik doesn't seem all that threating now. It ended up backfiring. Onaga now a depowered mindless beast? That basically seals their fate.
I think Liu Kang split Onaga into two people. Emperor Ying is the soul of Onaga the smart tactician and conquerer he was before and the Onaga we see is just body with no soul and is a mindless monster destroying everything
That's just dumb af ruining Onagas character, like if these writers don't know how to handle 3d era characters then leave them alone and stop shamelessly ripping off their plotlines for lesser characters who do nothing with it
@@Layd36 I think it would make Liu Kang look smarter. Onaga needed everyone else's powers to be defeated and then he still needed his soul sealed to the Netherrealm and still got free. If his body was only a mindless monster then the human form could be defeated easily if he gained power. The only other option that doesn't make Liu look like an idiot is if Titan Onaga showed up.
@@SegaKidJay well if that's the case and y'all want to make Liu Kang smarter then erase Onaga from the timeline entirely instead of just making him a dumb monster hurting his character and taking any threats he poses as less serious, why ruin one character for the other to look competent (everyone remembers the crap with Shinnok taking Ls for Cassie to look good) cause that's backwards writing at best unless people/writers go out of their way to ruin ones character again Liu Kang is already looking incompetent in mk1 anyways with how he wasn't able to predict Titan Shang Tsung despite the fact that he already got warnings and should have understood quick enough that the Shang Tsung he defeated may not be dead especially that fake Damashi looking very similar to Kronika, that was literally the red flag that Liu Kang should have gotten yet remains oblivious The threat that Titan Onaga poses is already taken less seriously with characters being ready for it instead of it being unpredictable like it was in mk deception where Onaga was never revealed to the main cast and plus we really had enough of Titans already, if anything its better leave Onaga alone if they continue to butcher his character and make most of the dialogues or endings non canon as it dumbs down his character to a dumb brute at best, unless they aren't willing to do all of this there is really no reason to bring Onaga back if this is the character butchery they commit to
Titan onaga defeats blaze and gains his power and gives titan onaga a new form as the final boss maybe in the expansion we can see onaga like a monster wild animal and.and the end credits for mk expansion titan onaga pops up and is asked by general shao what now.onaga smiles and starts walking too the portal.with general shao and Reiko, goro sporting a reptile skin.kintaro sporting a tarkatan skin. all the mk cyber should be in that game.
I think Liu Kang made Onaga more of a beast or monster in this timeline than an intelligent leader who can rival his power, however I think titan Onaga will be the boss in the next game, he will be more like the midway Onaga.
delay onaga to tackle the one being in this mk universe there has to be one i mean the dragon is their fricken emblem if its not onaga its shao khan turning into a dragon thats fine he has a redemption arc in magic but if they 0/3 two possible dragons and the one being in this universe, I think they missed best opportunity in all of entertainment industry COMBINED...
Some big dumb mindless beast meant to be tamed. That is what Onaga has been reduced to. I hate NRS. Dom needs to be fired because he’s a hack. Ed needs to step down because he’s making or agreeing to all these dumb decisions. Maybe he’s lost it or is bored in his old age
People have been saying this for years by this point almost a decade since Dominic came in the scene, these writers like Dominic don't know jackshit about storytelling and probably take ideas from other writers and do it terribly, hell these guys have a lot of influence and money to stick around for years while legitimate writers are barely given any opportunities to bring better storytelling to the big screens, hell I don't even think Ed Boon is in control anymore as he lost that you control years ago I say, I guess the only thing that matters to Ed is that scorpion gets to be at the top
If they bring Onaga back, i want my moneys worth. I want Onaga to be a bastard, almost want to break my controller hard, and when you defeat him you unlock neat stuff everytime and even a full Konquest/Mini-Games after each victory 😂
You don't know what they'll do with onaga. They might have a way to have him get some of his old identity back like what happened with shang tsung and quan chi. He doesn't have to be the ruler of outworld. He doesn't have to have a undead army.
@@Axel_Kasaiwell cause he was unbeatable in the past especially in the Midway Era, mk deception trailer proved it and even in Armageddon he had to be nerfed significantly for him to come to an equal footing and he was still strong enough to take on Shao Kahn btw, if fans want Onaga then NRS should at least fulfill that wish and if not then fine no need to include him then but don't just steal his moments and storyline and give it to lesser characters and make references for namesake
Honestly there is no need to bring Onaga then if this is the treatment they are giving him then, Liu Kang should have just made sure Onaga didn't exist instead of making shitty references and stealing his moments like they did with Geras stealing Onagas moment in aftermath
@@Layd36 the problem with Onaga is. If they don't bring him back, people will be mad. If they Make this, people will be mad. If they bring him back and not is the final boss, people will be mad. (But at least is not like the Mileena, Jade or Sonya fans)
@@Layd36 yeah thats what i mean. Like i want Onaga (Even as a playable character) But sometimes is hard because if they not bring "Classic characters" is like they cannot function. I am glad this game not have too much classic (not like Deception) but is a good change for a bit. And i understand the Onaga fans. I want Taven and that one is EVEN HARDER
Well then why Shang Tsung or General Shao are same then ? And they only made them local jobbers losing to every character they face off, don't bring legacy characters to rip off their stories and making them into a dumb brute if yall hate them then
@@Layd36 quan chi and shang tsung are the same because titan shang tsung manipulated them into being the sorcerers they were. Shao is not the same right now as he just wants to be in charge of outworld, he had no interest in conquering other realms. Were you even paying attention to the story ?
Probably. No matter how strong he is, he has to lose since that's how it goes with every MK villain. If they had him win then they'd have to do what they did in aftermath and have 2 endings to the main story.
Honestly this Titan craps overdone, maybe they should just move on instead of ruining our favourite characters if they don't know how to treat them well
@@Axel_Kasaiwell it wasn't like this in the past, NRS single-handedly ruined Shao Kahn in mk11 Shang Tsung in mk9 who was forgettable at best and Quan Chi in MKX having this MCU crap written where the villains are written as incompetent as possible, hell they don't even have a good showing and we rather not see his character if this is the butchery they commit to
@@Layd36that has nothing to do with what I said. Mk1 it was shang tsung, he lost in that game. Mk2, shao kahn, lost same game. Mk3- shao kahn, same game. Mk4- shinnok, same game. Deadly alliance, okay the villains won there. Deception- onaga same game. Armageddon daegon/blaze- same game. It's not something specific to the NRS games. So guess what? If onaga was the big bad of mk2, he'd lose in mk2, doesn't matter if he was the onaga from deception. 😂
I’m getting sick of these titan versions of Mortal Kombat villains it was a cool idea for Shang Tsung but to branch it out to every other character is kind of annoying I would’ve preferred that this version of a Onaga who threatens all of existence is the one being version They need to stop just making weird changes to these characters that don’t work I get that they’re trying to capitalize on trying to make it like the MCU but it needs to be far better than the MCU if we’re going to do that 2:53
@@Axel_Kasai I know which is a complete letdown we don’t need a titan form version of Onaga that’s the problem with the main story is all these titan forms of villains showing up
Not clear if that was his doing since infinite timelines= infinite possibilities. But assuming that was him...he already nerfed the other villains, so no need to give onaga special treatment 😂
@@Axel_Kasaiwell then don't bring him in then if this is the treatment they give him then, we would not even want to see Daegon or Taven around if they suffer like this, NRS should just stick to making their trash OC characters like Kronika if they don't know how to handle the villains better
@@Axel_Kasaiwell then don't bring him in then if this is the treatment they give him then, we would not even want to see Daegon or Taven around if they suffer like this, NRS should just stick to making their trash OC characters like Kronika if they don't know how to handle the villains better
onaga didnt get referenced. thats fine. i think mk 1 got rushed tho for sure. those weirdos who keep trying to make it for the masses miss the point of mk. fight to the death. the ruler of all is with you.
Shaking my head any original timeline he was a big threat used to be Emperor the new timeline he's just a monster what pathetic writing if this is the best I can do the series is going to be in trouble they did my boy shao Khan wrong
"big threat used to be emperor" read what you said again but slowly. If he was a big threat he wouldn't have been poisoned and offscreened until Deception and he wouldn't have gotten shitstomped in Armageddon by the same guy that poisoned him to begin with.
@@ultimamage3wrong, Shao Kahn betrayed him once only and his deception ending isn't canon btw and Onaga only got defeated by Shujinko who was the second strongest character at that time so yeah Onaga was a huge threat in the past games that Shao Kahn couldn't take him head on and Onaga never expected Shao Kahns betrayal btw and a big threat doesn't mean they cant be weakened, hell even Shao Kahn continued losing against liu Kang so by that logic Shao Kahn isn't a major threat with how many times he lost so that point is completely invalid, even in Armageddon almost every character was on a equal footing with every character having a chance to betray each other so that point is invalid and Onaga was reluctant to join forces with Shao Kahn and in the trailer got his revenge against Shao Kahn too, Onaga was hot for one game but didn't have the chance in the next probably due to midway being bankrupt but if given a chance could have been a huge threat but never got one, not to mention his deception ending where he essentially becomes the one being itself so yes Onaga is a serious threat in that game till Armageddon came along but almost every character was nerfed by that logic for plot reasons so Armageddon is invalid, same with mk9 which is written by NRS which obviously has terrible writing with how they done Shao Kahn and Shinnok dirty
What can u expect with unoriginal writers who shamelessly rip off Onagas plotline for Shang Tsung, these writers literally are like the star wars writers shitting on legacy characters for bullshit nostalgia
I’m only a quarter weigh done with the arcade towers I didn’t see any that talked about Onaga yet. That’s infuriating if an RS made him a mindless savage beast. And it’s even more unfortunate when the RK towers are all canon event that will continue into the sequel. Like how smooth brain is NRS knowing that we want him back as the way he was before just modern designed. This is what I mean that the writers room just needs to be eradicated in hire new people. That Dominic dude is trash. And I’m tired of some TH-camrs giving the excuse that this is for the new fans when MTA first came out, I was also a K, and I understood all of the Store Lineslines and character backgrounds. They treat this new generation like y’all the dumbest mofos and y’all can’t understand anything. That is really insulting like how the minimalized everybody’s character in this rebel damn near. Is that on top of Dominic and the rest of the writers room being trash and NRS still want far this dude three games in a row. People are going to be livid if Onaga is a mindless beast in the sequel. They need to decanon some of those arcade tower endings.
@@Axel_Kasaiwell not pea brain cause Onaga in the old timeline is supposed to be older than Shao and Raiden and Shao Kahn isn't even stronger than Onaga which is the entire point of his character to be a cunning mastermind who's able to defeat even those stronger than him, Onaga being defeated by strong badass female character who doesn't even have a name, that's just a piss poor way to justify shit which is essentially character degradation
@@fightingmedialounge519 well it is a random character whom we don't even know her name lol and for us to care anything about it (another Kronika character which we didn't need already) , regardless Onaga still lost to randoms who look like Kronika ocs who do nothing but make him look like a animal who needs to be tamed and that's nothing but character butchery
Onaga is mentioned in a couple of Geras's intros dialogues to Liu Kang of being a Titan treat more powerful than any other Titan. It has to be the original timeline Onaga they're talking about as the Titan that rules the other Liu Kang's timeline as well.
Would rather not see him if they continue to ruin his character again and again and steal his plotline thrice
Indeed. 👌👌👌
Absolutely hated that they turned him to a “beast”. I swear the mk fans can literally come up with a better story
Seems like those mk fans just want a story like:
* onaga shows up
*onaga kills everyone.
*onaga merges all the realms and/or timelines
*onaga twerks on existence.
@@Axel_Kasaiwell isn't that the point of Onagas character who's cunning and manipulative always taking the opportunity to have complete dominion over everything literally, dude became the one being in his ending which showed how far he's willing to go, they really butchered his character here and again he didn't win in the og timeline as Shujinko was strong enough to defeat him but the ending proved how far he can go, hell we don't even prefer him winning he can lose too but at least have him put up a good showing like Thanos did in endgame
I have seen some cool fanfics made with care and love by actual fans
I’m not understanding , Ed Boon has revived the Mortal Kombat Saga . It is very entertaining . Since the beginning , but now it is more grand than ever - Liu Kang voice
There's a reason they are fans not writers. Lmao fans are brokies.
As long NetherRealm Studios don't ruin Onaga as a huge threat I don't care if he returns cause NetherRealm had no problem burying Shao Kahn and Shinnok at all.
On one hand it does make sense for Liu Kang to try and neutralize Onaga like he did the other villains. On the other it means we won’t see him as the main villain for a long time as the endings for MK1 directly follow the main story so they are likely canon meaning this Shao and Reiko subplot of taming Onaga will follow up. That to me sounds like side villain territory.
Or side game, or even spin off game that references the main line games
Dominc confirms all endings,invasions,and intros are canon on his twitter
People didn't seem to care that he was a side villain in Armageddon, so 😂
@@Axel_Kasaia side villain who wanted to take the prize for himself like everyone on that alliance, even if he was a side villain so was Shao Kahn and Shinnok, Armageddon didn't have any main villain here other than the forces of evil where everyone was willing to backstab each other for their own goals
@@vikingfromnorth45Dominic should just be fired by this point, dudes been around for more than five years and did nothing to the franchise but ruin the villains who are meant to be the highlight of the games
Since MK1 felt like a Deadly Alliance Requel it makes sense that the next time we see the next Game will take place with Deception, I love that the Endings are 100% Canon and that they’re building up Onaga, Just Because the Dragon King doesn’t have his intelligence it doesn’t make him less Dangerous, he can work as the Doomsday of the Franchise.
It was confirmed arcade endings are canon this time?
Pretty much they all interconnect @@ArcherJ1
Still a downgrade tho, we don't need our legacy characters butchered like this, if these writers don't know how to write these characters might well as leave them alone instead of making shitty references where they dumb down the character, these writers even shamelessly stole Onagas plotline from the game and gave it to Shang Tsung and Shinnok
Sort of does when what made him such a threat in deception was intelligence.
Ed Boon went on record saying when asked why Onaga did not appear in the story. He was basically never considered. It was always going to be deadly alliance with 3d era characters thrown in for nostalgia.
All those 3D era characters. Shujinko, Sareena, Havik, Ashrah, Li Mei, Nitara, Kenshi. Not putting Onaga in as a final boss was a criminal decision.
@@MarioLopez-rn2bswell the writers have shown how much they like to character assassinate Onaga, stole his storyline in mk deception twice in the terrible battle of the realms movie and giving it to Shinnok who btw has shown to be nothing but a weaker villain than Shao Kahn ruining him too and now in mk1 with them stealing again and giving it to Shang Tsung who does nothing with it btw
Then Ed Boon should have kept Onaga away from the main screen instead of having him humiliated like in Kung Laos mk11 ending or Reikos ending
@@Layd36I wouldn't say Kung Lao humiliated him. Especially since that was all powerful Titan Kung Lao.
@@Layd36 Kung Lao will beat him as Liu Kang became a god (hinted in MK9 ending) and Reiko will die trying to tame it
Onaga is such a wasted potential in this game.hopefuly they finally give him the spotlight that he deserves.
Onaga needs his own separate game and should be main villain in it. And Shujinko should be the protagonist
Hoping that Reiko’s ending and Kung Lao’s ending are teases for MK 2
Onaga has been teased so much in the past games I just accepted he’s not coming back. And now he’s not that great of a threat with Titans going around and alternate timelines. Unless they do Titan Onaga for the next game which will mean another timeline story (we already have three games about changing the timeline just let it go)
Y'all forget the one being Onaga who's supposed to be stronger than all the characters combined as the one being is the mk multiverse itself, we don't need Titans (self inserted characters) anymore as all they did is ruin the mk lore, if these writers don't know how to write 3d era and legacy characters then they should leave them alone instead of bastardising them like this further pissing off long established fans
To be bonest it's not whatever writers they have, it falls down to Ed Boon. Had John Tobias not left, the story of MK could have been better than it is now.
He is alive according to Reiko tower ending so Onaga possibly will be the main villain in the next game.
He has no cognitive intelligence he's just a raging monster Netherrealm just seems to hate the guy sigh😢
@@seasonembrace3624What are you talking about?
@seasonembrace3624 MK1 kind or challenges that notion. Havik/Dirou, Riako, Kenshi,Tanya, Li Mai all got big bumps upwards.
@@scottchaison1001well they only prefer characters who are fan favourite and discard the other characters like Onaga instead of writing them better
@@darkfu456well cause they were fan favourites here
yeah, Onaga was, as a character, assassinated.
But in universe, Liu Kang was RIGHT to try to remove him as much as powerful.
imagine if onaga was in mk11 he would’ve smacked kronika and got her crown
@@Terminator-ht3sxlikely not. Since MK writers stated that Titans>One Being and we know the One Being>Onaga (Base form)
@bigbonedones7162 writer is a clown
@bigbonedones7162 the one being>titans
@@bigbonedones7162the one being is more powerful than titans I thought
It actually makes a ton of sense. Avatar Onaga and True Form Onaga. It's like Darkseid and the New Gods in DC Comics, and the Cosmic Entities in Marvel Comics.
Onaga’s theme was sick. Straight final boss energy 🔥 🔥 🔥
I want Onaga back in MK2 as the main villain, but I don’t want him to be a one and done villain. He should be built up like Marvel did Thanos and he should always be around to pull some strings and cause problems.
I always wanted *Onaga* to make a Comeback as the Main Antagonist since the Midway Era, rather if NRS does his Character Justice or Assassinated is up for Debate, his Absence is very long Overdue.
That's why I'm glad he doesn't come back. No matter what NRS does, obnoxious onaga fans will complain, so why bother? Better to mess with them by only teasing onaga 😂
hope they dont do onaga like another brute torr or sum
The fact that Onaga wasn't the boss of the game was a travesty. Shame on nrs.
I'm actually glad Onaga isn't in this game (yet) because there's no way for NRS' writing team to bring Onaga justice.
Hopefully, they won't do him dirty.
Ugh Onaga wanted Sheeva to be his queen in a intro battle dialogue between Sheeva and Noob Saibot in MK11.
Makes sense , Goro was also teased as a vessel for Onaga in that same game
Being half dragons , the Shokans are practically Onaga’s descendant or distant relatives (same for Reptile and his people)
Garbage writing at best, they used the kamidogu plotline which was Onagas plotline and giving it to lesser characters
Yeah it wouldve been cool to see Onaga as the main villain here. We didn't need Titan shamg tsung as the main villain heck I would've argued for Havik to be the secondary boss then reveal Onaga as the big one
Onaga needs to be Villian in mk2(Mk13)
facts. i was hoping he was gonna be the big bad this game🤕
I was just about to say that same thing. And I think he should win at the end. Maybe not trying to become The One Being and merge the Realms, just rule them or control the Hourglass.
@@Terminator-ht3sx They really dropped the ball with that.
How CRAZY would it have been for Liu Kang to go out of his way to neutralize Shang Tsung, Quan Chi, and Shao Kahn, and end up getting ONAGA instead.🤣🤣🤣🤣...man that would have been LEGENDARY...but sadly it never happened.
No in the dlc
@@coreywilson7326he would never fit as a boss in mk1 DLC
They have to save Onaga for the next game before they run out of villains
They’ll continue to retcon the series.
How many times has it been already?
@@jatribbettcause these writers ran out of ideas of their own and rip off Onagas plotline thrice shamelessly
*sigh* I miss John Tobias. He left after MK4.
A better question is "what is Onaga?" NRS crapping the bed like always.
Remember, the original Shang Tsung tricked the MK1 Shang by going by the name 'Damashi'
Shamelessly ripping off Onagas plotline which they have done thrice btw
I knew Onaga wasn't going to show up. Didnt make sense if they were resetting the timeline and for him to show up in the very beginning. Plus I've never had faith in Dominic's writing for these games.
Dudes a trash writer at best, has done nothing but rip off Onagas plotline which is done by other writers too showing how unoriginal they are they can't write a cohesive story
R.I.P Reiko
Kinda don't want him back lol. Feels like they'll just water him down.
NRS must not care for Onaga. Only reason why we get half the material for story mode plot.
If i don't know any better, but i kinda hope Onaga makes a return in the game. But Havik on the other hand will basically be like Kang The Conqueror which he will be seeing the events of the previous games and will get to control the Hourglass. So he's gonna be in charge with the Dragon King basically like Darkseid.
Onaga NEEDS to come back in the next game. His strength seems to be intact, but his intellect has been nerfed hard. He needs to regain it and be the big bad threat again.
I say it's impossible considering how terrible the villains are treated in this timeline
If Onaga was the Thanos of MK, Geras must be the Kang of it all.
The Good Kang
Well a kinda forgettable Kang who loses to lesser characters and does nothing throughout the story other than be Liu Kangs servant
@@Layd36 A good servant this time since he's no longer bound to Kronika. Geras's allegiances must be neutral for no matter who's running the hourglass.
My kind of guess is theyre gonna do 2 DLC packs based on the success of aftermath in Ed Boon directly stating they have a long list of characters plan for DLC; it also fits their trend of giving fan service to multiple 3-D era games all in this one. It makes it Lohr wise. Easier to have two or more DLC packs when there is a lengthy story to allow opportunities.
Onaga should of been the next baddie after MKX, instead with got another time reboot and then another time reboot. MK9 how now been made pointless
Usually when an animal is tamed, it follows the the one that tamed it. If Onaga is in an expansion DLC or the next game, will Shao Khan be at his side, will it be Reiko or both?
I honestly hope that Onaga doesn't return for one simple reason - he'll be ruined.
For some reason, NRS has proven incapable of handling it's biggest and baddest villains. Look at Shao Kahn: he was OK in MK9, in MK11 he was an idiot and now he's an absolute joke who jobs to midtier characters. Look at Shinnok: fallen Elder God gets knocked out by barely experienced teen and after that is unceremoniously decapitated and promptly forgotten about. Look at Kronika: she was supposed to be the most dangerous foe MK gang has ever faced yet it turned out that she's a moron who ruined her own plan. Even Titan Shang Tsung in M1K made that same mistake by revealing his whole plan to the heroes and former associates for no reason whatsoever. There's no reason for me to believe that they wouldn't turn Onaga into just another bumbling buffoon who gets defeated in the most underwhelming way possible.
Well they are literally giving them the MCU treatment making villains incompetent af and with no wins but just losses, these writers should leave these legacy characters alone if they continue to ruin them, like Kronika even if she's trash was original but still had Shao Kahn into a sub boss instead of another character, like if these writers don't know how to handle these characters then just leave them alone and stop shamelessly ripping off their plotlines and come up with something original instead even if they are trash, hell I do get the feeling these are star wars writers thrown in seeing how trash the writing is
For the record i like alot of their portrayals. Kronika and the other gods were iconic. Fighting games go so fast tho and people expect a new one atleasst every five years
neatherrealm really hates onaga
It should be noted that Havik might not necessarily be the bad guy for the expansion. He may very well be the next boss for invasion mode which will have multiple seasons
At least they make him sound like a threat
They will find some wah to ruin Onaga.
Power scaling has been thrown in the toilet with the current year Mortal Kombat.
I'm fine with Onaga only being referenced and not showing up at all, as long as he shows up in Mortal Kombat 3/4 as a Thanos level boss/Endgame boss
No
When sharp Kahn tells you to pray then you know it’s bad and foolish.
I want to see Onaga initially but the see him deposed by Shao Kahn
1. Onaga will return
2. Kung Lao will beat him (mkx ending)
3. Reiko will die trying to ressurect him (mk1 ending)
Onaga washing Reiko confirmed 😂
Taking a shot in the dark: It could be that Titan Havik serves Titan Onaga.
To Orderly for him,
Unless he promised him Chaos
Something is telling me that Mk2 will be Onaga’s debut. The third not so sure. Whether it’s Blaze or a much more powerful villain is yet to be seen.
The Onaga chapters will be DLC content right behind that paywall for $59.99.
They turned Onaga into a mindless brute just like Moloch but even he shows some minor intelligence Onaga in MK1 has no mind
You don't know the new onaga has absolutely no mind.
Old onaga had a mind and people could still call him a monster. Shujinko says demon, but close enough
Dope
Onaga should've been the main story boss
Onaga Was Not Apart of The Story Mode
he got his melanin taken from him
What's with all the people trying to tame Onaga, like he's some mindless animal? 😆
Cause the writers have no understanding of the lore of the previous games and stereotype every other character instead of writing them well
They’d just make onaga a bobber like shao
Onaga reminds me the exaggerated villains from the Power Rangers lolol in a good way
NETHEREALM!!!! PLEASE BRING BACK MY BOI ONAGA!!! PLEEEEAAASE!!!!
damn that alot of set up
I would like too see them make a blaze and onaga fusion in mk 2.
Onaga was always a character they built up as this huge threat, but they made him so weak. He is tricked and poisoned by Shao Khan. Then he's not even powerful enough to withstand Shao Khan in Armageddon. It's like he's unpopular with developers because they didn't handle the other villains like this. They even had Shujinko defeat him in Armageddon. They even gave us a revamped Shinnok.
Onaga could've been a better character if they didn't just make him shao kahn 2.0.
@@Axel_Kasai onaga was never Shao kahn 2.0 that's reiko,Stop hating
@@Axel_Kasai Damn, the way delusional Onaga fans are hyping him up, you'd think he was ever given justice in the original 3d era.
@@ultimamage3i wasn't completely against onaga coming back as a villain until people started acting like he was the only one that mattered.
That's why I prefer him being a monster to be tamed. If they brought the other villains down a notch in the new timeline, onaga shouldn't get special treatment 😂
@@SupportGamin2024dudes going around hating Onaga for no reason, don't bother with him
Lol even as a wolf beast Onaga is a problem
What everyone wanted was for Havik to be the main villain of MK1 and Onaga tease at the end. It didn't happen. Instead Havik was a jobber and having you play and beat Titans means Titan Havik doesn't seem all that threating now. It ended up backfiring. Onaga now a depowered mindless beast? That basically seals their fate.
I think Liu Kang split Onaga into two people. Emperor Ying is the soul of Onaga the smart tactician and conquerer he was before and the Onaga we see is just body with no soul and is a mindless monster destroying everything
That's just dumb af ruining Onagas character, like if these writers don't know how to handle 3d era characters then leave them alone and stop shamelessly ripping off their plotlines for lesser characters who do nothing with it
Makes me want to know Emperor Ying
@@Layd36 I think it would make Liu Kang look smarter. Onaga needed everyone else's powers to be defeated and then he still needed his soul sealed to the Netherrealm and still got free. If his body was only a mindless monster then the human form could be defeated easily if he gained power. The only other option that doesn't make Liu look like an idiot is if Titan Onaga showed up.
@@iskoconquers Same I hope they don't ignore this plot point.
@@SegaKidJay well if that's the case and y'all want to make Liu Kang smarter then erase Onaga from the timeline entirely instead of just making him a dumb monster hurting his character and taking any threats he poses as less serious, why ruin one character for the other to look competent (everyone remembers the crap with Shinnok taking Ls for Cassie to look good) cause that's backwards writing at best unless people/writers go out of their way to ruin ones character
again Liu Kang is already looking incompetent in mk1 anyways with how he wasn't able to predict Titan Shang Tsung despite the fact that he already got warnings and should have understood quick enough that the Shang Tsung he defeated may not be dead especially that fake Damashi looking very similar to Kronika, that was literally the red flag that Liu Kang should have gotten yet remains oblivious
The threat that Titan Onaga poses is already taken less seriously with characters being ready for it instead of it being unpredictable like it was in mk deception where Onaga was never revealed to the main cast and plus we really had enough of Titans already, if anything its better leave Onaga alone if they continue to butcher his character and make most of the dialogues or endings non canon as it dumbs down his character to a dumb brute at best, unless they aren't willing to do all of this there is really no reason to bring Onaga back if this is the character butchery they commit to
titan onaga is crazy
Titan onaga defeats blaze and gains his power and gives titan onaga a new form as the final boss maybe in the expansion we can see onaga like a monster wild animal and.and the end credits for mk expansion titan onaga pops up and is asked by general shao what now.onaga smiles and starts walking too the portal.with general shao and Reiko, goro sporting a reptile skin.kintaro sporting a tarkatan skin. all the mk cyber should be in that game.
I think they will rewrite the research of the kamidogu for taking back the mastermind of Onaga
I think Liu Kang made Onaga more of a beast or monster in this timeline than an intelligent leader who can rival his power, however I think titan Onaga will be the boss in the next game, he will be more like the midway Onaga.
Nah thx, these writers literally stealing his plotline thrice, might well as not introduce him if they continue butchering his character
delay onaga to tackle the one being in this mk universe there has to be one i mean the dragon is their fricken emblem if its not onaga its shao khan turning into a dragon thats fine he has a redemption arc in magic but if they 0/3 two possible dragons and the one being in this universe, I think they missed best opportunity in all of entertainment industry COMBINED...
Im convinced the writers just dont care at this point
He's going to be a problem next mk
What if Onaga takes over general kohn like he did with reptile
They better not turn Onaga into a mindless jobba!
Some big dumb mindless beast meant to be tamed. That is what Onaga has been reduced to. I hate NRS. Dom needs to be fired because he’s a hack. Ed needs to step down because he’s making or agreeing to all these dumb decisions. Maybe he’s lost it or is bored in his old age
People have been saying this for years by this point almost a decade since Dominic came in the scene, these writers like Dominic don't know jackshit about storytelling and probably take ideas from other writers and do it terribly, hell these guys have a lot of influence and money to stick around for years while legitimate writers are barely given any opportunities to bring better storytelling to the big screens, hell I don't even think Ed Boon is in control anymore as he lost that you control years ago I say, I guess the only thing that matters to Ed is that scorpion gets to be at the top
Cry more
@@Axel_Kasai nobodys crying but you in the comments going around being desperate to try talk shit to others
Reptile becomes onaga with the timeline being changed u may not see him 🤫
You should guess that 😒besides that man mk deadly alliance reptile ending duh 😒
Can't have anything too cool in the Netherrealm timeline. We gotta nerf it! Like come on bro!
They do have cool stuff. People like you are just too busy whining to notice it
Nah. There's already enough lame stuff as is with limitations. These self imposed limitations do not help.
Why does Reiko 4:13 turn cockney here
Reiko will find Onaga and die trying to awake him?
If they bring Onaga back, i want my moneys worth. I want Onaga to be a bastard, almost want to break my controller hard, and when you defeat him you unlock neat stuff everytime and even a full Konquest/Mini-Games after each victory 😂
Give him a souls borne levels of difficulty
@@LoganDX1990no
Unlikely to happen now they just made him doomsday 2.0
well this sucks they made onaga just a monster now with no mind.
You don't know what they'll do with onaga.
They might have a way to have him get some of his old identity back like what happened with shang tsung and quan chi.
He doesn't have to be the ruler of outworld.
He doesn't have to have a undead army.
@@Axel_Kasai indeed
Shang Tsung's reveal was the single most lamest/disappointing thing about this game
Hopefully the fans are as vocal with Onaga as they were with Mileena so they bring him back and Ed Boon has no choice.
Onaga belongs in fanfiction.
@@Axel_Kasaino he doesn't just cause you like Bald headed Kronika doesn't make onaga a bad villian
@@SupportGamin2024I didn't say I like kronika 🤡. People just hype onaga up like he's unbeatable so just make a fanfiction where he is.
@@Axel_Kasaiwell cause he was unbeatable in the past especially in the Midway Era, mk deception trailer proved it and even in Armageddon he had to be nerfed significantly for him to come to an equal footing and he was still strong enough to take on Shao Kahn btw, if fans want Onaga then NRS should at least fulfill that wish and if not then fine no need to include him then but don't just steal his moments and storyline and give it to lesser characters and make references for namesake
Hopefully their not not as vocal as millena fans. We don't need that catastrophe to repeat itself.
Me after I got Reiko's ending:......Reiko is fucked. Isn't he?
Liu kang giving Big nerfs
Honestly there is no need to bring Onaga then if this is the treatment they are giving him then, Liu Kang should have just made sure Onaga didn't exist instead of making shitty references and stealing his moments like they did with Geras stealing Onagas moment in aftermath
@@Layd36 the problem with Onaga is.
If they don't bring him back, people will be mad.
If they Make this, people will be mad.
If they bring him back and not is the final boss, people will be mad.
(But at least is not like the Mileena, Jade or Sonya fans)
@@Layd36 yeah thats what i mean. Like i want Onaga (Even as a playable character)
But sometimes is hard because if they not bring "Classic characters" is like they cannot function.
I am glad this game not have too much classic (not like Deception) but is a good change for a bit.
And i understand the Onaga fans.
I want Taven and that one is EVEN HARDER
Titan Havik is gonna free onaga im calling it
Blaze was already doomsday… should’ve just used him
Why are people acting like onaga would be exactly the same in every timeline?
Well then why Shang Tsung or General Shao are same then ? And they only made them local jobbers losing to every character they face off, don't bring legacy characters to rip off their stories and making them into a dumb brute if yall hate them then
@@Layd36 quan chi and shang tsung are the same because titan shang tsung manipulated them into being the sorcerers they were. Shao is not the same right now as he just wants to be in charge of outworld, he had no interest in conquering other realms.
Were you even paying attention to the story ?
Perhaps titan onaga is an impossible character for the writers to bring in
Probably. No matter how strong he is, he has to lose since that's how it goes with every MK villain.
If they had him win then they'd have to do what they did in aftermath and have 2 endings to the main story.
Honestly this Titan craps overdone, maybe they should just move on instead of ruining our favourite characters if they don't know how to treat them well
@@Axel_Kasaiwell it wasn't like this in the past, NRS single-handedly ruined Shao Kahn in mk11 Shang Tsung in mk9 who was forgettable at best and Quan Chi in MKX having this MCU crap written where the villains are written as incompetent as possible, hell they don't even have a good showing and we rather not see his character if this is the butchery they commit to
@@Layd36that has nothing to do with what I said.
Mk1 it was shang tsung, he lost in that game.
Mk2, shao kahn, lost same game.
Mk3- shao kahn, same game.
Mk4- shinnok, same game.
Deadly alliance, okay the villains won there.
Deception- onaga same game.
Armageddon daegon/blaze- same game.
It's not something specific to the NRS games. So guess what? If onaga was the big bad of mk2, he'd lose in mk2, doesn't matter if he was the onaga from deception. 😂
I’m getting sick of these titan versions of Mortal Kombat villains it was a cool idea for Shang Tsung but to branch it out to every other character is kind of annoying I would’ve preferred that this version of a Onaga who threatens all of existence is the one being version They need to stop just making weird changes to these characters that don’t work I get that they’re trying to capitalize on trying to make it like the MCU but it needs to be far better than the MCU if we’re going to do that 2:53
They aren't fighting the one being.
@@Axel_Kasai I know which is a complete letdown we don’t need a titan form version of Onaga that’s the problem with the main story is all these titan forms of villains showing up
Lui Kang nerfed Onaga hard in the New Era
Not clear if that was his doing since infinite timelines= infinite possibilities.
But assuming that was him...he already nerfed the other villains, so no need to give onaga special treatment 😂
@@Axel_Kasaiwell then don't bring him in then if this is the treatment they give him then, we would not even want to see Daegon or Taven around if they suffer like this, NRS should just stick to making their trash OC characters like Kronika if they don't know how to handle the villains better
@@Axel_Kasaiwell then don't bring him in then if this is the treatment they give him then, we would not even want to see Daegon or Taven around if they suffer like this, NRS should just stick to making their trash OC characters like Kronika if they don't know how to handle the villains better
I think it's ridiculous to tease Onaga just not to put him in the game.
They just wanted people to stop asking if onaga still existed 😂
onaga didnt get referenced. thats fine. i think mk 1 got rushed tho for sure. those weirdos who keep trying to make it for the masses miss the point of mk. fight to the death. the ruler of all is with you.
Shaking my head any original timeline he was a big threat used to be Emperor the new timeline he's just a monster what pathetic writing if this is the best I can do the series is going to be in trouble they did my boy shao Khan wrong
"big threat used to be emperor" read what you said again but slowly. If he was a big threat he wouldn't have been poisoned and offscreened until Deception and he wouldn't have gotten shitstomped in Armageddon by the same guy that poisoned him to begin with.
@@ultimamage3wrong, Shao Kahn betrayed him once only and his deception ending isn't canon btw and Onaga only got defeated by Shujinko who was the second strongest character at that time so yeah Onaga was a huge threat in the past games that Shao Kahn couldn't take him head on and Onaga never expected Shao Kahns betrayal btw and a big threat doesn't mean they cant be weakened, hell even Shao Kahn continued losing against liu Kang so by that logic Shao Kahn isn't a major threat with how many times he lost so that point is completely invalid, even in Armageddon almost every character was on a equal footing with every character having a chance to betray each other so that point is invalid and Onaga was reluctant to join forces with Shao Kahn and in the trailer got his revenge against Shao Kahn too, Onaga was hot for one game but didn't have the chance in the next probably due to midway being bankrupt but if given a chance could have been a huge threat but never got one, not to mention his deception ending where he essentially becomes the one being itself so yes Onaga is a serious threat in that game till Armageddon came along but almost every character was nerfed by that logic for plot reasons so Armageddon is invalid, same with mk9 which is written by NRS which obviously has terrible writing with how they done Shao Kahn and Shinnok dirty
@@ultimamage3people can't accept onaga isn't special anymore.
Shang Tsung is overrated now
Not overrated, but overused.
He was badass in both THIS story and MK11
But we all know MK1 was ONAGA's time to shine
What can u expect with unoriginal writers who shamelessly rip off Onagas plotline for Shang Tsung, these writers literally are like the star wars writers shitting on legacy characters for bullshit nostalgia
I’m only a quarter weigh done with the arcade towers I didn’t see any that talked about Onaga yet. That’s infuriating if an RS made him a mindless savage beast. And it’s even more unfortunate when the RK towers are all canon event that will continue into the sequel. Like how smooth brain is NRS knowing that we want him back as the way he was before just modern designed. This is what I mean that the writers room just needs to be eradicated in hire new people. That Dominic dude is trash. And I’m tired of some TH-camrs giving the excuse that this is for the new fans when MTA first came out, I was also a K, and I understood all of the Store Lineslines and character backgrounds. They treat this new generation like y’all the dumbest mofos and y’all can’t understand anything. That is really insulting like how the minimalized everybody’s character in this rebel damn near. Is that on top of Dominic and the rest of the writers room being trash and NRS still want far this dude three games in a row. People are going to be livid if Onaga is a mindless beast in the sequel. They need to decanon some of those arcade tower endings.
MK11 and 1 copied Endgame but without Thanos
What a disaster story
Onaga better not be a kameo fighter...
Trying to control onaga is laughable
Onaga got beat up & enslaved by sum chick, cant take him seriously i rather see havik
Probably one of those trash OC characters who are just there to ruin your favourite characters like Kronika or Dvorah
Pea brain. It wasn't just "some chick" it was shao's ancestor. Shao, who in another timeline was one of the strongest beings in mk.
@@Axel_Kasaiwell not pea brain cause Onaga in the old timeline is supposed to be older than Shao and Raiden and Shao Kahn isn't even stronger than Onaga which is the entire point of his character to be a cunning mastermind who's able to defeat even those stronger than him, Onaga being defeated by strong badass female character who doesn't even have a name, that's just a piss poor way to justify shit which is essentially character degradation
@@Layd36 that doesn't really negate the point it wasn't just some random solider.
@@fightingmedialounge519 well it is a random character whom we don't even know her name lol and for us to care anything about it (another Kronika character which we didn't need already) , regardless Onaga still lost to randoms who look like Kronika ocs who do nothing but make him look like a animal who needs to be tamed and that's nothing but character butchery
We need a jobber tier list. 😂😂😂
Better question is, WHERE IS MOKAP?!?!?