>>14055260Liu Kang would body Raiden in the original timeline. The Deadly Alliance specifically believed that only Liu Kang and Shao Khan could fuck them up and stop their plans which is why they sneak attacked and assassinated Shao and Quan Chi stuns him with a sneak from behind long enough to snap his neck as Liu as he was beating the sister fucking breaks off of Shang Tsung again. Original Timeline Liu was the strongest kombatant (undefeated in straight up fights) in his timeline and would have fucked the both of them if they fought him straight up. The DA didn’t give a fuck about Raiden more than Kang and Shao and they were right because at the beginning of MK Deception they “kill” tf out of him in a direct fight and didn’t feel the need to get the jump or have one of them hide like they did for Liu and Khan.
I say this to say in the original timeline of Mortal Kombat the 4 time undefeated MK Champion who Bruce Lee’d the shit out of anyone who stepped to him to his face is Michaels. How tf is Raietty the company savior? DA lol’d at him as a non threat and then he took a clean pin with a slow count.