But if you want me to go straight to discussing the videos, click on the link. Or if you want me discuss the storyline behind the videos, click this link.
Season 2 went into the tournament that was full of cool violent fights. I also like the idea of Liu Kang being a fallen hero.(This was a year before Liu became ruler of Hell) However it has plotholes in the story like characters from Feudal Japan somehow time travel to modern day? Or Liu Kang somehow mentioning he ripped off Shang Tsung's head in past tense?
The show suddenly ended on a cliffhanger. There were reports that 3rd season finished filming way back in 2015 and yet, we still see nothing to this day.
Despite some bumps here and there, MK Legacy was a cool series. However it is not the 1st web series made out of Mortal Kombat. There was another one made back in the year 2000. It was called Mortal Kombat: Federation of Martial Arts.
The web series is a sequel to both the the live-action movies from the 1990s as well as the TV show, Mortal Kombat Conquest.
The official Mortal Kombat site at the time wasn't like today's. Instead of focusing on the current game, it was more focus on the live-action adaptations of MK. Part of it is because everything from the 2 movies, the short-lived cartoon(Defenders of the Realm), Conquest, the awful CGI/cartoon hybrid short(The Journey Begins), and the Live-Tour were produced by Threshold Entertainment. So the site by then was more of Threshold's rather than Midway(Now NetherRealm Studios).
I know I said alot about the short-lived TV show but at the time of when the Federation of Martial Arts came out, MK Conquest was still recent in people's mind at the time. So expect to see some stuff there.
Also plan to see characters that weren't in the games, movies, shows.
I remember when I first saw Annihilation for the very first time ever, I wonder if Cage was going to die, and yep it did happen. Everywhere you look, he dies or he's missing with no explanation.(Like Defenders of the Realm cartoon)
There is a story to the web series, all the villains were brought back but none of the good guys. So basically, this is why are we stuck with his lame cheap knockoff instead of Johnny. Just like Jarek is to Kano.
Conquest was a short-lived show from 1998 to 1999. It was a distant prequel to the MK live-action movies. However the connections between the show and the two movies is barley nonexistent, just like how War For Cybertron/Fall of Cybertron barely connects to Transformers: Prime/RID15.
Conquest stars Liu Kang's ancestor, Kung Lao. I mean the original Kung Lao, not the Kung Lao we know in the games who is a another descendant of the same dude we see on the above pic. Looking back, the show is kinda cheesy but it is still cool to watch none the less. Sadly, the show drastically ended in a cliffhanger where everyone dies and the villain wins. The show never did get renewed got renewed for 2nd season.
The official MK site at the time had a timeline of the MK movie universe. It even told what happen right after the cliffhanger ending of Conquest. The elder gods were not happy with Khan's invasion of Earth and they reversed the cliffhanger ending, thus returning everyone back to life. But eventually, Kung Lao would meet his end at the hands of Goro at the next MK tournament since this is a prequel and his fate already predetermined.
I know I said alot about the short-lived TV show but at the time of when the Federation of Martial Arts came out, MK Conquest was still recent in people's mind at the time. So expect to see some stuff there.
Also plan to see characters that weren't in the games, movies, shows.
Jimmy is the brother of Johnny Cage and a member of the black dragon. He doesn't exist any other media of MK. There is a reason we see him and not Johnny.
He looks like Tom Cruise.
The web series is a continuation of the 2 live-actions movies and well, Cage dies in the 1st five minutes of the 2nd movie.
In the late 90s, Johnny dies in MK3 game and soon, every piece of MK media followed suit.
This is how he dies before the MK9 reboot.
Even decades later, he immediately dies in the short film, MK Rebirth.
In the games, he dies, comes back, ascends to the afterlife, restored to life. When the PS2 era came, the next game mock the repeated deaths and resurrections of JC.
There is a story to the web series, all the villains were brought back but none of the good guys. So basically, this is why are we stuck with his lame cheap knockoff instead of Johnny. Just like Jarek is to Kano.
This web series was originally going to be a pitch for a new show to replace MK Conquest and maybe Star Trek Voyager on UPN when it ends. It never worked and somehow ended up as a web series.
From September 2000 to April 2001, the official site had a section about Federation of Martial Arts. Each week, there be a video kombatants fighting. Round 1 be on Friday, and rounds 2 and 3 will air on Saturday and Sunday. People can bet on the fighters with virtual fake money. It seems there was going to be a prize at the end of the series but the whole thing got cancelled in the end.
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