Sindel is only killed by Nightwolf blowing himself up. Smoke gets a Groin Attack followed by a neck snap. Kabal dies from being stabbed in the upper-left pectoral (near the shoulder) by a shoe. Cyber Sub-Zero dies from being punched 3 times (despite Cage's blows looking more serious and being protected by armor). Cutscene Power to the Max is taken to ridiculously absurd levels when Sindel of all people (normally weak both in game and in universe) effortlessly rofl stomps 10 people at once. Taven (and the player) did everything for nothing! And it's not even in a dramatic way! It's just like "Oh well. Say whatever you want about the story decisions in MK9, but at least those had consequences! At least those led to something, both good and bad! But here?! You just went through the entire story mode (which sucked in almost every way possible!) wondering if Taven was going to be the the doom of all the characters or simply the bane of their powers once he became a god, only for him to recap everything that we already know by this point and then give us the ultimate kicker: nothing happened! The Kombatants didn't die and their powers were not removed. Soran The Man: Taven's ending, aka the ending that was supposed to be canon ending before MK9 thankfully undid this piece of crap.
This ending, however, blatantly and nonsensically punishes the player for winning as Reptile, and only furthers the latter's position as this franchise's Cosmic Plaything. This isn't the only ending in which Shinnok remains victorious despite being the Final Boss, as Tanya's and his own ending could attest to, but at least those two were still a victory for the player, if a villain victory at that. Long story short: Shinnok - the same Final Boss who was just defeated by the player a short while ago - then pops up, grabs Reptile in a chokehold, states that Reptile "is in no position to demand anything" and then simply blows his head up. Quan Chi considers this wish "impetuous", which agitates Reptile after a while. Namely, after Shinnok has been defeated, Reptile wishes to return back in time and pleads to Quan Chi (and Shinnok, effectively) to make it come true. Ferigeras: Mortal Kombat 4 has a blatantly moronic example of Gameplay and Story Segregation combined with Downer Ending in Reptile's Arcade Ending.
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