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- The intro scene
. Onaga, the Dragon King, comes barging in on Quan Chi, Shang Tsung, and Raiden, after the former two took out the latter and Quan bitchslapped Shang afterwards. He takes a full-on assault from the three without flinching, prompting Raiden to self-destruct in a last-ditch effort to take him down. When the dust settles, there is Onaga, completely unscathed, holding Shinnok's amulet. - In Ermac's ending, he single-handedly takes on Johnny Cage, Sonya, Jax, Kitana, and Kung Lao with no trouble at all. Even better? It turns out to be canon.
- Sub-Zero's ending, where he basically goes One-Man Army on a horde of Tarkatans.
- Shujinko convincing both heroes and villains alike to join forces against Onaga and channel all their power into allowing him to defeat the Dragon King who is then banished to the Netherealm by Nightwolf.
- In Sindel's ending she kills Onaga and frees Kitana from his control.
- Shao Kahn shows his cunning in Unchained more than in any other game in the original series: after so many crippling losses against the forces of Earthrealm, he was relegated to a heavily weakened state, yet he was still Crazy-Prepared for Shang Tsung and Quan Chi to betray and kill him that he sent a clone of himself in his stead, while he himself laid low to work his way back up to becoming emperor of Outworld once again, with nothing but the help of a rejuvenated Goro. In his Arcade ending, the two of them kill Onaga together, claim Outworld almost immediately thereafter, and lay waste to the rest of Kitana's army and the Tarkatan horde - and while this ending is non-canon, Kahn would still rise back up from defeat in the next installment, becoming the ultimate victor of Armageddon.A new era had begun in the realm of Outworld. Long live Emperor Shao Kahn!
- In Jax's Unchained ending, he beats and kills Onaga fueled by nothing more than his Unstoppable Rage at the Dragon King enslaving him.
- In Kenshi's ending, he and Sub-Zero are attacked by Hotaru who uses a magma blast to temporarily blind Sub-Zero. As Kenshi is already blind, he is unaffected by this attack and kills Hotaru.
- In Jade's ending, she feigns being captured by Tarkatans so they can bring her to Tanya. Once Tanya is within reach, Jade throws an orb of concentrated Tarkatan essence onto her. The contents of the orb send the Tarakatans into a wild frenzy causing them to attack and kill Tanya.
- In his canonical Deception ending, Bo' Rai Cho encounters the spirit of his deceased student Liu Kang. Their roles now reversed, Liu gives Cho the inspiration he needs to continue the battle against Onaga's Tarkatan hordes. Cho succeeds in beating them back and this inspires the people of Outworld to rise up against Onaga.
