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- And The Fandom Rejoiced
- Complete Monster
- Ensemble Darkhorse
- Hilarious In Hindsight
- Memes
- Nausea Fuel
- The Scrappy
- The Woobie
- Complete Monster: Shang Tsung is a Evil Sorcerer and right hand to the Emperor of Outworld. In the past, Shang Tsung showed up to the Mortal Kombat tournaments, killing all the tournament grandmasters and absorbing their souls, trapping them in perpetual torment. Shang Tsung uses their deaths to take over the tournament and begins a 9-tournament win streak for Outworld, during which he would get many people killed and absorb their souls. Shang Tsung was defeated by the Great Kung Lao but came back with Goro and had him killed. Shang Tsung and Goro would lead Outworld to another 9-tournament win streak. During the events of the film, a new set of heroes would come to the tournament on a boat. To prevent them from ever getting there, Shang Tsung orders one of his minions, Sub-Zero, to kill them and make their deaths look like an accident, all for the purpose of having Outworld destroy Earthrealm.
- So Bad, It's Good: The visuals can really hurt the eyes, sometimes, but it does have some entertaining moments.
- Took the Bad Film Seriously: While the animation in the movie was very poorly received, the voice acting on the other hand was actually fairly well received. The movie had known voice actors such as Jim Cummings as Shang Tsung and Sub Zero, Jennifer Hale as Sonya Blade and Jeff Bennett as Johnny Cage in which the voice acting is often considered to be the best or only good part of the movie. Jim Cummings' performance as Shang Tsung is a particular highlight often considered to be one of the better (and to some best) performances for the role ever.
