[ SECRET POST #1766 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1766 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #252.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - repeat ], [ 1 2 3 - posted twice ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Theirs nothing wrong with portraying misogyny as evil, because it is, but it's so boring.

To be fair, this is Shao Kahn we're talking about. He's basically a dickhead frat boy with the power to take over worlds. Heck, his favorite insult to hurl at his opponents is "You suck!"

With that being said, more should be done to establish Shao Kahn's actions as gross and wrong. The developers obviously can't change his motives, but they can expand on them. Shao Kahn has destroyed many realms in the past and presumably killed all the men and captured all the women. And what does he do with the women? Dresses them in scant clothing and uses them as decoration. That is interesting. It's interesting because it's so horrifying. He sees women as nothing more than decorations. He replaces his own rebellious daughter with a more 'perfect' subservient (and sexualized) clone of her. That is also interesting.

The only problem is, the female characters are also portrayed as being sexy. There are ass shots, boob shots, dental-floss bikinis... The developers obviously didn't know if they want to portray Shao Kahn's actions as disturbing or something worth ogling. And that's where it all fall apart. If you're going to portray the capture, imprisonment and humiliation of women, don't show it as something sexy or worth ogling.

[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

And what does he do with the women? Dresses them in scant clothing and uses them as decoration. That is interesting.

I strongly disagree. It's overdone to the point of tediousness. It's what every evil overlord does from Shao Kahn to Jabba the Hutt. Throws women into scanty clothing and sexual slavery. Very little could be more trite, pat, and snore-inducing, in my opinion.

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[(Anonymous)]

shao kahn's been doing his shit since the 1992 so the makers aren't going to change his motives now. i doubt the makers were going for originality when they came up with shao kahn though. he's a world-destroying overlord who loves women. that's...pretty much all there is to his character. he has never really been anything more than a cheap final boss at the end of the game. even in the 2011 game he is still as generic and cheap as he was in 1992.

i always got the impression the makers like shang tsung more as a villain. a shapeshifting wizard who was cursed by the gods to absorb the souls of those he slays in order to maintain his youth and power? it might be a cliche too but i think he is a far more interesting character.