Dissecting Jax's MK11 Ending Two Years Later (feat.
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#MortalKombat11 #JaxEnding #HeGenuinelySaidGetWoke
Kano actually has one of the more interesting ones. He tries the whole God Emperor thing, realizes there's no fun in it, and rewrites time so that he just does his shenanigans he doesn't even let himself win most of the time.
It adds to Kano's character imo. It shows he isn't just a greedy thug. He just enjoys the challenge and the sweet moments of victory. Its actually almost anti-hero esque. I could see him actually being a good guy if an evil enough force rolled up. Or at least one he can't extend the conflict or gain from it.
Erron Black is simmilar in how he decides that the Hourglass just isn't how things should be decided and chucks it in the ocean, instead of making himself a trillionare gun king or something.
There’s also Rambo who thinks deciding everyone’s fate would be no better then what the men who sent him off to fight in wars did.
True, Erron’s ending was probably one of the cooler in the games.
On that note, I think Kotal's ending is also top shelf as he is offered the ability to manipulate time and have paradise, but he and his people cannot fathom messing with time. Every action, every event, every pain, every embarrassment, every joy, all of it very specifically crafts a person into a specific way and by altering or removing even one of those things, the person isn't the same, much less on a global or universal scale. So, he chooses to keep the past safe and prevent anyone in the future from going after the hourglass.
Ironic how the heros is the most greedy out of them all.
Funny that one of the villains that loses in the story all the time gets an ending that fits his character and a character that wasn’t even fully utilized in MK11’s story or MKX’s story gets a more interesting ending.
4:03
And Takeda apparently doesn't matter to her anymore....supposing he's still alive.
Didn't he die in Collector's ending?
@@biecie he also died in Shao Khan's. I don't think each arcade ending is exactly connected to each other here.
@@biecie no nrs just dosent like him and preferres characters like kollector over him crazy right?
@@4yahwey275 mad facts 😂
@@4yahwey275 , that’s because companies like WB Studios pretend to care about minorities whenever they actually don’t at all, and they’d do anything for profit even if means making sure that they have to rape children to do so.
I hated Jax's ending as he could remove slavery with no backlash, yet every other character had consequences for their actions. Hell even his own daughter Jacqui couldn't bring his wife back, so she had to give up her life as a consequence!
I agree.
Especially with all the other stuff they could have done with his ending but they were like he's black and ends slavery.
I'm a poc and I'm tried of the same thing that gets regurgitated.
It's honestly kinda sad how this is the only this is the only thing companies say anything about when it comes to black characters or people.
@@edgelord8337 exactly and the sad part is the asians are now white by the woke crowd, so you'll be seeing that in an ending soon, just like Jax with a consequence free card when he removed one of the biggest things in history, just because he's black.
@@edgelord8337 no need to say your black, just state your point
@@cruxlamar9681 I mean it shows that we don't like how the media shows people like us.
I have to say it because it almost feels like I'm the only one who sees this at time.
@@michaelfireheart8300 yeah.
I'm working on writing my own story and while I love cultural deservity and different parts of the world I'd have the whole race thing just not be brought up and just have the main characters story be what matters instead of race unlike so many other stories.
Jax's ended just feels like it was written by a white person trying to be as not-racist as possible. Also making it Geras' ending sounds way better
so true
Pretty much the vibes I got.
Well, we know it wasn't written by John Tobias as he made Mortal Kombat what it was storyline wise with the help of the original cast
I disagree, geras is an immortal who is far detached from the racial climate of Earth. Its makes more sense for it be Jax's ending
Exactly!
Thank you SO MUCH for saying Jax's overall character is MORE than just simply being a Black character.
I used to watch your content all the time as a kid.😊
SasukeUzumaki!!!!
Exactly thank youuuuuu people really think being black IS A CHARACTER
Every black character is more than just being black. But he is black in America serving in the US military.
Falcon and Winter Soldier highlighted this simple fact well. The Falcon can help save the universe but he’s still a black man serving in the military and living in a country that’s historically has practiced anti-black racism.
And honestly most black people probably don’t talk about it because it’s stressful to constantly think about it. But we do think about it. And if given the chance, we would change it.
Johnny Cage and Sonya never had a romance but fast forward and an adult kid and broken marriage later no one complains.
Well Jax also had a lot of time developing off screen too. Who’s to say his ending wasn’t a natural progression for the character?
@@nathanking2955 Someone went straight to the comments.
It's like if Erron Black's ending was preventing the Irish Potato Famine.
He probably would've went about fixing that by killing everyone in Britain for not giving Ireland potatoes I bet.
Next up scorpion is gonna stop Hiroshima
@@milesandrews6711 , Kuai Lang is Chinese, and Scorpion is Japanese, so according to SJWS then Scorpion should have went back in time to Ancient China and made sure that Japan and China fused together as one combined country instead of separate countries altogether.
@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr Scorpion (Hanzo Hasashi) is Japanese, Sub-Zero (Kuai Liang) is Chinese.
@@Klausinator451 sounds good 💅
These the same damn writers who say Sindel evil cause of her appearence? First off Sindel was ressurected to look like that her MK3 ending showed how she look when she was alive stupid NetherRealm they get me more upset with these retcons and unnecessary BS.
Then they reveal she evil this whole time
@@thebrownbaldy Yup...(sigh)
i would not have mind the evil Sindel if they said this is and alternate universe Sindel or alternate timeline but no the fact that they went all in on this Sindel is the canon main timeline Sindel and she has always been evil. hell i don't even like Sindel her story was the only thing that kept me from flat out hating the character but now. yeah not giving bootleg Sindel a chance
@@subzeropr15 Same
When they showed her reveal trailer and I commented on her changes sooooooooooo many people can at me crazy, calling me all these names and what not. It was hilarious and sad all at the same time I directed those who havnt played an Mk game beside 11 or didn't even know the original story to the mk wiki and other sources to enlighten them. No apologies where given just hate xD
I agreed on this topic 100%. If our race/ethnicity determined what type of person we are. Then every black person would be carbon copies of each other. And the same obviously goes for other races/ethnicities.
Right there with you
Yeah, it's ironic. They wanna make some anti-racist things, but then make it as if all black people are the same. I remember in Black Panther Killmonger be like "gotta help all the people that look like us". Okay, I guess just being black means you are all the same. Forget individuals even, there are so many different nations, but yeah no whatever I guess
Are you stupid? Ever hear of community? No one would bother donating to African charities if individual suffering was all that mattered
@@john52933 Are *YOU* stupid? The original comment never mentioned suffering and or charities, just that race does not make the individual. It's nice to see what comes to mind when you think of black people though.
@@john52933 , I’ve always donated to charities to the individuals that are suffering and needs help, and even I realize that that various individuals aren’t a hive minded community that shares all the same though and opinions.
On this episode of Mortal Kombat: Jax erases Martin Luther King.
Fr tho
Lol
That, or MLK ends up being a dictator.
Oops!
Actually depending on the veracity of some accusations, that might have been a good thing.
@@i_will_not_elaborate lmao never thought of that outcome! 🤣
I remember a time when distilling characters down to superficial qualities was almost universally viewed as a negative, since it leads to people creating bland, flat, and poorly executed characters that are irrelevant to, or actively hinder the story people were trying to tell, as well as insulting the intelligence of the audience by expecting to be given head pats and a cookie for having a minority character. Make a character good, and write them well and consistently, and no one whose opinion you should listen to will give a damn if they are a minority or not.
It's sad, really. Now everywhere just needs to be a safe space where people don't have to try, don't have to think and just give nods to everything they're spoon fed. As long as they're easy to stereotype, they're good to go.
I hate how anybody who isn’t black is considered “racist” for criticizing this ending while black people like myself who do the same are suddenly “self hating” and “slavery apologists”.
This age of “Agree or be called bad” is not only obnoxious but infantile and disturbing.
Mob mentality man
They want to push an agenda
This is how they do it by pulling this kind of crap
As a trekkie I already saw this hippocratical mess when they used a black woman to push a watered down series and act like it was a major event when the older seasons long did that. Tos being a major example a black woman in a lead speaking role....IN THE 60s
The ending was stupid, but it wasn't even something to be bothered. It wasn't Canon.
or in my case people don't think i'm black
No, they still call you "racist" if you are black.
You gotta love how in twitter's mindset you can have one of your favorite films be Blade 2 but not liking black panther is racist.
@TheKillSwitch This is true. Although fuck Wesley Snipe's horrid attitude during the filming of Blade 3.
@TheKillSwitch agreed.
@TheKillSwitch , Hancock is my most favorite Black superhero film, but according to SJWS since I didn’t love Black Panther I must be considered racist because I don’t consider Black Panther as good as a film as Hancock is.
the only racists are them
The saddest part of all this is that there was absolutely a way to mention the slave trade in Jax's ending without changing his character.
In the story, there's a moment where young Jax and Jacqui talk about how Jax may need to suffer losing his arms in order to fall in love with Vera and have Jacqui. This theme could have been tied into his arcade ending; having Jax try to make a perfect world without war, racism, famine, etc. but he eventually realizes after going through history that he and his family wouldn't exist if the world was always at peace. Even the slightest changes only a century ago could drastically alter the present, and affecting something as old and influential on history as the slave trade would result in a world without Jax or Vera ever being born, meaning Jacqui would never be born either. The ending could show that he would have to choose between peaceful world where atrocities like slavery never existed or a world where both his wife and daughter would exist.
Also an unintended consequence is the implication that the transatlantic slave trade is the only slave trade in africa, which couldn't be more wrong.
Don´t you know, black people been enslaved ONLY in the USA? It is not like african people enslaved each other then sold to however was whiling to buy their slaves.
@@Noperare do you think all slavery is chattel slavery
@@dogico , Africa, India, and China still uses slavery to this day, but I don’t see SJWS trying to help those countries to abolish slavery there, and instead they’d much rather bitch and moan on Twitter.
@@dogico well atleast half of it yeah
@@Noperaredo u think all Africans are the same group? 😊
I don't really want to bring my race into this but I'm black and I find the stop slavery ending to be lazy. Black people in America are more than just that period of time and im getting tired of seeing this as the go to for black characters.
It is literally tokenism, there is no other way around it. Ironically this would make those writers just as racist as anyone making black stereotype characters in the 50's. I would also love to raise the point that Disney, a company who has waved the BLM flag in everybody's face turned Fin's character in Star Wars into a comedy relief character because the Chinese didn't like a black man as a main character...
It's all virtue signaling from corporations. I wish more people would realize that they're being conditioned by companies to be turned into consumer pools they can flood marketing into.
Same.
What other black characters is this "the go to"
Fr like just let a black character be black why do they immediately have to be some activist fighting for equality like it’s not a bad thing it’s just so overdone and annoying when I already know what happened to black people being a black girl so who are you explaining it to it just seems like it’s pandering to white people who yell blm without knowing what it means
“It’s not canon so it doesn’t matter”
I *hate* this argument so much
Regardless of whether or not it’s canon to the main story, it’s still a narrative that has been written by the writers, if it was badly written, then it deserves criticism.
It's in the game.. we can criticize the fuck out of it.
@@pizzahighfive2612 Precisely
It not being canon doesn’t stop something from being completely terrible.
OK by that logic.
In a arcade ending. Shao Khan becoming a weeaboo with a bunny costume, using his middle finger to the audience, taking a giant dump on the floor, and doing fortnite dances is good.
Oh but it's not a big deal because it's not canon, right? Stupid argument.......
It doesnt help that it informs future characterization for the writers. So a screw up can definitely end up ruining a character permanently
I like how the races that are actually being hated and treated like shit in this universe are skipped over but a man who never has his race mentioned or apart of his character is the one that does the most for his race
They're injecting real world politics into places where they are grossly inappropriate. To compound this, I also contest that slavery is something that requires discussion. It was hardly a black only phenomena and it doesn't need such focus. It only leads to victim complexes and forces people who would otherwise move on to stay in a regressive mindset. Not to mention driving a wedge between groups who are far removed from such events.
Ong
@@Ergeniz also it was Africans who sold their own people and not only to the Europeans but to the Middle East and Asia as well. There are entire African kingdoms built around slavery. It feels very disingenous and only blames one side.
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 I'm aware of the history of the African slave trade. Of course its another reason why I don't listen to grievance mongers who love to use it as a talking point.
Nah what's really going on is that Baraka fighting for the tarkatans kitana fighting for the edinians reptile fighting for whatever the f*ck race he is and Nightwolf fighting for the matokan indians is fine but Jax fighting for black people is a problem.
Funny thing is, Jax from the very beginning, his introduction in MK2, embodied a red-blooded, PROUD American. MK9 made that abundantly clear with him with his match victory pose whipping out Old Glory and then draping it on his back like a cape. He very clearly is not a modern progressive character in any way shape or form, and that's still abundantly apparent in his MK11 character arc. Honestly, I just love Jax's character because he's a man who loves, fights and literally died for his country and his a loving father and a reliable partner and friend. Jax was never a character who was identified by his color and never judged others by their race. And so, his ending in MK11 is an insult to his character, because the writers clearly saw Jax only by his color and wrote an ending for him as such.
EXACTLY.
Jax never ONCE cared about his skin color or even mentioned heritage to any degree, so we don't even know if his ancestry is even necessarily African. But we DO know he is a bleeding heart American to his core and a proud Patriot.
Of course, whoever wrote this ending probably KNEW that and didn't like it, so they changed him to something they were okay with which is a precanned Black Panther reference because their only concept of Africa (or black people on general) comes from Marvel.
You can love a country and still critique the dumb shit we did
@@zaccheusmckibbens7293 nobody wants to hear it during their Thanksgiving dinner 👋
@@animatedink2529 thats mad tough but not my problem. The truth is often comfortable for people when it ruins their pretty picture
@@animatedink2529oh yeah the we killed a ton of people dinner
''It's not canon'' doesn't give you carte blanche to do whatever you want.
Race was never a significant issue for Jax. Now, if he thought and explained that it was all FOR HIS DAUGHTER, his world, I'd buy the ending a bit more.
Plus if Takeda was in that ending that would been cool.
If Geras got that ending instead of Jax it would’ve literally bumped up his character as a whole. I would’ve actually sympathized with him instead of just seeing him as a killing machine.
Or a Jobber.
@@thomasraines1396 or a gate keeper
Or Kornika Slave
@@milesandrews6711
Yep. he is the ultimate gate keeper
He's not even black like 4thssnake said he's supposed to have been created by kronika as an artificial construct
To sum it up, This Ending was, is, and no matter what the Twitter Lobotomized Children and Man-Children say, Will Forever be, A TRAVESTY
XD
FACT!
The issue is kinda that it reduces his personality effectively down to the fact he's black. It tokenises him. He deserves more than being a token.
What's with these racists and their obsession with individualism?
1. "Jax is not simply a black man, he is an enduring character of franchise, he has more to himself than just his race"
2. "Apu is not simply an indian - he is a complex interesting character with a lot more to himself than just his race"
Owned you.
Its very funny how these kinds of people claim to be against stereotypes while writing character that are literally the living stereotypes
*Looking at you Iceman*
@Rico Santiago sure they are.
White men just love when their tokens and caricatures have personalities and complex identities - it gives them so much reasons to keep from cancelling.
@Rico Santiago here you just went and devalued entirety of black people history, abuse and struggle. Just because you "wanted to see someone as an individual and not the color of his skin".
@T1Slam Imagine thinking this wank argument was worth posting twice.
This might not even be cannon anymore, but what about Reptile? Shao Kahn destroyed his entire world, killed off his entire race, and then Reptile was forced to serve him for an untold amount of time. One might say he has a better reason to be aggrieved.
Jax’s ending should’ve been about him becoming a President of the United States because you know, his character arc was all about American patriotism, not racism.
That would have been as great as an ending besides the suggestions that 4thSnake suggested too.
I hope we finally get Orderrealm and Chaosrealm characters in the next game.
wouldn’t cetrion kinda be from orderrealm
@@joseijn what? she’s an elder god....
If Netherrealm wants to make social commentary, then broadening their focus to Chaos and Order realms would be a natural next step. I thought those were the most interesting parts of Deception's story
@@WuWeiAllDay I always felt that Darrius and Dairou were underrated and I felt if NRS would actually write these characters in a actual cool way like they did with Stryker then they could become well received characters.
Dairou I feel you wouldn't have to change much just give him roughly the same backstory and just make him more relevance to the plot maybe he helps the characters a bit and maybe he started to change a bit and not care about money as much as he usually does and actually want to makes the Orderrealm a much better place to live in like he wanted for Outworld in his armageddon ending. Maybe also built a bit more backstory with Hotaru and how strong there relationship was before he was imprisoned.
"Kanos ending is the only one that is morally good, because it brings back the booty"
-George Washington addressing the MK11 design controversy.
Good God, the Geras thing is so obvious it hurts
Jax Lives Matter
Honestly, as a black man, this video makes good points!
As a person, I agree.
@@vadandrumist1670 ☝️ I agree with this.
@@vadandrumist1670 as another pokemon enthusiast I agree.
@@edgelord8337 I unironically like your name because of how it goes with your profile pic.
Nice to know you're black
"It's not canon, so [Jax's ending] doesn't matter"
AND IN COMES M1K WITH THE STEEL CHAIR
I actually agree
Honestly netherealm keeps introducing characters with cool designs but then they are just either one note good guys or one note bad guys.
Geras definently should have gotten a version of jax's ending that made more sense for his character and they should have given jax an ending where he could just stay with his wife and daughter.
And black characters don't have to be focused on slavery or stuff that happened in the past.
This is blatant lazy story telling.
And really his skin tone shouldn't matter.
Exactly. The time travel stuff was interesting.
They fucked up Jax in this one.
Geras is the perfect example of a Jobber as he never wins a fight and only exists to get the shit beaten out of him.
@@thomasraines1396 Exactly
@@phantomchild6752 poor bastard especially based on his abilities he should never lose.
A lot of these videos made me realize how much potential mk11's story had, I already knew how bad it was, but it could've been so much better, having Kronika pull up good points such as how incompetent Raiden was with handling mk9, making Cetrion actually be conflicted with whether to follow her duty or her family would've made the story much better, also fixing Kronika's terrible design would help too, bitch looks like a sci-fi karen
Kronika: *reveals the hourglass* This is my hourglass, I call him The Manager and I'm gonna use him on you mortals!
As an Afro-American whose history goes back to my ancestors volunteering to fight in the American Revolutionary War. I can tell you that I for one would not do what Jax did.
Because I would go back long before Chattel Slavery. I would go back and prevent the Alexandrian Library from being destroyed.
I would save all of that lost knowledge and guide humanity to advance our technology to thousands of years ahead of where we are right now!
As we would be if not for the Dark Ages and whatnot. Imagine if the Bill of Rights & Declaration of Independence had been introduced into human consciousness over 2,000 years ago.
Where would we be today?
That’s a really fascinating idea
You could do both. You're in control of time
@@roosty2266 ...he is implying that by doing the former, he would prevent the latter, and a loooot more, which is a fascinating concept.
Fuck "would you kill hitler's father" questions. THIS is the real shiet.
I am so glad someone brought this up. The Great Library at Alexandria being destroyed was one of the greatest tragedies in terms of knowledge and advancement in all of human history, and I desperately want to see an AU where it wasn't destroyed. Would be neat to see what positives and negatives would come from it. Advancing knowledge and technology often leads to as much damage as it does improvement, and it would be an interesting concept to explore
r/asablackman
At 1:29, the tweet calls him "the black guy character" and that kinda says it all
His ending should have been this. He should've have used the hour glass to make it where Jacque never served and so he could protect his daughter. It's that simple. I'm done now.
Jax doesn’t want his daughter to be a soldier yes, but it would also be out of character for him to use destiny itself to strip her of her free will, forcefully making her not serve. That makes him super controlling, and it doesn’t fix anything.
@@bee-zeesoul1018 , the same thing can also be applied to the Woke character ending in MK11 because that’s also drastically out of character for Jax, and that fits more into Jacqui’s character ending of Geras’s character ending than Jax’s character ending for the reasons mentioned in this video.
"I love this ending! It makes everyone fight about it and cause much chaos!!!" - Havik - :D
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Good one.
Given his experiences, Jax should have realized that manipulating time is a huge mistake. Jacqui's ending has her accidentally erasing herself just so dad can have two fleshy arms again. Had Jax altered time so that Vera never dies, ok, i understand that, Johnny did the same thing to bring back Sonya, relatively minor. But Jax altered a world changing event that in time led to the birth of his family line, including himself, his wife, and his daughter. Time travel stories usually have a lesson about how changing even one event unravels time itself, but Jax can play w/the timestream all he wants until he gets the outcome HE wants. Not what the world needs, but what HE wants. I know NRS thought they were portraying Jax as a Hero, but his ending makes him a selfish jerk w/ noble intentions. It totally betrays his character (kinda like a certain Edenian Queen we all know....).
If NRS wants to play the "woke" card, then I will happily point that this black man's ending was written by two white dudes.
If I'm not mistaken Jacqui doesn't prevent Jax getting his arms ripped off, just his death and being a revenant.
@@danielboyd8863 pretty sure she prevented all of that, but at those cost of her life. I mean even Kitana brings back Edenia, but can't fully embrace it as the culture and language are entirely different to her.
@@michaelfireheart8300 I actually just rewatchwd Jacqui's ending and all she does is prevent Jax's death not having his arms ripped off.
I was called a racist for having a touhou character with shades on.
Also, as a black man, MK Series lover, and simple man, this video is really good. However, if people already hate you because you are "racist" to them, they will never watch this video and will continue their contemptful rampage of defending things because they like it.
How is Touhou with shades even remotely racist?
I’m kind of curious also
@@The4thSnake because I’m a black male, so I should have a black character :p
Racism is weird.
People who preach tolerance tend to never listen to anyone except for those in their echo chamber.
@@colonel1003 that is true, I don’t really listen to anyone because I’m scared of being led astray by some dickhead because I’m a dickhead.
Honestly Jacqui would better serve in this ending than Jax. She’s younger, more likely to be politically minded, more independent than her father, and shown to be willing to erase herself from history to save her family. Jax is just... a super weird choice for this when Jacqui is clearly a much better choice.
I'm relatively late to this video but I really like the idea of giving Geras the ending of erasing slavery. It really does make a lot of sense to his character.
The "get woke" line was cringy, and obviously written by a white person.
100% Fact.
Probably a white person with a damn man bun
It was probably written by that "16 Bit" idiot or SonicFox
@@MikeD8318 or Dominic Cianciolo
@@johnnyzero8853 I forgot about that bum, he is a fool as well
Jax as a worried dad with PTSD is something that already hits home with most men. For fathers and soldiers. That’s already about half of the casual players who play. No need to get woke.
Mk11 took an entire cast of diverse characters with unique story arcs and threw it In the trash can for the sake of appealing to a more “casual audience” and anonymous avatars on Twitter
#withoutrespectwereject #cashgrab #getwokegobroke #nobailoutsforbillionaires
No, they made the cast Diverse to address anonymous avatars on Twitter. There is no other reason to make a diverse MK cast. Its a story based in Asian mythology.
@@SuperSky9 MK always had a diverse cast now they just want to virtual signal. It shows where there focus is.
@@alexkirk5879
Its true they do want to virtue signal.
i feel mk11 wasn't more of a cash grab then a hijacked game since some shit in it feel like it was made with care kano and black's arcade endings feel like, i feel this had the what i like to call "johnson n abrahams discussion" where numerous changes inside the process making the game lead to it going kinda busto everywhere think of it as two spoiled brothers wanting the same toy only to eventually break it, also why the "no bailouts for billionaires" this feels out of place here
@@ScoutTrooperMan because AT&T keeps asking for hand outs cuz they are in debt.
They are the head of wb games and nrs
It’s like saying your racist if you don’t like anime and manga.
We need another video about the other endings for mk11
What’s your thoughts on the confirmation of superman being rebooted? I hate it but what about you guys?
The Superman reboot already sounds troubling, but I can't imagine it be worse than the recent Static reboot.
@Grey World He already gave you his thoughts on the others; hints why he just went by the biggest one then this, like it's didn't fucking matter at all. But Jax saying goddamn "woke" need 14:46, over the ending of Kano's arcade ending; that was a straight shot at all of us fans alike? No matter if you were a male or female or straight or gay or black or white / etc? It did not matter none, his ending should've gotten 14:46 then this fucking shit here. If you take the fucking dumbass word "woke" out, you don't have shit. Meanwhile you got Baraka here talking about "reparations" and "equality for his people" and "we should be treating fairly", which is your identity politics right there and if you do take that out, the way he is written in this bitch ass game, it'll still be apart of him because NRS WANTED BARAKA TO BE NOTHING MORE BUT THAT! Hints why it's on him, his banters are fill with it, and it's not on anybody else but yet, no body says nothing on that there tho. But it would make sense for him or Geras to have the thing y'all mad about in the first fucking place tho huh? And y'all wonder why this community is a goddamn meme. Because dumbass shit like this here. Here's a thought; cause some of y'all are not using it at all, how about we don't have it on none of these characters at all since we don't want no "politics" in our games at all. Putting it on either or, is still POLITICS! But not just any politics, oh no. But the IDENTITY POLITICS KIND! You know; the one that we hate the most, that we make lots of videos on; that you would find on CZcams, the one that all American media has; you know that one? You know that one; that we are trying so hard to say "jax" got it, when that's more so on Baraka then him? Yeah, THAT!? So yeah, how about we don't have it at all because it fits no where in MK at all. Point blink, period. Fucking Christ, the fact that y'all are now saying that identity politics doesn't work on "Jax" but the identity politics will work for either Baraka or Geras is mind blowing. After bashing Jax for having it in the first place, then use Jacqui Briggs of all character as an example for the "consequences" talking point now, after y'all was so happy seeing her die in her ending? Y'all can't be this damn stupid, I mean y'all just can't. This is why the fighting game community, doesn't take Mortal Kombat Community seriously at all. The very thing that y'all mad about having; you want on another character, so that character could be that very thing and that very thing alone? That made y'all mad at Jax' ending and not every else nrs done to him in this stupid ass game's story mode; that y'all still play, before y'all even knew about that bitch ass ending? This is why I have to keep it real with y'all because if y'all wonder why nrs are able to use the talking points they use, is because of shit like this and y'all would be the first ones to say and I quote that "I'm not this" or "I'm not that" or you name it. Even going as far as using someone who is the same race as me regardless if you asked or he / she wanted too or not, does not matter. It's how nrs is able to get y'all on that and it's crazy on how you don't see it and it goes straight over y'all heads. Hell I'm not trying to get y'all on that myself, just trying to help y'all catch it y'all selves; by pointing it out so y'all can. Because that's how nrs are able too. And I'll left it with this, we don't need no of such in this franchise at all. If it doesn't do shit for none of these characters in this video game series at all, then it shouldn't be put here in any such way. I'm out and f.y.i. I find it funny you use Drake here to make your talking point and not blackbustercritic brother Shokio, who made a video on the day of the outrage in 2019 and my question to that is why; if you wanted to use one of us? Why; because he wouldn't be sitting here having the same quote on quote "talking points" / "views" as you, as many of us blacks don't @the4thsnake? That's the whole point of having a sit down dude, to be able to talk with someone who may not have the same view points as you but you two do have a understanding with one another. Hell you could've went with Blackbustercritic himself, he digs these kind of things or this CZcamsr by the name ReyRoSho? Or here's another thought, just do what you been doing with no regrets. If you truly think you are not that, then you don't need any of us then because this isn't our problem nor our fight. It's yours and others who still wanna play this game from a company who gives no fuck about y'all. Yeah, think about that for a minute and but yet y'all surprise that Reptile, Ermac, Skator, Cynax, Smoke, etc are still not here. Because nrs think y'all stupid that's why. We know nrs we put them here but I'm saying, y'all wonder why. But anyway, that's all I have to say on this here and to the guy I'm typing too. If this long, sorry but it need to be said. Regardless if it's long or not. (truth)
@@timothymccraw9909 what the hell did I just read
@@timothymccraw9909 mf wrote a damn novel😭
I finally remembered who was missing in that ending picture of the MK9 group standing over the beaten Sindel
Cyber Sub-Zero Smoke Stryker and Kabal
I mean it implies he wiped his daughter out of existence multiple times to make this happen, which kind of makes him look selfish.
His ending makes him no better than Kronika. They both keep wiping out timelines whenever they're not exactly the way they want them.
@@Xehanort10that’s everyone’s ending they all do the same thing
How is it selfish to sacrifice ur family for others?
Jesus, this game came out two years ago and they’re still adding stuff to it?
Yea. They've been adding in characters and skins.
@@Schwartzbruder1 yeah. Wasn’t Mileena the most recent addition?
@@thomasraines1396 yup and her design is pretty bad, plus her ending again had her go against her goal, which was having Kitana as a sister, by making her kill Kitana instead of using the time powers to have Kitana view her as a sister. I guess the time magic doesn't work until you have a pandering ending unfortunately like Jax's ending.
@@michaelfireheart8300 I’m pretty Mileena would definitely warp time until she made it to where Kitana accepted her as her sister, she seemed almost fanatically devoted to that idea.
They wanna milk this franchise for all its worth.
I didn't notice it before, but I love how at 0:25, Raiden's running at the hourglass, almost as if he's trying to stop Jax from going woke.
Reminds me of that quote from "A Time to Kill" with Samuel L Jackson.
"When you look at me, you don't see a man -- you see a *black* man."
Ed Boon: “How do we appeal to the youth these days? Gamers are so CYNICAL now! We can’t just give them a one-dimensional storyline to sell crap!”
[TV in the conference room, playing Black Panther.]
Black Panther/T’Challa: “WAKANDA FOREVER!”
NRS Employee: “Guys, I think I have an idea!”
*Some fans have become far too eager to defend the increasingly poor handling of MK world*
These people are not real fans
Happens in a lot of fandoms unfortunately I can't even begin to tell you how badly i've been insulted online just because I didn't like the story changes in the Final Fantasy VII Remake it's ridiculous
I love the neatherrealm games and love to defend many of their choices in the games but even then I don't like Jax's ending. I feel it was too generic in a way.
I just realized that Jax's ending in 11 basically has him throw away all his friends he fought alongside in exchange for a bunch of stranger's he has zero connection with and bringing back one deceased partner when he already has a family and a daughter with the Special Forces. Like family isn't dictated by blood alone similar to what Hanzo said in 11's story mode so like why throw all of your friends & family in the trash bin like that Jax?. Like this seems selfish and out of character for this American soldier.
the ending isnt racist but its just unnecessary,unrelated,and doesn't even make sense. it doesnt fit his character
All it takes is a couple of tweaks for context, and jaqui is equally as likely to do what jax does. Jax's ending is a culmination of all the most toxic parts of tokenism, having a PoC character's... character silenced in order to act the way a white person *wants* them to, turning jax into little more than a black dude with metal arms, a fucking action figure model.
Black guy here, and to me it just seems like pandering... Its like a white writer really wanted black players to feel rewarded or something for playing the black character
I honestally think that something to end the slavery should be baraka, since hes from a opressed outworld race who actually got slaved many many times during his life time and even genocided two times
He would TOTALLY want better to his people, whileas jax is a proud american, he know slavery was a bad thing, but he wouldnt affect the past that much in a woke way
This is why I don’t take arcade ladder endings seriously because honestly they don’t matter in the long run and won’t effect the main story in anything at least in my opinion. However I do understand your criticism with jax ending and it’s no sense of logic with jax character at least in my opinion.
Some of them do kinda set up certain stories and plot points that might be used in later games MK9's ending for Johnny Cage for example, but for the most part endings are completely pointless for the newer games.
@@Wiki1184 indeed and you're right about that
@@Wiki1184 , the only character endings that were canon in MKX were Smoke and Johnny Cage’s character ending in MK9, and the character ending that was canon in MK11 was Liu Kang’s character ending from the very first game to the MKX video game.
The bit about Geras’ shows you need to work on this series.
You articulated this beautifully. Anybody who cannot see your point is being willfully dense.
As a mixed black and native person, your points about Nightwolf, and especially Geras put me in board with you. Originally, I was taking your words with more grains of salt (and I don't mean that in a demeaning way, I take everything I learn with grains and put it within context), but seeing that Geras scene messed me up. I had to rewatch it three times, and audibly cussed to myself. Holy shit I can't believe that's an actual thing in this game.
Best MK11 ending...
RAMBO
Or Spawn.
Or Cole McGrath.
"Mission.....accomplishhhhed"
When one of my all time best friends (A fellow black man) hates Jax's ending because of how forced it is,you know something went wrong
Who cares?
@@TheNadroj10 You'd be surprised who actually cares. If you don't then don't stick your nose in it
This video has made me realize that the writers took the easy way with this one.
Many will think "it's an Arcade ending it dont matter" but with how the writing keeps getting praise and that stuff, it needs addressing. Man the writing really is all over the place.
Isn't it a little messed up how a bunch of white people decided that the main black person of the game should just have an ending where they rip off a popular Disney movie from the time and everyone parades its like its a social message?
"After all, we don't look at bad movies and say 'Well, the director's intent was to make a good movie, and he did his best so the actual quality doesn't matter."
If only that were true, but ironically I saw someone on a podcast earlier this week (EFAP #127 to be precise) making that very argument.
Uh what I dont see an efap 127
@@Jose_Doe The stream itself is unlisted, but the video will be uploaded to the channel "Mooler" eventually.
Who said that in the podcast and how did they react?
@@sometwatwithtoomuchfreetim3842 That question isn't simply answered. The podcast it over 8 hours long. They're reviewing a video sefending Batman vs Superman, and I think its somewhere around the three and a half hour mark that the creator himself enters the podcast, and it's he who makes the claim.
@@vadandrumist1670 Huh
So f@*king glad you made this video!!
Jax: I must cancel the whole black slavery thing
*cancels the slavery*
*wakes up in a tribal settlement, trying not to be eaten by a lion*
Jax: aaaaaw shiiiet
Ha because African culture is all tribal somehow lololol
The op comment is proof why some people who hate this ending, honestly just hate the fact he ended slavery
Smash Community joke, laugh
Looking back on whats happening in the smash fanbace. I still think MK11's has a worst community
@@trueaura369 Being in both fanbases I'd say Smash is worst.
@@jcjc592 is it because the fanbace is always complaining about what DLC character they get?
@@trueaura369 MK fanbase aldo falls into tht description.
Look no further than Mileena.
@@trueaura369 oh you poor soul...you have no idea what the smash community does
I had the exact same problem with this ending. It just didn’t match who jax was.
I agree with you that Jax's ending was badly written for the reasons you mentioned. I could also see another version where Jax mentioned trying to make life for his family and various comrades as bright as possible, only to have a constant impediment plaguing their existence... racism. As with most of the characters, constructing a timeline often generated problems which the character didn't foresee. Thus if MK11 wanted to address racist-based oppression, making it work with a character's motives is how they should have done it.
You think it would be better if the ending happened to be Jax founding the Smash Universe and meet wholesome characters to help him?
Would still be better than his real ending
@@RukasuShiota Still keeps MK’s classic humor intact so I’ll take it more than the ending we got!
Jax in Smash? Hey I don't mind.
@@ShiftyGuy777 Yeah!
Better than this! I think the Smash world can benefit him by having the characters adopt him as their dad or mentor
Jax: I'm going to use my time powers to end the slave trade
The whites, Asians, Jews, and blacks who were enslaved by Muslims and other Africans: that means we're also free right...........right?
Its almost like anyone can critique something they dont like no matter what race they are.... And as someone who's never really gravitated towards Jax,even i know that the man deserves a better ending then being used as a pawn of "get woke" The man has more honor then that
I fucking love you pointed out the geras problem! That is something that's always pissed me off!
Why are people bringing up jax's ending but fail to mention how geras is kronikas pet do-boy?
The problem with this ending is that it alters jax's character
Jackie’s ending also has a lot of contradictions and flaws when compared to other endings
I so agree with u 💯😎🤟🏾
The MK kartoon klip at the end really does a great job of tying this all together tbh
Maybe it's too late to mention this, a thought occurred to me after re-watching your MK11 Kritique, specifically the part regarding Vera. Not only does she lack real characterisation, we don't know how she died either. That confused me since Jax ending keeps Vera alive. But how? Is the moment we see the three together, still the "present" or is it in the past before Vera died?
Maybe I'm overthinking it. He could've simply prevented her death through some other method not touched upon, but that would only work if it wasn't a terminal illness that killed Vera. But even then, Kronika's power means he could go to the future for when a cure was discovered and bring it back to save her. But if his extra effort to save Vera was complicated like that, then why not make his ending about saving Vera instead of making her an afterthought? If they gave Vera more characterisation, maybe something like that would've worked better?
I don't know if what I'm saying makes any sense. It's just that without knowing how she died, it's hard to understand why stopping the slave trade would keep Vera alive when the two seemingly have no connection.
Jax made it so Jacqui never met her best friend and fiancé because he wanted to be selfish
Eliminating centuries of systemic racism for millions of people is really selfish, yeah
@@PatheticApathetic You do realize that his "eliminating" changed history in ways where each time he messed up, countless people were wiped out all for the sake of being "woke". Every change in the past messed with the future and from what you see in his ending, we don't know if Sonya or any of the other characters are alive let alone the same as before he went on the time change spree. How many millions or billions were wiped out each time he got it wrong?
Did he spend some of those times "trying" mapping out everyone's genealogy and possibly setting up the right points so it always happened properly? Did he forsake the others just for his own happiness? They didn't go into details and try to handwave it away like everything is sunshine and rainbows when that is not true.
Heck, like others have pointed out in the comment section, slavery is still going on today. Africa, the middle east, even in corners of first worlds it exists and you don't hear about it in the news.
An interesting concept could be, now with all this power Jax seeks to create the perfect timeline, starts with his wife but sees Johnny and Cassie still sad over Sonya he brings her back. If you wanna incorporate righting wrongs in history fine, he aims to prvent all previous wars fought.But everytime he rewrites something he realizes something is off still not perfect enough. So he continues to snap changing the timeline over and over, while yes becoming more and more of what he'd want. But it's at the cost of Jax becoming less and less of himself, until he does get the perfect timeline where everything is right but Jax is essentially not himself anymore and almost indistinguishable to those he aimed to be with again.
Even Rambo's ending was more better than this.
Way I see it myself if your designing a character where their main defining trait is just their race or sexual orientation; that simply tells me that the person who made that character is being racist or sexist or whatever. As that sort of thing should only ever be written as being a small part of their character as any good story teller knows that good characters have, an actual character.
Its really annoying when people just reduce your argument to something simple because they can't argue against the real thing.
Me: Jax's ending is bad because it doesn't make since with his MK 11 character arc, it reduces him to just his race because that's suddenly the only thing he cares about now and it makes him look like an asshole because he only fixes one bad thing in history.
Idiot: You're just mad because black people aren't slaves in this ending!
Also, anyone who just casually throws around terms like racist or sexist or whatever really shouldn't be listened to to begin with. Bigotry is a serious thing, attributing it to everything you disagree with just waters it down to the point where no one takes it seriously. Because idiots have watered the term down so much, when I hear about someone being racist I have to wonder if they actually did do something bigoted or if they said they didn't like Black Panther, or had any sort of issue with Obama that wasn't his race or liked something that is considered 'black' so they are 'appropriating black culture'. Its literally 'The boy who cried wolf', he cried about a wolf so many times that people stopped taking him seriously when a real wolf appeared. All you are doing is strengthening actual racism because people will stop caring when you keep calling EVERYTHING racist instead of what actually is.
What in your head thinks Jax isn’t allowed to stop slavery in some noncanon ending? Slavery is a human issue, not a black one. So all this “it reduces his character” bullshit is false. It showed African slaves because that’s obviously the biggest one in America. It seemed clear to me that jax ended ALL slavery or there would be no point.
And if people stop caring about racism because they hear it a lot more, they’re beyond reason
Ironic considering China is openly racist to minorities all the time, especially blacks, but they never call out China because money.
Just look at what they did to the Black Panther posters in China. They kept hiding Chadwick's face.
@@john52933 Thank you Johnny, just thank you. For seeing pass this bullshit from these folks here. These are the same people who would say this is out of character for Jax doing this but in the same breath, John Rambo leavin' the hourglass for some assholes to take it and kill us all with it; it's in his character for John Rambo to do that tho. Yeah, figure that shit out. These same folks here, wanted Jax who is quote on quote "out of character"; to be more like a character who is more out of character then him? You see that shit and plus, his dumbass ending had the same shit too but the only difference are, he didn't do nothing; which is out of character for him. Especially if you seen all three movies of John Rambo and know the character very well, this is how full of shit these people are. We don't want identity politics or politics in our games but yet, we are talking about the thing we don't want, would "make sense" for characters like Baraka (of all fucking characters), and Geras to have that tho; then Jax to have it and Jax should be more like John Rambo tho huh? Get the fuck outta here with that shit and don't believe me, just look up a video of John Rambo's Arcade ending and see for yourself. His ending had it all and then some but yet, these folks here said nothing about it but are mad at Jax for having and saying "get woke" tho. That's what I'm saying and why I said in my last comment in this video's comments to take that dumb shit out period. So yeah, thank you.
@@Superluigi881yeah the US chnage the poster not China
@@geniusgamerr4517 You're joking, right? The Chinese version poster doesn't even have the right helmet.
It was terrible then, it’s terrible now, it’ll still be atrocious in the future, unless the collective brain aneurysm takes hold.
I just love the way people are reduced in entertainment to their race, sexuality, gender, etc. I just f love it! xD (sarcasm)
Let's be honest, Netherealm just wanted a Marvel reference and decided to use Jax to land on Black Panther.
He become just a fighter for blackness xD. People naturally hate when characters act like this in other situations like sexual orientantion. They make a character like they dont have any other personality but sexual orientation. The same goes here with Jax and his skin color. He have his own story, personality but start a fight for something that happens many years ago. He actually lost his personality and story and become a black character fighting for black people from the past. Thats it.
This argument looks familiar... Oh yeah I made one exactly like this a few years ago on a channel that had his ending. Funny thing is almost beat for beat this is the same, but I'm still called a racist or a self hating black guy every few months. I don't think the comments that say you are racist will disappear but it's nice knowing that someone agrees.
OH SHIT THIS WAS TWO WEEKS AGO!?
1:48 No, it's a pigeon.
Clown Chi
I still can't believe sjws don't complain about geras being a slave to a white woman like these people complain about minor things rather then the more on the nose and obvious problems they don't say stuff
Just noticed that.
But yeah sjws suck.
Yeah, there's some people that complain about EVERYTHING, and when's something is actually problematic they don't see it or just don't care
I mean, I'd still think they were being dumb if that was their basis for critique. "Villain does villainous thing" shouldn't really surprise anyone. But yeah, I too am shocked they didn't run with that narrative
I dont see Vega from Street Fighter or King from Tekken going back in time to change any segregation of the hispanic and latino community, and as a latino man myself i honestly think if Capcom and Namco did something like that it would be idiotic, there's no point in doing that
Or imagine if Chun-Li or Xiaoyu did the same thing for Chinese slaves. Or Smoke for the Czechs. It's ridiculous no matter what race is involved because it has no place in these types of games.
Rambo ending was better.
I'm a black guy....even I can say...this shit came outta left feild I was like aye wait wat....umm...woke?!....oh noo
I in fact got a KFC ad before this video. Very problematic of you, CZcams
The Geras part got me laughing
As a black man I agree wholeheartedly with this video
5:20 Dawg you didn't need to do that
Geras realizing he doesn't wanna be Kronika's slave anymore, then rewriting the timeline so that HE is the Titan of Time and Kronika is the slave would actually go so hard imo.
NRS just casually drops the worst endings ever. Remember when the Sonya rip-off who loves taking selfies defeated the strongest Earthrealm warrior, who would wipe the floor with her if it were a real fight?
The old guy (I know his name can't spell it) Cassie beat an elder God, I don't think he'd be the biggest problem.