10 Movies That Chose The Wrong Lead Character

Despite Mortal Kombat being one of the most iconic and recognisable video game franchises in history, Hollywood still thought that last year's new movie needed an audience insert character for some reason.

And so, the movie is led by an entirely original creation, MMA fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan), who is later revealed to be the descendant of Hanzo Hasashi aka Scorpion (Hiroyuki Sanada).

Lewis Tan does a fine enough job with the meager scraps he has, but both he and his family feel like wildly unnecessary additions in a film overflowing with beloved existing characters.

There are several easy potential protagonists among the lot, especially Ludi Lin's Liu Kang and Scorpion, not to mention Johnny Cage, who doesn't even appear in the film.

Pre-release Cage's absence seemed so baffling that many fans, this one included, believed that Cole was actually going to become Johnny Cage by film's end, but alas, it didn't happen.

It's just totally ridiculous that, in 2021, with Hollywood supposedly adapting video games with a degree of respect and reverence, we're still getting cynical decisions like this.