10 Awful Villains That Ruined Amazing Video Games
4. Kronika - Mortal Kombat 11
One of the big problems with any sufficiently long-running franchise is how you keep introducing ever-more powerful threats who don't undermine those that came before.
Mortal Kombat 11 was rather guilty of this by introducing Kronika, a new, all-encompassing Big Bad who possessed the ability to control the flow of time, and therefore should easily have been able to defeat the heroes.
Yet she turns out to be not much of a thinker, failing to exploit her abilities to their full potential and made to look like a supreme fool in the game's Aftermath expansion, where she's caught off-guard and killed by Shang Tsung.
Far worse than all this, though, Kronika is hurriedly introduced as the biggest, baddest villain of them all beyond even Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn, having clearly been ass-pulled totally out of nowhere in an attempt to up the series' stakes.
Despite a fair effort from legendary voice actor Jennifer Hale to lend her some flavour, Kronika is a weirdly boring character for the supposedly most powerful being in the entire franchise, proving severely lacking in the personality department. Thanos she ain't.
Her inclusion also makes the series' already spaghettified continuity even more of a headache to parse. You're better off just not thinking about it too much, really.