9 MORE Video Games That Broke Their Own Rules

8. The Rules Of Time Travel - Mortal Kombat 11

The Rule:

Mortal Kombat 11 is the first game in the series to REALLY delve into time travel, alongside multiple timelines converging within the same isolated story to create one hell of a brain-frying set of plot points.

Newcomer Kronika is the out-of-nowhere master of time itself, and as she somewhat inadvertently combines the old with the new to bring multiple versions of Johnny Cage, Liu Kang, Kung Lao etc. together, the script outlines a set of rules as to how they can co-exist.

Essentially, it boils down to direct causality.

We see a young Johnny Cage get wounded, only for a scar to simultaneously appear on his older self's face. We also see Sonya shoot a young Kano through the head, instantly killing the older version to get out of a hostage situation.

So far, so understandable.

Wait A Minute...

With these rules in place, the scene towards the close of the game where older, Revenant Liu Kang absorbs and kills his younger self to power up no longer works.

At the very point where older Kang begins to literally drain the soul and life from his younger self, he too, would degrade and die.

Instead, Revenant Liu powers up to become something altogether more powerful, only to then merge with Raiden and a resurrected younger self to become Fire God Liu Kang.

Spin it any way you like, Liu Kang is definitely dead, and definitely brought back by Raiden, but Revenant Kang doesn't go anywhere until then.

Even if we say that Shinnok's magic making the characters into Revenants means they were always dead... why do the other heroes try to save them in the first place?