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Liu Kang was seemingly one of the main casualties in the bloody sequel Mortal Kombat 2<\/a>. After fighting Shao Kahn, he was dealt a fatal wound before his body transformed into flames. However, there was a level of vagueness surrounding his passing in the film as he didn’t become a corpse, leading us to wonder if he could return at some point.<\/p>\n Now it turns out that his death was originally a lot more definitive, rather than being left open-ended. Speaking on Brandon Davis’ podcast<\/a>, actor Ludi Lin says there were a whole bunch of different endings discussed for his character. One suggestion was a Game of Thrones-style mass killing of everyone but Kitana, while an earlier script killed off Liu Kang a lot earlier.<\/p>\n One other ending was even filmed, but the audiences they tested it with were not big fans. “There’s also a version where Liu Kang’s death is way more brutal and my stunt double, Tyson Tran, actually shot that scene,” Lin explained.<\/p>\n “Liu Kang gets smashed, he slams into a pillar, goes into [the] ceiling, falls down, does a scorpion where he comes over his back, snapping his spine, like ultimate fatality. I think in the end he falls on a spike or something like that. They tested it and the audiences hated it, they were like, ‘No he deserves better.'”<\/p>\n For more on how it all went down, check out our breakdown of the Mortal Kombat 2 ending explained<\/a>. We’ve also got all you need to know about other upcoming video game adaptations<\/a> coming in 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[64558,18,117,19,17,210370,216848,327,210371],"class_list":["post-498600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-brandon-davis","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liu-kang","tag-ludi-lin","tag-movies","tag-shao-kahn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116622286230963875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}