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greenjeans posted...

Forgive me, I haven't played a MK since the original

I mean for perspective they had a mode that was basically a story RPG / fighting trainer hybrid in Mortal Kombat Deception called Konquest which had a plot centering around how the primary antagonist became the primary antagonist. It was released in 2004.

But every game had a story in one way or another.

There are also plenty of retcons and timeline shenanigans to the point where the story was muddled at best for the vast majority of the series. Though I think they did a decent enough job setting up for this with the Aftermath expansion for MK12.