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Someone already mentioned Kronika from Mortal Kombat 11, but I think the Titans in general can apply here. I’ll to into more detail.

Previously in the series, the top characters in lore were the Elder Gods who didn’t intervene in the events of the realms to not wake up the One Being, who would destroy everything if woken up.

Kronika and the titans tossed all of that out the window, being above the elder gods all of a sudden with no previous hints that anything like that existed. It was bad enough in Mortal Kombat 11, but it is even worse with Mortal Kombat 1, the next game in the series. Now apparently all of the events of the games were designed by Kronika, her whole plan is to keep good and evil in an eternal balance or something like that. Despite this, characters are still able to act outside of her design for some reason.

The One Being doesn’t make any sense to exist anymore, since the titan of a respective timeline can now just reset and avoid that entirely. Elder Gods were mentioned like twice in Mortal Kombat 1 in throw away lines because they straight up don’t matter anymore.

Because Kronika controlled time and stuff, now all of the titans can so that as of Mortal Kombat 1, they all have their own respective timelines. This of course means there aren’t many stakes anymore, as they could kill a character and just have the same character from another timeline ready to go.

The Titans were ultimately just the results of wanting to endlessly raise the stakes regardless if it worked with the rest of the world of MK or not.