“You can see that this has been his mission: to defend Earthrealm. “Raiden has a very personal stake this time and he commits himself to the safety of Earthrealm,” he said. Mitchell explained how this all made Raiden tired enough to where it becomes visibly apparent - the former god even talks about looking forward to his first ever night of sleep - but not too tired to “shirk his responsibilities.” It’s evident when Raiden quickly takes Shao Kahn’s offer to petition the Elder Gods for another Mortal Kombat tournament in order for the bloodshed to end, sacrificing his godhood to further commit himself to cease the fighting. Earthrealm even won the last tournament, which should have resulted in a thousand years of safety, but here he is yet again having to fight with everything on the line a tiresome, never-ending battle goes on. Raiden has been fighting in this Mortal Kombat tournament for so damn long. The “weight” Mitchell speaks of is evident in Battle of the Realms.
RELATED: Patrick Seitz Didn’t Hesitate to Voice Scorpion in Mortal Kombat Legends Despite MK11 Recast “You get to feel how some of that has weighed on him and, particularly, when we get to explore a different side of him than we’ve seen before as he relates to the different characters, the tournament, and Shao Kahn.” “With Raiden, I like the fact that he still has that Zen quality and that godhood, but the way they have me portraying him in this, you get to feel some of the weight that he’s been carrying for millennia,” he said. Mitchell, a fan of the games since the very beginning and a Sektor stan, said that he thinks this film does the best job of any Mortal Kombat media at looking into Raiden’s soul and humanizing the godly being by showing his internal struggles. Mitchell, Raiden’s voice actor in these films, was able to expand upon that notion, which makes sense for the person who had to live the lines Adams wrote. “This was the thing that really struck me as I was writing and I had a lot of exploring who Raiden was and why he was protecting Earthrealm.
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“I think it was really important that this movie in particular really delves into the relationship between Raiden and Liu Kang in a very intense way as father and son,” he said. The games haven’t looked into this aspect as heavily, leaving room for Adams to, like a bolt of lightning, strike forcefully. It is, ostensibly, quite odd for a being to dedicate thousands of years of their life defending Earthrealm. While Liu Kang and Raiden’s bond is there in typical fashion in Scorpion’s Revenge, Adams wanted to stop and focus more on the God of Thunder. Jeremy Adams, the screenwriter for both animated movies, spoke about this when trying to delve deeper into Raiden. However, it’s impossible to look at Raiden and Liu Kang in this film without examining each of them individually. Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms changes that dynamic a bit by removing the rivalry and focusing solely on the positive aspects of the father-son relationship that have been just under the franchise’s bruised and blood-drenched skin. Mortal Kombat 11 showed that off beautifully with its poignant timeline-spanning montage and subsequent fusion. Liu Kang and Raiden always had a special relationship that expressed itself in different ways.
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