What he chooses to do from here doesn't really matter. He then looks through great injustices to erase, finding a sense of kinship with these slaves. Make him realise what he truly is as his own views and morals can no longer be suppressed to do the mad titan's bidding, leading to his betrayal and seizing of the hourglass.
He's the one who should have been given the slavery-focused ending, not Jax. Geras, on the other hand, is literally a black slave, currently. Okay, I'm being comedically hyperbolic with that last one, but it's true that Jax's life hasn't really been negatively affected by slavery, as far as we've ever been shown, beyond the unrelated two years he spent as a slave, which he doesn't even bring up in either the story or this ending. No matter how confident he is that he has memorised every single aspect of these people's lives and can adequately guide their lives to prevent the erasures, he simply would not risk it. Even if Jax someone managed to make sure every single one of those affected ended up with the same people at the same time as they originally did, working around the mass displacement of black Africans he is liberating, all it could take is one different sperm or egg cell, or different life experience in Africa rather than where the originally ended up, to produce an entirely different person, thereby wiping out every single descendant they ever had. And considering that Jacqui is dusted from altering one ultimately insignificant event from thirty years ago, there's no way in hell that Jax would risk erasing himself, Vera or Jacqui by altering events from five hundred years ago that have a direct impact on the existence of every black person living in the western world to this very day. This means that one slipup could erase Jax as well.
As a result, he never becomes a revenant, never goes into recovery after his restoration, never meets Vera and never has Jacqui, who is then erased from history. On the other, we have some angry racists.Jax is so overprotective of Jacqui, to the point of it being his dramatic flaw, that he simply would not do something this risky. Let's move over to Jacqui's ending, where she alters the massacre scene from 2011 so that Jax beats Sindel and doesn't die. On the one side, many smart people agree that this ending rules.
And then, to really sell that line, there’s the crack of a baseball bat.īizarrely, the reaction to this amazing character ending - in which Jax reshapes the lives of an estimated 12 million people who suffered immeasurably under the practice of slavery, as well as those of future generations - has been mixed.
“But eventually, I knock it out of the damn park,” Jax says. Jax says it takes a few attempts at reweaving time to put things right (while also keeping his wife Vera and daughter Jacqui as part of his timeline). I owe it to them to put things right, and I’m not waiting centuries for people to get woke when I’ve got the power to speed things up.” But most people who look like me haven’t had that chance. “My family and I have lived the American dream. “I’ve been lucky,” Jax explains as he uses Kronika’s power to change the past. What does Jax do? He rewrites history, apparently ending the trans-Atlantic slave trade before it had a chance to begin. Jax’s is particularly interesting in that, after defeating Mortal Kombat 11’s time-twisting supervillian Kronika, he uses her powerful hourglass to reshape time. These endings can be seen by completing one of the Klassic Towers, and they’re similar to Mortal Kombat’s arcade endings, in which a non-canonical denouement for each character plays out. Separate from Mortal Kombat 11’s main story mode are endings for each character. Mortal Kombat 11 is out now, and at the risk of lightly spoiling a particular character’s story, you owe it to yourself to check out Jackson “Jax” Briggs’ individual ending, which does some big things with the fighting game’s time-manipulation plot device.Įven if you don’t plan to play Mortal Kombat 11 but might be interested in what Jax is up to these days - or what people might be talking about in both positive and negative ways - it’s worth the minute-and-change.