a last-ditch effort to defeat the Dragon King, Shang Tsung dies as well, but he is revived in Mortal Kombat Armageddon before the final battle between good and evil. Shang Tsung appears as a playable character in the Mortal Kombat reboot game (2011), which serves as a reboot of the first three titles in the series. In this new timeline, his role is mostly consistent with these games. However, near the story's end, Shao Kahn steals Shang Tsung's soul and uses it to empower Sindel before sending her to kill the Earthrealm defenders. While Shang Tsung was not included in Mortal Kombat X (2015), he does appear in Ermac's arcade ending, stealing the latter's souls to reconstitute himself, and in a flashback during Erron Black's ending that sees him slowing Black's aging process in exchange for him assassinating an Earthrealm warrior. Shang Tsung returns in Mortal Kombat 11 as both a DLC character and the central character of the DLC story expansion Aftermath. In the game's story mode, his now abandoned island is the site of several battles as opposing factions fight over the countless souls that he has stored there. It is also revealed that Kronika, the game's antagonist, had long been supporting his efforts to accumulate souls so that she could use them as a power source in the event she needed to restart time. Shang Tsung also appears as the guardian of the Krypt, also based on his island, narrating the player's progress. In his non-canonical arcade ending, Shang Tsung used his knowledge of the dark arts to seize control of Kronika's power and steal souls from infinite timelines. To ensure his survival, he manipulated the Titans to scour the realms for more souls. In Aftermath, Kronika imprisoned Shang Tsung in the Void once his purpose was served, during which he formulated a plan to get revenge. Following her death, the sorcerer emerged alongside Fujin and Nightwolf to stop Fire God Liu Kang from using Kronika's hourglass without the Crown of Souls. As Liu Kang had destroyed his version, Shang Tsung convinced the Fire God to send him, Fujin, and Nightwolf back in time to retrieve a past version of the Crown. While in the past, the sorcerer orchestrates events to ensure that he could gain the Crown with little to no opposition from Earthrealm, Outworld, and Kronika's forces. Once they are all defeated, Shang Tsung attempts