Mortal Kombat 1 (2023 Video Game)

Phil LaMarr: Geras

Quotes 

• Johnny Cage : It'll be great! I'll play a kickboxer, you a street fighter...

  Geras : The answer is still no.

• Geras : In prior timelines, the Lin Kuei were assassins.

  Sub-Zero : Mine are no less deadly.

• Geras : Destruction begets creation.

• Geras : Though the barrier between timelines had been rebuilt, there was no question that they could again be broken. Protecting this timeline would require eternal vigilance, so that it could not fall victim to further outside aggression. But nothing in my countless lifetimes had prepared me for this task. In none of them had multiple timelines ever coexisted. Monitoring them for threats was an entirely novel problem. It would require a novel solution. I discovered that, though the timelines no longer touched, their meeting had left them intertwined. I can now secretly surveil all timelines, keeping watch for potential danger. It pleases me to do this service for the new era. Lord Liu Kang may rest assured that it is secure.

• Geras : I understand you have met Countess Jade.

  Kitana : Is that important? Who will she be to me?

• Geras : You will meet others like Jackson Briggs.

  Kenshi : Now I'm intrigued, Geras.

• Geras : You have been warned about the Black Dragon.

  Kenshi : Don't worry. I know what I'm doing.

• Tanya : Why did Shang Tsung name his alter ego Damashi?

  Geras : Damashi was the greatest deceiver in history.

• Geras : I'm told in past lives, I was a conqueror.

  General Shao : In past lives, you were evil incarnate.

• Geras : Prior Mileenas were all malice and site.

  Mileena : Why tell me this, Geras?

• Geras : The prior Raiden was overwhelmed by darkness.

  Raiden : I won't make that same mistake, Geras.

• Geras : The squalor I endured as a child...

  Shang Tsung : Do not lie. I know the truth.

• Rain : Why still consider me a threat?

  Geras : History suggests your remorse is not permanent.

• Mileena : I can't imagine my mother ever having been evil.

  Geras : It was not a look she wore well.

• Geras : Your fate has always been tragic.

  Sindel : In every single timeline?

• Raiden : I was divine in prior timelines?

  Geras : You were the God of Thunder.

• Geras : You fare better in this timeline than in others?

  Mileena : Though I have Tarkat? That is hard to believe.

• Geras : Liu Kang has assembled excellent champions.

  Kung Lao : Though we all know who is the best.

• Geras : Your future is at Raiden's side.

  Kung Lao : Not stuck in his shadow, I hope.

• Reptile : Have you ever killed to defend the timeline?

  Geras : Very little, since Liu Kang became its protector.

• Reiko : War is a great adventure.

  Geras : No, Reiko. It is a disease.

• Geras : [Geras 1]  You serve Titan Shang Tsung?

  Geras : [Geras 2]  I command his legions.

• Geras : Had you respected the contours of this timeline...

  General Shao : I'd still be the lap dog of a good-for-nothing empress.

• Geras : [Geras 1]  Return to your timeline of origin.

  Geras : [Geras 2]  Not until I have destroyed this one.

• General Shao : Join me, and we'll take the Hourglass.

  Geras : Conquest is not in my nature.

• Geras : [Geras 1]  Your Kronika lives?

  Geras : [Geras 2]  And still reigns as Keeper of Time.

• Omni-Man : If I control Time, I'll make a better world.

  Geras : Your hubris is as unbound as your strength.

• Geras : Your timeline is unlike any I have encountered.

  Omni-Man : If you think you know me, trust me, you don't.

• Geras : Viltrumite rule would break the timeline.

  Omni-Man : You can't perfect something without breaking it first.

• [Sindel gasps in horror] 

  Sindel : How could I have so misjudged him? For Shang Tsung to indulge in such depravity. For General Shao to condone it... They are not the men I though them.

  Liu Kang : Despite my best efforts, neither man, nor Quan Chi, are who they were meant to be.

  Sindel : They're not your responsibility. They're Outworlders.

  Liu Kang : But it is I who crafted their destinies... along with those of all other beings, at the dawn of history.

  Kitana : You created the realms? Is... Is your mind addled, demi-god?

  Liu Kang : I am a mere demi-god now. But eons ago I was more powerful than all of the Elder Gods combined. I was a Titan, and the Keeper of Time.

  Liu Kang : This is Geras.

  Geras : Your Majesty. Your Highnesses.

  Liu Kang : Geras is the guardian of the Hourglass. A celestial object which lies beyond the realms, the Hourglass regulates time and destiny. When I wielded its power, it was upon me to craft all of existence. Which I did, when I restarted history.

  Sindel : Re-started?

  Geras : This timeline was preceded by billions more, though this is the first of Liu Kang's design. The others were designed by his predecessor. Kronika was obsessed with equalizing good and evil. When a timeline veered too far to one or the other, she would halt it and restart history. Tinkering with lives and events in the hope of achieving her golden balance.

  Liu Kang : In prior timelines, Kronika gave Shang Tsung and Quan Chi mastery of the most vile magics. Shao was not a general, but a tyrannical ruler, bent on conquest. You, Sindel, were his ruthless wife, who would do anything to preserve your privilege. When I took the Hourglass from Kronika, I vowed to do better. So in this timeline, the sorcerers would not gain their dark powers. Shao would be your loyal follower... and you would rule Outworld firmly, but fairly.

  Geras : But someone has interfered with Liu Kang's design. Shao, Shang Tsung, Quan Chi... all have been groomed by an unknown entity to be the villains they were in previous timelines.

  Sindel : Where to begin? Am I to kneel to my creator? Do you expect worship?

  Liu Kang : No, Your Majesty. My prior role was thrust upon me by circumstance. I am in no way divine.

  Sindel : You had power over all of creation, yet you gave it up.

  Liu Kang : Because I saw how it drove Kronika mad. I knew I would fare no better, had I kept it.

  [door slams open] 

  Sindel : You. How dare you conspire against Outworld?

  General Shao : Not against Outworld, but against your misguided rule. Your deference to him leaves us all vassals.

  Sindel : So you sanction these unspeakable horrors? Lie to me about the threats we face? Thank to you, Earthrealm blood is already on my hands. Blood shed without cause or provocation!

  General Shao : Don't! Move.

  Liu Kang : Empress. Everyone. Stay back!

  Sindel : What is it?

  Liu Kang : The Amulet of Shinnok. A weapon of terrifying power.

  Geras : It should not exist. Its maker is powerless as Liu Kang designed.

  Liu Kang : Yet more proof of foreign interference.

  General Shao : Enough prattle. You'll both bend a knee to Outworld's new emperor.

  Liu Kang : Put down the amulet. Its evil is beyond your control!

  General Shao : Ha ha ha ha ha! Do you think I'd do battle not trained with my weapons? I am more than prepared!

  [Geras, Mileena, kitana and Tanya scream as they are sucked into the amulet] 

  General Shao : [Li Mei and her constables charge the conspirators] 

  Sindel : AHH! So General Shao casts his lot with Outworld's enemies against me.

  Nitara : HISSSS

  Sindel : He's a fool to ally with you bloodsucking fiends!

• Sindel : Were there other Keepers of Time before Kronika?

  Geras : There was one.

• Johnny Cage : I don't buy Liu Kang's tournament wasn't fixed.

  Geras : Accept that you squandered your chance.

• Johnny Cage : Your boy Liu seems to have big plans for you.

  Geras : They are not for you and I to discuss.

• Johnny Cage : You liking how Liu Kang rewrote your character?

  Geras : It suits me, Johnny Cage.

• Johnny Cage : Must be hard staying sharp after a billion lives.

  Geras : Yet the show must go on.

• Ashrah : I must know, Geras. Is my future set?

  Geras : There is no fate but what you make.

• Geras : [Geras 1]  We do not owe Liu Kang loyalty.

  Geras : [Geras 2]  Without him, we wouldn't exist.

• Geras : You unleash forces you can't control.

  Havik : Exactly, Geras.

• Geras : [Geras 1]  You're from a previous timeline?

  Geras : [Geras 2]  Here to warn you that this one is in peril.

• Geras : [Geras 1]  My presence in this moment threatens the timeline.

  Geras : [Geras 2]  We must get you back to the future.

• Geras : You could have been part of the grand design.

  General Shao : As Liu Kang's vassal? Ha!

• Geras : When the universe dies, only I will remain.

  General Shao : It's impossible that you're eternal.

• Geras : Do you not see that Titan Shang Tsung would have killed you?

  General Shao : [*laughter*]  He would have tried.

• General Shao : I won't abide Liu Kang's limits.

  Geras : I have no choice, then, but to enforce them.

• General Shao : To defeat Liu Kang, I must destroy you first.

  Geras : Are you aware I cannot be killed?

• Kitana : How much longer will my family's reign last?

  Geras : It will last until it is over.

• Kitana : The battle at the pyramid...

  Geras : Will hopefully never be repeated.

• Kitana : My Titan and Liu Kang have a history, don't they?

  Geras : Very observant, Princess.

• Kitana : Have I seen Liu Kang's true face? Or is there more?

  Geras : It is not for me to say.

• [Custom AI Intros] 

  Geras : Time has many narratives, but yours is one I did not foresee.

  Omni-Man : Time will remember me, as the one who conquered the realms.

• Sub-Zero : Kuai Liang will pay for his betrayal.

  Geras : He is under Liu Kang's protection.

• Geras : Your future has been damaged beyond repair.

  Sub-Zero : Are you here to end it?

• Sub-Zero : How long have you served Liu Kang?

  Geras : Since the beginning of time, Bi-Han.

• Geras : Your actions disappoint my creator.

  Sub-Zero : I care nothing for Liu Kang's approval.

• Sub-Zero : I don't recognize your creator's authority.

  Geras : Denying facts makes them no less real.

• Geras : Kuai Liang was not destined to be your enemy.

  Sub-Zero : That was his choice, not mine.

• Sub-Zero : You cannot die?

  Geras : Not by your hand or anyone else's.

• Quan Chi : If Liu Kang wields the Hourglass, why couldn't I?

  Geras : Because I won't let you, sorcerer.

• Quan Chi : How does one destroy a fixed point in time?

  Geras : You will need to ask a Titan.

• Quan Chi : Kharon can find the Hourglass, can't he.

  Geras : The boatman would never lead you to it.

• [Custom AI Intros] 

  Smoke : Tell me more about the revenants, Geras.

  Geras : They were deceased kombatants resurrected by Quan Chi to serve Shinnok and the Netherrealm.

• Geras : What happens in your future is devastating.

  Johnny Cage : What? Do I become an asshole or something?

• Geras : I cannot reveal more details of prior timelines.

  Johnny Cage : C'mon, at least tell me if she was hot.

• Geras : The Hourglass is beyond your understanding.

  Johnny Cage : Please. I've got a Ph.D. in quantum mechanics, bitch.

• Geras : Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

  Johnny Cage : Which is why my movies always feel so well paced.

• Geras : You want a sports almanac from the future?

  Johnny Cage : Forget it. It was just an idea.

• Quan Chi : On bended knee, you serve.

  Geras : To better the lives in all realms.

• [Custom AI intros] 

  Johnny Cage : So who's this bad guy named Shinnok?

  Geras : He was a fallen elder god that threatened Earthrealm.

• [Custom AI intros] 

  Johnny Cage : Uh, can you tell me more about my daughter Cassie?

  Geras : She's once saved Earthrealm from Shinnok's villainy.

• [Custom AI intros] 

  Johnny Cage : I was told in the prior timeline, I had a daughter named Cassie, is that true?

  Geras : Who told you that.

• [Custom AI intros] 

  Geras : My Lord, Cage somehow knows about his role in prior timelines.

  Liu Kang : Yet more proof of foreign interference.

• Shang Tsung : If anyone could take the Hourglass, you could.

  Geras : An idea that does not tempt me, sorcerer.

• Shang Tsung : Liu Kang has no right to decide my fate.

  Geras : Perhaps not, but he has the power.

• Shang Tsung : In prior timelines, I held power?

  Geras : Not once did you put it to good use.

• [Custom AI Intro Dialogues from Crimson Knight] 

  Scorpion : Where did Mother run off to?

  Sub-Zero : That dark son of the bitch. GEARUS.

  Geras : HA HA!

• [Custom AI Intro Dialogues from Crimson Knight] 

  Scorpion : Why do you keep talking about our mother?

  Geras : Cause she got that wet, super soaked, dripping tight pu...

  Scorpion : QUIET, DJANGO!

• [Custom AI Intro Dialogues collab from Chai Tea and Oddgiant AF] 

  Geras : I fear that the tyrannical invasion will bring strange visitors to our timeline.

  Liu Kang : We have the 34th timeline, the Korrupted, and now the Yukonna. Nothing can faze me at this point.

  [CLASH] 

  Tremor : I feel they're all just diamond's in the rough.

  Liu Kang : I'm not in the mood right now, Tremor.

  Sub-Zero (Kuai Lang) : The Kitana's are to blame.

  Geras : Don't say that out loud.

  Kitana : WE CAN HEAR YOU!

• Geras : Childhood trauma does not justify ...

  Peacemaker : Zip it. I'm not here for therapy.

• [Custom AI Intros Dialogues from CrimsonKnight] 

  Sub-Zero : Oh look. The Timeline's first eon old virgin.

  Geras : You should ask your mother, why she left your white father, Bi-Han.

• Geras : You interfere with the timeline's progression.

  Peacemaker : I'm just trying to bring it peace.

• Peacemaker : So did Liu Kang create my universe?

  Geras : Its origin remains a mystery.

• Peacemaker : There's no me in this universe? That's all kinds of bullshit.

  Geras : There is very little resemblance between yours and ours.

• [Custom AI Dialogues from CrimsonKnight] 

  Liu Kang : Bro, she texted me again!

  Geras : Why won't you respond to her.

• [Custom AI Dialogues from CrimsonKnight] 

  Sub-Zero : I doubt you've even touched my mother?

  Geras : She is a woman of many secrets and skill.

  Sub-Zero : [shouts]  Oh my fucking God.

• [Custom AI Dialogues from Panda Man] 

  Geras : I discovered two new timelines so far. They are named the Oddverse and the ChhaiTeaverse.

  Liu Kang : Do you know anything about them, Geras?

  [CLASH] 

  Cyrax : According to my databases: The Hourglass is controlled by their Liu Kang's

  Liu Kang : So there's more titan versions of me, then..

  Sektor : The tyrannicals also have invaded the Oddverse since the 6th of December, 2023.

  Geras : I will monitor the war.

• [Custom AI Intro Dialogues from Chhai Tea] 

  Kitana : Someone out there... an Odd Giant is making videos.

  Geras : I would appreciate it if you did not break the fourth wall.

  [CLASH] 

  Shujinko : You mean the AF Odd Giants?

  Geras : Shut up, Shujinko.

  Sonya Blade : I'm... really confused right now.

  Kitana : Flawless victory.

• Kung Lao : One day, my star will outshine Johnny's.

  Geras : Seek purpose, not fame, Kung Lao.

• Kung Lao : Just how old are you, Geras?

  Geras : Old enough that time has ceased to have meaning.