>>20520
I dunno.
I played MK I and II back then as a kid and even saw III but wasn't interested in it. Didn't observed any backstory at all for me it was a game where you can pick a character and you could beat the pulp out of your pal's character or other way around, if no pal was present then you could test yourself against the computer. I moved on quickly.
The movie I had never seen for a long time and from what I could tell they just invented some backstory for the empty fighting.
Now I know more but just bits and pieces I picked up throughout the years. I know it's a whole franchise and there are more than one movies. I know there's a large fanbase of it in the US like any other such franchise, not that big like Star Wars or something. I suspect there is a campaign mode in the games where the player picks a character and have to beat all the others moving up on a ladder, maybe tournament style, I absolutely didn't know this somehow, I don't even remember the menu of the game, and as I wrote I only suspect this.
And that's it.

I've just checked Wikipedia and was surprised to see there are other games, action-adventures and cartoons and shit.