Mortal Kombat II is in theaters now, and I’m gonna be real, I kinda forgot a lot of the finer details about its 2021 reboot predecessor. That’s probably on me for not doing a rewatch beforehand, but also the film’s release was delayed by a whole six months, giving my brain several additional months to overwrite my memories of watching the first movie in quarantine with something else. However, Mortal Kombat II did manage to remind me that one character was kind of a big deal in the first movie, which made it all the more surprising that the sequel makes them a non-factor. I’m talking about Cole Young, the original character created for the first film who served as its protagonist, a former MMA fighter who finds himself dragged into all the chaos of the Mortal Kombat tournament and learns he’s a descendant of Scorpion, arguably the most iconic character in the franchise.…