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This definitely reads as misuse on account of the character not being relevant to the game. A brief mention in dialogue doesn't really warrant documenting the character in the MK 1 page specifically as if he were some particular entity in it to be be made fun of.
Bumping this because I’m fairly certain that I need more than one response to get the entry removed.
I'm certain this isn't an example. While Kotal was a Memetic Loser in the last game, it doesn't really apply here because, like you said, the dialogue also referred to Motaro and Sheeva being beaten by Liu Kang as well, the former being a Kameo Fighter and the latter having no physical appearance in the game. Also worth noting is that like Sheeva, Kotal also does not appear in the game and as far as I'm aware, that line of dialogue is the only time the character is mentioned.
Edited by ejmenendez
Removing a re-added MemeticLoser entry
I’ve already brought this to the ‘Memetic X Cleanup’ thread, but since that thread hasn’t seen much use in the past month, I’ve decided to also bring this here in the hopes that this can get resolved quicker.
Yesterday I found this Memetic Loser entry on the YMMV Mortal Kombat 1 page:
I had previously removed this entry as, while he may have been a Memetic Loser in the previous game, not only was Kotal not the only character Raiden defeated offscreen (two other characters, Sheeva and Motaro, were also listed among those that Raiden had defeated offscreen and even then it’s stated that Raiden had also defeated many others besides them, those three were just the only ones to get name-dropped) but the fanbase itself has not singled out Kotal’s loss specifically, in fact this throwaway line has barely even been talked about by the fanbase at all thus far.
However I saw that someone has recently re-added and reworded the entry without an edit reason. As the person who removed it initially, I obviously think that the entry should be removed again for the reasons that I’ve described, especially since no reason was given for adding it back.
Edited by CorvusIX