Shao Kahn is one of the characters in Mortal Kombat 11. But when he set out to claim Earthrealm, he was blocked by the rules of Mortal Kombat. The arch-villain from the old times is only available to those who’ve preordered MK11, so if you haven’t done that, you’ll have to hope he’s added as a DLC character later on. Emperor of Outworld. For millennia, Shao Kahn dominated the realms, rapidly expanding his Empire by conquest.