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Yeah, I've seen this too... part of the trouble is that NetherRealm is horribly inconsistent about their characters' power levels. They seriously cannot make up their minds about who is more powerful than who, and this makes analyzing them... difficult, to say the least. A good place to start is to disregard any canon victories or defeats that flat-out don't make sense. Death Battle did this with Ralph and Leo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale, so I think it's safe to do so here.

Whenever I do Fighting Game Themed Death Battles, I draw from canon and non-canon gameplay on both sides, because that is the only way I can analyze an MK Character while retaining my sanity. Based on that, I would say that most of the cast has some level of super-human strength. They're not going to go tossing cars around like the Incredible Hulk, but they're strong enough to tear limbs and heads off. Shao Kahn is a bit of an outlier, since he is clearly much stronger than the rest of the cast, but it's tricky to say by how much. Supposedly, he absorbs the power of every soul he steals, but he has stolen millions of souls, so his strength is basically immeasurable. I don't think he's quite on par with the Incredible Hulk or Superman, but he's still much stronger than a human, or most of MK's cast.