Originally Posted by
hirobo2
^ If I remember correctly, the producer of NiF1 said that was a deleted scene from early on and MCS really died at the ending battle. Producer also said that if MCS survived the battle, it would undo everything they did up to now (MCS is a bad guy/uses cunning to kill his enemies and deserved to die in battle to make him a good guy. If he had survived the battle, he would just be like evil Yang Kang going into RoCH storyline with no hope of redemption to his character!)