Oliver Kahn for the competition; despite their acrimonious pre-tournament battle for Germany's starting role, Kahn openly accepted Klinsmann's decision. Kahn and Lehmann embraced and shook hands as the former offered words of encouragement before the quarter-final penalty shoot-out against Argentina. In the postgame conference, Kahn publicly praised Lehmann for his two decisive penalty saves. After Germany was eliminated in the semi-finals by Italy, Kahn was given the start for the third place play-off held on 8 July 2006, which Germany won 3–1 against Portugal. In what was his last international appearance for Germany, he also received the captaincy of the team in
Shao Kahn messages to his past self using his broken talisman. The talisman periodically informs the younger Raiden of his progress in preventing Armageddon. As Shao Kahn invades Earthrealm, Raiden decides not to stop Kahn's attempts to merge Earth with Outworld. Kahn pummels a surrendering Raiden until the Elder Gods, enraged by Shao Kahn's violation of Mortal Kombat rules, empower Raiden which allows him to kill the emperor. While this averts the timeline leading to Armageddon while restoring Earthrealm, "Mortal Kombat X" reveals that Mileena succeeded Shao Kahn in ruling Outworld before she is overthrown by Kotal Kahn. Shao Kahn will appear