it starts with the good guys destroying shao kahn. he turns into dark khan, a blatant ripoff of other games main bosses, he looks like a flaming monster shaped charcoal shit think of prety much every other fighting series, they all have one. causes everyone to be raged and want to fight eachother, they feed his power by fighting eachother, eventualy they all discover that dark khan is the force thats causing it all, it ends with superman and raiden being the last two standing basicaly, but all the characters kind of join sides at the very end of story mode good and bad, I dont know if its a problem with my disc but the cutscenes were choppy, and even if they were smoother it would have been crap, the voices acting is terrible, as is the story line in general. There arent nearly enough characters, and in story mode there realy are no finnishers of any kind, there are in arcade. and god DC has some shitty superheroes. Marvel dominates them in every way imaginable.