When Lord Pi captures Innocence and says "your soul is mine" and his actions of sucking her soul out. All of that pays homage to when Cary Tagawa played Shang Tsung in the first mortal Kombat movie
Dustin Nguyen's character Li Kung is a reference to Liu Kang from Mortal Kombat a role Dustin auditioned for.
RZA, Grace Huang and Andrew Lin are the only actors who return from the previous film.
First movie characters referenced animals in the jungle. This movie references insects living in the ground.
Although RZA is no longer the director, he continues to participate as a co-writer, author of the story, executive producer, composer and protagonist of this sequel.