I have no doubt that Rain wouldn't make it to the game at some point. Seeing how much Ed Boon advertised downloadable content, we will probably see Rain in the game sooner or later anyway.

I only scream troll to you like 90 % of this site is thinking as well.

To Rain. Never cared about him and he truly destroyed him in Armageddon with the shitty storyline.

He will be DLC for sure.

Oh, Milaana... Sweet sweet, stupid little Milaana... You just don't get it. And I doubt you ever will...

I really hate all of you people but whatever.

With the bold parts they can do something interesting, best friend sometimes get into dilemma's you know, its really painful to watch so many people want boring storylines, it hurts my black heart.

Jade is a childhood friend of Princess Kitana. While her motives were unclear, she served Shao Kahn alongside Kitana and Mileena as his personal assassin for most of her life. When Kitana finally turned against Shao Kahn, Jade was ordered to capture her for the Emperor. She ultimately chose to join her friend, and has since loyally assisted Kitana in her quest to free their native realm and restore its beauty. Now residing in the freed Edenia, Jade is a General of the Edenian Army and continues to dutifully serve Kitana and her mother Sindel.

This means that they actually could give her an interesting storyline BEFORE she turns into this Edenian/Kitana labdog, also with Sindel being revived and all, (sindel being evil in the beginning) this could really makes things difficult and strange for Jade, as both Kitana's mother and Shao Kahn her master want Kitana captured.

It's so easy, that would Jade say.

She chose to go with Kitana because Reptile tried to kill Kitana which made Jade realize that Shao Kahn had decieved her... Something Kitana would never do. That is why they are best friends. They have a close bond.

If you don't get that, then there is no hope for you.

WTF, that is what i'm talking about, she eventually turns out to be a good-boring-guy, but that still leaves some time (before she turns good) to do something less good and trust her master and her friends mother by their words, Reptile however spoils it and Jade becomes good because of his mistake.

And that is why Jade won't become a treachorous Edenian who wants to make Kitana's life miserable as you stated earlier.

That's not a very nice thing to say for us Rain fans....I mean I don't like some characters but when they are confirmed, even though I don't care about them, I am happy for their fans. So yeah you propably didn't lose sth with his absense but some people who really wanted to see him, did :/

I never said she will stay that way, but some tricks to lure Kitana out can be fun, Shao Kahn can be the reason of this, she actually fears him too much to pick her friends side in the beginning and with the queen back this makes this even more fun as Sindel can tell jade that Kitana is becoming mad and lost in her head.

Who said it is due to fear that Jade doesn't follow Kitana from the start? Now you're just making up things. No, come back when you actually have something believable to say...

Even Raiden fears, Shao Kahn, its not so unbelievable that Jade fears him, fuck why would se kill so much innocent people (toghter with Kitana) for him to start with?

So there are some evil things in her life, just like in Kitana's life, you can't ignore that.

I know you have a weak spot for butterflies, little pony's and flowers and pure inteded love (pukes) but everybody has a dark side, you just need to accept that.

And if your best friend killed your mother, would it still be your best friend? Best friend is nothing, its just a stupid word childeren use to say who they like best, but likes can be changed and differ.

Oh, you don't know me at all...



And I guess this answers my question if you have a best friend or not.

Some people obviously don't take jokes that well on MKO, and for being here for two years, I should know better. It's not a loss, why? He'll appear, whether or not he's a likeable character on my side, he's got a huge fan base, fans want him, fans voted for him, it's not a loss if he doesn't make it in the game. They're not going to scrap him, hence I've stated this previously.



We get that you hate all of the users here on this site, it's because when they argue, they argue about things they know and backs them up. Unlike you, you don't even know Jade's character completely. You think she's Kitana's clone! Last time I checked that was Mileena's role. Jade has no similarities other than being Edenian, that Kitana has. So she threw fans in MK2, so what! If that's the only reason you're basing your entire point about how Jade is Kitana then you're an idiot because how many other games did she throw fans in? None.

Jade isn't Kitana's labdog, she is a soldier. That's what soldiers are, they protect and serve for their majesty, which Kitana and Sindel are. Why do you think the president of the U.S. has bodyguards? Why do you think kings and queens from the medieval times had bodyguards? It's to protect them from any dangers. And since Edenia is always in trouble, Jade is ordered to go out and protect Edenia. What's interesting though is that Kitana does the same thing, but both of them protects Edenia in different ways. They are not alike in any possible shape or form. You have no proof that either one of them are clones from the other rather than judging by appearance.

You obtaining a biography of Jade doesn't mean you understand her at all. You've stated so many things like how Jade is a clone of Kitana, that gives me the impression that you do not know who or what you are talking about. Yet you continued to argue which is funny:



There are going to be things that changed but I am certainly that they are not going to change the alignment of this character. Despite that I would like to see Jade remain as an evil character, we already have Tanya... i'm starting to think that we need less evil female characters than good. Jade doesn't need to do one new thing to make her impressive. She's already impressed a shitload of people already with what she has contributed in UMK3, fans adored her in Deception. She's not boring at all. To you, she might be, but to other fans of hers, it seems that she has been a pleasing character.



This post alone gives me the impression that you don't have friends at all. You don't know Jade's story at all, you don't understand why she was working side by side with Kahn. You want a friend to betray the other to make things more interesting for the character? No, Jade doesn't need to not show loyalty to her friend just because you tend to think she's a dull character. Jade is a well-developed character in many people's points of views. Hence why one is even arguing against you that you don't know what the heck you're talking about, which is Jaded. I give him respect because at least he takes the time and the effort to know his favorite characters' stories and defend them when something such as this pops up.

The fact that you want to argue about dull characters, why not we discuss the character that is actually being discussed with in this thread which is Rain. I for one think he's a boring character, there are many reasons for me to dislike him, but I am certainly not going to argue about things that may seem pointless and have me look like I don't know what I'm talking about. So what do I do? Just state one measly little opinion, "it doesn't seem like a loss to me," and get out. That's all that needs to be stated. But unfortunately with people like you, we have to argue/debate about it. We can't let things go, we have to fight until one point takes advantage of the argument and wins. You try to argue with every inch of shit that gets in your head and tries to defend your case, but every time you start to argue, more people tend you call you a troll, no one has ever backed you up or defended your case or even sees where you're coming from, and no one has ever lost to an argument that you've started.

You cannot try to make it seem like you know everything about Jade if you continuously call her a clone of Kitana because I am assured that there are three reasonable explanations to prove you wrong.

Why not put both fucking Rain and Kratos in the roster? I mean the war that emerged between those two is silly in essence. A 10+ year-long fan such as myself will on one side want "financial manoeuvres" such as Kratos, if that's what will help the franchise rise from ashes, but on the other side I'd also give a shot to a character that has actually been there in UMK3.

I mean, they did decide to put STRYKER in... And for all I know, his role in the story is not only smaller than Rain's, but among the most trifle ones in the franchise.... whereas Rain, with all his absence in the post-Trilogy era, still pursued lofty goals and represented unique powers, no other warrior being connected with water magic and summoning thunders (before Nightwolf stole his move).

Actually RAIN was first seen in the arcade version of UMK3, he just wasnt playable but he was first playable in MKTrilogy so that would place him in the MK1-3 storyline. He came right at the end of the story but he was there.

I'd actually be pretty glad to never see Rain again. He's like the Dan of MK. With the abundance of ninjas there's no loss in leaving him out. Hes one of the most unoriginal character IMO. I think NRS should take the opportunity with this game to flush out all the crap, and replacement characters. Rain's not the only one on my short list: Rain, Kenshi, Hsu Hao, Movado, Frost, Cobra, Kira, Ashrah...pretty much every new character introduced between Deadly Alliance & Armageddon minus Havik, and Nitara.

I don't get that "Dan of MK" arguement.

Look at Dan. Dan's a humourous play off of Ryu and Ken, the weaker of the three who is ridiculed by the other fighters for being known as a douchebag as witnessed with his interactions with characters like Cammy in SF4 when she says "Do people in Hong Kong actually find you funny?". He's got no real relevance in the story bar the fact he owns a Dojo, is friends with Blanka and teaches Sakura, which is a joke in itself because Sakura's actually a better fighter to use in the series than he is. From the get go the developers never took Dan seriously because he was designed and established by them to be a comedic character, similar to the way we have Johnny Cage. He was planned and created to be comedic relief, and that's what he is.

Rain on the other hand was created to tease the fans as a Red Herring as a play on the title of a Pop song, similar to the way Reptile's name was a play on the colour of his outfit from being comprised of both Scorpion (yellow) and Sub-Zero's (blue) sprites. The fans of MK seen Rain in attract mode, demanded he'd be put in the game, and we got him. His storyline was established as being an orphaned coward who fled his own land in order to side with the enemy, and we learn through his ending he had connections with Kitana who knew of his alleged lineage. In the years leading up to Armageddon, he appeared on the Conquest television show and on Defenders of the Realm, both of which referencing his Edenian roots and connections to Kitana. Bear in mind there were many characters from the franchise, some more popular than Rain at the time, who never appeared in either of the shows.

Armageddon comes along, and Rain's established to be the son of Argus, and the half Brother of Taven and Deagon. He's gone from being the coward who fled his realm and sided with it's conquerer, to being the narcissistic and deluded illigitimate child of an Edenian God, we get to see his personality form as it becomes apparent through his bio and cutscene in Konquest Mode that Rain believes himself to be more entitled to his "rightful" prize than his more favoured half brothers.

All in all your ultimately comparing Dan, who's a playful, over the top and goofy character with no real background or depth to his storyline bar owning an unsuccesful Dojo, to a purple clad Hydrokinetic, Sly, Narcissistic national traitor that also happens to discover he's Royalty.

There's no comparisson in my eyes. Rain's no joke because he managed to surpass his origins of being created from a joke, and just because fans haven't all warmed to him doesnt mean it's fair to point and laugh at the fact he's not in the game. If Smoke, Stryker, Sektor, Jade or even Sindel were excluded from this game for whatever reason I wouldn't rub it in your faces. Have a sense of community for fucks sake.

Bullshit this game would sell like hot cakes just fine WITHOUT Krotchos polluting the atmosphere. I would prefer Mokap over him because at least he's an actual MK character. There's no point to Kratos being in here. ANY MK character deserves a spot in here before a guest character considering an actual MK character could contribute to every part of the game

i am sure they are well aware rain has plenty of fans. they are simply repeating what they did back in 1995 when all that existed of rain was a quick glimpse of him in the arcade demo attract video. they know people will want him and thus they can hear the ca-ching ring-a-ling of cash flowing in from charging at least $5 to have rain. welcome to how dlc works these days. of course we all know they did not run out of time to make rain, they likely took a vote from the start of who will rake in plenty of dlc $. all that said, i would rather pay $ for rain than a star wars character in soul calibur 4. i deeply regret buying darth vader as he was just as broken as the other two star wars characters. that and he was not part of the sc lore, rain is at least part of the mk story.

You guys should really knock it off. It was entertaining at first but, it's getting old, growing a beard, and getting arthritis really quickly. 1st official Warning given.



Stuff like this is why I'd choose Rain to be in the game. Once they grow into a story coming from being a secret, to playable I think it's fair to give them a spot.

You could argue that Rain is MK's own Hercules. He's different obviously but, coming from nothing, having to make critical choices, and eventually finding out that he's semi-god/royalty is something I love to see fleshed out for Rain. Along with his new design and moves that pander to his largely water-based theme, I think it's more than worth a shot.

Even with all his newness in MKA, he still doesn't seem polished as a character. Therefor, he seems like the perfect candidate for a reinvention and I think we're going to love what they do with his water based moves.

Random question.

In the attract mode of UMK3, was Rain a woman in anyone's else's town? She was a dark purple palette swap of the ninja girls in mine. I always wondered if anybody else had the same experience or if it was a weird mistake...

^lol...

I don't remember anything like that.

u win!

When will the first dlc character be announced? Does it depend on how well the game sells???

I think Milaana's got issues.