The way this game is shaping up, I wouldn't mind seeing any character return, because MKX is really making every character shine. Any character that gets the MKX treatment is going to get fans instantly.

For the sake of this thread, and yes I do have some dislikes for characters, here are the characters I wouldn't like to be in this game:

-Sindel
-Kabal
-Stryker
-Jarek
-Deagon and Taven
-Shujinko
-Kira
-Dairou
-Darrius
-Cyrax
-Jax
-Sonya
-Li Mei
-Baraka
-Hotaru

- Old bosses so no Shang Tsung, Shao Kahn, Dragon King or Blaze
- Robots: Cyber-Sub, Smoke, Sektor & Cyraz
- All females, especially Sindel!**
- All the characters with boring stories, no character depth and who seemed to be throw ins like Tremor, Taven, Daegon, Kai, Shujinko, Mavado (Kabal rip off), Kobra (Ken rip off)
- Anyone related to realm of Order: Hotaru, Dairou, Darrius

** Mileena has potential and is Tartakan so she can be in.

Your favourite character.

Wow getting personal much?

If this was directed towards me, I was only joking.

Truthfully, any and all characters are fine with me.

I agree with this comment.

Mokap and Meat are the only truly useless kharakters in Mortal Kombat history.

Even Hsu Hao could get an epik makeover and join MK11 or MK12, in the future.

KabaL is still my 1st choice to be booted forever.

And besides the obvious MK6 klowns, Shang Tsung is next. QuanChi is just so much kooler. However, Shang could be pretty kool as an NPC Hidden battle. Still a revenant under QuanChi's control, with the ability to morph into everyone. But then this needs to be his final farewell.

I'm also over the cyborgs. They've always felt out of place to me, but I tolerated them. I know the MKU is a Sci-Fi Fantasy, but the BMX robots were just a tad too ridiculous for my tastes. So I say Same as above. Have some kinda Super-Cyborg that is a combination of Cyrax and Sektor. NPC hidden battle. Then gone forever.

These are the characters i rather not see on MKX. My reason is basically either i disliked the character design, the fighting style or their personal story.



Sonya (Military characters are always YAWWWWN inducing for me)

Jax (I actually liked him on MK II, but that's about it)

Sheeva (Goro & Kintaro are more than enough)

Johnny Cage (His sense of humor for 14 year olds never did anything for me)

Liu Kang (Tired of the righteous hero, glad he got killed. Twice)

Stryker (F da police)

Kobra (Terrible all around)

Jarek (Super bland)

Kai (Super bland)

Darrius (Super bland)

Mavado (How i hated his designs and "powers")

Hsu Hao (Thankfully killed at the start of the MKX comic)

Chalk me up as one more person who doesn't really mind any returning characters.

I love this franchise, so I'll break down my mentality for you...

As a start, I'd like for a good foundation of classic characters. Some people hate that, and whine, "It's just trilogy over and over!" but frankly, it friggin has to be. That's what makes the series recognizable. If every game was a major roster reboot no one would care. People like their familiar nostalgia. Street Fighter IV and MK9 are a testament to that. MKX already has that.

I like for a good handful of new faces to take the story in new directions and add some new life. MKX already has that.

Finally, and this is where MK as a franchise usually fails, I like for some faces who have been established but not explored much to make a return appearance and flesh themselves out a bit more. Get a second appearance to endear themselves to the fans, and come into their own. This franchise is real good at introducing new characters, but then it leaves them in the dust and forgets about them quickly.

MK1 and MK2 characters always their dues, and don't need any help. They always have a reasonable chance of returning. Kintaro is the only exception to this rule. After that, it drops off...

Zero MK3 characters returned in MK4. Cyrax and Sektor alone were added in MK Gold (and Sektor was hidden).

Quan Chi was the only MK4 character to return in Deadly Alliance. Cyrax was the only MK3 to remain. (Sektor was added in the handheld version, but that barely counts)

Deception was the first game I give credit for bringing back a lot of MK3 characters: Sindel, Nightwolf, Kabal & Ermac all returned. Furthermore Tanya came back from MK4, and Breaking the norm of "one and done newbies" Kenshi, Bo Rai Cho & Li Mei all carried over from MKDA (With Frost and Blaze being added in the handheld version, which was on a more advanced machine than the DA handheld, so it counted a little more this time).

Armageddon was Armageddon and while everyone came back, virtually no one was done justice, so I don't count that as a "Second attempt" for any character. They didn't even give characters in-game bios, they just concocted a few random ones on the website to appease fans who were pissed at the lack of story development for all characters.

Now MK9... was actually a bit of a shocker. Before we knew it was a re-telling of MK1-MK3, no one expected people like Sheeva, Stryker or Kintaro to return. Even after we knew it was a retelling, we expected a couple of them to get cut. In the end, only Motaro, Chameleon & Khameleon didn't return, Motaro due to the usual technical complications, The 'meleon twins because of a lack of significant interest. So I give MK9 a lot of credit for taking another stab at all those characters. BUT... this also served to push every character from MK4-MKD who wasn't Quan Chi or Kenshi further into the background.

Frankly face time seems to be everything in this franchise. Make return appearances and it ups your importance as a character. Go unused for 3-4 games in a row and people remember you as sucky, if they remember you at all. The characters from MK4-MKD that people generally deem significant, are generally the ones who have made more appearances since their debut. Quan Chi, Kenshi, Tanya, Bo Rai Cho. Tell me I'm wrong. It even applies to MK3, Cyrax far and away has the most post-debut appearances of any MK3 character, and he remains the most popular. Sometimes with Sektor (the less popular of the two) riding his coat tails, sometimes not. And Ermac, Sindel, Kabal and Nightwolf are pretty undeniably more popular than Sheeva, Stryker & Motaro.

SO anyway... all that said, I always like to see one of the forgotten get a second chance. I'll be sad if the returning 3D characters are just Tanya, Kenshi and Bo Rai Cho, as I'd rather see some of the "lesser" names get a chance to shine.

Still, they surprised us in MK9 with a few unlikely returns, so hopefully they do the same in MKX.

All that said...

I wouldn't even mind if lame characters like Chameleon, Khameleon, Meat, Blaze & Mokap came back. I'd actually prefer some of them to some of the more established MK4-MKD characters, as I like to see the guys who have almost no story get fleshed out and develop a little personality. One of the only things that actually pleased me about Armageddon is, however small, it at least gave Chameleon and Meat a LITTLE BIT of story, giving them a foothold in the canon. Before that some people didn't even want to acknowledge they were real characters.

So yeah... ultimately, my reasons are many and varied... but there's no character I'd say no to.

There are characters I personally don't like much. Kai, Jarek, Hsu Hao, Dairou. But even if they came back, I'd be excited to see what they did with them, and why in holy hell they felt they deserved a chance to come back.

If I keep on hearing about how Tremor absolutely positively must be in MKX, I'm going to commit murder.

go for it

If any of these characters are in the game at the cost of Fujin, I'm going to be salty:

-Tremor (Salt level: fatality dummy)
-Jarek
-Darrius
-Kira
-Kobra
-Shujinko (Salt level: fatality dummy)
-Taven
-Stryker (MK9 improved him, but I'll be damned if he isn't THE worst choice for resurrection)
-Cyber Sub-Zero (MK9's biggest plot blunder.)

Meat, Mokap, Khameleon, Chameleon and Hsu Hao have thankfully been deconfirmed.

These characters are okay and/or good, but they don't belong in my ideal MKX roster:
-Kabal
-Sindel (My favourite female character, but she should remain dead for this game.)
-Nightwolf (He's in my top five, but I want his sacrifice to mean something.)
-Noob Saibot (Quan Chi's got the "fun with portals" aspect covered, and I think Bi-Han will be back as Sub-Zero.)
-Sektor
-Cyrax
-Sonya Blade (I think this will be a moot point, like Reptile.)

I don't have a strong opinion either way about these characters:
-Tasia
-Erron Black
-Dairou
-Frost
-Ashrah

I don't care for any of the new characters from mk4 except for Tanya.
And thankfully niether does neatherealm which is why Tanya was the only character to make it into the deadly+deception universe.

I also hope that sareena doesn't make it in, i think that she is one of the most pointless characters in the mk universe.

As soon as he gets enough reconstructive surgery to fix the hole Scorpion punched through his head.

I'm open to pretty much anything. Except Tremor. I'll be pretty annoyed if he is put in on such a limited roster. There's already so much pandering to the ninja fans as it is. Do we really need another one?

See Tremor getting in with an original, fresh new design, and Tremor/palette swap fans immediately start bashing it for not being "ninja enough", mark my words.

Alot of characters for me
but im a man hoe for re designs.
But if I had to choose one
Mokap
there is just nothing I like about him
he's a joke that got old the minute I saw him
Even with a re design I couldn't

I am always welcoming of any character mk1-mk3 characters, with the exception of motaro for strictly gameplay/technical reasons.

For the Mk4-MKD characters admittedly I did not play those much, as the game play (3d style fighting) turned me off of the series but from my knowledge of the characters. There are a few id rule out returning.

Shujinko (seems boring to me)
Movado (Kabal Rip off)
Le Mei (Reminds me to much of Mileena even though I know theyre way different)
Bo Rai Cho (dont like the "toilet' humor at all)
Meat (i dont get him)
Mokap (im pretty sure hes a joke)
C/Khameleon (dont feel these mesh with the other "ninjas")
Darious (no future)
Dairue (no future)

Probably missing some others like some of the females that I have no idea anything about them.

I wanna see a female boss and I want them to revamp the boss fights. Way too boring as it's been over the last two decades. Give me a fight at the end where I'm in awe of what the boss is capable of.

Blaze
Moloch
Drahmin
Li Mei
Drahmin
Dairou
Darrius
Daegon
Hotaru
Havik
Hsu Hao
Taven
Kobra

I have a split list...

I don't want the following to be playable or take a spot on the roster, but I wouldn't mind them in story mode as NPs:

Sonya
Jax
Movado
Shujinko
Johnny Cage
Sheeva


These I don't want to see in the game AT ALL:

Darrius
Hotaru
Kobra
Kira
Stryker
Khameleon/Chameleon
Bo Rai Cho
Mokap
Dairou

I really cant believe I saw Some people naming Sonya, Lui Kang and Johnny Cage. They are the original earthrealm heroes. I want all three of them in the game.

For me to Please leave out.

Sub zero
Scorpion
Cyrax
Sektor
Noob
Smoke
Li Mei
Ashrah
Kira
Kobra
Stryker
Kabal
Kai
Hsu hoa
Shjujinko
Mokap
Bo Raï Cho
Well almost every new character from deception.

Who i want in.

Sonya Blade
Lui Kang
Takeda
Fujin
Tanya
Mileena
Reiko
Jax

Reiko,
Sindel,
Sheeva,
Cyrax,
Sektor,
Reiko,
Kintaro,
Motaro,
Tremor,
Tasia,
Jarek,
No-face,
Skarlet,
Rain,
Reiko,
Shao Kahn,
Johnny Cage,
Stryker,
Mokap,
Khameleon,
Chameleon,
Reiko,
Jataaka,
Kia,
Cyber-Smoke,
Noob Saibot,
Kreate-a-Karakter
Shinnok,
Reiko.

Sonya
Frost
Chameleon
Rain
Noob Saibot
Baraka
Sektor
Mileena
Ashrah
Kobra
Kira
Hotaru
Darrius
Mavado
Meat
Tremor
Guest characters

None of them are making it in.


Not really. He'd certainly be no worse than Kitana and Kung Lao in terms of getting resurrected for no reason.


Not a chance in hell.


These folks could afford to sit out a game or two.



I definitely wouldn't mind seeing all of these guys, including - God help me - Frost. I'd genuinely like to see the mental-illness aspect of her character explored more, instead of having it represented only by a clown like Mileena.