Those are reasonable selections.

Sindel:

I feel she could also bring the dark past back (as you mentioned). Even though she died in MK9, no character stays dead in MK. I wouldn't mind if she was to return undead.

Ashrah:

Being part demon (like Sareena), she would be a great addition to MKX. I truly liked Ashrah in MKD. NRS can make her way different than Raiden. She can use light instead of electricity.

...her entire time in MK Deception was spent imitating Kitana.

Frost, Sareena, and Ashrah... And maybe Li Mei. I'll go more when I'm not on my phone

Sindel could be done but i think she can skip this one sice she died and shes just old and looks kinda cartoony to me + limited spots on roster for returning females

Ashrah could return but she has almost the same story as Sareena + all her moves are borrowed from others just with using light...shes just been very plain to me and never really liked her and again theres limited space on the roster so she probably wont get a chance.

Mileena lead an army and had an alliance with baraka...and imitating kitana is a good story if you ask me and so much more can be done with her

Tanya, yay! :D

Frost should not return cause we have subzero sorry...she can be a cameo but i wouldnt let Frost take anyones place on the roster...id rather have Ashrah and even Kira or Li Mei.............
Li Mei has potencial but shes kinda like Mileena with Reikos kick...if they gave her a better costume and move set she could be good...she has better chances of being in the game than Ashrah, Frost, Nitara but still very low

Not saying it wasn't a good story or even that she shouldn't return, but imitating Kitana is a far cry from standing on her own two feet.

If there was another mk after deception that continued the story then mileena would have evolved even more but there was mk a which did nothing for her...well atleast she got closer to blaze in the intro than kitana haha....but mileena was THE mk girl in Deception.

Yeah, unfortunately a lot of great stuff in Deception fell by the wayside.

MKX needs at least 4 returning females. We already have 4 males that returned. Johnny Cage is confirmed, so that makes 5. Not knowing if the next bad guy will be male, if so, that'll be 6.
So 4 returning females will be great! Hope one of them is going to be Tanya at least.

The 5th female is gonna be Sonya :S i hateeed her in mk9 but she was pefect in mkvsdc...if they bring back 5 females it just needs to be Mileena, Tanya, Sareena, Jade and Sonya is gonna be in anyway I have a feeling

You say Jade instead of Kitana lol :( but its ok...
Honesty story wise.. Melinaa & Tanya would make a great story..
& Tanya needs to be reintroduced into the series... what more in this installment...

As for Ashra, her story is honestly just gets off the story of MK.. & if she made it back into the series... will she be one of the forces who rebel against the neatherealm? though I dont like Raiden or another Raiden clone.. I hope they can do something for her

Tanya too has great potential too since were Mk9 left out in... with the uprising of the neatherealm & all...

As far as females are concerned I want Mileena the most.

Skarlet would be cool too

Ok lets say there are 28 characters on the roster and probably there will be atleast 12 newbies + 1 guest so that means only 15 spots for returning characters if were lucky
We have: 1 Scorpion
2 Sub-zero
3 Raiden
4 Kano
5 Cage
Now that leaves 11 spots
We are probably gonna see
6 Quan Chi
7 Shinnok
8 Baraka
9 Ermac
10 Liu Kang
11 Fujin
12 Sonya
13 Mileena
14 Tanya
15 Sareena

Its also posible for Havik and Reiko to return..but unlikely...so that means theres really 4-5 (probably 4) slots for returning females, the others will be new :((((

Kitana and Mileena have to be in because they are Scorpion and Sub-Zero after a gender reassigment surgery for many people.

Skarlet deserves a second chance.

Sonya is already in, let's just wait what her role will be and if she'll be playable.
I hope that two of my favourites will come back, Sareena and Ashrah
Tanya and maybe Li Mei could come back but Personally I wouldn't like them that much.


Frost, Sindel, Sheeva, Jade, Kira and Nitara have to be canned for good.

Yeah but I think Kitana can sit this one out and give other females a chance....i feel like Kitana will be DLC
...and i have a feeling that Mileena Tanya Sareena really have high chances.....much bigger than Skarlet and since there arent many spots Skarlet wont make it

I feel like we need a Kitana shouldn't be in MKX master thread.

The only female I would like to see "returning" to Mortal Kombat X is Sareena. NRS can give her a long overdue appearence in a full fledged console game and I do not count Armageddon. She has got very intriguing potential story arcs that could deviate in many directions and could be any alignment since she wants to escape the Netherrealm but is a demon at the core. This could also play really well with the variations.

I also expect Sonya to be returning since it makes a lot of sense plot wise after the events of Mortal Kombat 9 story.

Only female I see returning in the initial roster is Mileena. And Tanya has a good chance to appear. Other than that, everyone else is doubtful.

This user is right, so I agree. Sareena is in need of something good. She did make an appearance in a hand-held version of an MK game, then returned in MKA. Those two appearances didn't do much for her at all.
NRS has the ability to make her a great addition. I hope they do so, especially with the new variation system.
To end this, I am going to say that Sareena should be the female that NRS should have their minds set on first.

Even knowing that the roster is already set, Sareena could be in. If she is, I would like for her to be revealed first or second out of the returning females.

I will say Mileena has a good chance of making it but I want to see Ashrah and Sareena in the game because I think together they could be very important to the story..

Sindel, Sheeva, and Jade should always pop up in MK games. Not every installment of course, but just the ones where it's fitting for them or their appearances would be appropriate for the story. I like them, they are from the original trilogy. I'm a big advocate of seniority.

The characters I listed I'd rather see more than the ones you listed because:

1.) I honestly do not see a purpose for Jade to be in this game. I feel that the developers cannot make her more of a stronger character, she is always the secondary character. Deception would have been the best chance she would have gotten for being an individual character, but they decided to give her a weak feud with Tanya, and she was helping Sindel out with her problems.

If she was to come back, what is there to do for her other than probably going after whatever is going on with Edenia? I'd rather see her sit out.

2.) Tanya is an ify because many people want to see her return and have the same betraying attitude. I however, don't want to see it recurring. I'd rather her be evil in another way. Basically, she's evil because it depends on having other characters be brought into this game, mainly Shinnok. And as time flies by, I really don't see Shinnok ending up in this game. The more I see people wanting her in, for some reason, the less I want her to be in.

3.) Mileena. As much as I would like her to return, I don't see it anymore. Yeah, there's the whole "She could go after Kotal Kahn and try to be emperor" but to be honest, I don't see her at all doing that. I more so actually see her getting killed by Kotal, as to why he becomes emperor. As much as I like this character, I hated the way they treated her in 2011 by giving her that stupid childish personality. I get that she's a clone, doesn't have that much time to actually become smarter, but for heaven's sake, they didn't need to have made her that childish.


Now, onto the characters I listed.

Frost... I think we can have characters with similar abilities and play completely different from one another since we have a family of three being included into this game. I've stated various times how she can work into this game. Change her story a bit to where she's already a Lin Kuei student. I'd rather see her be on the forces of good rather than being stupidly delusional again. She could escape from the Automation Program and help out the good guys with whatever they need. She can easily have different ice powers, abilities that don't necessarily freeze the opponent but more so slows them down.

Li Mei has nothing going on with similarities with Mileena. Many have stated how, I however, don't see it. She's a character that has good potential, and despite that the Deadly Alliance are not in this game to antagonize her into entering Mortal Kombat, there are other ways to work this character into the story. I feel she would make a great character if given another chance and a retcon to her story.

Sareena, to be honest, I actually wouldn't mind seeing all of the assassins come back, but I don't mind seeing Sareena more so than the others. I want to see her in her demonic form more than anything. Maybe as to how she became Quan Chi's assassin,

Last but not least, Ashrah. I'd rather see her what she looked like and acted like when she was evil rather than trying to purify herself. It would make her much darker than what she was before, and give way to a better story. I didn't care for her debut story at all. I'd be more down to see what she was like before she became "good."