This thread deals with the future of character, so it should really go in the Future Mk Games Forum. Regardless, I have considered some new characters - not their stories - but, some concepts off the top of my head:



Some kind of vicious, scarred martial artist who uses a meteor ball as a weapon.

A really muscular, bald headed female escaped convict would be cool.

An earth assassin/spy who uses assassin/spy weapons, like a James bond flick knife in the shoe as special moves. This character could be a seductive female.

A demonic creature that has been sealed in a cave for a very long time. Possibly an Oni.

A real monk character, wearing the orange robe and bald heads of the shaolin. Or a wutang disciple for a change or from any other monk/martial arts brotherhood; could be a female monk for a change. Female shaolin with horsetail spear weapon?

An insane greek/italian wrestler who obsesses about the ancient gladiatorial arts. Wields a trident spear as a weapon and throws a weighted rope net as one of his special moves - in order to entangle the opponent for a free hit.

Other Kung Fu cliche's that haven't been explored yet. After all, Mk is built of Kung Fu cliche. But, be sure to make them more than one dimensional.
And bring in as many completely original concepts as possible. Have a good balance.

I would hate to have something repetitive. Each character should be unique.

When you say Ninjas, do you mean Subzero, Scorpion, Reptile, Ermac, Noob Sibot and Rain. I would say Human smoke..but he is a robot now, and it's 3 of the robot ninjas. I dont think it's allot of ninjas. I mean they are all from different clans and all of that..and every one is not a ninja, if u think of the huge character list that MK has...it's just a hand full really. The only thing i hate about the ninjas is the story they have..it just changes so much, i wouldn't even talk about the ending...

Let's see.

Sub-Zero
Scorpion
Reptile
Smoke
Noob Saibot
Ermac
Rain
Cyrax
Smoke
Sektor
Mileena
Kitana
Jade
Tanya
Frost

15 ninja-like characters out of 60.

You don't think that's much?

I have no problem with the ninjas in this game. Actually there are maybe two that I do not like. But, from reading other threads it appears that A LOT of people do not want them anymore and say there are too many. I think it was the ninjas that drew people to the game. I mean, Sub-Zero and Scorpion are what made this game famous.

But, I would like to see the other options or ideas for charactors if in the next game, hypothetically, the ninjas were gone.

Well i only focusing on the male ninjas. Not the Cyborg or Female ninjas. I wouldn't even call Tanya a female ninja...or most of them. But out of 60 characters...15 as u say it. That aint allot...because 15 is half of 30...and it's 60..so that aint allot.

But how many of them are fan favorites now? Hmm? Last I heard, most people preferred any of these characters over new "innovative" ones like Bo' Rai Cho, Li Mei, Moloch, Hsu Hao, etc...

If you are looking for different kinds of Fighters for the next generation of Mortal kombat then here is a list of different fighters.....

>WereWolf
>Magician/Magic Tricks
>Gambler
>Wrestler
>Samurai Warrior
>Gothic Fighter
>Different Animals mixed with human forms.......example/Spider legs with human body...
>Huge creature........

and you know the rest..

I think the ninja characters nowadays are fine, Saibot is the most plain looking imo, but they all look distinctively different from one another, even with that said I doubt they would introduce a new ninja as they've basically run out of good colors for them. Only "new" ninja I could see them work with is Tremor since he has a brown color scheme, but I doubt we will ever see him again.

I'd like to have a Shokan Centaur, but it be hard to explain how two species that despise each other got togeter to bring it about...Rape maybe? In any case it would look badass.

Make way for a MK veteran with a mind of ideas!

First of all there is not that many ninjas, but I think we do have just enough to continue with, so here we go!

First of All you could have these characters to spice up the MK franchise:
(I thought of these, but I cannot come up with their storyline yet, just simple ideas)

1. a samurai warrior
2. a character similar to Spawn
3. a colonial minuteman from the Revolutionary War (like George Washington)
4. an evil scarecrow
5. a greek wrestler
6. a gladiator
7. an original shaolin monk named Goson
8. a reaper named Death
9. Lucifer, (as mentioned in MK Deception in Konquest in the Netherealm)
10. a caveman
11. a giant, like a frost giant from mythology books
12. a goblin
13. a dwarf/gnome/elf named Pelper
14. a troll
15. could modify the character Meat
16. a witch
17. an evil santa and a good santa, (would be kind of cool and funny)
18. a robin hood type figure
19. a character similar to Juggernaut from X-men
20. A PIRATE!
21. a hooded figure named Siua, (like the emperor from Star Wars, but cooler!)
22. a wizzard
23. an ex member of Sub Zero's clan named Sai'Da
24. a six armed Shokan!

Well, this is only the beginning, just wait, I will have more, lots more, this is just of the top of my head!

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?

you obviously don't believe patience is a virtue, lol

looking at your list i'm sorry to say it looks like it would fit better in an MMORPG than an MK game.

a PIRATE LOL

A pirate may sound funny, but he could be like a old beat up pirate captain and a former member of the black dragon, so you can make a good storyline for that kind of character.

Well you could be right CrispyDragon, but MK is going to be that kind of game someday, and besides the way its growing it will eventually have all of those characters....MK is just that kind of game, and Ed Boon said he wants to expand MK's mythology....and thats the way to do it with those characters. I am sure that you did not expect a terrorist type figure to come (Darrius)...because I did not, so MK is a hard game to predict, I mean look how long it has came from the first game

I'm sorry, but some of your characters...? Santa? Please, MK is not for 5 year olds. I would not be laughing if he were in a game. And some of your characters are unoriginal. Another Shoalin Monk? No, we have three of those already. Another Lin Kuei? No, we have Frost for that. An infantry man for the Civil War? What?

Well I kind of threw in Santa for a laugh, Legacy....and besides I thought up all of those characters just to spice up the debate....I got the Santa idea from MK1, when he would fly by the moon in his sleigh.

I know some of the characters are a little unoriginal, Legacy...but look at some of the characters in MK...such as Meat, that skeleton from MK4, and many others, MK is a game that is outrageous in some of the things they come up with.