I thought it would be nice to have a thread discussing just Scorpion and his character in MKX, and our ideas and theories about him. So let's go!



My input:

- Story:
We don't know the story yet, but we get a few glimpses here and there through the fight intros. So far I have only heard his banter with Sub-Zero, and it seems like they are back to hating one another. So is Scorpion back to square one?

I hope Scorpion will finally find peace in this game. We know from previous games that it was Quan Chi who's been manipulating the events of the past all along, so hopefully Scorpion will finally get his revenge on him and move past the whole revenge thing. It's been his main point since the first game and I'd love to see him evolve as a character, but it means he needs to get a new main point.

Honestly, I have little faith in NRS actually doing so, because alot of people seem to like the whole revenge thing and don't want him to evolve past that point. But personally, I'd like to see Scorpion get some new goals in his unlife. Since MKX's story is spanning over 25 years, there's plenty of time for that to happen.

- Appearance:
I liked how Scorpion's outfits in MKDA looked, as they seemed to represent his two persons, the main representing him as a Shirai Ryu ninja, and his alt representing him as a hellspawn spectre. But the outfits in the games after MKDA slowly turned him into looking like some kind of cartoonish and overly detailed plastic superhero of some sort. And his MK9 appearance was ridiculous as hell (pun intended).

His appearance in MKX is going back to his Shirai Ryu roots though. He looks ALOT better in MKX. He looks like an actual ninja (ignoring the obvious yellow, of course) with some demonic and dark, almost gothic touch to it. I really like his new outfit alot! Even the yellow in his clothes which is alot dirtier and less shiny than the gold-theme he showed in past costumes.

MKX seems to overall have that grittier look, and I quite like it.

- Gameplay:
I was a bit skeptical about the whole Variations feature at first, mainly because I prefer to have ALL the moves available for my character at once, but I have warmed up to and I can see the potential in it, giving the characters somehing different to work with.

Scorpion's three Variations are Ninjutsu, Hellfire and Inferno. Ninjutsu is all about the swords. Hellfire is all about the fire. And Inferno adds something new to Scorpion, giving him demonic minions to summon, attacking the opponent in different points of the stage. To me, it seems like they took what made Noob unique and gave it to Scorpion which I think is a bad move by NRS. If Noob isn't in the game, then people who like Noob's type of gameplay can choose the Inferno variation with Scorpion, so from a gameplay point of view, I can see why it would make sense. But in the end, it just makes Noob less unique now, because the thing that made him unique is now shared with someone else.

However, it could also be a point in Scorpion's story-development! Scorpion now having the power to control demonic minions COULD mean that he's gotten a new interesting point in his storyline which has yet to be revealed. It kinda reminds me of how he had his clan raised into undeath in MKA, something I found interesting and had alot of potential.

Anyways, Scorpion's other two Variations seem rather standard. Swords and Fire. Not very original, in my opinion, but I am a fan of dualwielding, so Ninjutsu would be the Variation for me if I had to pick one.

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Please share your opinions, ideas and theories. ^^