Let me start off with saying, Baraka is my favourite character and I just love the non-human characters in general since the MK universe is all based on mythology and fantasy. Now MKll is my favourite despite the low numbers of non-humans playable.

With plenty of people seemingly disappointed about the focus on Special Forces and the amount of siblings of the earth realm warriors, i.e. humans, I wanted to go back and see actually how many non-human have been in the main games.

MK1 had only Raiden as playable + Goro as unplayable (Shang Tsung story is that he's human and was given the power to absorb souls).

MK2 had Raiden & Baraka as playable + Kintaro as unplayable. The others were just ninjas who look human, Mileena too so for me do not really fit non-human. Same goes for Shao Kahn, just seems like a big human with a skull mask.

MK3 had Sheeva and Sindel (kind of) + Motaro as unplayable.

Mk4 had Raiden, Shinnok, Quan Chi, Fujin, Reptile (first time really in non-human form) + Goro as unplayable.

MK DA had Raiden, Quan Chi, Reptile, Nitara, Drahmin + Moloch as unplayable.

MK Deception had Baraka, Raiden, Ermac (not a human looking ninja anymore), Liu Kang (kind of), Sindel, Hotaru, Havik + Onaga as unplayable.

I understand it's subjective, since you can say all non- earth realm are non-human or Raiden looking way too human, even though he is a god. However, what we can definitely say is that The Trilogy era actually had a lot of human (looking) characters as opposed to the 3D era. The most was Deception with 7 playable non-humans.

Now let's look at MKX: Raiden, Reptile, Ermac, Goro, Shinnok, Quan Chi, Kotal Kahn, Ferra, D'vorah & Mileena (finally looks devilish and fierce, before she just looked like way too human for me). That is 10 characters!! We still have potentially Liu Kang as fire god, Erron Black and the possible DLC .The boss also is probably non-human, Reiko as demon god maybe, so there's a lot to be happy about in spite of the many humans of earth realm / Special Forces.

Conclusion: I am a lot more happy about this game now that I realise this game actually has a lot more non-humans / non-human looking characters and the most of any MK game :D I also realize that the roster is actually quite good, it's just when I focused too much on Special Forces and thought in terms of Good, Neutral and Evil that I felt disappointed. Also the roster being leaked did not help, but I'm fine with it now!

Hope this helps people look at the roster differently. Thoughts?