I've got mixed feelings on Dairou. He sounded cool in MK:DA, but I think it got lost in Deception. I think whatever's wrong with can be easily fixed, but I'm not that attached to him.

I'll say stay. Maybe not come back right away in MK9, but hang on to him.

Like many other characters from deception, he looked out of place compared to the past MK characters. I don't like how he looks, or what he's about so I say he goes.

I hate Dairou though I thought his Tombstone move where he slammed himself down was hilarious.

I don't think there is anything else he can bring to MK so IMO he can GO.

I'm not a huge overly huge fan of Dairou, but I think they can take him and his story to a new level. I think he also needs a more fitting look. Maybe not in the Next Mortal Kombat, but he could be cool later down the line.

dariou...i can not say too much of him because i never really used him in any of the games. he was never really appealing to me at all...i say go.

NO, because he was lame like many other new fighters after mk4. i mean who came up with those fighters. the outfit is stupid and his special moves were lame. he is so boring and his story sucks. just not a very interesting character!!!

dairou i'd like to not have him return. i'm hopeing the mk team will make some good new characters for mk9 to replace the not so great ones.

Dairou is my least favorite character in the entire Mortal Kombat franchise. Even worse than Hsu Hao or Mokap. Those two, I just don't care about. Dairou, I actively hate.
I think his story is boring, I think his special moves are random and don't fit his character concept at all, and most importantly, I think both his costumes are so hideous that looking at him actually makes me angry. Nothing about him works at all.

That said, I thought the Deadly Alliance concept for Dairou WOULD have been awesome. The evil Ronin hired by the bad guys who dual-wielded katanas and could have been a Kenshi adversary, THAT character I really wanted to see.

Maybe they could create a new guy like that. It feels too late for Dairou to be changed into a two sword samurai or a ruthless, dishonorable villain.

Not really a fan of Darrius.
His fatalities sucked but his Hara Kiri was good.
His alt costume was... interesting lol.
Darrius & Dairou are the only 2 characters from MK Deception I never want to see again.

GO!

i am on the line with Darrius...i don't really like his playability in game but his story is kinda interesting...if i had to choose i would say go but if he was in the game than its only safe to bet Hotaru should be gone.

i'd have darrius sit this one out but would like him to return. he had some cool weapons but lacked creativity in look and his moveset. if that were to change he could become popular. until then he is not so great to play as.

I don't really think Darrius has a place. His storyline in Deception never had anything to do with the plot, he was just there to explain why Dairou was enemies with Hotaru. It's bad enough to be just a plot device, but to be a plot device for two characters that aren't important? Might as well just put you down like a race horse with a broken leg because just like him, you're going nowhere fast.

I dunno, if you could find a reason to make Seido having a revoluton even MATTER to anything at all, or give Darrius a logical reason to leave Orderrealm behind, even though it's clearly very important to him, and participate in the struggles between the IMPORTANT worlds...then maybe I could see making something out of him. But as it is now? He's just filler and they should probably just say "Oh, Dairou found out what he did and killed him in Armageddon."

Y'know what would've been cool? If they'd gone with the original plan mentioned in his concept art and had him be a member of the Red Dragon to replace Mavado. The Red Dragon not even appearing in Deception was pretty baffling. I also like the idea of basing an MK character on Jim Kelly from Enter the Dragon, but Deception wasn't the right game to do it in and it didn't fit Darrius, his primary and alt costumes almost look like two different characters. It's like...in both, you can tell they tried to give him some attitude and personality when they designed his look, make him some sort of suave black guy stereotype. But one's a 70's style karate guy and the other is like a Samuel L. Jackson or something. Maybe if it had been the Pulp Fiction version of Sam Jackson, they would've jelled better.
But then whenever you talked to him in Konquest mode, he didn't sound suave or talk jive at all, the badass attitude just didn't exist, he was flat and boring. They completely botched it. And it probably wouldn't have worked unless he was from Earthrealm anyway, because you'll never get me to believe that someone from one of the magical planes of fairies and dragons and floating cities is hip and street. Earth is the only realm that has modern technology and urban culture.
Maybe this is another instance of "they could go back and create a new character from the original concept" like the dual-wielding ronin that Dairou never got to be.

Mk already has a cool black guy, and his name is Jax. This Darrius guy was a cheap replacement for Jax, and I don't like anything about him. Lets hope Ed Boon gothcha grabs, and ground pounds him out of the franchise.

I say he goes.

I never liked Darrius. He doesn't have a proper personnality or charisma.

Most of new characters introduced in MK4 ans MKD are pretty blank and useless(Kai, Jarek, Hotaru, Kira ect..)

One of these things is not like the others. And it's not just because of the vagina.

Kira was actually given a fair amount of established personality. She embodies the new "disciplined anarchy" and "survival of the fittest" credos of Kabal's new terrorist cell Black Dragon far more than he does. I'd kill him off and make her the leader.

Her only problem is needing more screentime to develop as a character and needing her own, completely original moveset.

i say would probably say no to all of deception's new fighters!!!lol so NO. oh and mk needs more diversity of race and sex in fighters. but darrius was just baddd!! and stop making all stereotypical fighters, be more creative!!

Wow, Razor's taking the words right out of my mouth. I agree with him 1000% on both Dairou and Darrius.

I loved Dairou's original concept and was really happy that they were going to put him in MK:D. The end result fell well short of the original intent. His special moves were flat out AWFUL. His look was among the worst of any MK character I've ever seen. I don't know if I'd rate him as low as Hsu Hao, but he's definitely near the bottom for me.

Again, I also would've loved to have seen the evil ronin story play out and have him be sort of the antithesis of Kenshi. Having those two face off could've been great.

As it stands, Dairou could still have potential, but why bother? Just a make a new character that looks cooler (no hair club for men hair this time), has way better special moves and give him an evil ronin storyline.

VERDICT: GONE

As for Darrius, I also think that he's out of place in MK. I really think that his 2nd costume was just a gag idea. You know, he's black, so he has to have some sort of "street" looking outfit. I don't agree with it, but take it up with Jax and his horrific 2nd outfit from MK:DA. God was that horrible... With the big gold dragon medallion haning from the chain? Ugh, shudder...

I like that he's a freedom fighter, but I think that it would've been much cooler to make him sort of like a Che Guevara type of revolutionary and not some dork in a futuristic looking MK karate...gi...thing...

Also, the whole Orderrealm, Chaosrealm etc thing. Yeah, KILL THAT GARBAGE and never talk about it again. Say something like "the portals to all realms were sealed once more." You can still open a portal to heaven, hell, Outworld etc later, but Orderrealm and Chaosrealm, to me, were terrible ideas that were terribly executed to begin with.

As it stood, Darrius could've had potential as an Earth warrior and a redesigned look to make him more revolutionary and less techno kung-fu or whatever you call his original outfit. But the reality is that, like Dairou, there's just too much to change in order to make it worth what it would take to make him interesting.

VERDICT: GONE.

I wouldn't mind seeing Dairou, Hotaru, and Havik doing the whole Chaos/Order thing, but please, don't let Darrius be part of it Mortal Kombat ever again.

I dound Darrius the weakest of the Seidan characters. While he represented the resistance in Seido, he had no real purpose or role beyond that in Deception. I don't think he's really necessary for the future.

Gone.

*sigh* Yes, I have read a lot of poetry. But the fact is, most people are not Allen Ginsberg or e.e. cummings. Not everyone CAN be. If we are talking song lyrics, or poetry, sure -- there is a technique behind ambiguity. Do you know how much talent that actually requires, though?

But I truthfully was not trying to insult that Lycani guy. I encourage people to write if it's what they want to do. I didn't want to chase to them off. I just thought I'd agree with the point made that not everything is a good idea because of some sort of political correctness.

Poetry and prose are apples and oranges. Just because flowery words and ideas flow chaotically out of your mind doesn't mean you can tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end or create compelling characters who have interesting personalities, behave as they should, and have logical things happen to them.

Finish Darrius off. If there should be an evil male African-American character, he should be from the ghetto in Earthrealm. Probably someone from Harlem or Brooklyn, NY or someone from Richmond or Oakland, CA. it's better to have an African-American gangbanger because he'd be so badass in looks and in style.

In terms of origin, concept, and design, I'd keep Kabal over Kira. We may have more information about her past, but her personality is still rather one-dimensional and her motivations are non-existent.

I missed the Dairou discussion, but that's okay. Gone.

Darrius? Again, gone. He has the same problem as all the chaos characters: his motives make no sense. There's no such thing as character that is both nihilistic and at the same time motivated by nihilism. Under nihilism, everything is arbitrary.

There's about a hundred reasons why I'd be against this idea, but I think that main one is that ghetto gangsters are not interesting by themselves, much less in the MK story.