Looking closer to the big fight that Sindel supposedly had killed in the great battle only a few actually were killed.

To start off, we know Sonya and Cage are still alive, hence Cassie Cage.

The fight starts off with Sindel facing Nightwolf, and she just kinda knocks him away to fight him later. Then she fights Cage and knocks him down, followed by Kabal... She does a roundhouse kick to his face, gets knocked to the floor then she kicks him in the chest with her heel. For all we know, we don't see the heel going into his heart, that would be the only logical way to kill Kabal, and we know he's basically cheated death before from burning to death, so what's a heel to the chest right? Maybe she kicked him in the respirator mechanism. There's a good chance he's still alive.

Up next we see Stryker getting kicked in the knee, falls to the floor then eats a Sindel knuckle sandwich, gets a bloody mouth and gets knocked down. Highly doubt you can die from a punch to the mouth.

Then we see Cyborg Subzero (Kuai Liang), who simply gets counter attacked and uppercutted... that's it.

Jax, gets a high heel poke kick to the throat. That killed him instantly. So that's the first actual death of a character after about 5 characters whom we thought were killed off.

Following this scene, we see Smoke get his neck snapped, so that's death #2.

Sonya simply gets kicked in the face and gets knocked down.

Jade dies when Sindel rips an organ out of her... death #3..

Kitanagets her ass kicked by evil mommy, then Sindel uses her magic to kinda hold Kitana in place while draining her soul, or her energy.. something of that matter. But she's still alive when Nightolf intervenes, then shortly after that fight, Liu Kang and Raiden teleport back to the scene, Kitana talks to Liu Kang for a short while before she falls helplessly to the ground. Why assume at this point she's dead? Liu Kang sees all the fallen warriors, as Kitana fell before him and assumes everyone is dead.

Nightwolf dies by sacrificing himself to put an end to Sindel, and she dies as well.


Like I said earlier, Sonya and Cage are alive. Kabal, Stryker, Cyber Subzero, and Kitana may very well be alive.


Now take a look at Subzero in Mortal Kombat X. His eyes are clearly blue. In his Cryomancer style, his arms and skin get frozen throughout kombat. Also, take a look at his cryo mask, it looks technologically enhanced. His voice in the intro cut-scenes sound kinda robotic, as does his battle cries. Maybe this Subzero is Kuai Liang after all. But my gut feeling tells me this could very well be Noob Saibot (Bi Han) after being through the soulnado. But it's something to think about, Subzero being Kuai and not Bi-Han.

In another chapter of MK9's story mode, Kung Lao dies by Shao Kahn (Edited), snapping his neck. Kung Lao might return to life by order of the Elder gods, if in fact Liu comes back as the rumored surprise boss. Only Kung Lao would know his greatest weakness, as they trained together when they were partners.

We never see Baraka, Reptile, Shang Tsung, Mileena, or Kano die. Quan Chi is very much alive, obviously while talking to Shinnok at the end of the story.


Alive characters:

-Raiden
-Baraka
-Reptile
-Shang Tsung
-Quan Chi
-Kano
-Mileena
-Sektor
-Cyrax
-Cyber Sub
-Sonya
-Cage
-Sheeva

Dead:

-Jax
-Kung Lao
-Liu Kang
-Sindel
-Nightwolf
-Jade


In question?:

-Noob
-Kitana
-Stryker
-Kabal

Then again, no one really dies in Mortal Kombat. Recently Ed tweeted that Kung Lao is not ruled out, neither is Kitana. Raiden has been mentioned in recent interviews, numerous times.

Lastly, there were visitors at NRS studios who got a tour and a chance to play the game in house. It was said that there was a render of Liu Kang, and possibility of 8 returning from MK9 that were fan favorites.

Fan favorites IMO, based on MK fans and tourneys:

1) Scorpion
2) Subzero
3) Kitana
4) Raiden
5) Reptile
6) Kung Lao
7) Mileena
8) Baraka (was in MKvsDC, in NRS eyes, he's a fan favorite)