It looks as if the face was shaded differently but indeed still looks the same.

Cassie Cage.

Check the physical shape of the eyebrows and lip outlines. They are practically identical.

If it really IS indeed Sonya, then, Congrats Sonya fans. Well, it seems like pretty much EVERYBODY in MK9 are returning if that's the case. Leaving no room for my favorite, yet, Again!!!. If it keeps up like this. I am sure next will be Liu, Jade, Shang, Mileena, Nightwolf, and so on.

Practically identical is not identical.

Yup

Usually, when someone wears a ring as a necklace, it's mostly someone else's ring.

It would be weird to just wear a ring as a necklace if there's nothing significant behind it. You would just wear the ring on your finger.

Looks old and beautiful

Its Sonya and I believe it is a wedding band.
Because why else would a Special Forces Colonel be wearing a golden ring, which signifies a wedding ring, around her neck... I mean you dont have to be Einstein to work that out. Its a wedding band.

Dear god I can't wait for them to announce Sonya so we can stop this back and forth debate as to whether or not that is her.... One day of it and I'm already tired of it lol

The feels will be real if its Johnny's ring.

Also That's a masculine wedding ring. The female rings have diamonD's on them majority of the time and I doubt Johnny of all people would buy his wife a diamondless ring. Johnny will probably die theN.

SONYA = CASSIE =

Morphing, showing difference in brows, ears, jaw, and mouth etc etc.

They go through all the trouble of preventing Johnny's death in the original trilogy (which ironically leads to the rest of the heroes getting massacred and becoming Quan Chi's revenants) only to kill him off in the next game and bring several of them back from the dead anyway

Makes a lot of MK sense.

Johnny doesn't necessarily have to die.

Maybe they're separated and she still has some feelings left for Johnny.

Or she thinks he's dead when he really isn't.

I'm going to be optimistic (for a change) and say that it's Sonya.

She's been awesome in the comic, I can't wait to see her in the game. And this makes me think that she's playable - which is just.....gravy!

I'm certainly hoping for that last part.

Sonya wearing Johnny's ring around her neck for a keepsake while he is still in Seido?

Yeah, maybe that's the case!

That kinda looks like Sonya above Goro.

Even though I'm not crazy about her return I'm glad for Sonja fans, it's always nice to get your favourite playable. That ring though, nice detail, Cassie's face looks so familiar in that pic, but I don't know from where, I wonder if her face model was based on some known celebrity.

I didn't forget, they both looked like monkeys. Kitana looks gorgeous in this game.

But in those pics above both Sonya and Cassie are fugs. Cassie even more so. Why does she look the same age if not older than her mother?

Cassie looks more punk rock to me, with her makeup and brows. Sonya looks much more muted and natural.

Thank you. Between the ring, the aging, the features etc, it's an almost blatant sneak peak of Sonya being in the game. Although at times people make valid arguments to disagree about things, sometimes it feels like some people disagree on here just for the sake of disagreeing until Ed Boon or someone else from NetherRealm Studios validates something obvious themselves....Key phrase being "SOME people".

Theres no reason cassie would wear a ring around her neck like that, its clearly sonya

This could be young Sonya? It was kinda implied in the past we would see costumes reflect the large time span. It would make sense if she is to appear in the events right after MK9.

It does look like her above Goro on the tower, the salute pose gives it away.

Same jacket and collar as her close up image too