Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-26516813-20180304162350/@comment-30711175-20180911025216

@Dragonspyne -- Skarlet works because she was one of two new characters introduced in MK9 (the other being Sub-Zero's cybernetic form), so enough attention was paid to making her original, accessible, and intriguing to the mythos. She wasn't just another generic throw-away character.

Some of the reasons why I dislike the guest characters is because one, their appearances aren't canonical to the story, two, some of them have no place in the Mortal Kombat universe, and three, because it's become a ridiculous trend to integrate other IP's into fighting games.

And I don't mind new additions to future Mortal Kombat games. But given Midway's/NRS' track record of introducing useless and often unwanted characters into the franchise, the last thing we need is another Hsu Hao or an annoying 'Kombat Kid' who is a relative of a well-established MK character.