Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-9760511-20150827054052/@comment-4565921-20150924033141

Sugarraydodge wrote: It's never been clear to me why Motaro needs to be abandoned. I hear it's because he's too hard to program but... Eh, I don't know if that's really true. Sure, it would be difficult, but from the outside looking in it seems like it could certainly be possible and within reason. I like Motaro a lot, I was a bit disappointed when he was demoted to being an extra in three scenes and only being mentioned by name twice.

But, that being said, I'm not a programmer, I don't know what they have to deal with over there. If it's that big of a problem to cause that he be dropped completely, they must have some serious problems in figuring out how to make him work post-MK3.

And to be fair to MK9, his death at the hands of Raiden in order to save Johnny Cage proved to be the pivotal moment everything began DRASTICALLY changing. Sure, Sub-Zero was the robot and Kung Lao had been killed, but those things didn't have the lasting and dramatic changes that Motaro's death had. Johnny Cage had been saved, but that caused Shao Kahn to seemingly kill Shang Tsung by draining his power and transferring it to Sindel, who was already extremely powerful. Sindel then went to Earthrealm and massacred all but three Earthrealm warriors, one of whom was got himself killed later because he couldn't stop being a dick. Johnny Cage lived, everybody else died, and Shao Kahn was destroyed by the Elder Gods. The only way I could see Motaro come back in future games is if they made him a non-playable boss. Having him playable wouldn't seem feasible, at least according to Boon's tweet when he deconfirmed him from MKX.