Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-4708902-20160917122209/@comment-1084762-20161003234906

the difference is you haven't been shooting ideas for a character, you've been shooting ideas for a gimmick.

Kung Jin is a successor character to Kung Lao, yes, but he plays completely different and, overall, is a completely different kind of character. what you're proposing is "hey let's have Nightwolf again but with not defining characteristics other than him happening to be Native American".

the gay thing they did with Kung Jin was gimmicky sure but he at least had an actual character to fall back on, more-so than any of the other new protagonists. him being gay didn't define him, forced line aside. I've gone over this whole thread and there is not a single thing notable about this idea other than "oh yeah he's like nightwolf but a successor also he's native american".

FW pointed that out, you got defensive, dumb argument. it's over