Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-1084762-20150316233052/@comment-25163804-20150625022709

69.253.218.38 wrote: Wraithblade, I have to ask exactly where are the listed variations sourced from? I've gone and done a google search for any news on reveals for the Predator's variations but none have come up. While Hunter and Warrior are perfectly believable.. the Hish'qu-ten variation is.. hard to swallow and I say this as someone who is a Predator fan and someone who is familiar with the canon.

The Hish were from an EU reboot which John Shirely introduced back in 2005 with the Forever Midnight novels and he has openly stated that he chose to ignore the Yautja concept which Steve Perry introduced in the 1990s. The Hish concept was so unpopular with Predator fans that Fox had went to Dark Horse press and told them to drop the Hish mythos altogether and went back to the Yautja mythos which is generally viewed as canon, where as the Hish mythology is it's own thing.

So.. why would Boon and Netherrealm use an unpopular source which fans didn't appreciate? If Fox told Dark Horse not to use the Hish, why is Netherrealm using that? Did Boon not look at the Yautja mythology which is generally accepted as canon or did he just have the wrong source? In Mortal Kombat X, you can see some icons, backgrounds that are Predator based, but cannot be unlocked for obvious reasons. It's the same way we knew about Tanya's variations long before they were shown in the Tanya Stream; the icons for her were Kobu Jutsu, Dragon Naginata and Pyromancer, all 3 being variations that we as MK players would get to use for Tanya. The Icons and Borders show the names of the variations. I will get a screenshot ready immediately to show you; I always try to prove that I have the right sources :)

Well... it is rather interesting that the Hish storyline is so widely hated, and Ed decided to go with it. I wonder why he decided to do it? Maybe they needed a way to have a third Predator Variation and decided to go with that?

I'm curious about that, now that you mention it. I think he has the wrong source, as he more than likely knew to base the Predator at least partially on the movies. I personally think they added the Hish purely for another variation, and they could not think of another way.

Thanks for asking about the sources in the way you did, by the way :) It's all well and good to question where I'm getting my stuff from, and I will always try to prove my case if I can, and you asked in a very polite fashion, so thanks :)

Oh, and here's that proof of the variations. You'll have to look closely, but look at the red text above the first border, called 'It Has Begun'. https://twitter.com/BryanSchnarr/status/613895394183917568