Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-25163804-20140710205756/@comment-21005855-20140711222914

First of all: Great job on the thread and the graph. It really puts things into perspective.

Second: As far as the new Sub-Zero goes, I actually gave a few theories of mine on the Sub-Zero thread of MKX and I keep speculating because of the visual and audio evidence in the Scorpion vs. Sub-Zero video. As far as it goes, this Sub-Zero has the ability to create ice weapons and ice clones, has glowing blue eyes, and is a great advocate to the Lin Kuei. This says a lot. He very well could be a totally different Sub-Zero and, being that the story happens in a span of 25 years, this Sub-Zero has had a chance to piss off Scorpion to make him call him a murderer. The ice weapons thing was an ability that was given to the younger Sub-Zero, however, this particular Sub-Zero creates an ice hammer. Noob Saibot was the one who had a troll hammer in one of the later Original Timeline games. This shows that this could be Noob. The fact that he has glowing blue eyes could mean two things. 1. he's a wraith and 2. he's a cyborg. If he's a wraith, it would make sense that he'd be Noob in a reincarnated form or the second Sub-Zero without the cybernetics. If he's a cyborg then somehow someone attrieved the second Sub-Zero from the Netherrealm and reconfigured his cybernetics so that he's a lot more human-ish. The fact that his glowing eyes fade is why I believe he's the second Sub-Zero. But it's the murderer accusation and the ice troll hammer that makes me think that he could be Noob. Besides, Noob was a wraith and just because you send him into the soulnado and he gets destroyed it doesn't mean that he's gone.

Third: Ultimately, Raiden has been in every Mortal Kombat game in one compacity or another except for Special Forces. Ultimately, there shouldn't be any reason why Raiden doesn't return.

Fourth: As far as who I think should return from MK9 and not including Sub-Zero or Scorpion goes? Ermac, Reptile, Mileena, Cyrax, Sektor, Kano, Baraka, Raiden, Quan Chi, Rain, Kenshi, and Skarlet. I can do without Sonya and Johnny Cage because both of their moves are in Cassie Cage but I wouldn't mind them coming back. It's always good to see returning characters. I wish that Sheeva would come back but I guess that Boon has put his foot down about that. Not that I really want her to be in it or that I liked playing with her but she wasn't a terrible character. Freddy would be fun to play with again especially if they were to put Jason in it also. We can make our own ending to Freddy vs. Jason now. Haha. Also, Tanya, Daegon, Li Mei, Sareena, Frost, and Reiko were all background cameo characters who weren't involved in the actual storyline but they didn't die in MK9 either. I think they should also come back. And why not Bo' Rai Cho and Havik being that they are in other people's endings?

Fifth: As far as who I think should return from MK4-Unchained and not including any of the above listed goes?

MK4/Gold - Jarek, Kai, Fujin, and Shinnok

MK: Deadly Alliance/Tournament Edition - Blaze, Drahmin, Moloch, Mavado, and Nitara

MK: Deception/Unchained - Ashrah and Shujinko

Meat, Mokap, Kobra and Hsu Hao shouldn't come back. Meat, Mokap, and Kobra were characters created from other sprites and were also dedicated to someone else. And Boon has expressed hatred for Hsu Hao so we might not ever see him again. Also, not Onaga or Taven because I believe that Raiden's going to prevent their return and the Seido characters shouldn't return either due to them being unimportant to the series.

I know, it's a lot of people but there's always downloadable content or achievements for everyone I mentioned.

And lastly: You crossed out Liu Kang. I'm not sure if he's actually dead. He wasn't in high spirits and he was defeated by Raiden but I don't think that we should assume that he's dead. Everyone who died in the game were just left where they died whereas Liu Kang was the only unconscious person to be moved from the spot that he fell. That's not necessarily the reason why we shouldn't think that Liu Kang isn't dead but I doubt that Raiden would outright kill him just because he wasn't seeing eye to eye with him. He shouldn't be someone who is down for the count. I personally would've made a catagory that would be for unknown statuses.

Overall, good job on this thread.