Talk:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-8712165-20140612152512/@comment-1895174-20140612185347

I remember Deception. Remember how you could play as a zombified Liu Kang? Remember how Goro and Shao Kahn were both playable in the Game Cube version? Remember how Jax and Kitana both appeared in the PSP port Mortal Kombat: Unchained?

The thing you're missing is that those characters were killed off as an excuse not to have them in the game, not the other way around. Deadly Alliance's creative team didn't want to have Liu Kang in the game, so they killed him off in the game's intro cinematic. Deception was supposed to bring back a bunch of characters who hadn't been in a Mortal Kombat game in a long time, so a bunch of characters were killed off in the game's intro to provide an excuse for them not being there so there could be more room for characters like Kabal and Ermac.

If they want Kitana and Jade to be in the game, they'll put Kitana and Jade in the game. That they died in MK9's story mode doesn't matter in the slightest.