Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-4565921-20141004012837

Macaulyn wrote: As much as I'm a huge fan of Rain, I have the feeling he will not return. I saw Ed Boon saying in an interview that characters that appeared in MK9 will not appear as DLC in MKX because he wanted to give the game more variation, and he mentioned that Rain had less chance to appear due to that. So, if Rain does not appear in the main game, what I don't discard, he is very likely to not even become a DLC.

Skarlet, on the other hand, I'm completely sure of the presence in the next game. You see, she appeared in MK9 without much of a story, and it was also her debut. What is cool is that she became extremely popular for a new nearly-storyless character, so it would be a waste of money to ignore her now since she is a success. They just need to give her an interesting role, a new awesome costume, better fatalities and there goes the awesome character.

Now, regarding the other ones:

Sheeva - As much as I think she is cool, I think that, considering Goro's entrance as a normal character, there will not be much variation on adding her, unless she gets new powers, what I find unlikely.

Reptile - I have great doubts about him, but I still don't discard him completely. The problem is... he was completely useless in MK9's story and would need a real role in MKX.

Cyrax and Sektor - I'll bet that what will happen to them in this timeline is the same thing that happened in the original. Cyrax gets his brain back and Sektor gets beaten up by someone (because he deserves it).

Ermac - I don't find it too hard to make moves for him. One for slamming, other for immobilizing, and... maybe another where he can use souls to attack by themselves a la Kenshi?

Baraka - As you said, lets keep this one outside discussion for a while. We'll see when more of the roster and story is revealed.

Kintaro - Same situation as Sheeva.

Mileena - She was kinda hinted, so, she will probably return. I think Reptile will be back. He has been hinted at a lot on Boon's Twitter. But I agree, he needs a better role (and he should speak for once!)

Also, I personally would like for Kintaro to be DLC, even though it feels a bit unlikely even to me. An appearance solely in story mode would be fine with me. After all, he did survive the events of MK9, so it gives an opportunity to develop more on his character.

Ermac is sort of semi-confirmed due to some leaked concept art that was shown.

I was surprised that Sheeva managed to survive the events of MK9, whereas in the original timeline, Kano just backstabbed her and was killed by Shao Kahn. I wonder how they'll continue her story. Unlikely as it may be for her to be in the main roster, there's a part of me that personally wants her to become a good character. She's honestly sick of the Centaurs and Tarkatans gaining more favor than the Shokan. I'm not sure if Goro and Kintaro would side with her in terms of turning over a new leaf.