Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-10957038-20150417233526/@comment-6754514-20150422162526

I can tell pretty much no one in this thread has grasped the concept of "Next Generation" yet.

I personally think the reason they've killed most of the old characters and replaced them with new ones might have something to do with Armageddon, where there were SO many powerful kombatants that the world itself was going to be destroyed. This game is about the old generation retiring; they've been here for eight and a half games (the half being MKvsDC, of course, and some characters such as Sonya/Jax and Sub-Zero even had their own games) and they're ready to leave mortal kombat. Johnny's in at least his 50s by now, I'm pretty sure, and Scorpion has pretty much killed everyone he wanted to kill so he's no longer a brutal demon... or Scorpion in the first place.

Thinking that all the old characters will be "resurrected" is just desperate when the X in the name is meant to not only represent the number 10, but also represent "neXt."

Oh, and about my personal opinion on the topic of this thread, I honestly think Kotal Kahn is worthy of succeeding Shao Kahn as the emperor. All of Mileena's rebellion either die or are secretly betraying her, so it's clear that almost no one in-universe wants her to be empress, besides Raiden for his own Outworld-hating purposes (because under the rule of Kotal Kahn Outworld could actually return to its former "glory" and become a threat again).