Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-5561191-20141003233252

I've been thinking about the bad guys who should be coming back in this game. You guys know that almost no villain died in MK 9, with the exception of Shang Tsung, Shao Kahn (probably) and Sindel, so it's very likely that all the other evil characters - Sheeva, Reptile, Cyrax and Sektor, Ermac, Baraka (whose name I'm even afraid of mentioning after the discussion we've had), Kintaro, Mileena and even Skarlet and Rain - should be back, not even if some only appear as cameos.

It came to my mind that it should be hard to make variations for Ermac. Yeah, he's got some hundreds of souls at his disposal etc but what else? How can that be molded into three variations? The first one looks obvious: a one that focuses on his telekinectic powers and involves various specials with him levitating the enemy. What I'm trying to say is: what else can he do other than that? I'm one of Ermac's fans who really want to see him (and bet he will be) in MK X, but can anyone think of anything else he can do for the other variations?

Baraka is in the same situation: he lacks powers and special abilities other than his blades. It's easy to think about variations for Mileena - who can teleport, attack with her sai, leap at the enemy and bite him, curl into a ball -, for Reptile - who can get invisible, perform various attacks with acid goo, slash opponents with his claws, run extremely fast - and even for Sheeva - jumps extremely high to stomp on her enemy, grabs and smashes enemy in various ways, stomps on the ground to make the enemy trip... - but all special abilities Baraka has are related to his blades, which doesn't help to make up three variations. And almost everything Ermac can do is levitate the enemy; in various ways, but still just levitating the enemy. That's the problem I'm trying to show. What do you think, people?