Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24521551-20180922091032/@comment-30711175-20181008123724

@Dragonspyne -- "Looking at this again, I do like the idea of a character being able to possess his opponents and use their powers on themselves. Like if you possessed Raiden then you could perform one his electric powers and it would just aim at himself."

I don't. It seems too hammy and ridiculous to be able to force an opponent to perform their special moves on themselves.

"Right. But I think it would be a great replacement for Shang Tsung. The point being that the character could perform every characters' moves like Shang Tsung or even Shujinko."

They already tried to rip-off Shang Tsung's ability to copy other characters with Shinnok in MK4 and Shujinko in Deception.