User blog comment:Nostalgia of Iran/Next MK game/@comment-5301811-20130908225734/@comment-422853-20130915013536

That's not the fault of the characters though, but how the developers executed them. They could make the newcomers of MK4 and the other 3D games as fleshed out and likeable as the characters from MK1 through 3 if they really tried, both from a story and gameplay perspective (Kenshi says hi). Pretty much any one of them is redeemable minus the obvious joke ones like Mokap.

Much as I would like for most (or all) of those killed against Sindel to be resurrected outside of Quan Chi's clutches, them remaining dead does allow the next roster to be fresh. They can only reuse every character from the first three games or so so many times before it becomes stale, ya know?