Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-26516813-20171026231015/@comment-30711175-20171117222141

Dragonspyne wrote: Just as my opinion, I think all the characters that so happen to be "horrible" should get some kind of revamp in this next game. If not for the "old character" feel then for an attempt to justify the creation of the characters. The characters were created and introduced for a reason. They were liked once before and creating new characters doesn't justify reconning old ones. Also, as a thought, I realize that both Mokap and Meat are both joke characters but I think they should go with a different character. I've said it once before that Mokap should just be a skin for Johnny Cage because he's just about as close to what that character is as anything. Both are suppposed to be a part of the entertainment industry. Why couldn't Mokap just be Johnny Cage in a motion capture suit? Also, and just throwing this out there, why couldn't Meat be a skin for someone like either Havok or Reiko or even introduce Forest Fox as a playable character and have him have the "Meat" skin? You can't justify characters like Kai, Kira, and Kobra returning, because they were recruited by Liu Kang and Kabal respectively who survived Shao Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm in the defunct timeline, but are deceased (or undead) in the present timeline.

On top of that they would appear older than what they were at the time of their original introduction, since the present timeline has advanced 25 years after the events of the reboot, as opposed to just a few years or a decade later, as is the case with the games after MK Trilogy.

Havok, Reiko, and the Red Dragon clan are dead. Moloch and Drahmin are also out of the picture. So who does that leave? Ashrah? Nitara? Seidan (Orderrealm) characters like Dairou, Darius, and Hotaru?

It goes without saying that Kenshi and Bo' Rai Cho (who is unpopular, but all the more important) have earned their place on the MK roster. Li Mei, Sareena, Frost, and Fujin should return as well. But the rest of the 3D characters should be relegated to cameos because they were never that impressive or important to the story anyway.

To have every single character return in a future game in some form or another would justify Armageddon having to happen again, which renders the point of the 2011 reboot null, since the growing number of combatants would once again destabilize the realms. And characters have to die or not appear at all in order to keep this balance in check.