User blog comment:ShaoKahn928/The Emperor's Looks/@comment-3462939-20110331162616

The game developers always wanted characters like Kabal, Shao Kahn, and Raiden to wear a cape in the original games, but their game's memory couldn't hold enough space to put the capes, so they took it out. But I do agree, the capes are stupid. Going back to its roots, so going capeless again x].