No, he would have been less popular.

Thank god it didn't go that way....

That doesn't even make sense. Unless you were trying to say Tundra. 'cos with Thundra, I'm picturing a guy with very similar powers to Raiden.

But yeah, just imagine how lame Rain would be if his name was different.

lol Thundra was his name untill the last month/s of completion of the making of mk1

I'm going to have to go the other way and say it wouldn't have made a difference. Sure it's easy to say changing -x- name to -z- would have affected their popularity but we grew up with these names thats why we're so attached to them and resistant to anything different.

I highly doubt that had he been named Thundra you guys wouldn't be dissing the name Sub-Zero. With MK we associate the names of the characters with their special moves, stories and fatalities, thats what makes the characters great and so many fans worship them not a snazzy name.

Honestly, when you step back and look at it, Sub-Zero is a goofy ass name too.

Seriously, who has a hyphen in their name?

We've just grown accustom to it.

Well thundra is a hue ice storm, and i think Thundra is would be a name of an ice god .

Many Asian people do.

never as popular sub-zero is the absolute best name for his type of character,personally i could imagine living if he had a different name