How about a softly spoken, hefty American fellow who's a chef by day, but fights the forces of Outworld with a black ponytail and action-movie invincibility by night?

No good? Well, this guy seems to go over pretty well:

There's a couple of these types of threads already bud. One

Here

and one Here

Here's a suggestion for the MK Team:

Don't pull out anymore Strykers and Mokaps out of your ass. Make some descent fighters!!

What you said and not to mention no more comedians... I'm tired of games that are meant to be serious have some joker character like Cage nad Bo'Rai Cho. No more jokesters.

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Yeah, Cage only made me laugh ONCE and that was in the MK Movie where he barged through Sonya and Liu Kang saying "Ahh... hah, no more steps" panting and tired like a dog. That was it, and probably because I was in elementary school at the time and damn near anything made me laugh back then.

Bo Rai Cho was a great character and I love using him in MKDA and MKD (not MKA though) but he never made me laugh. I realize he was supposed to bring humor but it failed. His puking fit fine with his character, I just never laughed.

How about a figher inspired by Tony Jaa? That'd be cool Imagine him doing the Fatality, jumping up on somene and deliver and elbow making the opponent's head split. That'd be awesome.

Stryker was an awesome character, in my opinion. Perhaps my sentimental favourite of all-time. I loved the concept of a human character so bad ass, that he is chosen to fight for Earthrealm, even though he's got no supernatural powers or anything.

It's a theme I really love in Mortal Kombat. "How the hell am I meant to kill this giant eight-foot beast, about 900lbs of solid muscle that can breath fire, Raiden?" "Well, technically, it can be done, my son. He is technically a mortal..." "Technically screw you, Raiden."

Bo' Rai Cho grew on me as time went on. The farting and the yacking was pretty stupid, but I guess it made a statement about the life his character lives, he freedom he represents, and the unothodox style of fighting he can implement; but I never thought it was "funny." I loved the general idea of an Outworld martial arts master helping train Earthrealm fighters, and generally being responsible for saving the world, but he doesn't care much that he doesn't get credit, it's just what he does.

Stryker and Bo' Rai Cho are both damn solid characters, in my opinion.

Mokraps & Bos can stay away, but they gotta have at least one nut puncher

I agree with you on the entire Stryker thing. All Stryker had was guns, and he was able to fight amongst the baddest of the bad. On that subject, because Stryker had guns, couldn't he have been able to just shoot and kill alot of the characters? Johnny Cage is an action star, if he got shot, I'm pretty sure he'd go down. I agree with you on the subject of Bo' Rai Cho. Bo' Rai Cho only made me truly laugh once, when I figured out his name is supposed to be like 'Boracho', which is, loosely translated, Spanish for 'Drunk'. Bo' Rai Cho is great because of how laid back he can be, and still have the responsibility of saving Earthrealm.

I think Stryker and Bo' Rai Cho are decent characters. Not great, and if only a selected number of characters get to be in MK8, then I would like to count both out, to make way for the likes of Scorpion and Noob Saibot, and such.

Dude, I LOVE your avatar!

suggestions:

Tadastiole (humas call him Toadstool), a werewolf-like scientist from alternate Earth, with jacket full of tiny gadgets and weapons. In his universe, everytime a blackhole is created, a star is born in our world, and vice versa. A problem with the gravity between the Earth and the moon, is causing great havoc in his flip-side universe.

Eagle J. Meadows, the last american president according to an indian prophecy.

Refridgo Zanzibar, schizophrenic and pathological lyar, pretending to be sub-zero's dad.

Tank Blank, huge black guy who recites poetry while fighting

Skwadakio(human's call him, Squid kid), laser-whip wielding alien, with tentacled head. A highly trained military officer, sent to be Tadastiole's protector on his mission. They are from an older, alternate Earth, where all creatures have evolved into intelligent, humanoid creatures, while retaining some form and function of their biological ancestors. In their older universe, many stars have exploded, filling deep-space with liquid helium,
a super-fluid, and heavy-metals which super-conduct within superfluids, allowing for the evolution of hyper-intelligent electro-magnetic beings, who are like angels, that guide the evolution of all creatures.

Erascus Quaver, English bowman from the hundred years war, who almost became king in the 13th century, but was poisened by french clergyman. Is brought into this time, by time-traveller named..

John Titor(alias), time-traveller from 2036. Must help Erascus to survive many onslaughts, to become king in his time, to prevent division of Britain and America in revolutionary war, which eventually leads to them being unable to win WW3. He brings the would be King into mortal kombat, since to survive in his dandgerous time, he must be able to survive in the most dangerous combat of all.

Muad d'ib, spiritual leader and telepathic fighter, English accent. Descendant of Erascus.

Soronada, mexican beauty, can make her enemies fall asleep, with hypnotic but beautiful singing voice.

Insulin, mercenary with blood-sugar disease, varies between hyper and fatigued fighting.

Xoxxo-Zikky, colourful looking, hyper-intelligent fan of scientists from alernate Earth, with a child-like personality. He is a humanoid jumping-spider. Slips through portal with them, without their knowing, to 'play' in Mortal Kombat. He doesn't actually intend to enter the tournament, since he knows he could defeat anyone (biological) creature in a second, but he's a lover, not a fighter, and a wild-card to whoever is organizing MK this time.

Batra Betty, pretty lass. Humanoid-vampire bat from alternate Earth.

A female Tarkatan, a full Tarkatan, unlike Mileena.

An old, eccentric, grand master style Shokan, who is small and lithe and moves with agility and quickness. Think Master Roshi from DBZ and Rafiki from The Lion King to get a general idea.

No, that is the last thing we need is another already made character only with a different gender.

That is what the creators need to stop doing. We have already seen that happen WAY too many times. With Frost (Even though I do like her) Khameleon... I'm not going on becuase I've made my point.

With new characters the creators need to actually think for once instead of making another same character. We don't need another fighter with telekentics. Chances are one of the telekinetic fighters will make a come back which is either Ermac or Kenshi, depending on if MK will actually feature a telekinetic character.

Not to mention, that once you have a character with a certain ability in the game, there shouldn't be another character in the game with the same powers. Unless you trigger them differently on moves. And what I mean is this:

You have Sub-Zero and Frost both dealing with ice powers. But Sub-Zero has the classic ice bolt, ice clone, and shooting the ice in the air and waching it come down above the opponent, (Whatever that move is called) While you have Frsot who does have ice powers, but fires them differently than Sub-Zero as she has the ice slide, ground freeze, and her new move which was the teleport punch.

I mean MK8 can feature charcters with similar element powers, but there shouldn't be repeatable moves like the teleport punch or the ice bolt, fire bolt and etc. There should be a specific way in dealing these powers out.

Which comes back to the whole character issue. The fact that the majority of MK8 characters only want either revenge or power in their story, we've all seen that happen and frankly it's getting old. Let's have a character that will feature something brand new in his or her story. For once let's see something different.

So here's what I'm saying:

No more repeatable characters
No more characters that share similar moves
No more same topic stories

How to fix this is to actually sit down for once and think about NEW things. No more same repeatable thing. Talking about something from an already made thread that MK should feature new personalities. I've stated that we should see something more down the line like an amazon or a necromancer or a priest. And what I mean with a necromancer for those who do not know what they are is someone that deals with the dead. Actually have a character that summons an undead guy for about a couple of seconds and make the other fighter deal with a two on one situation. How about that? Well, that's all I need to say about this. Nice post Thekrow.

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Yeah......so what did you think of the other one?

I'm fine with any new characters as long as they don't create anymore ninjas, cyborgs, movie stars, cops or gods. Oh and no fireballs please.

I agree with all of those (especially cyborgs), besides ninjas. Ninjas have always been the faces of MK. When most people think MK, they think Scorpion and Sub-Zero. (and maybe Liu Kang)

I'm just saying, more ninjas wouldn't hurt.