I think they should bring smoke back. The reason why I say that because they can take the story back before subzero and smoke were running throughn the forest and smoke got caught. I think if midway really wanted to bring smoke back they could because midway can think of very nice things to do with there characters.They brought back johhny cage and kitana and liu kang. They brouht them back because in mortal kombat 4 they all died.I think they had to start from scratch because they messed up the story lines,that's why they started from scratch.