Greetings all,

1. Li Mei

Sometimes I really just can't believe what people are saying here. All the way up until now, there have been ardent Li Mei haters here, who would not acknowledge her existence up until now, but they took Smoke's and Kabal's presence at face value because "omg their badas", although not a shred of concrete evidence has been presented on their presence... Grow up.

2. Kobra/Ben & Skab/Noob

This controversy is rather easy to solve. Rather than focusing on health bars (which doesn't prove shit because Ermac had Sub-Zero's face in an earlier pic), we should look at fighting stances. "Kobra" and "Ben" have the same fighting stance (looks like karate or shotokan). So, very likely they are the same character.

The problem with "Skab" however is that, other than this render, there has been no in-game image of him yet (only a small one during the puzzle combat). The guy in black and maroon is, according to me, Noob, because he shares the same fighting stance as what many believe to be either Smoke or Noob's alt. It's clearly visible in the 2nd trailer. I still tend to believe that Skab and Noob are two different characters.
Cheers, VQ