Yeah,right,like,we won't see Sub-Zero in the next game.Or Kitana,Jax,Kung Lao,Liu Kang and Noob Saibot are gonna stay dead for long. Hell,even Stryker after this game will be demanded.

Are you fooling yourself on purpose because this is what you WANT to happen, or do you honestly believe that?

You honestly believe NRS is going to have eight playable zombies in the next game?

This isn't even the first time a wad of characters was wiped out in a single game. In fact, many of these characters weren't in Deception because they were defeated by the Deadly Alliance. Either way, it doesn't make any sense to have a bunch of zombies as playable characters. If anything, Raiden's going to spend the next game fighting for their souls.

But I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

They might not look like zombies, they might just have that blank eyes look like Scorpion, or they might be changed in some way like Bi-Han was when he became Noob, or the designers might just get lazy and give them no visual "raised from the dead" characteristics at all...but they'll be definitely return and be playable in the very next game. The ENTIRE REASON Quan Chi got their souls, MK9 TELLS us this, is so he can use them as an army when he and Shinnok attack, which MK9 also outright tells us is what's coming next.
So the point is that their deaths won't even last a whole game, they're not even going to take a BREAK much less be fucking permanently dead.

Back before my MK8 roster happened, and it was an MK10 roster, I had them wearing the costumes they died in with paler skin, slightly faded colors, and at least one Brotherhood of Shadow logo on them. [Kang's was on his belt in place of the MK dragon, etc..]..

So, I figure they should/would go with something like that...

Hold the swearing, it's not that big a deal.

Anyhoo, I just don't see it happening, and I hope it doesn't. Hopefully, this will give way for new characters.

Because we've seen how the MK team does with introducing half of a cast as new characters. Or any fighting game for that matter.lol.

Fact is fighting games are known for their characters, and honestly MK1-3 brought the most memorable ones. They should take a few of the ones from MK4-MKA and try to revamp them but at the cost of getting rid of those 10 plus more for a game would be ridiculous.

I still think they are going to try and replace Sub-Zero with Frost in the next game, in which case I say good luck but I ain't playing it.

I say find a way to bring Sub-Zero, Smoke, Noob Saibot, and probaly Kung Lao ,with his popularity in this game, back and let the others take a seat until MK11. Taking those guys out in exchange for new characters though would be a no thankyou. They can keep Havik, Tanya, or any other character past MK3 for that matter. I don't want a remake of MK9 but I also don't want Sub-Zero left out. There are certain characters that should make it in the game no matter what and I think 4 have earned that Raiden, Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Sonya. I think if they ain't in the game it ain't Mortal Kombat and that's one of NRS's biggest problems. They have faces, but they don't realize it. Some characters need to be in every game and then build around them.

Introducing characters from MK4 and onward to replace them is just going to piss people off especially since those characters were never as well received as the ones from MK1-3 so anyone from MK1-3 shouldn't have to take a backseat.

Characters like
Baraka
Sindel
Reptile
Jax
Stryker
Nightwolf

those are the ones you give a break.

Replace Sonya with Liu Kang and I might agree.

I disagree with the practice of putting the same characters in every game, though. Doesn't matter which fighter it is...

We've already seen that retiring Liu Kang COULD be successful, the decision to kill him off in Deadly Alliance was very popular and the decision to bring him back so soon in the very next game was not.

I also believe that in either the old timeline or this new one, Raiden could successfully be turned into a main villain and then retired or given a break after his defeat, the same way as any main boss outlives their usefulness after the game where their big take-over-the-world plan is stopped.

Unless your Shao Kahn, in which case you can be stopped at least 3 times before someone new comes along.

Well...two appearances is justifiable since the first was just a tournament and the second was the REAL take-over-the-world scheme. And his constant trash talk did make him more likeable than the average one-and-done cosmic threat.

Still, I've always thought he should've died and stayed that way at the end of MK3 instead of Deadly Alliance revealing he was still around just to off him in the opening scene, and then Deception being all "oh wait, no, that didn't really kill him either!"

Well, you can't kill all the Americans, can you?

Seriously, though--Cage COULDN'T die, because Raiden saving him from Motaro is what got all the others killed (which is funny, because his MK3 death was retconned in MK:DA but put back in continuity for MK9.... Ugh, my head is spinning) and they needed to show that and ask the question: was it worth it? Probably not for the health of the realm, but I'm sure as hell happy about it.

Sonya is a woman, and you HAVE to have at least ONE survive, so that helped her odds.

Those are the reasons they HAD to stay alive... but there are reasons besides the obvious ones...

Cage was simply awesome in this game, and I doubt they'd want to kill him after realizing this.

Sonya is the first female of MK, and a soldier to boot.

Etc, etc ad nauseum...

...tired of posting, but you get the drift. Read Queve's posts if you want my opinions--we're pretty much on the same page, there.

Actually, that's open to interpretation. People SAY it was retconned out because Vogel said he never liked that death...but the way the bio is worded ACTUALLY suggests Johnny is simply in denial about the fact that he ever died, or doesn't want to acknowledge it because he's embarrassed by it, and that's why he doesn't want to make a movie parodying the situation.

Honestly, I'm annoyed at some of the deaths more than the way it happened.

Sindel can totally own their butts, that's fine with me. However, I do agree that killing some of them in different places and different situations by different worthy adversaries would have made this whole story much more exciting, emotional, and passionate. The way it all went down in a blink of an eye really cheapened things. I have to agree.

But, like I said before, not everyone should have died. That's my biggest problem. I really can understand the need or significance of having Jax, Kitana, Jade, and Nightwolf die (and its not because I don't like them, cause I do), but, others like Stryker and Smoke should have been spared from that fate, specially after all the trouble they went through to be what they now are thanks to this game. Does this make sense?



But, its not like they don't deserve the shot to grow while others take a back seat for a change. It's not like they don't make sense or like others deserve it more than they do, imo.

That being said, I do agree that the mass massacre of most of them was unnecessary. I can understand some of the killings, but, others like Stryker (the most obvious example, imo) were just stupid. You don't change and build up a character like this just to off him now that he finally rose to the A-list stardom.

What a shame.

Cyber Sub-Zero was badly executed. The scene with Sindel was a great idea that simply twisted out of control when they decided to kill more than they should have.



Hopefully you are correct.



Would love to see Sonya promoted BUT soon after follow her MK9 ending. I want a rebel that for a good reason has to abandon her OIA/SF position in order to grow and help develop her further.

Just like Johnny, who will hopefully maintain his popular personality BUT deal with his new powers in a new situation, no longer associated with moves or his acting career.



All of this.

And LOL at the gaydar comment.



I hope you are right.

But, playable or not playable, most of those characters will (very likely) return, which already ruins the whole point of having killed them in the first place.



This.

I couldn't agree more.

At this point, I'd go ahead and suggest Mileena and maybe Shang Tsung. Problem with Tsung is that, unlike all his other appearances, he got mistreated in favor of Quan Chi, and his importance severely lowered.

Once one of the most significant characters of the story, now, Quan Chi's toy.

-_-'



Agreed. I've had enough of Kahn. Sure, I love him and he'll always be remembered as the best (for now) villain in MK. But, enough is enough already.

I hope he is truly dead. I can't bear the thought of him still being alive after all of this.





*lovelovelove*