Thing is. Nobody should be mad that Reptile is back. We knew this guy was a high possibility in the first place.

It's the way they reveal these characters that dont cut for me. Just for kicks, for example, You go ahead and tell any guy who has known about Mortal Kombat for a long time that Raiden, Scorpion, and Sub Zero will be in MK:15. They might respond "no shit, they are what make MK".

Ok cool, but now they seem to be getting this idea to reveal these guys as if we never knew who the hell Reptile, Kung Lao, or Kitana was 19 years ago. YES they did a great job with EVERYONE they showed in MKX so far, and Im excited to play the game, dont get it twisted, MKX is gonna be good, but I refuse to go crazy in this whole "Who's Next" mess. People are putting too much into this.

What it have killed them to just reveal Kitana, Kung Lao, Raiden, Sub, Scorp, Reptile, Kano, and the other veteran characters first all in one shot? There's nothing super revealing about the same gift given to a 5 year old kid wrapped in a different color armor, every year if that same kid didnt have a clue In the first place. Thats just corny. They could have a better way of saving time on these reveals without it feeling like such a drag and a long wait is all Im sayin.

Its almost like showing me Scorpion one week, and 5 months later you decide to finally show Sub Zero? Yeah they are awesome, but WTF. show me somebody I dont have a clue about.

I think that's a big part of it. They showed Scorp and Subby and yeah obviously then they showed a bunch of new people talking about the next generation of MK and having as much newness as possible and THEN started revealing returning characters exclusively.

But the thing is the new characters might reveal too much story wise. The way these trailer are with intros and everything something spoilery would surely be revealed and after the MK9 leak they're probably holding a lot more than they usually would.

Also people took NRS narrative of "new fighters" waaaaay too far. People were throwing out these ridiculous numbers like only eight returning characters or more than half the roster would be new and stuff like that. Returning characters might be damage control. Showing fans that apparently didn't hear them when they said that long time fans would be happy with the returning roster.

"More new characters than any previous MK"

If you count Onaga and Shujinko , Deception had 9.

Dairou, Darrius, Havik, Kobra, Kira, Ashrah, Shujinko and Onaga.


Right now MKX has 4 new characters.

If there are 26 characters, with 13 being revealed, and Mileena likely being the next reveal, that still leaves 12 characters left.

There would have to be at least 6 more new characters to technically be more than deception.

Takeda, Forrest Fox, Erron Black (Salazar?), Jacqui, Kung Jin, and Ro tan Cho.

The other six most likely being Fujin, Shinnok, Shang Tsung, Bo Rai Cho, and the last two being anyone's guess .... Smoke, Tanya, Ermac, Baraka ?

That's it actually, the reveal is so weak that it actually told us little from what I have seen they are playing it safe with Reptile . Kitana's trailer brought more than Kitana, it brought glimpses of new stages, a few secs of story mode, Kung Lao in action ,etc...

They could have shown the variations, or at least brought a better opponent where a the intro dialogue would be more interesting. I just hate the fact that Kung Lao still sounds cheesy.

Well freaking said sir!

I know it's old but for all the Reptile fans congrats with your reveal !!. I am not a big fan of Reptile but I can see wy he is your favorite.

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I am still hoping for Bo Rai Cho or Fujin

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RE: Reptile has been revealed.

"More new characters than any previous MK"

If you count Onaga and Shujinko , Deception had 9.

Dairou, Darrius, Havik, Kobra, Kira, Ashrah, Shujinko and Onaga.


Right now MKX has 4 new characters.

If there are 26 characters, with 13 being revealed, and Mileena likely being the next reveal, that still leaves 12 characters left.

There would have to be at least 6 more new characters to technically be more than deception.

Takeda, Forrest Fox, Erron Black (Salazar?), Jacqui, Kung Jin, and Ro tan Cho.

The other six most likely being Fujin, Shinnok, Shang Tsung, Bo Rai Cho, and the last two being anyone's guess .... Smoke, Tanya, Ermac, Baraka ?)



Spot on!

This is basically what I was thinking. I do believe Baraka will still be playable though.

I honestly doubt Shinnok is a, playable character. I forsee him being a non playable boss in a portion of story mode if that. It depends, on, how the Neatherrrealm War goes. I'm sure we'll see some of it. Roster is good so far I just, wonder about new additions and if more will be revealed before launch. Cause really they, could hold back the majority as suprise so we won't know everything before actually playing the game

Like myself and others have speculated, revealing anyone from the comic would basically spoil the comic which is why I don't see anyone like Takeda or Erron Black being revealed anytime soon.

Now I'm hoping for Shang and Noob. Then the rest can be all new for all I care. I just want one of my favorite 2.

A handful of users on MKO need to stop eating so much Salted Quarremel.


Also for all the haters please proceed to place your tears in a water bottle so I can drink your sweet delicious butthurt tears.


"New Era of MK" please NRS is not stupid enough to alienate the fanbase they have built over the past 20 years.

The golden era of MK is here to stay and I hope it never leaves.

Exactly. They never said anything about there be more new than returning, people just jumped the gun when they saw 4 new characters revealed at E3 with only Scorp and Sub representing the vets.

The fanbase. A lot of us have grown up and are actually willing to accept change for a new generation of Mortal Kombat though.
We have plenty of games to relive the old MK now.

And NRS has alienated their fanbase before.
It was called "Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe".

I'll take a bite at this.

Reptile's story never changes, true. At least for Scorpion, they tried different things. For a while, they tried there being no bad blood between him and Sub-Zero. Then they tried him being the Champion of the Elder Gods only for him to go full vengeance mode again. Reptile has always just been a lonely henchman. The one time he actually could've been interesting, they morph him into a separate character completely and he acts as a host. Even in Deadly Alliance, he comes into contact with Nitara, finds Kahn dead and there's a part where after Kahn's death he just "wanders aimlessly." Seriously, the fuck? All of the other stuff that happens to him, say in Armageddon, is never definitely addressed and could be considered pure hearsay and in Deception you could say he's the "Chosen One" except he's just used as a sack of meat and all the royalty and pizzazz goes to another newly created character entirely.



The big difference here is Tanya has only been in 2 games where stories mattered (not counting Armageddon as aside from Konquest mode, we know zero fucks about what happened to everybody). She still has untapped potential and could perceivably do something interesting with her. Reptile has been playable in 4 games and has had zero progression what-so-ever in terms of character development. That's 4 different times where Boon & Co. sat around each other and said "What should Reptile do?" "Uh I don't know, protect the games antagonist?" "Sure, sounds good, next!" They've shown time and time again they have no clue what to do with him as a character. Some of these lesser used characters, in my belief, have a better shot than our scaly friend at getting better, more interesting character development because there isn't a well established track record of using the character at a disservice in terms of story. Does that mean I want them in over Reptile? No, they can exist in the same game and I'm happy to see him back. However, since Reptile keeps popping up, if they are going to use him then I want to see him used BETTER because his character is capable of it.

I'm not going to touch on gameplay as we simply haven't seen enough of it for me to make a definitive decision, although I don't have a problem with anything I've seen of that. Still not too keen on his outfit but that's not very important to me anyway.



This is true to a point. It'd be nice to see some of these characters start to sit out so we can truly see a "new generation." If them saying they don't know how to continue is true and not just interesting interview soundbites to make a headline then that is what needs to start happening and I have no problem with it. Sure, they don't have to be gone forever but they need to start sitting 1 or 2 games out and rotating. They are seemingly clearing out the pack of post Trilogy characters with the comics but that worried me none as "no one in MK is dead forever"..... except for maybe Hsu Hao,

Even with my favorite, Kenshi, if he makes it into this game and I get to see him interact with his son and watch him in story mode, I'll have no issue with him sitting out MK11 and MK12 as long as when he comes back they actually have something great and new for him to do outside of Shang Tsung revenge and Special Forces agent on a job, you know? If that's what it takes for these characters to receive further, interesting, exciting character development then fuck it, I'm all for my favorites sitting out for a while and lettings some fresh faces come in before they tag back into the ring.

But if they are truly going that route and cleaning house so-to-speak, we already got a fairly incredible fan service release with MK9 for the Trilogy characters. Now we need some closure for the post-Trilogy era as well.

Woah woah woah, we don't refer to that game....

Doesn't exist, nope you can't make me.


Honestly? I wouldn't expect anyone post MK4 other than Quan or Kenshi

Would it surprise me if we got Havik, Fujin, Shinnok & Dairou? Hell yeah it would and it would be so freaking awesome.

I'm not opposed to any character in the MK universe except for Hsu Hao because no thanks you can keep your BDSM Fetish to yourselves NRS. plus comics y'know? So I shouldn't have to worry about him.

But we all know where the money makers come from at the end of the day...the golden era of MK. Could we see a new golden age with MKX? absofuckinglutely and it's really started to look that way. My hype is off the charts.

I really think if Reptile's reveal trailer had showcased all three of his variations, in-depth in his gameplay such as other characters, people wouldn't be lashing out so much on Reptile.

For the little gameplay we got from Reptile, with no info about his three variations, and only really got to see some special moves + X-Ray + his Fatality.

I think Reptile will be one of the favorites, gameplay wise, when it's all said and done.

That's my favorite look too. I like all of his looks so far besides MK4 Reptile. That look is the worst imo. He just looked horrendous.

And SubMan I can't quote you cause I'm on my phone, but damn that made me laugh. Joey Mercury could be Baraka and Jamie Noble could be Reptile hahaha!

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I strongly disagree with the order the characters are being revealed , they threw out of the window any possibility of surprise of old characters getting revived during the story. This is a lot less fresh and risky that I originally expected/hoped for. Way too much MK9 for my taste, specially given the amount of source material they have to create something new and different.

I was disappointed in this video. I am happy to see Reptile back, but the only thing that caught my attention in this video was Kung Lao's humor. His design looks better than MK9, but I expected an even better design. Hopefully it will eventually rub off on me.

On a positive note, it's good to have the original secret ninja back, and this is the third MK2 reveal. hopefully we will see more before we go to MK3 and so on.

YYessss reptilleeee

I think he looks cool, better than in mk9. happy to see his weird shape of head fixed, lol. X ray looks brutal, good to see my lizard friend back.

-EDIT- Seriously NRS stop making the intro's look so damn cheezy, it's not funny. I now have a quarrel with you...

Everyone who bitches about awesome Reptile will get his ass smacked by me online

He didn't do much in the video if you ask me. I can't wait until they actually explain how each of his variations work. Until then, I am not impressed gameplay wise.