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Even if two characters share 90% of things in common theres so much room for diversion in play styles and moves that it's downright silly.The selling point is whatever the fans want it to be. Is Jax's selling point that he's black? Cause nobody would be upset with Jax returning even though we already have other soldiers, other guys with strength powers, other guys with guns, even other guys with robot arms. Does he invalidate Darrius ever existing again? No. A shit character is a shit character and they stay that way until you make them good. "Selling point" is irrelevant. NRS redesigning and shoving Quan Chi down our throats for 15 years hasn't somehow made him the most popular villain, sorceror, or even guy from the Netherrealm. Because he's still just a stupid grey guy with a stupid bald head and nothing that Shang Tsung didn't already do better.
Scorpion doesn't even REMOTELY resemble the guy he was even two games ago, much less in the beginning. But he's a cool fucking character. Do you remember when Smoke was just Scorpion in grey? LITERALLY, just Scorpion in grey. Was he a cool character? Yes, because he was fucking Scorpion in grey. Then he was Scorpion AND Sektor in blue and he was lame. Then he was. . . well, whatever he was in Deception and he was even lamer. Now he's a long haired demon avatar Naruto reject from Sweden and he's awesome again.
Sheeva is one of two non-humanoid females in the entire series, one of maybe 3 total characters with strength based powers, and the only one (until now) who has ever been playable. She's got more selling points than almost the entire remaining rainbow of UMK3 ninjas put together and if she wasn't shit tier and generally unpleasant to use in MK9, she'd be way more popular and relevant.
Like the young martial artist master Shaolin monks that are both descendants of the greatest mortal kombat champion and were trained by the same people at the same time.
Exactly the same though, and with one the other is unneeded right? right?
Or the two special forces agents who have an intense rivalry with the most powerful underground criminal organization in the world and its leader.
In fact, Goro and Sheeva have less in common story-wise than both of those pairs.
They're both from the same race and worked for Kahn, and that is where their similarities end.
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