Juxtapose
Master
Well yes and no. They were all Revenants for Mortal Kombat X, but they all had default non-Revenant skins. In fact, Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and Kitana's primaries were "what-if" skins (what they'd look like 25 years later had they not died.I'm surprised no one mentioned it's that way bc they are following the story. Nightwolf, Sindel, and Jade were all killed in 9 and became revenants. Makes sense to me.
In Mortal Kombat 11, they generally started all the Revenant characters as primarily Revenant skins, yet their into dialogue and endings were all of their past, non-Revenant selves.
So yes, it's part of the story, but they haven't properly followed it. Personally, I think they should have consistently, but at least the skin options are overall there for both.