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i'd like to see more variety in future games

For variety, I'd like to hear MK2 - Death Jam as the character select music. Maybe an option to turn on certain tunes

Tropes work for games mainly because they're accurate in the context, so a tomahawk wielding Indian pulled from a tribe for his fighting skills to fight in a tourney makes just as much sense as a Japanese guy as a ninja fighting in a tournament for his.. ninja skills
 
i somewhat agree with the overall sentiment of increasing variety, but i can't give enough credit to nrs for the leaps and bounds they've already made.

With the whole ninja pallete swap issue. just within the two most recent mk games (mk9/mkx) they've just about fixed it. e.g ermac is some kinda withered up mummy sorcerer. reptile getting closer and closer to his namesake. smoke being an "enenra". noob saibot working at a jamba juice....

i'm hesitant to agree with borrowing too much from real life cultures, like a previous comment said, i dont want it to become a checklist.

As far as varierty in mkx they've got a lot. asian/south american inspired gods, four armed half dragon man, lizard man, bounty hunter cowboys, blind samurai, bug woman, australian/american cyborg, albino necromancer, symbiotic top and bottom. i rest my case.

In closing. Ermac contains who know how many souls, i'm sure he's got all the things you're looking for in there somewhere.
 

randomdude

Master
An escaped Shang Tsung/Quan Chi experiment that can control his flesh and/or bones at will, possibly has regeneration would be cool. He could be from outworld or earthrealm, created from nothing or a just random dude that was captured. I wanna see how would a normal person deal with such situations.
 
Okay, we need a ninja who's a squid/bird/alligator/dinosaur hybrid who can spit molten silver at you and has the ability to shoot dead body parts from it's mouth while also having an army of ducks to command because ducks are terrifying.
 
I demand Johnny Cage be revealed as a lapsed orthodox Jew just 'cause.

The idea of this arrogant douchebag, formerly a meek Jewish boy going to temple is too good to pass up.
 

kabelfritz

Master
Fact: with the technical exception of Smoke being from Spain, and the likely exception of Mavado who next to no one cared about...MK has never had a legitimate token Latino warrior. Ever.

We need a badass luchador or a Puerto Rican or Dominican warrior for the next title. Not like an El Fuerte masked flippy bro, I mean take Eddie Kingston or Homicide and skin them onto a character, give them a cold and heartless from the streets backstory, and let them off the leash.
wasnt smoke from the czech repulic?

Haitian Voodoo Witch Doctor pls
instant main. i could also imgaine a shaman who can summon the power of his totem animal. and do we even have a real samurai?
 

Eddy Wang

Skarlet scientist
NRS will do whatever they like as long as it keeps inovating i'm going to fucking buy it, my only let down so far is that they keep steering away from the minors characters, judging by their historical way of freshing out old and new characters NRS has a good chance of starting to use those chars too.

I love what they did with Johnny Cage, he changed from the generic MA actor into a Goku like manga super hero, his personality got developed, moveset was developed, background and history got developed.
 

Prinz

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I disagree. I always liked MK for its original characters that are of real origins, but look nothing like it. For example, Liu Kang - shaolin, but never bald with a tunic, Scorpion - ninja, but never wearing only black and shooting stars, also never looked extremely like a scorpion, except Injustice design, which was not NRS original. And so on. I hope Erron isn't from a cowboy super race or some shit.
 

Hini

Batomancer
Norse/Celt inspired character would be awesome, doesnt even have to be someone from earthrealm, could be from somewhere else like kotal.
 

QUAN-FUSION

Crotch-puncher
They could do skin packs like the feudal Japan one for different cultural warriors throughout history.

Spartan maybe? Like 300 style mythology.
 

C88 Nailgun Facelift

I will give you a warriors death.
Fact: with the technical exception of Smoke being from Spain, and the likely exception of Mavado who next to no one cared about...MK has never had a legitimate token Latino warrior. Ever.

We need a badass luchador or a Puerto Rican or Dominican warrior for the next title. Not like an El Fuerte masked flippy bro, I mean take Eddie Kingston or Homicide and skin them onto a character, give them a cold and heartless from the streets backstory, and let them off the leash.
^This would amazing
 

Osmedirez

MK Konspiracy Theorist
Thing is, almost every character in MK is based on wild action movie tropes, mostly of the Martial Arts variety, and THAT is part of it's core. They've branched into other categories of martial combat, but that's just it. Any type or style of combat from any culture would be awesome, but it has to be done right or you end up with caricatures rather than characters.

They got away with Kotal I think only by making him an alien god-being who was once worshiped on earth.. which is basically true according to the History Channel, amirite?

But more seriously, it really doesn't matter where they draw inspiration from, as long as the character is over-the-top and thematically ridiculous outside of the context of MK.... they fit. :p
 

Hexin_Wishes

Likes nerds with big ...
Fact: with the technical exception of Smoke being from Spain, and the likely exception of Mavado who next to no one cared about...MK has never had a legitimate token Latino warrior. Ever.
I wanted Erron to be that character with the whole "Salazar = Erron" theory floating around. It would have worked, vaqueros were badass.
 
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