Harpoon
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It's not about the weapon, but character type. Kotal basically is the new Nightwolf... and Salazar could very well be as well. Sure, Indian native vs Aztec/tribal character is not a direct rip-off, but it's there. You don't have to go far to look for it. Even design-wise. Ie if they wanted this kind of character in MKX they could've just kept Nightwolf himself instead of killing him off. But I'm glad they did. Kotal is miles better.
Aztec culture and Apache culture are two completely different beasts. Kotal is far from a rip-off of Nightwolf, direct or indirect. If they put in Nightwolf instead of Kotal, we'd have someone with a completely different moveset, background, story role, etc; there's, like, hardly anything the two have in common. And going from Salazar's description in the casting call, he's far from a Nightwolf clone, too.
If MK has room for a bunch of Shaolin monks, a bunch of ninjas, etc. then I think it can have room for multiple guys based off of completely different cultures. And multiple guys with bows.