Im sorry but no, just no. You dont just bring back these characters as humans in single player without any explanation as to why they are human. What the hell does tournament play have to do with anything? They cant use revenant skins during a tournament? As far as im concerned, they are alive. I mean there are plenty of spoilers alone just in the interactions the characters have with each other.
I'm not following. What is "single player" - do you mean the story? If so, then Liu Kang, Kitana, and the others
are not human in the story. They're Revenants. They're undead, Quan Chi's servants. If you want to imagine that they are alive while they are very clearly not alive, then that is a very silly thing to do, but I most certainly can't stop you from doing it.
Without her weapons? Because she doesnt have them anymore. Kitana does, or is the mournful variation not canon?
If costumes can be non-canon (which plenty have been since at least MK9) and ladder endings can be non-canon, why can't variations be non-canon? There's a variation where Liu Kang has tattoos on his face, does that mean Liu Kang actually got his face tattooed? Even though we've seen him and he didn't?
I did watch the scene and it was absolutely awful. Seriously they couldnt have just had some random Lin Kuei guy do it? Its like "Oh hey its Fro... oh nevermind"
Anyways, the story mostly disappointed me, yes because of nitpicky stuff but also because it just felt rushed and not as fleshed out as the MK9 story
The story was definitely rushed. I wouldn't dream of disagreeing with you there.
But I'll take MKX over MK9 any day of the week. MK9 had a better plot, but paper thin characters who were either caricatures, stereotypes, or worst of all just
boring. Johnny Cage was the only character in MK9 who didn't put me to sleep. MKX's story turned Johnny Cage, Sonya, Mileena, and Kano into serious characters and it brought new life to Sub-Zero and Scorpion, who are finally allowed to get over their rivalry, it introduced Kotal Kahn... at the end of the day, that's the stuff that matters to me, because it means that even if this story wasn't the best, there's a lot of reason to be optimistic for the future.