I can easily see both Daegon and Taven as the Yun and Yang versions of MK. People talk about them as if they could not be anything else from what they started in the one only game they were in. Don't give me wrong, but Ermac used to be one of the most generic characters back in the day till the day NRS decided to develop him in Deception. People just seem to have selective memory according to their tastes. And don't let me start with characters like Smoke, Noob Saibot, Jade, Reptile and so on...
I want Daegon to be in X and I am pretty sure he would look great. NRS likes the character so...
Shirai-ryu or how the hell it's spelled is going to have probably three members in X (Scorpion, Forest Fox and who knows Takeda) and it's not among the 5 clans, even though it's one of the most well-known. So, I am actually excited to see if they include Daegon or not.