Roster Speculation

Guyver Spawn said:
Well Lover of Tacos on Twitter said that there will be MK4-MKA characters.

https://twitter.com/kotally_awesome/status/566372601811832832

I personally expect 3 or 4 MK4 characters, 2 MKDA characters and 1 or maybe 2 MKD character on the roster.
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I'm glad we have confirmation, but I'm still only expecting 1-2 total from those games (besides Quan). Even if the roster is comprised of 28 characters, I think there will be extra MK9 or new chars before we get more 3D.
 
I would like to see some DA to A characters return, just to see where the new tech can take these characters. Of course some of these characters suck and some or just copies of others. We may see towards the end of X cameos or DA-A characters if anything to get hype built for 11.
 
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Looks like I might have been wrong. Maybe. I'm gonna choose not to get excited about this since the question is so vague.
 
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Yellow Ledbetter said:
I think the person tried to exclude Shinnok and Quan Chi.
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For my question, I made sure to 1) exclude Quan Chi, 2) say 'playable', and 3) specify characters that made their debut. I don't think there's a loophole around my precautions, but I'm still slightly suspicious that he was messing around with me as well.
 
Lord Greyjoy said:
For my question, I made sure to 1) exclude Quan Chi, 2) say 'playable', and 3) specify characters that made their debut. I don't think there's a loophole around my precautions, but I'm still slightly suspicious that he was messing around with me as well.
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Yeah, that was nice question, I think the answer was more consistent!
 
I'd say that Reiko's chances have gone up considerably as of the preview for issue #7. Kotal seems to consider him, and not Mileena, the true threat in the Outland civil war. That's way too much respect for a cameo.
 
My speculation so far...

Confirmed:
Cassie Cage
Kitana
D'Vorah
Scorpion
Sub-Zero
Raiden
Kano
Quan Chi
Reptile
Ermac
Ferra/Torr
Kotal Kahn
Kung Lao

My guesses...
Jacqui (Cassie Cage's Friend)
Takeda
Kenshi
Fujin
Mileena
Reiko
Tanya
Sareena
The guy with D'Vorah and Kotal Kahn who's wearing a cowboy hat.
Havik
Hotaru
Nitara
Liu Kang
Kung Jin (If he's not using the title Kung Lao.)
Salazar
Bo Rai Cho
The evil guy who has the name that ends with "Cho".
Li Mei

The 4 DLC mentioned in the Kombat Pack (I think that's what it's called).
Goro
Sonya
Kintaro
Johnny Cage
 
Snow said:
Nah. I get the feeling Reiko's gonna die at some point and then Mileena's gonna go ballistic.
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The problem with this theory is that the comic doesn't happen before the game, it happens in the middle of it. We're going to play through Kotal deposing Mileena. So if what you're saying is true, then Reiko will be randomly missing during Kotal's ascension, even though the comic makes a big deal of his being there, then Mileena will start trying to claw her way back into power, then Reiko will die off-screen and we won't hear anything about it, and then Mileena will randomly go ballistic as a result of his death even though we didn't see it?

Or she'll go ballistic in the comic but not in the game? It doesn't make much sense to me.
 
Chrome from MKO had a neat theory:

I may have a feeling that KAI is the bowman. He may be some sort of jungle/savannah warrior if they revamped him. Distinct possibility.
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I can dig it. The bow picture Boon tweeted had what looks like brown skin tone on the arm.


p.W said:
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Also, Reiko fits into both the Outworld Civil War and Netherrealm War sections of the game, no? Unless they've retconned his affiliation with the Brotherhood of Shadow.

For sure he's looking more likely than he has before.

If he's in, he needs a revamp like Kenshi because his MK4/MKA moveset was generic trash.
 
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Lord Greyjoy said:
Also, Reiko fits into both the Outworld Civil War and Netherrealm War sections of the game, no? Unless they've retconned his affiliation with the Brotherhood of Shadow.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they retconned this, actually. Between being a competent general, Mileena's boytoy, and Shao Kahn's admirer(?), he's already such a busy character in this game. It might be difficult to add on the connection to Shinnok on top of all that.

If he's in, he needs a revamp like Kenshi because his MK4/MKA moveset was generic trash.
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Oh yeah, I would expect nothing less. I don't even want him in the same costume.
 
p.W said:
The problem with this theory is that the comic doesn't happen before the game, it happens in the middle of it. We're going to play through Kotal deposing Mileena. So if what you're saying is true, then Reiko will be randomly missing during Kotal's ascension, even though the comic makes a big deal of his being there, then Mileena will start trying to claw her way back into power, then Reiko will die off-screen and we won't hear anything about it, and then Mileena will randomly go ballistic as a result of his death even though we didn't see it?

Or she'll go ballistic in the comic but not in the game? It doesn't make much sense to me.
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Sorry, I should have been a bit more clear, I MEANT die as a more general phrase in terms of when and where. I would love nothing more thafor us to kill him in story mode ourselves.

Which is actually a good point that I've been wondering about, will we be able to input fatalities at specific points in story mode? Like the injustice minigames but more cinematic.
 
Snow said:
Sorry, I should have been a bit more clear, I MEANT die as a more general phrase in terms of when and where. I would love nothing more thafor us to kill him in story mode ourselves.
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Ah, I gotcha. I can definitely see him dying. The interesting thing is we have no idea what his motivation is. Does he want Mileena on the throne? Does he want the throne for himself? Is he secretly working for Shinnok? Does he just want glory? Each of these leads to drastically different roles in the story. If he's loyal to Mileena, then he's probably just going to be the MKX version of Ermac or Goro - a hyped-up dude who can't catch a break. If he has ambitions of his own, then he might seize control of Mileena's faction for himself (at a time not convenient to Mileena). If he's working for Shinnok, I don't even want to begin to speculate. And if he just wants glory, Kotal might capture him and then give him a position in his cabinet as a general.

He's a pretty exciting character right now because we're still missing some very crucial information about him.

Which is actually a good point that I've been wondering about, will we be able to input fatalities at specific points in story mode? Like the injustice minigames but more cinematic.
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I think I heard that this is possible in a couple of specific moments in the story, but I don't remember where I read that.
 
I was thinkng about the story and I think I came up with something.

1)Notice on the latest stream there are 26 spots and not 24 as before (That might not be final)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHCIVkFHlKA
2)Ed Boon said that they might be playable bosses as long as they're not like Montaro
Source:
TRMK: In MK9 the boss characters were not playable, will the same be said of this game or is that still up in the air?
Ed Boon: I guess can only speak for myself but I definitely want the bosses to be playable in some way. Like "you unlock them when you do this". We don't have Motaro in the game but if had the big centaur half horse guy that filled half the screen it would not work. I don't think people think it through and just say "I want to play as Motaro!" You really don't!

3)Now, we know that this MK story goes through 25 years. In the NR war the main antagonist is Shinnok, In the Outworld civil war the main antagonist could be somebody else.

4)They are going to be unlockable characters in the game (Above source)

5)That makes perfect sence when in an interview at E3 Ed boon (not directly) said that the roster is going to be between 30-32 characters.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBewbWdltMA

I believe that as you play through the game you unlock more that 1 character. For example after passing the NR war you unlock Shinnok and after passing throuth the Outworld Civil War you unlock Reiko (These are used only as Exmple)

That would make perfect sense on why NRS don't reveal any post MK4 characters as many things are tightly linked to the the story. Do you agree???
 
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Nasty_Freak said:
My speculation so far...

Confirmed:
Cassie Cage
Kitana
D'Vorah
Scorpion
Sub-Zero
Raiden
Kano
Quan Chi
Reptile
Ermac
Ferra/Torr
Kotal Kahn
Kung Lao

My guesses...
Jacqui (Cassie Cage's Friend)
Takeda
Kenshi
Fujin
Mileena
Reiko
Tanya
Sareena
The guy with D'Vorah and Kotal Kahn who's wearing a cowboy hat.
Havik
Hotaru
Nitara
Liu Kang
Kung Jin (If he's not using the title Kung Lao.)
Salazar
Bo Rai Cho
The evil guy who has the name that ends with "Cho".
Li Mei

The 4 DLC mentioned in the Kombat Pack (I think that's what it's called).
Goro
Sonya
Kintaro
Johnny Cage
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Well you already have one wrong, Goro is not included in the 4, and 2 are guest characters.

Why Kenshi when we have Takeda? Why Kintaro when we have Goro? Why Hotaru full stop?! And Li Mei!! They're not going to miss out the likes of Sindel for Li Mei and Sektor for Hotaru.

My own prediction

10 Originals so far

Scorpion
Sub Zero
Raiden
Quan Chi
Reptile
Kitana
Kung Lao
Goro
Kano
Ermac

10 New Characters

Cassie Cage (Rendering Johnny and Sonya useless)
D'vorah
Kotal Kahn
Ferra Torr
Jaqui Briggs (Rendering Jax useless)
Takeda (Rendering Kenshi useless)
Erron Black
Salazar
?
?

10 more Vets

Reiko (MK4)
Shinnok (MK4)
Fujin (MK4)
Mileena
Cyrax
Baraka
Lui Kang
Shang Tsung
Kabal
Smoke/Noob/Rain (One of these).

2 Guests

= 32 (26/28 + 4/6 DLC)
 
If we can get 9-10 new characters, and ones like Takeda who have the same powers as their parents replace them on the playable roster, then I would be fine with whoever the other returning characters are.
 
I'm going to make my updated prediction (not my wishlist, just what I think is in) for 26:

Konfirmed:
Cassie Cage
Kitana
D'Vorah
Scorpion
Sub-Zero
Raiden
Kano
Quan Chi
Reptile
Ermac
Ferra/Torr
Kotal Kahn
Kung Lao

Spekulated:
Shinnok
Reiko
Tanya
Sonya
Johnny Cage
Jax
Mileena
Fujin
Jacqui
Takeda
Salazar or Erron Black (probably same guy)
New Guy
New Guy
 
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