Mortal Kombat X Gets A Story Trailer & More Characters Announced

Mortal Kombat X

NetherRealm has opened the flood gates on Mortal Kombat X updates and announcements with the latest story trailer for the game

Yesterday we had confirmation that Brutality finisher were coming back for Mortal Kombat X. Then early today we get not only a story trailer for Mortal Kombat X but the addition of a bunch of new character that we will be using to murder each other with this April. It looks like NetherRealm is going to start flooding us with more and more now that we are just over a month out from release. This is amazing news and… you know what? Let’s just get into the story of Mortal Kombat X.

From the looks of things it looks like this part of the story focuses on Earth Realm and their fight in Mortal Kombat X. You can watch the trailer just below to see it all in action but it is interesting to see that Cassie Cage is leading most of the newly announced characters into battle with the guidance of an old Sub Zero. Almost more than anything that Raiden has offered in the past stories. Could this be some kind of twist where Earth Realm can’t rely on Raiden for aid or trust him? Have a look and you help be the judge.

So there we go. Part of the story of Mortal Kombat X. Also a nice short list of four new characters that have been announced. These come from a press release as well as the description of the video here. The list of new fighters in Mortal Kombat X are:

• Mileena (Clone)
• Jacqueline Briggs (daughter of Jax)
• Takashi Takeda (son of Kenshi)
• Kung Jin (descendant of Kung Lao)

So Mortal Kombat X is kind of turning into the “So/Daughter Of” for fighters now instead of bringing back more of the core favorites. I am sure that there will be solid reasons for all of this when we get the whole story for Mortal Kombat X but for now this is what we have. Four new fighters even though there were loads more shown throughout the story trailer here. I mean it’s not like Ed Boon and NetherRealm like to tease…

Wait a second. There were five character reveals in this new Mortal Kombat X trailer? We were only listed four. Now it is time to throw on the speculation hat and look at which of the other characters shown could be the fifth teased character in the trailer. Here is a list of characters that eagle-eyed fans have already spotted in this trailer.

• Shinnok — Can be seen around the 0:35 mark
• Erron Black (Comic Book Gunslinger) — Can be seen around the 0:34 mark
• Baraka — Might be seen around the 1:08 mark
• Rain (Or close look-a-like) — Can be seen around the 1:19 mark
• Sindel — Can be seen around the 1:23 mark
• Shang Tsung — Might be seen around the 1:55 mark

That is a whole array of other characters that could be confirmed for Mortal Kombat X even if they only had about a second or few frames of screen time here. What do you think? Could the next character be one of these listed here? Are you excited for the list of new and old characters that we are going to get to experience? Let the conversation start and the speculation fly in the comments below. Now to watch that Mortal Kombat X trailer again and see what else could be hidden in the mix.