During a livestream today, Mortal Kombat Xdeveloper NetherRealm Studios revealed several pieces of concept art for characters Kitana and Reptile.
As this is the newest game in the franchise, the developers took the opportunity to give their characters a redesign.
Kitana's art was first revealed. In an effort to convey her warrior spirit, developers say they wanted to give her a new look that would speak to her fighting skills.
"Past incarnations have tended to favor the royal qualities of the character over the warrior aspects, so we decided to reverse that for her costume," reads a post on the NetherRealm tumblr. "She has a stealthier, more ninja inspired design with blue as an accent color against the black parts of her costume."
See Kitana's art below:
For the design of Reptile, creators wanted to give him an image reflecting his more primal side.
"We looked forward to designing Reptile. With all the possible reptilian elements the character could possess, it gave us a huge amount of ideas to explore. We began pursuing a more primal-influenced look, featuring bones as a main element of the look. His vicious nature makes this pairing feel right."
See Reptile's art below:
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It was during the same stream that we learned Jade will not be returning to the roster in Mortal Kombat X. However, Ermac will be, and it looks like a few other classic characters will also make a return.

you know their will be. and you know who I'm most interested in right nowReptile is Flash reincarnated hopefully without the 60%combos![]()

So using this on other forums......
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She gets that from her daddybefore or after he's buffed 3X timeschecking out the archive now
you know their will be. and you know who I'm most interested in right now![]()

lolbefore or after he's buffed 3X times![]()
surprised you not into KL?lol
In all honesty, I never messed with Reptile in MK9 and probably won't here. Waiting on that Mileena reveal. Other than her, Raiden and Kitana look like day ones
I can't remember a fighting game where every character look sick

I am but I try not to pick characters everyone else is playing, and you know he will be popular. I'll learn him to know the matchup but that's it. Learned Superman and all his bullshyt but only played him against you.surprised you not into KL?I can't remember a fighting game where every character look sick
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Goro goro goro and any other character that can't be uppercutThat noxious version of Reptile look nasty like a muthafukker, one knockdown or 50/50 setup with the EX gas or EX spit and you takin' a ton of fukkin' chip damage.
Who's everybody plannin' to use on Day 1? I know I'm labbin' Commando Kano and Warlock Quan Chi. If I get Cyrax or maybe that Erron Black dude gets announce they goin on the team as well![]()