I honestly mistook the header image for Adam Dork.

I never did truly understand the plot to fighting games. Backstory for the fightes is good and all to make the characters interesting and unique. But the story plot? How does that fit in? You basically have two fighters duking it out each match until you beat the last boss character in the last match. Hell you don't even need a plot story. The whole plot is just an excuse to explain the reason why people are beating each other up in a tournament.

Note that I just dislike plot story when the single player story mode just boils down to having your character fighting another character, then advancing to the next round and repeat the proccess until you finally fight the boss character. Once you beat that character, then you get treated to some cinematic video or wall of text showing the ending for that your specific character player. I prefer the "Edge Master Mode" in the first Soul Edge game. That felt more like a story and enjoyable.

DWARFINATOR

Dark and gritty. oh yay.

That previous comment was my speechlessness, after viewing such neat redesigns.

There's a reason why they dropped the whole "half Japanese, half US" crap for Kano, it was stupid. Also, Trevor Goddard (R.I.P.) kicked ass as Kano in the movie and made Kano actually cool.

@Xzyliac: What about Night Dreams?

This art has been floating around for a while, but I must point out that if you look at the Deadly Alliance/Deception artwork, that kicks terrifying amounts of ass too.

It's just that in the transistion from artwork into 3D, they turn into retarded looking puppets.

I was feeling it until I saw the Sonia one. That thing looked like a twelve-year-old drew it. Each individual tit was bigger than her whole head. And what was that star supposed to be? Was that supposed to mean she's law enforcement? Because, you know, they still use badges like that. And why does she have a medieval gauntlet thing AND a katana AND a fucking pistol? She wasn't even wearing shorts! At least Lara Croft wore short-shorts. They problably got one look at that picture and all good will for whatever he was doing was lost immediately. I wouldn't blame them. The other ones were cool but Jesus!

I really like the Kano design. He's always been my favorite character and I think the design looks badass. It's unique looking and makes the half American, half Japanese idea work. Actually, all the concepts are badass except for Sonya's.

How can this idea be turned down? I mean the dismemberment game design really worked in Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. It added some new flavor to the fighting game genre where you have to be prepared and ready to loose a limb, thus not being able to perform some moves. It added some spice by making every match feel unique as well as a gives very satisfying feeling when you beat your opponent after losing a limb or two. In my opinion, this idea is what Mortal Kombat needs

sick, wanna suck kano in that pic, he looks trashy as hell

i love the 'my boyfriend was an aspiring tattoo artist and gave me this when i was 15' ankh tattoo that sonyas rockin

Needs to be more brutal
MOAR! blood
and does anyone else see a slight resemblance to our very own Y0j1mb0

Looks like this Vincent guy had something pretty good going with these. Seems a shame they'll never be used.

What's with the lack of Vincent Price jokes?

those pics were pretty badass, except raiden looked funny cause his hat was too far down his face but nonetheless i bet it would bring up a lot of hype if any fighter looked like that