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Mortal Kombat 11 the much-anticipated sequel in the Mortal Kombat video series and will very quickly arrive early next year on April 23, 2019 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.

The popular video game was developed by Midway Games in 1992 as a two-dimensional fighting game in arcades. But although the graphics may have dramatically changed since the early '90s, the game remains just as brutal and bloody as ever.

Understandably fans were ecstatic to learn about the existence of the new game with a brand new trailer at the 2018 Game Awards.

And more information about the latest NetherRealm Studios game will be revealed during a full reveal event in January 2019.

However, for now, all players want to know which of the series many unique characters will appear.

Well, keep reading for a full lowdown on every character confirmed, rumoured or leaked from the Mortal Kombat 11 roster.

• Jade

Jade has been added to the roster of Mortal Kombat 11 - though she appears a little different in this game compared to her previous incarnations.

Jade appears in the MK11 universe as an undead revenant, no doubt working for the rulers of NetherRealm.

Jade was last seen in Mortal Kombat X, though the appeared there as a non-playable character. In 11, she wields her now-iconic staff, using it as the base for long strings of combo and setting up projectile-based expansions.

Her variations - at launch - will be Green Monster, It Ain't Easy and With Envy.

You can see her trailer above.

• D’Vorah

D’Vorah was introduced back in Mortal Kombat X as an ally of fellow newcomer Kotal Kahn’s in Outworld.

With her distinctive design, amazing use of space and great variety of rushdown and zone control options, she quickly became a fan favourite in the MK fandom.

D'Vorah is a Kytinn, an insectoid species, which means she uses bugs and poisons to attack and her moveset looks fairly similar to the last game (though her meter and EX moves have changed quite a bit).

You can see the character's intro at the Inside Xbox stream in the video above - the MK11 section starts at about 48 minutes in (with D'Vorah being announced at about 52 minutes in).

• Scorpion

Scorpion, or Hanzo Hasashi, is a resurrected ninja and one of the original characters from the first arcade game.

The ninja was born to a member of Shirai Ryu, and was told not to join the clan by his father.

However, he ignored his father’s advice so he could provide a better life for his son and wife.

Scorpion will return with a vengeance against those who are responsible for destroying his clan and family.

Best of all, the trailer shows two different outfits for the character, so we'll likely get the chance to play as several incarnations of the character in the new game.

• Skarlet

Skarlet is a returning character from Mortal Kombat 9. She was confirmed for the game at the community reveal event.

Originally, Skarlet was a character rumored to have been a secret in Mortal Kombat II, though this was speculated to be a coding glitch from Kitana, much like Ermac, who had supposedly been a color glitch from Scorpion.

Shes uses blood as a weapon (yep!) and seems to be central to the story - though a lot of her Outworld loyalties may be called into question.

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• Raiden

Raiden is one of the three characters who has featured in every game – and Mortal Kombat 11 is no exception.

As can be seen in the trailer and it looks as though the God of Thunder has officially turned into a villain.

Raiden's red glowing eyes suggest that the Mortal Kombat 11 story will continue where the Mortal Kombat X story ended, with Raiden taking his role as protector of the Earth to a grim conclusion and taking on the mantle of Dark Raiden.

Alongside Shao Khan, the protector of the Earthrealm is considered one of the most powerful characters in the series.

• Kabal

Kabal appears to have been spotted simply running across the screen during the livestream for Mortal Kombat 11.

In this tweet, you can see the mercenary dash across the monitors during the reveal event - a nice touch.

Then, on a Kombat Kast on February 5th, NetherRealm announced the character. In the newest game, Kabal is resurrected as a twisted, evil version of himself, that now serves the Netherrealm and pledges to destroy all other realms.

He has his trademark dash and hooked blades, too. You can see his intro trailer here.

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• Shao Kahn

Shao Khan is the most powerful character in the series.

Unfortunately, this character is only available through pre-orders, so those who want to get a hand on him will need to get their wallets ready.

Mortal Kombat fans will recognise him as the final boss in Mortal Kombat II, and he also makes a regular appearance in the series.

That voice you hear that says 'FIGHT', 'YOU WIN' and 'FINISH HIM'... That's Shao Khan.

• Kronika

UPDATE: It appears Kronika will be a boss character and will not initially be playable in the release version of MK11. We'll keep you updated if this changes.

At the Community Reveal event, Kronika was revealed as Mortal Kombat 11's main villain - the first time an MK game has had a female villain in the series' history.

She seems to be the Elder God responsible for time, and according to Ed Boon, she's the 'architect of the destiny of the universe'. With Raiden manipulating the timeline at the end of MK9 and executing Shinnok in MKX, 'the balance of good and evil tipped too much towards good' and now Kronika has come back to rewind time to the very beginning.

She aims to restart the path of everything, and it seems like Earthrealm's heroes and everyone involved with 'good' wants to prevent this, whilst NetherRealm and the bad guys want to help Kronika. There must be something in it for them...

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• Spawn

Spawn hasn’t been confirmed yet either, and the character doesn’t appear to be hinted at in the trailer either.

However, the character creator Todd McFarlane hinted the anti-hero may appear in Mortal Kombat 11.

When asked about whether the 90s comic hero would be joining the Mortal Kombat 11 roster he replied: “I believe he’s on his way”.

• Baraka

Baraka has been confirmed at the game at the reveal event in January.

The creature, who was conspicuously missing from MKX, will return in a gory way, equipped with his two trademark arm blades and those imposing teeth.

He seems to be a pretty integral character to the game's narrative - perhaps the main envoy to Outworld and maybe a key asset of Shao Khan in the battle for time that goes on during the game.

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• Sub Zero

The ice warrior returns (but he was really guaranteed roster confirmation at this point, wasn't he?)

We don't know how relevant he'll be to the story - or if he'll just be carrying on his on-going fight with Scorpion - but we know he's in the game and we're looking forward to seeing his full new moveset in action.

• Liu Kang

Liu Kang has been shown in a variety of Behind the Scenes and story trailers.

It appears there will be two versions of the character in the game - the 'early' Earthrealm version, and the undead Netherrealm version (known as Revenant Liu Kang).

We know very little about the character at the moment - we've seen no official gameplay for him, for example - but we know he forms a central part of the game's story, along with Kung Lao.

• Kung Lao

Another famous Earthrealm protector, Kung Lao makes an appearance in the game in both human and Revenant form, too.

The human version of the warrior monk appears to be helping Raiden in his battle against Kronika and the NetherRealm hordes, whilst the Revenant version seems to be a commander down in NetherRealm.

We see the human and Revenant version fight in the Behind-the-Scenes trailer - we can't wait to see that in action in the game's story.

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• Sonya Blade

One rumour gaining traction over all others is the potential involvement of WWE Wrestler Ronda Rousey who is looking increasingly likely - this was later confirmed at the launch event.

As we reported at the weekend, it's been reported that the current WWE Raw women’s champion would be portraying long-serving MK character, Sonya Blade.

The news came via The Nerd Mag and some sort of official email leak on the subreddit for Mortal Kombat.

Whilst we wouldn't normally believe anything without a large pinch of salt, this leak correctly predicted the cover art before Ed Boon was able to reveal it on Twitter.

The official leak read:

“Ronda Rousey will be at MK Day and will be part of the livestream stage presentation...We’re preparing a short video to introduce her and announce her as the voice of Sonya. I’ve started sending over what we have for Sonya, which hasn’t been much so far. I’m expecting a V1 soon.”

• Kano

Kano has been confirmed for Mortal Kombat 11.

The cybernetically enhanced Aussie psychopath has been confirmed as a returning character to the game, representing the criminal Black Dragon criminal organisation in the game.

Kano has good ranged attacks thanks to his laser eye, and also represents a violent close-range game, too.

• Reptile

Ed Boon is rather famous for teasing fans and throwing out just about anything into the Twittersphere to get a reaction.

So it's always very difficult to take what he's saying or teasing without a canyon-sized amount of salt.

But, for what it's worth, Ed Boon recently posted a picture of what looks like a reptilian lizard type creature which also looks to be from in-game footage.

Remarkably this was accompanied with the message: "Reptile konfirmed? #MortalKombat11 #WTF #CryingWolfAgain".

Off the bat, you can tell Ed Boon is up to his old tricks again, but you never really know. Some believe this is genuinely a confirmation of Reptile, however, YouTuber PND Ketchup has suggested that maybe it could be a double bluff.

In fact, PND goes as far to suggest it might be a clue that points towards a return for MK character Chameleon

To see why, follow the link above for a pretty extensive video breakdown of why this might be Chameleon and not Reptile joining the roster.

• Geras

Geras is a newcomer for Mortal Kombat 11. He appears to be a walking sandman (powered with weird blue blood) that is a servant of Kronika.

His whole gimmick appears to be a 'sands of time' thing that suggests he's tied very closely to the powers that Kronika controls as the Keeper of Time.

He seems immortal - we see his decapitated head roll back onto his body in one of the teaser trailers for the game, suggesting that this golem cannot be killed (or, at least, is incredibly difficult to kill).

• Kitana

Kitana is referred to by Sonya Blade in one trailer as 'the Empress of the Dead'. She appears to have been resurrected in Netherrealm (following the events of MK9 where she died and MKX where she was missing) and is now a commander of the damned.

One line of dialogue in the BTS trailer makes it seem like she's working with Baraka and the citizens of Outworld - Sonya Blade says to Baraka 'Kitana said you'd talk', to which the monstrous creature replies 'Not to humans!'

We've yet to see any gameplay for the character, but we expect to see more in the coming weeks.