It could be lots of kombatants. Despite the fact that the silhouette looks like a normal man, it could easily be Motaro, the only Mortal Kombat 3 kharacter not in the game. However, a centaur is a bit tough to program and motion capture. I'm sure that's why they came up with a way to get rid of him in this reboot. Fans weren't exactly happy with the minotaur version of him, either.
Another option is to have one of the three bosses be playable. That would be Goro, Kintaro, and Shao Kahn. I'd pick Shao Kahn, simply because he's the final boss, the story is about stopping him, and Sheeva already serves as a playable four-armed warrior.
But those are probably the most obvious choices. Let's delve deeper into the Mortal Kombat universe. Beyond the plot of the first three games.
Quan Chi represents Mortal Kombat 4. He is in the roboot due to the fact that he's A) Popular, B) earlier retconned as the guy responsible for Mortal Kombat 3's plot. Now, a good guess for the mystery guy could be Shinnok, the big bad guy of the fourth game, but I'm betting they're holding off most MK4 kharacters until the sequel to this game. Mortal Kombat 10 will presumably be about the Netherrealm invasion.
What about beyond Mortal Kombat 4? What about Deadly Alliance, and Deception? Well, I figured they were considered the point where the story was too complex, and the reboot was meant to get rid of them, but from what I've seen, they've only reconfirmed many plot elements from latter games. Shao Kahn is still linked to the Dragon King. Liu Kang was still trained by a gross fat guy. There's still a chaotic realm. I mean, I knew they had many characters in the back ground of a few stages, but I figured those were winking in-jokes. (Remember that guy? He sucks! Hahaha, laugh at him fighting like a loser in the background!) But a lot of story bits I've seen seems to think they kept more than they threw out.
Kenshi represents Deadly Alliance. Which is weird because I can't remember his storyline, but I guess he was popular. Then again, I guess it was slim pickings with that game's new characters. My point is, that brings us to the sixth game, Deception. Which new character from that game is in MK 2011? None. So why not throw in a token character from that game? Probably none of them are any good. I would have guessed Kira, on the basis of being a woman with red hair, but Skarlet was recently created. Poor Kira, now she doesn't stand out anymore.
That leaves us with two more options. The first one is Havik. I think he's the most popular new Deception character, plus he was mentioned in one of the endings. But do we really want the Chaosrealm? I guess it's OK in a bizarro-world way, but if we have the Chaosrealm, then we have to bring back the Orderrealm, and that place is lame! The other option is, of course, SHUJINKO, the most popular Mortal Kombat kharacter OF ALL TIME! Oh wait, he's still sitting in a Seidan jail cell. Well, I guess the Order Realm has one good use.
I'm honestly rooting for young Shujinko, just to laugh at the fans if he's chosen. And he would only be chosen if the MK writers could convince themselves that, "No, he's really a good character. The fans just have to give him another chance."
Another option would be a DC comic character. It's not that likely after DC made the eighth game in the series rated T, but we could still end up with The Joker or Darkseid being decapitated or split in half. Probably not going to happen, but if it did, it would be a DC villian.
You know what I'm going to guess? It's going to be Chameleon, because Mortal Kombat could never go wrong adding more ninjas.
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