Here’s Mortal Kombat’s first canonically gay character

Developer is “glad [they] have observant fans!”

A tweet from Mortal Kombat X‘s cinematic director, , suggests that Kung Jin is the fighting franchise’s first (canonically) gay character. 

“I see people are picking up on the subtle exposition contained in Kung Jin’s flashback,” he said in a  picked up by . “Glad we have observant fans!”

Players learn about franchise newbie Kung Jin via a series of flashbacks. Nothing new there, I hear you cry. But it gets interesting at the beginning of chapter four, when Raiden (no, not that one) suggests that Kung Jin joins the warriꩵor Shaolin 🔯monks. 

‘I can’t,” says Kung Jin. “They won’t accept.”

To which Raiden replies: “They care only of what is in your heart, not whom your heart desires.”

Okay – that’s pretty subtle stuff. But with Ciancialo’s commendation of “observant” fans, it certainly looks like Kung Jin might have one of the game’s richest and most interesting backstories.