So, for months, everyone was going on about this supposed "new take on an old character" and about how their appearance or gameplay or whatever would be so drastically different that they're practically a new character. Well now that the game has released there's only one character that this remotely applies to and it's semantics at best, but Raiden is the only one that fits the new take on an old character.

Every other character that we see is pretty much exactly like they've always been gameplay and appearance-wise. And I am not counting Scorpion, despite him now being Kuai Liang, since Scorpion still plays like Scorpion, and you can't count Havik being originally Dairou either since we don't even find out that he is Dairou in the story. Just in a dialogue with Reptile. But otherwise is just Havik.

Raiden is completely a different person. He isn't a god. He doesn't have powers. He only gets them because of the amulet. But even then, it is semantics since he still plays exactly like the Raiden of old.

So, I believe whoever was running with that little character tidbit was lying out of their ass. Because besides Raiden, no one even comes close to matching the description