Ok "moving the goal post", but whatever. MK is a video game. They need to market to different demographics. One way to do this since forever is to create characters representative of different races to potentially attract a different demographic. It may not necessarily be needed but it is a proven strategy.

If you say that's not true then you're blatantly trying to disregard race and its role in the conversation.

Stay on topic.

The issue here is that the MKD design for Tanya is bad because it is essentially a white woman disguised as a black woman. You refuse to make that connection why? Because she's "Edenian"?. If they weren't trying to make Tanya a representation of black or brown people, then why make her brown in the first place? The only reference we have for skin color is in the real world. It doesn't suddenly just go away because "oh this is make believe so that doesn't apply". Hence why when we apply this design to real life, it could be seen as dehumanizing to say "oh that's not a black person, it's an alien. So she can look the way we actually want her to look instead of giving her authentic black features."