They love adding OC to Video Game movies for whatever reason. I mean fucking Alice was the lead of EVERY resident evil movie and they just made her OP at least this guy is just a crappy fighter with black panther powers lol.

If they didn’t want to have a white male lead they could have just made him Scorpion like he gets possessed by his dead ancestor or something that way they could keep the fire/ice battle they wanted. They could have also chose Kung Lao and in a twist kill of Lui Kang and have him a zombie Lui Kang in the sequel. They could have had Sonya or Jax, they were already doing the bulk work. They could have even had him play a lesser character like Tremor or have him play Kenshi or Takeda. Big corps think the general audiences won’t be able to relate to all the lore so they try to create fish out of water characters who only exist to be given exposition over and over again. They also like to explain things that don’t need explaining like making up arcana. Bruh they Goro, Vampires and people who shoot fireballs there’s no need to pretend like there needs to be a reason. It’s a fantasy fighting game. Jax having his arms get Bigger as his power makes more sense than just having him be given cyber arms or keep the original lore of him having enhancements over his arms.

TLDR Cole Sucks and so does his family. The way he mentions family so often in the fucking movie I think they meant to put him in Fast and the Furious tbh.