Lol.
Outside of Kotal Kahn, I think MKX's new characters are a little bland. Kung Jin is the blandest, but Jaqui's design isn't very exciting either. They both have good tools, but their personalities and looks are boring. I think NRS was afraid to make them too dynamic fearing they would be seen as cultural charactatures.
I would have liked to see these characters based off cultural icons. Neil Patrick Harris is gay and most people aren't so its not something they can relate to, but he's such an awesome icon in movies and television that he's easy to relate to. Cassie Cage is kind of a mix of her parents and Felice Herrig and it works. If Kung Jin was a mix of Kung Lao and Neil Patrick Harris, that would be awesome. Jacqui fights like Jax, but her personality is kind of bland. If she were more like her father in personilty and had more of a backstory, she would be more interesting. Who is her mother? Its just kind of dry. If her mother was someone we knew, we could better relate to Jacqui if Jacqui were to show that some of her mother's personality traits were passed on. I know this seems like a wall of text that just splits hairs, but character personalities are a very important component.
For the 8 new characters from coolest to lamest I think:
1. Kotal: great design, says cool stuff, sounds cool, does cool stuff
2. Takeda: telekentic ninja with barbed energy whips, trained by Scorpion, son of Kenshi. I'd be sold on that alone
3. Cassie: cool design, talks shit like crazy, just a cool character
4. D'Vorah: most interesting design in the game imo
5. F/T: nice design, I like the tag team type of thing they have going
6. Erron Black: he's a cowboy so that's cool enough I guess
7. Kung Jin: he's a dude with a bow and arrow, just a much less cool Takeda, the connection to Lao and the shaolin is the only interesting thing about him imo
8. Jacqui: extremely boring design, and the same way Jin is a less cool Takeda, she is a less cool Cassie.