Admittedly he was kinda dumb in MK9 (well mainly Future Raiden for giving the most vague warning ever spoken) but Raiden's been one of my top favorite characters since I was a kid. He's just fun to play as.

And agreed the end with him in MKX was Bad. Ass. I hope the main plot in MK11 is Dark Raiden and evil Liu Kang and Kitana pretty much just going to war with each other. You know the stuff we should've seen between Mileena and Kotal Kahn. The story in the MKX comic was so much better than the one in the game.