Also, what was with the end of the DOA5 story showing Alpha Kasumi in the desert? was there something suggested there that I just completely missed? Is that TNs way of saying Alpha Kasumi will be back in the next DOA as the villain? I didn't quite understand it.
The misteryous girl in the desert wearing the black cloak is a character never appeared before and still shrouded in the mistery. Before the events of DoA5, Bayman and his squad encountered this girl during a mission, and like consequence Bayman reported his scar (and supposedly the rest of soldiers were killed). The scene in the end of the story where the girl is seen to disappear, it's just the conclusion of the scene mentiond over.
At the moment we don't know anything about the girl, if not that she has to be surely another creation of Donovan (Bayman immediately recognized it, and it was just this to push him to investigate again on this clone in the hope to find Donovan). However, considering the importance that very likely she will get in the next game, I don't think that she will end to be a simple clone of Kasumi but maybe an effective next phase of Donovan's project, very likely with human feelings on the opposite of Alpha 152 (like her tears in the end seem to indicate). More, her physical traits appear to be a sort of fusion between Kasumi and Ayane, so also the supposition that she is a clone of the red kunoichi could be a mistake.
About Kasumi Alpha, intended like the DoA2 clone of Kasumi, according to the new canon setted for the series with DoA Dimensions she was transformed in Alpha 152:. so now Kasumi Alpha and Alpha 152 are technically the same character.
For summarizing, the main clones of Kasumi in the series are:
- Kasumi Alpha becoming Alpha 152 [killed by the "Fake Kasumi"]
- The "Fake Kasumi" that you control for the majority of the DoA5 story [killed by Hayate and Ayane]
- The shapeshifter clone fought by the ninja in the end of DoA5 [killed by Kasumi]
- The girl in the cloak (that could or couldn't be a Kasumi clone).
PS: I'm not completely sure if the shapeshifter clone that the shinobi fight in the end of DoA5 is effectively a new clone or maybe just the same Alpha 152. In the latter case, we should think that the fake Kasumi wrongly believed to have killed her.