StormChaser Wrote:
It says Sub-Zero's father married an American woman- that doesn't mean she was Caucasian. She could have been a woman of Asian lineage born in the U.S. or an Asian woman who had American citizenship. Hell, she could have been ANY race. Even if she was Caucasian, the boys would have more Asian-looking features because the genes that create Asian facial features are dominate.
As for Edenians, they are not "Asian" or "African" or anything like that because Asia and Africa don't exist in Edenia, but they may have similar places where people who look different come from...Therefore, it would make sense for Edenias to have different races depending on what part of Edenia they came from. I hope that makes sense.
When Tobias decided to write that Sub-Zero was Chinese-American, and the actor portraying him had been a white guy up to that point, what other race could he possibly have been implying?
If he were supposed to fully Asian, why would Tobias even have bothered adding in that backstory? It wouldn't have even remotely explained why Sub-Zero looks white in MK3 and Mythologies.
Sub-Zero doesn't look black-Chinese, fully Chinese or otherwise. They made him part white because the actor who portrayed him,
John Turk, is white.
Back in the day, they clearly modeled
MKG-MK:A Kitana after
Talisa Soto, and
MK4/G Sonya after
Kerri Hoskins. Sub-Zero resembled his actor, John Turk, and they made the little
retcon to his story to make it work.
Even in his MK9 retro MK3 costume, they made him looked mixed. Between the brothers,
Bi-Han seems to have larger eyes and a broader nose than
Kuai Liang, but they both appear to be part Asian part Caucasian.
Look at him
in Deadly Alliance. He looks like a 50-something white guy, with slight Asiatic features.
Which of these looks like the Sub-Zero seen most consistently over the past 21 years:
John Turk Sub-Zero or
Legacy Sub-Zero...?
(As for mixed-race children always looking like one race, that's not necessarily true. It's not uncommon to find mixed race people who look completely white (with light eyes, light hair and fair skin) except for facial structure and hair texture, and with parents who were not mixed. Rarer,
but it happens.)
Anyways... as for Edenians, they have shown separate "races" before. In Rain's vignette, you can see that there are black Edenians and white Edenians, as well as the Latino and Asian-like people seen before.
Jade's Desert is known to be in Edenia, which looks absolutely nothing like the lush paradise seen in Deception's konquest nor does it resemble the wastelands surrounding the Pyramid of Argus. With such disparities in climate, I highly doubt all Edenians look the same.
Outworlders also seem to have different peoples (not including the hybrids and subjugated species.) Though Li Mei and Bo' Rai Cho appear Asiatic, Reiko looks Caucasian. Outworld doesn't always have ominous purple skies. The realm varies from the sunny mountain village of Makeba (the Drum Arena,) the dark and dense living forest, the barren volcanic wasteland most often seen in the games, and the sandy ruins of the Golden Desert.
As for these fan-casting threads, it makes me so happy to know that none of these people posting will have anything to do with the casting of the next film.
