a theroy but no. rekio, we really don't know anything about except hes a member of the shawow and was a great general thought to be dead. older sub is in fact noob. end of story. reiko, no idea. midway has not given any info on him since mk4 and probaly dont intend on expanding him. it would be a good theroy if mkd has not came out yet. classic sub is noob or older sub

I doubt it.
Personally, if Reiko ever returns I hope he turns out to be....Reiko. Not Shao Kahn or Rain or Noob or Jerrod or Shang Tsung or the Easter Bunny....just Reiko.

I used to love the whole Reiko/Shao Kahn debate, it was really interesting, and probably the most complicated plot-hole in the entire series. Too bad it's been solved, but on the plus side, at least Reiko's his own man now.

its boon and co's half-ass ending in mk4 that lead that debate. run out of ideas and just had him walk through a portal and put on kahns helmet. stupid ending. could have developed him but looks like filler for now and has become a joke of mk.


sad to see that, rather see others become jokes like rain but ninja fanboys love him. then again midway bascailly kills off there new characters or doesnt continue them.


think about it. most have not developed.

most of mkda new characters dead accept kenshi and li mei and we don't no if we will see drahmihn again.

mk4-all but quan chi have bascailly been decleared non-cannon, forgot tanya.

and mk3, to many to count.

they need to plan there story better, hell they come up with one story the next they have it recannonized and try to fit old chatacters into the story line after they missed 2 or 3 games. ridiuclous. if they create new characters, give them a chance, dont kill them off imediatley like mavadoo, hell didnt like him but would have been great to see his story branch out. but they have to keep fan favorites like scorpion were they keep rehasing the same story over and over again.

ACtually it is another reiko theory... that goes something like this:
REiko is NOob....

"1) MK4-= Reiko is really mysterious (DEAD) brother of the shadows... and it doesn't matter he is in the game w/ noob, cause noob was in MKT w classic SubZero... the face we see is classic SubZero... and they both have similar moves and the same weapon... and in MKD noob's powers are even closer to reiko's... ESPECIALLY his fatality"

Thought to be dead if I remember correctly, and we never saw the face of the original Sub-Zero. And the fatality change doesn't mean s**t. it was there only becouse Noob was taken to be a resembling character for an actual ninja, in all black. Thats why the shuriken memento.

"2) Look at REiko and look at Havik.... Havik is was ment to be noob... and his similarities to reiko are too many to be coincidence... ther ninjoid look in that maroon color... and havik's flesh is similar to reiko's "mask"(or makeup)"

Havik wears a chinese overall. not a nijoid kimono. Their faces are eve-rything but alike. Havik has his nose and lips peeled off to the bone. Havik also has no makeup.

"3) Reiko is "associated"(officially) to Kahn... so is Noob"

Wrong. Noob Saibo was associated with Shinnok. He was an agent sent out to cover Shinnoks existence and serve Shao Kahn while he obtained information about his rule and the events taking place.

"4) Both Reiko and Noob are rogues who want to take over a realm"

Since when did Reiko wanted to take over a world? He fought alongside Shinnoks forces, and was a general but that doesn't prove anything.

Remember... these are not ment to prove they are the same... they just suggest it
1) I kno the shuriken doesn't prove anything... but it is an interesting similarity and I did not mean that's classic sub... but that IF reiko is noob, THEN that's classic sub's face... it was just badly written
2)Havik is supposed to drift from the classic ninja look... but his outfit is indeed to be a ninja's outfit... since it is really noob's.... and they clearly meant the "ninja" look since they place him and scorpion as opposites in the little pict. of ying yang island... BTW... Sub's outfit is also chinese... he still has a "ninjoid" look
what I meant about the face thing is that Havik's piece of skin is in the same place that Reiko's make up is... arround the eyes... which I think just makes them look SLIGHTLY similar from FAR FAR away... just 1 more thing to add.... remember... i'm not trying to prove thatt they are the same... just that they have interesting things in common
3)Both Reiko and noob are associated to Shinnok.... or where... but Noob was a double agent.. who worked for Khan.... now... he is never really loyal to anyone... so if having worked for the emperor is not enough for him to be or have been associated to Kahn.. well... in MKTE he is pretty much associated to him because he does kill Goro to defeat part of the united army...
4) Well... in his crappy ending Reiko does become the new emperor... ergo TAKING OVER!!! so reiko indeed wants to take over...

but that ending was half-assed and a joke

true... does not add anything to the story... but it does say something about the character

reiko to me is nothing but a character made up to fill MK4. nothing more. just a spin off of the classic MK ninja costumes and everybody is dragging it out of purportion, give it a rest

my thoughts

Ummm, i think that everyone's forgetting that Reiko's spot was originally going to be occupied by Noob but they wanted another new character so they just changed his appearance slightly. All of his moves would be exactly the same as they would have been if it was Noob.

that doesnt mean hes noob, it means midways lazy and changed his outfit and gave him a half-ass story for him to only be in mk4.

and hes not a ninja, stop referring to him as a ninja hes a warrior general, we have enough "ninjas" in mk already

Midway is always making changes in the future to things they have no answers to in the present. Maybe they thought Reiko was gonna be Kahn when MK4 was released. Maybe they thought he was gonna be Noob. But they also had no idea what they were gonna do with Classic Sub, till they decided that he was now Noob by the time Deception roled around. Thats just the way things work, but its obvious that Reiko isn't Noob, and if he was Kahn then we would probably know by now since Kahn returned in Deception. The only thing that could possibly tie Reiko into being Kahn now is if he was the clone that was killed at the beginning of Deadly Alliance, which is unlikely. So, it should be said that Reiko is probably just a guy who was in the Brotherhood of Shadow and was recruited by Kahn as a General.