Hmmmm....might be unlockable after you kill the Dragon King. Well with all the characters. Could happen.

Mobster_For_SATAN Wrote: Hmmmm....might be unlockable after you kill the Dragon King. Well with all the characters. Could happen.

I hope!!! Even if there is no story for using him, like Smoke in MKT. where it said smoke would probably never see this form again

I think Reptile will turn out to be a secret or unlockable character, who knows.

ya reptile is the man....acept i think he should hav ea really rad look under his mask not liek the look hes been looking like l8tly.....i like the dragon king look also but ya its jsut not reptile.....need ye old good guy back and in a reptile form that looks really rad but with a sweet ninja custume

Reptile is now the Dragon King. Like Michael said only through defeat will the Dragon King's spirit leave reptile and return to the netherrealm. There will be no secret Reptile character just face it, the green reptilian ninja won't appear in this title in any other form other than as the Dragon King. Thank-you

Jadishon Wrote: Reptile is now the Dragon King. Like Michael said only through defeat will the Dragon King's spirit leave reptile and return to the netherrealm. There will be no secret Reptile character just face it, the green reptilian ninja won't appear in this title in any other form other than as the Dragon King. Thank-you

Reptile isnt the Dragon King.

But hes definately more powerful than ever.

What I am kind of interested in is that Reptile, Tanya, and Kitana in conquest mode all had very crappy looking outfits (The graphics were pretty bad) does that mean they aren't in the game or is konquest just that poor looking. - perhaps it was just video quality but it looked bad to me.

Yeah I bet Reptile will be realesed from the DK after you kill him. Maybe it has somthing to do with that cool amulet he has. lol no one knows my real name.

Jadishon Wrote: Reptile is now the Dragon King. Like Michael said only through defeat will the Dragon King's spirit leave reptile and return to the netherrealm. There will be no secret Reptile character just face it, the green reptilian ninja won't appear in this title in any other form other than as the Dragon King. Thank-you

Dark_No0B Wrote: Reptile isnt the Dragon King. But hes definately more powerful than ever.

It appears we've both been informed by our souces about Rep's big surprise.

And Dark_Noob is right, he is definitely not the Dragon King.

But Trunks what happend to Reptile if the DK isn't him?

TemperaryUserName Wrote: Dark_No0B Wrote: Reptile isnt the Dragon King. But hes definately more powerful than ever. It appears we've both been informed by our souces about Rep's big surprise. And Dark_Noob is right, he is definitely not the Dragon King.

Mobster_For_SATAN Wrote: But Trunks what happend to Reptile if the DK isn't him?

I don't know what exactly happened to him, but I know of the results. But I'm not about to spoil anything.

Double post. Smoke rules.

Jadishon Wrote: Reptile is now the Dragon King. Like Michael said only through defeat will the Dragon King's spirit leave reptile and return to the netherrealm. There will be no secret Reptile character just face it, the green reptilian ninja won't appear in this title in any other form other than as the Dragon King. Thank-you

I wouldn't be so sure if I were you. Two official sources have confirmed Reptile among the playable characters. One was a EBgames flyer and the other was XBM, which is a UK Xbox magazine.

Also they were not talking about the DK, since they also did mention his name.

So Reptile has I say a 50/50 chance of being a secret non-canon playable character, just like Human Smoke was in UMK3.

Yay for Reptile.

TemperaryUserName Wrote: I'm not about to spoil anything.

Exactly.

The story used to go that the longer reptile was separated from his race, the more reptilian in appearance be became. People assumed that the "twisting and contorting" of reptile's body at the end of MK:DA was him becoming the dragon king. My theory has always been that Reptile was at that point reunited with the Dragon King (who may be of Reptile's race), and was merely turning back into his human form, as the recent preview shows him. Just a theory though.

I think Reptile is the sub-boss.

TemperaryUserName Wrote: Mobster_For_SATAN Wrote: But Trunks what happend to Reptile if the DK isn't him? I don't know what exactly happened to him, but I know of the results. But I'm not about to spoil anything.

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Yeah, If Reptile isn't DK, I want to know how it's possible too... :/

*sigh* I'll say this only once: Reptile IS the fuckin' Dragon King. Ed Boon himself has confirmed that his ending happened, and since Reptile's ending shows him being transformed into the DK, that means that he is the DK.

I have not read anywhere that Reptile is playable, but I suspect that it's just rumored BS created by the hype of Reptile fans wanting him back and 'humanized'. Get it through your thick skulls, guys: Reptile was never human, therefore he can't 'turn back' into one. He did not 'de-volve' into his current form, he lost his human disguise (which he assumed when he was Shang Tsung's bodyguard) when he started going 'mad' after Shao Khan was defeated/presumed dead. There is no way in heaven, hell, or on earth that Midway will return him to being the generic palatte swap-ninja that he started out to be. Ninja Reptile is dead; reptilian Reptile is here to stay (at least, until he, as the DRAGON KING, is killed at the end of Deception). Get over it.

SynjoDeonecros Wrote: *sigh* I'll say this only once: Reptile IS the fuckin' Dragon King. Ed Boon himself has confirmed that his ending happened, and since Reptile's ending shows him being transformed into the DK, that means that he is the DK. I have not read anywhere that Reptile is playable, but I suspect that it's just rumored BS created by the hype of Reptile fans wanting him back and 'humanized'. Get it through your thick skulls, guys: Reptile was never human, therefore he can't 'turn back' into one. He did not 'de-volve' into his current form, he lost his human disguise (which he assumed when he was Shang Tsung's bodyguard) when he started going 'mad' after Shao Khan was defeated/presumed dead. There is no way in heaven, hell, or on earth that Midway will return him to being the generic palatte swap-ninja that he started out to be. Ninja Reptile is dead; reptilian Reptile is here to stay (at least, until he, as the DRAGON KING, is killed at the end of Deception). Get over it.

He's constantly changing, he didn't only loose his disguise! it's says it in his bio! Plus, look at him in MK4
ANYWAY, his endind DID happen, but it doesn't say HE IS the DK, and even if he is... I trust Temp and Mobter;s info rather than u being a little whiny b**ch about how sure u r reptile will not be back..

kamionero Wrote: I'm BEGGING YOU!!! FOR ALL THAT'S HOLY!! spoooooiiil;lll meeeeeeeee!!!! take my honor and my dignity, but SPOOOILLL MEMEEEEE

Can't. Source will get mad at me.

kamionero Wrote: SynjoDeonecros Wrote: *sigh* I'll say this only once: Reptile IS the fuckin' Dragon King. Ed Boon himself has confirmed that his ending happened, and since Reptile's ending shows him being transformed into the DK, that means that he is the DK. I have not read anywhere that Reptile is playable, but I suspect that it's just rumored BS created by the hype of Reptile fans wanting him back and 'humanized'. Get it through your thick skulls, guys: Reptile was never human, therefore he can't 'turn back' into one. He did not 'de-volve' into his current form, he lost his human disguise (which he assumed when he was Shang Tsung's bodyguard) when he started going 'mad' after Shao Khan was defeated/presumed dead. There is no way in heaven, hell, or on earth that Midway will return him to being the generic palatte swap-ninja that he started out to be. Ninja Reptile is dead; reptilian Reptile is here to stay (at least, until he, as the DRAGON KING, is killed at the end of Deception). Get over it. He's constantly changing, he didn't only loose his disguise! it's says it in his bio! Plus, look at him in MK4 ANYWAY, his endind DID happen, but it doesn't say HE IS the DK, and even if he is... I trust Temp and Mobter;s info rather than u being a little whiny b**ch about how sure u r reptile will not be back..

i agree, but you didnt have to insult him like that. its true that boon said that reptiles ending did infact happen, but it never said reptile transformed into the DK. it just said, the dragon king has returned. Im thinking that the beam that shot at reptile split him into two halves. i distinctly remember something about the narrator mentioning a beam piercing through reptile. i think the DK has taken reptiles reptillian side while reptile himself, has taken his more human side. boon also said that he would like to make the fans happy by making everyones favorite characters return. maybe reptile will return in a human form, with hopefully his reptillian attributes. e.g., acid spit, invisibility etc...

so my theory, reptile split into two people when he was shot by that beam.

kamionero Wrote: He's constantly changing, he didn't only loose his disguise! it's says it in his bio! Plus, look at him in MK4 ANYWAY, his endind DID happen, but it doesn't say HE IS the DK, and even if he is... I trust Temp and Mobter;s info rather than u being a little whiny b**ch about how sure u r reptile will not be back..

I'm not: You guys are for posting all these dumb threads about how sure you are that he isn't.

There is nothing in his bio that says that he's constantly changing. I think you're getting that mixed up with the unlockable in the krypt that says that his 'de-volution' may be due to his separation from the Raptor Matriarch. Note that it says may, so it's only speculation. However, since his race has been all but extinct for centuries, and his 'de-volution' didn't start until after Shao Khan was defeated at the end of MK3, I have very little reason to believe the Matriarch theory, unless Reptile did something to make Shao Khan his Matriarch, which I can't really see him having that kind of power. And I did look at him in MK4: his appearance is to be expected, since that's when Shao Khan was defeated, and it's already been established through his Konquest mode that it was that event that triggered his 'de-volution'. Reptile was slowly going 'insane' from guilt for failing to protect his master, and as his sanity 'slipped', so did his focus on keeping his human disguise. It was a short time after Shao Khan's defeat that MK4 happened, so he'd still look mostly human, like he does in the game. As the story rolls on, he'd slowly lose more and more of his human look, reverting back to this normal, primarly anthro reptile form. Of course, noting the quotation marks around the words 'de-volution', 'insane', and 'slipped', it's safe to say that I don't quite believe this to be entirely accurate. I believe that Reptile was only faking his desent into 'madness', to throw everyone off the trail, while he fulfilled his destiny to become the Dragon King reincarnate.

Also, it doesn't say in his DA ending that after jumping into his body, the DK returned to his original body, now does it? You gotta remember: it's been millennia since the DK died, so his body's probably nothing but fossilized bones, by now. Not much to return to, now is it? Plus, the ending said that Reptile's body was twisted and transformed after the DK's soul entered him. Hence, the DK took Reptile as his host, and transformed his body into a copy of his old one. Everything points to Reptile being the DK, and NOTHING is given to disprove that.

Reptile is the DK. The evidence proves it. Trying to prove otherwise is similar to other n00bs trying to prove that Reiko is Shao Khan: it's pointless, and impossible, given the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.