Hell they should just introduce Khameleon and for the love of god give Reptile something to fucking live for......hell I'm not suprised he hasn't pulled the trigger on himself.

As for Baraka he's the fucking leader of the Tarakatan HORDE; you don't call a group of nomads a horde for being small in numbers. He needs to wake up and realize he's the damn backbone of Kahn's extermination squads, if he were to take his army elsewhere he would be a massive threat to the emperor.

Khameleon is one of my favorite characters in MK so I naturally want her to return. I believe NRS could easily make DLC character with gameplay based on her appearance in MKT. They are able to load several movesets at once and, as Challenge Tower proofs, it's possible to switch movesets on the fly at least every 5 seconds. They already got model for her (feamle retro ninja costume), so there should not be any problems with her return.
Besides she has a good story, that possibly could make Reptile much more interesting character, than he ever was.

Of course I'd prefer her return as her own characters, with her own moves, or att least with moves taken from other female ninjas, but with "reptile" spin to them. Like having some acid added to fan throw or something like that. I hope if she made it in MK9 in any capacity as playable character and if there be enough demand for her return in MK10, then we still could get a revamped Khameleon as her own character.

As for Chameleon...there is so much things need to be done with him, that it basically would be like creating new character. At least he certainly needs his own story, because as of now he is just a copypaste blank state.

In the end I am not against his return, but only after Khameleon takes her place in the roster. Khameleon's return is more important for me and she has enough potential to be shaped in the awesome character. Especially with newfound NRS ability to make each character stand out of the crowd.

i think if chameleon is a saurian than his story should involve him betraying his race or something along those lines

I say turn Reptile into a good guy and do like... an Othello love triangle thing with them. Where Khameleon is the girl, Chameleon is the evil love interest, & Reptile is the good love interest. This is how I see it...

The other two surface. Lets say Chameleon and Khameleon have been together all along. They know what Kahn did to their race. Maybe they're a couple, but only when their story starts.

Reptile leaves Kahn when he finds out HE was responsible for killing off his race, and he was lied too. The fans get behind Reptile as he strikes out on his own (they would anyway, because we've all known/liked him for years). I wouldn't put him with the Earth warriors just yet... maybe in a few games... but for now lets say they don't trust him, and won't let him into their good guy club just yet... he's kind of a lone wolf for the moment. Struggling.

Chameleon is the dick Saurian who replaces Reptile in Kahn's army. Kahn likes his dick spirit, and treats him better than he ever did Reptile. Gives him everything Reptile never had. Kindof the same vibe he gives Mileena as opposed to Kitana. This gives Chameleon a reason to think Kahn is great and serve him without question, while also giving Reptile a reason to hate Chameleon. Chameleon knows what Kahn did to his race, but doesn't care because he's living the good life.

Meanwhile Khameleon is caught in the middle... she's smarter than Chameleon. She knows Kahn is evil, and can't forgive him for what he did to their people, but she reluctantly stays at Chameleon's side at first. But she doesn't like it, so she's stuck... does she stick the only man of her species she's ever known, on his path to the dark side... or does she abandon him and take up with this new saurian she just met (Reptile) out on his own.

Chameleon still gets to work for Kahn, so the very little backstory he has still works. Khameleon and Chameleon get some new backstory ties to one another. Reptile finally breaks out of his henchman role, which everyone wants. Khameleon helps redeem Reptile a little, and probably renews his spirit later in the story. Perhaps helps him get his foot in with the Earth warriors later. Reptile in turn helps save Khameleon a little, since being without Chameleon is a new way of life for her. They find comfort in eachother. Reptile gets a chick. Reptile gets a new arch-rival in Chameleon. Kahn still has a Raptor in his employ...

Considering I just pulled this out of my butt on the fly, I don't think it's half bad. :P

Not bad at all. Better than anything either of those characters got going at the moment.

That is definitely a good idea.

ninjas are always welcome if it was up to me. the ninjas are the best and most played characters in MK anyway.

I'll take both of them back Khameleon could become more Saurian like many have mentioned and expand upon her story, give Reptile a place to move towards instead of stagnating and Chameleon could keep his mimicking ability while still getting a story, other games having mimicking or characters that use other people abilities like Soul Calibur's Charde, Tekken's Mokujin, Street Fighter's Seth, etc.




Agreed, very nicely done Gillbob.

Because without the theoretical opportunity to repopulate the Raptor species that Khameleon brings to the table,Reptile's got NOTHING. He used to be one of my favorites in the series,and he still kind of is,but let's face it - when NRS themselves refuse to see him as anything more than a butt monkey,he's got absolutely nothing going for his story except his status as a perma-bitch.

PASTA INCOMING:

I wouldn't want either one of them to be Saurians if they came back.

NRS needs to do something with Reptile's plotline of being the last Saurian before they go all "Oh guess what guys, he's not the last and now he has a girlfriend!"

Khameleon can take the "created by Shang Tsung" plot some people mentioned earlier in the thread so she can be a Saurian/Edenian hybrid (we already know Shang Tsung was experimenting with crossing Kitana's genes with tarkatans, so what's to stop him from trying crossing her genes with other species he has on hand as well?). To kill the shipper nonsense, I would have Reptile view her as an abomination that he wants nothing to do with, but her existence shows to him that perhaps science & sorcery can eventually bring about the return of his race (because even if you did have a full blooded male and female Saurian, one pair isn't going to repopulate an entire race anyways).

For Chameleon, there's no need for him to be anything related to the Saurians at all. They never said he was in the first place. If he must come back, just combine him with Shujinko and let "Chameleon" be his codename for when he was a member of the Lin Kuei. Maybe combining two mediocre characters can produce a decent character.

I loved playing as both of them, they were a CHALLENGE to master and make you think fast.

I hope the have a chameleon pack: Chameleon, Khameleon, and Cyber-Chameleon - uses Cyrax, Sektor, Cyber-Smoke, Cyber-Sub Zero, and Cyber-Reptile.

Ha!

Awesome.

Indeed, this would be acceptable IMO.

Combine Chameleon with that pathetic old sap? No thanks.

I LOVE Gillbob316's story. Reptile needs to be Lone Wolf over serving Shao Kahn, it'd just be better for him (though I still prefer his human green ninja look) as a Reptile fan, it'd be so much better with Gillbob316's story.

I'm not suggesting they combine Chameleon and Shujinko, just that it's an idea I'm open to.

*Imagines Shujinko with transparent skin*

Sooooo....Hows that working out for you?

lol,you're saying that like Chameleon's inherent awesomeness would be irredeemably defiled by making him related to some shitty character like Shujinko.

See,it's funny,because

Yes and yes.

Not very well.

If Cham had to be merged with another character then why not Dairu?

Why Dairu?

I have no idea, all I know is a transparent Dairu couldn't be any worse than what we already got. Seriously, Dairu could be interesting but he is seriously the single most forgettable character in the series.

And roflcopter.

Sure, Kenshi comes along and pushes out all the other kharacters that names start with 'k'.

I think they could both play a massive part storywise. I really think Shang Tsung and these two got a little threes company going on...makes sense.

I'd love to see Chameleon return. Since there's such little detail about his story, he has a lot of potential. I really don't care either way about Khameleon. I have nothing against her, I just don't find her story very interesting. Though I guess they could fix her. But her just wanting to be Reptile's baby mama just isn't very creative. I would kind of like to see the two them be working together somehow. I always thought they could easily be brother and sister.