Why does Sektor have a Skeleton??
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posted06/24/2010 03:59 AM (UTC)by
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seanay
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he's supposed to be all Cyborg now, i can understand Cyrax having one because hes half human.. but Sektor has no soul or anything
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KiShiDo
06/21/2010 08:06 PM (UTC)
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Sektor is a CYBORG not a robot. He is made out of a human like Cyrax and Smoke.
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06/21/2010 08:08 PM (UTC)
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Yeah, Cyborgs still have human parts.
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~Crow~
06/21/2010 08:08 PM (UTC)
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Cyrax actually had a completely human body in his suit, so I'm not sure why anyone is surprised Sektor has a skeleton as well. He's no different than Cyrax, he was human once.
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06/21/2010 08:11 PM (UTC)
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~Crow~ Wrote:
Cyrax actually had a completely human body in his suit, so I'm not sure why anyone is surprised Sektor has a skeleton as well. He's no different than Cyrax, he was human once.

Exactly. I like how they went Robocop with Cyrax head concept though. Neat.
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06/21/2010 08:14 PM (UTC)
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and if I'm not mistaken, his insides looked kinda robotic as well. Like his muscles have a blue-ness to them
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06/21/2010 08:16 PM (UTC)
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He's built like RoboCop so he has a bone-structure and organs. They're just harder to get to.
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06/21/2010 08:19 PM (UTC)
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Am I the only one that doesn't like the oil for the robots and the green blood for Reptile? I never did even when I was a kid. I think it's a bit too cartoony.
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06/21/2010 08:27 PM (UTC)
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Being a Cyborg could mean a host of possibilities (metalic bones with human tissue/flesh, metalic parts with human bone etc). I don't think the story really goes into the specifics, but it's possible the MK Cyborgs have a fair amount of human parts. From the E3 vids, it looks like Sektor's head and neck are cybernetic, but his lower body is mostly bone and organs.

There shouldn't be much of a physical differece in the makeup of each cyber-ninja (Sektor, Cyrax, Smoke), but they all have specific personality traits that become a factor, even after being turned.
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06/21/2010 08:29 PM (UTC)
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I'm indifferent toward the oil, but the green blood is good.
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Hattoris
06/21/2010 08:40 PM (UTC)
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Yeah, I noticed that it was a combination of human and cybernetic organs... which makes sense. It's far better than seeing him have four humans' worth of organs when exploding like in MK3 wink
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06/21/2010 08:50 PM (UTC)
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seanay Wrote:
he's supposed to be all Cyborg now, i can understand Cyrax having one because hes half human.. but Sektor has no soul or anything


I'm not sure I see the correlation between souls and bones.
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06/21/2010 09:07 PM (UTC)
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Sektor is not a robot, nor would the canon stroy allow him to be.

He was once fully human and worked as an assassin for the Lin Kuei. He then volunteered with his won human concience to have the procedure done to him to make him into what we now know as Sektor. I was NEVER under the impression that he was human with a suit. Parts were replaced with robotic while other parts remained organic. Some parts I would immagine are a combination fo the two.

You cannot transfer a concience from Human to electronic interction. Even in the world of Mortal Kombat, It would take a sorcerer to do so and I do not believe that any supernatural power resides within the Lin Kuei other than Sub-Zero and Frosts Cryomancer abilities.

I was never even under the impression that Cyrax was a full human under the shell. His "salvaged" MKDA alternate was still 50% Mechanical. The grinder fatality required pretty much all of his torso to be mechanical. The creative director of Mortal Kombat Ed Boon would never have let this slip under his nose if it was not meant for Cyrax (and the others) to be a hybrid and not one covering the other. The same goes for Sektor's missile cavity in his chest.

I also noticed Sektor's insides during the X-Ray combat. It seems that either his jugular artery or a major tendin located going through the enck into the torso has a mechanical or cybernetic touch. Small features in the Skull and Lower abdomen through the chest support the same theory.

Which also contributed to why it should ABSOLUTELY be shown in detial, the level of gore and pain he must have gone through during this process. Being dismantled on a table as a human and torn apart and rebuilt while he was still alive in a day where the Lin Kuei would deffinately not have sedatives. His emotion needs to be felt in the climax of his physical pain in his last moments as a human. There is no greater opportunity than MK9's story mode.


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06/21/2010 10:33 PM (UTC)
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Nobody seems to have mentioned the suggestion, come Tekunin, that Sektor did go in a completely mechanized route. Which was nice because it gave him some logical personalized differentiation from the other guys. Smoke went into nano-tech sci-fi, Cyrax adopted the still-human plotlines Smoke used to have, and Sektor was turning Japanese by going all mecha and starting up a robo-clan.

All of that happened well after the period of the first three games that this game revists, so... Yeah, you've already got everyone else explaining that.
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06/21/2010 10:37 PM (UTC)
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Maybe he has a metalized skeletal structure?
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Ricardo Snow
06/21/2010 10:44 PM (UTC)
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Lmao at Casselman, I was waiting for the long read from you ; )
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RazorsEdge701
06/21/2010 10:53 PM (UTC)
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Like Casselman said, in the X-Rays there are clearly silver and glowing-blue cables and wires lining the inside of his body and while a couple of his organs are still pink, his blood and muscles are a blue-black oil color.
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06/21/2010 11:15 PM (UTC)
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lol. Glad I could quench your thirst for Casselman :P

And about the Tekunin, It is clear that he had upgrades or would at least have the intent to have upgrades. But the fact thathes still using the same weapons, and his mask is very similar to MK3's mask in his default. This means the canon story wants him to look like that even in Konquest, his mask/helmet never really changed. So the chances of removing organic parts of his head or body is not very liekly.

Sektor being Sektor and all things aside, he would probebly calculate that the time needed to do so is too much time elapsing and elaves him vulnerable.

To hell with the Tekunin idea. He is a much stronger character on his own. I hope that the enlightneed raiden makes sure that The tekunin will not form. But also recognise that part of Sektors hostility is not his fault. The programming is most responsible. He is human at the root after all.

Like I said, leave him solo, no Tekunin in this rebooted storyline.
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06/21/2010 11:19 PM (UTC)
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I wouldn't want to confuse the design sensibilities/capabilities of the MK team with anything plot-related. There are references, somewhere in the course of his return, to going fully cybernetic. That doesn't necessarily mean he has to rip his head apart, but it stands to reason that he removed and replaced non-essential parts with stronger machined upgrades.

Which is obviously a moot point, given the timeframe of this game.

Otherwise, I would strongly disagree. Obviously the Tekunin elaborated on his character and gave him a much stronger context than being just another cybernetic ninja-wannabe. I think it's a shame those ideas couldn't be more adequately communicated in the redesign, which seemed to fall into the usual pandering traps of MK's designs.
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06/21/2010 11:30 PM (UTC)
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Its always the stories that come into the main focus of the plot that end up with nowhere ot go after it is settled. The black dragon is now scarcely remembered to be a climactic era for Kano, Sonya and jax because of the seriousness that was portrayed with no real direction. I dont want the same to happen to Sektor Just because the team needs a new "Big threat" plot device.

I know what your saying, I really do. But instead of hyping up these plots and characters (which gave us MKA). lets have everything on an equel ground wher epeople are still running around behind the scenes and where they can be a threat without anybody and everybody having to confront them.

If the Tekunin come around which wont make sense if Raiden is enlightened, It is gonna spell Sektors destruction (plot wise) for quite some time if they want to keep him around.

However, if they planned on killing him. Which I am not against should he come back as an extra playable in future games. Then they could let the Tekunin rip up Japan and then have this climactic oh too farmilliar battle and kill him.

Not really the way Id like it to go. I was really excited for the Tekunin when I first seen them, but then the question comes along... now what?

So i would love to hear your take. Convince me or rather, Pitch a story to me that wont make it end up that way. If you can give me a good one, I may just turn around and believe the light. lol
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FlamingTP
06/21/2010 11:31 PM (UTC)
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given the nature of cyrax, this makes sense, although it still bothers me.
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Heavy-Rain
06/22/2010 04:16 AM (UTC)
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kan't believe you didn't know a cyborg is a human on the inside!!
j/p fun question....
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06/23/2010 10:38 PM (UTC)
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MENTHOL Wrote:
Am I the only one that doesn't like the oil for the robots and the green blood for Reptile? I never did even when I was a kid. I think it's a bit too cartoony.


I loved it, actually. I thought it definitely divided humans from robots and Raptors, etc. :)
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06/23/2010 10:46 PM (UTC)
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MENTHOL Wrote:
Am I the only one that doesn't like the oil for the robots and the green blood for Reptile? I never did even when I was a kid. I think it's a bit too cartoony.


Alien species bleeding different colors isn't "cartoony", it's perfectly scientifically plausible. And a machine having oil is like common fuckin' sense.

Or is Star Trek a cartoon too all of a sudden? Because I gotta say, Leonard Nimoy looks surprisingly solid for a 2-dimensional drawing...

Is there any way we could have a ban on the use of the word "cartoony" on this message board? It's reaching a point of absurdity.
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06/24/2010 03:26 AM (UTC)
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It is noted that Sektor does have cables wired through his skeleton when you use X-Ray moves on him.

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