Everything to Know About Baraka & Reptile's Kontradictions

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Everything to Know About Baraka & Reptile's Kontradictions

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Yo,

I put together two videos, one containing practically everything there is to know about Baraka, and the other about Reptile's many contradictions. The amount of research involved may surprise you. These are two of Outworld's baddies

Here's Baraka's:

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Here's Reptile's:

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Re: Everything to Know About Baraka & Reptile's Kontradictio

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I think I can answer those contradictions regarding Reptile.
1) Ed Boon came with the idea of Reptile a long time ago, it's only neutral for people to not remember exactly the day and date for certain events, so it's not that shocking that Ed Boon might have said Saturday at first by mistake and then said it was Sunday, or vice versa.

2) It has been known for a long time that Reptile's race is called either Saurians or Raptors, while it also Zaterrans due to them finding a new home in Zaterra before it was conquered by Shao Kahn.

3) MK:SM is a non-canon version of the MK2 story, so if there is any contradiction regarding any character in MK:SM's story, it shouldn't be taken serious. Reptile was always Shang Tsung's servant.

4) MK2 was a part of the original timeline of MK, while both MK9 and MKX where in the new one, and even though MK9 is a sequal to MKA which belongs to the original timeline (even though it's ending has been retconned), as far as timelines go, no timeline is gonna be exactly the same, and that can be true for the origins and stories of every character. So Reptile's Saurian race could've had a few more survivors in the original timeline while having none in the new one.

5) The reason that Reptile and Khameleon might be because they didn't want to start a new race while Shao Kahn was still around and in charge.

6) The part about Reptile's banishment could've been a small retcon in the MK4 comic, and as for killing other species, that doesn't contradict that he wants HIS race to remain in existence, especially that he did that as a job for Shao Kahn in hopes that his race will be freed.

7) MK Conquest is prequel to the MK movie, and the show was cancelled after the first season. It could be possible that Reptile has the entire Raptor race were fully humanoid Reptile-like creatures, but since Reptile betrayed Shao Kahn in MKC, he was cursed to be forever in the small lizard form unless he can attach himself to a that corpse like he did in the first movie, and that's why the other green ninjas were straight up ninjas from the start, as they weren't cursed like Reptile did. This is of course just a theory.

8 ) As for the female Raptors in MKC, the movie-canon, which contains the movies, Conquest and Defenders of the Realm, is a separated canon then the one of the games. So it could be that in this canon Khameleon never existed and that's why all Raptors, including the female ones, look just like Reptile. And you can clearly see that these same female actresses where in the Reptile costumes, not male actors.

9) Even if Reptile's real name in the movie canon isn't Syzoth, again, the movie canon is different from the games canon, as there where other characters who origins were very different in both canons. Yet nobody said that Reptile's real name in the movie-canon wasn't Syzoth, which makes it even less of a contradiction.

10) Reptile's set in MK1 could've been just another thing that got retconned, as just like with his banishment in MK4, it was a very small retcon for the story anyway.

Also for a side note, the classic versions of Reptile in the Dark Prison stage could've used just for Easter eggs. And Kano, the Cyborgs and Predator can use Infrared vision, doesn't change the fact that Reptile is also very fast and sneaky, in addition to that he can turn invisible.
No matter the form, Reptile is always awesome
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