FIRST EVER PALETTE SWAP UPDATE
FIRST EVER PALETTE SWAP FULL

FIRST EVER PALETTE SWAP FULL

We also know that ReptileвЂ™s actual name isВ Syzoth, something we only found out in 2015,В a full 2 decades after he was first introduced as a character. Over the years this was expanded upon even further to the point that we now know that Reptile is part of a race of essentially immortal lizard-people who are somehow tenuously related to the dinosaurs and somehow vampires. In the next game though, this idea was dropped almost entirely and Reptile became, true to his name, a weird reptilian humanoid with a vast array of poorly defined powers such as spitting acid and transforming into a snake. Initially conceived as being quite literally a вЂњcoolerвЂќ version of the gameвЂ™s other two ninja characters, in the first Mortal Kombat game Reptile hadВ the most iconic moves of Scorpion and Sub-ZeroВ and sported a green outfitВ as an overt reference to the factВ he was a literal combination of them.

FIRST EVER PALETTE SWAP UPDATE

Because the guys who made this game are, as weвЂ™ve already talked about, dicks, although the game made cryptic references to a mysterious character known as Reptile, he wasnвЂ™t even in the game until the third arcade update and to fight him you had to win two rounds perfectly on a specific stage, at a specific moment, without blocking. You see for those of you who didnвЂ™t know, in the first ever Mortal Kombat game, Reptile was a secret character so well hidden his very existence was nothing but a rumor for the first few months the game existed. Which is awesome, but also kind of weird considering ReptileвЂ™s origin. In regards to Reptile, he went from being aВ second palette swap of ScorpionВ to a weird lizard man who exudes a near-constant haze of fart gas. We joke, but this guy looks legitimately badass. Who has since been given his own slot on the roster of the latest game and a radical redesign that makes him look like aВ Darth Vader themed dildo carved out of fossilised T-Rex shit. The most extreme example of this is arguably Tremor, a turd-colored ninja who had a brief appearance in a near-forgotten and legendarily shitty Playstation gameВ and had a single playable appearance in the Playstation Vita port of Mortal Kombat 2011, a game that sold so poorly this is the best screenshot we have of him вЂ¦

Over the years characters which initially looked fucking identical and were largely interchangeable save for unique special moves, became fully fleshed out characters with their own motivations, rivalries and look. Originally intended to be a clever way to bolster a limited roster by changing the color value of an already created character in this case Scorpion and giving them a few new moves, palette swapped ninjas quickly became a beloved and integral aspect of the Mortal KombatВ franchise. Within the Mortal Kombat mythos Reptile, Sub-Zero and Scorpion are part of a group known collectively by fans as the вЂњpallete swap ninjasвЂќ, the most brazen color-coded cost-cutting measure in entertainment history since they made the Yellow Ranger in the Mighty MorphinвЂ™ Power Rangers a woman in the English version without first checking to see if the Japanese footage they used still had the actorвЂ™s impressively proportioned dong in it.

First ever palette swap