Having been a fan of the palette swapped look for years, I wanted to re-create looks for ninja's that took inspiration from the UMK3 Ninja outfit and make something authentic and unique for the male ninja cast that were also distinctive and in synchronisation of the character's personalities.



For Reptile, I wanted him to have the block-armour on the UMK3 ninja's torso, so in this case I made a pelt with sharpened studs on it that went over his ninja garb to recreate that look. The hints of gold in his outfit is to create some contrast between the various tones of green, black and grey within his general clothing. In this guise Reptile is in no fear of his identity being revealed, having his clawed feet and toes exposed, however since he's a servant of Shao Khan I wanted him to stick to the "loyal masked ninja assassin" look from that era.



Ermac on the other hand, I wanted to keep the the leg stripe and mask from his UMK3 costume and bring more influences from his Mortal Kombat Deception primary outfit into the fray (since that's arguably his best look). Since I wanted him to actually wear a mask to be true to his original costume, I decided against the facewrap but instead made it into a headband which secures his gem onto his forehead to increase his psychokinesis. Around this time in the story he's still quite the enigma, and solely under Shao Khan's command. To show this, I wanted him to appear menacing, mystical, powerful, yet in comparisson to the rest of Khan's warriors: original.