actually i think reptile was simply hidding in or on the statue when lui found him. and i assumed in the movie he reptile has the ability to morph from reptile to human reptile.

hope that answered you question.

Yeah they never really explained that.
I guess that they meant that raptors need statues in the shape of humans to have a human form.

As they never explained it, I guess I came up with that as soon as Reptile finds a human vessel (assuming the statue used to be a human body or something) then he can use it and morph into his human form.

Meh, I think it makes more sense than anything else I've heard .

I guess those count as replys but still why did reptile like start off as a frggn reptile instead of the human form. If that did happen then those people in hollywood would make reptile like scorpion and take off his mask to reveal him as the creature reptile like in one of his fatalities. lol nice fatality

Lambertforever Wrote: I guess those count as replys but still why did reptile like start off as a frggn reptile instead of the human form. If that did happen then those people in hollywood would make reptile like scorpion and take off his mask to reveal him as the creature reptile like in one of his fatalities. lol nice fatality

think of it this way,as a chamelian lay next to something--it changes colors to camouflage itself
so when reptile fell into the statue,it became a human to adapt to his surroundings and to survive.

I never completely understood that part either. It's just weird, and doesn't even make any sense with the way other raptors are portrayed in Annihilation and Conquest.

yeah true and by the way about the camoflauge and the chameleon thing well that would be another screw up from the movies beause reptile doesn't blend into the enviroment in the game.

Lambertforever Wrote: yeah true and by the way about the camoflauge and the chameleon thing well that would be another screw up from the movies beause reptile doesn't blend into the enviroment in the game.

true but i was speaking hypothetically.
wait though,reptile did camoflauge himself in the game so that would be a mistake on mk's part.

think dragonball z, and you'll get an idea. the worms that spread out from the guts of the statue morph over the body to give it an exoderm, the living reptile within gives it the warrior personality. i can imagine it in my mind, but not sure if it comes across properly. however, this idea was scrapped for annihilation where they can just morph into a human

this is too weird to be true lol dude i luve what you said about the living reptile inside gives him the warrior personality. well the reptile does understand english.

Yeah what Siang said... at least I presume we're on the same level of thought.

What I'm guessing Saing means (and this is my opinion too) is it's not Reptile's who's morphing into a human, it's the statue absorbing a life-force and turning into a human-fighter with traits of the host. We saw a decomposed body in one of the statues which does support this theory.

Basically the statue will possess a host within and then take their characteristics and turn into a warrior of its own. When the life-force is entirely sucked from the host, the warrior returns to its statue form and awaits another to stray too close.

It's a novel idea... and CAN work with the story of Conquest or MKA, in that the repitles CAN morph anyway, it's just in this situation, Reptile merely contributed to the statue's lifecycle. Of course the strange thing is why would a statue-warrior who assumes a living-state from the possession of another, would look identical to that of how the reptiles look in human form anyway? Unless they're meant to look identical to whomever they possess anyway, and simply control their mind and body rather than any physical appearance.

Oh well there's no real answer. It was a nice original idea until MKA and MKC changed it.

Lambertforever Wrote: I guess those count as replys but still why did reptile like start off as a frggn reptile instead of the human form.

Huh?

I'm sorry. all i ment to say was why did reptile had to start out like a creature instead of his human form.

I've heard that the statue was an Edenian warrior, who had been tortured during Shao Kahn's occupation of Edenia, and that when Reptile was thrown into the disembowled carcass, it took over and gave Reptile his human form.

krsx- Cool

It could have been a Raptor warrior, so when Reptile went into him, he was saved from de-evolving into his full reptil state, and was given his ninja powers again.

Lambertforever Wrote: yeah true and by the way about the camoflauge and the chameleon thing well that would be another screw up from the movies beause reptile doesn't blend into the enviroment in the game.

He can turn invisible. No predator mode, but he does "blend in". The creators were just trying to make him different from Sub and Scorpion...i applaud them for the creativity level they used to do that. No need for a flat out 3rd ninja, plus it wouldn`t be as believable to the human mind for a humanoid to camaflauge as it would something more nature looking.

It does not matter since it was a great idea to put reptile into his human fighting form. It would be stupid if he just randomly morphed into his human form from the lizard state instantly.

yea i think reptile (in animal form) camouflaged into the statue and he became that warrior

As stated and confirmed by Midaway, Reptile is not 'devolving' into a reptilian form. Reptile started out as a reptilian creature, and continues to be one, despite his human appearance.

I have not explination for why they scrapped the idea in MK:A, but the theory about the statue absorbing Reptile and taking on his characteristics as a human warrior seems sound. It *is* Outworld they were in, y'know. Strange things can happen in it. As for Kitana's comments about the statues being 'tortured members of Edenia', perhaps the statues were not, in and of themselves, the Edenians that were tortured, but in fact, the torture that the Edenians endured and were ultimately killed by.

/Here are my 0.02$
Reptile is the creature, not the ninja... then liu finds him invisible and throws im to the statue...
Since they are in outworld, Statues are also kind of evil... hehehe... jk.. the statue is a strange Outworld thing... we never know what...but we get a hint that they "symbiotize" with other beings since other statues have different carcasses inside them... and the statue grabs reptile (Against reptile's will... we see him actually trying to escape and stuggling in fear as the thing's tentacles grab him) and the 2 life forms toghether become Reptile the fighter...