@Dankster Morgan
@Pterodactyl
@Cassie Cyrus
@Sothpaw
@Saint Op Omen
Ok I'm just gonna respond to all of you and this is gonna be my last comment in this thread.
Regarding the MKX comics,
@Dankster Morgan, all of that was just about the MK9 era, when you could've seen him lose to Johnny Cage. And yes, during the story mode of MK9, Reptile did lose several matches. But that was just one specific era out of the two timelines of the overall canon. There were 7 other canon games before MK9, and of course other fights in both timelines before the events of the tournament. Obviously we can't see every single fight that every character fights. So that one era doesn't indicate anything.
As for the term "jobber", I know what it means, thank you very much. And yes, jobber is indeed a loser, accept that, like you
@Pterodactyl said, he is a loser that is built for the sole purpose to make other guys to look strong. Except that it's not the case in Mortal Kombat. In WWE, jobbers are there to clearly build a wrestler to look strong, so that when they would start a new story with a legit star, they would look like a threat to them. Unlike Mortal Kombat however, WWE almost never go in the same one story for every wrestler and they have weekly shows with no breaks at all, so they need to keep building stars and making new stories on weekly basis, so they do it a lot more frequently (not always though, but still a lot more frequently ). MK on other hand, has one canon in which is build to just the games when they came every couple of years more or less (unless you wanna count the canons such as the movies canon of course), so every win and loss comes for the sake of keeping the story in that direction first and foremost. And yes they do need to build some characters as threats here and there, like they build the Kombat Kids in MKX, but they didn't built them just based on their wins and loses alone, otherwise Sub-Zero could've been considered the true hero of MKX' story, as he bead all of the Kids in his chapter of the story back to back. And speaking of Sub-Zero, he also beat Reptile in MK9's story, was Reptile needed to build Sub-Zero as a threat? No. The reason that wins and loses are made in the story is because THAT'S HOW NRS WANT THE STORY TO GO, so not every single win or lose is that significant to the strength of a character.
And back to you
@Pterodactyl, I'm not a fanboy by any means. I just know what's the true difference between WWE and Mortal Kombat, which is something that you clearly don't know. Like I said twice already, you and a ton of other people see things in a very narrow view, as you clearly mix WWE with MK, while in Street Fighter we have Dan Hibiki that was clearly build from the ground up to be a jobber. Reptile wasn't, Baraka wasn't, Goro wasn't, Ferra/Torr weren't, Kano wasn't, Rain wasn't, and no other MK character was. Unless the character was built from the ground up to be a jobber regardless of the story, that char is not a jobber at all, and that's the case for all MK chars. And FTR, I know that Dan Hibiki managed to beat several thugs and once and even control the Satsui no Hado for a few seconds, but because he was built from the ground up to be a jobber, all of that didn't matter. Even Rain, who was at first a joke character, was a joke char just in terms of appearance alone (with the whole Arcade intro for UMK3), but not in terms of power, as he is a half god, unlike Dan who was a joke character in the sense of being nothing but a jobber. Obviously Reptile is not the strongest character in MK's lore, but he is not weak by any means, and he is not a jobber by any means. And
@Sothpaw, yes, you can clearly see who WWE trying to push, but that's not the case with MK, as like I said, it's not about pushing characters to the same frequency as WWE do.
Oh and
@Cassie Cyrus, NRS' story modes are awesome, and they already proved themselves time and time again. And it's not just the wins of the actual gameplay matches that matter to the story.
I'm done with this argument. I'm out.
