Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-1084762-20150830085026/@comment-5561191-20150901230545

Kimarous wrote:

They killed off Noob for a reason: they want to retire the character. The name has long since been tainted by the internet term and the Saibot thing has been a problem ever since Tobias left. Both sides of the name are a negative element. I really, really, REALLY don't see them using Noob Saibot ever again. Most likely he was killed for the same reason of the other characters: MK9 was made to be a reboot that would feature all of those 2D era characters. But on bringing back so many of them, NRS had to be sure fans would aprove it, otherwise they would have like a ton of characters fans didn't want to see anymore in the following MK. For example: Cyber Sub.

So they killed almost all of the good characters, Cyber Sub and probably Noob to see how fans would react. The characters that people wanted back would be brought back, and the ones they didn't would simply be left dead and forgotten. That simple.

Or at least that's the way I see it.