Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-25163804-20150128022921/@comment-5561191-20150128144832

Hooksword95 wrote: Reptile needs to get his shit together and learn to stop working as a pawn basically for tyrants like Shao kahn, Shinnok and now Kotal kahn it seems. When will he ever learn that these guys he is working for have no interest in fulfilling their end of the bargain and granting Reptiles request. I mean I like Reptile but he aint too bright. He does anything to get the saurians back, and so he works for anyone who says that can help him with that. It's also why he never betrays anyone: all he wants is to restore his species, not power.

From a certain point of view, working for the top villains is the best thing he can do about it, because they're the only ones to have the slightest chance of doing that, though none of them ever has interest in that, like you mentioned. He never sides with the good guys such as Earthrealm people because most of Earthrealm doesn't even know of the existence of the saurians, so they wouldn't be able to help him. He never works for himself because his chances would be even slighter. In fact, his best chance was Shang Tsung, like his ending in MK 9 proved, and now Shang's dead. Or at least, for now Shang's dead.

The other chance would be if he met Khameleon and they had children, which is what she wants. Maybe now, with the change of timeline, they can know each other and their goals more decently and try to save the saurians together, because the last time Shao Kahn tried to kill Khameleon and so Reptile didn't listen to her.