Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-21005855-20170329151209/@comment-422853-20170706194953

Unfortunately that's how MK rolls though. Hence why we've already seen so much extermination of the 3D era and some of its characters, for better or worse.

With the things that MK9 produced at least, I was expecting Sub-Zero to remain a cyborg in the long run even if he came back from being a revenant, which would've been interesting to see how he would cope and develop because of it long run while struggling with what little remained of his humanity, but of course since Cyber Subby wasn't as popular as the regular, had to say screw that and get Quan Chi to do some voodoo magic to make him fully organic again, even though he was physically stronger as a cyborg.

Keeping him cybernetic was probably the original plan too, but when popularity came into play, they realized they couldn't go there with him past MK9 and had to turn him back human. Not insinuating that it's entirely a bad thing or anything, but pointing it out as a clear example of said conformity. Of course they could've kept Cyber Sub-Zero within the story while adding human Sub-Zero as a non-canon part of the roster, but that wouldn't of panned out too well, especially on top of the Kung Lao, Liu Kang, and Kitana being human again thing with their default design which was all lies and misleading as phuck when we first saw them revealed again for MKX.