Reptile has been a Mortal Kombat tradition since the first game, mostly because he was easy to palette-swap and lizard men are totally cool. And now he’s coming into his own a bit, as we can see in this reveal trailer for Mortal Kombat X.
One of the nice touches for the Mortal Kombat X trailers is that they’re not just cutscenes, they’re also hunks of gameplay that let us see what the individual characters will feel like at the controller. And Reptile is naturally pretty disgusting, being as his power set has always had “vomit” as a keystone. That said, we see a lot here: Reptile has a lot of his old moves, including the force ball, invisibility, his dash moves, and of course, he spits acid. But he also apparently is a little more acrobatic and makes offensive use of his tongue. As in, he uses his tongue to attack people:
We’ll see just how green and scaly does outside his trailer when the game arrives, April 14th.