10 Legendary Video Game Heroes You Won't Recognise Now
6. Smoke And Reptile - Mortal Kombat
One a glitchy palette-swap for the more standard Scorpion and Sub-Zero template, the other forever a literally acid-tongued Kombatant, fans have always been torn on whether Reptile should be an actual amphibian when Scorpion always keeps his human appearance.
2011's Mortal Kombat saw Smoke finally get an individual character model, as well as iterating further on creating a Reptile that was half his namesake, and half the humanlike ninja of old.