7 Important Video Game Questions Answered YEARS Later

7. Why Does The Locust Queen Look Human? - Gears Of War

Answered in: Gears 5

The original Gears run was one hell of a thing. The innovative stop n' pop cover system, the fact it was pushing furtive Xbox 360 hardware to the absolute limit just one year after release - and the fact we had a meaty world of humans vs. the Locust hordes to get stuck into.

Come the close of the first game, we were introduced to Queen Myrrah, a very human-looking leader of the monstrous Locust, whose origins or explanation the creators then totally avoided for a solid decade.

The reason was likely down to Gears creator Cliff Bleszinski leaving Epic after the third title, and middling spin-off Gears of War: Judgment burying the IP. When Gears 4 came around in 2016, it ended on the reveal of newcomer Kait finding a locket from her "Grandmother", that just happened to be emblazoned with the symbol of the Locust themselves.

In Gears 5 it was time for an explanation, and playing as Kait we found out Queen Myrrah was once a human who had been experimented on in a secret COG laboratory, because she had an innate immunisation to the substance Imulsion, that was ravaging the core of planet Sera.

The Queen thankfully didn't pull a Palpatine - having been killed in Gears 3 - but her daughter, and Kait's mother Reyna - was revealed to be alive as a Locust hybrid, emerging as the new trilogy's main antagonist.