Noob Saibot was later given a new canonical name, Bi-Han. Later, the developers would expand Noob’s origin story further, revealing that he was actually the original Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat and was succeeded by his younger brother as the ice ninja in subsequent games. Noob was described as a member of the Brotherhood of Shadow and a servant of the sorcerer Quan Chi.
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Tobias would go on to create a backstory for Noob Saibot for Mortal Kombat Trilogy, the console and PC-exclusive update for MK3 released in 1996. Noob Saibot as he appears in Mortal Kombat 11 Image: NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Finding Noob was difficult: Players had to rack up 50 straight wins in the game’s versus mode for a chance to fight him.
It’s easy to see why Tobias and other members of the development team hadn’t seen Noob Saibot in action themselves, even months after Mortal Kombat 2’s release in arcades. There is certainly a chance that the meeting the other guys had was before Noob Saibot was discovered and they coincidentally came up with the same secret backward names.” That might also explain why he is just all black pixels if John made his palette, it would have looked a lot better. “I do remember coming up with that (dumb) backwards name as another layer to let players discover. I may have wanted to keep that one for myself - again to see how long he would naturally be discovered. “I thought I told him about everyone with the exception of Noob Saibot. “For, John gave me several color ninja palettes so I could hide more stuff in the game,” Boon said in a message over Twitter. “The funny thing is, had we shared the Noob or Saibot idea with Ed, he would’ve been forced to reveal the hidden character to us.” “My guess is that we weren’t aware of Noob Saibot’s existence, and us discussing using names backwards was just coincidental,” Tobias said in an email to Polygon. Vogel quickly regrets his own idea, when he realizes, “Then we’ve gotta have Noob, and that sounds stupid.”Īpparently, Vogel didn’t know then that it was already too late. Michicich suggests using Saibot for “the robot” - meaning Mortal Kombat 3’s cyber-ninjas Cyrax and Sektor. “Saibot is cool!” says Goskie, realizing that it’s Tobias backwards. Vogel proposes reversing the developers’ names, and jokingly suggests “Legov.” Tobias appears to scoff at the idea, but says, “I think Saibot’s cool.” Footage from Josh Tsui’s Midway Games documentary Insert Coin shows Tobias, Goskie, Steve Beran, John Vogel, and Dave Michicich trying to come up with names for new characters for MK3. There’s actually video evidence of Tobias (and other Mortal Kombat developers) being blissfully unaware of Noob Saibot’s existence in the very game they’d worked on. ‘Hey John, I got your secret character right here.’” “Not only had Ed snuck a third secret character into MK2 behind our backs, it felt like he was poking fun at me by naming it Noob Saibot. “In fact, we were deep into MK3 development and none of us knew anything about a third secret character in MK2. “Many months after MK2’s release in the arcades, rumors began circulating about a third secret character,” Tobias said. But Noob Saibot was a total surprise to Tobias, who didn’t find out about the character until the studio was already well into development on Mortal Kombat 3. Knowing that, you might think that the other half of the creative team would be involved in the character’s creation. Noob’s unusual name, of course, comes from the creators’ last names, Boon and Tobias, spelled backward. That character was Noob Saibot, an all-black version of Scorpion. But Ed wanted to squeeze in another secret of his own. The developers explicitly teased Jade and Smoke in one of the game’s stages, the Living Forest. They made special graphics for Jade and Smoke, two hidden kombatants based on Kitana and Scorpion. This time, however, Tobias and fellow Midway artist Tony Goskie were involved in the creation of Mortal Kombat 2’s secret characters. So for the sequel, he performed it again. “I vaguely remember confronting Ed on it and asking him to please let me know when he adds a secret character or secret anything to the games,” Tobias said in a Twitter thread reflecting on the origins of Mortal Kombat’s earliest Easter eggs.īut Boon liked the trick.
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