r/Invincible • u/BadgerSoft344 Green Ghost • Mar 29 '24

Here a quick question what is your opinion on Shrinking Ray being a girl in the show COMIC SPOILERS

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I honestly don’t care but I’ve seen people complaining about in online

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u/BadgerSoft344 Green Ghost Mar 29 '24

There are rumors(seriously it’s not even confirmed yet) that in the next game the minor character Cyrax will return genderswaped(as a girl) and the MK fanbase just keeps complaining about how that this one change will ruin the entire franchise(not joking)

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u/ThunderBlack14 Mar 29 '24

Because Cyrax is a old character with a lot of fans, he just isn't used much by Ed Boon.

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u/Grouchy_Appearance_1 Debbie Grayson Mar 29 '24

But is the entire franchise dependent on Cyrax keeping his penis? (You say "yes", you don't know MK at all)

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u/llMadmanll Mar 29 '24

I don't think people detected the sarcasm

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u/Grouchy_Appearance_1 Debbie Grayson Mar 29 '24

Idc man, my entire point was just to make people see how ridiculous it is, if you're mad about a CYBORG, not having a penis, you have grossly misunderstood the character

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u/Objective-Farm6514 Apr 19 '24

If you're mad about people being upset about random nothing changes for the sake of "diversity" you have grossly misunderstood the world you currently live in.

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u/CaCa881 Battle Beast Mar 29 '24

Eh that one’s a little different . Whenever you have an established character that has gone unchanged for literal decades , then yeah some people are gonna have a problem with it . It doesn’t matter how little the change actually affects the plot to them .

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u/Grouchy_Appearance_1 Debbie Grayson Mar 29 '24

It doesn’t matter how little the change actually affects the plot to them .

But that's genuinely how some to half of them are acting, they wanna claim "it's a slope" that leads to the whole franchise being terrible and they haven't even seen anything yet, it's stupid, but yeah this doesn't effect the plot at all, even if Cyrax stayed a guy, he'd become it when they start the cyborg Lin Kuei

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u/SammyChaos Mar 29 '24

Well I mean.. when you're changing a 30 year old character maybe there is reason for some to believe it's a slippery slope. I don't give two shits but I do see the reason for emotion

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u/RangoDjangoh Mar 29 '24

I wouldn't say Cryax is a nothing character nobody cares about. I mean I know that robot dude and I never played MK.

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u/Afraid_Union_8451 Mar 29 '24

Not an MK fan but that does sound stupid, I've heard of Cyrax so he probably isn't a minor character

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

 I've heard of Cyrax so he probably isn't a minor character

What are we considering minor characters? He's not a main character. He's not an original character. He's one of multiple colored robot characters. He's as minor as a playable character gets in MK.

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u/BadgerSoft344 Green Ghost Mar 29 '24

No he is He’s just a really popular one.

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u/hell_jumper9 GDA Troopers Mar 29 '24

and the MK fanbase just keeps complaining about how that this one change will ruin the entire franchise(not joking)

Make him a hot woman so half of the worried fans will do a 180 lol

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u/Ghost_Mouse__ Mar 29 '24

If it was Capcom like how they did Seth in Strret Fighter 5 who looks amazing then yes people would be happy but if it’s like Janet Cage in MK1 who looks very meh then no thanks

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u/bootylover81 Mar 29 '24

They made every Man in MK1 hotter than before and made the girls uglier save for Sindel and Li Mei, Kitana looks so bad conaidering she looked so good in MK11

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u/Sea_Newspaper_565 Mar 29 '24

The gamers who have a problem with this hate women so making them hot won’t change their mind.

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u/taskmaster75 Mar 29 '24

Huge MK fan here, Cyrax being gender swapped after 30 years is dumb and unnecessary to be honest, he's a very very popular character and not as minor as Shrinking Ray is in invincible, in general he's far more popular than shrinking ray, all they cyborgs in MK are fan favorites and klassics

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u/Surfing-millennial Mar 29 '24

Smh they made Frost a sick cyborg and they still can’t be happy

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u/taskmaster75 Mar 30 '24

I thought frost was okay and cool idea as a cyborg, I think I still prefer Deadly Alliance Frost though, could be my nostalgia talking here though

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u/Surfing-millennial Apr 26 '24

Could be, I didn’t get into MK/NRS until the first Injustice so I don’t have any attachment to either Frost. That being said at least the cyborg design sets her apart from just a female Sub Zero

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u/Broken_drum_64 Mar 29 '24

Cyrax being gender swapped after 30 years is dumb and unnecessary to be honest, he's a very very popular character and not as minor as Shrinking Ray is in invincible, in general he's far more popular than shrinking ray

Okay... but why does it matter? Are his robot parts powered by his penis?

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u/taskmaster75 Mar 30 '24

Well before he was a robot, he was a man named Cyrax, and a lot of cryax's character arc is his depression over losing his body and humanity and turning into a cyborg, his human past really does matter to his story. We shouldn't make Tanya, Sheeva, Frost, Sindel,Kiara,Milena,Jade,Centurion,Kronika,Saree a, ect into males either, because that's not how the characters are and have been, it's not because those characters couldn't be "powered by their vagina" it's just how they are, and I wouldn't want them any other way

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u/MagicBeanDev Mar 30 '24

Okay... but why does it matter? Are his robot parts powered by his robot penis penis?

FTFY.

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u/PreferredPronounXi Mar 30 '24

Are you saying his new vagina will give him new powers??

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u/Broken_drum_64 Mar 30 '24

quite the opposite, I'm saying that nothing will change if it has a vagina rather than a penis

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u/LMD_DAISY Shrinking Rae Mar 29 '24

Not next game, story expansion

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u/WithoutAnyUsername Mar 29 '24

I think you misunderstood my comment. What i said isn't that i hate every single gender or race swap, in fact i like a lot of them. Like every character change in Invincible and The Boys makes more sense to me bc they executed it right. And we have characters in Daredevil and in The Punisher too where these changes make more sense. The only thing i've ever hated in these swaps is that they keep making ginger Wally West black. I don't really care about any other characters swap.

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u/MaybePenisTomorrow Mar 29 '24

If I were gonna develop the next MK game and troll like that I think the only way to stick the landing is to make the swapped characters as sexed up as 2000’s era MK. 

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u/MinuteAssistance1800 Mar 29 '24

Did you just call Cyrax a minor character? Cyrax and sector are some of the most popular characters in the game and get asked for more than nearly any other character (except mileena) each game

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u/BadgerSoft344 Green Ghost Mar 30 '24

Yeah but being a major character isn’t about being popular it’s about being important to the plot.

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u/B33rtaster Mar 29 '24

Fighting game fans are more notorious since the companies making them see the genre as a niche they can't expand. So its all too common to milk the fans for money with sex appeal. Its a viscous cycle that only incentivizes a toxic male fandom. As the people the businesses care about fall into the Venn diagram of horny and very skilled. Since who else are going to pay hundreds of dollars for skimpy skins late into a games life cycle.

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u/wolfwhore666 Mar 29 '24

…isn’t Cyrax like 99% machine? What does gender matter. I’m sure they barely have organs let alone sexual ones. It seems like it wouldn’t mater either way. Like how can fans be mad if they’re female when they were barely male.

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u/BadgerSoft344 Green Ghost Mar 29 '24

I know

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u/DrashaZImmortal Mar 29 '24

what reboot version are we on right now? 4, 5?

Honestly the story just got a reboot a few games ago and with the current timeline shenanigins of the new game. Female Cyrax could work pretty well and easily. You wouldnt even need to "gender swap em" Could just be like

"Yeah this is cyrax from a different timeline. Enjoy, bye!" and boom, female cyrax is here.

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u/dumbass2364859948 Mar 29 '24

There is also a character interaction where they basically confirm that Fujin is a girl now and Raiden’s sister now

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u/panthers1102 Omni-Drip Mar 29 '24

Ruin the franchise? No. But depending on the implementation, it could very well ruin the character for me, as a fan of the character.

We haven’t had a proper cyrax since mk9, and we haven’t had a proper human cyrax for wayyy longer. For cyrax to come back and not be the same character I’ve literally waited over a decade for, kind of feels like a slap in the face.

Like imagine if Janet Cage was an actual replacement for Johnny rather than a cameo? Don’t you think fans of Johnny Cage would be a bit miffed?

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u/da_beava Mar 29 '24

I would not call Cyrax a minor character lol, at least not in terms of popularity

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

 and the MK fanbase just keeps complaining about how that this one change will ruin the entire franchise

This is the danger with having your entire fanbase be rabid kissless virgins

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u/bullbob Mar 29 '24

Wait? They are already speculating about MK2 so soon after MK1? Continuing the trend of not supporting their games after launch.

Gave up on MK after MK 10. Nothing to do with gender swapping characters though.

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u/misfit119 Mar 29 '24

The only valid part of that complaint is that they picked one of the few black characters to gender swap. Like there’s a certain amount of women and minorities they can have. After that the whole series… explodes I guess.

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u/ArtisticVaultDweller Mar 29 '24

Jesus that's so sad for the twelve Cyrax fans lmao. He gets turned into a cyborg for the majority of the original franchise and the one game where he isn't is one of the least played ones, mk11 didn't even show his human form so honestly who cares ?