Why is Leeloo's recovered hand armoured when she doesn't need armour after reconstruction?

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It's been a long time since I last saw The Fifth Element, but I don't recall why she is so heavily armoured, or if we see her in armour before reconstruction.
She seems to function fine, after reconstruction, if not better, without it because of her agility and grace.
So why was she previously armoured?

Valorum · Accepted Answer

The Fifth Element is seen to be armoured, traditionally, at least according to the official novelisation. The Mondoshawans certainly like to wear armour and it's not out of character for them to put their supreme warrior into a suit similar to theirs.

The President looked skeptically at the page. It showed a human figure
encased in armor. Metallic gloves held a case engraved with the emblem
of the three suns.
“The case holds the Sacred Stones. Together with the Fifth Element,
they produce what the ancients called the Light of Creation, able to
bring life to the farthest reaches of the Universe. But if Evil stands
here―”

Notably, while Leeloo is a formidable warrior without her armour, she would likely have survived being shot in the stomach had she been wearing her suit of arms.

jo1storm · Answer

She didn't look that way in the original, alien form. Leeloo was rebuilt to specification from DNA after her death from few living cells from arm. It is human machine which rebuilds her. Maybe they just interpreted her DNA as human? The technician even calls the alien him.

                
            
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Why is Leeloo's recovered hand armoured when she doesn't need armour after reconstruction?

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