{"id":211650,"date":"2021-03-09T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/mortal-kombat-johnny-cage-movies\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:00:30","slug":"mortal-kombat-this-character-should-not-be-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/09\/mortal-kombat-this-character-should-not-be-in-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat: This Character Should Not Be In The Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Mortal Kombat<\/em> <\/strong>reboot is looking every bit as exciting as Raiden\u2019s timeline reset in Mortal Kombat<\/a> 9<\/em>. Just one look at the R-rated trailer already has Mortal Kombat<\/em> fans praising the team behind<\/a> it for the way it captures the ultraviolent nature of the games.<\/p>\n

Despite that, the new Mortal Kombat<\/em> movie can\u2019t make room for everyone<\/a>, as far too many characters have fought to death in the franchise\u2019s video game world for the film to tell satisfying origin stories for all of them. Instead, director Simon McQuoid and company have chosen to focus on Mortal Kombat\u2019s<\/em> finest with Scorpion spearheading a group<\/a>\u00a0that includes\u00a0the likes of Sub-Zero, Liu Kang and Sonya Blade, but leaving out\u00a0its\u00a0second noisiest fighter, Johnny Cage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Johnny Cage was born as a sort of meme<\/a> character, as Ed Boon and John Tobias conceived him to be a parody of 80s and 90s action movie star Jean Claude Van Damme, a parallel that\u2019s easy to see when Johnathan “Johnny Cage” Carlton enters his first Mortal Kombat<\/em> tournament in order to prove himself as every bit the fighter he appears to be in his movies. In fact, in every iteration, Johnny spends his first hours in Mortal Kombat<\/em> believing the tournaments to be a very elaborate Hollywood production.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps that\u2019s the reason why Boon and Tobias always meant for Johnny Cage to be Mortal Kombat\u2019s<\/em> comic relief, alongside Kano who actually does feature prominently in the trailer. And that was essentially Johnny’s thing, he was the Pepe Le Pew to Sonya<\/a>, a guy with his name literally tattooed on his chest and whose signature move is the dirty yet hilarious \u201cNut Punch\u201d.<\/p>\n

Above all things, the early Johnny Cage is a shallow and immature bro from Los Angeles that -at first- isn\u2019t fighting for Earthrealm like Sonya, Liu Kang, and Jax, Johnny\u2019s fighting for himself. When considering all of this on top of the fact that Johnny Cage lacks the visual flair and superpowered fatalities that the rest of the cast all possess, he starts to become the most expendable of the bunch, at least on good guys’ side.<\/p>\n

2021\u2019s Mortal Kombat<\/em> would appear to aim to take the franchise where insufficient technology and 90s cheesiness kept it from going in the first film. The trailer itself is much somber toned and swaps the old \u201cTechno Syndrome\u201d for an orchestral arrangement much more fitting to the seriousness the footage tries to deliver, overall a theme in which the early Johnny Cage would hardly fit in, especially when there’s already so much going related to the other characters.<\/p>\n