Johnny Cage

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Johnny Cage is an American gay-porn movie celebrity trained in yoga and midget cockpunching terrorism. He decides to enter the Mortal Kombat tournament after his friend Ray Davies convinces him that celluloid heroes never feel any pain and never really die, thus making him the sure winner.

Some players say Cage is unfairly fast due to the vast amounts of cocaine he snorts before each fight, though most players agree this is common for Hollywood action stars and the fact that his ass is exploding from the yayo.

Some of his notable moves are:

• Yoga Cockpunch - Johnny does a split and assaults the opponents genitals.

• Shadow Cockpunch - Leaving a trail of shadows Johnny slides across the screen to assault his opponents genitals.

• (Fatality) Fatality (Directed by Michael Bay, Produced by Joel Silver) - The opponent explodes in slow motion for no conceivable reason.... after punching them in the genitals, that is.

Note: Johnny Cage's low punch is also a kockpunch, proving that he has an obsession with others people cocks. Punching other people's crotches that is. Sometimes he will even punch his own crotch.

Note 2: He has made many attempts to punch females in the crotch, but this never works because they have none. Li Mei approves of it, calling it "vaginal fisting".

In interviews during the development of Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks it was stated by Ed Boon and several other staff members that Cage is indeed considered the comic relief character of Mortal Kombat. This is also noticeable throughout the series as Cage as often been the root of many jokes by the team working on the series (such his MK4 ending and his storyline in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance).

Contents 1 History 2 The penis furthest to the left belongs to Johnny Cage 2.1 Movie career 3 Combat characteristics 3.1 Signature moves 3.2 Recurring fatalities 4 Appearances in other media 4.1 Film 4.2 Comic books 5 Character Development 6 Game Information 6.1 Other Appearances 7 Trivia 8 References

[edit] History

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1. Faggot McFags

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[edit] The penis furthest to the left belongs to Johnny Cage

[edit] Movie career

As a movie star, Johnny Cage's career consists of many successful (and apparently non-successful) films. According to Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, his official biographies, and a movie poster that can be seen in the Subway background in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, Johnny Cage has starred in:

• Ninja Mime (a box office flop in America, but a cult classic in France; Cyrax loathed this movie)
• Dragon Fist
• Dragon Fist 2
• Gay Porn
• Gay Porn 2: Return of the Gay Porn
• So of Dragon Fist
• HWAAAAA!! (won an Oscar)
• Sudden Violence
• Aquatic Assault
• Exiting the Dragon of Death (opposite Hong Kong action star Channie Jack, a spoof of Jackie Chan)
• 7 Poisons (a take on the Shaw Brothers' classic "Five Deadly Venoms")
• Cage Match
• The Gist of my Fist (Judging from the cover on the box pictured above, it would appear that this is one of Johnny's more recent films)
• 24 Karate Gold
• Caged Rage (a poster of this movie can be seen in the Subway stage in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon)
• Who's That?
• Iron Claw
• Massive Strike
• Wu Shu (a TV series)
• Mortal Kombat
• Mortal Kombat II (Broke box office records)
• Mortal Kombat: The Death of Johnny Cage (Never finished)
• Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (Possibly Non-Canon, as the canon ending of Deadly Alliance had Johnny Cage die)
• Every Dog Has His Day (non-canon, was only depicted in the MK Comics by Malibu, in which he also got Sonya Blade an acting bit).

[edit] Combat characteristics

[edit] Signature moves

• Green Orb / Plasmic Fireball: Cage throws a green fireball into the air, which leaps through the air before curving down towards the ground until it hits the opponent. In the games preceding Deadly Alliance, this move had a variation, in which Cage throws the fireball on a higher arc. (MKII, MKT, MK4, MKG, MK:DA, MK:SM, MK:A)
• Shadow Kick: Cage would slide across the floor, connecting with a kick to the torso of his opponent. As its name implied, he left a green trailing image of himself. However in Deadly Alliance and Armageddon he just leaves a trail of green behind him. (MK, MKII, MKT, MK4, MKG, MK:SM, MK:DA, MK:A)
• Split Punch / Sliding Uppercut: One of Cage's most memorable moves where he does the splits and punches the opponent in the groin. This only worked on male fighters, except in Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, where he is able to do the move on Kitana. In Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance and Mortal Kombat Armageddon Cage can do a modified version of this when instead of punching the groin, he rises up with a surprise uppercut with his punching arm a glowing green. (MK, MKII, MK4, MKG, MK:DA, MK:SM, MK:A)
• Shadow Uppercut: Cage would leap into the air and deliver an uppercut which launched his foe into the air. (MKII, MKT, MK4, MKG, MK:SM)

[edit] Recurring fatalities

• Decapitation: Johnny Cage uppercuts his opponent's head off. A glitch allowed the fatality to be performed multiple times in MK, while in MKII and the Nintendo 64 version of MKT, the multiple decapitation was a legitimate, joke finishing move (achieved by holding a certain button combination, after performing the regular decapitation fatality). (MK, MKII, MKT, MK4, MKG, MK:SM)
• Torso Rip: Johnny Cage grabs his enemy around the waist, rips their upper body from their lower, and throws it to the ground. (MKII, MK4, MKG, MK:SM)
• Torso Kick : Johnny Cage performs a modified version of his Shadow Kick which delivers a fatal blow to his opponent's torso. In Shaolin Monks, if a fatality is used on Goro, Cage will step in and defeat Goro with this move. (MK SNES, MKT N64)

[edit] Appearances in other media

[edit] Film

Johnny Cage was portrayed by Linden Ashby in the first Mortal Kombat movie. He fought and defeated Scorpion and Goro after the latter crushed Johnny's $500 sunglasses and Cage retaliated with a Split Punch. The movie also hinted at the beginning of a possible love interest with Sonya, which was later imported to the games (his ending in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance seems to be the most indicative of this) and became a favorite subject of many MK fan fiction writers.

It is interesting to note that in both movies he tried to do his Shadow Kick but it was always interrupted. He performs it during his fight with Scorpion in the first movie, but never made contact as he was instead transported to Scorpion's lair. There was also a nod to his MK2 Friendship move: after Johnny defeated Scorpion, he left behind an autographed photo of himself.

Cage appeared briefly in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, in which he was played by Chris Conrad (The Next Karate Kid) and killed by Shao Kahn in the first five minutes after Kahn blocked a Shadow Kick sent his way in Cage's attempt to save Sonya. Interestingly, Cage is seen removing his sunglasses as he first appears onscreen, despite the fact that they were crushed by Goro in the previous movie.

[edit] Comic books

Johnny Cage is one of the main good characters in the Malibu Comics series. His portrayal in the comics is faithful to the games, keeping both his desire to prove his moves are real and his personality traits. He appears during the whole Blood & Thunder series, most of the time alongside Sonya (from which the comics hints at a relation). His most serious moment is during issue 4 when he, under Raiden's advice, decides to not seek the power of the Tao Te Zhan since that would be like faking his moves in the set.

During the second series, Battlewave, he is seen returning to his actor career when Sonya asks him to help on an investigation after Jax was brutally attacked. At first he refuses due to his busy life, but later reconsiders what's important and decides to follow with Jax into the Outworld. In the comics he also has a muscle-bound bodyguard, Bo, which he sent to protect Liu Kang.

[edit] Character Development

The original name for Cage was going to be Michael Grimm. It was changed during preproduction of MK. Cage's "real name" came from Midway game artist John Carlton, who worked on the popular NBA Jam arcade series.

In the first game, Cage was modelled after the Belgian actor Jean Claude Van Damme. His character is loosely based around Van Damme's Portrayal of Dux Ryu Ninjutsu founder Frank Dux in the 1988 movie Bloodsport. This is apparent in more than one way as Cage's outfit in the first MK is nearly identical to the one used by Van Damme in the last fight of the movie. Also, his split punch is taken from an actual scene in the movie.

Cage was the lone character in the original MK who did not have a past history with any of the other characters. Though not determined, his lack of storyline may likely have played a part in his omission from several MK side projects.

[edit] Game Information

Cage was the last character in the original MK to be given a Fatality. Until a last-minute brainstorm by co-creator John Tobias that later evolved into the uppercut Fatality, he was simply going to throw his opponent across the screen as a finishing move.

He was also the only one character in MK2 who has two different images in his profile and versus screen.

Cage was left out from the Game Boy version of MK, MK2, MK4 and MK:DA due to memory constraints.

In early arcade test versions of MKII, the word "Otomix" appeared on Cage's pants (they were worn by actor Daniel Pesina during filming), but was omitted in subsequent chip upgrades. Otomix is an actual established supplier of martial arts and athletic wear. [1] [2] [3]

The Red Shadow Kick special move occurred randomly in MKII. In MKT the Red Shadow Kick is a separate move from the Green Shadow Kick. In MK4 and MK Gold, selecting Player 2's outfit would cause the moves to have red shadow properties, rather than green. Also, in Shaolin Monks, Johnny Cage's shadow uppercut appeared red, oddly, while all of his other moves were green.

Cage was exclusively recreated for Mortal Kombat Trilogy due to the fact that Daniel Pesina was fired by Midway in 1994 after appearing in an ad for the arcade game BloodStorm dressed as Cage [4], and thus they couldn't use his MK2 sprite. He was replaced by Chris Alexander.

One of Cyrax's Konquest missions in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance has him practicing moves against Johnny Cage, supposedly taking out his frustration over how much he hates Cage's films (especially Ninja Mime). One of the comments made in the instruction boxes is "Johnny Cage is not afraid to die", a line from the song about Cage, "Prepare Yourself" by The Immortals on Mortal Kombat: The Album.

In MK: Armageddon Johnny Cage and Goro are shown in one of the main menu screen, portraying them as rivals. But while all the other menu screens in the game have the evil/neutral character in the foreground and the good character in the background with full-body, Johnny Cage and Goro are shown the other way around. Interestingly, this seems to be the only one of the menu screens influenced by the first movie, as opposed to any in-game rivalry. In addition, Johnny Cage's main menu model is black short-haired, based on early games, but his in-game model is blonde, with longer hair and different sunglasses.

Reportedly, John Vogel did not like Cage's storyline in Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Mortal Kombat 4, and Cage's Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance bio can be viewed as retconning this, with Mortal Kombat: The Death of Johnny Cage explaining away - and mocking - his repeated death and revival during Trilogy and MK4. Fan reaction to this intent has been mixed; some like the loss of another "resurrection" storyline, which is becoming increasingly common in the Mortal Kombat story, but others feel the retcon destroys what was perceived as a refreshing change of pace for Cage's otherwise stilted storyline (with Cage's death and subsequent semi-altruistic resurrections portraying him more compassionate and understanding of the gravity of the tournament, instead of simply using them as inspiration for more of his movies). Others do not view this as a retcon at all, as it would directly contradict his story screens in Trilogy and MK4 and cannot therefore be canonical. To these fans, the references to The Death of Johnny Cage movie therefore take on a more satirical aspect.

[edit] Other Appearances

According to his MK: Deadly Alliance Konquest mode, he appeared on Celebrity SMASH TV! (as a result, Smash TV and the Mortal Kombat series are both portrayed as occurring in the same fictional universe). He donated all of his winnings on the show to charity.

Cage appears in a sketch in the animated TV series, Robot Chicken along side another Mortal Kombat character Kano. The sketch shows Cage having his heart ripped out due to a fatality, his surgery to put his heart back into his chest, his recovery and his physiotherapy treatment. He then returns to have a rematch with Kano only to have his heart ripped out again.

[edit] Trivia

• He was the only character from the first MK game who did not appear in Jeff Rovin's non-canon 1995 novel, and the only one of the seven playable fighters in MK not to appear in the 1996 animated series.
• Some think that Johnny had defeated Goro in the first Mortal Kombat tournament (most likely due to the movie). However in the videogame storyline it was Liu Kang who had defeated Goro in the tournament. In Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, there is another fight between Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and Goro, in which Johnny intervenes and finishes off Goro in a homage to the film. The official MK2 comic written by John Tobias also has Cage running into and fighting Goro alongside Kano and Sonya as they attempt to escape the then-crumbling island the tournament was held on. Despite this, Cage and Goro are often pictured together probably in homage to the film. In the last game, Mortal Kombat Armageddon, the random main menu shows Cage on the front of Goro. A promo image of Goro decapitating Johnny Cage was found on magazine covers and is an unlockable picture in Deadly Alliance's Krypt. Even the Mortal Kombat toyline included a Cage-Goro two-pack. [5]
• Though Mortal Kombat is notorious for replacing the letter "c" with "k," Cage is an exception. It's probably more than coincidence that Kage ("KAH-geh") in Japanese means shadow and Johnny Cage is the master of many "shadow" move techniques. It probably wasn't changed also due to the Virtua Fighter character named Kage-Maru, whose name would be pronounced by Americans like Cage. Nonetheless, his last name is pronounced like the kind of "Cage" one would keep an animal in.
• He can be seen in the prison stage in Mortal Kombat: Deception.
• He is mocked in one of Raiden's taunts in Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict - "You fight like Johnny Cage!".
• The movies Johnny Cage stars in that are based on the MK games portray Johnny as the one who defeated the villain, although he has never actually done so canonically.
• Johnny Cage was part of Jazwares.inc's third wave of Mortal Kombat action figures along with Kano, Noob Saibot and Reptile released just prior to the holiday season of 2006.
• In earlier MK games, Johnny's hair was brown. But as of Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, his hair has turned blonde.

[edit] References