Johnny Cage

Since we're on Mortal Kombat characters, this thread is dedicated to Mortal Kombat's resident ball-busting movie star.

Real Name: John Carlton
Age: 29 (Mortal Kombat 1); 39 (as of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon)
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200
Hair: Brown, later dyed Blond
Eyes: Blue
Legal Status: Earthrealm - American
Family: Robert Carlton - Father; Rose Carlton - Mother; Rebecca Carlton, Sister; Cindy Ford - Ex-wife
Fighting Styles: Jeet Kune Do, Karate
Birthplace: Venice, California
Occupation: Actor
Portrayed By: Daniel Pesina (Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II), Chris Alexander (Mortal Kombat Trilogy), Linden Ashby (Mortal Kombat), Chris Conrad (Mortal Kombat: Annihilation)
Trivia: Originally, the creators wanted Jean-Claude Van Damme to play the role in the game, but was replaced by Pesina. Also, Brandon Lee was supposed to play the role of Johnny in the movie, but the role was given to Ashby (who is also a martial artist) following his untimely death in 1995.
Filmography:
* Ninja Mime (a box office flop in America, but a cult classic in France; Cyrax loathed this movie, and still wants his 8 bucks. This is also Johnny's first movie)
* Dragon Fist
* Dragon Fist 2
* Son of Dragon Fist
* HWAAAAA!! (won an Oscar)
* Sudden Violence
* Violence Hero
* 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
* 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 (non-canon since Mortal Kombat: Deception revealed that he was actually killed in Deadly Alliance)
* 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).

Bio:

[Mortal Kombat]

A martial arts superstar trained by great masters around the world, Cage uses his talents on the big screen. He is current box office
champ, starring in such movies as Dragon Fist and Dragon Fist II, as
well as the award winning Sudden Violence. He entered the tournament purely for publicity it would generate for him around the world. Despite his seeming shallowness, he is a formidable foe with limber limbs, quick reflexes, and his patented Shadow Kick.

[Mortal Kombat II]

The world was shocked when martial arts movie star Johnny Cage disappeared from the set of his latest film. But in truth, he was following his former ally Liu Kang into the Outworld where he plans to compete in a twisted tournament in which lies the balance of Earth's existence - as well as a script for another blockbuster movie.

[Mortal Kombat Trilogy]

Killed in battle with an Outworld extermination squad, Johnny Cage's life came to a tragic end. But the celluoid superstar manages to cheat death when his path to the after life is blocked by the merger of Earth and Outworld. His soul takes possession of his body once again and enables Cage to rejoin his friends to battle for Earth's survival.

[Mortal Kombat Gold]

Shao Kahn's defeat frees Johnny Cage's soul to ascend to a higher place. From the heavens, he observes his friends again engaged in battle. When he learns the war Shinnok wages against the Elder Gods, Cage seeks Rayden for help in resurrecting his soul, and then joins Liu Kang in his quest. Johnny Cage fights alongside Earth's warriors once again.

[Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance]

Johnny Cage had been fed up with the lame writing on his current movie "Mortal Kombat: The Death of Johnny Cage," in which his character repeatedly died and was resurrected. To him, his real-life
adventures were much more sensational-he kicked butt! But his studio felt that the hero needed to take a fall for dramatic purposes, Johnny Cage reluctantly agreed to continue with the project until the Thunder God Rayden called him away to a new adventure in Outworld.

Yep. Definitely my all-time favorite MK character (well, besides Scorpion, Shang Tsung, and Onaga).

YouTube video

Need I say more?

Cage rules & would have made a better main character than lame ass Kang. There's a connection between the failures of MK & the death/absence of Cage.

MK3 1st MK w/out Cage. 3 is thought by many to be the start of the end of the MK glory days. MK2 is still regarded as the best of the series.

MK:Annihilation Johnny gets killed off quicker than a black guy in a horror flick & the movie is a steaming pile of shit

Johnny Cage is one of my favorite Mortal Kombat characters. My other favorite character is Jax.

"Those were 500 dollar sunglasses @sshole." rofl2

That line was an instant classic

Cage is my all-time favorite, without a question.

How could someone not like Johnny Cage?

Originally posted by Venomous Yoshi
How could someone not like Johnny Cage?

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f85/t466008.html

😂 @ the no-talent ass clown comment.

Blax_Hydralisk needs help.

Yo momma needs help.

And I will refrain from talking badly about the no-talent assclown here, seeing as this is his Respect thread.

😬 Why did you come here in the first place knowing that you don't like Johnny Cage?

He doesn't have anything else to do with his life.

Anyway, Johnny Cage is a cool guy. He's my favorite Mortal Kombat character.

Originally posted by Blax_Hydralisk
And I will refrain from talking badly about the no-talent assclown here, seeing as this is his Respect thread.

And no. I don't hate you or anything. He's just a character. I still couldn't help but find your post about him funny though.

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Meh. Other than that, here's another cool video of Cage that I probably should've posted earlier.

YouTube video

Gotta love that "This is where you fall down" line (which he also said to Goro before he died). 🤣

Johnny Cage is the best.

Originally posted by Venomous Yoshi
😬 Why did you come here in the first place knowing that you don't like Johnny Cage?

Why not? I, like everyone else, have the right go werever I want, when I want. I'm not an ignorant fool who stays away from threads I don't like.

Originally posted by Blax_Hydralisk
Why not? I, like everyone else, have the right go werever I want, when I want. I'm not an ignorant fool who stays away from threads I don't like.

ermm

Originally posted by Blax_Hydralisk
Why not? I, like everyone else, have the right go werever I want, when I want. I'm not an ignorant fool who stays away from threads I don't like.

Simply sticking your nose in the air and saying "lolz I d'unt like the character so I'm not even gonna go insid3" is ignorant, especially for a RESPECT thread. Who knows, I may have found some info I didn't know about the character that wouldn't make him an assclown. I haven't, but that's not the point.

He's an assclown even after punching Goro in the balls? ermm

Seriously, you think Hwoarang is an assclown when he was giving blows to DEVIL JIN in the T6 trailer.