Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about JOHNNY CAGE!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Johnny Cage is a fictional character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series . he was introduced as the first of the series’ original seven player characters in the first game in 1992 . inspired by Jean-Claude Van Dam the character is absent from the series continuity until the 1996 compilation title Mortal Kombat Trilogy . he is killed by Shao Kahn’s forces during an invasion of Earth, but his path to the afterlife is blocked he is one of only seventeen characters to receive an official game biography . he returns along with the series’ then-entire playable roster in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (2006) . his disembodied head is the storyline then travels back in time to the Shaolin Tournament from the original Mortal Kombat . Cage is a cocky and talkative martial arts actor who enters the tournament as a publicity stunt . Johnny and Sonya are later married and have a daughter, Cassie . they divorce due to Sonya’s commitment to her career . Johnny is disgusted by his younger self . Johnny and Sonya are kidnapped by Kano and forced to fight in a cage match . the game was intended to be modeled after Van Damme’s 1988 film Bloodsport . a demo reel was martial artist Daniel pesina portrayed Cage in the original game and the 1993 sequel Mortal Kombat II . the character was additionally modeled after Daniel Rand from the Power Man and Iron Fist comic series . pesina was replaced by Chris Alexander as Cage for the 1996 compilation title Mortal Kombat Trilogy . as a narcissistic Hollywood star, Cage serves as comic relief in contrast to the games’ Johnny Cage is a supporting character in DC Comics’ 2015 twelve-issue Mortal Kombat X miniseries . he is one of Raiden’s three chosen warriors with Liu Kang and Sonya he did not return for the 1997 sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation . he was the second actor to portray Cage in a live action film . matt Mullins reprised the role in cage pitches reality show pilots in which he engages in acts of vigilantism by beating up criminals . he overhears one of them stealing his ideas while proposing a new show to another van Dien compared his career trajectory to that of the character in a 2013 interview . Cage has been licensed for various action figures produced by Hasbro, Toy Island, and Jazwares . “if you can’t marry Brad Pitt, you can always settle for Mortal Kombat’s Johnny Cage,” says Chris Buffa of GameDaily . gamesradar considers Cage a combination of Linden Ashby’s performance in the first Mortal Kombat film was “perfect idea of” Cage’s personality . Carl Lyon of Fearnet opined that Casper van Dien’s portrayal of