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I think a lot of people forget the whole purpose of him joining the tournaments in the first place and that was to prove that he could actually fight and that all his moves were real.

According to MK lore, after Sonya tells Johnny that she's pregnant, Johnny puts his entire Hollywood career on hold for several years, in order to not only marry Sonya but also to help raise his daughter Cassie. As a result, Sonya and Johnny's personality do a complete 180. Sonya began focusing so much on her work that she began neglecting her role as a mother and wife. She even missed Cassie's first birthday. On the other hand, Johnny embraced his role as a husband and father, and devoted his time to his family. Having to raise Cassie mostly on his own, also allowed Johnny to gain more humility and maturity. And he definitely didn't want Cassie to be raised the same way he was. "Dad was an asshole! Hollywood made US an even bigger one!"

I definitely agree about Johnny Cage, quickly how ppl forget he's legit AF. I mean in MKX after Liu Kang and Kung Lao became revenants Cage was the obvious choice to be the series next MC.

Johnny's motivation in the first live action movie was the best interpretation. He went to the tournament because he was tired of being clowned on about being "fake"

Even though he wasn’t a movie star in MKX, MK9 and MKX had the most well-rounded portrayals of Johnny Cage’s personality. The humor in his character didn’t come from having him constantly getting his ass kicked, it came from him being flashy, pompous, but still having pride in his own skill. His line, “I AM the special effects!” is supposed to illustrate how important backing up his talk with actual skill is. And in MKX, we see that despite being the show-off celebrity, he was the family man who did most of the parenting to Cassie and cared about Sonya enough to be mad that she refused to balance work and family. The movie just shits all over his character for a cheap way out of writing decent comedy by making him a clown. Johnny Cage may not be underrated, but he’s definitely misrepresented.

The one really got his character is first MK movie. It really made Johnny Cage fan favorite. When they killed him in second movie at the start, I absolutely devestated. My favorite died at the beginning of the movie and I watched it on cinema (wow a fatal blow for me). NRS actually did a great job with him. MK9 opened up his new journey and MKX perfected it. Making his character right pairing him Sonya and having a daughter is enough for me enjoying MKX's story. But somehow writers of animation movies completely saw his character wrong. How they screwed up that is beyond belivable, at least play some games writers.

What's weird too is that in Scorpion's Revenge when they introduce Johnny you see his tournament trophies and a picture of him and his trainer. Maybe he's been so Hollywood he kinda lost his Killer Instinct?

They way Johnny Cage was portrayed in the animation film was absolutely disgusting they made him look like a idiot and didn't even show his shadow energy at all. He is the only reason why I have became a mortal Kombat fan.

Johnny Cage has been considered the comic relief officially since MK4. He always had a funny personality at times but after that game, they went all out with it. People look at Johnny more for being funny than his skills these days. Similar to Paul Phoenix in Tekken. He was once on par with Kazuya but after a few games, he's considered a goofball.

Even in the first MK movie back in the day, he got annoyed when people were calling him a fraud and entered the tournament (when tricked by Shang Sung) to prove he wasn't a fraud. Yes he's cocky, but that is because he know he really is a great fighter, and enjoys showing off his skills

Quite a bit of dialogue between 10 and 11 suggests to me that amid all that Hollywood glitz and glamor that his agent was one of the few people who genuinely had his back. The intro with Kano is just *chef's kiss* In some of his endings, I also got the impression that he's a very self-motivated person when he has a proper path to go on (with Raiden training him in one game ending). Since he was already a fighter before being an actor, he's already the quite the perfectionist and has had to discern between who was friend or foe in Hollywood. Kinda wish that the writers wouldn't make him so dumb. Also Raiden in the new movies just letting JC get snicker-snackered because "it was amusing"? Come on, man. >8( He's one of my favorites, so that intro clip gave me psychic damage. 😭

This is exactly how I felt lately with this movie and MK 11, Pretty much is making Johnny regress and not giving him the proper respect he deserves.

I think when injecting humour into a character or setting, it’s important not to overdo it and have a decent balance of serious and silly. Otherwise a comedic character can come off more like a joke character that’s impossible to take seriously. Like how John McClane from Die Hard has enough personality to liven a up a dire situation but still be credible as an action movie lead you can root for.

Johnny Cage has always been and always will be my favorite Mortal Kombat character. He's just a classic! (Plus his fatalities in MK11 are easily the best in the game)

I guess this eplains why Johnny Cage was using Nunchucks in the older Mortal Kombat games. How come we barely see this side of Johnny Cage?

I love grown man Johnny Cage, i love when brash characters grow to be smarter or even wiser, but gotta stay in character, that is indeed important

That is something you're right that people get a little too caught up on is the comic relief side of Johnny and they seem to forget that he is a legit martial artist who is able to hold his own against God's demons and monsters. Arguably when he was killed anytime he he's usually the one that gets killed and whenever he dies it's always till like some of the most powerful beings in the universe. As much as people trash the movie version of Johnny Cage from 1995 he might be the most accurate version that's what's kind of funny in all this. The most accurate is definitely MKX and I can see why everybody really likes him and MKX it might be the perfect Johnny Cage but they do show that he is a martial artist first in the 1995 movie who people have lost respect for his fighting ability that's his whole motivation and he does defeat goro even if it is by cheating technically

If you notice though that the fighter side of Johnney Cage surfaces when he is older where as in the movies and games such as mk11 and mk9 he is inexperienced meaning he gets better with age

love how you refer to Kylie Minogue as "The Cammy Actress" when she's one of the most famous Australian pop stars of all time and exceedingly more famous than the johnny cage actor

I think a reasonable excuse for this depiction of JC would be the outlandish otherworldly look of the fighters and setting he’s surrounded by. I can imagine JC connecting the dots more easily in a grounded setting. With that said, the writers could have done more to show this or anything relaying that he thinks everything’s fake.

Johnny Cage will always be The True Chosen One in my eyes. It should have been him, and if not, then he should have been the Second Chosen One after Liu Kang's fall not Cassie Cage of all people smh

MK9 used Johnny as an audience surrogate: he was the player character in the first chapter so the audience could get acclimated to the world, just like Johnny was. His relationship with Sonya was about Johnny learning to be serious and Sonya lightening up and learning to trust. He had serious character development in the netherrealm games.

He got the best character growth in the new mk timeline and acc got respected surprisingly enough

I could not of been more disgusted w/ Johnny Cage's portrayal in these animated films last 2yrs. Yes - the inaccuracies were awful... But he was more hateable than any character ever made! The constant corny, witty 1-line jokes that saturated his dialogue. The gimmick of "he thinks this is still a movie set". Whole thing was terrible.

Did you just call Kylie Minogue “the Cammy actress”? 😂

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Johnny Cage is my favourite MK character i like the idea of how this funny,cocky jerk like character is revealed to be a kickass figher nut the only issue i have with him is how his powers how do they work? Johnny says he could only use them when his family is in danger( same with Cassie) Yet both of them canonically use their powers over and over again

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This aged like fine wine. One year later, JCVD skin for Johnny Cage in MK1.

Mk 11s arcade ending for Johnny did so much justice to the legend that he is

The best written character in nrs history

Johnny Cage has always been my favorite and I gotta say I felt like IX got it closest to Ashby's portrayal from the movie - which we all know set the tone for what we expected for so many of our favs. MKIX just felt like the perfect blend of a fighter who got lost in the celebrity of the new lifestyle. And we get to watch him be brought back to reality and his roots of being a fighter. Could just be me, but I love his personality in IX. Dang...both IX and X did him aight.

I’m not so sure that his Hollywood persona is *super* secondary. Though I agree that the WB cartoons took it way too far. I mean, in almost all of his Midway ladder endings, he’s capitalized on the things he’s went through in the tournaments. He straight up died off screen in MK3, and when he miraculously came back to life in MK4, he gave an asshole Oscar speech. He’s never been a total 100% taken serious badass in the OG timeline. However, personality wise, he is my favorite character.

"Blue light is dangerous" has it in his background for the ad

I was so annoyed when they nerfed his plus frames in MK11, but I never dropped my boy and I still use him even today

One thing you forgot to mention was that Johnny's reason for entering the tournament was to prove to people that he was a real fighter and it wasn't just Hollywood magic. More proof he was always a fighter first.

johnny cage has been my favorite character since the first mk movie and seeing him mistreated for so long hurts

I love this video. Finally someone to put my favorite character on the map the proper way. Well explained 👏🏾 hopefully writers follow up on this

Love the BHD intro, that clip worked so well. He’s so damn funny!! 😂

I love the BHD intro

I love how you added Blastphamous HD in the beginning lol

lol I love that Blast was in the beginning

FUCK YEAH! thank you for getting this! Johnny was always my Favorite and they constantly get him wrong. The first movie was the only one closest to getting him right. It's so awesome to hear someone point this out. That Johnny Cage is a Fuckin Legend 🔥 .

Thank you, I was saying the saying the same thing for years. The original JC wasn't that clownish like how he is now, it took Mortaro and an undefeated army to kill him. The writers focus too much on Johnny being the comic relief and it got people thinking he's not capable of beating fighters like Subzero and Scorpion.

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DAMN TRUE DAWG!!! IM SO GLAD U HIT ON THIS. I GET AGG WHEN CAGE ACTS SOOOO HOLLYWOOD WEN IT GETS REAL

I love the classic bhd reference, dude was the goat of reaction videos when he was in his prime

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I agree 100% I really grew to love Cage in MKX. Dude is a great fighter and all the fans who hated how he defeated Shinnok are crazy it didn't bother me at all. Cage was picked by Raiden as a hero in MK9 and it finally paid off.

I’m glad someone’s calling out this bullshit scene. If Johnny freaking cage was attacked by some musclebound freak with weapons he would *salivate* at the idea of getting _all of that_ on video! Then proceed to upload that shit to World Star to further fuel his fame and legitimacy as a Ex-Professional Face Puncher! Golden opportunity freaking wasted!

0:19 I've never noticed how much the boys felt that hit lmao

Can we get a TMNT video? I know it would be long because of 4 turtles, but they also have similar moves differing from each one. I also would like to know your fav turtle to play and why, ps-love the content, and always stay an underdawg!

What I like about Johnny Cage is that he spent this entire franchise questioning everything he saw from Raiden throwing Lightning to Baraka's blades. Yet nobody around him questioned how he's able to throw energy orbs and Shadows Kicks.😂😂😂😂

Hey man thanks for the glasses. This is boretty big help

Glad somebody made this video, been thinking they get Johnny wrong 90% of the time for years now. It's a little frustrating how the more one note characters and the slightly more shallow characters (imo) get more attention (ahem Scorpion) whilst characters like Johnny get misrepresented, Kuai Liang is side lined hard most the time, Mileena is misrepresented, Kung Lao just isn't Kung Lao anymore, etc.

Underdawg: ''I don't think the writers understand Johnny Cage very well'' Me: ''I don't think those writers undersstand and respect the MK franchise very well''

The character with the most underserved push “ahem, the bug lady “.

Johnny Cage is based off of Jean Claude Van Damme, Liu Kang is based off of Bruce Lee, Raiden and Shang Tsung are based off of the villain characters from the movie "Big trouble in little China", and Sonya is based off of Cynthia Rothrock. Goro, Kintaro, and Motaro are based off of Indian or Greek mythology. Gotta love Johnny Cage, he's the funny guy. It's awesome to see the original MK characters grow, change, and develop over the decades. Let's hope we get to see MK12 in the near future

The only thing I like about Johnny Cage is his ability to fight that’s it. But your analysis of Johnny Cage is spot on by the way.

@6:45 I legit burst out laughing as that was the first time I heard anyone call Kylie Minogue “The Cammy actress from Street Fighter” 😂 😂 😂

You hit this one right on the nail man perfect video you got this right man he was a fighter first then he was an actor I definitely agree 100% dude great great video

Don't forget that Johnny Cage was a fighter first and an actor afterwards lol 😆

I did enjoy the mkx story cause they did Johnny so much justice

I love him being goofy and only talking about holy wood tho

i love the work that goes into these videos

Didn't know about the Jean Claude and Steven Segal..😂 that's funny.

This completely sums up all the problems I've had with his character but could never explain. He's always been my favorite but it never made sense the way he was portrayed.

Just got done watching the Kung Lao video and having him say the exact same about Sonya is hilarious 🤣

I feel like eveytime I watch ur vids that u have like 1.1million followers and then I check u have 340k ur underrated honestly

How does Johnny Cage’s magical powers work? Is it like a ki thing where he can use it whenever he wants can only just shoot energy attacks and enhance his strength or can he use it in more creative ways? Cause I remember hearing that the green energy only works when a persons love ones are in danger yet he seems to use it when that isn’t the case

I like the blastphamoushd edits you put in the beginning

I honestly didn't expect to play this video and see Blasphemous HD

I’ve been waiting for this video! Cage has easily been my favorite MK character since the beginning, and I hate how they have made him look. Even Raiden said in one of the movies (I forget which one) if he were to focus on just fighting he would be stronger than Lu Kang. I get that he needs to be the comedian but he also needs to be as strong as he is funny. Well done! MK X was my favorite game for this reason.

steven Seagal kinda feels like the IRL Hercule after the whole Van Damme thing.

Love the tekken tag 2 shop music u have good taste

I think many of the Netherealm era misunderstand most of the characters XD

To see BHD in a damn UnderDawg video... definitely not expected.

Yo, will you make a Motaro video at some point? That guy has been dissed more than anyone else at this point, and is in envy of Reptile, Kung Lao, and Goro.

I relate to this so much. This film hurt me in ways I've never felt

Nice way to plug ad. It caught me off guard lol

Take a shot every time UnderDawg says Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Johnny should still be cocky and funny but he should absolutely be confident in his skills and eager to fight. Maybe the writers are always trying to nerf him so that he isn't so cool that he overshadows everyone else. I enjoyed Johnny from the old 90s movie. He went to the tournament to prove himself and critics he wasn't a fake. He defeated Scorpion and Goro. His character was treated with respect.

Loved the BHD intro, wish he got more recognition. Was easily better than 99.9% of reaction channels between 2014-2018

John Claude Van Damn is one hell of a fighter hes only officially lost 5 times

That “bad writing, blue lighting” line was a bar, too bad my vision is already bad and my prescription glasses offer blue light protection

Great breakdown

I already have a blue light filter on my phone lmao

Jean Claude van damn def needs to voice actors for next jc in the next game

You should make a series of the most misunderstood characters

Damn the kombo of Johnny cage was also John Claude van dam.

5:19 hmmm... Jean Claude Vandame is undoubtedly one of the strongest humans in the world but in real life Baraka is not a human, so...

3:22 damn. Straight up mk11 right there.

I love his interactions with his younger self in MK11

Great job on the video my dude. I feel like the Best version of Johnny Cage is in MKX. I like how he is kind of like Deadpool and not made out to be like a complete idiot they did so the him in the anime mk movies.

i think he thought baraka was an actor because he was a monster and he doesn't know that creatures like that are real

You already know why Im in the comment section. And I love to see it. Still aint tired of "Your Sunset"

Yo great choreography bro Do more of johnny cage

2:46 It’s the same kind of irony as Patrick Stewart getting hired to shill for National rental car and NOT Enterprise that makes me doubt whether there really is any semblance of order to the universe. 😜

I was so hoping you said “all bets are off” the third time, would’ve been a flawless string of words that make great sense.