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@rollins4484

11 ай бұрын

Here's some new trivia, Ed Boon was waiting in the hospital the other day so went on Twitter to answer questions and some one asked him who came up with the name 'Mortal Kombat', his response: "Steve Ritchie. Original voice of Shao Kahn. Pinball designer."

Johnny Cage hands down will always be my favorite character to play on MK

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

They definitely made him such an important as the series progressed.

Cage is an amazing character. I like how they slightly where raising his story in 4 and in Deadly Alliance to really bringing him to a character heavy storyline.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

People forget that even the classic timeline made him extremely important. I mean, he's the one that saw Armageddon coming and raised an army to fight back.

The evolution of Johnny was amazing. I honestly liked MK 9-11 Johnny the most cuz he was a decent man and good father. Seeing him in disbelief over Sonya's death was heart breaking. No over the top scream, no wanting to seek revenge for her death or any of those grand standing's. Just a broken man who lost his wife and seeing his daughter crushed by the loss. Perfection.

It's so funny but also so cool how Johnny went from generic douchebag actor #38 in the later games of the original timeline to one of most well developed and fleshed out characters in the reboot timeline.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Right? Makes me wonder what kind of man he's gonna be in this new reborn timeline.

Cage probably had the best character development in the series.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Very much so. From over the top, cocky actor, to savior of the world, to loving father. Hope he's awesome in the New Era too.

Johnny Cage is my favorite MK character. Thanks for the video.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed, he's definitely one of the most Klassic characters in the series and should always be involved.

@adamrenfrow

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV exactly.

Lmao with the intro having Cage fighting 80s action stars.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Hey he sees himself as the best right haha?

It’s funny as a kid I always gravitated towards characters like Johnny and Stryker. I just preferred the average guys over the ninjas and sorcerers.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

I dressed up for Halloween as Stryker in elementary school. The only kid that I knew that liked that character.

“You hear that? She called me Johnny “

I just had a thought: Was the scene where Younger Johnny goes all Rambo on after getting shot a Spaceballs reference? After Vespa gets her hair shot she goes all Rambo in a sort of similar way.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Could be. The NRS/Midway team have always been huge fans of classic movies and pop culture.

This is really meticulously documented, well done! One funny thing about Johnny Cage in Armageddon's opening cinematic is that he is seen pushing Sonya off the pyramid. That's quite ironic since she would end up being his wife in the new timeline.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. And maybe it was accidental lol. She slipped and he tried to catch her.

Johnny cage in mk11: from movie action hero to real action hero

I can imagine the amount of work that goes into these and result is always stellar. Keep up the good work, Fabian. Great stuff.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

A ton of work lol, but it's all worth it. Much more coming

Right on time, like "always"

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

I DID say Sunday for Public release lol

Johnny Cage has perhaps the Biggest Importance and Development on any Character in the Franchise that went from a Solid Character,then Die,Come Back to Life,Be an Arrogant A-Hole Celebrity,and in the Original Era Other than the 1995 Originally he was meant to be the Protagonist but was Changed to the Point Nobody found him Interesting and lacked Some Parts in his Personality,the NRS Era Rebooted the Character and Improved Him as One of the Funniest Characters in Mortal Kombat,grew to be a Better Person,Husband,and Father,and became One of the Top 10 Best Characters in the Franchise,I can’t wait to see how MK1 is going to Portray Him.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Nailed it, they developed him extremely well in the later part of the series.

Cage the unsung hero of MK

@michaellabrador3991

Жыл бұрын

Wait sec Cage won against shinnok with the power of love yub he a anime character

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

He indeed used the power of protecting loved ones. One of the greatest anime power ups of all time.

I hope Johnny comes back in Mortal Kombat one

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

They've confirmed that he's in it as a playable character, which is great news.

Johnny is definitely my favorite usually one of my go tos in Mortal Kombat games

Don't think I've caught a live premiere before.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Gonna try a couple of these out and see how it affects performance. I always enjoy the live interaction

It would be cool if they revisited all the alternate history versions of characters, in the future. Like the universe where jhonny got really rich meets the version of him that became a god or the hidden power version of him. This would go for all characters with alternate ending through the games.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

I love that. Especially since the Snowblind animated movie, was a follow up of Kano's MK11 ending. There's so many story possibilities by doing that.

Brandon Lee as Jonny cage would have been epic. But the guy who ended up playing him was fantastic.

@GamerThumbTV

10 ай бұрын

Most definitely

Johnny Cage has been my favorite character in the MK universe and probably of all popular culture since I was 11. When I first played as him in MK9, I just saw the badass in sunglasses. His douchebag ways we’re something I looked past, especially when he matures throughout MKX/11. He even became more mature than Sonya! I love everything about him. From his name, to his story, moveset (nutshot especially), his look (mainly for MK9), and more. My favorite moment from him was definitely the 2nd part of the MK 11 campaign. Radian’s thoughts on Cage coming true earlier than expected. Standing in the way of Shao Khan and Sindel attempting to put further harm on Cassie and Sonya. Dude literally drops the act, utters a sick/iconic Batman line, and fights for his family. Sure he lost, but he survived a hammer shot to the chest and matured. Real quickly, Radian is goated for recognizing Johnny’s potential as a hero. Looking past everyone’s doubts on the actor. The former Thunder God proved everyone wrong. Johnny Cage is indeed a hero! I pray he is done well in his third live action appearance. If they kill him off again, I’m throwing hands!

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Well said!

@CarlCage16

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV Appreciate it! Sick presentation on the character!!! 🙌🏾

@shyguy85

Жыл бұрын

radian?

29:56 The straight-men of the team just roasted him.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

To be fair he set himself up for that medium rare roast.

Cage will always be my favorite MK character

Dope love these history videos very fun to binge!

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out!

I'm vey interested to see how Karl Urban plays him in the next movie.

I absolutely love the conversation between younger and present Jhonny, even he could see how annoying he used to be.

Thank you for the new video I've been watching your Mortal Kombat playlist every night before bed this whole week

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that, the support helps greatly

Another solid history of an iconic Mortal Kombat Kharacter, especially with the new story content and information regarding the upcoming sequel to the MK movie reboot, another Mortal Kombat Legends movie, and his story beats from MK11, I now eagerly await the final chapter of the Metroid story, the restart on history of the Assassin's Creed franchise, and maybe in the future, redo the God of War story

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the support! Metroid finale is the next big video coming up.

@erichfiedler1481

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV hell yeah, I've been waiting for the grand finale to the Metroid story (for now), you could say I've been DREADing this day. Hai! Aruto ja...NAITO!

Awesome work on this, dude! I love this series. Can't wait to see who you do next.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Planning on doing a big Liu Kang update video. The original one is missing alot of content

Killer history and epic as always

I love listening to your work. I 1st found out about you when you were talking about the castlevania time line and ever since then I've been hooked on how you tell stories. So very detailed and your voice is very soothing. I can't wait for the next one

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that, glad to have you on the channel

@Phant0mwolf-Productions

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV it's my pleasure to be a fan

Bro thanks for making this video. Johnny Cage is my favorite MK character, I appreciate the work and time you took to make this video. Much love.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for checking it out, hope I did the character justice.

@jburnaquatic

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV Oh yeah! 😎

And now come MK1, we come full circle.

Growing up, I never really paid too much attention to Johnny Cage. It wasn’t until MKX and MK11 that I really started to appreciate him and became one of my favorite characters to the point where it just isn’t MK without him.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

That's when his development was at it's greatest. They really pushed him into being one of the most important characters and I hope they continue to do so.

Been living in nostalgia in MK11 with the movie skins. So freakin awesome to have Linden Ashby as my Johnny whoopin all sorts of ass. 😁

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Played such a great Johnny Cage

@gamervet4760

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV Yeah. Him and Robin Shou are hands down my favorite kung fu duo in film. A shame he didn't comeback for MK11. Would've been pretty sweet and yeah Trevor would've been much loved as well.

Great video

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out.

As a fan of the series I love the games. Johnny Cage isn't a character I play as very frequently but I love his characterization in the games.

Ronda rousy playing sonya was probably the worst celebrity any game has ever had

I would like to see Johnny Cage and Kotal do a classic MadTV sketch as a Friendship. But you know what's weird? The actors doing the voice work for Sub-Zero, Smoke and Scorpion are also doing voice work for Diablo IV, as well as Kitana and Liu Kang.

@rollins4484

Жыл бұрын

Same with the actors/actress from Mortal Kombat X, Shinnok, Scorpion and Tanya

@rollins4484

Жыл бұрын

Same with Kano, Kronika, Sheeva, Erron Black/Skinnok, Garas/Sektor from MK11... Man, these guys get around.

Will you make a video about the main characters of deception and Armageddon In the future I don’t remember their names

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Every kombatant will be covered in time

@kaistrange1672

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV ok Awesome

@kaistrange1672

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV Forgot to ask does that include Guest characters

Ah yes my FAVORITE CHARACTER! 😭💖

Thanks!

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for that man, appreciated!

@koolme666

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV no problem! gotta thank you for your hard work!

Great to see him back in MK1

Kinda miss the intro slowed down a bit….. But I get it. 💪🏿

Johnny Cage, That's right.

MK11 made me love Johnny even more TBH.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully in the new era he regains his family life eventually

Johnny Cage has always been a top 5 favorite of mine, but I was disappointed in how little contribution he had to the original MK story line. But I love his development in the new timeline, and I sincerely hope Netherrealm continues to keep him relevant to the reboot. I would really love to see an animated film too that explores not only Cage's background, but also his time w/ the Special Forces.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

They definitely tried making him more important near the tail end of the original timeline but then they reset everything. Hopefully he still retains an important role in the new era

@Crimson_Titan

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV Agreed. Although I'm a bit disappointed that they have seemingly taken away his green halo power.

5:13 It always surprised me that Johnny wasn't the main character. All signs point to him being the protagonist. He's the closest thing to relatable that the player can imprint themselves onto, as he's the only one out of his element. Everyone else in the first game is in some way initiated in the bigger picture of what's going on or has a rival or personal reason for being in the tournament. As a result, the player is a lot like Johnny, learning all this crazy stuff about clans, and gods as they go along. He always had an underdog aura about him. At times even the first movie felt like his story. Liu Kang, as iconic as he is now always seemed rather generic in comparison(in the beginning). I think they finally realized this by the time MKX came around and started developing him a bit more.

@falconeshield

Жыл бұрын

Yeah MK3 should've given Cage the win

I prefer the older Johnny because he's full of maturity and humility

Never thought I would say it but Johnny Cage is based

I always thought johnny cage was jean Claude van damm

When is your first Assassins Creed Story Timeline part going to be?

So, what’s your thoughts about JCVD finally gonna play as Johnny Cage?

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

It's all come full circle. It's awesome that they're FINALLY getting their Van-Damme game after all these years.

If my ability to play as Johnny Cage matched my love for Johnny Cage I would be unbeatable. Edited to add that the original JC actor for the game was let go because he posed for a advertisement for a another fighting game.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

That was just a rumor fans spread around, it wasn't true. Daniel Pesina's lawsuit was about unpaid royalties.

Is there a reason Raiden couldn't teleport Sonya out from under a pile of rocks? I mean he pulled a dozen people with him

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Real answer, they wanted to give her a dramatic character death. In game answer: this Raiden was much darker, he was more concerned about defeating Liu Kang and his forces. Old Raiden would've lost the battle to save her.

Which MK games are chapters "This is real" and "Changing history" from?

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

This Is Real is the MK9 portion where Cage thought it was all fake. Changing History is the rest of it, when Raiden altered the events of his life drastically.

@bjorn970

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV Thanks!

Smoke

When are you tell us about terminated RoboCop cuz they were Mortal Kombat 11 DLC

Considering they reduce Johnny to the same thing at the start of every game.. I bet he goes back to the original Van Damne insult. They have shown either they have no idea what to do with his character, or they just hate his character.. They can only write the brash guy becomes a whole person arc. They have no new ideas or even know how to cleverly write the arc. Hell they set up things that would be good if they followed through on them, and bail every time. Mileena beomes outworld ruler, dies right away. Set up Dark Raiden, dies right away. Set up Lui Kang and Kitana to be the new villains... Bait and switch. They shit on characters to make them plot contrivances.. Shao Kahn was destroyed this previous game, Jade, Sindel, Ermac, Kabal and many more. Characters they never do anything with or waste... Noob Saibot, Jax, Reiko, Johnny Cage, Ermac, Rain, Cassie, Kenshi, Reptile, Sub Zero, Fujin, Erron Black and of course the most under used character of all time Havik.

1:52 cough cough stryker cough

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Cage was first

People can say what they want…but MK11 looks better than MK1(23) ..intros, outtros, some costumes…it actually makes more since than this reboot!

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

And MK1 is still in development. So the footage isn't really in its final form yet. Looks like it's shaping up nicely

Finish metroid. There's only 1 left is there not?

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

One video left covering Dread. That's coming later this month

I think MK trilogy Johnny is the most boring, It's the one with the least personality at least

@GamerThumbTV

10 ай бұрын

MK X and MK11 Johnny is where there really made him shine

Cage is not the heart and soul of Mk

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

Soooo you didn't follow his story progression throughout the series?

@antyoung24

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV so I have for 30 years and can tell you definitively Cage is not the heart and soul of Mk.

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

@@antyoung24 depends how you look at it. Liu Kang is the "main hero" stereotype. Heart and soul doesn't have to mean main character. In both timelines Johnny Cage became a leading figure that outgrew his selfish means and held the kombatants together. He raised the army against Shinnok in Armageddon. And in MKX and MK11 he was concerned with his family's well being first and foremost, and teaching his younger self lessons. Heart and soul.

@antyoung24

Жыл бұрын

@@GamerThumbTV i didn't say Liu Kang either because of his main protagonist status. If you want my opinion, the heart and soul of mk is Sub Zero. That character has been in every mk and has endured.

@ceej7264

Жыл бұрын

​@@antyoung24😂

mortal kombat sucks

@GamerThumbTV

Жыл бұрын

This is a false statement