Carbon Costume

In Mortal Kombat 1, Johnny Cage is a struggling but cocky action star who joins Shang Tsung’s fighting tournament. He arrives and even fights wearing formal dress clothes. However the character also gets into a more outfit to fight in, and even a Jean Claude Van Damme skin voiced by man himself. Appropriate since way back in 1992, Cage’s design was originally inspired by the Muscles from Brussels.

In Mortal Kombat, Johnny Cage is an action star modeled on Jean-Claude Van Damme’s character in Bloodsport. With his Hollywood movie career on the decline, he enters the fighting tournament to showcase his fighting skills, dressed in his trademark shades that he wears throughout the series including Mortal Kombat 11 and Mortal Kombat 1.