Ed Boon Teases Mortal Kombat 11 Character With Obscene Hand Gesture

I gotta admit, I am not loving this drip campaign of returning character announcements. If they were all new ones I could understand, but just telling us someone is returning each week seems dumb to me.

@Dayton311 agree. I don’t get it.

Agree with the comments above me,
Also not a cage fan

@Dayton311 But this way it keeps it in the news every week

As a not so experienced MK player (only played the SNES version some times at a friend's house when being a kid), is this some kind of signature gesture of this character, or why should it be a reference to him? Please explain, Mr. Doolan!

So indecent and vulgar.

Johnny Cage is a great character, really liked him in the last game and his daughter was a pretty good character as well. I’d rather Cassie over Sonya to be honest.

Cassie did it in MKX already.

I could be totally wrong but when I saw the picture I immediately noticed it was Strykers VS screen stance from mk3. Minus the gesture of course.

Ö. I thought NL was a family site, for shame. It’s a joke, please no kill.

Johnny Cage is the embodiment of everything I dislike about the series honestly. "Oh haha this character flips you off and punches you in the nuts haha funny stuff no mom let me stay up for another half hour please I did my homework"

I gotta hand it to ya, this piece of news was quite the gesture towards fans. No need to flip the table over it. We're just in the middle of all this. After all, we can count the third-party support on our fingers...

Im an MK fan but just give up this character a week rubbish and state the full roster . Its not like its Smash Bros where its a big big deal and fun to guess. Oh Cage one week and i dunno Repitile next week etc boring stuff. Also that big reveal event suffered as a result.

I came here for the header image. Can we have this hunk in, like, every game, please? ;-D

John Cena as Johnny Cage

@Dayton311

It's okay when Smash Bros does it thought, right??

@Dayton311 Hahah Smash Bros kinda did the same thing in a much larger scale. its kinda contradicting what you are saying.

MK11 has a very active scene that even predates Smash bros.

Meh. I'm a bit disappointed with MK 11 so far. And the fatalities are dumb.

I prefer to play as characters that didn't die in Mortal Kombat Annihilation.

I'm guessing the middle finger tha Jonny's actor got when he asked for his script for MK3.

Mortal Kombat lost me a long time ago when it switched from cheesy violence to gory violence. Wish they would go back to cheesy.

I'm glad they seen full be reining in the DBZ/GoW muscles though. That was getting beyond ridiculous.

Since the announcement of MK11, I'm more hyped than I've been ever since the MK4 home ports. However, this method of teasing/revealing characters sucks, specially so close to launch. It's a waste of time. I'd rather they just spill the beans, at least with regards to modes and other content if not the characters.

@KennyBania Smash Bros has did it way better. They guarantee (to my knowledge based on the weekly GameXplain videos about it, I don't really follow Smash) one character per week. With MK 11 it's like "well, we may or may not show a character next week, who knows?", and it's worse because they're doing it so close to release.

@Quarth

mostly famous for his punch in the nuts from beyond ...
fun character.

@DanteSolablood

The Armageddon timeline was changed so no one died in that game technically.

@KcebEnyaw It's been gory since the very first one. Maybe you played the censored SNES versions of 1 and 2.

@BenGrimm

I believe he is referring to the second film (which is hilariously terrible) as Johnny Cage died in that.

@WillQuan

Whoops, I believe you’re right ☺️. The film is quite bad but I can’t lie, I like it.

@BenGrimm
Still love the first film, one of the few decent video game movies in my opinion.

@Matroska
SNES Mortal Kombat 2 wasn’t censored in any way

Stone Cold Steve Austin as Shao Kahn for Mortal Kombat 11? Yes make it happen.

Been a fan of Mortal Kombat since the first one. I’m so happy to play it on a Nintendo console again. I loved Armageddon and I loved 9 even more. Very excited.
The Nintendo Switch has a Ton or classic fighting games I could only wish Mortal Kombat HD comes to Switch. If they HD remade Mortal Kombat, 2 and UMK3 or just ported originals that would be a dream come true. And would make Nintendo Switch one of the most diverse fighting game platforms ever!

I like MK, but I would rather have INJUSTICE 1 & 2 on Switch.

I'm still waiting for Mortal Komball to be released. It shouldn't be that hard to make NBA Jam with MK characters in it. Especially with today's roster. Like you could have Kung Lao, Lui Kang, Johnny Cage, Sonya, & Raiden on a team together. And Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Smoke, Noob Saibot, & Reptile on it. And maybe Cyrax, Sektor, Cyber Smoke, Cyber Sub-Zero, & a new Cyber Scorpion on it. And perhaps a team of Mileena, Kitana, Jade, Tanya, & Skarlet on it. Imagine cool drunks like Scorpion setting the net on fire or Sub-Zero freezing and shattering the entire backboard. Or Johnny Cage Shadow Dunking or stealing a ball after delivering a low blow.

I bet it's Earl Thomas. We know the truth.

I think it’s Stryker instead of Johnny Cage.