Mortal Kombat 1 Shares "First Look" At Jean-Claude Van Damme As Johnny Cage

That dude doesn't look anything like JCVD.

Why can't they make the model look a bit younger. This is the JCVD we want for Johnny Cage.

JCVD is cool, but I’d rather see him in movies.

He looks more similar to Viola Davis than JCVD, and he looks 0% like Viola Davis.

I never would have guessed that this is supposed to be Jean Claude VanDamme.

I like hot ones (the show) will definitely watch this episode

Add Steven Seagal while you're at it.

Van Damme passed on the game series. The game series blew up without him. I wish gaming studios would realize, they don't need Hollywood for credibility, they have surpassed Hollywood.

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Also wanted to add some interesting perspective. The Mortal Kombat movie came out in 1995 and did 122 million at the box office. In 1995 Van Damme did Sudden Death 64 Million and 1996 57 million box office.

Oh wow, they finally put Guile in Mortal Kombat!

Looks nothing like JCVD at all. Big fan of his early cheesy movies, bloodsport being one of my all time favourites.

Ok as everyone else is saying, that looks nothing like him, true I havent seen him lately, but EVERYONE wanted a younger version from his earlier films
@Serpenterror something similar to this, but less of a Mr Bean look

Have I gone insane?! That looks naff all like JCVD.

Meh. Not purchasing this shallow as a puddle, microtransaction loaded mess anyway.

He doesn't look anything like him

How can the make the Megan Fox model so accurate and this one so wrong? Anyways Am I the only one that isn’t going to buy this game on launch because its garanteed that we will get a premiun version in a year and a Definitive version in a year and a half?

Yeah I wouldn't have recognised that as JCVD at all other than it insists it is.
Also while I get the historical story behind this inclusion stop with the celebs. I just want to see palette swapped ninjas beat bloody chunks out of each other with actual voice actors voicing them.

Celebs in general doing work of VAs is a bit like asking a plumber to fix your car.

An RVD skin would be better

Agree! It does not look like JCVD.... how can they bed happy with that result?

Why? I mean... Why?
If you want to do some Fan-Service, add Skins for the 1995 Movie Cast. No one, really no one connects JCVD with Johny Cage. He is Commander Guile, period...

It's the absolute full circle mom... wait a moment, we're veering of the planned course aaaaand crashed. We will get that right in mk 2 so please pre-order.

@theModestMouse Maybe he'll be a Stryker skin down the line.

I get that rereleasing older titles takes work, but what’s keeping them from doing that with their classic titles on current platforms? Seems like a no-brainer.

I bought Street Fighter because it came out first. I might pick up MK next year, but I might pick up Tekken next year instead.

One thing I know for certain. I am not buying multiple fighting games in the same year. I like my fighting games. A lot! But I'm not splashing about 60 notes left, right and centre for excessive amounts of fighting games.

The devs are naive if they think their sales won't be hindered by all three coming out so close to each other.

Looks nothing like him or at least how most people are familiar with how he looked like in his early films like Bloodsport.

@theModestMouse "Anybody seen Richie?" Commence all types of pure ass kicking!!!!

The model seems a bit off, doesn't quite look like JCVD.

Is it wrong to say that JCVD fits Johnny Cage far more than he could fit Guile of Street Fighter?

The paid the rights for Van Damme looks to create a skin that looks nothing of how Van Damme looks.

@Daimando Not at all, considering that Johnny Cage is inspired by Jean Claude Van Damme.

Cool, glad they got the celebrity they wanted finally. After all the folks in 11 MK really just feels like a wishlist for the team for me. Obviously that was profitable.

Looks like current JCVD to me. Johnny Cage is middle-aged now anyway so not far off from the source material. People’s faces change with age.

This article should serve well in introducing people to Hot Ones. It’s a great talk show

Now, I've said before that I don't regard the artwork very highly...and lord, does that skin prove my point. It's awful!

@nocdaes The Tekken, Street Fighter and MK community rarely crossover and most of the SF and Tekken community are too snobbish to play MK. Nah MK will do well as its very popular and appeals to a far wider audience.

For everyone who says he looks nothing like JCVD, I think the reason is that this design is a compromise situation in which they try a middle ground between classic Cage and classic Van Damme.

Unlike Nitara who was basically a filler character in just one core game and therefore they could completely change her facial structure without anyone caring... Cage has appeared in almost all of the games in the franchise, and his mug is quite familiar to everyone. If they put 100%VD over 25 years of classic Cage they would risk alienating a significant sector of the fanbase. In short, looking like Cage is more important than looking like Van Damme for this character, but they attempted both anyway.

Looks silly. At least make it look like him

Looks more like Johnny cage that Jcvd.

This might aswell be Putin

This is cool, but I don't like seeing my boi Johnny Cage get beat up by anyone.... even himself. Classic Johnny Cage FTW!

@Yomerodes "For everyone who says he looks nothing like JCVD, I think the reason is that this design is a compromise situation in which they try a middle ground between classic Cage and classic Van Damme."

I dont buy that at all otherwise they wouldnt have attempted the voice either. Classic Cage is in the game and this is just a skin so no reason they couldnt have done voice and look alike for the skin. If classic cage players dont like the JCVD skin then just use the classic Cage skin. No one would feel alienated as the choice is there.

Wow! After what they did an excellent job with Rambo and the terminator, this is the worst and very far from JCVD. I had to read the text twice to make sure this is supposed to be the correct actor and not some extra from one of his movies

The voice is good

It's John Claude I don't give a Damn!

@garzuit this comment was hilarious!

Yeah, this doesn't even look like a young VanDamme. And where is the bump on his forehead which is his staple?!

Does not even look like him 😒

That fatal blow goes on for nearly 20 seconds.

Can we get Chris Pratt as Goro? Pleeeeeease?!

The skin doesn’t even look like Van Damme lol!!!!

Reading the comment section, I'm glad I'm not the only one who think that this skin looks nothing like JCVD! It's like someone drawing a portrait that gets some individual details right, but the proportions are all wrong leading to it looking like a completely different person. Also the animations and facial expressions are done by someone else, the actual Van Damme wouldn't move and emote like that.

Looks nothing like him……and is that actually voiced by him…..?

@Westlondonmist did you know that RVD was supposed to be Glacier in WCW? He told that on his podcast, that Eric Bischoff approached him to try to hire him to be "one of the characters of Mortal Kombat". He should have been Johnny Cage in Nitro heheheh.

Still holding out hope that Mike Mizanin (WWE Wrestler - The Miz) gets to play Johnny Cage in a film. He has campaigned about it on Twitter over the years. I think he would be a fun fit.

Oh cool they got Christoph Waltz

İ saw this game first on the Super Nintendo my old friend had this game. The graphics was very good. İ call this a amazing Remake it looks incredible.

Every trailer and gameplay about this game looks so good.

İ am happy that Nintendo Switch is getting this game. Not every game is coming to the Nintendo Switch from other studios.
Nintendo Switch needs this game.

who is that guy? Surely not Van Damme