Jonathan Carlton

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## Jonathan Carlton

### Born

Jonathan "Johnny Cage" Carlton
June 17, 1964
Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA

### Occupation

Actress
Object collector

### Appears in

BFDI Story 2 (Motion capture only)
BFDI Story of Terror! (deleted)

### Portrays

Himself (BFDI Story Series)
John O' Connor (Vehicle Games)

**Jonathan Carlton**, better known by his stage name **Johnny Cage**, is an action movie star and martial artist in the *Mortal Kombat* fighting game series. He is one of the seven original characters, debuting in the first *Mortal Kombat* arcade game, and remains one of the most popular characters in the franchise to date.

Johnny Cage has been a central character to the series alongside the likes of Raiden and Liu Kang, a role that was later passed down to his daughter, Cassie Cage, as well.

Initially, Johnny Cage was a struggling Hollywood action movie star who sought to revitalize his career and reputation. He entered the *Mortal Kombat* tournament for the sole purpose of displaying his fighting skills and proving himself to skeptical film critics, as they believed Cage was nothing more than an actor who relied too much on stunts and camera work, and was not really a proficient fighter. Eventually, he would become one of the most important defenders of Earthrealm. Despite his materialism, airheadedness, and occasional immaturity, Cage is a brave and loyal warrior, although his antics frequently annoy his allies. For this reason, fans consider him to be the series' foremost comic relief character.

Johnny matures considerably by the time of *Mortal Kombat X*, losing much of his earlier arrogance and airheadedness. In the process, he becomes a more rounded and serious character, although his penchant for humor remains mostly intact. He maintains this persona in *Mortal Kombat 11,* complemented by the additional presence of his past self, who shares his former cockiness and brash traits.

## Appearance

Johnny Cage is depicted as the typical American action movie star: bare muscular build with tight pants and his trademark sunglasses. In his debut, his clothing was modeled directly after Jean-Claude Van Damme's character in *Bloodsport*, consisting of black shorts with a red sash and black shoes. From *MKII* to *MK4*, he is depicted with black pants with blue accents.

In *Deadly Alliance* onwards, his design becomes a fusion of his first and familiar appearances, regaining the black shorts, but with a Cage emblem and blue belt tied at his waist. He goes barefoot with bandage straps. Interestingly, he has dyed his brown hair blond. Cage also now sports a chinese Dragon tattoo on his back

In *MK 2011*, he has a similar outfit from *MKII*, but with slight changes: he keeps his sunglasses on all the time, his chest is tattooed with his first name, he has straps on his arms and hands, his pants' accents are blue, and his last name is engraved onto his belt buckle.

In *MKX*, 20 years prior to the main events of the game, he sports a military vest and pants. His default form in the same game features him with a short sleeved hoodie, along with a grayish blue shirt that partially covers his chest tattoo. He also has bandages wrapped around his wrists and black fingerless gloves. Cage's hair has begun to gray as well.

In *MK11*, a present Johnny Cage retains his military appearance from the last game, but now sports an olive green vest along with a dark gray long sleeved shirt that fully covers his chest tattoo. He also wears knee pads and military boots, along with dog tags around his neck and a pistol on his hip. A young Johnny Cage wears his *Mortal Kombat (2011)* outfit, but he now sports a blue and purple jacket and purple-framed sunglasses. They also retained their last name on his belt, which can be customized. During the Black Dragon infiltration of the Special Forces base, the young Johnny Cage's left cheek is badly grazed by a bullet, causing a faded scar to appear on the older Cage's face.

## Role in BFDI Story Series

### BFDI Story 2

in BFDI Story 2, Jonathan is a real life object collector and owner of Johnny's Object Workshop that he stole the forest 7 and taking them to his apartment, at 268 Vinewood Road, Objectpolis, with his Lamborghini Sian, his spraypaint is dark navy blue, and his license plate is "JHNYCGE", meanwhile he's in at the apartment, he used the forest 7 in glass, and saved them, Jonathan leaves the room and the forest 7 are alive, meeting the magic 8, alliance 7, ocean 8, lucky 8, fashion 7, and serving tray 6, consequently identifying the culprit as being Jonathan and gaining a map to his object workshop from a commercial they saw on television, Sonic (Objectsona), Firey, Leafy, and Bubble then traveled to the city to save The Forest 7.

Meanwhile, Jonathan took various photos of LFTWDs collection and after faxing them to Mr. Konishi, he made arrangements to finally fly to Japan with the whole collection. He placed the LFTWDs objects in a biggest blue box to keep them safe during the flight, even though he made it very clear to the baggage handler that what was inside was important to him, stating he had a box of small cardboard boxes on a plane once and they finished off as crumbs.

However, when he finally arrived in Japan, he realized they were all gone due to Sonic (Objectsona) and the other objects' interference of rescuing them and returning home to Mario. Because of this, the deal Jonathan made with Mr. Konishi earlier in the film was cut off due to not having the entire collection he promised and it is likely Jonathan and his workshop store began to suffer financial troubles.

Shortly after this, he was seen in another one of his commercials, raging over his loss of fortune while barely stating that the store has the lowest prices in town. ITV2 (Objectsona) responds to this by saying, "Well, I guess crime doesn't pay."

## Trivia

* He was based on a greedy toy collector from toy story 2.
* He was from Mortal Kombat franchise and Warner Bros. company enterprises.