Every Pop-Culture Reference Johnny Cage Makes In Mortal Kombat 1’s Story Mode

Though it had its self-serious phase in the mid-2000s, the Mortal Kombat franchise has always had a more lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek tone than many of its fighting competitors. Even though players can rip out each other’s spines and spray blood across the arena, Mortal Kombat‘s violence has mostly been delivered with a sense of self-awareness from its creators. That’s especially true with NetherRealm’s most recent entries, with Mortal Kombat 1 being no exception.