Kano

So he is the us in that equation.

But the rest of the characters they had, Sonya, Kano, Jackson, the rest of them, they're all familiar characters that we've played or watched in other iterations of movies.

So they also had to put a new spin on this because we have seen this before.

TVs, movies, comic books, video games.

We're going to save the world like something like anything may pop up in his life as like a just random dude somewhere, something like that.

just to explain why or how we get to this point and if raiden was so concerned about the tournament not necessarily interfered but guided a little would have been fine you know just seeing some of this and it never fails that somehow all of raiden's fighters are washed up something or others He's a washed-up MMA guy.

You have Kano, who's a washed-up mercenary.

You have Jax, who's a washed-up military guy.

And there is one thing in this whole thing that keeps it going.

And that is Josh Lawson as Kano.

who plays an Australian.

He plays Kano.

He plays him as an Australian.

And look, I don't know who Kano is.

I don't know the fucking characters in this.

I don't know, whatever.

We're now at the point where geek culture is so prevalent, we no longer need to tell people, right, okay, I know it's gonna take a lot of explaining, but there is a fantasy world of magic and elves and wizards and things, And now we're kind of doing a thing where we're trying to introduce it, but trying to be grown up about it.

And we're also puncturing our own balloon with people like Kano knocking around going, oh, this is a bunch of fucking Harry Potter bullshit.

Creators of, say, mass media.

Things that they want lots of people to buy into.

Later games by NetherRealm did actually have, from Mortal Kombat 9 onwards in 2011...

A story mode where you start as one character, you have three or four fights, and of those fights, at least one of them is tied into the character and someone they feel very strongly about.

So if you say started as Sonya, by the fourth fight you're fighting Kano and you're actually getting your bit of lore in there, and then it swings across to Johnny's perspective, and it takes you through maybe a four-, five-hour game From the perspective of mostly the hero characters, sometimes you'll play a villain character, and it's an ensemble piece.

Yeah.

My number two, I feel like this guy made it for me.

It's Josh Lawson as Kano from Mortal Kombat 2021.

That's

also my number two.

My most hated character, Shang Tsung, in there being a laughingstock, as he should be.

They managed to do Kano fairly well.

Like, the actor for the 1995 film did him very well, but I just felt like he wasn't used at all that well.

He felt more like a coward instead of this badass guy.

And as you said, all the actors, even though it is a campy movie.

all the actors took their parts seriously enough to play the characters as they should be.

Like you will have serially characters, you will have like Johnny Cage and Kano, and then you'll have serious characters.

It's just, it shouldn't work as well as it does, but it just, it does.