w.i.p Johnny Cage Childhood Headkanons
When you think of Johnny Cage, you might think of fame, money, and the grand quantity of Ninja Mime releases. But when you peel back the layers of the star, what will you find?
Johnny grew up in a fairly conservative, very traditional, very typical home, if you will. A respectable father, a lawyer, and a mom who, while dedicated to her home, was once very proficient in science and space.
Perhaps it was his mom who first guided his gaze toward stardom. But so many years had passed, who could really know? The only thing we know for sure is that Johnny did not fit in.
TV was discouraged at home, although they kept one in the living room in an attempt at middle-class normalcy. His older brother, David, would sometimes turn it on and channel surf until he found something worthy of his attention, but would always leave it unattended when prayer time came, when he became too distracted by school projects, charity, or whatever his perfect self was involved in. That is when Johnny took his chances with the remote and discovered, with great interest, the marvel of television and cinema.
Batman and Robin changed his life. And it was no exaggeration. He could not really point a finger at what impacted him the most: the costumes, Adam West’s acting, the overall cheesiness of it all when the POOM!’s and POW’s at fight scenes hit the screen, or the mere fact that these men were getting paid to do what, in his father’s words, would be losing his time. And could he do it too?
But Batman and Robin were not enough. It simply was not. Common programming, like the Dick Van Dyke show, and things that would be tolerated by his parents, were not showing him the full picture. Even as if the acrobatics had made his heart race, the slight sensation of missing out drove him to skip school and visit the video club.
Now, for a child in the 70s, many of the technological advances of the era were not short of amazing, but for Johnny, raised sheltered, academically pressured, and religious, it was as if he had witnessed a supernova. Tucked away in his left pocket were tickets for a movie he would not soon forget.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
