“This looks so stupid, I cannot wait to watch it.” 

Mortal Kombat II has lastly dropped its first trailer, and the web is already throwing punches (and memes).

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Karl Urban, recent from The Boys, takes a swing at Johnny Cage, the boastful motion star-turned-reluctant hero, on this sequel to 2021’s Mortal Kombat. The trailer wastes no time embracing Cage’s washed-up persona. It opens with him brooding in a dive bar, the place a fan praises his outdated film, Citizen Cage. “They should do a reboot!” the fan says. Cage grumbles, “Nobody wants that,” setting the tone with traditional Cage sarcasm.

Soon, Lord Raiden (Tadanobu Asano) and Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) crash the scene to tell him that he’s been “chosen to fight.” Cage, predictably skeptical, assumes they’re obsessed followers.

But earlier than lengthy, he’s pulled into the lethal match—and he’s not thrilled about it. “F*** that,” he says when confronted with the blood-soaked mayhem. Still, when Earth’s destiny hangs within the stability, even Cage steps up. Well, reluctantly, and with a request to not mess up his face.

A nostalgic gore-fest with fan-favorite characters

The movie reunites a lot of the 2021 solid, together with Lewis Tan as Cole Young, Joe Taslim as Bi-Han, and Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion. Chin Han returns because the ever-menacing Shang Tsung. Meanwhile, newcomers like Adeline Rudolph (Kitana), Tati Gabrielle (Jade), and Martyn Ford (Shao Kahn) broaden the blood-soaked roster.

Warner Bros. additionally leaned into the nostalgia with a hilarious pretend trailer for Uncaged Fury, a pretend Nineties Johnny Cage flick launched a day earlier than the actual one.

Fans had been fast to identify references to different pretend Cage titles like Hard to Cage and Rebel Without a Cage.

Reactions to the Mortal Kombat II trailer

Social media erupted as quickly because the official trailer dropped. 

u/milestryhard posted on Reddit, “This looks so stupid, I cannot wait to watch it.” 

“F*** I actually got pumped watching it, lmao. The Johnny Cage bit is so dumb but I like how they lean into it, ‘I’m just an actor’. I love the focus of this being straight up Mortal Kombat,” wrote u/Redxmirage.

Memes flooded X, notably the scene the place Cage tries to duck out of battle with, “I’m just incredibly handsome.”

Interestingly, this 12 months marks the thirtieth anniversary of the primary Mortal Kombat movie, which bombed with critics however later achieved cult traditional standing. With Simon McQuoid returning to direct, and Warner Bros. backing the sequel, expectations are cautiously excessive.

Mortal Kombat II is ready to hit theaters on Oct 24, 2025.

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