Mortal Kombat and Invincible fans got treated to a first look at Omni-Man in a new trailer, but that’s not all we learned today.
NetherRealm Studios also revealed some new information regarding Mortal Kombat 1’s first Kombat Pack, including that Johnny Cage is no longer on it.
Alongside the trailer, NRS released a more detailed press release that included some release window information like Tremor is unsurprisingly coming with Omni-Man this November.
That wasn’t the most interesting thing, however, as Johnny Cage’s spot on the Kameo DLC inclusions has now been given to one Janet Cage.
On top of that, they also gave the general launch windows for the DLC fighters in KP1 where Quan Chi and Peacemaker are both listed as Winter 2023/2024, Ermac and Homelander for Spring 2024 and Takeda Takahashi all the way out in Summer 2024 — and though some of them are listed in the same timeframe, they probably aren’t releasing at the same time.
So what’s up with Janet Cage? Some Mortal Kombat 1 Story Mode spoilers to follow.
Janet Cage appears in the final chapter of MK1’s cinematic story as a parallel timeline fighter that the player encounters.
As far as we can tell from her brief inclusion, she basically just seems to be a gender-swapped version of Johnny though NRS may flesh her out more now that she’s going to be in the game as an assist.
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for the press release they sent me about the Omni-Man trailer
“and five new Kameo Fighters – Tremor (Nov. 2023), along with Ferra, Janet Cage, Khameleon, and Mavado (release dates still to be announced).”That says JANET CAGE, not Johnny. Something changed! pic.twitter.com/S9yZgIqrqG
— Rooflemonger (@Rooflemonger) October 14, 2023
This isn’t the first time NRS has seemingly changed their DLC plans after initial announcements considering Mortal Kombat 11 featured the whole debacle of Evil Dead’s Ash Williams being seemingly confirmed for the game before getting replaced by Batman’s Joker.
It’s unknown though if this was a decision made after the fact or perhaps the developers always planned for Janet, but didn’t want to spoil any story twists before release.
Either way, we don’t have a release window yet for Janet nor the other Kameo fighters coming after Tremor with Ferra, Khameleon and Mavado though they’ll probably be dropping with main DLC fighters too.