User blog comment:Long hoang/MK10 story designer/@comment-2195697-20110819012023/@comment-422853-20110819020846

Even though I feel Cage has died enough times already when you count the original timeline and such, I'll have to admit that's a nice idea. He kinda already made a heroic sacrifice once though if you count the Annihilation movie, but it pissed me off with the way it was done. Wish they had done it the way you described, instead of just getting his neck snapped by Shao Kahn (it was a crappy movie anyway compared to the first, but that's beside the point).

Alternatively, I think it would be cool too to some extent if Johnny were the one to defeat or stop Shinnok this time instead of Liu Kang. I mean according to Cage's Armageddon bio, he sent the former Elder God packing shortly before the battle of Armageddon, so we know he's probably got the skills to bring him down too, unless that was just Shinnok's clone that he attacked.