This Movie marks one of Gilbert Gottfried's final performances before his passing on April 12th 2022.
Johnny Cage discovers and trains with Master Boyd. This references the first Mortal Kombat film when Cage discovers a man seated in his chair, Mister Boyd.
The art style and character design is an homage to artist Patrick Nagel, who's art deco portraits were extremely popular in the 80's and became omnipresent in hair solons through the 2000's