Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Able to leap tall Oscars in a single bound

Like father, like son...

Since Nicolas Cage had already adopted his own stage name from a comic book superhero (the former Nicolas Coppola, to avoid garnering charges of nepotism against his film director uncle Francis Ford Coppola, retitled himself after Marvel Comics' Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, later known as Power Man and now simply as Cage), it was only natural that he would name his son Kal-El — the Kryptonian birth name of Superman.

This leaves many other wicked cool superhero identities just begging to be tapped for future Cage man-child nomenclature:
  • Namor McKenzie Cage
  • Erik Magnus Lehnsherr Cage
  • J'onn J'onzz Cage
  • T'Challa Cage
  • Pietro Maximoff Cage
  • Blackagar Boltagon Cage
  • Katar Hol Cage
  • Norrin Radd Cage
  • Brin Londo Cage
  • Shang-Chi Cage
  • and the twins: Adam Strange Cage and Stephen Strange Cage
  • If the next child's a girl: Shalla Bal Cage.
The real question, though, is why Cage chose the name of a superhero he's never portrayed (although Cage was for some time attached to the upcoming Superman film, the Man of Steel role ultimately went to Brandon Routh) instead of the one he's currently playing — Ghost Rider.

Wouldn't Johnny Blaze Cage have made a great name for a baby?

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