Drive Angry is out this week, which is the perfect excuse to collate absolutely EVERYTHING we know about Nicolas Cage in one glorious portfolio. This'll be the last Cage thing we do... this week.



The man, the name, the hero

7. "It's alphabetical!" - Vampire's Kiss (1988)

Hard spending...

If you've been here longer than a week, you may have realised we have something of an obsession withand his freaky ouevre. It's a sickness, frankly, and this list of 101 reasons why you should love him too is a form of therapy. 100 of them are genuine, one of them is a fake - a curveball, tossed in to unnerve you. However, all of them are 100% awesome, just like Nicolas Cage himself. Pray at his shrine.2. Nicolas Cage's middle name is Kim. That's a girl's name.4. Nicolas Cage really, really loves superhero comic-books. In 2003, he sold his comic collection for $1.68 million, including his copy of Action Comics issue #1, the first ever appearance of Superman.6. Apparently, the thought of naming his son Luke never occured to him.9. It's also been claimed that Nicolas Cage at one point owned stuffed pygmy heads, which are illegal and really fucking weird.11. Nicolas Cage owns a pyramid tomb in which he plans to be buried.



12. Nicolas Cage owned a $300k Lamborghini that was confiscated from the Shah of Iran. Because where else is he going to get one?



13. Nicolas Cage also owned 18 motorbikes and around 50 cars. Either he's gone method for a sequel to Gone In 60 Seconds, or he's Batman.



14. Oh yeah... and did we mention he's broke? Because he is.



15. "Black it out! Black it out!" - Zandalee (1991)

... And hard living

20. "Sam fuckin' Peckinpah!" - Deadfall (1993)

Tattoos and lizards

17. Nicolas Cage lived in a fake castle outside Los Angeles and toyed with the idea of importing a real one from overseas, before deciding to leave such behaviour to supervillains and the mentally ill.19. Nicolas Cage owned a quaint house in Bath, England and says he loved to spend a "Dickensian Christmas" there. He turned on the Bath Christmas lights in 2009 while cackling like a madman.22. Nicolas Cage has a tattoo of Woody Woodpecker on his right bicep.



24. Nicolas Cage demanded more iguanas while shooting Bad Lieutenant.



25. This one time, Nicolas Cage totally shared a cigarette with a lizard.





26. "No more drugs for that man!" - Face/Off (1997)

Odd behaviour and method acting

28. Nicolas Cage wanted to play the villain in The Green Hornet with a Jamaican accent. I have absolutely no problem with that.30. Nicolas Cage pulled off a flawless, hilarious Adam West accent for his role in Kick-Ass. Said director Matthew Vaughn: "The first day around, I'm thinking, 'This guy can't act!' I started."32. Supposedly, Nicolas Cage has plans to play Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat. Just a reminder: Nicolas Cage was born in Long Beach, California.



33. Nicolas Cage couldn't tell the Oxide brothers apart while shooting Bangkok Dangerous in Thailand and was convinced he was either hallucinating or was poisoned.



34. Nicolas Cage bought a $276,000 dinosaur skull after a frenzied auction with Leonardo DiCaprio. Everything about this is amazing.



35. "Put the bunny back in the box!" - Con Air (1997)

Strange claims

37. Nicolas Cage used to take magic mushrooms with his cat, Lewis. "He ate them voraciously," he told David Letterman. "I had no doubt that he was my brother."



39. Speaking in 2010, Nicolas Cage claimed, "I find that now I'm interested in making less violent films." Later that year, he released Kick-Ass (in which he shoots his teenage daughter in the chest) and Bad Lieutenant (in which he threatens an old lady with a gun).



40. Then he filmed Drive Angry, in which he shoots a room full of men while fucking a barmaid and smoking a cigar.



41. "How'd it get burned?" - The Wicker Man (2006)

Love life and family

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47. You're damn right she married him.49. Nicolas Cage liked Elvis so much, he married Presley's daughter, Lisa-Marie. Sadly, they divorced after 20 months. That's right, the woman who married Michael Jackson thought Nicolas Cage was51. Nicolas Cage has a 20 year-old son called Weston, who is the lead vocalist in a black metal band called Eyes Of Noctum. (*throws up rock horns, splits girl's lip*)