Is there any dirt at all to be found on Will Smith, the last action hero? Yes, says Pete Cashmore

Is Will Smith getting tired of being thought of as Mr Nice Guy? Certainly, his most recent roles - the paranoid technophobe cop in I, Robot, the guilt-stricken plague-starter in I Am Legend - have been flawed heroes rather than buttoned-down good guys. His latest effort, Hancock, is his most blatant attempt at courting our antipathy - after all, he is playing an alcoholic superhero who throws Frenchmen into space (which, though laudable, is technically illegal) and, in one jaw-dropping scene, fires an innocent woman across his motor-home through the sheer force of his super-ejaculation. But is it even possible to dislike Will Smith? Type the phrase "I love Will Smith" into Google and you get 40,700 hits. Type in the phrase "I hate Will Smith" and you get 484. Enter the phrase "I loathe and despise Will Smith" and you get none at all. But fear not, Will. We are here to help, with our definitive list of Reasons To Dislike Will Smith.

· Will emerged from the Philly rap scene of the mid-80s, and as such his contemporaries included Cool C, who is currently on Death Row awaiting execution for a robbery-homicide, and Schoolly D, whose violent street fantasies and grotesquely sexist and homophobic lyrics - would lay down a blueprint for what would eventually become gangsta rap. He was even labelmates with Steady B, currently serving a life sentence for his part in the Cool C robbery-homicide.

· In his movie I Am Legend, in one of the scenes in which Will visits his local DVD store and converses with showroom dummies dressed as customers, Will can be clearly seen browsing a copy of Flashpoint, a hardcore porn film in which Jenna Jameson plays an erotic arson suspect.

· Many rap stars have been chastised for their use of the word "bitch" but Will may just be the only person to use it in a song directly addressed to a woman in her 90s. In his 1991 song You Saw My Blinker (Bitch) Will rounds on an elderly driver for shunting his car from the rear, despite the fact that Will was clearly indicating a change of lane. "The only thing stopping me from breaking her nose/Is I was 21 and she was 90 years old... The wrinkled old bag looked like a shar pei," notes Smith, his ire rising, before summing up with, "It's your fault you caused all this/You saw my blinker bitch!" Will Smith! Wash that mouth out!

· Will is, as has been widely reported, the latest megastar to start recruiting for top loonball academy the Church Of Scientology. After shooting finished on Hancock, he gave crew members a delightful wrap "present" - a gift card for one personality test at any Scientology centre. It should be noted that personality tests almost always result in a series of previously unsuspected personality defects in the test subject that can be cured by the Church of Scientology, and that first personality tests are actually free anyway. Will, you shouldn't have!

· Like best buddy and fellow Scientologist Tom Cruise, Will has a propensity for slightly nauseating PAs. Although he stops short at jumping up and down on sofas on US talk shows, he recently engaged in a particularly puke-making bout of public full-on snogging, followed by a mock faint, when the stadium camera alighted upon him and wife Jada Pinkett Smith during a LA Lakers game. Please, we're trying to enjoy our hotdogs here!

· In addition to taking on nonagenarian female motorists, Will has felt the need to turn his withering gaze on the transgender community, in 1989's charming The Girlie Had A Mustache (sample lyric: "Tight leather pants that fit like a drum/And two big - yeah well, she had some/ Anyway from behind she was fine/ But when she turned around, her mustache was bigger than mine") in which Will is beaten up by four transsexuals (all of whom, once again, possess the titular facial hair), tied to a bedpost and then has all his furniture stolen. Which we would argue is not behaviour typical of the normally placid, maternal transgendered male.

· Will believes that lackadaisical joggers are as bad as marital philanderers and teenage drug-takers. "That person who tells you, 'Ooh, our ankles hurt and we should stop'," he says, "is the same person who says to the man, 'Hey, your wife will never find out if you sleep with her,' and who tells the 16-year-old, 'You are not gonna be cool if you do not smoke it.'" Take that, Paula Radcliffe!

· In one interview, Will says that he would "have really enjoyed" playing Kevin Bacon's role in The Woodsman. "ENJOYED"?!

· Will believes that Margaret Thatcher is "sexy and strong." Hey! That's an 82-year-old woman you're talking about! Presumably she won't be so sexy if she bumps your car from behind, right?

· Most crucially, Will clearly actively wants us to know that he ain't all that. On his recent album Lost And Found, on the tongue-in-cheek Mr Nice Guy, he takes a pop at his public persona with lines like "Will's a nice guy, why he's so nice I'd/let him date my daughter like he was a white guy."

· And just to reiterate, in his new film, he fires a woman across the room using his penis. In case you'd forgotten that one.

· Hancock is out on July 2