View Full Version : Nic Cage names baby Kal-el - Cool or Creepy?
comicaze
10-03-2005, 10:34 PM
Well, it's odd celebrity baby name again! The comics fan/actor pays tribute to Superman, so at least it's not Apple. :) My feeling is that this poor kid has a lot to live up to now. If he doesn't save the world once by the time he's 30... :rolleyes: Can you imagine the schoolyard bully NOT wanting a piece of this kid? Funny name (that he'll always have to explain to the non-comics public) AND the bully can claim to be more Super than Kal-el.
IIRC, one of the artists on Louise Simonson's Superman monthly named his son Kal after the character but not Kal-El.
Dennis K
10-03-2005, 10:38 PM
Can you add a pole to this and add "Stupid" as an option?
VCreed32
10-03-2005, 10:39 PM
Creepy that he apparently hates his baby.
comicaze
10-03-2005, 10:43 PM
Can you add a pole to this and add "Stupid" as an option?
Your wish is my command! :) VCreed32, thanks for inspiring the fourth option.
cosmicspidey
10-03-2005, 10:45 PM
Kal would be a perfectly acceptable name. Hell, call him Kal Luke Cage, so you get two comic references in one: Luke Cage and Kal L.
VCreed32
10-03-2005, 10:57 PM
I think that would be Kal Luke Coppola though.
I don't think Nick changed his real name, did he?
comicaze
10-03-2005, 10:59 PM
Kal would be a perfectly acceptable name. Hell, call him Kal Luke Cage, so you get two comic references in one: Luke Cage and Kal L.
cosmicspidey, I agree that Kal (as the artist whose name escapes me...Jon Bog-something?) named his kid is the geeky but liveable for the kid alternative. Make his middle name EL (or something that starts with L) if you want to.
In fact, starting the name with L would make his signature Kal L. Cage. Not bad, and the reference is still there. However, I can see Nic wanting his real family name in there too...leaving him with Kal-el as the only option. Still creepy, though.
titanfan
10-04-2005, 01:10 AM
I'm guessing he'll be home schooled, so he probably won't have to worry...
Bouncing Boy
10-04-2005, 01:49 AM
IIRC, one of the artists on Louise Simonson's Superman monthly named his son Kal after the character but not Kal-El.
That was Jon Bogdanov and he DID name his son Kal-El Bogdanov.
Grant
10-04-2005, 03:07 AM
Dane Cook the comedian has a bit where he wants to name his kid Optimus Prime.
Which would be badass.
Davideaux
10-04-2005, 03:41 AM
His wife should have never agreed to such a dumb name.
Michael P
10-04-2005, 07:21 AM
Good to see that old-fashioned comic book self-loathing in play.
Would this mean that if the world was about to explode, Nick Cage's son would be put onto a rocket and blasted off the planet? :D
Paradox
10-04-2005, 08:20 AM
Eh, it's geeky, but at least he's got the out to go with just Kal so he's not constantly reminded of what a dork his pop is. ;)
ocelotrevs
10-04-2005, 08:22 AM
Idiotic, what the hell was he thinking. And what about the mother?
Phil Clark
10-04-2005, 08:38 AM
It's still a better name than Moon Unit Zappa. Yeesh...
DLFerguson
10-04-2005, 09:06 AM
I've got a friend of mine who named his son Jor-El but it's spelled Jorel. He always said that when he had a son he would name him after Superman's dad. I asked him once what did his wife say when he told her that he wanted to name his son after a comic book character and he said; "Are you crazy? You think I actually TOLD her where the name comes from?"
VCreed32
10-04-2005, 09:21 AM
Yes, I will ask if that dude's parents knew what they were doing.
The Dosadi Experiment
10-04-2005, 11:27 AM
I don't think the kid will be teased with his name.
Hardly anyone knows that Superman, besides Clark Kent, is also known as Kal-El.
Superman = Clark Kent
Then there is Lois Lane, the Daily planet, Metropolis, and somewhere dangling on like an aborted idea is "oh and he's called Kal-El too on his homeworld."
Kal-El doesn't register with non-fans.
VCreed32
10-04-2005, 12:00 PM
You say that like there aren't tons of fans though.
Volk1
10-04-2005, 02:42 PM
Well, the guy who runs the store I go to just named his newborn Logan Tyberius..so...I think thats cool.......well at least Logan is better than Kal' el or whatever it is....
JohnPopa
10-04-2005, 02:47 PM
I'd rather be named after Superman than my convict, drug-dealing uncle John.
I've got a friend of mine who named his son Jor-El but it's spelled Jorel. He always said that when he had a son he would name him after Superman's dad. I asked him once what did his wife say when he told her that he wanted to name his son after a comic book character and he said; "Are you crazy? You think I actually TOLD her where the name comes from?"
Let's hope she does not watch Superman or Superman II.
Spastic Minnow
10-04-2005, 03:40 PM
It is a bit crazy and funny. One of my favorite SNL skits was the one where Cage's character and wife are trying to decide on a name for his soon to be born son that won't get him beat up at school. He decides on Bjorker because he can't think of an insulting rhyme with it. The final punchline of the sketch is when a delivery man delivers a package and reveals that his name is Mr. Asswipe (retort: That's Az-wee-pay!)
But really, the name Kal-el for the son of Nick Cage isn't so rediculously mean or strange as it would be for a normal person like ourselves.
- His wife is (I believe) Korean-American, so those unfamiliar with Superman can assume it's a Korean name. And it really does sound like a Korean name.
- If the kid has problems they can easily shorten it to Kal, a normal enough name, if not for the K.
- His full name is Kal-El Coppala Cage. No one messes with a Coppola Cage.
- And face it, he's going to live a sheltered celebrity kid life. So, maybe your kid would get his butt kicked for being named Kal-el, but not Nick Cage's kid.
G. Wayne
10-04-2005, 04:00 PM
I don't think the kid will be teased with his name.
Hardly anyone knows that Superman, besides Clark Kent, is also known as Kal-El.
Superman = Clark Kent
Then there is Lois Lane, the Daily planet, Metropolis, and somewhere dangling on like an aborted idea is "oh and he's called Kal-El too on his homeworld."
Kal-El doesn't register with non-fans.
yeah, really. and considering the names of other celebrity kids, which are probably the one's he'd be around the most, he get off easy.
i wonder if cage knows kevin smith though? kal-el and harley quinn as friends would be amusing.
still thinking about naming my son bruce, for that matter.
estee
10-04-2005, 05:52 PM
Kal could just say he's Hindi or Muslim, or fricken French, maybe that will keep the wolves of the playground at bay. ;)
tricksterpup
10-04-2005, 06:16 PM
You know, there are far worse names out there that he could've used.
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli
Andy Dick
ARCHIBALD
EPHREM
EUSTICE
HORACE
Adolph
see there are many more names that sound worse than Kal. ;)
You know, there are far worse names out there that he could've used.
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli
Andy Dick
ARCHIBALD
EPHREM
EUSTICE
HORACE
Adolph
see there are many more names that sound worse than Kal. ;)
...such as ZOD...
VCreed32
10-04-2005, 07:01 PM
Randy Guy.
Colonel Hobbes.
Jared
10-05-2005, 03:21 PM
Dane Cook the comedian has a bit where he wants to name his kid Optimus Prime.
Which would be badass.
I remember a new story from 2 or 3 years ago, about a National Guardsman who had his name legally changed to Optimus Prime. He later recieved a letter from a general saying how pleased he was to accept the services of the Autobot Commander.
Wasn't Kal-El suppossed to be similar to a Hebrew name? Anyway, assuming he goes by just "Kal", that wouldn't bad at all. Consdering how weird Nick Cage (as a person) is, this kid got off easy.
acagle7
10-05-2005, 03:28 PM
I am going to go with just plan stupid.
Arune Singh
10-05-2005, 03:53 PM
I remember a new story from 2 or 3 years ago, about a National Guardsman who had his name legally changed to Optimus Prime. He later recieved a letter from a general saying how pleased he was to accept the services of the Autobot Commander.
Wasn't Kal-El suppossed to be similar to a Hebrew name? Anyway, assuming he goes by just "Kal", that wouldn't bad at all. Consdering how weird Nic Cage is, this kid got off easy.
I remember that in the Onion.
That Dane Cook sketch is perfect.
Please note that I'm naming my dog Zod when I finally get him (must finish school first). And my tattoos are from Superman or Angel, with my fake club name being Connor, so I'm hardly normal.
Spiff
10-05-2005, 04:22 PM
I actually thought it was a bit creepier for Nick Cage to court a woman half his age (literally). That's some serious cradle robbing going on.
Best weird celebrity child name is still Moxie Crimefighter Jillete, though.
VCreed32
10-05-2005, 04:51 PM
Yeah, Moxie Crimefighter easily beats Radio Science.
VCreed32
10-05-2005, 05:37 PM
Yes, I will ask if that dude's parents knew what they were doing.
I asked my girlfriend, she had no idea.
Smallville
10-05-2005, 06:44 PM
I think it's an awesome name personally, I wish my name was Kal-El. :D
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