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It’s an awkward situation and nobody likes to admit it, but sometimes when you’re making characters for a new game, you can’t help but thinking to yourself “this calls for Nic Cage.” The question then becomes “Which Nic Cage?” After all, Cage–like the universe itself–is infinite and ever-expanding. While we can’t help you determine whether your character will be the delightfully offbeat Cage from Raising Arizona and Adaptation, the over-the-top, trying-way-to-hard wannabe badass from Con Air and Face/Off, or even the “Holy shit! When did this guy learn how to act?” Cage from movies like Leaving Las Vegas, but we can give you some random tables designed to result in some Cage-o-licious character ideas.
Nic Cage is a(n)…
- Elvis Impersonator
- Surfer Dude
- Business Man
- Writer
- College Professor
- Working Stiff
- Soldier
- Federal Agent
- Crime Lord
- Ex-Convict
- Cop on the Edge
- Small-Time Criminal
- Con Artist
- Hitman
- Vigilante
- Archaeological Adventurer
- Conspiracy Theorist
- Monster Hunter
- Powerful Wizard
- Supernatural Creature
With…
- Psychic powers
- Amnesia
- A briefcase full of cash
- Stolen goods
- A mission
- A dark secret
- A grudge
- A price on his head
- A gambling problem
- A drug/alcohol problem
- Debts he can’t pay
- Trouble at home
- A big decision to make
- A heart of gold
- Enemies on his trail
- A super-charged roadster
- A big bag of guns
- A treasure map
- A body in the trunk
- 36 hours to live
