The post has long since been taken down, but according to Hollywood Reporter, in 2012 Cage, denied that he is a vampire to David Letterman, pointing out that he can see his own reflection, and he shows up in photos (as the lore goes, vampires do not). He also told Letterman he doesn’t drink blood, although he forgot to mention sunlight doesn’t kill him. Even if Cage isn’t a vampire, we can still have fun hypothesizing the “Raising Arizona” star is immortal because maybe we just want to keep him around, and celebrity deaths can be a bummer.

To keep the impossible theory going, in 2013, a Redditor posted a likeness of Emperor Maximiliano of Habsburgo from a textbook on the subreddit dedicated to Cage called “OneTrueGod.” The user wrote, “In a past life, our God was a Mexican Emperor.” The picture he posted was a sketch that really does look just like Cage, but it’s a drawing. Unfortunately, a Google search of the emperor is disheartening because the real guy’s face is not as Cage-like as the drawing. And according to Worldbook, Maximiliano was killed by a Mexican firing squad in 1867.

Ultimately, it stands to reason that even Nicholas Cage is mortal. Really, neither of the images that people jokingly claimed proved he is immortal look exactly like him — maybe they could be his less attractive brother.