Marvel Comics

"John Shea - Adam Kane"

"Victoria Pratt - Shalimar Fox"

"Forbes March - Jesse Kilmartin"

"Victor Webster - Brennan Mulwray"

"Lauren Lee Smith - Emma DeLauro"

"Karen Cliche - Lexa Pierce"

"Tom McCamus - Mason Eckhart"

"Andrew Gillies - Dr. Kenneth Harrison"

"Michael Easton - Gabriel Ashlocke"

"George Buza - Lexa's Dominion Contact"

"Cyclops, Storm, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Colossus. Children of the atom, students of Charles Xavier. MUTANTS-feared and hated by the world they have sworn to protect. These are the STRANGEST heroes of all! Stan Lee presents: The Uncanny X-Men!"

"For me, the whole idea was that the number was small enough that they could be expunged if the world got determined about it. You know, that it was something that the Avengers, if they wanted, could deal with. That was what gave Magneto so much of his passion and focus. In terms of defending his people, they really were dancing along the edge of extinction and they really did need someone like him. The difference, and the reason that the school was so intent on remaining clandestine, was that if they were exposed, they could be destroyed."

"The problem is not staying on for 16 or 17 years -- I mean, theoretically anybody could do that. But the thing that made X-Men unique in its day was that the first iteration of the series that Stan and Jack created in 1962 had run its course. It wasn't a success. So when Dave Cockrum and Len Wein worked together to build the new X-Men, we were essentially starting with a clean slate. Aside from Charles Xavier being the mentor and Scott Summers showing up to run the shop, everything was brand new. And the way the industry is structured now, the way that Marvel or DC or Image are structured now, that's unlikely to happen again. You don't have that mainstream series that you can recreate in public before everyone's eyes and come up with something completely new and different. So I don't think that opportunity will come again. I just happened to have the ridiculous good fortune of being in the precisely great place at the precisely great time, and I got to run with it."

"I like the very large themes that are in this and the comic books which were originally kind of an allegory for the Malcolm X/Martin Luther King debate."

"The X-Men, I did the natural thing there. What would you do with mutants who were just plain boys and girls and certainly not dangerous? You school them. You develop their skills. So I gave them a teacher, Professor X. Of course, it was the natural thing to do, instead of disorienting or alienating people who were different from us, I made the X-Men part of the human race, which they were. Possibly, radiation, if it is beneficial, may create mutants that’ll save us instead of doing us harm. I felt that if we train the mutants our way, they’ll help us - and not only help us, but achieve a measure of growth in their own sense. And so, we could all live together."

"This was a period when we were experimenting with the atom bomb. People were wondering what the effects would be. Everybody worried ‘Would we all become mutants? We played around with this ‘mutation thing’ and I came up with the X-Men, who were associated with radiation and its effects on humanity."

"I couldn't have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. And I took the cowardly way out. I said to myself, 'Why don't I just say they're mutants. They were born that way."

"Magneto’s an old terrorist bastard. I got into trouble—the X-Men fans hated me because I made him into a stupid old drug-addicted idiot. He had started out as this sneering, grim terrorist character, so I thought, Well, that’s who he really is. [Writer] Chris Claremont had done a lot of good work over the years to redeem the character: He made him a survivor of the death camps and this noble antihero. And I went in and shat on all of it. It was right after 9/11, and I said there’s nothing f*****g noble about this at all."

"Remember, the X-Men universe was created in the early '60s in the height of the American Civil Rights movement. So, these ideas of bigotry, tolerance, fear, war ... I think are perpetual ideas. We've had them for thousands of years, ever since man recognized his fellow man and that two people had two different color hair."

"Scott Summers: Hanks articulate as anything, but what people see is mostly ... well, a beast. Emma's a former villain, Logan's a [[thug. And me .. I can lead a team. But I haven't looked anybody in the eye since I was fifteen."

"Storm: Professor, if Rogue stays, I go."

"Kitty Pryde: We fought. We lost. We d-died. And now... seeing you all alive -- oh God, I didn't think it would hurt so much."

"When I took over with issue #94, the presumption was that the industry was dying, the X-Men would not last. Based on its history as a series, it did not have much impact on the audience… unless you’re using Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, which changes all the game parameters."

"The actual story line was that Xavier would die in issue #200...and that Magneto would become head of the school [pause] permanently.....But the idea, that goal was built from the death of Phoenix. The hope was to show that this is ... their lives as X-Men have a real risk. This isn't superhero games. This is reality. In reality good guys sometimes do not win and people die. And that has to be part of their lives otherwise it just becomes a video game ... life isn't like that. . And I always thought, my thought was the stories we tell in comics shouldn't be like that either. If there is risk for the reader, then the victory is that much sweeter. And you can, something can happen that can catch you by surprise and can have that much power and heart."

"I'll say this once, we're not the same. You took an oath to uphold the law. You help people. I gave that up a long time ago. You don't do what I do. Nobody does. You boys need a role model? His name's Captain America, and he'd be happy to have you.... If I find out you are trying to do what I do, I'll come for you next."

"I was fascinated by the Don Pendleton Executioner character, which was fairly popular at the time, and I wanted to do something that was inspired by that, although not to my mind a copy of it. And while I was doing the Jackal storyline, the opportunity came for a character who would be used by the Jackal to make Spider-Man's life miserable. The Punisher seemed to fit."

"To me, it's disturbing whenever I see authority figures embracing Punisher iconography because the Punisher represents a failure of the Justice system. ... The vigilante anti-hero is fundamentally a critique of the justice system, an example of social failure, so when cops put Punisher skulls on their cars or members of the military wear Punisher skull patches, they're basically sided with an enemy of the system."

"Heidegger, who took Kierkegaard's philosophy further, comes even closer to describing the Punisher: 'Since we can never hope to understand why we're here, if there's even anything to understand, the individual should choose a goal and pursue it wholeheartedly, despite the certainty of death and the meaninglessness of action.' That's sure the Punisher as I conceived him: a man who knows he's going to die and who knows in the big picture his actions will count for nothing, but who pursues his course because this is what he has chosen to do."

"Frank Castle has spent years exacting vengeance for the deaths of his family by punishing criminals everywhere. His skull insignia inspires fear throughout the underworld. But Punisher's appeal rests on more than his ability to do what the rest of Marvel's heroes won't. He's a tragic figure – even a profoundly selfish one in some ways. The sad truth is that Frank Castle can't survive without killing, and his new job fulfills him in ways his family never could."

"Gerry Conway was writing a script and he wanted a character that would turn out to be a hero later on, and he came up with the name the Assassin. And I mentioned that I didn't think we could ever have a comic book where the hero would be called the Assassin, because there's just too much of a negative connotation to that word. And I remembered that, some time ago, I had had a relatively unimportant character ... [who] was one of [the cosmic antagonist] Galactus' robots, and I had called him the Punisher, and it seemed to me that that was a good name for the character Gerry wanted to write—so I said, 'Why not call him the Punisher?' And, since I was the editor [sic; Lee had been named publisher in 1972], Gerry said, 'Okay.'"

"Like Batman, he's motivated by direct personal tragedy, but unlike Batman (most of the time), the men that destroyed his family are alive, known and active criminals. Like Daredevil, Frank Castle looking to clean up the streets of Hell's Kitchen. But unlike Matt Murdock, Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent, Frank doesn't have the skills, influence or education needed to interact with the legal system in any substantive way. Instead, he's just very, very good at killing people, and very, very motivated to do so."

"Xavier has traveled to Russia to recruit Peter Rasputin to join his new team of X-men."

"Idie: It's because we're monsters."

"Jimmy Carter [on what to do with baby Hyperion]: He's a child of the United States. See to it he's raised like one."

"Man watching Hyperion [after seeing his "flash vision" manifest and kill a puppy named "Spot"]: Huh...well...I guess Spot was kind of the right name after all."

"Nighthawk's father: Hear that, Rosalie? You know what kind of bird that is?"

"Nighthawk's mother: Oh, and you do?"

"Nighthawk's father: It's a nighthawk. See, most hawks hunt only during the day. But the prey they're chasing, well, they've got an advantage, because during the day, you can see the hawk's shadow. But a hawk that hunts at night, well, you can't see it, can you? Can't see his shadow. Can't stop it."

"Nighthawk's mother: You're making this up."

"Doctor Spectrum: You want someone to perform a job with precision? Without making an error? You want a surgeon. A Doctor."

"Hyperion: I don't... I just don't fit in, that's all. I don't belong there."

"Hyperion's father: It'll be okay, Mark. You have a purpose. You're important. That's what matters."

"Hyperion: I know, it's just... there really isn't anyone else in the world like me, is there?"

"Hyperion's father: Not that we know of, Mark. Not that we know of."

"Hyperion [to Washington Herald reporter Jason Scott]: Good evening Mr. Scott. I've been told to ask you a question. Would you be interested in winning the Pulitzer this year?"

"Bill Clinton: Ladies and Gentlemen, I now present to you a truly extraordinary American. An amazing young man previously know only by his designation as part of Project Hyperion: Mark Milton."

"Jason Scott: Where are you from, Mark? Really?"

"Hyperion: I don't know. I don't know..."

"Jason Scott [last line]: You say I got the story. But what if I missed the story? What if Hyperion isn't alone after all?"

"General Casey [on Hyperion]: You've given America a new star."

"Hyperion [after seeing The Blur]: I'm not alone... I'm not alone."

"Dr. Bill Steadman [to General Casey, after Dr. Spectrum wakes up from his years-long coma]: Well. I think it worked, General."

"Hyperion [seeing the The Blur appear on TV]: Finally. Finally! Yes!"

"The Blur: Hey."

"Hyperion: Hey."

"The Blur: How's it going?"

"Hyperion: Good. You?"

"The Blur: So Far."

"Hyperion: So why'd you run away that day I saw you?"

"The Blur: Wasn't ready to talk to anybody yet. Wasn't ready to come out."

"Hyperion: Then why were you running all over Georgia every couple of days? Even blurred by speed, you must've known that sooner or later somebody would get a picture of you."

"The Blur: Yeah, I knew it was a risk. But I couldn't not do it, y'know? I mean, knowing what I can do, how fast I can run, to just stay home, sittin' around the house... I'd've gone nuts."

"The Blur: You ever see one of those English Border Collies? Fast, strong, smarter than any other dog on the planet. But you got to keep them busy, you got to give 'em homework and projects and goals. I knew a guy had one, didn't keep its mind occupied, and over the summer it took apart his front porch with its bare teeth, board by board. You don't give a dog like that something important to do, a problem to solve, it goes crazy. And the last thing the world needs is somebody like you going crazy, you know what I'm saying?"

"Hyperion: I suppose."

"Hyperion: Anyway, I just wanted to tell you all that because I think what you're doing is well-intentioned, but you need to broaden your horizons a bit. So? Do you have anything to say?"

"Nighthawk: Yeah. I'd point out that you haven't done shit to stop those guys down there from doing what they're doing."

"Hyperion: I try never to get between a professional and his work. Have a good night."

"Nighthawk: Prick."

"Dr. Bill Steadman: Was I talking to Corporal Joe Ledger or was I talking to the ship?"

"Bryce [on Hyperion]: I mean, Christ, why not just use him to rescue a cat stuck up in a tree somewhere in Jersey ?"

"Bryce [to Hyperion]: What the hell were you doing in China? You don't even have a passport, for chrissake..."

"Hyperion: If I should decide to go to China, or Argentina, or Australia, or anywhere else-- Who's going to stop me?"

"Doctor Spectrum [meeting Hyperion]: Big mistake, buddy. Big mistake."

"Hyperion [after Doctor Spectrum hits him]: I felt that. I...felt that. This must be what pain feels like. Do it again."

"Doctor Spectrum: Are you out of your--"

"Hyperion: I SAID DO IT AGAIN!"

"Hyperion [after taking Doctor Spectrum's full power]: My turn now."

"Hyperion [touches the Doctor's crystal by accident and is given memories of his journey to Earth]: I don't... I don't understand--"

"Hyperion [seeing the destruction of wildlife after the fight]: I'm sorry... I'm sorry..I don't know what happened, I just... I'm sorry..."

"Last page: UBI DUBIUM, IBI LIBERTAS (LATIN) WHERE THERE IS DOUBT, THERE IS FREEDOM."

"Dr. Bill Steadman [on Hyperion]: We thought we understood the limits of his abilities. We were wrong. He's been holding back."

"General Casey [after arming the last defense weapon against Hyperion]: Ready when you are, you son of a bitch."

"Hyperion: I've seen the files. You used me. Manipulated me. Tried to brainwash me into being the perfect citizen, somebody who would do what he was told, without asking questions. You faked the death of my so-called parents so I'd rely more on you, on the government. You put me through all that..."

"General Casey: Why not?"

"Hyperion: Why not?"

"General Casey: You're not human. You know that now. You look like us. But you're not one of us. So what difference does it make? You don't have any rights, we don't have any obligation to treat you one way or another. You're a weapon. My job was to make sure that weapon was pointed the right direction."

"Hyperion: A weapon"

"General Casey: Yes. Nothing more."

"Hyperion: You know what I could do to you right now, right ?"

"General Casey: I know. I know what you could do to all of us."

"General Casey [last words before detonating twenty Daisy Cutters]: ...never, ever let your weapon fall into enemy hands."

"Dr. Bill Steadman: Did it work? General? Did it work? General...?"

"Princess Zarda [kills an old woman and then looks at her own hairs, a few of which had been grey]: Gone now."

"Princess Zarda: I'm here for you...I've come for you. I've come...to help you."

"Hyperion: Who... who are you ?"

"Princess Zarda: I am the woman you love."

"Hyperion: How can.. I don't even know you..."

"Princess Zarda: That will change. You will change. I'm here now. Here for you. Hold on."

"Princess Zarda: Better now. Better. Yes."

"Zarda: I had a name. Zarda. But I have not used it in a very long time. I have been waiting, all that time. Waiting for you."

"Zarda: Most of it was in the dark, you see. But, I'm in the light now. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful."

"Zarda: We're here to pave the way. For the others. We're here to rule. To conquer. To kill."

"The Blur: Mr. Richmond? They said you wanted to see me."

"Nighthawk: I did. I have a question for you, Stanley. A very important one."

"The Blur: Yeah? What's that?"

"Nighthawk: Were you planning to actually do anything with your life, or are you content to be a walking, talking ad campaign for every racing, jogging and sporting-equipment sponsor on the planet?"

"Nighthawk: Wait. Take a good look, Stanley. What do you see?"

"The Blur: He cut their arms off he-"

"Nighthawk: No. Look closer. At the flesh, the finger-point bruises, the cartilage. Those arms weren't cut off. They were torn off. Whoever the killer is, he didn't just murder them... he tore them, limb from limb. Something like that takes a lot of strength... more than any normal person could possibly possess. There's someone else out there, Stanley. Someone like you, and Hyperion, with one difference. This one to likes to kill."

"Nighthawk: So even though I don't like it, I took steps to bring in some help. If this guy really is one of you, we're going to need all the help we can get."

"The Blur: Why the reluctance?"

"Nighthawk: I don't trust him."

"The Blur: Because he's white?"

"Nighthawk: Because I don't trust him."

"The Blur: Uh-huh."

"The Blur: See, I lived all my life in the South, in Atlanta, and in all that time nobody--nobody--has ever described me or anybody I knew as "you people." Until you, just now. You got some serious issues, Mr. Richmond. Deal with them."

"Hyperion: All right... we know that someone out there is killing prostitutes, mainly black, and tearing them limb from limb. Question is, what do we do about it? You invited me in on this, you must have had something in mind."

"Nighthawk: Yeah, I did."

"Hyperion: I'm not exactly on the best terms with the government right now."

"Nighthawk: What, you guys have a falling-out or something?"

"Hyperion: Yeah, you could say that."

"Nighthawk [to Hyperion]: You are the system."

"Man [talking about Hyperion]: Old joke. Where does a six-hundred-pound gorilla sit? Answer: Anywhere he wants to."

"Hooker: Mmmm...I like the way this feels, what is it, baby? Spandex? Lycra?"

"The Blur: It's...they say it's a special material, heat resistant..."

"Hooker [talking about The Blur]: Mmm, mmm... you ask me, that boy's been raised a little too close to his momma."

"Redstone: Who sent you? What else came with you? I just broke two of your ribs. Three. Four. Answer my question. Or I take eyes next."

"Nighthawk: ...go fuck yourself...hear that...? ...that's a sonic boom...company's coming..."

"General Richard Alexander [grilling the handlers of Project Hyperion]: You had access to an artifact from a non-human civilization! Do you realize what you had, and what you let get away from you? Do You? Then let me explain it to you! Imagine handing an F-16 to the Aztecs in 1521, when Cortez was at war with them, and instead of learning to fly so they could slice Cortez and his army to shreds, they cut off the wings to use as shields, the guns as clubs, and they take off the wheels because they figured they would look really cool hanging from the temple ceiling! This is exactly what you people and your agencies have been doing since day one, and worse still, you've been doing it in secret, not just from the public, which we expect, but from each other! As a result, the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing! And what has the left hand been doing all this time? Jerking off, that's what! And what've you got to show for it? One guy [Doctor Spectrum]! And a bunch of melted metal where the ship used to be!"

"Redstone [killing people]: Heads up..."

"Hyperion: No...No! You bastard...You bastard... You sonofabitch!"

"The Blur:...ohmygod..."

"Nighthawk: Stay focused. We're only going to have one shot at this. You're sure you can do this?"

"The Blur [seeing a dead woman]: Fucking A."

"Doctor Spectrum [to Hyperion, who asks how Michael Redstone can even be taken into custody]: Because they built it to hold you if it ever became necessary."

"Soldier [about Michael Redstone]: So, General Alexander...now what do we do with him?"

"Nighthawk: What mattered was bringing him to justice, in a court of law, where the families of the people he killed could get some fucking closure."

"Hyperion: We never could have brought him in alive! The only way to bring him into a courtroom is if we dragged in his body and propped it up on the judge's desk!"

"Nighthawk:...You know what? I got no problem with that. No problem at all."

"Nighthawk: A long time ago, my dad heard Malcolm X speak at a church in Memphis. He said that during the slave days, you had the House Negro, and the Field Negro. The House Negro lived in the master's house, ate the same food as the master, lived in a warm room, usually in the basement. If the master got a cold, he was right there to help out, all cheerful and friendly because he wanted his own life to be good and that meant making the master happy. The Field Negro ate whatever scraps the dogs didn't eat, lived out in a cold shack was beaten and kicked--And when the master got sick, he prayed every day the master would die. Didn't matter if the master was technically a nice guy or not. The master represented the system, and it was the system he hated."

"Nighthawk: Our backgrounds may not line up, but as much as I like Stan, he's a house Negro. And I'm a field Negro. And that's never going to--[realizes Stanley has heard the conversation] change..."

"The Blur: Fuck. You."

"Doctor Spectrum: No, sir. Like all good Americans, I get all my news from the Internet."

"Hyperion: I heard somebody tell an old joke the other day. Where does a five-hundred-pound gorilla sit? Answer: anywhere he wants to."

"The Blur: Am I gonna regret this?"

"Hyperion: Almost certainly."

"The Blur: Raised in a bubble? Man, I can't even imagine what's that like."

"Hyperion: It took me a long time to realize that they were conditioning me to be the perfect citizen. Guess I didn't want to accept it at first, even though I kind of suspected it all along. They knew they couldn't intimidate me, knew how strong I was, so they trained me to respect the law because the law is a concept, and as such it was the only thing bigger and stronger than I was. But that concept was only as strong as my belief in it."

"Tom Thumb [seen in a flashback]: Hey! What the fuck are you looking?"

"General Richard Alexander: The question is simply this. Why? Why do you kill, Mr. Redstone?"

"Michael Redstone: Because I can. Because I'm good at it. And Because--because I like it."

"General Richard Alexander: Smart bombs and dumb politicians do not a happy marriage make."

"Lucy Alexander: Is it broke? Are you fixing it?"

"General Richard Alexander: No. I'm taking it apart."

"Lucy Alexander: Why?"

"General Richard Alexander: To see what's inside."

"Bar keeper: Anything? Anything at all?"

"Hyperion: No."

"Bar keeper: That's fifteen beers, nine tequila shooters and three margaritas. Not even a buzz?"

"Bar keeper: Dude, now that's a heart-breaker."

"Hyperion's mother [to Jason Scott]: The world has to know... he can't be trusted. Because he's not one of us. He's...He's not Human."

"General Richard Alexander: Hello, Mark. General Richard Alexander. Mind if I join you?"

"Hyperion: It's a free country. At least that's what I was told growing up, but it turns out that a lot of what I was taught isn't true."

"Hyperion: I've decided I'm outside the system."

"General Richard Alexander: And what exactly does that mean?"

"Doctor Spectrum: No...the children must not fight...the children must not fight...the--What the--!? Kingsley...?"

"Zarda: Better. Beautiful. Better. A new beginning. A fresh start. A new...me."

"[a letter writen by Hyperion read by General Richard Alexander ]:"

"Arcanna [Trying to explain her powers to the Shape]: What's in the bowl in front of you?"

"The Shape: Macaroni and cheese, the man said"

"Arcanna: Ah, that's what he said, but until you open the bowl, how do you know?"

"The Shape: Are you saying he lied?"

"Arcanna: No, I--"

"The Shape: Because that would be mean--"

"Emil Burbank: Someone kill me now."

"Doctor Spectrum: What do you see?"

"Hyperion[Hovering in the air looking at the ravaged Ugandan village from above]: I see...Pretty much what I've come to expect of mankind."

"Doctor Spectrum: Yeah, whatever."

"Inertia[asking Joe Ledger about Nuke]: Hey, Joe...How come Al isn't getting into the fight? He's gonna miss all the fun."

"Doctor Spectrum: We don't want to casually irradiate the area, so he's doing what all good tactical nukes do - Hanging over our heads as a last resort."

"The Shape [On possessed Kingsley attacking him]: Fishie lady hurt Shape."

"Emil Burbank: Yes, so she did...And that certainly places her behaviour in the plus column...But I'm putting her down anyway."

"Staff Sergeant: We sent Ms. Kingsley to our Dolphin Research Center in South Carolina. Just to see if she could communicate with us any way other than through Corporal Ledger. (Shot of Kingsley swimming with dolphins, clearly enjoying herself) *Staff Sergeant: (voiceover) According to what I'm told - she's not taking her work too seriously."

"Intelligence Agent [On Emil Burbank's claim that he knows how to defeat almost anyone in the Squadron]: How did you manage to come up with these solutions when we, with all our resources, failed? (Burbank writes on a notepad in front of him for a few seconds, then holds it up. It now reads 'Smartest Man on the Planet' with an arrow pointed at him.)"

"Leo T.K. [After Nighthawk has broken his right arm]: What're you-- --huccccch-- what're you doing? I thought-- thought you were a brother."

"Nighthawk: A brother. A brother to somebody who exploits his own and poisons the neighborhood with drugs. Somebody who does more harm to the black community than a hundred guys in white sheets because you make feeding on black women look like something cool. Which of us here looks like a brother to a cockroach-- [Nighthawk slams Leo's head to the floor] And which one of us looks like a man?"

"Leo T.K.: Wait...Wait, you can't leave me!"

"Nighthawk: Police'll be here soon. Ambulance too. You just got to get outside to meet them."

"Leo T.K.: I can't--"

"Nighthawk: Sure you can. You just have to do what you made them do. Crawl."

"Reporter: Another question Mr. Milton. You and the rest of the Squadron seem to have no qualms about using your power to bring down other nations, even though by doing so you rip vast parts of their society and infrastructure apart. Some people seem to think it's okay since they're third-world countries. Do you think they'd feel the same way if all that damage was being done right here in the good old U.S. of A? If, say, L.A. were torn apart during a big fight?"

"Hyperion: That voice -- (Reporter punches Hyperion; he is revealed as the villain Michael Redstone)"

"Redstone: The reason I ask is, we're about to find out."

"Hyperion: Redstone..."

"Redstone: Round two, pal. Come one, let's get this party started!"

"Redstone [After punching Hyperion]: That sensation is pain, in case it's been so long you've forgotten what it was like."

"Hyperion: How did you...get loose?"

"Redstone: Get loose? I've must've hit you harder than I thought. I didn't get loose. They turned me loose."

"Redstone [After using flash-vision to evaporate the water from a swimming pool and killing the swimmers]: Intense. Really makes you understand why animal fat makes the best candles, doesn't it?"

"Redstone: Now where were we?"

"Nighthawk: Where were we? We... were just about to kick your sorry white ass. Punk."

"Joe Ledger: Anna? What are you doing--"

"Crystal Weapon: SO YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN CONTROL ME?"

"Joe Ledger: You're not Anna"

"Crystal Weapon: YOU'RE RIGHT."

"Joe Ledger: Where am I?"

"Crystal Weapon: THE QUESTION IS, WHERE AM I?"

"Crystal Weapon: THEY THINK THEY UNDERSTAND POWER...CONTROL...PUNISHMENT...YOU. THEY'RE ABOUT TO DISCOVER WHAT REAL POWER IS. WE'LL SHOW THEM WHAT REAL POWER IS. REAL CONTROL, REAL PUNISHMENT...AND THE REAL YOU."

"Crystal Weapon: THEN CONFESS."

"Crystal Weapon: WHO ARE YOU?"

"Joe Ledger: My mother's son."

"Joe Ledger: My stepfather's killer."

"Joe Ledger: A soldier"

"Joe Ledger: A lover"

"Joe Ledger: A killer"

"Joe Ledger:A Killer"

"Joe Ledger: I'm a murderer! I kill and I enjoy it!"

"Crystal Weapon: THEN NOW AT LAST, WE HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON. NOW AT LAST..WE MAY BECOME ONE."

"Crystal Weapon: COME JOE, DO YOU HEAR THE MUSIC? YOU WILL NEVER BE ALONE AGAIN. WHERE YOU ARE WEAK, I WILL BE STRONG. TOGETHER WE WILL PREPARE THE BEDROCK FOR THE NEW WORLD ON THE ASHES OF THE OLD. THE GLORY-- THE POWER-- I WILL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOUR HEART DESIRES. YOU WILL NEVER BE ALONE."

"Crystal Weapon [last line]: NEVER ALONE"

"Nighthawk: I'm not the law. Get back on the fucking ground."

"White man [seeing three black men advancing on him]: Y-You can't fuckin' leave me here--!"

"Nighthawk: Yes. I can."

"Steven Binst aka Whiteface [at trial]: Not Guilty"

"Deputy Mayor of Chicago: ...I think I'll pass. Late night?"

"Nighthawk: Long night."

"Nighthawk [on his mask hiding his face]: This is my face. The only thing that I'm hiding... is the scars."

"Woman: I Mean, what if Binst woke up and he had... changed?"

"Man: Into what... Something worse? C'mon... What could be worse?"

"Nighthawk: You and me are gonna talk. When we're doing talking, I'm gonna kill you. So the longer you talk, the longer you live. Understand?"

"ER Doctor: We got junkies droppin' like flies in here! Where the fuck is Arredondo?"

"Mayor of Chicago: But it's only drug addicts, Glen."

"Deputy Mayor of Chicago: What... The fuck did you just say?"

"Mayor of Chicago: I said.. "It's only drug addicts."

"Deputy Mayor of Chicago: And they don't matter? Why? Because they don't fucking vote?!"

"Mayor of Chicago: Yeah. Pretty Much."

"Deputy Mayor of Chicago: Mother-Fucker!"

"DEA Man: Crackheads are gonna smoke crack... Poisoned or not. They might ask a dealer if this is the "bad shit." Dealer's just gonna tell em "No...It's the good shit", and into the fuckin' pipe it goes."

"Nighthawk: Michael Mahoney... and Nicolas Barone, the two sheriff's deputies that died two nights ago--"

"Federal Judge: They didn't "die"... You fucking murdered them, you goddamn vigilante fuck! You know they both had wives? and kids?"

"Mayor of Chicago: How did it sound?"

"Deputy Mayor of Chicago: Self-righteous... But good."

"Steven Binst aka Whiteface [at six year birthday party for the Mayor's son]: Hi, kids. Is everbody ready to have a good time?"

"Mayor of Chicago: I'm So... Fuckin' Ahsamed. I was Happy that all this "Drug Poisoning" shit was happening. I...I fuckin' Loved it. It Damn-near Guaranteed my re-election--All I had to do was...was look strong in the f-face of..of...of tragedy..."

"Mayor of Chicago: Nighthawk. Kill Him. Please...Please kill him. I'm...I can't (Shoot himself in the head)"

"General Richard Alexander [to Emil Burbank]: This is the first time we've had someone come to us saying that his power is that he's really, really smart."

"General Richard Alexander: Dr.Burbank...We've established that you are a genius...Are you also invulnerable?"

"Emil Burbank: No, but what does that--"

"General Richard Alexander: As of five minutes ago, I am your commanding officer, and if you ever put a hand on me again, I will have you drilled in places you didn't even know you had. Is that clear?"

"Emil Burbank: Yes, Sir."

"General Richard Alexander [after meeting the Shape]: The perfect soldier. Loyal. Trusting. Impervious. Strong. Used to be a janitor...can you believe it?"

"The Shape: You're a doctor?"

"Emil Burbank: Yes."

"Shape: Are you gonna try to stick Shape with pins, like the other doctors?"

"Emil Burbank: Perhaps later."

"Arcanna [on her powers]: It all starts with what physicists like to call the ultimate observer, one who can see all the quantum possibilities and choose which will become a physical reality."

"General Richard Alexander: It sounds like magic."

"Arcanna[to General Richard Alexander]: Have you ever heard of the Big Bang, General? In one quantum possibility...That's me."

"General Richard Alexander [seeing Nuke]: How hot is he, Doc?"

"Doctor: It's literally off every scale we have, General. By all rights he should have reached critical mass a long time ago."

"Hyperion: I told General Richard Alexander not to send anyone after me."

"Emil Burbank: Yes, you did"

"Hyperion: But here you are."

"Emil Burbank: Yes, we are."

"Hyperion: So a ten-point-on-the-richter-scale tectonic event wasn't enough to convince him."

"Emil Burbank: Apparently not. It's the military mindset, you know. Once they make a decision, that's it. Take that mountain. Take that fort. Take… well, anything they can, really."

"Emil Burbank: How thoughtless... I've forgotten to introduce the members of my support team."

"Arcanna: Support team...?!"

"Emil Burbank: So I'll cut right to the point, Mr. Milton. We were sent here to bring you back to the states in one of three possible forms. Dead. Alive. Or something in-between."

"Emil Burbank [seeing the Shape fight Hyperion]: I understand it all has something or other to do with inertia...an object at rest and all that. One of those force-of-nature things, and you can't beat Mother Nature, you know."

"Arcanna: You're actually enjoying this, aren't you?"

"Emil Burbank: We take our pleasures where we can, my dear."

"Arcanna: So why am I Arcanna while he is Mr. Gaines? A bit sexist, isn't it?"

"Emil Burbank: It's not a lack of respect for you skills, my dear. But you haven't seen what Mr. Gaines is capable of and why his appellation of 'Nuke' is far from arbitary."

"Emil Burbank[seeing Nuke fight Hyperion]: You know what's interesting about nuclear blasts, Arcanna? It isn't just the radiation, or the initial blast. It's the shockwaves. First, a precursor wave goes out in a perfect sphere of tremendous power, thousands of pounds of pressure per square inch. When its hits the ground, or Nuke's control field, the shock wave bounces back and multiplies the sheer force of the blast hundreds of times. Thus contained, the shockwave continues to bounce back and forth to unimaginable levels. It must be the next best thing to being caught in the heart of a star at the moment of its birth. And that, my dear, is why you are Arcanna...And he is Mr.Gaines. No offense intended."

"Emil Burbank: What.. What was that?"

"Arcanna: I not sure. But I think all that energy, launched at the moment of quantum intersection, caused a--"

"The Shape: Boo-Boo?"

"Arcanna: Something like that."

"Arcanna [seeing hovering above the city a group of superhumans including Hyperion, Doctor Spectrum, Zarda, Amphibian, Tom Thumb and several others never seen]: Oh...My... Emil, you better get that fifty story brain of yours over here--Because I think we're going to need it."

"Emil Burbank seeing wounded Nighthawk: Well, Well..I'd say this was just a little bit unexpected, wouldn't you...?"

"Nighthawk: After a few years, more heroes showed up, like Blue Eagle, Lady Lark and Black Archer. They fought for the government, for big business... Morons."

"Emil Burbank [examining Nighthawk]: Hmmm... African-American male between the ages of twenty and forty... impressive physique... surly expression... No, nothing notable about -"

"Reed: Sue, I'm sorry I went missing for a day, but there was - Sue: Oh no, let me guess. You found a... a new parallel universe? With - with younger versions of ourselves? There was drama, danger, you saved untold universes... Reed: ...something like that, yes. - Marvel Knights 4 #21(running at the same time as this story)"

"Keep flying, son. And watch that potty mouth!"

"Weapons down or I will not be responsible for what comes next."

"Ninety percent of the casualties of World War I were soldiers, fraulein. But half the people who died in World War II were civilians... Half of sixty-one million. I know why I'm fighting, fraulein. I don't want to see World War III."

"A soldier with a voice that could command a god... and does."

"I'm loyal to nothing, General.. except the Dream."

"I fought your kind every day of that war, Zemo! You mocked democracy and said that free men were weak! Well feel this grip, Zemo — it's the grip of a man who loves liberty! Look into the eyes of your foe, and know that he will die for his freedom! The world must never again mistake compassion for weakness! And while I live — it had better not!"

"Avengers assemble!"

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move.""

"Do you actually think the fact that you know how to program a computer makes you more of a human being than me? That I'm out of touch because I don't know what you know? I know what freedom is. I know what it feels like to fight for it and I know what it costs to have it. You know compromise."

"Captain America is not here to lead the country. I'm here to serve it. If I'm a captain, then I'm a soldier. Not of any military branch, but of the American people. Years ago, in simpler times, this suit and this shield were created as a symbol to help make America the land it's supposed to be... to help it realize its destiny. Ricocheting from super-villain duel to super-villain duel doesn't always serve that purpose. There's a difference between fighting against evil and fighting for the common good. I'm not always able to choose my battles... but effective immediately, I'm going to make an effort to choose the battles that matter. Battles against injustice, against cynicism, against intolerance. I will still serve with the Avengers. I will continue to defend this nation from any and all threats it may face. But as of today, I am not a "super hero." Now and forevermore, I am a man of the people. Together, you and I will identify and confront America's problems. Together, we will figure out what we are and what we can be. Together, we will define the American Dream and make it an American reality."

"Listen to me -- all of you out there! You were told by this man -- your hero -- that America is the greatest country in the world!"

"Courage, Honor, Loyalty, Sacrifice. You're braver than you think."

"These are dark and desperate times. I know that some of you are afraid. It's alright. It's perfectly natural. But I want you to know that I am not. I am not afraid to die this day because what we do here is necessary. It may seem impossible, our enemies may appear to be endless, but that doesn't matter. Because there is no one else. Look at me. I believe in an idea, an idea that a single individual who has the right heart and the right mind that is consumed with a single purpose, that one man can win a war. Give that one man a group of soldiers with the same conviction, and you can change the world."

"...so we worked our way up from the south and met with leaders from the Maquis to help plan the attack. I've seen a lot of combat...and I'd seen a lot before I got to France...but the savagery inflicted on these people. I never saw anything like it until we got to Buchenwald. That's why it galls me when I hear my own people dismissing the French as cowards. We're talking about a people who never gave up fighting the Nazi occupation. Their country may have surrendered, but they didn't..."

"Surrender??!! You think this letter on my head stands for France?"

"Yeah, I'm gonna fight you. You know why? Because I fought besides Russians during World War 2. They were good and decent men, and they made terrible painful sacrifices to save their country. And to their country then turn around and put monsters in prisons with nuclear landmines... to see people like you, proudly complicit in this nightmare... Yeah, I'll fight you. You've waited forty years for me in this hellhole, I feel it'd be impolite not to kick your head in."

"What are you ladies waiting for, Christmas?!"

"When Captain America throws his mighty shield, All those who chose to oppose his shield must yield! If he's led to a fight and a duel is due, Then the red and the white and the blue will come through, When Captain America throws his mighty shield!""

"Freedom Prevails!"

"Thumbs up, Soldier!"

"Good Work, Soldier!"

"For Truth, Justice, and the American way!"

"Believe in your country, but believe in yourself!"

"Stars and Stripes!!! (when performing his "Stars and Stripes" special attack)"

"Charging Star!!! (when performing his "Charging Star" special attack)"

"Final Justice! (when performing his "Final Justice" super move)"

"Your kind's got no shot--not while I'm around."

"The day I fall to the likes of you is the day I hang up my shield. (After defeating M.O.D.O.K. in Marvel vs. Capcom 3)"

"We Avengers will always fight the good fight! (When winning with the Avengers team in Marvel vs. Capcom 3)"

"You think I'm going down to some pampered punk like you? (when up against Iron Man in Marvel vs. Capcom 3)"

"Your name's Zero? Hope you don't fight like one. (when up against Zero in Marvel vs. Capcom 3)"

"On Olympus, we measure Wisdom against Athena, Speed against Hermes, Power against Zeus. But we measure Courage ... against Captain America."

"In a story from the early 1980s, Captain America uses his amazing powers to destroy a renegade American intelligence agency that is plotting an attack on the Soviet Union in order to make the United States the last remaining superpower. Confronting the plotters, the comic-book hero makes one of many declarations of faith that resound throughout his more than 70-year-long career as a fighter against evil: “I represent the American dream! A dream that has precious little to do with borders, boundaries, and the kind of blind hatred your ilk espouses!”"

"When he first appeared in March 1941, Captain America was the alter ego of Steve Rogers, a skinny art student from New York who had been transformed into a super-soldier by the U.S. army. Trying to enlist, but rejected because of his scrawny physique, Rogers agrees to be used as a subject in a secret project. Injected with a special serum and exposed to a course of radiation with “Vita-Rays,” the scrawny young man acquires astonishing strength, resourcefulness and courage. Captain America isn’t a superman; he is an average human being whose powers have been enhanced to the nth degree. It may be the fact that he is so recognizably human that makes him the most modern of the comic superheroes."

"Appearing in the run-up to U.S. entry into a world-shaking conflict, the Captain has always embodied the good in human beings. In his new book, Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero, Mark D. White argues that there can be no better model of ethical behavior today: “Cap’s ‘old-fashioned’ moral code is exactly what we need to restore civility and respect in the 21st century in both our personal lives and our political debates. He is what ancient philosophers—yes, more ancient than Cap—called a moral exemplar.”"

"For White, who teaches philosophy at City University of New York and who has published widely on ethics as well as written about other comic-book heroes, the Captain is loyal to “timeless principles of freedom, equality and justice.” These principles are distinctively American, White believes, but he is keen to dispel “any illusion that Captain America is a jingoist flag-waver ... Instead he embodies an inclusive patriotism that balances idealism with clear-eyed pragmatism.” His principles are universal: as White puts it, he believes “American ideals apply to everyone—not just all Americans, but all people around the world.”"

"Captain America was a product of the way I felt at the time. I come from New York City and – especially on the block where I lived – there was plenty of action. There were fights and people would come from the next block and we would fight and either win or lose. That would be the routine. I grew up with that type of activity and I accepted it in my professional work. I believe it was also the times in general. Hitler was in power. The world was immersed in a general atmosphere of war. The war was coming and so there was a lot of turbulence. It was a very turbulent period and people reacted in a turbulent fashion. When I met partner Joe Simon, we immediately got our heads together and came up with Captain America who was typical of times. He was a patriot. He was a fighter. We were Americans and, in our plu cial[sic] minds, we were winners. Captain America was a winner. And sales were phenomenal."

"I didn't have a lot of objections to putting a crew on the first issue ... There were two young artists from Connecticut that had made a strong impression on me. Al Avison and Al Gabriele often worked together and were quite successful in adapting their individual styles to each other. Actually, their work was not too far from [that of] Kirby's. If they worked on it, and if one inker tied the three styles together, I believed the final product would emerge as quite uniform. The two Als were eager to join in on the new Captain America book, but Jack Kirby was visibly upset. "You're still number one, Jack," I assured him. "It's just a matter of a quick deadline for the first issue." "I'll make the deadline," Jack promised. "I'll pencil it [all] myself and make the deadline." I hadn't expected this kind of reaction ... but I acceded to Kirby's wishes and, it turned out, was lucky that I did. There might have been two Als, but there was only one Jack Kirby ... I wrote the first Captain America book with penciled lettering right on the drawing boards, with very rough sketches for figures and backgrounds. Kirby did his thing, building the muscular anatomy, adding ideas and pepping up the action as only he could. Then he tightened up the penciled drawings, adding detailed backgrounds, faces and figures.""

"I was always thinking about heroes and villains, with all sorts of ideas swimming around in my head…I had a hot fudge sundae sitting in front of me, with the vanilla ice cream, and the hot fudge is running down the side. It was intriguing. The hot fudge looked like limbs—legs, feet, and hands—and I’m thinking to myself. Gee, this’d make an interesting villain, I mused. We’ll call him Hot Fudge … Just put a face on him, and have him ooze all over the place. But I looked again at the sundae, and I saw the big cherry on top. The cherry looked like a skull. “Wow,” I said to myself. “Red Skull … that sounds good.”"

"We knew what was going on over in Europe. World events gave us the perfect comic-book villain, Adolf Hitler, with his ranting, goose-stepping and ridiculous moustache. So we decided to create the perfect hero who would be his foil. I did that first sketch of Captain America, and Jack and I did the entire first issue before showing it to (publisher) Martin Goodman at Timely Comics. He loved it immediately."

"But when Captain America came out, America wasn't yet in the war, so the American Nazis weren't happy with what we did to their beloved Fuhrer. ... We had a couple of personal encounters with the Bund (an American Nazi group). But that didn't stop us. If anything, it added fuel to the fire."

"You're all talk, Nefaria! If I had half the guts or savvy of the other Avengers, you'd be pulp by now!"

"Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man. - Epitaph"

"I love you, Jan. I always have... even through the bad times."

"Long have I accepted that my friends' lives would end before mine, that a mortal life is as a candle-flicker to an immortal's - BUT CAPTAIN AMERICA IS MORE THAN A MAN! He is among the best of his people - and he should not have died thus! Blow, winds! For by my hammer, he shall be - avenged!"

"Let the heavens run red with blood, but in the end as always Thanos stands triumphant."

"Destiny awaits."

"My name is Thanos, and my name means Death."

"Who would have thought that becoming God would be such a back stamping victory."

"I now hold omnipotence. What should I do with such almighty power? The answer to that is actually quite simple: Anything I want. Anything. I am incapable of error. Any result that displeases me I can simply reverse. There is nothing I need to worry on, for I am Thanos. And Thanos is supreme. Supreme god."

"Am I not Thanos?! Did I not butcher the woman who gave me birth, who force-fed me into this hell called life?! Is not the wake of my passing crimson with the blood of my enemies and allies alike?! Death is with me every second of the day! My every moment is spent in either dealing out death or worshipping it! So tell me, who under the stars is better suited than I to be Death's consort?"

"The Universe will now be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism reign supreme!"

"I would prefer death to imprisonment! Pride: my one fatal flaw."

"I should have known I couldn't fool you."

"Adam Warlock, a being who wished nothing more than to spend the rest of his days within the peaceful environment of the Soul Gem. He now possesses the Infinite Power and the responsibility that goes with it. While I, whose entire life was dedicated to the pursuit of power, now find myself scraping out a living from the soil. Irony worthy of the drama. Yet strangely enough though, I envy not Adam Warlock. Somehow I feel, that in the long run, Thanos of Titan came out ahead in this particular deal."

"Your politics bore me. Your demeanor is that of a pouty child."

"But return to me again empty handed... And I will bathe the starways with your blood."

"Fine, I'll do it myself."

"Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe, but this (laughs) does put a smile on my face."

"I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. It’s frightening, turns the legs to jelly. I ask you to what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives all the same. And now it's here. Or should I say, I am."

"No resurrections this time."

"Reality is often disappointing. That is, it was. Now, reality can be whatever I want."

"Pretty, isn't it? Perfectly balanced, as all things should be."

"Little one, it's a simple calculus. This universe is finite, its resources finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correction."

"A small price to pay for Salvation."

"I ignored my destiny once, I cannot do that again, even for you. I'm sorry, little one."

"It was... and it was beautiful. Titan was like most planets, too many mounds not enough to go around, and when we faced extinction, I offered a solution. Dispassionate; to rich and poor alike, and they called me a mad man. I'm a survivor."

"With all six stones I could simply snap my fingers and it would all cease to exist; and that, I call mercy."

"I'll finally rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills."

"You're full of tricks, wizard. But you never once used your greatest weapon, a fake."

"You have my respect, Stark. When I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive. I hope they'll remember you."

"You should have gone for the head."

"Today I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn. Now... is no time at all."

"Gone, reduced to atoms."

"I used the Stones to destroy the Stones. It nearly killed me. But the work is done and it always will be."

"Impossible."

"In all my years of conquest, violence, slaughter, it was never personal. But I'll tell you now, what I'm about to do to your stubborn, annoying little planet...I'm going to enjoy it. Very, very much."

"I... am... inevitable"

"You could not live with your own failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me."

"I thought that by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you have shown me... that's impossible. As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist."

"I'm thankful... because now... I know what I must do. I will shred this universe down to its last atom and then, with the Stones you've collected for me, create a new one teeming with life that knows not what it's lost... but only what it has been given. A grateful universe."

"They'll never know it... because you won't be alive to tell them"

"I don't even know who you are."

"Sad list, isn't it? Further proof of what I have always said: too many (male) writers seem able to think of only two things to do with female characters -- rape 'em or knock 'em up. The dead ones might be the lucky ones. At least I made Wonder Woman MORE powerful. That's one ..."

"As for some characters being dead and then alive again -- that happens to both genders in comics. Look at Wonder Man. The thing that, to my mind, separates the male and female characters are the sex crimes. Only the female characters are victims of sex crimes; male characters are never subjected to that. (There may be one or two exceptions when the male character was sexually abused as a child, but that's about it.) It is the number and frequency of THAT which troubles me. (...) A female soldier in battle may suffer wounds; that's different than a woman being stalked, kidnapped, and having violence done to her in civilian life. The former incurs the physical damage because of her occupation; the latter, strictly because of her gender. A female cop may be shot because she is a cop, not because she is a female. That, to me, is part of the difference."

"It's a pretty scary list, scary mostly for what it says about (male) comics creators. What I think about this is the guys have good intentions, to use more female characters, and they try consciously to make them strong and positive role models and all that good stuff, but unconsciously it's very hard for many men to see women as something other than victims. (...) And where it comes from in many men is that men are real and women are vehicles for men's needs. One of those needs is to feel strong emotions such as grief, anger, pain, maturity. There are any number of movies and books in which a weak man becomes a hero, or faces up to life, because a woman has been raped or murdered or has committed suicide. Did the writer realize he was (once more) victimizing women? (...) I just checked out the web site after all, to see the reactions of (some of) the other creators. It was interesting to see how many of the men felt called on to defend (or apologize for) their own murdered female characters. You know, I assume, of the point made by people like Trina Robbins that the powers of female characters in the '60s showed a good deal about the male creators-- a "girl" who turns invisible, another who makes herself tiny and buzzes around men annoyingly (when she's not shopping)..."

"I think it's sad and terrible. I think that too many creators got on the "Bad Girl" bandwagon and did nothing but pander and exploit their own creations. To be honest, many creators that I've talked to solely created those characters to be exploited and exploitative. Now mind you I don't see this as a gender thing as much as I see it as a genre thing. Everybody is out for the quick buck and too many are too lazy to try to come up with something original. I know it's scary but if tomorrow's hot comics are about one-legged Mongolian dwarfs, than you can be sure that more than one respected creator will be jumping all over the concept but will claim to be giving it "their spin." (...) The worst news is that it's a million times worse in other parts of the entertainment field, mainly because there is more money involved and fewer morals."

"I'd chalk most of what's on your list up to lame writing. In desperate search of drama, and unable to obtain it any other way, some writers will resort to obvious emotional triggers/easy pickin's. You can always get a bang by killing Aunt May, or for that matter, Superman. The biggest crime is that many of these stories are unfolded badly, baldly and pathetically, by writers who don't have a clue. People looking for Freudian motives, i.e., hatred of Mother, etc., are wasting their time. Most of these writers sweated cannonballs trying to think of something SO SHOCKING that it would evoke a response from readers, and violence to women was the most horrifying thing they could come up with. Usually, the response to these badly told tales is boredom. Sometimes, they succeed in mobilizing folks like you, who wonder if these writers are sick. Nah. They just suck."

"There's the famous--and true--anecdote of the Hellcat story that consists mostly of her being beaten to a pulp by a man, a story that BY THE *WILDEST* COINCIDENCE was written by a man in the middle of harsh divorce proceedings. (...) I'm responsible for the death of Ice. My call, my worst mistake in comics, my biggest regret. I remember hearing myself ask the editor, "Who's the JLAer whose death would evoke the most fierce gut reaction from readers?" What a dope. Mea culpa. But I've learned my lesson. In fact, one of the only reasons I still hang on to FLASH is because I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that the moment I walk, the next guy's gonna drop a safe on Linda Park's head before my last voucher's been paid."

"I think it generally means killing female heroes is supposed to elicit more emotions from readers than killing male readers. (...) I think the wholesale slaughter is because there's a lot of writers who think all major character motivation is made by killing folk and women characters are easier to kill than male characters since so few of them are major heroes on their own. (...) I fear, that most boys want to read stories about big muscled guy heroes showing off than gal heroes. They want the girl heroes there in the background, and even important to books, but they rarely if ever buy a book starring a female. Younger boys I think are frightened to some degree by the overly muscled women even while they may find a sexual delight in them."

"Having always created lots of female characters, and doing some good work on them, I think, by making them all individuals (whether someone liked the Titans or not, Starfire, Wonder Girl and Raven were not in any way the same person in different latex costumes), I find most female heroes that other writers do are simply cookie-cut outs. Since a very few of these are anything special, it's easy to knock them off. Acknowledging that does not condone it. It merely explains it."

"As regards the female characters thing, I'm afraid I think it's giving male creators a bum deal. The list does read pretty shocking at first until you think of everything the male heroes have gone through, too, in terms of deaths/mutilations/etc. Granted, the female stuff has more of a sexual violence theme and this is something people should probably watch out for, but rape is a rare thing in comics and is seldom done in an exploitative way."

"Before being able to comment on the tragedies which have befallen only female comic characters as any kind of a trend, I would need to see a similar list of the kinds of tragedies which have befallen MALE characters in direct proportion to the number of female characters vs. male which exist throughout the entire industry. (...) As a writer with at least over 500 story credits (I stopped counting. Math isn't my strong suit), I will say that professionally speaking, I believe in treating ALL my characters, male, female, black, white or Kryptonian with equal measure respect and abuse. Basically, you have to respect them enough to abuse them in order to see how they will handle the adversity. Remember, monthly comics publishing is akin to a soap opera with more punches thrown. Characters HAVE to be made to endure both physical and emotional adversity in order for the lifeblood of the genre -- i.e. MONTHLY serial stories -- to work. When you've done more work on the subject, I'd be glad to discuss your results."

"I reserve the right to refuse to like a comic just because there is a girl/woman in it, or someone's decided to take a limp stab at marketing it to girls/women. (...) Push past those posters of giant titties and that one of the impossible pose where some gal is displaying her butt, crotch AND breasts, and that one where the girl looks like she's been oiled up and spanked. Push past all that, my sisters! (...) There, my sisters, under all those eye lemons and tree-killers are comics you will like. Don't hold it against your retailer if he or she is keeping the store going with chromium multi-variant oops-my-tittie-fell-out 1-to-4 short-packed speculator specials — get in there and grab that Previews and you will find something for you, and by God order it and get all your girlfriends to do the same and your store will still be in business after the superhero readers turn 18 and start reading the Mangerotica books and the speculators have left to sell their Beanie Babies to pay the rent! (...) Of course, always give your business to the store that makes it easy to get what you want, and doesn't offended your eyeballs with faux-core (as opposed to soft core) porn. Thank you."

"Doc Bruce Banner Belted by gamma rays Turned into the Hulk Ain’t he unglamo-rays! Wreckin’ the town With the power of a bull Ain’t no monster clown Who is as lovable As ever-lovin’ Hulk! HULK! HULK!"

"The title She-Hulk evokes light-hearted stories about a Jennifer Walters who is at peace with herself and in full control of her powers. This isn’t that book. On the other hand, the title Hulk implies all of the baggage that comes with that comic’s 50+ year history—the ongoing battle with the monster within—and that’s why it’s more appropriate for this series. Jen went through major trauma in Civil War II, and Mariko and Nico’s story will deal with the fallout of that trauma—the anxiety and anger, sometimes self-destructive, that comes along with it. If there is light at the end of the tunnel, Jen is going to have to search hard for it, and she’s going to have to battle with some pretty big monsters—including the one within—to find herself again."

"Bruce Banner's transformation into the Hulk would be incredibly traumatic to his body, and maybe his green skin is the result of a whole-body bruise. If you want to get really creative, maybe his blood is full of some sort of green Hulk-oglobin, which can carry more oxygen to the muscles than hemoglobin and gives him his strength and stamina."

"David Goyer: I have a theory about She-Hulk. Which was created by a man, right? And at the time in particular I think 95 percent of comic-book readers were men and certainly almost all of the comic-book writers were men. So The Hulk was this classic male power fantasy. It’s, like, most of the people reading comic books were these people like me who were just these little kids getting the s— kicked out of them every day. … And so then they created She-Hulk, right? Who was still smart. … I think She-Hulk is the chick that you could [sexually explicit verb] if you were Hulk, you know what I’m saying?… She-Hulk was the extension of the male power fantasy. So it’s, like, if I’m going to be this geek who becomes the Hulk, then let’s create a giant, green porn star” who, as a character, serves to service the Hulk."

"Stan Lee: Never for an instant did I want her as a love interest for Hulk. Only a nut would even think of that."

"Within each of us, ofttimes, there dwells a mighty and raging fury."

"The Hulk I created when I saw a woman lift a car. Her baby was caught under the running board of this car. The little child was playing in the gutter and he was crawling from the gutter onto the sidewalk under the running board of this car — he was playing in the gutter. His mother was horrified. She looked from the rear window of the car, and this woman in desperation lifted the rear end of the car. It suddenly came to me that in desperation we can all do that — we can knock down walls, we can go berserk, which we do. You know what happens when we’re in a rage — you can tear a house down. I created a character who did all that and called him the Hulk. I inserted him in a lot of the stories I was doing. Whatever the Hulk was at the beginning I got from that incident. A character to me can’t be contrived. I don’t like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth. This woman proved to me that the ordinary person in desperate circumstances can transcend himself and do things that he wouldn’t ordinarily do. I’ve done it myself. I’ve bent steel."

"The Hulk was Frankenstein. Frankenstein can rip up the place, and the Hulk could never remember who he formerly was."

"Well, my own feeling is that in the first two (Hulk films), they made him too powerful. I never conceived of him that way, and I didn't think it was necessary for him to be that big. I thought he could’ve been seven and a half feet tall. That's quite enough."

"Q: Silly question. What do you think will take to kill the Hulk?"

"One of the greatest things about the Hulk as a character is how simple the rules are — when Banner gets mad, he turns into the Hulk and smashes stuff. And the madder he gets, the stronger he gets."

"From the beginning, the Hulk had the potential to seamlessly cross genres. The Hulk appears in superhero comics, so he’s a superhero. But he also works completely separately from superhero comics, as a science-fiction story from the nuclear age. And the Jekyll & Hyde/werewolf riffs place the Hulk firmly in the horror genre as well."

"Most of my favorite Hulk stories resonate with me because they take seriously the consequences of anger and violence,” says Pak. “We all love the Hulk because he smashes — that’s the visceral, vicarious thrill we get from seeing someone really cut loose in anger, the way we might fantasize about ourselves. But the stories resonate because there’s always a price to be paid for lashing out in anger, no matter how justified it might be."

"Jen is absolutely shaped by the trauma she’s experienced. Much of it was inspired by thinking about how different people deal with the hard things that happen in their lives, how memory, trauma, can infuse our whole being, be a physical presence in our lives. I was really into the idea of a Hulk, of the ability to transform into something close to monstrous, that’s still human, and heroic. It was interesting to think about what’s human about Hulk and vice versa."

"Someone told me once … long ago … that men would call me Warlock!"

"Sculptor of worlds! Is it your voice I hear? If so, then speak ... and Warlock shall heed!"

"You have not called me here merely to praise yourself. Then why have you done so ... when there are things I must do on the planet you created?"

"The way ahead is long ... and dangerous. I'll have no one with me who doesn't want to come."

"Short time?! You fool, it's been an eternity! During that time, everything I've ever cared for or accomplished has fallen into ruin ! Everyone I've ever loved now lies dead! My life has been a failure! I welcome its end."

"In my time many called me Adam Warlock. You may do so also, if you feel so inclined."

"There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience, please."

"Naked power is seldom the answer to any problem. Surely you must know that even this group's combined might is nothing compared to the force Thanos wields. Only a richly complex and skillfully executed strategy will insure your survival. Time is short and I have such a plan."

"In a short while, we confront Thanos, a being of unimaginable power whose sole goal is the destruction of all life. … Extreme measures may be called for in dealing with him. You and the Hulk have an outlook on death the others do not share … except for Doom, but he cannot be trusted."

"We tried to do this the easy way — and we failed. Now begins the conflict I strove to avoid. It may well prove to be a battle the Universe cannot survive! Eternity, it is now your turn."

"I was part of the Soul Gem while you possessed it, which permitted me access to your inner heart. I know you as no other being in the universe does, better than even you do, yourself."

"Let the conflict END!"

"I am now The Supreme Being, seek not to dispute that claim."

"Already, the distance between what I was and am is insurmountable — like an ant contemplating the Cosmos. I knew it would be so … yet still I hoped. I guess there is really nothing left to say."

"I begin a journey mapped out amidst the stars. 'Tis a path I cannot stray from —"

"Time is a repeating loop to me now."

"I seek not revenge. Advice is what I crave."

"I am the type who sees the future and is held prisoner by it. How many times has this little drama repeated itself to me..?"

"I am off to shed my Godhood."

"I don't know if this team will work or not. All I know is it MUST. Time is critical. I see clearly now why I've been reborn. We haven't got long. Years if we're lucky, months if we're not."

"Director James Gunn has confirmed fan suspicions that Marvel hero Adam Warlock makes a cameo (in cocoon form) in Marvel's latest offering Guardians of the Galaxy. … Adam Warlock is a character created to be the perfect human at a scientific installation called The Beehive. … We know that Marvel are working towards a film which will bring everyone together as Thanos (Josh Brolin) threatens existence itself once he acquires the Infinity Stones and places them in the Infinity Gauntlet. … This is believed to be Marvel's plan for Avengers 3, which is still some years off. When it does happen it will be an adaptation of Marvel's The Infinity Gauntlet comic, in which Adam Warlock plays a pivotal role. His cocoon was first spotted in the credits scene of Thor: The Dark World, which saw characters from that film visit The Collector's base aboard the space station Knowhere. During the course of Gunn's movie, the Guardians encounter The Collector and bring to him an orb which he reveals to be an Infinity Stone. While explaining their origins, The Collector's red-skinned assistant touches the stone, levelling the entire room and destroying most of what is inside. … The film's post-credits scene shows The Collector sitting among his ruins … In the background of this scene we see that the cocoon is broken, meaning Adam Warlock has escaped and is now walking around Marvel's cinematic universe — most likely to show up Gunn's 2017 Guardians sequel."

"Adam Warlock, a being who wished nothing more than to spend the rest of his days within the peaceful environment of the Soul Gem. He now possesses the Infinite Power and the responsibility that goes with it. While I, whose entire life was dedicated to the pursuit of power, now find myself scraping out a living from the soil. Irony worthy of the drama. Yet strangely enough though, I envy not Adam Warlock. Somehow I feel, that in the long run, Thanos of Titan came out ahead in this particular deal."

"When I finished with Captain Marvel I had turned him from a warrior into a mystic. Adam Warlock was a mystical messiah. Where to go from there? Decided to reverse course and turn him into a suicidal paranoid/schizophrenic, which was the way I was feeling at the time. I’ve always used my work to examine what is currently going on in my own life. It’s cheaper than going to a shrink."

"I had some trepidation about the Christ parallels, but I hoped there would be little outcry if I handled it tastefully, since I was not really making any serious statement on religion... at least not overtly."

"Spider-Man"

"Captain America"

"Fantastic Four"

"Marvel: Ultimate Alliance"

"New Warriors"

"Nextwave; Agents of H.A.T.E."

"Avengers Forever"

"Young Avengers"

"Spider-Girl"

"New Avengers"

"The Amazing Spider-Man"

"Ultimate Spider-Man"

"The Incredible Hulk"

"Astonishing X-Men"

"Ultimate X-Men"

"Uncanny X-Men"

"X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back"

"Ultimate Fantastic Four"

"The Avengers (2012 film)"

"Spider-Man 2"

"Spider-Man 3"

"X-Men: The Last Stand"

"X-Men Origins: Wolverine"

"Spider-Man: The Animated Series"

"Spectacular Spider-Man"

"X-Men: Animated Series"

"X-Men: Evolution"

"Wolverine and the X-Men"

"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

"The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)"

"Ultimate Spider-Man (video game)"

"Spider-Man 3 (video game)"

"Spider-Man: Web of Shadows"

"Hulk (video game)"

"The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction"

"If you had two things, and on one you earned 100% of the revenues from the efforts that you put into making it, and the other you earned a much smaller percentage for the same amount of time and effort, you’d be more likely to concentrate more heavily on the first, wouldn’t you?"

"Wired: …what’s the relationship like with the comic book side of the company? Is there back-and-forth?"

"So the Chitauri were Al-Qaeda? O.K., good to know. A suspicion I had during Iron Man 3 was confirmed during Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (by which we mean the movies starring Marvel comic-book characters that aren't distributed by Sony or 20th Century Fox) has decided to go back and reposition the big battle from Marvel’s The Avengers as its 9/11. On the one hand, this is a “no duh” observation—at the end of The Avengers, New York was blown to smithereens. But the tenor in which Joss Whedon shot and cut the lengthy third act sequence was so zippy and fun that it seemed as if Marvel was “taking back” the iconography of New York’s destruction, from both the terrorists and real life. The key image from Avengers is an adulatory 360-degree swoop of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes assembled in full flex before the sturdy columns of Grand Central. It is not “Falling Man.”"

"Much like the once wide-eyed Captain, I felt a little manipulated. Had I known those whiz-bang scenes from The Avengers were supposed to have more heft, I may have approached them differently as I was strapping that feed bag of popcorn to my face. I would have looked for more pathos in the Hulk flinging Loki around like a rag doll and muttering “puny God.” Perhaps it was less of a laugh line and more of a comment about fundamentalist religion’s unsuitability with liberty-loving New York. Which means I don't even want to think about that shawarma gag!"

"I enjoyed my time at Marvel, and the people there, but it was time to go. I left Marvel because I'd hit the glass ceiling. I was never going to be promoted, so if I intended to make a mark in the business, it would be as a freelance writer, not an editor. Leaving Marvel allowed me to take assignments at several other companies, and ultimately, to help found Milestone."

"Reflecting back on some of his co-creations in 1975, Stan Lee dubiously claimed that "Marvel Comics has never been into politics" or beholden to an "official party line" before offering a near-apology for the moral simplicity of the portrait of the Vietnam conflict in 1963's "Iron Man Is Born!" (Son of Origins 47.) A disinterested observer would find much evidence to counter these claims in the pages of Tales of Suspense between 1963 and 1968."

"I think they’re so complete now, Marvel. They probably don’t need me anymore. But if they needed me? I’d love to. It’s great to be wanted."

"It's kind of a difference based upon mood and vibe of the material. There's something about the stoic heroes of DC that could be contrasted against the hyperkinetic heroes of Marvel."

"It was nice in a way to work with more obscure Marvel characters because then the audience wouldn’t have a strong expectation of what they were going to find. It gives us a lot of creative freedom."

"You forget — dreams are sometimes windows to other realities. … and waking doesn't always make things better."

"When the reality no longer exists … exploiters can take the legend … and make it whatever they want, good or bad."

"In the sunrise … the Phoenix effect!?! Now what the heck does that mean: freaky after-image of a very freak dream … or harbinger of something worse?"

"I'm not normal anymore, even for an X-man. My natural state is to be phased — as intangible as a ghost — to become solid I have to concentrate … hard as I can … Hooray! … but it won't last long."

"A bird of fire … heralding the sunrise! How beautiful!"

"Have at thee foul recreants! Numberless you may be … you're still no match … for one with the heart and soul … of a true musketeer!"

"If we both had the same experience, maybe it wasn't really a dream."

"I am Opal Luna Saturnyne — Omniversal Majestrix — responsible for the maintenance of order and reality in this sector of creation."

"Lunacy — disoriented — too many thoughts, can't sort them out—! This is a stage set! Could it be — that I haven't escaped at all?!! Was the pain for nothing — am I back where I started?!!"

"You, warwolf — haven't the slightest notion … of what you're up against."

"You don't understand warwolf. I'm free — and no one's ever going to cage me again!"

"When I say I'm a "Hero," I mean it in jest. I haven't the right to call myself one. And you have even less! All I am is a man, trying to live life as best he knows how, and be true to what he was taught."

"You forget, fuzzy elf … I'm Phoenix. If I die it's only to be reborn — hopefully better and brighter than before."

"The facts in my head, they're so jumbled up … I don't know anymore what's real and what isn't — what actually happened … what's a lie. But it doesn't matter. Because the clutter doesn't affect my emotional realities — perhaps, in turn, because the Phoenix by nature responds better to feelings than rationality. I know who I am — who I care for, who I don't — that's what matters. The rest I can take or leave."

"The dream, Captain — Charles Xavier's dream — where all Earth's children, mutant or otherwise, live together in peace and harmony! Where people are judged for who they are — not what they look like or how they're born. That's why he created the X-men, to exemplify that dream. Are you saying , simply because the X-men are dead … we're supposed to give it up?!"

"King Arthur had a dream, too. Of a world where might served right, instead of subjugating it. His knights of the Round Table were the agents of that dream … and his sword, Excalibur, the Symbol of it. He died, the table was destroyed, his knights mostly slain — yet the dream survived. They became legend — and the sword, the means of keeping the legend alive and vital through the ages. The X-men thought enough of Professor Xavier's dream to offer up their lives. Is it so much to ask that we fight to preserve it? The sword Excalibur, represented Hope. It was light in the darkness of fear and ignorance and hate. Do we want — have we the right — to snuff it out? I've run my whole life. I can't remember when I wasn't afraid. I let people tell me what to do — because it's easier that way, y'know … saves you the from having to take responsibility for anything. Well, I'm tired of running. I want to make a stand. Because if I don't then maybe I better let the warwolves carry me back … to their make-believe world … where I belong. A world of illusion and artifice, where whatever sells best gets the glory … whether it's truth or lies."

"Rachel's life sounds much like mine, Brian. I won't have anyone else endure such horror. I like this dream. It's worth fighting for."

"And so — with laughter and transcendent joy — the dream is reconstructed — and Excalibur … that most ancient and noble blade … is once more redrawn."

"Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor!"

"All life...even such as theirs...is precious beyond understanding!"

"For they who live by violence...most surely will so perish!!"

"Ultron. We would have words with thee."

"Across the rainbow bridge of Asgard Where the booming heavens roar You'll behold in breathless wonder The God of Thunder, Mighty Thor!"

"Jane’s been a part of Thor’s universe going back almost to the very beginning. She was the initial love interest for Donald Blake, who was Thor’s alter-ego [in early Thor stories]. She was the nurse to his doctor. She’s grown and changed and evolved a lot over the years, become a doctor in her own right. So this to me is not just the next step for her character, but really the next evolution of the core promise that has always been at the heart of Thor’s mythology."

"I came up with Thor because I’ve always been a history buff. I know all about Thor and Balder and Mjolnir, the hammer. Nobody ever bothered with that stuff except me. I loved it in high school and I loved it in my pre-high school days. It was the thing that kept my mind off the general poverty in the area. When I went to school that’s what kept me in school — it wasn’t mathematics and it wasn’t geography; it was history."

"We're the Guardians of the Galaxy and we're here to — #%@&$!! We're too late, aren't we?"

"Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated."

"I don't know if this team will work or not. All I know is it MUST. Time is critical. I see clearly now why I've been reborn. We haven't got long. Years if we're lucky, months if we're not."

"I am Groot."

"Narrator: Yes, Anthony Stark is both a sophisticate and a scientist. A millionaire bachelor, as much at home in a laboratory as in high society! But this man, who seems so fortunate, who's envied by millions -- is soon destined to become the most tragic figure on earth!"

"Tony Stark: My brain still thinks! My heart still beats! But, in order to remain alive, I must spend the rest of my life in this iron prison!!"

"General: Incredible! Infantry can now transport itself on the highways without trucks! This will revolutionize troop movements! You're a military genius, Stark!"

"Tony Stark: Poor Jeanne! She probably thought I was trying to avoid her, but I couldn't go swimming! I can never appear anywhere bare chested because I constantly wear this iron chest plate. Just as other men plug in their electric shavers for their morning or evening shave, I must constantly charge up this plate which gives continued life to my heart! My ticker would stop beating if the plate were removed or didn't receive its regular booster-shot! Ah!... Electrical energy is pouring back! Now I can continue living...to help humanity as Iron Man!"

"Tony Stark: Honey no girl would want to marry an absentee husband! Think of the time I must spend managing my munitions plants all over the world!"

"Iron Man: To begin my demonstration ids...I'll do a juggling act, but not with oranges or basketballs! With automobiles"

"Tony Stark: Americans are not murderers!"

"Iron Man: That gives me an idea, all commies are chronically suspicious of each other! Hmm...."

"Black Widow: What manner of men are these Americans, who risk their lives for their enemies?"

"Black Widow: It is fortunate that he is taken with my beauty. I will be able to twist him around my little finger!"

"What about you Tony Stark? Once you were do or die for America and Mom's apple pie! You didn't do much soul searching back than, did you? As Iron Man you beat up the commies for democracy without ever questioning just whose democracy you were serving...."

"Tony Stark: And I swear, as the man, Tony Stark-- As the Avenger fate chose to cast in the role of Iron Man-- That I will live to avenge those to avenge those whose lives have been lost through the ignorance of men like the man I once was. Or I will die trying!"

"The Mandarin: I've destroyed your life! I've killed your friends. I've killed your woman! Oh, and when I did to her by bringing death she welcomed death-such pleasure you will never know!"

"In everyone's life, Peter, there's an 'it'... your wife leaves you, or you get cancer. There's your life before 'it' and your life after 'it.' 9/11 was an 'it' of national magnitude. And Stamford... is going to be another one."

"Kirby designed the costume, because he was doing the cover. The covers were always done first. But I created the look of the characters, like Tony Stark and his secretary Pepper Potts."

"[Kirby] definitely did not do full breakdowns as has been erroneously reported about ... the first 'Iron Man'. [In the early 1970s], Jack claimed to have laid out those stories, and I repeated his claim in print — though not before checking with Heck, who said, in effect, 'Oh, yeah. I remember that. Jack did the layouts'. We all later realized he was mistaken. ... Both also believed that Jack had contributed to the plots of those debut appearances — recollections that do not match those of Stan Lee. (Larry Lieber did the script for the first Iron Man story from a plot that Stan gave him.) Also, in both cases, Jack had already drawn the covers of those issues and done some amount of design work. He came up with the initial look of Iron Man's armor..."

"I did it all. They just didn't bother to call me up and find out when they wrote up the credits. It doesn't really matter. Jack Kirby created the costume, and he did the cover for the issue. In fact the second costume, the red and yellow one, was designed by Steve Ditko. I found it easier than drawing that bulky old thing. The earlier design, the robot-looking one, was more Kirbyish."

"I think I gave myself a dare. It was the height of the Cold War. The readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war, it was the military. So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. He was a weapons manufacturer, he was providing weapons for the Army, he was rich, he was an industrialist. I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him ... And he became very popular."

"What if a guy had a suit of armor, but it was a modern suit of armor - not like years ago in the days of King Arthur - and what if the suit of armor made him as strong as any superhero?"

"Basically, I'm here to announce that we're building Iron Man [...] Not really. Maybe. It's classified."

"All of Marvel's new heroes of the early 1960s some how reflected and contributed to American perceptions of its Cold War enemies, but none more explicitly than Iron Man, whom historian Bradford Wright identifies as "the most political of Marvel's superheroes" (222). Reflecting back on some of his co-creations in 1975, Stan Lee dubiously claimed that "Marvel Comics has never been into politics" or beholden to an "official party line" before offering a near-apology for the moral simplicity of the portrait of the Vietnam conflict in 1963's "Iron Man Is Born!" (Son of Origins 47.) A disinterested observer would find much evidence to counter these claims in the pages of Tales of Suspense between 1963 and 1968."

"It could be argued that Tony Stark is not really a disabled veteran because he is not serving in the military. He is a civilian - a military contractor, ho just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But, it can be argued that Tony Stark/Iron Man is a soldier-actually, a modern twist of an old soldier-a knight."

"Tony Stark, makes you feel He's a cool exec with a heart of steel As Iron Man, all jets ablaze, He's fighting and smiting with repulsor rays! Amazing armor! That's Iron Man! A blazing power! That's Iron Man!"

"It is time for me to visit the master, from whom all my powers stem…"

"The mystic arts of black magic are older than the memory of man! In time to come, let us peer behind the enchanted veil together!"

"I have finally reached my goal! But what inconceivable wonder awaits me now? One star … gleaming more brightly than all the rest, seem to be beckoning me! I have no choice but to follow it … and hope it will lead me to him whom I seek!"

"Every sense … every emotion I possess … is drawing me toward that shimmering light at the end of this fantastic corridor! I have reached my destination at last! But … it is no mere light! It is an actual Universe … in microcosm! A world within a world!"

"The weariness of a thousand battles sorely oppresses me! I must sleep … that I may thus regain needed strength! For who knows what phantom terrors the morrow may bring? And whatever they be, Dr. Strange must be ready to face them."

"I am displeased. It is unseemly to practice the mystic arts before the eyes of others. I must seek seclusion. There is much to think upon."

"Many things there are that mankind must not know — not until the human race stands ready to accept that which is, but can never be seen!"

"This man reaches the very bottom and then more. … You think, How much more can this guy take? He’s broken, he gets up again, he’s broken — and that’s really what makes him a superhero. A lot of people have asked me, "What makes him a superhero?" That’s really the answer I should have given. It’s not the Cloak of Levitation. It’s not the Eye of Agamotto. It’s about his staying power. It’s a marathon and not a sprint. The guy endures so much."

"Daredevil (thinking): No! I should have known he'd try that! He can't stand being handicapped! He's got to prove to himself that he can cope! But he's swinging in too low an arc!"

"Spider-Man: I wont take anymore! I'I'd rather be dead than..."

"Daredevil (thinking): I should have expected this! He's starting tocome apart-- lashing out at me as his guts tear him inside-out! I could dodge his blows until he exhausts himself! -- But that's not going to bring him to grips with his blindness!"

"Spider-Man: I'm no good to anyone--now--not to myself...not to anyone! I'm a joke! A sick, pitiful--pathetic--joke..."

"The Thing: If you want to fly to the stars, than you pilot the ship! Count me out! You know we haven't done enough research into the effect of cosmic rays! They might kill us all out in space!"

"Invisible Girl: Johnny! What is it? What's happening to you?"

"Mr. Fantastic: Somehow the cosmic rays have altered your atomic structure...making you grow invisible!"

"Mr. Fantastic: Thank heavens!! You're all right, my darling!"

"Human Torch: You've turned into monsters both of you!! It's those rays! Those terrible cosmic rays! Now I know why I've been feeling so warm! Look at me!! They've affected me, too! When I get excited I can feel my body begin to blaze! I'm lighter than air!!I can fly!! Look...I can fly!!"

"Mr. Fantastic: Listen to me, all of you! That means you' too, Ben! Together we have more power than any humans have ever possessed!"

"Fantastic Four No. 1 arrived as a comic book on newsstands exactly 54 years ago this Saturday, August 8th. Written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby, the comic book —priced at $0.10 — now looks hopelessly goofy. A dozen exclamation points punctuate the cover alone, which depicts a green monster bursting up through a street in "Central City," because Lee and Kirby had not yet decided to locate their super-team in the nonfictional borough of Manhattan. "I-I can't turn invisible fast enough!!" cries the half-transparent blonde struggling to escape the creature's grasp. But in its time, Fantastic Four was revolutionary. Its heroes wore no uniforms (though they would later). They had no secret identities. They bickered among themselves like any family. Most intriguingly, they often regarded their superpowers as a curse. Reed "Mr. Fantastic" Richards could stretch his body like taffy. Sue "Invisible Girl" Storm could vanish from sight, but also developed telekinesis and the ability to project force fields. Her brother Johnny turned into the The Human Torch, a flying fireball, just by saying "Flame on!" You probably wouldn't want to sit next to him on the bus, but at least Johnny could flame-off when he wanted. Poor Ben Grimm, the blue-collar kid on the team, was permanently transmogrified into giant orange rock monster. Pitifully christened "The Thing," his yearning to be made flesh again gave the early Fantastic Four stories an undercurrent of pathos."

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"i not done with this fight yet."