Top 212 Marvel Quotes

I’ve always just been such a big fan of the MCU and anything Marvel, really.

I’ve been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I’ve dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.

I’ve always loved both Marvel and DC equally, but I don’t have a career without DC giving me the original ‘Hawk and Dove’ mini-series.

All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.

If you look closely, you’ll see that Marvel basically has three Thanoses. There is the 1970s Thanos appearing in the movies. This is before he got the Infinity Gauntlet. Then there are the Thanos stories I’m telling. And finally, there is the Thanos that appears in the mainstream Marvel stories.

I look at the Marvel movies and the DC movies and various creators’ creations, and I think, you know, that’s really pretty cool.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I’ve done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we’re launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

It was a dream come true to work alongside an all-Asian cast, telling a beautiful and powerful story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

That’s one of the cool things about being on a Marvel show: there’s the possibility for all of these characters to collide.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

The general public has been conditioned to think ‘comics = superheroes’ for as long as caped crusaders have been around – by critics, mass media, and Marvel and DC themselves, who have what you might call a vested interest.

I love Marvel and I’d love to work with them again, but my outing with ‘Loki’ is what I’ve done with them.

There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is – in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It’s a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

Wakanda is the Marvel world’s most technologically advanced nation, and offensives there can have ramifications everywhere, so that leaves open great possibilities for cameos.

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

Even though my approach is slightly different, the Luke Cage of ‘Jessica Jones’ is no stranger to the Luke Cage of Marvel’s ‘Luke Cage.’ It’s really a continuation to a certain extent. It’s just got a little different flavor, but it’s still the same suit.

Our job with Thanos is to make him the preeminent villain in the Marvel Universe. That is his role in the comics. That’s his role in these movies.

I think it’s our job as writers for Marvel Comics to continue to create those type of stories that can be mined instead of just trying to give readers exactly what they see on film.

I love the new Marvel films, but I am not crazy about them. It is no longer a sub-genre or a fanboy genre. It has become so mainstream. You cannot say, ‘I love superhero movies.’ Everyone loves superhero movies now.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan.

I don’t want to direct a Marvel movie. I don’t care about those mythologies.

They changed my life, and I just love Marvel as I’m sure people can tell from the amount of Easter eggs and references I did throughout it. But I just feel like I’ve done my part with ‘Loki,’ at least for now, and I’m excited to see where it goes next as a fan.

DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.

We have to support everyone so their stories don’t get ‘invisibilized.’ We don’t necessarily have to repopulate the next Marvel movie with people of color, but it’s just about saying ‘We have hearts, we have souls, we have minds, we have faults, we have flaws, and we’re super-freaking interesting.’

One of the wonderful things that I’ve always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.

When you’re young you don’t appreciate your youth and marvel in it like you should, you find endless flaws instead.

Directing all six episodes was a really unique experience, right? Because normally TV is run through the showrunner system, and Marvel didn’t do that on ‘Loki.’

Marvel’s storytelling is much wilder than ‘The OA’s,’ but no one talks about that.

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior’s Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

Sometimes I’m dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that’s the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

In Marvel Comics, the worst thing was always that your loved ones could be attacked, or you could be horribly beaten in a knock-down, drag-out fight, but in the Superman comics, you would be run out of town with people throwing rotten vegetables at you and waving a sign that said, ‘Superman, Who Needs You?’

I’ve been a fan of the Marvel Universe since I was a little child.

It seems crazy moving from making little movies to making like literally movies with Marvel, which are like the biggest movies that they make.

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel’s characters, old and new, and I’m thrilled to be part of them.

Dave Cockrum’s work at Marvel and DC defined my childhood and inspired me to be a comic book creator. Without Dave, there is no New ‘X-Men’ resurgence, there is no Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, Lilandra, Star Jammers, or the Imperial Guard. His influence on generations of fans cannot be measured.

I am pretty sure when Kenneth Branagh came up for ‘Thor,’ nobody at Marvel thought, ‘Yes, that Kenneth Branagh is masculine enough to do action: just look at ‘Henry V’ and ‘The Magic Flute.”

We always have a little comedy. It’s the Marvel secret sauce. I think it’s what helps Marvel resonate with the audience, that, yes, we’re in the joke, too.

I think anyone who wants to go up against Captain Marvel ought to be worried.

Over at Marvel, I have a five-part series coming out very soon. The books or chapters will appear weekly. It’s called ‘5 Ronin’ and features some iconic Marvel heroes as you’ve never seen them.

All the guys at Marvel are really passionate, and they love entertaining folks, and they really think about the story, and there’s a lot of thought that goes into that.

I went to college in New York. I interned at Vertigo, and then I interned at Marvel working for Chris Claremont. Just to age myself, this was in 2000.

I’d always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I’d always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it’s such a hard thing to get. It’s the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

Marvel and Netflix have proven they know what they’re doing.

Everything that Marvel does, it’s a chess move. Nothing is by accident.

My career path is the weirdest thing. I was a hairdresser, I worked at Marvel for a few months, and then I was signed to a DC exclusive for eight years.

I really do see everybody at Marvel Television as storytellers. They might have different titles, but whether they’re actors or they’re showrunners or they’re somebody that answers the phone, all of them are storytellers.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn’t matter whether or not they’re X-Men characters or they’re Matt Murdock or they’re Tony Stark or they’re Peter Parker… That’s where it starts.

Marvel has a very specific MCU in-house style with the costumes, and so I thought, ‘Oh, it could be so fun to put this original Loki in an outfit that maybe Loki would have worn in a movie like 40 years ago.’

I’ve been a fan of all things Marvel since I was a kid, so now, working with the company and playing a superhero on screen is pretty cool.

‘Gossip Girl’ was an adaptation that, although very different from a Marvel property, had a vocal fan base. On that show, we started off very nervous about making any changes from the book. As we got our sea legs underneath us, we became more bold.

I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there’s a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.

Most of us marvel at the ingenuity and imaginativeness of sting operations, defend their right to exist and will argue that if well-used, they are an invaluable tool for justice.

I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I’m a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.

‘The Wire’ is, by far, my favorite television show of all time. And I’ve always said that my aspirations for ‘Luke Cage’ was that it would be ‘The Wire’ of the Marvel television universe.

The agents of S.M.A.S.H. are the most powerful team in the Marvel universe in terms of muscle power.

Maybe we can have an all-female Marvel film. We’ve been talking about it. It’s only a matter of time.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

When you go to Marvel, they lock you in a room with the scripts; they really are that secretive.

Basically, I love Loki and I found out that Marvel were making a television show about him. Like everyone, I saw him die in ‘Infinity War,’ and I was horrified.

I’ve always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I’m not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I’m not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.

My biggest thing is that I would love in some form or fashion to return to the ‘Marvel’ universe, whether in television or a feature. I love the people at ‘Marvel’ and grew up reading the characters, and it was a real dream come true getting to play with the toys.

I love the comics so much, and I grew up reading Marvel Comics. And Doctor Strange is my favorite comic book character – probably, I think honestly, the only comic book I would feel personally suited to work on.

I don’t think I’m ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise. I just don’t know how I would fit into a catsuit.

I’d love to do a Marvel movie.

I want to be in a Marvel movie. I want to be a superhero.

It didn’t come to pass or anything, but it would be interesting to do a ‘Sex Ed’ – Marvel crossover.

At Barcelona, I was exposed to talent. You had Ronaldinho, who was a marvel to watch. Deco is skilful and talented. Then there are players like Xavi, a good and hardworking man who gave his all. Iniesta is another. Then the name of Messi will come up in that list.

I would be so happy to be Young Hulk. I cannot even explain to you. That would be so dope. He was my favorite Marvel hero, and the fact that Mark Ruffalo plays him is sick.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It’s always a marvel.

Wouldn’t want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn’t want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn’t mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

Honestly, I was watching Marvel films and was always crestfallen: Where are the super-Asians? People are looking to be represented by their heroes.

No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don’t know if I’d even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It’s more fun.

Once I found out that I was playing ‘Deathlok,’ I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.

Believe it or not, every Marvel character is someone’s favorite character. There’s a fan out there who absolutely believes that their character should have their own television show.

For Marvel, we’ve never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.

Peter Parker is sort of our ground-level view of this Marvel universe. You know what it’s like to be in the penthouse with Tony Stark or have this god-like view like Thor, and I want to show what it’s like for regular people in this world.

Life is hard. There’s parking fines, PPI, the Kardashians – it’s a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed.

When you’re a kid that’s spent all your pocket money buying Spider-Man comics, and then as an adult, you’re in the Marvel Universe, and you get to meet Stan Lee – it’s wonderful.

I definitely read a lot of Marvel stuff when I was a kid.

Yes, Marvel Entertainment has treated me very well and generously. Them, I like.

My dad, bless him, he was never into Marvel before, but now he’s obsessed with it. When I got the job, he started watching his way through the films, and he’s got all these different YouTubers that he now watches for theories, and he tries to get spoilers out of me.

If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there’s a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place.

We look at Marvel, but we’re not trying to emulate that in any way. In fact, we talked often about how distinctive what we’re trying to do with ‘Star Wars’ is from Marvel. They’ve been extremely successful in exploiting the characters in that universe, and we have a place. We have the galaxy.

I am thrilled to be on a Marvel Netflix show. I’m excited that we’re getting to watch this kind of content… It’s groundbreaking.

I don’t think the Hulk is a superhero. He’s the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

As time goes on, at both DC and Marvel, characters notch up so many victories that we often start to think of them as infallible, which is kind of death for adventure fiction.

Everything I’ve done is an old Marvel comic in its’ own way.

Marvel Comics has always been a place where I felt at home. It has been a very important part of my life and has always been a wellspring of creative and relevant ideas.

Putting any show on television is a challenge. I’ve been very lucky to work with incredible showrunners on ‘Smallville’ and ‘Lost’ and ‘Heroes.’ I hope to bring a lot of those lessons to Marvel live television.

No one likes a pushy parent, and, ‘pride’ being one of the seven deadly sins, I needed to tread very carefully when creating a show about my eldest son, Tom, better known as Peter Parker and even better known as Marvel’s new ‘Spider-Man.’

I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is a design statement, an engineering marvel, and something that really redefines tomorrow.

Superman is pretty much the way he was – you know – what he’s always been. A lot of the Marvel characters are products of their time. I think Batman, as a character, has been able to adapt; he’s pretty malleable.

The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it.

It’s such an amazing team working with both Marvel and Sony, and I have the support of just the very best technicians in the world.

In the Marvel universe, vibranium has always been this material that absorbs kinetic energy. And any tiny bit of physics knowledge will tell you that that’s really non-Newtonian. You can’t just absorb energy, you’ve gotta change it into something else.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

I just remember how cool and exciting and crazy it seemed when Marvel was giving this new ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’ title to this crime writer Brian Michael Bendis who had never really done any superhero stuff before.

Unless you’re making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.

Every significant book at Marvel had its key antagonist. ‘The Fantastic Four’ had Doctor Doom; ‘Spider-Man’ had Doc Ock, among others; Thor had Loki, if not Surtur. Without Magneto, the X-Men had nobody.

I was a huge comic book fan. It’s weird because the era of ‘Marvel’ I was into turns out to be very important in the long run, but it’s not the one that anybody romanticizes.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

Being a superhero was my biggest childhood dream, but for a long time, I was thinking that a perfect role for me in the Marvel Universe is Sergei Kravinoff, a.k.a. Kraven the Hunter.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

One of the things that I really admire about the Marvel motion pictures is that, in one year, ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ which was a taut political thriller, and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ which was a cosmic comedy, came out, and they could not be more different, and yet they both felt very Marvel.

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

Marvel is at its best when we see how an ordinary person has something extraordinary happen to them – whether it’s Tony Stark or Bruce Banner or Peter Parker.

The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I’m pretty sure the second was a ‘Powers’ scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel.

If I was in some Marvel movie and made all that Marvel money, you wouldn’t see me ever again.

I personally have close ties to Marvel because of Kevin Feige, because Kevin worked for me.

I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.

If you look back on my career with Marvel, you will see that I don’t really return to the House of Ideas to do Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock, and Silver Surfer stories. I always come back to the fold to tell further adventures of everyone’s favorite Mad Titan.

We basically got a call from our agent that said we were on the list of directors that Marvel was interested in talking to about ‘Captain America 2.’ First of all, that was thrilling, having not lobbied for the job.

I have six brothers, so I definitely was aware of Marvel more than I was of princesses, but once you’re cast in a Joss Whedon Marvel show, you go and become even more of a bigger fan. You do your homework.

Generally, Marvel manages everything internally and keeps us all in check.

People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I’ve got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.

Did I collect baseball cards? I’ve got 10 books full of plastic in my mother’s house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

Sometimes events happen in one Marvel movie that mean you have to adjust what you planned to happen in a different movie, because they’re interconnected.

Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I’m concerned… although it’s few and far between. But it’s not getting recognized, no matter who’s doing it.

I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like ‘Essex County.’

There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father’s son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world’s problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world’s problems with his fist?

There’s no Marvel list. As a filmmaker, you are not only encouraged, but you are really supported to let your voice shine through. You have total freedom to push, scratch the surface and try things.

When Marvel approached me about possibly bringing back a She-Hulk solo series, a few touchstones for a take immediately popped into my head – make her an attorney. Make her charming and fun, not weighed down by the various things life will throw at her. Give her a vibrant social life.

I’m a huge Howard the Duck fan. For people who don’t know, I’m a huge Marvel Comics fan, but Howard the Duck was maybe my favorite character as a kid. I went back, and I collected all of those comics. I had every comic he was ever in.

I’m a huge fan of what Marvel did, it’s no surprise for anyone to know that as a child I was a huge fan of comics.

I’m a huge Marvel fan, and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking – I think, if anything, that it dignifies the comics, and it says, ‘Yeah. This is a strong enough, robust enough source. We can bend it; it’s elastic. It’s bouncy.’

I’ve always been a DC guy, but I also like Marvel.

Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe’s heroes.

If I’m acting at all, it’s going to be under Marvel contract, or I’m going to be directing. I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.

I always liked ‘Johnny Blaze,’ but we announced it on TV, and it was under copyright by Marvel. Then I had ‘Johnny Spade,’ and that name sucked, then I had ‘Johnny Nitro.’ Johnny Nitro was one of my favourite names.

I’m a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I’m a huge ‘Wolverine’ fan, I like the ‘X-Men’ comic book.

You know how the Marvel Comics superheroes formed themselves into the Justice League of America – Batman, Flash and the rest. Why did Superman join? He never needed any help.

It’s funny, because, yes, there’s a Marvel aesthetic, and yet no one ever said to me, ‘we have to do a Marvel aesthetic.’ So it was probably me more self-policing to make sure I was going to stay inside the box a little bit.

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato’s cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don’t know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

I’m contractually not allowed to work in comics in the United States other than for Marvel.

One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another’s worlds, preventing gridlock.

‘Captain Marvel,’ whereby the steel trap is challenged, where the hero is a heroine, where the most powerful person who has the welfare of the future of the human race is a woman. What else can it be? Because that was the role of my mother when I was a kid.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I have tremendous brand experience. What I do a lot for Disney is manage the great brands of this company, whether it’s Disney, ESPN, ABC, Pixar, Marvel, ‘Star Wars.’ And I’m very engaged in technology and its impact on the consumer, either what experience you deliver for them or how to market and sell to them.

I love Captain Marvel. I’d love to see a Captain Marvel movie.

It’s a rule when you’re welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you’re going to be living in a code of silence.

Marvel is obviously a giant, global super-brand, so being a part of that is exciting because of the huge built-in audience and the appetite for it.

The Taj Mahal can be a tourist attraction, an architectural marvel, but it can never be treated as a monument of faith. After all, there is a difference between tourism and faith.

Batman is pretty much a self-trained guy. I think it would be fun to do a character like Superman or Captain Marvel or maybe Green Lantern, somebody who’s got a completely different resource for fighting crime and fighting villains.

Marvel is a very streamlined studio.

One would marvel on the screen the way Shammi Kapoor walked, Dilip Kumar cried, or seeing Dev Anand’s style. And then, one day, you are in the same space with them. It’s very unreal.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

The decision to work with Marvel for a while isn’t any sort of denigration of DC. I had a fantastic time there, I was treated extremely well, I have strong positive feelings about all of my editors and the DC universe of characters, and I look forward to hopefully working with them at some point down the road.

Sometimes, people know me from Marvel’s ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ But that usually only happens in America.

I don’t sound disloyal, but I’ve never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.

There would be no Marvel without ‘Swingers’; there would be no Jon Favreau directing ‘Iron Man,’ no Robert Downey Jr. playing Iron Man; no ‘Avengers.’

There’s a high level of communication between all of us at Marvel, and between Marvel and Lucasfilm.

Huge props to Brian Michael Bendis for sort of shaking up the Marvel universe and just saying ‘there need to be people of colour in these comics otherwise it’s not representing the true world the way it should be.’

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

I love Marvel, and I was just so excited to have a chance to direct for them.

I’ve been vacationing in western North Carolina and northern Georgia since I was a kid. I arrive, marvel at the mountains, and put on an unconvincing Southern drawl.

I would love to draw for ‘Scarlet Witch,’ it’s a Marvel title.

There are no heritage concepts at Marvel or DC that are untouched.

The one thing Marvel does is think outside the box, going all the way back to Ang Lee directing the first ‘Hulk.’ They like to go outside the genre.

I’ve always believed in expanding the definition of what a Marvel Studios movie could be.

I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.

I grew up with six brothers, and I’m from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was more like sports and comic books, so getting to work for Marvel is like my version of being able to be a princess.

I grew up on Marvel and, like, ‘2000 AD.’

So when we were building that superhero workout, that Marvel body, it was really important for us not to sacrifice range of motion and explosiveness, because I’ve still got to be able to throw a punch at the end of the day.

DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like ‘The Avengers’ breaking six hundred million domestic.

I asked my agents, ‘Can you just keep calling them and get me a seat in the room to chat to them about it?’ And Marvel met me.

It can’t really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there’s a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts.

I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I got to direct a movie involving three of my favorite things in the world: space operas, Marvel superheroes and raccoons.

I’ve always been a Marvel fan, always been a ‘Deadpool’ fan.

Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.

Marvel is really about the stories of Peter Parker and Bruce Banner or Jessica Jones. These are – I’m hesitant to say the word, but – real people with real problems whose power comes, to use the great expression, with great responsibility.

I grew up reading comics – mostly Marvel – Doctor Strange was my favourite comic book and has remained my favourite as an adult. It’s the only comic book movie property I’ve ever gone after. I felt uniquely suited to it.

You can’t watch ‘Daredevil’ or ‘Jessica Jones’ or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I’ve always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.

There’s a character, Eon, I did back in the ‘Captain Marvel’ story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.

I love comedy. It’s something that I think Marvel does so well, and it’s one of the reasons I love Marvel so much is the quips that you get: that kind of underlying everything and cutting through the very heavy emotional stuff.

Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

Here’s the deal: 25 years’ worth of Deadpool. This movie comes out 25 years to the day we published him at Marvel, and you couldn’t get a better gift if you’re a ‘Deadpool’ fan.

I got this secretive, very secretive email from my agent saying, ‘You have an audition for Marvel, no one’s letting us know what the name of the film is, but are you available on this day? That’s all we know.’ And I went, ‘OK, well, I think it will probably be ‘Thor,’ because Taika’s got it.’

I believe in the cultural significance of the Marvel Universe and ‘Kim’s Convenience.’ They are two weapons in the same fight and they mean everything to me and the possibilities of what they can represent.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

I found that the artist market was expanding in comics. Marvel was going from something like eight books a month to somewhere in the 20s. As a result of this expansion, Marvel, in particular, was hiring anyone who could hold a pencil. That’s how I got my first job there.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

I’d like to get into the superhero genre. I’d love to do either a DC or a Marvel character.

We don’t have Latina heroines in theaters; I haven’t seen Marvel doing it.

The direct market has evolved into a machine that is very good at selling corporate-owned superhero titles published by two main companies: DC and Marvel.

I love the Marvel movies, but I always feel like we should be a step ahead of the movies. One of the reasons those movies have been so good and so successful is that they’ve been very good at mining the comics.

First and foremost, stepping into something like a Marvel project is insane. I mean, my character is from 1968, and she’s the second female X-Men ever. It’s exciting, but it’s also a great amount of pressure to do right by the character.

As I’ve grown older, I have begun to marvel… at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences… Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.

Since being at Marvel, I’ve been watching everything over and over and over again, all the movies, and seeing how all the movies connect has been very satisfying for me.

I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn’t mean that my team hasn’t spoken to Marvel.

I’d like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first ‘Avengers’ movie came out, Marvel and I – we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I’m not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I’m getting a little something out of it.

A crowded ferry ride away from Tanzania’s coastal city, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar is a marvel for the senses. Every sight and smell is provocative, inspiring a sense of the old and new.

I had never seen a Marvel comic.

When you leave WWE, like, when I left, I was thinking, ‘Maybe I’ll take, like, a year off, and in that year, I’ll probably do a Marvel movie, maybe a couple of movies. I don’t know.’ And, obviously, completely unrealistic.

‘Runaways’ was exciting because it was something brand-new and fresh, and I’m hoping to be able to bend the rules in my own way of what a Marvel superhero story can be.

I genuinely enjoy the puzzle put before me with a crossover – how do I use this bigger piece of the Marvel Universe to tell a character-based tale I wouldn’t normally think to tell?

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it’s a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.

What’s great about MCU and certainly the Marvel of it, everyone is unique, it’s got its own DNA.

If there are two kinds of people in the world – DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people – what kind am I? Well, to be honest… I’m a Wildstorm kinda guy. In the interest of full and fair disclosure, I write for Wildstorm. But even if I didn’t, I’d love what they do. No, seriously, I’d love their stuff.

I really like big swashbuckling superhero films, but I feel like that Marvel universe is not adult enough.

The first time I tried on Shang-Chi’s superhero suit – Marvel has never had an Asian lead, so that was such a rare and impactful moment, for me as an actor but also for people who look like me. I nearly cried. It was so emotional.

I’m not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don’t do a Marvel film, I don’t have any other choice – I’ve got to go make a small New Zealand movie!

As a fanboy, I was raised on the Marvel Universe, so I was very familiar with the ‘Deadpool’ world. On the other side, the ‘X-Men’ comics were one of my top five comics, so to be one of them, especially Colossus, is an incredible thing after years of creatively visualizing him since I was a kid.

Basically, Marvel always have an executive on every film. So we had Kevin Wright. And there’s kind of a Kevin Wright on every production that is essentially your producer, but they’re also the Marvel gatekeeper, I guess, or the overseer.

Marvel Studios has depicted the Marvel superheroes so beautifully that the whole world loves them.

The Marvel catalogue of 9,000 characters really is that rich. It isn’t just a bunch of guys running around with capes and cowls who have secret identities and fight across the street from each other.