I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn’t have any money; a lot of times we didn’t have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I’m a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man – I’m living it.
Superheroes don’t often get their powers in one fell swoop. It’s like superhero puberty.
Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
I don’t know, I’ll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.
I dearly believe in my heart that Goldberg is a family man who has a profound love for his wife and son and wants his family to see him as that superhero that people romanticize him being during the height of his fame.
If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I’ve done my superhero gig.
I think that people in America, unfortunately or fortunately, are just discovering different aspects of the humanity of African-American people. And so I think with that discovery comes, ‘Oh, you could be a superhero; you could be president or whatever it is that we thought you couldn’t be.’
I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they’re great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
I think we need a superhero in India that needs a great amount of writing and character behind it. if someone manages to crack it and approaches me, I would love to play a superhero which has a number of series behind it.
I don’t think I resemble a superhero at all, really. I don’t think people would really imagine me to be a superhero. I certainly don’t have the physique for it, and I’m not tall enough, etc.
Anti-Asian racism is very real, and it will not be solved with an opulent rom-com or Marvel superhero, but with you – the bystanders – acknowledging the validity of our pain.
In my house, my mother is my superhero.
You don’t just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns – superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn’t be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you’re a quicker shot than the other guy.
People always come up to me now and say, ‘Watchmen’ is the best superhero movie ever made.’ I’m always saying ‘That’s super cool. That’s nice of you to say.’ But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
Greg Berlanti is in charge of a lot of superhero shows on television. He is a literal superhero. He is absolutely brilliant.
What I’ve always really appreciated about MCU superheroes versus elsewhere is that they are trying to disrupt the idea of what a superhero can be.
I’m always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.
If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he’d have awesome time-traveling powers. I’d call him Doctorow.
Some directors want to make superhero films. That’s what gets them off, and they love it, and they love sci-fi. I prefer putting my hands into non-fiction.
As a kid, when most of my friends were into Superman and Batman, there was only one superhero who held my interest – The Green Hornet.
I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I’m a light hearted superhero kind of guy.
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.’
Coming out of the ’60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the ’70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.
‘Plutona’ is the story of five kids who find the body of the world’s greatest superhero in the woods after school one day. It’s about how this discovery, and the decisions they make, affect them as a group and individually.
Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.
I love action-adventure-type films – mythical adventures like ‘Lord of the Rings’ or superhero films like ‘Batman.’
The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it’s not that he’s super that is his focus; it’s that he’s a man. He’s very human. That’s his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
My favourite superhero is The Flash!
I think it’s very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.
‘Deadpool 2’ played on your expectations of what a sequel to a superhero movie would be.
The really nice thing with ‘Future Past’ is that you actually have a superhero film – much to everyone’s surprise, I will hope – that is about something. It’s about racism, I hope. It’s about resisting oppression. It’s about fighting for freedom and the cost of fighting for freedom.
There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
I’d love to play someone who’s insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that’s ironic. That’s where we are, but seriously, it’d be really cool to play a superhero.
I was in the superhero game at the wrong time.
I don’t necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I’d much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I’d prefer to play the villain because there’s a reason, there’s a motive behind their madness.
I’ve waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, ‘Third Class Superhero.’
My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn’t have any super powers – he’s just a person. And he’s pretty dark.
I would love to see an Asian American superhero.
Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
At my age, I’m not trying to score cool points. I’m just excited when I can speak to younger members of our audience in the WWE. I just get to be a superhero to kids, but I’m not trying to be on the cutting edge of style or anything like that. Once you reach that point of deprivation, you don’t mind it.
Black Panther is a cool superhero and all, but let’s be honest: He doesn’t quite have the legs to prop up a blockbuster on his own.
At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let alone as a comic book superhero.
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they’d like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero – maybe ever – because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it’s puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way. That’s why he’s such a beloved character: because so many people can relate to him.
I’m not a superhero – I’m a super worker!
If a superhero is a community superhero, then is he going to protect his community by controlling everything? If he decides to control crime, does that make him a crime boss? Does that make him a criminal?
I think comics are really – superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they’re about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that’s not to say all stories should be happy.
I’d be Doctor Manhattan, a character from the Watchman.’ He can do everything, he’s the best superhero. There’s no other superhero that could beat him in a fight.
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
I just feel honored to play Wonder Woman in some incarnation. She’s got such history, and she’s, like, the first female superhero.
Christopher Nolan’s astounding third Batman feature, ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ represents the true maturation of the superhero movie – and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.
I look at the Christian Bale movies, the ‘Batman’ films, and that shows you that superhero movies don’t just have to be about men in tights.
I’m not gay, and I’m not a superhero.
Just because there’s one Asian American superhero in the MCU, it does not by any means imply that our fight is finished right there.
I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
It’s awesome that they would think of me and base the next big Marvel superhero off of me. That was definitely something I was not expecting and I’m so honored!
I wasn’t a Superman guy – I didn’t like the invincible superhero who always wins. Who can get behind someone like that?
