#superhero

It is remarkable that a fist-gnawingly dire England performance still has the power to shock, when in some ways this one had all the exquisite unpredictability of Norman Wisdom approaching a banana skin in the immediate vicinity of a swimming pool... The England shirt is the precise opposite of a superhero costume, turning men with extraordinary abilities into mild-mannered guys next door. Were Stephen Fry to pull it on, he would struggle to string a sentence together. Were Lucian Freud to slip it over his head he would turn his easel round to reveal a childlike scribble of a cat. ↗

— Marina Hyde

#shirt #superhero #men

Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman Just names and dusty frames on the wall to me. -Damien I take exception to that. There is not a speck of dust collecting on those portraits. -Alfred ↗

— Peter J. Tomasi

#comic-book #funny #graphic-novel #robin #superhero

That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#superhero #dignity

Anyone got X-ray visión?I asked, trying to smile. Where is Superman when you need him? ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#superhero-reference #sookie-stackhouse

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#allow #case #characters #childhood #comics

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#i #playing #reality #steeped #superhero

I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won't be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered. ↗

— Heather Graham

#across #be happy #being #cities #fly

I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#bring #business #catalyst #chance #deal

How Superheroes Make Money: - Spider-Man knits sweaters. - Superman screw the lids on pickle jars. - Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons. ↗

— Jim Benton

#iron-man #knitting #pickle #reference-to-superheroes #spiderman

I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life. ↗

— Austin Grossman

#prison #superheroes #supervillains #life