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Top five Stan Lee cameos

July 11th, 2008

I think this is my favourite top five list so far because it gave me the chance to reminisce on what I think are absolute little comic book movie gems.

The Stan Lee cameo.

Forget anything else but above all Stan Lee is a living treasure/legend/icon. The man is responsible for some of the greatest comic book characters ever. Nuff said

Quit Your Day Job Stan Lee cameos top five

Fantastic Four - There are a couple of reasons why I like this cameo so much, for one thing it is a speaking role and is not too much out of place and secondly it’s based on an actual character! Willie Lumpkin postal worker, whom Stan helped create. It is just a real treat for me as a comic book fan and I’m reminded of the character’s appearance in the Marvel Onslaught comic.
Spider-man - Stan saves a little girl from being crushed by some falling concrete and bricks during one of the fight scenes. It’s a cool scene simple because Stan shows us that one man can make a difference and be a hero - he also repeats the act in the sequel.
Daredevil - A young Matt Murdock saves a man in the street with his face stuck in the newspaper from stepping out into the traffic. It’s a nicely shot scene and not overdone which is what can happen in some cameos.
Incredible Hulk - It is of course a tradition now to spot Stan and I had a huge grin on my face as he is the ‘old guy’ who has a brush with gamma irradiated sports-drink, again a nicely shot cameo.
Heroes - Ok it’s not a Marvel film, it’s not even a film but the brilliant, brilliant Heroes season one (did I mention it is brilliant?) knows where its origins lay. I almost jumped out of my seat when Hiro goes to board a bus and who happens to be the driver and has lines!? Stan the Man. It should be mentioned another homage in that series that made me very warm inside. The Kirby plaza.

Now there are other cameos that are cool like his appearance in Mallrats and there are some that are simply background shots such as X-Men (he’s either selling hotdogs on the beach or eating them in the background anyway). There is a really bizarre appearance too, one that I didn’t know, one I wish I didn’t know, The Princess Diaries 2: