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"When you have a villain whose entire character is built off the idea of both understanding and wielding the power of fear, you get one who can push the hero to their absolute limit."
"No matter what it is in life, including being a superhero, it takes a lot of practice and training."
"Turning Ned against Peter would show the true consequences of the superhero life."
"When we first met Sam Wilson he was the Falcon and worked loyally as Captain America's partner. But then Endgame happened and Sam found himself presented with the opportunity to be the new Captain America."
"The defining Spider-Man fantasy. Not a small feat given how good those Activision Spider games were back in the day." - Narrator
"You want big news, you have to have big fights. A superhero needs a super villain."
"With great power comes great responsibility, and the meat of that finally having it in the back half of this film is what makes the back half of this film a great Spider-Man story."
"It's finally the Spider-Man story that Tom Holland has needed."
"The Avengers: Earth, the world that tamed the Phoenix, that bested the Mad Titan, that altered the mighty Galactus. This is the ultimate contest." - The Challenger
"Sam leans of what really happened to Isaiah Bradley, making him wrestle over whether to become Cap or not."
"Sam picks up the shield, refusing to let it go."
"The shield truly becomes a symbol of good once more, bringing the world back together."
"Spider-Man: Homecoming - truly a reflection of modern-day society."
"This is one of the only contexts where it makes sense for Superman to be on a team."
"Captain America finally lifting Mjolnir. This is something straight from the comics that everybody has been waiting for for a very long time and was teased in Avengers: Age of Ultron."
"Peter Parker will eventually by Endgame face six ten years from now die."
"Ant-Man says people's lives are at stake and the robot is their only hope."
"The earthquakes are Kingpin's experiments. With great ability comes great accountability."
"He finally feels like he can save the world, change the world for the first time as Peter Parker."
"Spider-Man isn't the one who apprehends Kingpin; he's the one who puts him in position to be apprehended."
"He knows the power of the person that this button belongs to."
"Vilgax proclaims Ben as a God and urges him to use his power to reshape the universe."
"Free once again and with Batman now gone, who's going to bring him back to normal?" - Hush in the church in Arkham City.
"The start of power... The Avengers, they're not that powerful... they get beaten a lot... it causes the show to be interesting... the build of power."
"Tragic events sometimes need to happen to Spider-people."
"This isn't over, but it's their not over, not the Justice League's."
"Spider-Man was Marvel Games' Iron Man. It was the first distillation of success this rebrand had been chasing. Insomniac could carve out their own Marvel universe and deliver on the power fantasy of one of the brand's most beloved superheroes."
"Mirror lady has some dastardly planned to replace all of Central City with mirror clones flash bust into fighter but he ends up defeating her with his real superpower emotional heart to hearts that convince villains to become good guys."
"Thanos snaps his fingers and we say goodbye to half of our favorite heroes."
"Valentina is eventually going to give her the authority to assemble an Avengers-like team."
"Matthew Malloy is one of the strongest, most random mutants who now belongs to the alternate timeline of earth 14923 because he was just too powerful to basically continue to exist."
"That was Professor X then, and this is him now."
"It very much reminds me of her, and so it would make the most sense that if a singular person were controlling Doctor Strange, that it's Wanda who's doing it."
"Behind every great superhero there's an equally great villain waiting in the shadows to stab that hero in the back."
"It's time for a Nightwing to fly solo again, back in Bloodhaven with his own form of wealth. So, how's that going to go for him if he also has a new villain?"
"Captain America dedicates his life to justice." - Narrator
"But also me in their suits but at the same time do not know who each other are under the mask."
"This game has shown repeatedly that some of the most dangerous supervillains Peter has ever put away have reformed themselves and gone straight."
"Barry Allen coming back basically retaking his mantle as the Flash, clearing the air and throwing it all back out there in a more concise, cohesive way."
"The Comedian's death at the beginning of Watchmen was the first domino in a chain reaction that not only changed how his fellow superheroes saw themselves but how readers saw superheroes."
"This indicates how Miles is yet to reach his full potential."
"Steve Rogers handed over the mantle of Captain America to Sam Wilson."
"Spider-Man offers an open-world New York City experience with parkour traversal and a new storyline exploring both Peter Parker and Spider-Man."
"Spider-Man was a coming-of-age story with nobility and maturity."
"You don't care about a superhuman unless you see the human in the superhuman."
"At its core The Amazing Spider-Man is about a lonely boy who seeks relationships with others."
"Our world ended in you," Superman whispers to Martha, embracing her.
"Yours truly was slain by Thanos, for the good of the universe."
"The more quippy self-confident loner Spider-Man that has been left to the wayside in the MCU."
"Marvel's unsung heroes finally get sung after the mega-powered battles and Hulk-level catastrophes."
"What makes Spider-Punk more powerful than those that came before him on this list is the fact that unlike all of the others he has an entire army of followers behind him."
"We're under attack from a super villain, how cool is that?"
"Valkyrie realizing she had these abilities came to the belief that men everywhere were bad."
"It might be the greatest superhero science fiction first-contact story ever made."
"The Justice League story is about our Humanity."
"More superhero movies should take a leaf out of the Raimi playbook and batter their protagonists. I don't want to see heroes being obscenely powerful, I want to see them fail or die trying."
"The Hulk has gone back on the run and, to make matters worse, he's now being hunted by someone new, someone bringing machines and monsters his direction unlike anything he's seen before."
"These shows add their own twist to the superhero universe."
"So what all this is really saying is that Baron Zemo is right these people have too much power and they need to be kept in check."
"Superman's story is not about the fight to become the best but of an immigrant facing the challenge of home versus heritage."
"Thor's story of loss, tragedy, depression, and ultimately healing, rebirth, and heroism goes to places never before seen in a big-screen superhero adventure."
"Batman will always speak to finding a hero in the darkness."
"Sam Wilson taking over the role of Captain America just made sense because he'd been the sidekick of Steve Rogers for decades."
"Batman is old and tired and alone. All of his allies are either retired or dead."
"Oh my God. Next bit of news. This is in relation to the new Spider-Man movie Spider-Man. There's multi-dimensional things happening and he might be in a court case because everybody knows that he's Spider-Man, the movie that's right."
"The powers changed who I am, but what they really did is make me me."
"He goes from being someone who is very much a secluded loner in the shadows fighting evil and then when he brings on these additional family members he becomes a father and that really is dynamic."
"Nobody wants to feel this position, but Sam Wilson, if he even wanted to, he don't even probably want to neither."
"Even after he's been knocked down so many times, the movie ends with Peter swinging off to be the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man."
"Look to the east, Avengers, because it has already begun." - Kang
"A great story of Superman dealing with fatherhood."
"How does a reluctant everyman deal with having the powers of basically a God?"
"The story of Daredevil in the comics has always been the story of a man wrestling with his faith, only lived out through the bigger, brighter, wilder lands of a superhero."
"Being Spider-Man is more important than Peter Parker's life."
"I can't believe Iron Man was leading our charge to fight Galactus to save the Fortnite island. It's so outrageous to me."
"Now hold more weight (compared to zero) because Clark sacrificed himself."
"The world you turned your back on, pal. These are the people you abandoned. Really, a superhero stops crime-fighting and people start dying. What a shock."
"Marvel Superheroes in War of the Gems expands past the mutant menaces to the cast of The Avengers."
"Listen, now I'm pretty sure the most uncontroversial thing you could say to a DC fan is that when it comes to the movies, the animated ones have always delivered."
"This is Matt Murdock’s call to be better than he ever was before - a better hero, a better friend, and a better man."
"The upcoming Justice League #75 will tell a story called 'The Death of the Justice League'."
"He's at hell and they're like, 'You got 5,000 people.' Whoa, was that me directly or did I happen to let Mr. Freeze go and he set off a bomb?"
"He became a superhero when they saw him on the news suplexing Chitauri invaders."
"The Samaritan arrives abruptly in Astro City, ending their dark age; he is their beacon hero."
"Dark Knight is the best mainstream action story with superheroes."
"Norman Osborne may not have been entirely wrong, he warned us that the work of superheroes like The Avengers is a danger to society."
"With Preacher, it was ten times simpler. It was superheroes are bastards and they need a slap, and these are the guys who are gonna do it."
"There's no shame, but we did get to see Black Noir become the Black Noir we know, which I find very interesting."
"Marvel is about unasked for empowerment and the responsibilities that come with it."
"With the Super Soldier program in peril, Peggy Carter bravely participates by becoming Captain Carter."
"A good superhero needs a good supervillain."
"The thing that's special about Moon Knight to me anyway is that you've got a story of a broken person and that this superhero's journey is actually about him learning to accept all the different aspects of himself."
"The Death of the Justice League has kicked off as of issue 75."
"The first two thirds was great, flawed superhero tries to be better."