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Lots of things that go on in mainstream superhero comics are just stupid. They just show up on the page, and no one makes any mention of it.
I am playing a superhero for kids, and I don't want them to think I'm some dirty fool.
Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.
Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
I don't think I could do a superhero movie. I'm just not really that type of guy.
Beyonce's 'Freedom' - I listen to that when I am suiting up and getting into superhero mode.
I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.
I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."
What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.
I know, who doesn't want to play a superhero, right? And everyone wants to play Superman or Batman. Everyone wants to play a superhero.
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
There's Doom Patrol, which is the world's strangest superheroes, and they're making their return.
I've always wanted to play a superhero. It was just about figuring out which one I could actually play.
Once the stories end up getting farfetched and ridiculous, I think that's where superhero fatigue will really catch on.
Obviously, being WWE Champion was my main goal in life, but when I started acting, the main thing I wanted to do was play a superhero or supervillain.
Superhero movies have become a genre unto themselves, and I didn't really grow up on superhero movies. I grew up on genre movies before superhero was a genre.
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.
A lot of superhero stuff now looks great but it's so difficult to read if you don't know how to read comics. I deliberately focus on the story.
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 the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I'd like to be there.
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.
Since childhood, I wanted to become a superhero. When I do anything in real life, I believe that I am a superhero, like in the way I fight, dance, or jump.
I think superheroes are bigger than life and they're very colorful.
I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.
When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.
It would be a really great to do a Marvel film - not even playing a superhero: just being part of that universe would be amazing.
If I can make a dance-based movie like 'ABCD', then I was sure I could make a superhero movie, too.
I'm never quite cool, if you know what I mean. I'm basically the worst, best superhero.
It's just nerve-wracking in general to write 'Superman,' right? I'm a life-long superhero fan, and he is the character that kicked off the entire genre.
We all have that superhero inside us, but it's about tapping into it and embracing it and owning it.
I want to play a character which is as far away from myself as possible and a character that isn't even human, a superhero is just that.
I think kids love superheroes, and the more you can crowd into a story, the more excited they get.
I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people; they fight villains.
The difference between a Marvel superhero and a DC superhero is that we place Marvel superheroes in the real world that we recognize and that we know.
I want to create a superhero... which everyone will say that we have a superhero called 'A Flying Jatt'.
It's so fantastic for young kids to see a superhero going through the things they go through.
Who would've thought that this little girl in the ghetto in Philly would be playing the first black lesbian superhero on network TV?
I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.
I grew up very inspired by 'Superman One' and by kind of the promise of the genre of what a superhero origin story can do.
'A Flying Jatt' is a good superhero with no dark side. So, it is all good vs. all bad without any shades of grey.
I don't want to be stuck to one character. I think that's what can happen when you take on a superhero movie.
I didn't have a brown-skinned superhero growing up who wore cornrows and who reflected the inner city where I come from in Philadelphia.
I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have.
I have a long love of superhero films, and I'd been saying over and over again to my agents at CAA that I'd like to do one.
The perception that 'Indians can't make superhero films' needs to change. We can make superhero films in the budgets given to us.
One of the reasons why Spider-Man is my favorite superhero is because we both undergo big changes in our lives.
I did not know much about 'Black Lightning' beforehand, but I always wanted to play a superhero. After getting the part, I went back and read the comic books.
I'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I respect as much as VIBE.
Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.