Stan Lee is a human dude from New York. I don’t know whether he’s ever met a superhero in real life. (He’s definitely met a cryptid—the cryptid population of New York and New Jersey is staggering—but that doesn’t mean he knew it was happening.) Still, there’s one thing he got absolutely right: if you can quip and joke and one-liner your way into a fight, the odds are good that it will throw your opponent off at least enough to make them forget about a few things.
