Superhero Reference Quotes

“Kryptonite doesn’t bother me, either.”
― stephenie meyer, Twilight

“Anyone got X-ray visión?I asked, trying to smile.
Where is Superman when you need him?”
― Charlaine Harris, All Together Dead

“No, she doesn't know it's me. I'm in disguise. Look, I know someone who does this with just a pair of glasses. And I have glasses AND a moustache.”
― Dan Slott, Batman Adventures

“My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero. Like Peter Parker or Clark Kent.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Chance does not exist. Either the universe obeys objective laws or it is of the order of will. But not of a will like our own: an inhuman will, in which all beings, minerals, animals, stars and elements are endowed with effective determination. Where the effect is an added extra, regardless of the cause, where the event is an added extra, regardless of history - chance being merely the intersection of all these wills. A universe consisting of antagonistic impulses, in which everything is lucky or ill-fated - isn't that more uplifting than the mere preoccupation with causes and consequences?

The downplaying of reality is a philosophical intuition and there is, therefore, nothing 'negationist' about it. The virtual, in its project of liquidating the real technically, is truly negationist.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“I Sat back in the chair, surveying the view in front of me like some savvy superhero, safe in her secret lair.
& that's when I saw it; a shadow slipping across the lower corner of camera seventeen.”
― Ripley Patton, Ghost Hold

“Only ideology has prestige in the fashionable world, because it alone is combatted. And yet there are more serious ideas which have no visible enemy.

Indifference of the sky to the earth: it will not rain.
Indifference of the soul to things: it will not mingle with them.
Indifference of lips to words: they maintain their silence.
Indifference of dreams to reality: they will not absolve it.

The hysterical obsession with events is itself a result of the end of history. Since there is no longer any history, events should follow one another in endless succession. Since there are no longer any causes, effects must be produced without any break in continuity. Since there is no more meaning in anything, everything should function perfectly.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“Lois, Superman is what I can do. Clark is who I am.”
― Clark Kent

“It's like he's got Tony Stark or S.H.E.I.L.D on the other end at that phone or something.”
― Robby Weber, If You Change Your Mind