It was bound to happen sooner or later, and this week it had. Comic book writer-publisher Stan Lee, once a major creative force of Marvel Comics who created many of its famous characters, later a Marvel brand ambassador and popularly-acclaimed “King of Cameosâ€, has died Monday, November 12 at 95.
To celebrate Stan’s life and the mythic status he had in the comics and superhero media industry even before his passing, we’re presenting a nice long list of every cameo appearance he made, not only in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film series but also other media under the Disney umbrella.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe – Films
- Iron Man (2008) – mistaken by Tony Stark as Hugh Heffner
- Incredible Hulk (2008) – accidentally drank soft drink with Bruce Banner’s gamma-radioactive blood
- Iron Man 2 (2010) – mistaken by Tony as Larry King
- Thor (2011) – pickup truck driver trying to pull Mjolnir from the Earth with a chain, only to lose his vehicle’s bed
- Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) – World War II general in Cap’s medal award ceremony (“I thought he’d be tallerâ€)
- Avengers (2012) – chess-playing bystander interviewed by news (“Superheroes in New York?â€)
- Iron Man 3 (2013) – beauty pageant judge
- Thor: The Dark World (2013) – mental ward patient and fellow inmate of Erik Selvig
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) – Smithsonian guard who discovers Cap’s stolen WWII costume
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) – elderly citizen of planet Xandar
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) – WWII veteran in Avengers Tower party (“Excelsior!â€)
- Ant-Man (2015) – bartender in Luis’ backstory about Sam Wilson/Falcon looking for Scott Lang
- Captain America: Civil War (2016) – FedEx postman with delivery for “Tony Stankâ€
- Doctor Strange (2016) – bus passenger oblivious to magical battle outside the vehicle
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) – astronaut talking to the Watcher extraterrestrials
- Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) – Gary the irate neighbor
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017) – Grandmaster’s barber (“My hands are not as steady as they used to beâ€)
- Black Panther (2018) – Busan casino patron taking T’Challa’s chips
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018) – driver for Peter Parker’s school bus
- Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) – bystander whose car is shrunk by Hope Van Dyne/Wasp
- upcomingAvengers 4 (2019) – final cameo
- Marvel Cinematic Universe – Series
- ABC’s Agents of SHIELD (Season 1: “TRACKSâ€) – train passenger
- ABC’s Agent Carter (Season 1: “The Blitzkrieg Buttonâ€) – borrows Howard Stark’s newspaper
- Netflix’s Marvel series – Irving Forbrush/Forbrush Man; backgrounds change from police captain to lawyer across various series
- Hulu’s Runaways – Runaways’ limo driver
- Freeform’s Cloak and Dagger – painted cameo
- Marvel Animation – Disney Channel/XD
- Ultimate Spider-Man – Stan the Janitor, Agent (and founder and namer) of SHIELD
- Hulk and the Agents of SMASH – Stan the Salesman; Mayor Stan of Vista Verde
- Big Hero 6: The Series – Frederick Frederickson III/Boss Awesome
- Disney
- Big Hero 6 (2014) – Frederick Frederickson III/Boss Awesome
- upcoming Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (2018) – himself
- Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel (2013) – NYC hot dog vendor
- “Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!†at Disney California Adventure – Collector specimen/prisoner
- Video Games
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes – himself/Stan-Hulk
- LEGO Marvel’s Avengers – himself/Stan-Hulk/Iron Stan/Stanbuster
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 – himself