Tom King Quotes

I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.

I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

I don't want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.

Daredevil's religion makes him unique. He's a vigilante, but he's also a lawyer - and all the while, he believes only God is capable of bringing people to justice.

I think Batman is a great character in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a dark place.

To me, Punisher is pretty black and white. He's very simple, and at the same time, he's very complex. I don't know why I think I understand the guy, but I feel I do.

Batman's got this whole cloaked 'man of mystery' thing around him and represents a wish fulfillment. He's more driven than Superman yet is also very human.

I don't want The Flash to become a vigilante. I don't want him to abuse the power.

Yes, I enjoyed my share of fantasy fiction series and comics. Among superheroes, Spiderman was my favorite. I always had this fascination for costume-clad vigilante who would come and save the day!

Batman. I like the idea that if I had enough money, time, and vengeance, I could become him.

In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.

Pakistani nation and Pak Army have written a new history of bravery and valor against terrorism.

'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.

I think that we want to believe in Superman.

No one is really playing the good guy, but if they want to play the bad guy, I'm ready to play the super hero and take these guys out.

The thing that makes us root for Spider-Man as he swings across the city is that he's either having the time of his life or worrying about whether he'll be able to get a good grade on that English paper or whether or not he's going to make it home in time for Aunt May to make his dinner.

I think vigilantism is a pipe dream, because the larger need is for a justice system that works. Now, Batman cannot be Batman without police commissioner Jim Gordon, because every time he catches a villain, he tries to send them to Gordon. So, the idea is to help the justice system to work. I don't think it can work in real life, though.

Superman is a traditional archetype in our culture, this all-powerful but benign doer of good, protector and friend. If he could succumb to the frailties of mortal man, what's to become of the rest of us?

There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?

What is a superhero? They're supposed to represent hope, opportunity, and strength for everybody.

At first, I had this huge desire to play a superhero, that little kid in me. Then I realized it wasn't actually a superhero I wanted to play: it was someone fighting for a cause that's bigger than themselves, which can go into all sorts of things.

I try not to cancel people. But at some point, we got to stand up and say, hey, right is right, wrong is wrong.