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Stan Lee has risen to be not only a heroic figure in the geek world, but a sorta-celebrity to the masses. His many, many cameos in Marvel movies has made him a recognizable face for almost everyone, even if they don’t know who he is or why exactly he continues to be in these movies. And every times he pops up, it’s always delivered tongue-in-cheek and with a lot of fun involved. For a man with such a positive disposition, it’s easy to forget that he too has likes and dislikes. And in this case, about films based on his own properties.

The news come straight from the 2012 Fan Expo, a convention you’ve probably never heard of. But it apparently goes on annually up in Canada and, for once, something interesting happened over there. During a Q&A featuring The Man Lee, a fan asked him what his least favorite Marvel movie was. Not one to shy away from a question, Lee provided a few examples…but mostly laid it on thick to the 2002 Daredevil:

“I would have liked the Hulk to be smaller in the first two movies, and I didn’t like the way Doctor Doom was portrayed in Fantastic Four. Now with Daredevil, they just wrote the whole thing wrong. They made him too tragic. That’s not the way I wrote him. I think they’re working on a new Daredevil movie and it will be better, so hold your judgment until then.”

Ouch. Well I disagree with him that Daredevil was written to “tragic” (he was blinded by radiation, for fuck’s sake!), I agree with him that the film is weak overall. Sadly, that “new” Daredevil movie Lee spoke of is now cancelled. Shame…maybe one day we’ll get a new Daredevil movie that’s actually good. C’mon filmmakers! Make Stan Lee happy.

-Matthew