Every Stan Lee Cameo Ranked From Worst To Best
2. Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (2018)
Even with its incredibly self-aware meta tone, it was still incredibly shocking to see Stan Lee show up in this summer's hysterical DC animation Teen Titans Go! To the Movies.
Lee first appears on the Warner Bros. lot sweeping up some trash, before he grabs the camera and introduces himself and his "subtle cameo", complete with a literal blinking neon sign bearing his name.
Upon learning that he's in a DC movie, however, he quickly panics and flees, only to re-appear later in the movie and tell the Teen Titans, "I don't care if it's a DC movie, I love cameos!"
After getting hurled from the Titans' golf cart, he closes out his appearance by shouting "Excelsior!"
Though it's obvious that the voiceover cameo was recorded in Lee's home - the sound quality is noticeably lower than you'd expect from a professional animated movie - it's still gut-bustingly hilarious to see him showing up for "the other team."
1. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
And finally, the very best Stan Lee cameo ever? Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, of course.
This cameo pretty much broke the Internet upon the movie's release, if only because it saw James Gunn engaging directly with a long-held fan theory that all of Lee's MCU characters were in fact a single entity: a member of the observant alien race known as the Watchers, and most likely Earth's designated Watcher himself, Uatu.
While the scene doesn't go the whole hog and make Lee Uatu, it does show him dressed as an astronaut, hanging out with the Watchers and explaining that, a while back, he was a FedEx delivery man, in clear reference to his Captain America: Civil War cameo.
Lee is ultimately credited as "Watcher informant", which is close enough, and an additional post-credits tag shows the Watchers leaving Lee to his own devices, having grown bored of his tales even as he promises that he has "so many more stories to tell."
With Lee's cameos naturally coming to an end soon, it's great that Gunn managed to get this in there before he passed away. It's hardly a universe-shattering revelation, but a brilliant encapsulation of one of the MCU's most prevalent and favoured fan theories.
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