Reed Richards Is Useless/Quotes

One of the most charming elements of the superhero story, for me, lies in the fact that the world it all happens in is our world - that this fantastic, furious, cosmic stuff happens in what could be the skies over our heads - and sure, it should turn the world into something unrecognizable, but it doesn't.

—Kurt Busiek, introduction to Astro City

"Dude, you're a telepath! You can use an enemy's psychology against them! You can find out hidden passwords or strategic information just by looking at them! It's not your heart that's small here, it's your brain!"

—Linkara, during Captain Planet #3, in response to Ma-Ti's comment about "heart" being a small weapon

Sue: Who else would have the world's coolest PDA? You going to put it on the market?

Reed: I can't. Sony paid me three million not to.

—Fantastic Four

As a side note, those superheroes who develop or invent entirely unique powers, and then hoard them? Screw those guys. When Edison invented the incandescent lightbulb, did he keep its secret to himself, and then bust nocturnal crime as the Illuminator? Fighting the nefarious Doktor Lightning with the help of the Amazing Flight Brothers? No. Because, as a man of Science, he was familiar with Newton's statement about the shoulders of giants.