X-Men: Apocalypse Stan Lee Cameo Revealed

Spoilers for X-Men: Apocalypse ahead!

No Marvel movie is complete without that most pivotal of moments, the scene everyone is constantly waiting for and usually sends the theater into a cheering roar: the Stan Lee cameo. Stan "The Man" Lee co-created much of the Marvel Universe, including the X-Men, and in X-Men: Apocalypse, he has his most dramatic turn yet, plus a special guest star.

In the movie, Apocalypse decides that when the mutants take over the planet in their rightful place as gods among men, the humans shouldn't be able to fight back in any meaningful way, and that means disarmament. Apocalypse launches every nuclear missile in the world simultaneously (luckily, just to send them into space, not to commit a nuclear holocaust), and that sort of event is bound to draw people out of their homes. As we witness the terrifying moment, we come upon one such house, and there they are: Stan and Joan Lee, scared as they star at the contrails heading into the sky.

Joan, Stan's wife of nearly 70 years, makes her first cameo appearance here, though she did also appear in another Marvel property, or at least her voice did. Joan Lee was the voice of the mysterious Madame Web on the Spider-Man animated series in the 90s.

It's Stan Lee's third cameo of the year, having appeared in Captain America: Civil War and Deadpool previously. Those were both much more comedic, though. In Deadpool Lee was the announcer at a strip club. In Civil War, The Man played a delivery guy/mailman (which he's played before – recurring role alert!) who delivers a pivotal package to Iron Man. However, he mis-reads his name as Tony Stank instead of Tony Stark, resulting in a lot of laughs.

X-Men: Apocalypse, clearly starring Stan and Joan Lee, is in theaters now.