15 best Stan Lee cameos from the Marvel movies
By Callum Gunn
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8. Thor (2011)
Thor is one of my favorite Marvel movies purely because of the moment when Thor strides into a pet store demanding a horse only to be told that they don’t sell horses, just dogs, cats, birds, etc. Thor then requests one big enough to ride.
In the film, Lee appears as a pickup driver during a scene where everyone has gathered around to move Thor’s legendary hammer, Mjolnir, after Odin had banished Thor to earth along with his hammer. Only those worthy to wield the hammer would be able to move it.
Lee’s character ends up wrecking his truck in this scene. Of course, he doesn’t realize he wrecks his truck and asks dully, “Did it work?”
Far from it! The truck was turned into a heap of useless metal, and Mjolnir hadn’t even budged an inch. The truck was clearly not worthy.
Thor featured more than one cameo appearance from a Marvel big wig. J. Michael Straczynski, a Marvel writer and film and TV producer, also made a cameo appearance as well. It happened during the same scene as Stan Lee’s cameo, Straczynski also appeared as a truck driver who had no luck at moving Mjolnir.