[ti:Love for Stan Lee on Social Media and More] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.32]This is What's Trending Today. [00:04.04]Messages in honor of Stan Lee are pouring in [00:08.44]on social media and other online sites. [00:13.36]Lee is the creator of famous comic book characters, [00:18.24]including Spider-Man, the Hulk, Black Panther and others. [00:24.40]He died Monday in Los Angeles, California. [00:28.88]He was 95 years old. [00:31.72]Marvel Entertainment and its parent company, Walt Disney, [00:37.28]posted a video about the late writer, [00:40.64]editor and publisher on their websites. [00:44.64]Disney chairman and chief Bob Iger [00:48.84]said Lee is "a super hero in his own right [00:52.80]to Marvel fans around the world." [00:55.92]He compared Lee to his comic book characters [01:00.22]with "the power to inspire, to entertain, and to connect." [01:06.52]Lee was born Stanley Martin Leiber in New York City. [01:12.08]He began writing for comic books at 19. [01:16.68]He wrote under the name Stan Lee. [01:20.00]He explained that he used a false name [01:23.96]because he wanted to write a serious [01:26.93]and great piece of literature someday. [01:30.76]He did not want his link with comic books [01:34.52]to be known when that happened. [01:37.60]But it never did happen. [01:40.48]As the pride in his work grew, [01:43.04]he decided to legally change his name to Stan Lee. [01:48.60]Lee's characters often had super powers, [01:52.52]but they also had weaknesses and moral failings. [01:57.16]They got up and went to work every morning. [02:01.95]They were humans, not gods. [02:05.09]They lived in New York City and others parts of real America. [02:11.28]They not only struggled to save the world, [02:14.60]but also to pay their bills, make friends, and hold jobs. [02:20.16]This made Marvel comic book heroes stand apart [02:24.68]from its competitor DC, the company that produced [02:28.80]the seemingly perfect heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman. [02:34.32]In a piece for Marvel in 1969, Lee discussed [02:39.76]the importance of creating these balanced characters. [02:44.25]"...Nobody is all good, or all bad," he wrote. [02:49.51]Like Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man. [02:54.05]He is a deeply gifted inventor with serious mental health issues; [03:00.40]or, Peter Parker, a sensitive, brainy high-school student [03:05.04]who has no idea how to deal with the frightening abilities [03:09.52]he gets from the bite of a radioactive spider. [03:14.16]Even Steve Rogers, whose Captain America [03:18.12]was the most Superman-like of the Marvel group, had problems. [03:23.40]Rejected as a candidate for the armed forces, [03:27.44]he volunteers to take a "supersoldier" substance [03:31.44]to make him a super-fighting machine. [03:35.00]Actor Chris Evans has played that character in several Hollywood films. [03:41.52]He posted a tribute to Captain America's creator on Twitter Monday. [03:47.96]"There will never be another Stan Lee," he wrote. [03:51.84]Actor, writer and funny man Seth Rogen [03:57.00]never played one of Lee's characters [03:59.68]but he remembered him with thanks in a tweet. [04:04.00]"Thank you Stan Lee for making people [04:06.98]who feel different realize they are special," he wrote. [04:12.00]Actor Zoe Saldana played Gamora [04:15.60]in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Avengers" film series. [04:20.56]"Today we lost one of the greats," [04:23.88]she wrote on Twitter Sunday, [04:26.12]calling Stan Lee "superhero to us all." [04:30.68]And that's What's Trending Today. [04:34.00]I'm Pete Musto. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM