I just realized the name would be Stanley Lee.

@Background Pony #437F  
The pain is still fresh for us all.

@Background Pony #7E7B  
you’re like, 3 months later

Bye bye Stan lee

RIP

Rest in Peace Stan Lee, you will be missed. 😞😖😭

@Ardashir  
Yes, classic literature can be a blast when one chooses to read it by himself: The Odyssey, The Illiad, classics like Aeschylus, Sophocles or Aristophanes, Sir Thomas Mallory, Ludovico Ariosto, Joanot Martorell, Deniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift… And that is if we stop on 1789.  
It’s all about interests. In my country - and I think this applies to the U.S. and the vast majority of educational systems - the study of literature is strightjacketed by the lack of options and a mindset that mistakes education for pure boredom. Most of this stops pupils from enjoying what they read. Abridged selections can be nice, but, still, I think that the best option would be a broad range of reading options for the pupil to choose from and then a debate in the classroom.
 
IMHO, this is the root of the problem: close-minded educational programs end up alienating people from everyting classic: readings, movies, comics (our case: “Stan Lee was that grandpa that made cameos”)… Even pop music has fallen in this!  
I think classic videogaming can be saved, though: the work put by many programmers nowadays, unearthing classics, is turning to be quite fruitful.

@bigladiesman  
Great list. Sometimes I think that any movie more than 7-10 years old is seen by most people as being so archaic it can’t possibly be worth watching.
 
Kind of like how I never dreamed classic literature could actually be a fun read until after I left school and looked at some without having to write essays on the ‘hidden meaning’, with the teacher thoughtfully telling us in advance what we were supoosed to see.

@Ardashir  
About the vampire thing, Lee aside, just a small selection: Max Schreck, Béla Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Klaus Kinski, Frank Langella, Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes…
 
Seriously, do they only remember the Twilight guy? 😶 I guess TCM needs to market itself better… That, or some of us are getting too old and/or we’re just cinema geeks.

@Ardashir  
We can only hope.

@Phantom Rider  
I actually had some old school horror fans demanding to know why I didn’t strangle those two right then and there. They were joking. I think.

@Peanut Medley  
That and didn’t Stan say that he based Jonah on himself?

@Ardashir  
I now have a headache from facepalming so hard.
 
I guess for non-horror fans, you’d describe Christopher Lee as Count Dooku or Saruman.
 
@Darth Shy  
I’d love that. Besides, everything must be ponified!

@Peanut Medley  

 
Oh, so it’s P. Poneh Ponyson! 😋

Rip Stan lee. Rip

@Background Pony #C13C  
That’s J Jonah Jameson but to be fair Triple J was created by Lee.

@Background Pony #C13C  
I thought he was supposed to be Jolly Jonah Jameson?

@Darth Shy  

 
Yes! The reporter pony in “The Saddle Row Review”!  

@genervt  
I still remember mentioning news of Mister Lee’s death to so ladies I met at a public library. When they looked at me blankly I said, “He played the best movie vampire of all time.”
 
Then, in horror, “You mean that guy who played Twilight’s Edward is dead?!?”
 
The hour or so after that still feels very vague to me. I think it was the shock.

@Peanut Medley  
At least we could still see a pony that looks like him?

@Background Pony #C17E  
Won’t be happening now… ;w;

@Background Pony #C17E  
Excelsior!

@ApplejackFan204  
Maybe he could lend his voice to a second Power Ponies episode?

“Oh man. I am so fired.”

@Background Pony #EC66  

 
Christopher Lee was a legend.