- Creator Worship: Even people that have shown no interest in his comics have given tribute to him. One particularly memorable example (for the wrong reasons) is the fifth strip of David Gonterman's FoxFire. Even Alan Moore, that most odd of comic book writers, who even parodied Stan Lee's comic book style, claims he has been one of his major influences and heroes.
- Fair for Its Day: Amidst all the accusations that Stan swindled Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko out of full credit for some of Marvel's bigger names, it's overlooked that he gave them credit, front page credit, in an era where comic book writers and artists were virtual non-entities (name one DC Comics writer from that era, we dare you) and set a precedent for the comic book industry to start treating its staff as people. Without Stan Lee, history would likely have forgotten about Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.
- Magnum Opus: His and Jack Kirby's original run on Fantastic Four.
- Memetic Mutation: X-Play's Stan Lee impersonator gave rise to the "Stan Lee fucked Jack Kirby's wife" meme.
- Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: Stan went out of his way to say that the writers, artists, etc. working for Marvel have varying viewpoints of the world that span the entire political spectrum, and that Marvel has no official political worldview... except for one. The virtue above all others that Stan always tried to push in all his work, and the one that he said Marvel did unashamedly promote, even if it made some readers uncomfortable, was tolerance. Done most famously in the X-Men comics, of course, but it's easy to see crop up throughout his entire body of work. Most writers who followed him did the same, a few unfortunately have not.
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