And it has my favorite heroic sacrifice in all of comics history: "Grotesquely, he still lived, each of his more-than-human cells gripped by a horrid urge to cling fast and survive. He lived, he roared, and as the Warpsmith reached for further missiles to embed within our enemy… He struck. Struck mortally… And the…

And it's Ned's death that leads to, possibly, my favorite exchange in all of cinema—or at least the most bad ass: