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I just want to point out that the 90s Avengers cartoon that's going on Disney Plus is absolutely terrible.

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The only good 90s Marvel cartoon was Spider-Man. And even that doesn't hold up today, the animation is atrocious.

Iron Man, Spider-Man Unlimited, X-Men, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four, Ultraforce, Hulk, and Avengers were all terrible.
 
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SG-17 said:
The only good 90s Marvel cartoon was Spider-Man. And even that doesn't hold up today, the animation is atrocious.

Iron Man, Spider-Man Unlimited, X-Men, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four, Ultraforce, Hulk, and Avengers were all terrible.
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Season 1 of Fantastic Four and Iron Man really fall into the hilariously bad trap that makes it worth watching.

And dammit I'll Stan Silver Surfer to the day I die.
 
MisterHero

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SG-17 said:
The only good 90s Marvel cartoon was Spider-Man. And even that doesn't hold up today, the animation is atrocious.

Iron Man, Spider-Man Unlimited, X-Men, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four, Ultraforce, Hulk, and Avengers were all terrible.
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I prefer Spider-Man and X-Men's art direction to all the blobby crud that dominates current shows.

The Avengers Assemble Universe has has a more comic-booky style but the writing is completely terrible.

EMH was okay, but overall I just don't prefer that team to 90s X-Men.

also, the world wasn't ready for Silver Surfer
 
mreddie

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At the time, it was a Saban show so you can already see where this goes if you know about Saban shows.

-Iron Man already a show
-Cap was gonna get a show
-No one cared about Thor
-The Power Armor thing was made just to sell the toys.
 
Huggy

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Lineup makes it sound more like a West Coast Avengers show? (hawkeye, Wonderman, Tigra)
 
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I don't recall "the big three" being that big in the 90's. IIRC, they were as big of a "joke" as Ant Man was.

The original Avengers were Ant Man, The Wasp, Iron Man, Thor, and The Hulk. Cap was added shortly after.

In the 90's, Iron Man's 30-year-old comic book run got cancelled, so that it could live on with the occasional miniseries, with a whole bunch of brand new "#1" issues (because it was the 90's, and "#1" sells better). Iron Man was a Marvel B-lister until Robert Downey Jr. and the MCU turned him into an icon.

Thor wasn't so big either. His biggest widespread publicity was him getting mocked and called a homophobic slur in "Adventures in Babysitting" in the 80's, and his "Beta Ray Bill" reboot was more popular than the original in the 90's.

The Hulk was known for his cheesy 70's Lou Ferigno TV series, and in the 90's She Hulk was where all the attention was.

Captain America in the 90's was not very far removed from that infamous "Do you think this A on my head stands for France?" scene. Because Captain America wasn't cool in the 90's (so they needed to edge him up).

The X-Men were cool in the 90's. Spiderman was cool in the 90's. Spawn was cool in the 90's. Image Comics was cool in the 90's. It's the MCU that went back to the basics and took Marvel's B-list scrubs and did something with them.

The Avengers were known for a rotating cast. Spiderman was an Avenger. Beast from the X-Men was an Avenger. The Avengers can be anyone. The 90's "United We Stand" Avengers cartoon was based on the "West Coast Avengers" spinoff group, which was a thing that existed quite well back when the cartoon was made.
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I love this post
 
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Yeah, Spider-Man TAS and X-Men TAS were the only ones I could watch, even as a kid. Even those were heavily flawed compared to something like Batman TAS, though that show is so damn good it's really not fair to compare anything to it!
I even liked Iron Man quite a bit despite him not being that popular back then, but his show felt unwatchable even as a middle school kid.
 
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