| Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes | |
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| Information | |
| Title: | Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes |
| Format: | Animated |
| Running time: | 30 min. |
| country: | USA |
| Network: | Cartoon Network |
| Seasons: | 1 |
| Episodes: | 26 (ordered) 15 (aired) |
| Production | |
| Production company: | Moonscoop Marvel Enterprises |
| Principal cast: | Hiro Kanagawa; Lara Gilchrist; Christopher Jacot; Brian Dobson |
| Air dates | |
| First aired: | September 2nd, 2006 |
| Last aired: | August 5th, 2007 |
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes is an American animated television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team, the Fantastic Four. It is the fourth time that the Fantastic Four have been adapted for television. The series featured a blend of 2D animation and 3D animation, and adopted an artistic style inspired by the anime genre. The show ran for only a single season on Cartoon Network. A full twenty-six episode season was ordered, but only fifteen episodes were actually aired. Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes featured the voice talents of Hiro Kanagawa as Reed Richards, Lara Gilchrist as Susan Storm, Christopher Jacot as Johnny Storm, and Brian Dobson as Ben Grimm, aka The Thing.
Plot[]
World's Greatest Heroes is not directly connected to any of the previous iterations of the Fantastic Four, telling its own version of the team's origin and their encounters with their rogues gallery. Unlike its 1994 predecessor, which consisted almost entirely of straight or modified reinterpretations of classic Fantastic Four comic book stories, World's Greatest Heroes primarily features original stories, though elements from various comic iterations of the Fantastic Four were used in the series. Most episodes finished with the 40-second "epilogue" scene before the end credits start to roll over. During the Marvel logo, three electronic beeps with a swoosh sound are heard, which was taken from the show's theme music. During the Taffy Entertainment logo, it uses a seven-note guitar riff from the show, accompanied by echoed techno drumbeats and a clang when the box moves in.
Games[]
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes had released one computer game under the name Fantastic Four: Mechanized Maelstron. Not much is known about the game and can only be found on cites which have pirated the game pre-deletion.
Episodes[]
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1x01 | Trial by Fire | September 2nd, 2006 |
| 1x01 | Doomed | September 9th, 2006 |
| 1x03 | Doomsday | September 16th, 2006 |
| 1x04 | Hard Knocks | September 23rd, 2006 |
| 1x05 | My Neighbor Was a Skrull | September 30th, 2006 |
| 1x06 | World's Tiniest Superheroes | October 21st, 2006 |
| 1x07 | Zoned Out | October 28th, 2006 |
| 1x08 | Imperius Rex | June 9th, 2007 |
| 1x09 | Puppet Master | June 16th, 2007 |
| 1x10 | Impossible | June 23rd, 2007 |
| 1x11 | Bait & Switch | June 30th, 2007 |
| 1x11 | Annihilation | July 14th, 2007 |
| 1x13 | De-Mole-ition | July 28th, 2007 |
| 1x14 | Revenge of the Skrulls | August 11th, 2007 |
| 1x15 | Strings | August 25th, 2007 |
| 1x16 | Doomsday Plus One | Unaired |
| 1x17 | Out of Time | Unaired |
| 1x18 | Atlantis Attacks | Unaired |
| 1x19 | Shell Games | Unaired |
| 1x20 | Johnny Storm and the Potion of Fire | Unaired |
| 1x21 | Contest of Champions | Unaired |
| 1x22 | Doom's Word is Law | Unaired |
| 1x23 | Scavenger Hunt | Unaired |
| 1x24 | Motlehatten | Unaired |
| 1x25 | Frightful | Unaired |
| 1x26 | The Cure | Unaired |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The Fantastic Four was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. They first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 in November, 1961.
- Fantastic Four (2006), and Fantastic Four (2006 TV series) both redirect to this page. "FFWGH" also serves as a shortcut to this page, and is used as a disambiguation key on pages relating specifically to this series.
- MoonScoop Group, a division of Taffy Entertainment, is a French-based animation company that constructed the 3D renderings for this series.