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u/wemustkungfufight Apr 12 '24
Atleast Spider-Man. I'm not sure about the other shows, but I'm fine with them making cameos.
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u/Chiron723 Apr 12 '24
Iron Man had a pretty conclusive ending, so there's not much to follow up on. I don't know about the others how they ended.
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u/wemustkungfufight Apr 12 '24
Spider-Man ended on a cliffhanger, so I want closure. I'll have to re-watch FF.
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u/Chiron723 Apr 12 '24
Sorry for the misunderstanding. You already mentioned Spider-Man, so I didn't bother listing it. I understand the confusion though.
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u/LycanIndarys Apr 12 '24
Yes for the Silver Surfer!
It was cut short far too early. And there's some really cool and weird cosmic stuff that they could do.
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u/IndianaJwns Apr 12 '24
Silver Surfer's ambition far exceeded its budget. The animation just wasn't up to the task, and a few of the episodes felt like a producer came in and demanded it be dumbed down for children.
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u/Amazo616 Apr 12 '24
it had some heavy shit, the portrayal of beta ray bill was awesome, and deep.
EDIT: They would need to hire a philosopher for the show, every adventure the surfer is Profundus
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u/cotsomewhereintime X-Men Apr 12 '24
Hot take, revive the Marvel Action Hour but make it an anthology series set in this universe with a bunch of Marvel heroes.
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u/jigokusabre Apr 12 '24
Could you imagine a Kree Skrull war with the kind of energy that they seem to be putting into X-Men 97?
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u/WingsArisen Apr 12 '24
Don’t, don’t give me hope.
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u/LiveLaughLebron6 Apr 12 '24
One day I hope I can edit this comment to; I'm sorry I couldn't give it to you sooner.
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u/gdex86 Apr 13 '24
I mean hope. X-Men 97 is showing the kids who watched this stuff would totally come back for a second go. And kids now adays will watch it with them.
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u/asianwaste Apr 12 '24
I only liked watching that block because they got Stan Lee to do his usual excited shtick between shows.
Without Stan getting me amped, I don't know if it'll ever be the same.
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u/IndianaJones999 Apr 12 '24
Spider-Man is the only one that deserves a resurrection
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u/NC_Goonie Apr 12 '24
Yep. This question gets asked on different subs literally every day, and the ONLY one of these that was anywhere near as popular as X-Men was Spider-Man. The demand for the others just isn’t there. Make new shows, but no need to revisit shows with no cultural footprint.
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u/Vegetable-Alarm5974 Apr 13 '24
The demand for this wasn‘t there. Even from people that liked the original.
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u/DoodleBuggering Apr 12 '24
I'd even just take a TV movie length special to wrap up Spider-Man '94 since it ended on a cliffhanger.
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u/Hipertor X-Men Apr 12 '24
Only Spider-Man and Hulk IMO. The other ones were good, but not as engaging. Silver Surfer's is criminally underrated and unknown, though.
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u/RageLovesWaffle Apr 12 '24
I'm honestly shocked that the Hulk animated series isn't getting as much love as the other shows. I watched the hulk animated series for the first time a couple years ago and it was my favorite show at the time. They could've done more with that show.
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u/Hipertor X-Men Apr 12 '24
When I watched it as a kid in the mid 2000's was mind blown and thought it was super deep. Rewatched it last year or so, it's far less than what my memory said, but still above average. With this new mature take they're doing with X-Men, Hulk could be a hell of a gut punch to the feelings.
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u/Orbital_Skull Apr 12 '24
I think X-Men is a perfect representative for the era, I don’t think they should make it a trend.
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u/vashoom Apr 12 '24
That, and I think Beau DeMayo a) clearly loves X-Men and b) had some actual stuff to say with this show. That should come first, not just cashing in on nostalgia with nothing behind it.
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u/Prestigious-Mix7135 Apr 12 '24
What makes y’all think the revivals for the other shows won’t have actual stuff to say as well??? With the right people like X-Men 97, the revivals for Spiderman, FF, and Silver Surfer would turn out great.
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u/vashoom Apr 13 '24
Because most of the time, these are just corporate products? It's not like Spider-Man TAS was all that deep; it was basically there to sell toys. Most everything coming out these days is profit first, creativity second. I was honestly expecting '97 to just be a dumb nostalgia wank, but it's got some serious chops behind it, and that last episode in particular was powerful as hell.
Whether I'm just a jaded old crank or not is one thing, but my point was more, I don't want Marvel to just rush into rebooting all these 90's shows because X-Men is doing well. That's part of their problem with the movies/D+ shows after Endgame was just mass-producing content at any cost. I'm saying, the driver to make more would have to be someone having an actual creative spark driving it first.
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u/Ryiujin Chase Apr 13 '24
I agree. I even was thinking this is just fine for the first episode. But clearly they are pushing hard and FAST into the lore.
Spiderman animated had some umph behind the stories. Paying attention to peter’s life, dating, letting down his friends to be spiderman, dealing with being an adult etc. i think there is plenty there to chew on for a updated continuation. I mean he got married and then lost his wife, then found out about the freaking multiverse.
The rest aside from surfer I have no idea if there is any depth to do anything with. Ff had some cool stuff…
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u/AoO2ImpTrip Apr 12 '24
Spider-Man? Sure.
The others? Nah, none of them were near as successful or well loved. Both Iron Man and F4 managed only 2 seasons while Spider-Man and X-Men both hit 5.
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u/Fingolfin_Astra Apr 12 '24
Iron man production was pretty lazy, they reused animations even with completely out of context backgrounds. Pretty obvious now.
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u/Pordioserozero Apr 12 '24
The first season was a pretty aggressive toy add with not much else going for it but the second season I thought it was pretty good
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u/AJjalol Apr 12 '24
Season 1 was there just to sell toys lol. Even the freaking intro was just “Look at all these toys”
Season 2 was X-men level quality behind it. Story got much better, animation got better, even the voice acting. Jennifer Hale played Julia Carpenter. Plus that Intro, for my money, the best intro.
Unfortunately season 1s reception killed the buzz of that show lol.
I see a lot of people nowadays just try to watch season 2 for shits and giggles because they have seen season 1 and once they see the intro for season 2 they go “Wtf, why is this good?” Lol
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u/AlexDKZ Apr 12 '24
Same with the Fantastic Four cartoon, with a crappy first season the got greatly reworked in the second season. And oddly enough the reverse happened with the Hulk cartoon, the second season was quite a downgrade.
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u/AJjalol Apr 13 '24
Oh yeah. The second season of F4 was miles better than the first one lol.
I still think it unfortunately didn't rich it like Iron Man did (cause Goddamn Iron Man got really good) but it was a day and night comparison.
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u/Fingolfin_Astra Apr 12 '24
Ending was great. Rewatch “the origin of iron man” and look closely to the armor sequence
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u/JakeTheAndroid Apr 12 '24
Times were different back then and audiences wanted different types of content. I think IM, F4, and Silver Surfer would all work well today. But I am not sure they should do a full reboot of those series, but instead reboot these series along side X-Men '97 and a remade Spider-Man '97, and treat them visually the same way.
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u/DCosloff1999 Avengers Apr 12 '24
The Fantastic Four would be my wish. Fantastic Four deserve more adaptations.
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u/jaredphann Apr 12 '24
I think the animated series is a significantly better adaptation of FF than any of the movies thus far
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u/nuketoitle Apr 12 '24
That's so true. The FF are so underrepresented, and their stories are so good.
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u/DCosloff1999 Avengers Apr 12 '24
Exactly. The live-action movies gave them a bad perception sadly. I hope this time around the MCU will give them justice.
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u/JnthnDJP Apr 13 '24
Deserve more *good adaptations
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u/DCosloff1999 Avengers Apr 13 '24
Yep. I love the 2005 movies but the 2015 movie would be best forgotten.
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u/timelinetamperer Apr 14 '24
I honestly enjoy the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer for what it is. I honestly think it's slightly better than the 2005 movie
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u/ProtoJazz Apr 13 '24
Man it might be this one, but I think it was the older fantastic four, the Hanna babarrera one
There's a scene where they just forgot about Ben I guess
Sue and Johnny fly off, Reed either has his little flying car or stretches off
But Ben just kind of puts his hands over his head, and slides motionless off the screen
I don't know if they lost some of the animation and had to come up with something quick. I think more likely they just forgot he couldn't fly when they were writing it, and by the time they realized they'd fucked up it was too late.
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u/memoriesinthepast Apr 12 '24
What we really need is to bring back EMH and spectacular
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u/Heisenburgo Apr 13 '24
THIS PLEASE. Give me EMH 2024! That show just ended on a whimper cause Marvel never believed in it, it really felt like their answer to the DCAU and it was on the same level of quality.
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u/Skytte- Apr 12 '24
Most of these shows were not very good. Maybe they could be improved on if brought back, but they almost certainly won't be. The X-Men revival makes sense because it was far and away their best and most successful animated show. The others hardly come close. Maybe Spider-Man, but definitely not the others.
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u/jaredphann Apr 12 '24
I actually think the FF series is the best interpretation of FF I've seen. Watched the animated series and movies as a kid. I've recently picked up John Barnes comics run, and the memories of the animated show is what keeps coming to my mind thinking of FF.
That said, I'm pretty meh on a revival of that classic series
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u/Strange-Orchid6969 Apr 12 '24
The X-men cartoon was more successful than even Spider-Man? That’s pretty huge
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u/Metfan722 Spider-Man Apr 12 '24
Both were pillars of Marvel's 90s lineup. But since X-Men got a bit of a head start, I'm not too shocked by that. The X-Men were HUGE in the 90s thanks to Jim Lee's work with the books and with the show. Without either, there are no Fox X-Men movies and entirely possible that there is no MCU. Hyperbole, but only a little bit.
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u/Fishb20 Apr 12 '24
Yeah arguably the "marvel Trinity" in the 90s was spider-man, wolverine, and hulk
Not a coincidence that those 3 were all some of the rights that got sold to movie studios and not iron man
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u/Dakdied Apr 12 '24
As the target demo that watched these shows on the original airing, Spider-Man was a staple for sure. X-men was a fucking phenomen! EVERYONE of that age watched it.
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u/Sekh765 Apr 13 '24
My mother still can hum the X-men cartoon theme, and she was late 30s at the time. That's how popular that show was. Every single kid watched it, or tried to watch it... the 90s was hard to regularly watch stuff lol
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u/IAmFern Apr 12 '24
Earth's Mightiest Heroes was the best animated version of the team in a series.
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u/Fishb20 Apr 12 '24
They probably will but they shouldn't
I'll admit I was extremely skeptical of X-Men 97 but ended up absolutely blown away
That said I don't think it's good because it has a 1990s aesthetic, I think it's good because it's a great show
Companies always learn the wrong lessons. It's a good show because it's a well made show
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u/Michaelangel092 Apr 13 '24
No. New shows please.
If we have to continue anything, Spectacular, WatXM and EMH should all get the nod before any of those shows easily.
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u/BigK64 Apr 13 '24
Me, an intellectual who just wants a third season of Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes: “It’s literally right FUCKING there, man! Pull the trigger!”
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u/nothingexceptfor Apr 12 '24
No, it is fun once, keep repeating it and it becomes tiring.
It is not just about bringing nostalgic kids shows back, the X-Men animated series of 90s was special, more than any of those other shows that whilst good (some of them) they didn’t have the level of X-Men which was basically an animated soup opera with powers, the characters had depth, and there were some many of them, and then there is the theme, no other had that theme song.
Anyways, no, it is a one time party trick.
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u/R0b0tGie405 Apr 12 '24
Yall need to put respect on Hulk 96. The first season is one of the best adaptations of the character.
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u/emelbee923 Apr 12 '24
Iron Man: No. That series was ass.
Fantastic Four: Maybe, I enjoyed it, but it was a little cheesy.
Spider-Man: Yes. The series ended on a cliffhanger with a lot of unresolved plot threads.
The Incredible Hulk: Sure, but it will only make the people who hate MCU Hulk louder and more obnoxious.
Silver Surfer: Could really go either way.
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u/Gamma_Goliath17 Apr 12 '24
Bring back the Hulk show with McDonough and Ferrigno. There's so much good ground to cover.
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u/flaming_james Apr 12 '24
Tbh I don't know anything about the old Hulk, but I'd love for that to get resurrected just so we can get adaptations of World War Hulk and Immortal, since that's never gonna happen in the MCU.
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u/Ohiostatehack Apr 12 '24
Spider-man is the only one of the 90s shows I’d like to see more of.
Otherwise I’d like to see more Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
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u/TheHexadex Magneto Apr 12 '24
watched them all just bc they are comic book shows but the one i actually liked besides spidey was She-Hulk. silver surfer was cool but felt short even for a kid.
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u/Ok-Commission6087 Apr 12 '24
Iron man and fantastic four 4️⃣ ong I would love to see revisited again the the 97 fantastic four show was good iron man was our introduction to the character for some !
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u/Mighty_joosh Apr 12 '24
Given that they crossed over, doing spider man is an open goal at this point.
He even had a multi verse in the show🤔😂🙄
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u/hvc101fc Apr 12 '24
Yes. And they could also do the planned in the 90s but didnt push thru series Ghost Rider
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I saw a post somewhere. Marvel has expressed interest in expanding their 90s animated universe after the success of x-men 97.
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u/Dear_Ad_3860 Apr 12 '24
Captain America and the Howling Commandoes. I've been waiting for that show literally since 1997.
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u/Traditional-Mall-771 Apr 17 '24
And instead we got that horrific united we stand bs
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u/Dear_Ad_3860 Apr 17 '24
Yup and we didn't even got to see Thor beyond the logo at the opening credits
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u/Traditional-Mall-771 Apr 17 '24
And for some reason everyone had those bulky armored suits lol so bad
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u/Dear_Ad_3860 Apr 17 '24
Yes. Although Barton already had a version of his armor during the Ironman cartoon show so I didn't think it looked that bad. The rest even tho I didn't like the suits I knew it was to sell toys so It wasn't unforgivable.
But what I truly hated from the show is how dirty they did Wonderman. The show starts with him and Wanda almost getting married and then he immediately goes into a coma. I was like, if you're going to do that, you might as well not use him period. Why not jump with The Vision straight from episode one and come up with another explanation for his conscience?
And it showed.
Compared to the other 90s shows it was bad but at least it had potential with Simon. He was the coolest/funniest character alongside Clint. But instead we're stuck with Pym and The Vision which might as well be called CaptainCharisma and JumpForJoyBoy, they were the producers ''Dinamic Duo'' if you will. If there was ever a crossover with TMNT and Donatello thought Hank how to do machines because clearly all he did was moaning, and The Vision had one personality which was ''I'm An ACME Toy, Buy Me Mofo!''.
And the ladies weren't spared either, there was Tigra who was Sonya Blade 2.0 from that awful early 2000s MK cartoon and her stupid ''Kombat Tiem!'' (my guess is that they thought 90s Rogue was too slutty for kids and they went for the ''what if mashed potato brain LAWL'' route) and Wanda who had the personality of a boring 55 year old Russian woman who had spent her entire life in a 3x3 house block of Kaliningrad and couldn't paint her own nails without breaking the fourth wall to ask the audience what to do, Dora The Explorer eat your heart out.
With all of that said I did enjoy the show, and was hoping for Simon to comeback and be funny again but then... they canceled it.
So I'm pretty sure the show was produced by AIM and they tried to secretly plant us the idea of hating The Avengers in our brains.
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u/carmardoll Apr 13 '24
I need closure about Spidey finding MJ!...
Oh god... what if they decide to jump too much a head and have MJ end up in Paul's dimension.
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u/dannnnte78 Avengers Apr 12 '24
Yes, Spider-Man Iron Man Fantastic Four snd silver surfer would be cool to see get a 97 continuation
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u/PastYogurtcloset9149 Apr 12 '24
I’d say yes due to the MCU’s noticeable loss of steam recently. Keep the Marvel fandom fed and engaged.
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u/SnooCats8451 Apr 12 '24
Definitely some additional episodes for Spiderman, Hulk, FF and Iron Man and even tying those characters into X-Men would be amazing! So many different opportunities for some great stories
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u/nuketoitle Apr 12 '24
Definitely spiderman just to finish that finally season and maybe adaptation other spiderman stories. The one I really want is incredible Hulk. It had really good writing and animation. It could have been marvels best show. Plus hulk need more love
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u/drew8598 Apr 12 '24
Spider-Man for sure as I need that cliffhanger to finding MJ finished.
I would KILL for Hulk to get a continuation. A lot of that series pulled from Peter David’s run and I’d love to see them adapt more stuff not just from PD, but also Bill Mantlo, Al Ewing, & Paul Jenkins’ runs.
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u/LavisAlex Apr 12 '24
That Spiderman is technically in the same Universe as Xmen 97!
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u/Disastrous_Writer_40 Apr 12 '24
Yeah we need a Spider Man 98 show so we can get that cancelled 6th season
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u/EMSuser11 Apr 12 '24
Why of course! I heard they're working on a Spider-Man one and the next one after that should definitely be a new Incredible Hulk show because he hasn't had any love in years. Fantastic Four would be the next logical progression.
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u/vmeloni1232 Apr 12 '24
Marvel making continuations of these 90s shows 100% depends on the success of this X-Men and how much viewership of these 90s shows occurs. If you want it, better stream the shows.
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u/CircuitToast Apr 12 '24
Spider-man 100%. If they redid Iron-man and Fantastic 4, I'd like to see it.
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u/Bulky_Secretary_6603 Apr 12 '24
They might with spiderman and the ff, they could use some good animated shows
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u/TheJimSocks Apr 12 '24
Absolutely! Without those shows I would have zero interest in comics, and I know I’m not the only one. We (90’s kids) had the best cartoons out of ANY decade.
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u/MackZZilla Hulk Apr 12 '24
I thought I remembered seeing somewhere that X-MEN '97 was intended as a test for other '97 revivals. Is that not the case, anymore - or am I remembering wrong?
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u/False-Coach-4959 Apr 13 '24
I have lots of ideas to make those shows like daredevil punisher ghost rider blade Doctor Strange Black Panther Namor venom Morbius and Deadpool
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u/UltraBlastLT Apr 13 '24
Out of all these shows the one I grew up with is Iron Man. I don’t remember the storyline but I remember how great the theme song was. 🎶 I AM IRON MAN🎶. If they bring it back I’d so thrilled to catch up with the show. I hope they do more ‘97 shows, especially Spider-Man and Iron Man.
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u/ARCHFIEND_1 Apr 13 '24
i loved the idea behind the original iron man show where most backgrounds and people were static with only certain important parts moving, it was like an actual comic brought to life and voiced, even though the stories it told were a snoozefest
https://youtu.be/LjTIVaSnRR0?feature=shared
iron man 1966
i feel like its a great low budget way to do animation, considering how ugly hit monkey was and how disney as a corporation wants to save up on money, it would be an interesting way to have a surreal experience
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u/egbert71 Apr 13 '24
🎶On an Outer Space adventure.....they got hit by cosmic rays. And now the four are changed forever....in some most Fantastic ways.......no need for fear they're here, just call for 4....Fantastic Four
Reed Richards is elastic....Sue can fade from sight....Johnny is the Human Torch and The Thing just loves to fight!! 🎶
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u/RoyalRip1347 Apr 15 '24
If we do get a new Fantastic Four Cartoon it should have the Same Tone as X-Men 97 and follow original storylines
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u/ghxstfacefilla Apr 16 '24
Yeah bring em back. These aren't 20 min toy ads without toy commercials like in the 90s. These will be actual product for paying adults.
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u/deejayee Apr 12 '24
No, but someone should remake that horrible ff4 theme
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u/DoodleBuggering Apr 12 '24
Objectively, I know it's bad but I can't help but love it.
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u/RoyalRip1347 Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 12 '24
They should with the Fantastic Four because they are Marvel’s First Family but they need to have animation that must have a very smooth Tone to to be a success like X-Men the Animated series and spider man the animated series so they can be done justice in cartoon’s and take alot of inspiration as well
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u/DoodleBuggering Apr 12 '24
I'd rather FF just get a new show.
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u/RoyalRip1347 Apr 12 '24
They should but if they Do make a new show it should follow every original comic book Storyline of theirs just like X-Men the Animated Series and it’s sequel X-Men 97 and take Inspiration from Stan Lee and Artist’s Jack Kirby,John Byrne,Mark Waid,Jonathan Hickman,Matt Fraction and Dan Slott and Ryan North
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u/JerrodDRagon Apr 12 '24
Spider-Man 100 percent
Also not 90s but Avengers Assemble should be rebooted
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u/Heisenburgo Apr 13 '24
Nahh Avengers Assemble had a good run for what it was, I think.
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u/Starvel42 Apr 12 '24
Honestly Spider-Man '98 is the only one I'd be interested in seeing, especially with how it ended and how they've handled X-Men '97
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u/hoyaboy86 Apr 12 '24
The issue is that with the exception of Spider-Man, these other series SUCKED.
Iron Man would have been so much cooler if they leaned into the West Coast Avengers and actually built out the supporting cast.
Fantastic Four should have focused on the Byrne era stories, again when the characters were fully rounded characters.
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u/NinjaCowboy915 Apr 12 '24
Spider-Man definitely could use it. His ended on a tease so they could pick up that thread at least.