2006 FANTASTIC FOUR
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes is an animated television series based on the Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four comic book series and the movie itself. The series is the team's fourth foray into animation, and combines two-dimensional anime-style art and three-dimensional computer animation produced by the France-based animation company MoonScoop, and is also produced by MoonScoop division Taffy Entertainment. All in collaboration with Cartoon Network. In the United States, the show suffered an erratic airing schedule on Cartoon Network, having premiered as part of Toonami on September 2, 2006 but only running for 8 of the season's 26 episodes before being pulled without explanation. It returned to the network starting June 9, 2007, shortly before the release of the film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, but again, only nine further episodes were aired, leaving nine installments unaired in the USA. The show aired on Boomerang for a brief time before moving to the Nicktoons Network to air the final episodes. Episodes unaired in the US began airing on the Nicktoons Network in the winter of 2009.
INTRO[]
OVERALL 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 meetings with their greatest villains. Additionally, Johnny Storm's sister is identified as Susan Storm, implying that, like the earliest versions of the story, she is not yet married to Reed Richards but is dating or engaged to him. The series begins with the FF as already-established adventurers, foregoing an actual "origin episode" for the group. When the series was released outside of America, it featured a modified opening sequence with new narration that verbally established the origin of the team, but which did not expand on the mysteries of the origin any further.
EPISODES[]
| SEASON 1 |
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| 01 DOOMSDAY |
| 02 MOLEHATTEN |
| 03 TRAIL BY FIRE |
| 04 DOOMED |
| 05 PUPPET MASTER |
| 06 ZONED OUT |
| 07 HARD KNOCKS |
| 08 MY NEIGHBOR WAS A SKRULL |
| 09 WORLD'S TINIEST SUPER-HERO |
| 10 DE-MOLE-LTION |
| 11 IMPOSSIBLE |
| 12 BAIT & SWITCH |
| 13 ANNIHILATION |
| 14 REVENGE OF THE SKRULLS |
| 15 STRINGS |
| 16 IMPERIOUS REX |
| 17 DOOMSDAY PLUS ONE |
| 18 THE CURE |
| 19 FRIGHTFUL |
| 20 OUT OF TIME |
| 21 ATLANTIS ATTACKS |
| 22 SHELL GAME |
| 23 JOHNNY STORM AND THE POSTION OF FIRE |
| 24 CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS |
| 25 DOOM'S WORD IS LAW |
| 26 SCAVENGER'S HUNT |