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Batman. It has the most lasting impact and has aged the best.
My brothers and I would watch that show every weekday at 4:00 after school, and my mother would usually be in/around the room. I remember when we went to see Batman Returns, my mother remarked as we were leaving the theatre that “one half an hour episode of that cartoon you guys watch has better character development than that whole movie”.
I would agree, BTAS was a quality show.
Hear hear!
But I enjoyed Xmen more...
I used to love X-Men comics, and didn't really read Batman. I tried watching the X-Men cartoon when they brought it to Disney+ and it just didn't resonate with me anymore.
Is it still worth checking out? Never ran when I was a kid, I've only ever seen the Spiderman series.
Yeah, it can still be appreciated as an adult. There aren't any long serialized plotlines but the episodes are tightly written.
I refuse, I just use this as a list of physical media that needs to be preserved to show my kids/young cousins and nephews.
Physical media is nice, but hard drive space is cheaper. I may or may not have sailed the high seas to get copies of all these shows and more cartoons from that era.
The idiots that scheduled programming in my area never broadcast Pirates of Dark Water, Exosquad, or Conan the Adventurer in the correct order- I don't know if they ever even showed all the episodes. Back when TV shows were still almost entirely episodic, these cartoons had an ongoing story that didn't make nearly as much sense if you watch them out of order.
They never finished Pirates of Dark Water.
I already have Batman, Superman, The Batman, Batman Beyond, X-men, Duck Tales, Pirates of Dark Water - the list needs to grow
if we're talking the characters as a whole, superman
We need more simple good guy stories in the world, with men doing what's right. Not whiny peter parkers, or gay analogy xmen, or darker edgier near antihero vigilantes and a revolving door prison system.
This specific show? Batman, one of the best animated series.
Agreed. Plus Superman is a good old country boy out to help his world and those he considers his people, and those don't exist in fiction anymore.
I just re-watched the original Superman move recently. It was, quite honestly, an incredibly well-made movie that took itself seriously enough that it wasn't scared to be genuine.
If it were made today, as soon as he put on the Superman suit something stupid and silly would happen to remind you that it's only a movie, Lex Luthor would be a damaged human being with daddy issues, and Lois Lane would have a skanky terminally-single friend who would tag along through the story so that she could voice the female audience members' lecherous thoughts.
If Disney owned Superman: Clark puts on suit “It’s Supin’ time” insert clip of him slipping in falling while Lois calls him a helpless man
Not going to say it's better than BTAS, but I have even better memories of Batman Beyond. You just appreciate it more and more as time goes on. I'm probably forgetting something, but it seems like the only "changing of the guard" story that actually worked out.
While I have the largest nostalgia for Spiderman, its also the worst of the lot by a large portion due to extreme censorship forced upon them by the executives. Go back and watch it and you'll notice how ridiculous it all is.
Xmen have always been gay and anyone who thinks otherwise is also the big gay.
Which leaves Batman/Superman, which thanks to Justice League are basically so overlapped I don't think you can pick one or the other.
At least Spiderman and X-men blessed us with Rogue and Black Cat
Batman. Its the best and I've watched all 4
Characters? Superman. He's the most inspirational. He drove the creation of countless other heroes.
I think it's what tv show would you pick to keep and the rest disappear
Can I keep none? They're all irrevocably poisoned IPs now.
the shows and media that came later certainly are, but none of the shows listed in OP have any of the rot. they deserve to be enjoyed as they are.
That they were great is the disaster that going woke brings. If they'd always sucked nobody would care. Nobody misses Go-Bots or that Ghostbusters cartoon with the gorilla.
That ghostbusters was pretty respectable tbh
'Superman' is the weakest of the options. It simply did not compare to Batman due to the lackluster villains (does he even have a single good villain?) and lack of dark deco backdrop (Gotham).
At one point 'Superman' was fighting toy planes.
The entire plot of the Injustice game series is because Joker decided to fuck with someone else for a change and "try things on easy mode" so he set Superman up to kill Lois and Supes didn't see through it like Batman would have. He'd never dealt with anyone on that level before and was broken in the first round.
Besides Lex Luthor? Pretty much nobody else. Unfortunately Superman is amazing to have in JLA stories but standalone it’s hard to write a good traditional comic book stories. A lot of the best Superman comics are more idealistic meta-analysis'.
I prefer Superman as a character. In terms of shows, Batman(up until the art change, then I would swap Bats and Supes), Superman... And I am not sure about X-Men and Spider-Man. I love the art style, and the women are sexy, but some trends from the shows are dated and, unlike the prior two shows, they are hard to watch now. X-Men had Rogue, and better fights but still had some censorship (Wolverine's claws never got to cut anyone) and it's whole civil rights emphasis makes it hard to stomach. Spider-Man had Black Cat, but the fights are so heavily censored... And the last season sucked.
As a kid I watched X-men and Spider-man most but I've been re-watching Batman and it holds up better. Not sure about Superman, I'll have to re-watch that as well. I was never much in to Superman because he felt to OP.
How come old cartoons could be made for children while also having very mature themes but now we are stuck with cartoons of self inserted adult children.
Batman, the most interesting. Spidey would be good if he was not a simp, Sup, too boring. X Men too activism minded.
For me it would be Spider-Man, it is what I ended up watching the most and really forming my idea of what a superhero is/would/should be I think. Really loved X-Men too but it was like more fantastical I suppose so I didn't think of them as heroes as much.
I love all these though, classics for me across the board.
Superman wae great but BatmanTAS, no contest. Damn but I miss the old DC animated universe.
Superman, a lot of people will say Batman or Spider-Man and I respect that, but in a lot of ways Superman is and has been the icon for Comics and old fashioned American ideals as well. I’ve always said that the day they attack Superman is the day we lose and I’ll stand by that. They are all close though in their own ways, but personally Superman is more than just a character, he is a symbol of strength as well.