Not to mention the 500 Supermen, the 500 Hulks...
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Batman Beyond was genuinely one of the best superhero cartoons, though. It had no right to be any good, and if a cartoon with that exact premise was made today it'd be trash, but it was excellent.
I agree with u/AnimeAnon about most of the rest, though. Multiverses were a mistake.
I hate how modern cartoons are so fucking braindead compared to what we used to have. A ton of cartoons treated the audience with respect, look at stuff like Static Shock, Clone Wars, Teen Titans, etc. they tackled hard topics and challenged the audience with moral dilemmas and provided well-produced action.
Hell, Teen Titans and Static Shock are some of the best portrayals of racism I’ve ever seen period. They treated the racist characters with respect and allowed them to look past surface-level observations and grow as a character instead of immediately writing them off as deplorable and making them the butt of every possible joke.
Nowadays we have teen titans Go doing an episode about thick thighs and butts or something stupid like that.
The Teen Titans episode where Cyborg accidentally uses a racial slur on Starfire and they have a calm discussion of it and everybody involved grows as a person would be completely impossible to make today, nobody involved in Western animation could possibly do it.
I'll be honest that actually sounds pretty gay.
It was, as another person who liked the show. It very much was.
I liked the characterization displayed between them on it though, with afterwards him trying to awkwardly empathize with her noting that people say mean things because of how he looks too, and she's just 100% not getting the idea of humans hating humans, intra-race discrimination just isn't in her understanding, so he throws her an out with "because I'm half-robot."
It was very 90's "Very Special Episode" energy, but the characters didn't grandstand on it, and the fact the guest protagonist of the episode was a racist actually didn't impact the overall arc of the character. He was a racist. He still solved the problem, still was useful, still helpful, Robin politely asks him to leave Earth after the problem was solved if he's going to be a racist little shit, and he does, noting Starfire is "one of the good ones" from working alongside her but to watch out for any others of her kind, as parting words of wisdom.
The episode basically ends with a "whelp, we saved Earth again, thanks to that guy... Man that guy was a racist bastard though, wasn't he? Oh well. Who wants dinner?"