Best 90's Superhero Animated Show

[Hunter Rider]

BTAS for me but all 3 were very good.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

X-Men had some of the most awful adaptions of the characters though. Especially the women all they did was faint after using their powers. Add shouting ''SCOTTTTT!" to Jean's role and that was essentially it for the ladies.

The guys were treated better, but I can't remember much about any of them on that show save Gambit, Bishop, Beast, and Wolverine.

 

[The Question]

X-Men had some of the most awful adaptions of the characters though. Especially the women all they did was faint after using their powers. Add shouting ''SCOTTTTT!" to Jean's role and that was essentially it for the ladies.

Jean got the shaft, but Rogue and Jubilee came out of it smelling pretty good.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Jubilee was really really really super annoying in it, but she can be that in the comics as well or was until recently.

Rogue was okay, I guess.

 

[Evelisse]

yea pretty much, BTAS

but Gargoyles was pretty slick aswell

 

[Metallo]

X-Men had some of the most awful adaptions of the characters though. Especially the women all they did was faint after using their powers. Add shouting ''SCOTTTTT!" to Jean's role and that was essentially it for the ladies.

The guys were treated better, but I can't remember much about any of them on that show save Gambit, Bishop, Beast, and Wolverine.

All three shows adapted storylines from the comics but Batman TAS did it best by not only doing them well but added their own spin to them that made them really pop on television. With the X-men and Spider-man cartoons I always thought their comic adapted episodes seemed a little uninspired at times. They had to be changed enough to fit the shows format of course but batman TAS reallly made those kinds of stories its own.

I guess it was a combination of writing and overall presentation. All three shows had a lot to deal with from the Fox network censors but Batman seemed to get around those kinds of issues best too.

 

[KenK]

X-Men as an animated series had serious continuity issues. Characters would meet for the first time in an episode, then later in the course of the series, we'd have a flashback episode where the characters that met in an earlier episode were on the same time!

Season One, Pyro introduces himself to Rogue in Ireland, the next season, we get a Rogue flashback episode with both of them as members of the brotherhood!

Or the fact that Angel is never acknowledged as a former X-Man, despite almost every flashback on the show depicting the X-Men shows him on the team!

 

[bullets]

I was a big fan of Xmen and Batman but never got into the Spider-man cartoon. I never saw the Superman or JLA cartoons but I've considered watching them .

 

[Metallo]

I was a big fan of Xmen and Batman but never got into the Spider-man cartoon. I never saw the Superman or JLA cartoons but I've considered watching them .

Superman's a great show a and JL/JLU is even better. Spider-man and X-men had some good long running arcs but at times they seemed like they dragged on to long and like someone said X-men really just fizzled out at the end. I didn't care for the stories or the animation changes.

There was good and bad with how Spider-man ended. The Secret Wars and SpiderWars episodes were a lot of fun though.

 

[Cousin Itt]

Batman easily.

It still holds up to this day.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Batman

X-Men and Spider-Man were awful cartoon shows. Watch them without nostalgia blinders and anyone can see this.

Yep.



Superman: TAS should be on the list. Not as good as B:TAS, but still a pretty good show.

 

[LostSon88]

Batman and Superman The Animated Series, easily.

That's it for me.

Spiderman and X-men I liked as a kid BUT...viewing them as an adult.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

BTAS

It's not even close.

It's considered one of the best cartoons ever made.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Batman

X-Men and Spider-Man were awful cartoon shows. Watch them without nostalgia blinders and anyone can see this.

This. Now, awful is a bit strong. X-Men and Spider-Man are watchable but they're just not that good when you look back. The animation of X-Men was inconsistent, usually awful. They did adapt comic archs pretty faithfully but other episode were pretty dumb. One thing I despised was how few episodes some characters were in like Iceman (I think he was in one episode) and Nightcrawler (he had like 2-3 appearances). I think X-Men Evolution is a lot better.

Spider-Man had a lot of dumb storylines and the villains acted like buffoons a lot. The animation wasn't that great either. I LOVED Spectacular Spider-Man and it's criminal it didn't get a 3rd season.

Batman isn't just the best superhero cartoon, but one of the best cartoons of all time. I remember when I was little, even my parents liked watching it.

 

[Sawyer]

The voice acting in X-Men and Spider-Man also wasn't all that great...

 

[Manic]

Why doesn't this poll include Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk & She-Hulk, Avengers, Silver Surfer, Superman: The Animated Series, Spider-Man Unlimited, Ultraforce, WildC.A.T.S, Darkwing Duck, Earthworm Jim, Road Rovers, Freakazoid, The Tick, or any number of other superhero cartoons I've forgotten?

 

[Immortalfire]

X-Men was pretty good, Spidey was censored as hell, but Batman is the best.

 

[KALEL114]

Batman TAS was by far the best. The animation was better, voice acting was better, and the writting was amazing compared to the others. As was said earlier in the thread, it still holds up well today.

 

[Franklin Richards]

I liked X-Men better. We had DC cartoons out the whazzoo back then and it was new for Marvel to be making the scene. I tuned in for new X-Men. I caught new Batmans.

 

[NinjaCarm]

X-Men was pretty good, Spidey was censored as hell, but Batman is the best.

Yeah, I hated how Spider-Man was censored, and they were all on the same network!!! WTF??!!

 

[NinjaCarm]

I liked X-Men better. We had DC cartoons out the whazzoo back then and it was new for Marvel to be making the scene. I tuned in for new X-Men. I caught new Batmans.

Nicely put. When I first saw X-Men animated (before knowing of Pryde of the X-Men) I was out of my mind with excitement.

 

[Heffer Wolf]

X-Men was always my favorite.

I liked Batman, but even as a kid I absolutly hated the design of that show. It just looked really stupid to me to give everybody the widest shoulders ever, then they all got these itty bitty tiny legs and ankles. Plus I really hated the design for the joker, like he was too buff or his suite wasn't purple enough, there was just something off about him that made him look stupid to me as a kid.

 

[Incrediblejeff]

BTAS by a huge margin.I Watch Spider-man and X-men again recently and they were horrible.Nostalgia overrates them.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Same for Batman. When did the animation style change? It got really cheap towards the end. Seems as if they compromised artistic integrity for speed.

 

[Incrediblejeff]

Towards the end the art style did leave much to be desired,but it still worked.the Art is'nt the strongest suite of BTAS.It's mostly the stories.