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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Simple reason for why the Batman and Superman series looked far superior to the '94 Spiderman: Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, who also went on to do Batman Beyond. The visual style they had was far superior to anything Marvel's DIC-produced cartoon could muster. Style can go a long way in making even a limited animation series (done on fours rather than twos) look superior. Recent examples of this include Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack and Clone Wars, which all share one common denominator: Genndy Tartakovsky.


It probably helped too that they didn't depict Batman and Superman as whiny little men-bitches who want to throw in the towel every time they get a paper cut or stub their toe or some other accident befalls them, which is what Peter Parker seemed to do almost every other episode after a while of the DIC-1994 cartoon. Angst can be fun when done right, but the '94 show made their angst too absurd and repetitive.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

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That's one of the things that makes Spider-Man human. He has average every day problems like everyone else, plus the not so average problems of a superhero. His frustrations made him someone that people could relate to. He was realistic in that sense. That is one of the main reasons the character itself became so popular in the first place.
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Taking the angst and personal problems out of Spiderman kills the purpose. Spiderman isn't Spiderman without Peter Parker.

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I think the 1994 show didn't do his angst right.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Great news for any Thundercats fan. Warner Brothers is supposedly getting a Season 1, Volume 1 ready. Here's the article I got from TVShowsOnDVD.com:

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Thundercats - Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats Ho! DVDs on the way!
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2/23/2005


Feel the magic! Hear the roar! Join the powerful Thundercats as they battle the evil forces of Mumm-Ra and his servants of doom. Lion-O, the young but courageous leader, wards off evil attackers with the help of the mighty Sword of Omens, which holds the mystical Eye of ThunDera jewel...the source of the Thundercats' power! Lion-O, Panthro, Cheetara, Tygra, WilyKat, Wilykit, Snarf and the spirit of Jaga join Lord Lion-O at Cats' Lair, protecting Third Earth from Mumm-Ra and his mutants from Castle Plun-Darr!

This beloved Rankin-Bass animated series from 1985 is coming home to DVD very soon, according to Warner Home Video. A 3-disc set called Thundercats - Season 1, Volume 1 is expected to arrive in the May/June timeframe. An exact date has yet to be announced. Stay tuned, and we'll bring you details and cover art just as soon as we can!

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Nice, very nice, as long as the DVD feature those hilarious budding bloopers that leaked into the internet some time ago (there's this audio with the actors doing the voice acting for Thundercats, and sometimes they flubbed a line or spoke too soon/too late, and they just yelled obscenities, or carried on the dialogue changing the lines to an hilarious obscene dialogue).
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Chalk me up as unexcited. I was never a fan of the Thundercats.

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Chalk me up as unexcited. I was never a fan of the Thundercats.


I second that emotion.
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Chalk me up as unexcited. I was never a fan of the Thundercats.


I second that emotion.


Were you anti-"He-Man & The Masters of the Universe"? Some people viewed Thundercast as being essentially a knockoff of He-Man. Don't know why I'm asking...

I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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I watched He-Man. Never was one of my favorites, but I watched it. There were certain characters like Orko (Orco?) that ruined the show for me. Kinda like how Scrappy Doo and Scooby Dum ruined the Scooby Doo cartoons.

If Orco/Orko was kept to a minimum, or preferably not there at all, I liked He-Man.
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I watched thundercats briefly when it was on Toonami back in the late nineties. I think it was mostly Snarf that ruined it, though. Why did eighties cartoons have to always have some annoying un-funny comic relief character?

Geez; Snarf was even worse than Jar Jar Binks.

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I watched He-Man. Never was one of my favorites, but I watched it. There were certain characters like Orko (Orco?) that ruined the show for me. Kinda like how Scrappy Doo and Scooby Dum ruined the Scooby Doo cartoons.

If Orco/Orko was kept to a minimum, or preferably not there at all, I liked He-Man.


Never liked Scrappy either.
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Still,he wasn't as bad as scrappy dum, now that was just too far, even if the show was about a crimesolving bunch of dogs.
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Are you aware of the tendencey of kids to like something because it's supposedly better even if they percieve that it isn't? I really did that alot when I was a child... and I would often refuse to watch episodes of ScoobyDoo that didn't have Scrappy in them.



And Sessler, I figure you meant Scooby Dum... Because the fusion character "Scrappy Dum" would have gotten the show cancelled.

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And Sessler, I figure you meant Scooby Dum... Because the fusion character "Scrappy Dum" would have gotten the show cancelled.


If that character had existed, I would have personally hunted down and killed all the animators, writers, and directors of the show.
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Have you noticed how in He-man, there was always a scene in which he would jump into the scene, look both sides, and run?

And how come no one knew price Adam was He-man?! I mean, it's not like Clark Kent, where he puts on some glasses, prince Adam looks and sounds just like He-man. And he has a green tiger like He-man does, can't they get the picture? I've always thought that if I was the skeleton or skeletor or whatever that freaky thing was called, I would hire a hitman to go to price Adam castle and just shoot him between his eyes. Done. He-Man is gone.
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He-man's secret identity is even more ridiculously obvious than Superman's, which is another thing I didn't like about the show....

That is, pseudo-Homoerotica, annoying characters, the uncomfortable feelings hearing or saying the word "He-Man" gives me...

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not trying to defend he-man and his secret identity but i think its at about the same level as the clark kent/superman

when he turns to he-man im pretty sure his physical bulk/muscle mass increases and his voice gets deeper
the green tiger also goes through similar changes

all superman does is take off his glasses, change his voice (similar voice change as he-man) and parts his hair the other way

when you think about it he-man/prince adam actually has a much better disguise than superman/clark kent

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No, no, no, Simon. The key to Clark Kent's disguise is the curly-Q lock of hair over his forehead. That's what makes him so completely unrecognizable to virtually everyone. If that wasn't there, they'd know it was Kent for sure.

Heh.
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Unless you're talking about Dean Cain, then its the slicked back hair of Superman that disguises his side-parted alter ego of CK.
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He-man's secret identity is even more ridiculously obvious than Superman's, which is another thing I didn't like about the show....

That is, pseudo-Homoerotica, annoying characters, the uncomfortable feelings hearing or saying the word "He-Man" gives me...


You homoerotica could find in any cartoon if you wanted to but He-man's another story.
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I defy you to find homoerotic undertones in Shirt Tales or Strawberry Shortcake.

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You have to go pretty far in my mind before you cross into that territory.

But considering Heman wears leather straps, I think he crosses it most assuredly.

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