Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
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| Fantastic Four | |
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| Format | Action Adventure Sci-Fi |
| Starring | Hiro Kanagawa Lara Gilchrist Christopher Jacot Brian Dobson |
| Country of origin | |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Camera setup | Animation |
| Distributor | USA: 20th Century Fox World:Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Cartoon Network |
| Original run | September 2, 2006 – present |
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| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes is an animated television series based on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four comic book series and the first live-action movie. It airs on Cartoon Network. The series, which is the fourth to feature the Fantastic Four, combines two-dimensional art and three-dimensional computer animation produced by the France-based animation company Moonscoop. The show premiered as part of Toonami on September 2, 2006 and ran through October, only airing 7 of the season's 26 episodes. It returned to the network starting June 9, 2007, shortly before the release of the film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
It is Distributed on USA by ´20th Century Fox and outside USA by Warner Bros. Television Distribution.
Two DVD volumes have been released so far. The first was released on March 27, 2007, while the second was released on September 11, 2007. Both sets contain four episodes each. The third is set for a tentative release date in early 2008 with no episodes currently announced for it.
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- Michael Adamthwaite - Namor
- Stephanie Brillon - Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk
- Don Brown - Henry Peter Gyrich
- Trevor Devall - Diablo
- Michael Dobson - Ronan the Accuser, Mr. Bonner-Davis
- Paul Dobson - Mole Man
- Brian Drummond - Agent Pratt
- Laura Drummond - Courtney Bonner-Davis
- Andrew Kavadas - Dr. Bruce Banner
- Mark Gibbon - The Hulk
- Jonathan Holmes - The Wizard
- David Kaye - Iron Man
- Terry Klassen - Impossible Man
- Scott McNeil - Annihilus
- Colin Murdock - Willie Lumpkin
- Peter New - Rupert the Geek
- John Novak - Supreme Intelligence
- Mark Oliver - Cmd. Kl'rt / Super-Skrull
- John Payne - Henry Pym / Ant-Man
- Alvin Sanders - Puppet Master
- Venus Terzo - Lucia von Bardas
- Hulk (Hard Knocks, The Cure {On the Mole Man's TV} )
- Ant-Man (World's Tiniest Heroes)
- Namor (Imperious Rex, Atlantis Attacks)
- Flatman (The Cure)
- Frog-Man (The Cure)
- Texas Twister (The Cure)
- Captain Ultra (The Cure)
- Squirrel Girl (The Cure)
- She-Hulk (The Cure)
- Iron Man (Shell Games)
- Spider-Man (Frightful)
- Mole Man (De-Mole-Ition, Molehatten, The Cure)
- Puppet Master (Puppet Master, Strings)
- Ronan the Accuser (Trial by Fire, My Neighbor was a Skrull, Revenge of the Skrulls, Contest of Champions)
- Annihilus (Annihilation, Contest of Champions)
- Super-Skrull (Revenge of the Skrulls, Contest of Champions)
- Lucia von Bardas (Bait and Switch, Doomsday Plus One)
- The Wizard (Frightful)
- Klaw (Frightful)
- Trapster (Frightful)
- Dragon Man (Frightful)
- Attuma (Atlantis Attacks)
- Diablo (Johnny Storm And The Potion Of Fire)
- The Grandmaster (Contest of Champions)
- Terminus (Scavenger Hunt)
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| 1 | "Trial by Fire" | September 2, 2006 | 101 | |||
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Johnny is put on trial by the Kree and Ronan the Accuser acts as judge. Reed, Sue and Ben help him, but Johnny gets a stay of execution by saving a Kree child in the trial's audience after a fight breaks out. The Supreme Intelligence notes the FF may be useful against the Skrull. |
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| 2 | "Doomed" | September 9, 2006 | 102 | |||
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Doctor Doom switches bodies with Reed, and Reed must stop him before he destroys the FF and turns the Baxter Building into a weapon. Of course, Sue, Ben and Johnny realize the truth, switch Reed and Doom's bodies back and thwart Doom's plan. |
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| 3 | "Doomsday" | September 16, 2006 | 103 | |||
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Reed is accused of intentionally exposing the FF to the cosmic rays that gave them their powers. It turns out to be plot by Dr. Doom, and Ben forgives Reed after they save the world from Doom's plan of opening a dimensional portal where monsters will go around New York and destroy all human life. |
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| 4 | "Hard Knocks" | September 23, 2006 | 104 | |||
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Bruce Banner visits Reed at the Baxter Building. Banner changes into the Hulk and the FF must stop his rampage in NYC and keep him from being captured by Agent Pratt who wants to use the Hulk for his own agenda. In the end, Pratt fails to stop Hulk and Hulk is loose in the badlands. Otherwise, the Fantastic Four have saved the day again. |
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| 5 | "My Neighbor was a Skrull" | September 30, 2006 | 105 | |||
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Skrulls impersonate the FF's neighbors in order to collect tissue samples from the FF. In the end, Skrull commander Kl'rt tells Ronan the Accuser all samples have been collected for him to begin making the greatest warrior the universe has ever known. |
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| 6 | "World's Tiniest Superheroes" | October 21, 2006 | 106 | |||
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One of Reed's microverse experiments causes the Fantastic Four to shrink putting them at risk when H.E.R.B.I.E. mistakes them for vermin and tries to exterminate them. The Fantastic Four are assisted by Ant-Man when it comes to getting to the lab and their lives are saved when they get to the lab with Ant-Man's help. |
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| 7 | "Zoned Out" | October 28, 2006 | 107 | |||
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Things take a turn for the worse when Johnny gives his friend Frankie an unauthorized tour of Reed's lab. When Frankie is sucked into another dimension, Johnny goes in after her to prevent anyone from finding out. But as he does so, a small bug comes through the dimensional portal. Susan, Ben, and Reed now have to deal with the bug as it multiplies and slowly destroys the Baxter Building, while Frankie and Johnny are trapped in the other dimension and look like they will be killed by worse versions of the bugs. In the end, Johnny and Frankie get back to Earth and the bugs are all put back to where they belong - except for one who remains in an old lady's fridge. |
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| 8 | "Imperius Rex" | June 9, 2007 | 117 | |||
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Namor the Sub-Mariner arrives with a decree banning humankind from the oceans. Susan and Johnny go underwater to negotiate, but are taken prisoner in Atlantis. Ben and Reed must fight their way through sea monsters, Atlantean soldiers, and Namor to save their teammates. |
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| 9 | "Puppet Master" | June 16, 2007 | 109 | |||
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Alicia's stepfather acquires a supply of clay irradiated from a fallen piece of Reed's ill-fated space station that allows him to control others as the Puppet Master. |
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| 10 | "Impossible" | June 23, 2007 | 110 | |||
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The Impossible Man is brought to Earth by one of Reed's space probes and immediately starts causing trouble for everyone. In the end, the Fantastic Four convince Impossible Man that Earth isn't as fun as he is. |
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| 11 | "Bait and Switch" | June 30, 2007 | 111 | |||
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Doctor Doom hijacks one of Reed's experiments and causes the FF to swap powers with one another. |
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| 12 | "Annihilation" | July 14, 2007 | 114 | |||
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The Fantastic Four are brought to the Negative Zone where they come face to face with Annihilus. As if that wasn't bad enough, Dr. Doom arrives stealing Annihilus' power source and threatening Earth. |
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| 13 | "De-Mole-Ition" | July 21, 2007 | 108 | |||
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The Mole Man attacks the Baxter Building in hopes of luring the FF to his underground lair. |
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| 14 | "Revenge of the Skrulls" | July 28, 2007 | 112 | |||
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The Skrulls now have the technology to duplicate the abilities of the Fantastic Four (due to secret help from Ronan the Accuser). They change their Commander Kl'rt into the Super-Skrull. As part of their deal, Commander Kl'rt gives Johnny to Ronan the Accuser to take prisoner. Soon, he manages to escape. However, now the Fantastic Four have to battle Ronan the Accuser and the Super-Skrull. |
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| 15 | "Molehatten" | 113 | ||||
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The Mole Man is back. After kidnapping Ben, Mole Man attempts to get the Thing to join forces with him to create an underground paradise where appearances don't matter. |
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| 16 | "Strings" | August 4, 2007 | 115 | |||
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The Puppet Master gets the city to turn on the Fantastic Four. The Four must clear their good names and stop the Puppet Master from taking over the minds of everyone on Earth. |
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| 17 | "Doomsday Plus One" | April 27, 2007 | 116 | |||
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Doombots invade the Baxter Building in the middle of the night, but their attack is just a distraction for Doom to launch the Baxter Building into space. |
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| 18 | "The Cure" | June 9, 2007 | 118 | |||
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Reed finally cures the Thing, but the cure also takes away all of his memories since the formation of the Fantastic Four. When the Mole Man attacks, She-Hulk must fill in for the Thing while the powerless Ben Grimm must find a way to save the day. |
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| 19 | "Frightful" | August 18, 2007 | 119 | |||
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The Wizard, Klaw, Trapster, and Dragon Man are the new team in town saving New York always one step ahead of the Fantastic Four. Reed begins to suspects that these Frightful Four are not the heroes they appear to be. |
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| 20 | "Out of Time" | September 15, 2007 | 120 | |||
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The Fantastic Four return to New York to find that Doom has taken over the city and due to a change in history, they never got their powers. The Four must go back in time to set things right and to stop Doom. |
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| 21 | "Atlantis Attacks" | September 22, 2007 | 121 | |||
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The Sub-Mariner returns, but this time he needs help to defeat Attuma, who has taken over Atlantis. While Reed, Susan, and Ben head off to help free Atlantis, Johnny stays behind and faces an attack on the city from a giant mutant whale. |
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| 22 | "Shell Games" | October 6, 2007 | 122 | |||
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After several attacks from Iron Man suits, the Fantastic Four track down Tony Stark. It turns out Doom was behind the attacks, and now the Four have to face both Iron Doom and Iron Man under Doom's control. |
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| 23 | "Johnny Storm And The Potion Of Fire" | October 13, 2007 | 123 | |||
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During a confrontation with Diablo, Johnny is exposed to a potion that makes him more powerful. Unfortunately, the potion also begins to turn him evil. |
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| 24 | "Contest of Champions" | October 20, 2007 | 124 | |||
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The Grandmaster forces the Fantastic Four to battle Ronan the Accuser, Impossible Man, Annihilus, and Super Skrull. The fate of humanity depends on the winners of this mighty contest. |
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| 25 | "Doom's Word Is Law" | 125 | ||||
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Doctor Doom creates a super Doombot to face the Fantastic Four. The Four try and retrain this robot to be one of the good guys. In the end, Ben becomes the super Doombots friend, but then Doom's control is too strong and the super Doombot captures Susan and Reed. Johnny and Ben must save Susan and Reed, and fight Doom. But when Johnny is captured, Ben is left to fight the super Doombot. |
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| 26 | "Scavenger Hunt" | 126 | ||||
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Terminus, an alien scavenger, comes to steal all of Earth's resources. While the Fantastic Four try to stop him, they realize he may be unbeatable. |
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The series has so far has two DVD releases with more to be released in subsequent volumes.
The first volume was released on March 27, 2007 and features the following episodes:
- "Doomed"
- "Hard Knocks"
- "World's Tiniest Heroes"
- "De-Mole-Ition"
The second volume was released on September 11, 2007 and features the following episodes:
- "Trial by Fire"
- "My Neighbor was a Skrull"
- "Impossible"
- "Revenge of the Skrulls"
- Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes at the Internet Movie Database
- Marvel names Cartoon Network Exclusive U.S. Broadcast home for all-new Fantastic Four Animated Series
- Cast announcement
- Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes at TV.com
- Plots of the first episodes
- September 2006 conference call with Executive Producer Craig Kyle and Head Fantastic Four writer/Story Editor Chris Yost.
- Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes at Marvel.com
- Fantastic Four at YTV
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| Characters | Mister Fantastic · The Invisible Woman · The Human Torch · The Thing |
| Titles | Main continuity: Fantastic Four · Four · The Thing Other continuities: Ultimate Fantastic Four · Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four · Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four |
| Television | Fantastic Four (1967) · Fantastic Four (1978) · Fantastic Four (1994) · Fantastic Four (2006) · Other appearances |
| Movies | The Fantastic Four (1994) · Fantastic Four (2005) · Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) |
| Related | Locations · Video games |