Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
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Fantastic Four | |
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Promotional art for the Fantastic Four TV series (2006) |
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Format | Action Adventure Sci-Fi |
Starring | Hiro Kanagawa Lara Gilchrist Christopher Jacot Brian Dobson |
Country of origin | United States |
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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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.
DVDs for the show have been released in volumes; three volumes with four random episodes each has been released. A box set collecting the entire series, including episodes never broadcasted was released on June 10th, 2008.
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[edit] Cast
[edit] Guest stars
- 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 - Tony Stark / 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
[edit] Superheroes guest appearances
- 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)
[edit] Villains guest appearances
- Mole Man (De-Mole-Ition, Molehatten, The Cure, Contest of Champions)
- 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)
[edit] DVD releases
DVD Name | Cover Art | Region 1 | Episodes | DVD Name | Cover Art | Region 4 | Episodes |
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Volume One | March 27, 2007 |
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Volume One | October 10, 2007 |
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Volume Two | September 11, 2007 |
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Volume Two | October 10, 2007 |
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Volume Three | March 11, 2008 |
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Volume Three | February 6, 2008 |
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The Complete First Season | June 10, 2008 |
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Volume Four | June 4, 2008 |
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Volume Five | September 3, 2008 |
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[edit] External links
- 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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