You can blame the Woobs for this one. He finally got me to watch last year’s Wolverine movie over the weekend and this triggered my interest in the upcoming Deadpool movie, so while I was Googling about Wade, I somehow got on to Squirrel Girl and this led me to…The Super Hero Squad Show (no she’s not in it, but she gets a name drop at one point and well, y’know…internet stuff)
Totally awesome, although somewhat lacking in Deadpoolness. He’s a little intense for the setting. It’s definitely a kids show, but it reaches deep into the Marvel mythos so true believers’ll be happy too.
So the premise is that Iron Man and Dr. Doom were fighting over this thing called the Infinity Sword. It broke. Shards (called [irritatingly] “Fractals” here) get scattered everywhere and the two teams race to collect and reassemble them. Tony’s team consists of Wolverine, Hulk, Thor, Silver Surfer and Falcon. Doom’s got MODOK and Abomination. Everyone’s super-deformed and adorable, based on the adorable SD Marvel/Hasbro toyline which I totally should have been collecting. The voice cast is top notch and includes two of our most recent Starscreams (Charles Adler and Tom Kenny [Charles Adler’s Doom is HYSTERICAL]) and the guest stars are abundant. So far we’ve had Cap’t America (who is OLD, although he doesn’t look or act like it), Storm, Ms Marvel, Thing and Fin Fang Foom and I’m only on the 4th episode.
It reminds me of TF:Animated in both the humor and the inclusion of the franchise’s most beloved characters. I’m really enjoying it and so I thought I’d share it with y’all. I hope the new Hasbro/Discovery channel will do something half this creative and fun with TF’s in their new lineup, that is if they don’t continue TF:A, which I personally would prefer.
Now to see if I can pick up some of those adorable toys.
Sparkly Things 