Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes is a superhero animated television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. The series was co-produced by Marvel Studios and MoonScoop, with the participation of M6 and Cartoon Network Europe, and distributed by Taffy Entertainment.
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Plot
World's Greatest Heroes is not directly connected to any of the previous iterations of the Fantastic Four, telling its own version of the team's origin and their encounters with their rogues gallery. Unlike its 1994 predecessor, which consisted almost entirely of straight or modified reinterpretations of classic Fantastic Four comic book stories, World's Greatest Heroes primarily features original stories, though elements from various comic iterations of the Fantastic Four were used in the series, as well as the live-action film.
Cast
Main
Hiro Kanagawa – Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic
Lara Gilchrist – Susan Storm / Invisible Woman
Christopher Jacot – Johnny Storm / Human Torch
Brian Dobson – Ben Grimm / The Thing, Flatman
Sam Vincent – H.E.R.B.I.E., Trapster, Peter Parker
Paul Dobson – Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom, Mole Man, Captain Ultra, Doombots
Sunita Prasad – Alicia Masters
Guest stars
Mark Acheson – Attuma
Michael Adamthwaite – Namor
Don Brown – Henry Peter Gyrich
Trevor Devall – Diablo
Michael Dobson – Ronan the Accuser, Mr. Bonner-Davis
Brian Drummond – Agent Pratt
Laura Drummond – Courtney Bonner-Davis
Mark Gibbon – Hulk
Jonathan Holmes – Wizard
Andrew Kavadas – Bruce Banner
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 – Kl'rt/Super-Skrull
John Payne – Hank Pym/Ant-Man
Alvin Sanders – Phillip Masters/Puppet Master
Rebecca Shoichet – Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk, Squirrel Girl
Venus Terzo – Lucia von Bardas
Lee Tockar – Terminus
Production
In October 2004, it was announced Marvel Studios and MoonScoop Group would be teaming up to produce an animated series based on the Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four comic book series which would be shopped to potential buyers. After development began, Christopher Yost was hired to serve as story editor for the series and worked with Craig Kyle, in developing the series. In March 2006, it was announced Cartoon Network had picked up the series for broadcast.
Broadcast
During its original run on Cartoon Network, the series was subject to an erratic airing schedule, with only 8 of 26 episodes being broadcast. Cartoon Network briefly brought the series back in June 2007 to tie in with the release of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, but this run would also be cut short. As a result, the series was not broadcast in its entirety until 2009, when Nicktoons acquired the rights to air it alongside Wolverine and the X-Men and Iron Man: Armored Adventures.
