Your introduction to superheroes?

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I think everyone bases their superheroes based on the version they grew up on for the most part. Definitely think that is true for me. do you remember how you saw most of the iconic heroes for the first time? I obviously 'knew' of their existence before but these were the first time I truly watched them, being a 90s kid most of my list is obvious.


Batman BTAS, and it completely shaped who these characters were for me. I remember watching Superfriends and even the other 70s batman cartoon but that was after I had already watched episodes BTAS and I hated it since I kenw that was not how batman was supposed to act. Putting this one first since I think it might've been my first superhero cartoon.

Superman Superfriends and later some of those filmation superman cartoons. Because of this I feel I like silver age superman more since the whole he can do anything he wants was just what I expected. I do remember loving the Flesicher shorts but I watched those later, same with Superman TAS which I watched a bit later, it wasn't my introduction so while I prefer those 2, I just like the whole superman that can have any power he wants per episode take.

Spider-Man The 90s cartoon of course and man did this show get hated on in the 2000s in online forums, I know it's liked now but it wasn't always the case animation fans trashed this cartoon so hard for so many years online. But to me it gave me a quick rundown of who spider-man was and college aged bpeter parker is just spider-man to me.

X-Men Didn't watch X-Men until the mid 90s in re-runs but that show became of who the X-Men were to me as well, loved it and x-men without the 90s x-treme designs and attitude just doesn't feel like X-Men to me unlike other heroes that I can take other decade designs on them, not for x-men.

Spawn We all knew Spawn as kids but it wasn't until the movie came out and I saw it that I finally really saw who he was and I love that movie, I know it gets hated on but to me it still feels like a decent origin story. Crazy to me there was no kid friendly Spawn cartoon to cash-in in the 90s. I know the HBO cartoon but that was only 3 seasons and while amazing it was likely a mistake not to have saturday morning cartoon.


I think those are all the major ones but yeah all the other marvel heroes cartoons from the 90s were also my introduction to them, and later Justice League to the other DC heroes. Only exception would be flash since I saw that TV Movie live action version.