Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes

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.

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.

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, Wolverine
• 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 Master/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.

Episodes

No.	Title	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original air date	Production code

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.

Home releases

DVD Name	Region 1	Episodes	DVD Name	Region 4	Episodes
Volume One	March 27, 2007	"Doomed" "Hard Knocks" "World's Tiniest Heroes" "De-Mole-Ition"	Volume One	October 10, 2007	"Trial by Fire" "Doomed" "Doomsday" "Hard Knocks"
Volume Two	September 11, 2007	"Trial by Fire" "My Neighbor Was a Skrull" "Impossible" "Revenge of the Skrulls"	Volume Two	October 10, 2007	"My Neighbor Was a Skrull" "World's Tiniest Heroes" "Zoned Out" "Puppet Master"
Volume Three	March 11, 2008	"Annihilation" "Doomsday Plus One" "Out of Time" "Shell Games"	Volume Three	February 6, 2008	"De-Mole-ition" "Impossible" "Bait and Switch" "Revenge of the Skrulls"
The Complete First Season	June 10, 2008	All 26 episodes of the series	Volume Four	June 4, 2008	"Doomsday Plus One" "Annihilation" "Strings" "Imperious Rex"
			Volume Five	September 3, 2008	"The Cure" "Frightful" "Atlantis Attack" "Out of Time" "Shell Games"