The Super Hero Squad Show
| The Super Hero Squad Show | |
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Promotional poster
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| Genre |
Action-Adventure Comedy Science fantasy |
| Created by | Stan Lee |
| Voices of |
Charlie Adler Alimi Ballard Steven Blum Dave Boat Jim Cummings Grey DeLisle Mikey Kelley Tom Kenny Stan Lee Tara Strong Travis Willingham |
| Theme music composer |
Parry Gripp & David Ari Leon |
| Opening theme | "The Super Hero Squad Show" Theme |
| Ending theme | "The Super Hero Squad Show" Theme (instrumental) |
| Composer(s) | Guy Michelmore |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 52 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Stan Lee Alan Fine Simon Philips Eric S. Rollman Joe Quesada Dan Buckley Jeph Loeb |
| Producer(s) | Dana C. Booton |
| Running time | 22–24 Minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Film Roman Ingenious Media Marvel Animation |
| Distributor | Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Cartoon Network |
| Original release | September 14, 2009 – October 14, 2011 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Super Hero Squad Show is an American cartoon series by Marvel Animation. It is based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad action figure line from Hasbro, which portray the Avengers, the X-Men, and various other characters of the Marvel Universe in a cartoonish super-deformed-style. It is also a self-aware parody of the Marvel characters, with influences taken from on the comedic Mini Marvels series of parody comic books, in that the heroes tend to find themselves in comedic situations, and have cartoonish bents in comparison to their usually serious personalities (such as The Incredible Hulk being jovial and good-natured but with "major anger issues"), and is an overall comedic take on the Avengers. The series' animation was produced by Film Roman and Marvel Animation.
Prior to the beginning of the series, the villainous Doctor Doom, in pursuit of universal domination, attempts to acquire the limitless reality-bending power of the "Infinity Sword." He is stopped by Iron Man, but as a consequence of their battle, the sword is shattered into numerous "fractals" that rain down on Super Hero City.
Doctor Doom has forged alliances with just about every super-villain forming the Lethal Legion in order to hunt down the scattered fractals, each of which possess dangerous and different powers of their own. Doom's forces, including his two primary henchmen MODOK (whose appearance seems to have been altered from the original version) and the Abomination, dwell in Villainville, which is separated from Super Hero City by a giant wall that is directly seen at the start of the series premiere. Once again opposing Doom's plan is Iron Man, now leading the elite team known as the Super Hero Squad, consisting of himself, the Falcon, the Hulk, the Silver Surfer, Thor, and Wolverine. Their signature battle cry is, "All right, Squaddies, time to hero up!" Marvel initially intended to put Spider-Man in at least one episode of the show, but Sony Pictures Entertainment (then-owners of Spider-Man's television rights) appears to have chosen not to allow it. However, Spider-Man appeared in Marvel Super Hero Squad's video games and other tie-ins.
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