39:39 Actually, it was Marv Wolfman who came up with the idea of reinventing Lex Luthor as a corporate businessman. When John Byrne was tasked to reboot Superman's origin, Wolfman gave Byrne the idea to use in the Man of Steel miniseries.
“Well, Lois, the truth is I’m actually Superman in disguise and I only pretend to be a journalist so I hear about disasters as they happen and squeeze you out of the byline.” “You’re a sick man, Kent.” “You asked!”
@@georgemetcalf8763 Until the galaxy brains of this era actually took to Twitter to moan that DCAU Superman did so much destruction. - It is barely believable even when seen, but a natural progression for some of the blind Snyderverse Superman haters (As in, they hate it so much they can’t actually use stuff that’s IN it: e.g. Instead of saying “he didn’t smile as much as Christopher Reeve or Tim Daly did”, they claim “Cavill NEVER smiles”), to be fair.
Just finished watching this with my 9 year old son and he loves this just like I did when I was his age. Now we moved on to watching Justice League. His favorite episodes are with Lobo and Batman.
Fun fact about the voice of Brainiac, Corey Burton: He has a history of voicing robotic characters in Transformers media. Shockwave in G1, and Megatron in Transformers Animated.
He also dubbed over the Presenter in the full cut rerelease of Fantasia (because the audio had degraded on the old footage of the previously “deleted” scenes.)
@@leithaziz2716 It's strange too since Burton's Shockwave is nowhere near the cold logical machine that later versions (like Prime) will portray the character as. The voice he uses for Brainiac would be perfect for a purely logical Shockwave, cold but with enough room for the occasional emote.
15:36 This criticism reminds of when I once said as a child to my father that doing something strenuous was easier for him because he was stronger. He assured me that just because you’re stronger it doesn’t mean you won’t feel strain. This Superman embraced that notion and it should be followed in other adaptations.
I assumed the strain was not from the strength needed to lift it but the strength needed to lift it without breaking it or having it tip over. Sure most people lift a small plank of wood but imagine if the plank was the same weight but incredibly long. Now imagine you can break it like a twig easily but you don't want to. You would have to balance holding it on to it tightly with not trying to snap it at the same time.
Literally so hype, the BTAS Retrospective was GREAT! I feel like honestly STAS is as good an adaptation of the Superman mythos in the same way BTAS is for Batman, so I always love seeing this show get some looks, it deserves it.
The reinventions of Brainiac and Toyman in STAS have always been my absolute favorite takes on the villains. Making Brainiac a Kryptonian A.I. directly responsible for Krypton's destruction is so much more compelling than just another random alien bad guy. And this version of Toyman is just plain unsettling.
The way the show had Darkseid make brief appearances at the end of episodes leads me to believe that the MCU took inspiration in the way they treated Thanos and his appearances.
Naw, the Darkseid teases were fewer in quantity and arguably better quality. He shows up in The Tools Of The Trade, then beats Superman for the first time in Father’s Day.
Ty soooooooooooooo much! This is my second favorite DCAU show, with Batman Beyond being my number one. I hope you do a retrospective and review about that one too whenever you get the chance. Great job and ty again my fellow Trek fan!
The Supergirl was Kara In-Ze because DC refused other surviving Krytponians. They made Argos a separate planet. This was subtle but overtly overlooked later when Didio took over DC.
General consensus - at least among the people I know - is that the DCAU superman is vulnerable to Kryptonite and Magic, just like any other version, but feels pain from a larger range of things. For instance, electrocution is not going to kill him, but it clearly hurts like hell. Bullets are no big deal, but any nonstandard weaponry can present a problem (what’s in Toyman’s ball? How does it work? Does it bend physics?) and sometimes he seems to be hurt a bit more if he’s simply not paying attention. Kinda like not being able to tense up before a punch if you don’t know the punch is coming. He’s not really any more vulnerable than other iterations, just more sensitive. This is a superman that could shake off an atomic bomb, but could have problems with a really hot habanero sauce, you know?
There is also the fact that this version of Superman seems more vulnerable to sneak attack, often being knocked around until he can pull himself together and brace himself.
Sometimes the art quality itself can doom perceptions. Like with “Superman’s Pal”. I love the plot and voice acting, but the “degraded” too-anime animation (that doesn’t happen in most episodes; if the “bad” animation was there for the whole show then it’d be less of a problem) beat it up in my eyes.
Rev. Howell reminds me heavily of Rev Jacob Meeker from the 1988 remake of The Blob. Also, a rutabaga is a type of turnip so arguing whether it's one or the other seems redundant. It's like arguing about whether or not something is a pumpkin or a gourd. I'm glad the creators continued with Justice League and gave more closure to the end of Superman: The Animated Series with Superman's friend at Star Labs, Prof. Hamilton, betraying him but only because Superman betrayed Hamilton first.
One of the main reasons I this Superman is definitive for me is because Clark Kent isn’t treated as a disguise which always made more sense for me because he was Clark before he was Superman
@@dracrorasco4907 I hate how people think of Superman as an alien. He grew up on a farm in Kansas. His parents were good folk. He is Clark Kent. If you found out one day that you were adopted, that doesn't completely change who you are.
The Superman of the animated series reminds me of Dean Cain's version of Superman in "Lois and Clark", a favorite show (of mine) from the mid 1990s. Some of the scenes are very similar and Lois Lane's character is quite similar.
I watch them back to back, and the similarities are crazy sometimes. Even a couple episodes echo eachother. Dean Cain in my all time favorite live action superman if I'm throwing in a hot take.
Another great retrospective. You mentioning Spawn TAS really makes me to see a retrospective on that series. It was really good and didn't get love that I think it deserved.
The only thing that dislike me, it was the final episode, "Legacy", as it ended with Superman getting his reputation destroyed by Darkseid, leading to that most of the people, including several former friends, turn on Superman, leaving only to his closest friends as his only supporters. But instead to makes a next Season to see how the Man of Steel will regain the trust of the people of Earth, it ended scrapped, leaving some holes that were never explained, because to the events of "Justice League animated series", that takes some years after the events of "Superman the animated series", the Man of Steel already retrieved the trust of the people, at least in some degree, leaving some unanswered questions about the events of this time skip.
I think a DC film/tv Universe is a lot harder to bring from the comics than Marvel because Marvel all stems from the Stan Lee Bullpen. All the characters in Marvel have a unique selling point that fits the style of the Universe. The origins of DC comes from lots of different writers and shoehorned together. Because of this Superman has a lot of the powers of Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter sometimes making them redundant. Batman sticks out like a sore thumb with no powers and an entirely different tone and visual style. The DCAU really did a good job of integrating these characters into a working world where they interact each other, and kept Superman’s OP nature in check.
Superman is honestly my favorite super hero. His boundless optimism and refusal to break his morals makes a great character which sadly so few people write well. Imo he’s gained a reputation as dull and boring because few writers understand that even though one of his powers is super strength his stories don’t excel at brawls. Villains exploiting Superman’s morality and love for others can always be compelling, but so many just see him as boring punchy man. I think Superman also acts as a great foil for other characters. Batman wouldn’t be so tragic imo if every hero was like him. But when compared to Superman you can see how devastating Batman’s life has been and how it’s shaped him, and how he wants the many Robins to be the next Superman, not the next Batman. But this also serves to prove how interesting Superman can be when you realize he’s gone through just as much as Batman. Superman is broken too, just in his own ways. He, like Batman, aspires to be the thing he needed as a child: a symbol of hope and a world saver. Also Jonathan and Martha Kent are great and I’ll never forgive Zack Snyder for Man of Steel
This show my Superman without a doubt. It has my favorite versions of its villains, favorite version of Metropolis, and everything in between. This show legitimately influences a lot of characters in my own stories I love it so much
Thank You for this! Superman The Animated Series doesn't get enough credit. It really doesn't, but it definitely should. I love this version of Superman. In fact it is by FAR my favorite Version of him.
Love that you did this retrospective. I have seen a couple of Batman animated series retrospectives, so I hesitated watching another one. I did watch yours a couple weeks after release. Here with Superman, I didn’t hesitate, cause I didn’t watch any retrospective for this show yet.
Definitely can’t wait for you to do Justice League and Ultimate! Found you bc of your Batman The Animated Series retrospective and I’m hooked! Great job
Im right there with you on this being the definitive Superman. Im always grateful to this show for introducing me to the whole "Fourth World" story. And one of my favorite all time villains Darkseid.
I preferred Batman: TAS, but Superman was a very good follow-up. I really hope you cover Justice League and JLU - I'm really enjoying this miniseries 😄
The "energy balsts/ energy status" etc were almost certainly workarounds for the strict anti-cartoon violence rules of the 90s (and 80s, and 70s, and 60s, and...). Like how GI Joe heroes or even villains almost never actually got shot, and they all shot lasers instead of bullets.
23:00 I like Lobo i think he's a very intresting foil for superman, because in many ways he is everything superman isn't, he's basically asking those who think superman is too goody-two-shoes "Is this really what you think superman should be like?"
Superman TAS truly captured what makes superhero genre fantastic and diverse, with stories ranging from the traditional heroics, the scifi adventure, the crossovers (World's Finest) , the outlandish (Mxyptzlk, Lobo episodes) , the detective capers (The Late Mr. Kent, which means Timm and crew got to at least do a Noir like episode), the larger than life scope (anything involving the New Gods) and the dark moments (Apokolips... Now). Basically, it felt like a greatest hits of the best Superman stories. (still wish Bruce Timm didn't veto having Krypto The Superdog though). It also had in my opinion the best out of comic adaptation of Supergirl, in fact it was a better modern incarnation of the character than any of the incarnations used in the comics Post-Crisis. Despite DC's mandates of Superman being the Last Son of Krypton at the time (outside of the Phantom Zone criminals, which not even the comics used at the time Post Crisis), the crew still managed to design an incarnation that was pretty faithful to the Pre-Crisis Supergirl even if she wasn't Kryptonian.
Requesting a Justice League animated (2001) retrospective, when watching it as a kid i remember thinking the themes were dark compared to any other cartoon I'd seen, special mention to Paradise lost as the one that stuck with me most.
Byrne didn't invent the industrialist version of Luthor, Golden-age Luthor was a red-headed industrialist in his initial appearances before evolving into a bald, mad-scientist more akin to the Golden-Age Ultra-Humanite, eventually giving way to the full on silver-age brilliant-minded dastardly supervillain and his power-suit wearing Bronze-Age incarnation. Byrne resurrected, refined and popularised the concept of the industrialist. Superman TAS took all these elements and perfected them.
Loved this show, so many great calls with the lore and approach. All the Darkseid stuff is great, Apokolips Now! is basically masterpiece imo Daly, along with Cain were great (then) modernize adaptions of Clark , I love Reeve but I never liked how bumbling his Clark felt , it was too silly at times.
It’s close but I actually liked this a little better than Batman TAS. It just really spoke to me..Plus I really like how they handled Luther and Brainiac
There are many versions of Krypton, the crystalline one in the Reeve films was inspired by where Krypton was at in the 70's in the comics, as sci fi slid into more sterile territory. This would be cemented as canon with John Byrne's 1986 relaunch Man of Steel, giving us the birthing matrix and a Krypton where even husband and wife never made physical contact, all humanity long forsaken for science and utopia. The version seen on the cartoon is descended from the older concept of Krypton seen from the 40's through the 60's, with Jor El as a dashing science hero with a sun emblem on his chest in a wild world full of strange creatures and high adventure. The circle headband is a callback to this era.
The portrayal of Lobo is actually comics accurate for the time - while he started out as an edgy villain (much skinnier and with far worse fashion sense), after Simon Bisley and Giffen rebooted him in the 90's he was portrayed as a parody of the then-current wave of edgelord "heroes". Unfortunately most readers didn't quite get it. The STAS writers did, however. Lobo is not meant to be "cool". He's a juvenile a-hole who thinks with his fists (and any bladed or hooked weapons).
4:59 Wow, I didn’t know that. Imagine, Clancy Brown as Superman. That would’ve been quite different from Tim Daly, and it would’ve robbed us of the Lex Luthor we got.
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I really liked it, easily the best superman tv show, the only thing that would've improved it was some more focus on the Daily Planet (Cat Grant, Steve Lombard, Ron Troupe, and the Lois/Clark romance)
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39:39 Actually, it was Marv Wolfman who came up with the idea of reinventing Lex Luthor as a corporate businessman. When John Byrne was tasked to reboot Superman's origin, Wolfman gave Byrne the idea to use in the Man of Steel miniseries.
Please don't leave me hanging with the last of the star trek future works series...what's wrong with star trek?
“Well, Lois, the truth is I’m actually Superman in disguise and I only pretend to be a journalist so I hear about disasters as they happen and squeeze you out of the byline.”
“You’re a sick man, Kent.”
“You asked!”
Superman channelling the Mads Mikkelsen Hannibal. 😂
The writers on that show understood the assignment. Get Clark right and everything else will fall into place.
@@georgemetcalf8763
Until the galaxy brains of this era actually took to Twitter to moan that DCAU Superman did so much destruction. - It is barely believable even when seen, but a natural progression for some of the blind Snyderverse Superman haters (As in, they hate it so much they can’t actually use stuff that’s IN it: e.g. Instead of saying “he didn’t smile as much as Christopher Reeve or Tim Daly did”, they claim “Cavill NEVER smiles”), to be fair.
Some may quibble about whether this is the definitive Superman, but for me it's definitive Luthor.
And Darkseid. No disrespect to any other actors who've played him, but no one has ever topped Ironside, IMO.
Clancy Brown is king
@@woogywips ""I am many things, Kal-El, but here I am God" is hard to top from anyone.
Hard agree. Much like Kevin Conroy with Batman, Clancy Brown is always the voice I hear when I read Lex in comics.
Amen to that brother
Just finished watching this with my 9 year old son and he loves this just like I did when I was his age. Now we moved on to watching Justice League. His favorite episodes are with Lobo and Batman.
Quality time! Do you have Batman: The Animated Series on your watch list?
Fun fact about the voice of Brainiac, Corey Burton: He has a history of voicing robotic characters in Transformers media.
Shockwave in G1, and Megatron in Transformers Animated.
He also dubbed over the Presenter in the full cut rerelease of Fantasia (because the audio had degraded on the old footage of the previously “deleted” scenes.)
@@leithaziz2716 It's strange too since Burton's Shockwave is nowhere near the cold logical machine that later versions (like Prime) will portray the character as. The voice he uses for Brainiac would be perfect for a purely logical Shockwave, cold but with enough room for the occasional emote.
With the DCAU, lightning struck 5 times, Batman, Superman, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, Justice League.
What a time time.
6 times with Justice League Unlimited!
Nope. There is zero way static shock fits into that ironically named lightning list. It is far from being as good as the others.
@@dantetreMost people just count that as the same show as JL.
15:36 This criticism reminds of when I once said as a child to my father that doing something strenuous was easier for him because he was stronger. He assured me that just because you’re stronger it doesn’t mean you won’t feel strain. This Superman embraced that notion and it should be followed in other adaptations.
I assumed the strain was not from the strength needed to lift it but the strength needed to lift it without breaking it or having it tip over. Sure most people lift a small plank of wood but imagine if the plank was the same weight but incredibly long. Now imagine you can break it like a twig easily but you don't want to. You would have to balance holding it on to it tightly with not trying to snap it at the same time.
Literally so hype, the BTAS Retrospective was GREAT! I feel like honestly STAS is as good an adaptation of the Superman mythos in the same way BTAS is for Batman, so I always love seeing this show get some looks, it deserves it.
Kinda underrated just how much of a smart ass DCAU Clark is.
The reinventions of Brainiac and Toyman in STAS have always been my absolute favorite takes on the villains. Making Brainiac a Kryptonian A.I. directly responsible for Krypton's destruction is so much more compelling than just another random alien bad guy. And this version of Toyman is just plain unsettling.
Toyman in “Night of the Living Dummy”
I've always known Brainiac as robotic being i had no idea he was originally a green alien in the comics
@ Well I think the green one is still an android.
The Flash episode is significant for utilizing the sound effects and music from the 1990 live action Flash television series.
The way the show had Darkseid make brief appearances at the end of episodes leads me to believe that the MCU took inspiration in the way they treated Thanos and his appearances.
Naw, the Darkseid teases were fewer in quantity and arguably better quality.
He shows up in The Tools Of The Trade, then beats Superman for the first time in Father’s Day.
Ty soooooooooooooo much! This is my second favorite DCAU show, with Batman Beyond being my number one. I hope you do a retrospective and review about that one too whenever you get the chance. Great job and ty again my fellow Trek fan!
The Supergirl was Kara In-Ze because DC refused other surviving Krytponians. They made Argos a separate planet. This was subtle but overtly overlooked later when Didio took over DC.
It was a clever workaround as Krypton did have a colony world, Daxam, in the comics.
There's cut storyboard art of other Jack Kirby characters from Marvel attending Turpin's funeral, but they were cut for obvious rights issues.
Among the Marvel characters you can see Mr Fantastic and Caucasian!Nick Fury.
That theme isn't John Wiliams but it still says Superman to me. Epic
Shirley Walker was such an amazing talent
General consensus - at least among the people I know - is that the DCAU superman is vulnerable to Kryptonite and Magic, just like any other version, but feels pain from a larger range of things. For instance, electrocution is not going to kill him, but it clearly hurts like hell. Bullets are no big deal, but any nonstandard weaponry can present a problem (what’s in Toyman’s ball? How does it work? Does it bend physics?) and sometimes he seems to be hurt a bit more if he’s simply not paying attention. Kinda like not being able to tense up before a punch if you don’t know the punch is coming.
He’s not really any more vulnerable than other iterations, just more sensitive. This is a superman that could shake off an atomic bomb, but could have problems with a really hot habanero sauce, you know?
There is also the fact that this version of Superman seems more vulnerable to sneak attack, often being knocked around until he can pull himself together and brace himself.
@ good point!
I like to think that this version of Toyman is actually satanic-adjacent.
One thing I liked in The Last Son of Krypton was how smart Clark was in school. He gets good grades without even trying, and he's always bored
Wonderful video! Can’t wait for the next installment!
Glad you pointed out "Unity", this was always one of my fav episodes and I'm surprised how often it's framed as one of the worst.
Sometimes the art quality itself can doom perceptions.
Like with “Superman’s Pal”. I love the plot and voice acting, but the “degraded” too-anime animation (that doesn’t happen in most episodes; if the “bad” animation was there for the whole show then it’d be less of a problem) beat it up in my eyes.
Rev. Howell reminds me heavily of Rev Jacob Meeker from the 1988 remake of The Blob.
Also, a rutabaga is a type of turnip so arguing whether it's one or the other seems redundant. It's like arguing about whether or not something is a pumpkin or a gourd.
I'm glad the creators continued with Justice League and gave more closure to the end of Superman: The Animated Series with Superman's friend at Star Labs, Prof. Hamilton, betraying him but only because Superman betrayed Hamilton first.
I liked how they made Superman different that BTAS.
You could tell it was made by the same people, and that's why it's so good!
One of the main reasons I this Superman is definitive for me is because Clark Kent isn’t treated as a disguise which always made more sense for me because he was Clark before he was Superman
@@dracrorasco4907 I hate how people think of Superman as an alien. He grew up on a farm in Kansas. His parents were good folk. He is Clark Kent. If you found out one day that you were adopted, that doesn't completely change who you are.
The same is true with Dean Cain's version of Superman.
"Superman is what I can do, Clark Kent is who I am"
The Superman of the animated series reminds me of Dean Cain's version of Superman in "Lois and Clark", a favorite show (of mine) from the mid 1990s. Some of the scenes are very similar and Lois Lane's character is quite similar.
I watch them back to back, and the similarities are crazy sometimes. Even a couple episodes echo eachother.
Dean Cain in my all time favorite live action superman if I'm throwing in a hot take.
So true. After the recent US elections, when I needed something completely positive, I rewatched episodes of Superman:The Animated Series. Thank you.
Another great retrospective. You mentioning Spawn TAS really makes me to see a retrospective on that series. It was really good and didn't get love that I think it deserved.
Another epic and comprehensive retrospective from Rowan. Fantastic.
The animation of Timms style in the 90s was so fluid and dynamic, the organic touch was lost in Batman beyond and later Justice League
The budgets were significantly lowered as well.
The only thing that dislike me, it was the final episode, "Legacy", as it ended with Superman getting his reputation destroyed by Darkseid, leading to that most of the people, including several former friends, turn on Superman, leaving only to his closest friends as his only supporters.
But instead to makes a next Season to see how the Man of Steel will regain the trust of the people of Earth, it ended scrapped, leaving some holes that were never explained, because to the events of "Justice League animated series", that takes some years after the events of "Superman the animated series", the Man of Steel already retrieved the trust of the people, at least in some degree, leaving some unanswered questions about the events of this time skip.
What a wonderful review. I love the entire Bruce Timm series. The action, colors, writing and voices all mixed to bring much joy to that loved comics.
10:38. Brainiac: “So long suckers!” lol.
Awesome. I loved this show, and you've done a great job at a thorough and appreciative retrospective.
Excellent as usual, RJC! You really are quite good at this...
I think a DC film/tv Universe is a lot harder to bring from the comics than Marvel because Marvel all stems from the Stan Lee Bullpen. All the characters in Marvel have a unique selling point that fits the style of the Universe. The origins of DC comes from lots of different writers and shoehorned together. Because of this Superman has a lot of the powers of Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter sometimes making them redundant. Batman sticks out like a sore thumb with no powers and an entirely different tone and visual style.
The DCAU really did a good job of integrating these characters into a working world where they interact each other, and kept Superman’s OP nature in check.
Superman is honestly my favorite super hero. His boundless optimism and refusal to break his morals makes a great character which sadly so few people write well.
Imo he’s gained a reputation as dull and boring because few writers understand that even though one of his powers is super strength his stories don’t excel at brawls. Villains exploiting Superman’s morality and love for others can always be compelling, but so many just see him as boring punchy man.
I think Superman also acts as a great foil for other characters. Batman wouldn’t be so tragic imo if every hero was like him. But when compared to Superman you can see how devastating Batman’s life has been and how it’s shaped him, and how he wants the many Robins to be the next Superman, not the next Batman. But this also serves to prove how interesting Superman can be when you realize he’s gone through just as much as Batman. Superman is broken too, just in his own ways. He, like Batman, aspires to be the thing he needed as a child: a symbol of hope and a world saver.
Also Jonathan and Martha Kent are great and I’ll never forgive Zack Snyder for Man of Steel
Clancy Brown needs to be mentioned alongside Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill. IMO, he's just as definitive.
This show my Superman without a doubt. It has my favorite versions of its villains, favorite version of Metropolis, and everything in between. This show legitimately influences a lot of characters in my own stories I love it so much
GREAT content. Thank you for posting!
This is why I love TH-cam. I need more videos like this.
I love that you brought in Byrne's run and the comics in general.
Congrats on 150k man
♥
Up next: Justice League!
Amazing retrospective on an amazing show. StAS did the best job of making Kal-El seem truly human.
Thanks for this, Rowan
Tony Jay
Born:February 2,1933
Passed away:August 13,2006
Voiced Sul-Van Superman
Who Also Voiced Judge Frollo in Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
he was also in Lois and Clark the new adventures of superman, voiced magneto in x-men Legends, voiced Sheere khan in tailspin
Thank You for this! Superman The Animated Series doesn't get enough credit. It really doesn't, but it definitely should. I love this version of Superman. In fact it is by FAR my favorite Version of him.
Love that you did this retrospective. I have seen a couple of Batman animated series retrospectives, so I hesitated watching another one. I did watch yours a couple weeks after release. Here with Superman, I didn’t hesitate, cause I didn’t watch any retrospective for this show yet.
Once again, great job! These retrospectives of the DCAU are a real joy to listen to. Hope a review of Justice League is in our future.
Awesomework Rowan, as always - love your works!
How do ya not point out Vulcana being voiced by Roz from Frasier ??
Her name is Peri Gilpin
honestly, the level to which the DCAU team understood and cherised their characters should never be underestimated. These shows were astounding.
Definitely can’t wait for you to do Justice League and Ultimate! Found you bc of your Batman The Animated Series retrospective and I’m hooked! Great job
Loved the batman retrospective, this is just as marvellous and comprehensive ❤ thanks man!
Im right there with you on this being the definitive Superman. Im always grateful to this show for introducing me to the whole "Fourth World" story. And one of my favorite all time villains Darkseid.
What a great retrospective, thank you so much!
I preferred Batman: TAS, but Superman was a very good follow-up. I really hope you cover Justice League and JLU - I'm really enjoying this miniseries 😄
A very nicely done retrospective always enjoyed Superman the animated series just as as Batman 👍👍💯💯
Thanks for making this. Your channel is amazing! Keep up the good work!
The "energy balsts/ energy status" etc were almost certainly workarounds for the strict anti-cartoon violence rules of the 90s (and 80s, and 70s, and 60s, and...). Like how GI Joe heroes or even villains almost never actually got shot, and they all shot lasers instead of bullets.
Next up do justice league
Let's just take another moment to salute that theme song, truly worthy and right up there at William's level!
love these retrospective series. Can you do Gargoyles?
23:00 I like Lobo i think he's a very intresting foil for superman, because in many ways he is everything superman isn't, he's basically asking those who think superman is too goody-two-shoes "Is this really what you think superman should be like?"
Superman TAS truly captured what makes superhero genre fantastic and diverse, with stories ranging from the traditional heroics, the scifi adventure, the crossovers (World's Finest) , the outlandish (Mxyptzlk, Lobo episodes) , the detective capers (The Late Mr. Kent, which means Timm and crew got to at least do a Noir like episode), the larger than life scope (anything involving the New Gods) and the dark moments (Apokolips... Now). Basically, it felt like a greatest hits of the best Superman stories. (still wish Bruce Timm didn't veto having Krypto The Superdog though).
It also had in my opinion the best out of comic adaptation of Supergirl, in fact it was a better modern incarnation of the character than any of the incarnations used in the comics Post-Crisis. Despite DC's mandates of Superman being the Last Son of Krypton at the time (outside of the Phantom Zone criminals, which not even the comics used at the time Post Crisis), the crew still managed to design an incarnation that was pretty faithful to the Pre-Crisis Supergirl even if she wasn't Kryptonian.
Incredible review. Can't wait to see Batman Beyond, Justice League, and Young Justice now.
Love to see a Justice League Retrospective next!
Requesting a Justice League animated (2001) retrospective, when watching it as a kid i remember thinking the themes were dark compared to any other cartoon I'd seen, special mention to Paradise lost as the one that stuck with me most.
What a spectacular video.
Another amazing video!!!! Plz plz say the animated Justice League is next!?!?
You and Steve Shives should totally do a Superman... you know...thing.
Hey yo Coleman, still watching. Still loving. Gach durachd, brathair.
That Yes Album cover snuck in
great work!!
I’m fan of Kaufman work
Byrne didn't invent the industrialist version of Luthor, Golden-age Luthor was a red-headed industrialist in his initial appearances before evolving into a bald, mad-scientist more akin to the Golden-Age Ultra-Humanite, eventually giving way to the full on silver-age brilliant-minded dastardly supervillain and his power-suit wearing Bronze-Age incarnation. Byrne resurrected, refined and popularised the concept of the industrialist. Superman TAS took all these elements and perfected them.
Another great video. Would love to see a Justice League video next
Too much to say, so I leave it with... Thank you, RJC.
Rowan you just don’t miss
this is a great retrospective on the animated man of steel, hope you'll do a similar video on the "Justice League" series next time!
Loved this show, so many great calls with the lore and approach.
All the Darkseid stuff is great, Apokolips Now! is basically masterpiece imo
Daly, along with Cain were great (then) modernize adaptions of Clark , I love Reeve but I never liked how bumbling his Clark felt , it was too silly at times.
Looking forward to the eventual retrospective on Justice League Unlimited!
It’s close but I actually liked this a little better than Batman TAS. It just really spoke to me..Plus I really like how they handled Luther and Brainiac
There are many versions of Krypton, the crystalline one in the Reeve films was inspired by where Krypton was at in the 70's in the comics, as sci fi slid into more sterile territory. This would be cemented as canon with John Byrne's 1986 relaunch Man of Steel, giving us the birthing matrix and a Krypton where even husband and wife never made physical contact, all humanity long forsaken for science and utopia. The version seen on the cartoon is descended from the older concept of Krypton seen from the 40's through the 60's, with Jor El as a dashing science hero with a sun emblem on his chest in a wild world full of strange creatures and high adventure. The circle headband is a callback to this era.
The portrayal of Lobo is actually comics accurate for the time - while he started out as an edgy villain (much skinnier and with far worse fashion sense), after Simon Bisley and Giffen rebooted him in the 90's he was portrayed as a parody of the then-current wave of edgelord "heroes". Unfortunately most readers didn't quite get it. The STAS writers did, however. Lobo is not meant to be "cool". He's a juvenile a-hole who thinks with his fists (and any bladed or hooked weapons).
The best Superman show.
I wish Tim Daily could of reprised the role
He has in multiple animated movies
he has reprised the role in several animated films
Superman: The Plotarmour Series :D
Oh how I miss my Saturday Morning Cartoons.
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Wow, I didn’t know that. Imagine, Clancy Brown as Superman. That would’ve been quite different from Tim Daly, and it would’ve robbed us of the Lex Luthor we got.
Great Superman Animated Series.
Watching Batman:TAS on Max now, will be doing Supes after and eventually JLA. Anyone who doesnt love Max is insane.❤❤❤
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801st like. Keep it up. You're a chronicler of the ages.
The fallout of Legacy would, fortunately, get a chance to be referenced in the Justice League and JLU series’s
Yisssssssssss!
YEESSS FINALLY
Michael Ironside IMO will always be the best iteration of Darkseid. "I am many things Kal'el but here I am god..."
11:58 “Gotham is NYC at night, and Metropolis is NYC during the day.”
I really liked it, easily the best superman tv show, the only thing that would've improved it was some more focus on the Daily Planet (Cat Grant, Steve Lombard, Ron Troupe, and the Lois/Clark romance)
Are you going to do the entire DCAU? Cuz that would be cool!