I'm pretty sure Nick worried about kids walking into laboratories and using a laser chamber contraption to become Danny Phantom. That'd explain why it got canceled.
I swear, the scene in the gas station is like some comedy sketch. A flashy costumed comic book super villain arrives in his pimped out car, the attendant somehow isn’t impressed and talks of it like it’s a normal car, causing the villain’s ego to explode out of control as he wrecks up the place just because no one acknowledges his amazing super car he worked so hard on.
Magneto explaining his plans of taking the money from the bank and clarifying it not stealing is literally Dingo picture level of writing. And I love it.
Yeah Herbie was so epic that in the moon scoop fantastic 4 cartoon he was just an A.I and didn’t have a dumb looking robot body. Although that cartoon had a crossover with She-hulk and it she way better than her MCU counterpart.
Honestly, HERBIE being secretly evil the whole time because he was forced to put up with stupid shit like this with a smile makes him the best character in hindsight.
It should be said by every video game boss prior to the final battle, regardless of genre (and it should be accompanied by a parody of the "Master of Magnets" line, e.g. "I am Dr. Eggman! Master of robots!")
The funny thing is, Herbie secretly being a robo-supremacist who hates the FF and wants to destroy them seems like the kind of joke Phelous would make already, but the fact that it actually has some basis in the comics makes it truly special. Plus, the Starscream voice was a nice touch.
It’s very “scrappy is the bad guy” in that one scooby-doo movie but herbie isn’t nearly as reviled as scrappy was. (And even in some series scrappy was alright tbh)
The funniest thing I know about Human Torch is that he actually was the reason we have Spider-Man. Johnny was really popular as a teen hero so Spider-Man who was being made actually was made a teenager to crib on Johnny’s popularity. And then Spider-Man got 10 shows while Johnny can’t even be on a Fantastic Four show!
woah honestly i'm really surprised honestly....like seriously i can't believe there was a time when the fantastic four were bigger than Spiderman (then again he was created after them)
@@ironmaster6496 to show how popular they were, to hype up Spider-Man’s first comic in his own run, he tried to join the FF. That’s how popular they were, that having them on your cover was the reason to get ‘amazing Spider-Man #1
@@user-lb9xw4xf2q The Marvel Universe more-or-less started with _Fantastic Four_ #1, even if some things were refitted onto it as it grew. At that point Johnny was the only Human Torch in that continuity.
I still laugh that Magneto was mind-broken so hard by a wooden gun that, even when it's pointed out to him that it was wood the entire time, he still lets himself go to jail. The best part is that he himself has already stated why he couldn't move the money with his "amazing power of magnetism" so it's not like he wouldn't be able to understand why the fake gun would be unaffected. Then again, this was the 70s. The writing back then was wild.
As the Master of Magnetism, you'd really think he'd encountered non-ferrous metals before as well. So it's even more baffling how he gets so upset that he can't control something.
"The money isn't metal! I can't use my powers on it! Oh, wait, I'll just summon some big metal boxes or a truck or something and we can put all the money into that. Like how people usually move a lot of cash!"
I'm glad we eventually got past the "everybody has to have a stupid car" phase of cartoons. And not only did Magneto forget his car could fly, he forgot he could fly. Love the image of Magneto taking the elevator.
Must’ve been Magneto’s down years: where he demonstrated the very bare minimum of his powers and actually thought owning the Fantastic 4 was a good idea.
Magneto being voiced by Mr. Slate is all kinds of weird but I love his nondescript "Things begin to happen!" warning. Not specific things, just...signs bending, or maybe a bingo game, or a pot luck dinner!
Here's a fun fact, H.E.R.B.I.E. was actually going to be in the 2015 Fantastic Four movie created by Reed Richards to keep him company while he was in hiding. That was just one of many things that got cut due to studio meddling/constant rewrites.
I still think the movie was okay, though if they were to fight a villain from the Negative Zone it should have been Annihilus. Saving Dr. Doom for later and giving him more development in the following movie(s) would have been better as I found him very rushed in Fant4stic.
@@bearerofbadnews1375 Fantfourstic ok now would have been awesome, not because it sounds actually cool but because i'm really curious on how the funny robot dude would have worked on such a realistically dry movie
@@ironmaster6496 Apparently it was from a draft of the script before Josh Trank became involved, he was the one who wanted to take the project in a more serious, borderline horror-inspired direction. Apparently there was supposed to be build up for a sequel with Galactus. Maybe it was in there? Who knows, Trank himself has said the final film bears very little of what he originally wanted to make and had so many scenes removed.
Played Lego marvel superheroes recently, and saw it had an achievement called the menace of magneto, and it was literally to drive to the Baxter building in the magneto mobile as magneto. The developers must have really liked this episode
There's a reason why I gave Reed Richards the nickname of the World's Smartest Dumbass and I never seem to run out of examples as to how he's earned that title. Like this cartoon and everything involving Magneto, Master of Dumb and with H.E.R.B.I.E, since he apparently created the Marvel universe's own version of HK-47. Complete with the desire to exterminate all the stupid meatbags.
@@gracekim1998 In fairness to the OP, it is kind of wild how far Phelan's gotten ahead of... his own schedule so it may have been the "3 months" part that confused them rather than it just having been up before it became publicly accessible. EDIT: Well, not the OP, but you get my drift. On the OP's comment, it's notoriously difficult to write superhumanly intelligent characters without having them just... always be right about everything. Most writers try to avoid that and massively oversteer but he _can_ be a great character in the right hands. I thought Hickman's writing for him in his run of New Avengers was excellent, even in the events (which were otherwise a bit of a mess).
@@bearerofbadnews1375 I'm not much for the Ultimate universe but he didn't start that way, right? I was a bit surprised when he turned up as one of the Big Bads in Time Runs Out.
"Whatever MAGNETO finds offensive must always be DESTROYED!" Say what you will about the man, Magneto was ahead of the curve when it came to average internet discourse.
The Combination of Magneto's gormless expression, that costume, and his incredible pettiness, makes him feel like he's just a dude off the street with delusions of grandeur, who accidentallyed himself into great power.
The Wabuu cameo killed me. Looks like Magneto is the real founder of Dingo with his iconic head bobbing laugh. I love how checked-out Old Man is at this point too, after Sue made the money invisible he couldn't sell Beauty to Magneto for it. Why did Magneto need the money? Well it's not like he can sell his daughter to the X-Men's Beast for money. Not after he died when his Loneliness Meter ran out.
@@couchalmark675 Depending on the writer, Magneto's power is limited to ferrous metals, which means iron (of course,) cobalt, and I think nickel. When writers really want to crank his power level up he can manipulate protons and electrons, or even charged quarks, but at either of those latter points you no longer have materials that he can't control.
4:00 I swear the writer for this comic got a pay raise just to do this panel. It's just so unexpected to see the Human Torch's legally-required stand-in just tear into his teammates, complete with (censored) swearing, likely after having to sit through all sorts of uber-cheesy late-70s/early-80s Saturday morning cartoon plots.
I want to imagine that this Magneto had his mind broken by what he had to suffer during WWII and his days ended peacefully in a hospital where he's received regular visit from Charles and this was his only act of super-vilainy.
Great content as always Phelan! I love that Magneto stole a cable car, painted his initial on it, and terrorized the gas station attendant from Mayberry! 😂
I was wondering why Magneto was going on about gas in the recent bootleg zones. Now we know that he has a deadly vendetta against this one gas station attendant. Magneto everyone, one of the most enduring villains in Marvel.
Magneto is arguably the coolest and most compelling Marvel villain, so it's a bit sad that he was so easily tricked by Mr. Fantastic. It's still hilarious though.
@@BigK13372 are you freaking kidding me???? the senile old man is the first animated Magneto??, so that means that avarage joe the gas station worker really was his first nemesis ever (outisde of comics)
Fun fact: back when comics were a lot less rigid about things like "continuity" and "how actual reality works even a little bit," Magneto was shown to have a form of mind-control as he could use his "MAGNETIC PERSONALITY" to give someone orders they HAD to follow. He literally justified by declaring "I am a master of ALL forms of magnetism!"
I find it interesting that Phelous' first introduction to the Fantastic Four was a cartoon that replaced one of the most iconic members with an attempt to be more toyetic only because Universal wouldn't let them use Johnny Storm. Also, the whole "HERBIE replaced Johnny Storm because they were afraid kids would light themselves on fire" claim sounds way too silly compared to the Universal deal reasoning.
And yet, the video cover Phelous held had Human Torch instead of H.E.R.B.I.E., making me wonder if the makers of the video didn't know Johnny was replaced, or it was done on a strict time limit in order to make a set release date.
Ah, yes. I remember that arc from the X-Men comics where Liberace became Magneto's personal stylist. You can see how it influenced his appearance on this show.
9:32 - I kind of love the concept of Sue Storm turning things invisible just to inconvenience the villains; like, was there a time she stopped Dr. Doom with an Emperor's New Clothes trick?
A supervillain asking for directions to a superheroes' headquarters at a gas station sounds so much like a Venture Bros. bit. I can just imagine the Monarch doing that while ordering Henchmen 21 to go pick up some snacks from the gas station.
I remember this VHS tape from my childhood. I was the opposite, as I knew the Fantastic Four with the Human Torch, so I was confused by Herbie the Robot. I was confused why Magneto was mixed up with the Fantastic 4 when I was used to seeing him on the cover of X-Men comics. This was a weird time for cartoons.
Magneto: Survivor of the Holocaust that has experienced all the evils of mankind, and seeing their treatment of mutants causes him to rise up and have mutant kind take over the planet. A man who's biggest enemy was once his best friend who he turned against when he didn't see eye to eye with his more peaceful means. A tragic figure who indulges in his darkest impulses because he feels the ends justify the means. Also Magneto: I make flying car and rob bank to be leader of non-mutant super hero group. ARRRGH! I am defeat by wood gun that doesn't even shoot. And can we get a moment to appreciate how bottom of the line the animation is here? No wonder they had to get Toei to animate things since Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends.
A stand-alone Human Torch live-action TV series? How the heck did Marvel think that would even work? Would it just be a guy in a flame suit once in awhile, with Johnny Storm solving mysteries most of the episodes?
And one of Ted Cassidy's roars he did for a Hulk cartoon was recycled and used by Unicron in one scene of The Transformers: The Movie. (Learned that from the CerealGeek TH-cam channel.)
There actually was an early issue of the Hulk that had a similar resolution. He was fighting a villain named the Metal Master and to trick him, the Hulk makes a gun prop out of cardboard making the villain think he lost his powers.
I have to imagine this takes place sometime in the future where Magneto has just gone senile and escaped whatever retirement home they put him in after his retirement from pro-mutant terrorism.
I don't care what new animated project Marvel does that features Herbie, if Phelous isn't voicing that robot I'm not watching, that delivery of the "inhibitor chip removal" was gold.
Other cartoons I would love to see Phelous cover: - Pryde of the X-Men (the one where Wolverine has a Australian accent) - Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (to celebrate Doctor Who's 60th anniversary) - Fred and Barney meet the Thing (the one with the Thing rings) - The 1994 Spider-Man cartoon (specifically the two-parter with the Octo-Bot, Spidey gaining amnesia, and telling a young fan his origin) - Batman: The Brave and the Bold (specifically Mayhem of the Music Meister) - Superman: The Arctic Giant (or any of the Fleischer/Famous Studio Superman cartoons)
@@dnmstarsi He already talked about it when he reviewed the Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm episode "Resurrection" which is the third part of the crossover.
@@domtaylor1887 I am already aware, dude. However, he only summarized those episodes as opposed to actually reviewed them in depth and even then, that was probably done to better explain what the deal was with the orb and why some dude went after that after Raiden chuck it to the Wing Commander Academy world.
Saw this series when I was in my teens. Hated it, though don't remember any episodes of it. Thanks for giving Mr. Evanier's insight about why the Human Torch wasn't used in it, 'cos had read and heard the other story about the reason for it.
Mr. Girthmore's the worst. He threw away a light bulb that didn't work, he wanted to earn money with his business and he made his customers an offer they couldn't refuse (cookies) Beauty: gasp!
Words cannot express my joy that two of my interests have combined: Old Marvel cartoons and Phelous reviewing stuff. Perhaps one day you'll review something from the Spider-Woman cartoon. But if not, I am so excited to hear you talk about any old Marvel cartoon. The level of detail you go into is always fascinating.
I like how this Magneto has the same voice actor as Captain Murphy from Sealab 2020, because this totally seems like the kind of stuff the Sealab 2021 Murphy would do if he gained magnetism powers. Maybe you should have also had Starscream comment, "You sound like Thundercracker now!"
I was gonna make a comment about that. Always got Captain Murphy vibes from Magneto given how it's the same dude from the Saturday Morning show and has an Adult Swim counterpart who's crazy and idiotic enough to do this sort of shit.
I know what Phelous means. This episode was my intro to the Fantastic Four (and Magneto) too. I remember being so confused when I saw the comics and thinking "Hey, where's H.E.R.B.I.E.? Who's this fire guy?"
I knew you had to cover this episode eventually after referencing it in last week’s Bootleg Zone. I just didn’t expect you to do it literally the next week. Thank You Phelous.
If only Magneto had his own team of super-powered beings who were loyal to him to help him rob banks. Sadly, as we all know Magneto always worked alone... And was a Fantastic Four villain. Damn, this was a new level of stupid.
*Magneto:* "I AM MAGNETO! MASTER OF MAGNET!" *Reed:* "If you say so." *Spiderman:* "With great power comes great responsibility." *Reed:* "If you say so." *Firestar:* "So it *wasn't* the Z99 gas!" *Reed:* "If you say so." *Xavier:* "We will never know." 🤔💭 *Reed:* "If you say so."
My favorite parts: Harry Kim vs Magneto Round 1! Fight! 8:56-9:07 Magneto welcomes a street sign to die! 9:53-9:56 Spider-Man is busy and Infanada wants a flying car 11:49-12:08 Fantastic chickens meet the master of magnet 12:58-13:06
I heard before "Human Torch might make kids set themselves on fire, so they replaced him with a robot" but I thought that meant Johnny Storm was switched out with the other Human Torch who is a robot, not that the Human Torch was swapped out altogether with a completely random robot!
Did Marvel ever worry about kids supergluing rocks all over themselves to become the Thing?
I'm pretty sure Nick worried about kids walking into laboratories and using a laser chamber contraption to become Danny Phantom. That'd explain why it got canceled.
Maybe Magneto got so pissed because the gas at the gas station wasn't the Z99 gas.
So it wasnt the z99 gas
I swear, the scene in the gas station is like some comedy sketch.
A flashy costumed comic book super villain arrives in his pimped out car, the attendant somehow isn’t impressed and talks of it like it’s a normal car, causing the villain’s ego to explode out of control as he wrecks up the place just because no one acknowledges his amazing super car he worked so hard on.
The real moral is to never be rude to gas station attendants
As someone who works at a gas station I can confirm karma befalls all those rude to us.
If you say so
Magneto is the most sane tesla owner I've ever seen.
Magneto sounding like a crotchety old man and getting mad over the smallest remarks in this cartoon makes this a lot of fun to watch
Magneto Yells At Clouds!
Well he play chess in a park in the X-Men 3 movie sooo...
WELCOME TO DIE!
That was the late great Don Messick who has voiced everyone from Mr Slate on the Flintstones, The original Scooby Doo, and Hampton Pig on Tiny Toons.
@@TomMSTie1138eh! Just like Old man🤣
Defeated by a wooden gun. Just let that sink in...
Magneto explaining his plans of taking the money from the bank and clarifying it not stealing is literally Dingo picture level of writing. And I love it.
& then you realize stan lee directed that episode
It was all meant to be indeed 👍
This is like The Next Mutation of the Fantastic Four.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 And yet this Magneto is much more menacing than all of TNM's Rogues Gallery.
If you say so
HERBIE, THE FIFTH HERO!!!
Also known as THE GRRREATEST FANTASTIC FOUR CHARACTER!
The Fantastic Four are like The Beatles if all the members were Ringo :v
Yeah Herbie was so epic that in the moon scoop fantastic 4 cartoon he was just an A.I and didn’t have a dumb looking robot body. Although that cartoon had a crossover with She-hulk and it she way better than her MCU counterpart.
@kingkaza Heh, CR ref, nice.
The fifth member of the 4
Honestly, HERBIE being secretly evil the whole time because he was forced to put up with stupid shit like this with a smile makes him the best character in hindsight.
"OK, Magneto, here's some painkillers. Take two every four hours until--"
"NO ONE TELLS MAGNETO WHAT TO DO!"
As he pours an entire bottle of Vicodin tablets into his mouth and chews belligerently like a goat.
It's been said before, but alternative episode title:
Man in blue spandex psychologically breaks elderly holocaust survivor with a fake gun.
"WELCOME... TO DIE!"
I still love that crazy line from the X-Men game.
I love how Deadpool references it in MvC3: "MAGNETO! WELCOME TO DIE!"
It should be said by every video game boss prior to the final battle, regardless of genre (and it should be accompanied by a parody of the "Master of Magnets" line, e.g. "I am Dr. Eggman! Master of robots!")
"DIE X CHICKEN!"
The funny thing is, Herbie secretly being a robo-supremacist who hates the FF and wants to destroy them seems like the kind of joke Phelous would make already, but the fact that it actually has some basis in the comics makes it truly special. Plus, the Starscream voice was a nice touch.
It’s very “scrappy is the bad guy” in that one scooby-doo movie but herbie isn’t nearly as reviled as scrappy was. (And even in some series scrappy was alright tbh)
the live action one@@BrinIoca
@@BrinIoca I like scrappy
The funniest thing I know about Human Torch is that he actually was the reason we have Spider-Man. Johnny was really popular as a teen hero so Spider-Man who was being made actually was made a teenager to crib on Johnny’s popularity.
And then Spider-Man got 10 shows while Johnny can’t even be on a Fantastic Four show!
woah honestly i'm really surprised honestly....like seriously i can't believe there was a time when the fantastic four were bigger than Spiderman (then again he was created after them)
@@ironmaster6496 to show how popular they were, to hype up Spider-Man’s first comic in his own run, he tried to join the FF. That’s how popular they were, that having them on your cover was the reason to get ‘amazing Spider-Man #1
Johnny was also the second Human Torch, with the first one beinga robot, I think, and damned if it is even in a passing mention. lol
@@user-lb9xw4xf2q The Marvel Universe more-or-less started with _Fantastic Four_ #1, even if some things were refitted onto it as it grew. At that point Johnny was the only Human Torch in that continuity.
@@BronzeBoy520 So this episode is a loose remake of ASM 1 with magneto in the spider man role. Weird.
This cartoon does present us with a terrifying concept: What If an old man with dementia got incredible superpowers?
Basically Mermaid Man.
You would have Charles Xavier from Logan
Dementia 5
@@brandonlyon730 "EVIIILLLLLLLL!!!"
I think you accidentally predicted Hughies Father from The Boys.
I still laugh that Magneto was mind-broken so hard by a wooden gun that, even when it's pointed out to him that it was wood the entire time, he still lets himself go to jail. The best part is that he himself has already stated why he couldn't move the money with his "amazing power of magnetism" so it's not like he wouldn't be able to understand why the fake gun would be unaffected.
Then again, this was the 70s. The writing back then was wild.
As the Master of Magnetism, you'd really think he'd encountered non-ferrous metals before as well. So it's even more baffling how he gets so upset that he can't control something.
"The money isn't metal! I can't use my powers on it! Oh, wait, I'll just summon some big metal boxes or a truck or something and we can put all the money into that. Like how people usually move a lot of cash!"
because he really thinks that gun can't be wood
Who would have thought that all the X Men had to do was to throw a piece of wood at him, would have saved them a lot of trouble
I'm glad we eventually got past the "everybody has to have a stupid car" phase of cartoons. And not only did Magneto forget his car could fly, he forgot he could fly. Love the image of Magneto taking the elevator.
there's an obvious reason everyone had a stupid car: cartoons were made to sell toys and that included vehicles sold separately
@@Feasco That doesn't really explain the Thanos Copter though. That wasn't in a cartoon. It simply happened.
Magneto still got better treatment here than Doom ever did with Fox.
Must’ve been Magneto’s down years: where he demonstrated the very bare minimum of his powers and actually thought owning the Fantastic 4 was a good idea.
The 70s were weird. Maybe he was just super high.
Clearly this Magneto was one of the lesser Xorns in disguise.
Then there was the few years that Marvel lost the X-Men to Fox, but even Magneto wants to forget about that
Magneto being voiced by Mr. Slate is all kinds of weird but I love his nondescript "Things begin to happen!" warning. Not specific things, just...signs bending, or maybe a bingo game, or a pot luck dinner!
John Stephenson also voiced Dr Doom in the Same show.
Ironically, John Stephenson voiced Professor X in a pilot for an X-Men cartoon before the one we all knew from 1992.
@@gigabuster_87Frank Welker voiced Toad in that Pilot as well.
That poor gas station worker.
As someone who's worked behind the counter, I've met people like Magneto everyday. 😠
Here's a fun fact, H.E.R.B.I.E. was actually going to be in the 2015 Fantastic Four movie created by Reed Richards to keep him company while he was in hiding. That was just one of many things that got cut due to studio meddling/constant rewrites.
Holy cow!❤
I still think the movie was okay, though if they were to fight a villain from the Negative Zone it should have been Annihilus. Saving Dr. Doom for later and giving him more development in the following movie(s) would have been better as I found him very rushed in Fant4stic.
Actually the film is called Fant4stic.
@@bearerofbadnews1375 Fantfourstic
ok now would have been awesome, not because it sounds actually cool but because i'm really curious on how the funny robot dude would have worked on such a realistically dry movie
@@ironmaster6496 Apparently it was from a draft of the script before Josh Trank became involved, he was the one who wanted to take the project in a more serious, borderline horror-inspired direction. Apparently there was supposed to be build up for a sequel with Galactus. Maybe it was in there? Who knows, Trank himself has said the final film bears very little of what he originally wanted to make and had so many scenes removed.
Played Lego marvel superheroes recently, and saw it had an achievement called the menace of magneto, and it was literally to drive to the Baxter building in the magneto mobile as magneto.
The developers must have really liked this episode
That's amazing!
There's a reason why I gave Reed Richards the nickname of the World's Smartest Dumbass and I never seem to run out of examples as to how he's earned that title. Like this cartoon and everything involving Magneto, Master of Dumb and with H.E.R.B.I.E, since he apparently created the Marvel universe's own version of HK-47. Complete with the desire to exterminate all the stupid meatbags.
Why does your comment say it was from 3 months ago?
@@Elvusmiwpateron. How has you guys not gotten it yet?😅
@@gracekim1998 In fairness to the OP, it is kind of wild how far Phelan's gotten ahead of... his own schedule so it may have been the "3 months" part that confused them rather than it just having been up before it became publicly accessible.
EDIT: Well, not the OP, but you get my drift. On the OP's comment, it's notoriously difficult to write superhumanly intelligent characters without having them just... always be right about everything. Most writers try to avoid that and massively oversteer but he _can_ be a great character in the right hands. I thought Hickman's writing for him in his run of New Avengers was excellent, even in the events (which were otherwise a bit of a mess).
Well Reed may be a smart dumbass, but he is still better than Ultimate Reed Ricards he’s a super villain in that universe.
@@bearerofbadnews1375 I'm not much for the Ultimate universe but he didn't start that way, right? I was a bit surprised when he turned up as one of the Big Bads in Time Runs Out.
"Whatever MAGNETO finds offensive must always be DESTROYED!"
Say what you will about the man, Magneto was ahead of the curve when it came to average internet discourse.
The Combination of Magneto's gormless expression, that costume, and his incredible pettiness, makes him feel like he's just a dude off the street with delusions of grandeur, who accidentallyed himself into great power.
The menace of magneto’s daily commute
The Wabuu cameo killed me. Looks like Magneto is the real founder of Dingo with his iconic head bobbing laugh. I love how checked-out Old Man is at this point too, after Sue made the money invisible he couldn't sell Beauty to Magneto for it.
Why did Magneto need the money? Well it's not like he can sell his daughter to the X-Men's Beast for money. Not after he died when his Loneliness Meter ran out.
I love how everybody acts like they have a room temperature IQ in this.
22:57 Big talk from the Master of Magnet, but he seems to forget that out of all the metals he only controls 3, lead not being one of them!
I'm trying to remember what this is referencing but it escapes me.
@@couchalmark675 Depending on the writer, Magneto's power is limited to ferrous metals, which means iron (of course,) cobalt, and I think nickel. When writers really want to crank his power level up he can manipulate protons and electrons, or even charged quarks, but at either of those latter points you no longer have materials that he can't control.
@@boobah5643 Correct. Iron, cobalt and nickel are the only metals that respond to magnetism.
It's funny how Magneto just happens to have a helicopter, even when his "gas-less" car already looks like helicopter without the rotors and tail.
Magneto: *asks for directions
Also Magneto: DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!
Magneto: "A wooden gun!"😧 Waboo: "Most of the Fantastic Four villains are sooo stupid."😄
4:00 I swear the writer for this comic got a pay raise just to do this panel. It's just so unexpected to see the Human Torch's legally-required stand-in just tear into his teammates, complete with (censored) swearing, likely after having to sit through all sorts of uber-cheesy late-70s/early-80s Saturday morning cartoon plots.
I want to imagine that this Magneto had his mind broken by what he had to suffer during WWII and his days ended peacefully in a hospital where he's received regular visit from Charles and this was his only act of super-vilainy.
Great content as always Phelan! I love that Magneto stole a cable car, painted his initial on it, and terrorized the gas station attendant from Mayberry! 😂
Clearly Magneto didn't need gas because he was full of it already.
Magneto throwing a fit was pure gold 😂
I love this Magneto. Screw nuance, screw tragedy...he's just a grouchy old man that "can do anything" except deal with wooden guns.
Magneto's brain just straight up breaking after he finds out the gun's wooden will never not be funny to me
I was wondering why Magneto was going on about gas in the recent bootleg zones. Now we know that he has a deadly vendetta against this one gas station attendant. Magneto everyone, one of the most enduring villains in Marvel.
5:04 I'd argue there's no better use for your powers than to hold hands with your partner.
Pathetic Magneto is just perfect.
3 months? Was this a Patreon exclusive at one point?
@@EarthboundXyes😅 please stop asking
As a dedicated HERBIE fan, seeing him curse at his creators gives me new life. Thank you, Phelous, for this wonderful experience.
To be fair, Reed Richards has been such a jerk throughout the years that HERBIE's outburst seems very reasonable.
@@Boltscrap working with Reed seems like a easy way to be miserable while accomplishing nothing
Despite all the silliness here, it's still a better representation of the Fantastic Four then the 2015 trashfire
It's definitely more colourful, that's for sure.
Magneto is arguably the coolest and most compelling Marvel villain, so it's a bit sad that he was so easily tricked by Mr. Fantastic. It's still hilarious though.
And never forget THIS is his first media appearance outside of the comics.
THIS! The one where he jobbed out to a toy gun.
@@BigK13372 are you freaking kidding me???? the senile old man is the first animated Magneto??, so that means that avarage joe the gas station worker really was his first nemesis ever (outisde of comics)
There was a Dr. Magneto from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, but I don't think he was supposed to be the same character...
@@BagOfMagicFoodThis was decades before they gave him the origin and motivations he's well known for today.
Fun fact: back when comics were a lot less rigid about things like "continuity" and "how actual reality works even a little bit," Magneto was shown to have a form of mind-control as he could use his "MAGNETIC PERSONALITY" to give someone orders they HAD to follow.
He literally justified by declaring "I am a master of ALL forms of magnetism!"
Magneto’s one weakness is pranks, I guess
I find it interesting that Phelous' first introduction to the Fantastic Four was a cartoon that replaced one of the most iconic members with an attempt to be more toyetic only because Universal wouldn't let them use Johnny Storm.
Also, the whole "HERBIE replaced Johnny Storm because they were afraid kids would light themselves on fire" claim sounds way too silly compared to the Universal deal reasoning.
And yet, the video cover Phelous held had Human Torch instead of H.E.R.B.I.E., making me wonder if the makers of the video didn't know Johnny was replaced, or it was done on a strict time limit in order to make a set release date.
Old Marvel cartoons like this are comedy goldmines
The gas station scene is one of the greatest things iv ever seen. Just magneto being mad about the whole car situation is hilarious.
Of course Magneto is offended that the guy say he needed gas. He invented the world's first electric hybrid car.
Ah, yes. I remember that arc from the X-Men comics where Liberace became Magneto's personal stylist. You can see how it influenced his appearance on this show.
... You joke, but they could've believably dressed Michael Fassbender Magneto in Liberace-esque clothing. Missed opportunities.
9:32 - I kind of love the concept of Sue Storm turning things invisible just to inconvenience the villains; like, was there a time she stopped Dr. Doom with an Emperor's New Clothes trick?
The real reason Xavier and Magneto got into a feud that divided mutantkind:
Xavier once said that Magneto should switch to a normal gas car.
Magneto: "No one questions Magneto!!"
Firestar: "I thought your name was Magnetto."
Magneto: "THAT'S IT! THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN NOW!!"
Magneto: WELCOME TO DIE!
And Magneto channels his inner Siro...
Man he's gonna freak when ceramic guns get invented.
Finally, gas station attendant gets the respect he deserves. Go away, Charles! You've been replaced as number one adversary in Magneto's heart.
A supervillain asking for directions to a superheroes' headquarters at a gas station sounds so much like a Venture Bros. bit. I can just imagine the Monarch doing that while ordering Henchmen 21 to go pick up some snacks from the gas station.
I remember this VHS tape from my childhood. I was the opposite, as I knew the Fantastic Four with the Human Torch, so I was confused by Herbie the Robot. I was confused why Magneto was mixed up with the Fantastic 4 when I was used to seeing him on the cover of X-Men comics. This was a weird time for cartoons.
Magneto: Survivor of the Holocaust that has experienced all the evils of mankind, and seeing their treatment of mutants causes him to rise up and have mutant kind take over the planet. A man who's biggest enemy was once his best friend who he turned against when he didn't see eye to eye with his more peaceful means. A tragic figure who indulges in his darkest impulses because he feels the ends justify the means.
Also Magneto: I make flying car and rob bank to be leader of non-mutant super hero group. ARRRGH! I am defeat by wood gun that doesn't even shoot.
And can we get a moment to appreciate how bottom of the line the animation is here? No wonder they had to get Toei to animate things since Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends.
A stand-alone Human Torch live-action TV series? How the heck did Marvel think that would even work? Would it just be a guy in a flame suit once in awhile, with Johnny Storm solving mysteries most of the episodes?
John Stephenson and Frank Welker from Transformers. Nice. John playing a goofball version of Magneto, hilarious.
And one of Ted Cassidy's roars he did for a Hulk cartoon was recycled and used by Unicron in one scene of The Transformers: The Movie. (Learned that from the CerealGeek TH-cam channel.)
Reviewing these goofy Marvel productions from the 70's and 80's are comedy gold. More, please!
Can't wait for the ultimate crossover. Gas-Man vs. Goron!
So I’ve always figured that Magneto is just sitting in the car using his power to move it along. Same story with that thing Frieza rode around in.
There actually was an early issue of the Hulk that had a similar resolution. He was fighting a villain named the Metal Master and to trick him, the Hulk makes a gun prop out of cardboard making the villain think he lost his powers.
The story's in The Incredible Hulk number 6 (1962).
"Old X-Man yells at signs"
I have to imagine this takes place sometime in the future where Magneto has just gone senile and escaped whatever retirement home they put him in after his retirement from pro-mutant terrorism.
I wonder if Magneto can hear his voice echoing in his helmet?
magneto: reed richards has fallen, i magneto am now the leader of the fantastic four
Johnny: "Sounds great!"
Reed: "No, Johnny."
Yep, that's basically how my brain remembers most of the Fantastic Four cartoons going. Gosh, I love the.
I don't care what new animated project Marvel does that features Herbie, if Phelous isn't voicing that robot I'm not watching, that delivery of the "inhibitor chip removal" was gold.
y'know Magneto, if you're moving your car around with your magnet powers, I don't see the point of you having a steering apparatus in it
More and more I’m finding this version of Magneto enjoyable. I thank you for sharing this with us Phelous.
Other cartoons I would love to see Phelous cover:
- Pryde of the X-Men (the one where Wolverine has a Australian accent)
- Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (to celebrate Doctor Who's 60th anniversary)
- Fred and Barney meet the Thing (the one with the Thing rings)
- The 1994 Spider-Man cartoon (specifically the two-parter with the Octo-Bot, Spidey gaining amnesia, and telling a young fan his origin)
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold (specifically Mayhem of the Music Meister)
- Superman: The Arctic Giant (or any of the Fleischer/Famous Studio Superman cartoons)
I'd love to see him cover The Warrior King crossover from USA Network.
@@dnmstarsi He already talked about it when he reviewed the Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm episode "Resurrection" which is the third part of the crossover.
@@domtaylor1887 I am already aware, dude. However, he only summarized those episodes as opposed to actually reviewed them in depth and even then, that was probably done to better explain what the deal was with the orb and why some dude went after that after Raiden chuck it to the Wing Commander Academy world.
@@dnmstarsi Okay.
This is one of my new favorite Phelous episodes.
Saw this series when I was in my teens. Hated it, though don't remember any episodes of it. Thanks for giving Mr. Evanier's insight about why the Human Torch wasn't used in it, 'cos had read and heard the other story about the reason for it.
The gloating gas station attendant was a great running gag.
14:20 Still, Magneto destroying mail boxes can't be as vile as Mr Hyde throwing silverware into the river!
Mr. Girthmore's the worst. He threw away a light bulb that didn't work, he wanted to earn money with his business and he made his customers an offer they couldn't refuse (cookies)
Beauty: gasp!
@@andreasnickmann370 Which one of Phelous' reviews was it?
Magneto's car flys and yet he parks in the no parking zone 😂
Words cannot express my joy that two of my interests have combined: Old Marvel cartoons and Phelous reviewing stuff. Perhaps one day you'll review something from the Spider-Woman cartoon. But if not, I am so excited to hear you talk about any old Marvel cartoon. The level of detail you go into is always fascinating.
I like how this Magneto has the same voice actor as Captain Murphy from Sealab 2020, because this totally seems like the kind of stuff the Sealab 2021 Murphy would do if he gained magnetism powers.
Maybe you should have also had Starscream comment, "You sound like Thundercracker now!"
I was gonna make a comment about that. Always got Captain Murphy vibes from Magneto given how it's the same dude from the Saturday Morning show and has an Adult Swim counterpart who's crazy and idiotic enough to do this sort of shit.
Oh dude! This episode has lived rent free in mine, my wife’s and my best friend’s heads for decades!
Money is printed with magnetic inks as a way to reduce counterfeiting. So he should have been able to lift the money.
I know what Phelous means. This episode was my intro to the Fantastic Four (and Magneto) too. I remember being so confused when I saw the comics and thinking "Hey, where's H.E.R.B.I.E.? Who's this fire guy?"
I knew you had to cover this episode eventually after referencing it in last week’s Bootleg Zone. I just didn’t expect you to do it literally the next week. Thank You Phelous.
It’s funny that the ‘If I beat him in combat you all gotta make me the leader’-plot, silly as it is, also was used in the Black Panther movie.
Man, these old cartoons are a goldmine of material for your comedy. And there's that shirt that I'm not _at all_ extremely jealous of again.
And Jaboody Dubs. And Tedfufu.
4:13 Actually it's a federal crime to tamper with a mailbox. Magneto's in big trouble for this one.
I love how he busts-out an entire soliloquy about the woes of traffic. Then plays the sovereign-citizen card. "I'm not driving, I'm Magnetoing."
If only Magneto had his own team of super-powered beings who were loyal to him to help him rob banks. Sadly, as we all know Magneto always worked alone... And was a Fantastic Four villain.
Damn, this was a new level of stupid.
The Gas Station Attendant is the best character
"every car needs gas" well, not unless you're Ghost Rider whose motorcycle runs of Hellfire.
*Magneto:* "I AM MAGNETO! MASTER OF MAGNET!"
*Reed:* "If you say so."
*Spiderman:* "With great power comes great responsibility."
*Reed:* "If you say so."
*Firestar:* "So it *wasn't* the Z99 gas!"
*Reed:* "If you say so."
*Xavier:* "We will never know." 🤔💭
*Reed:* "If you say so."
My favorite parts:
Harry Kim vs Magneto Round 1! Fight! 8:56-9:07
Magneto welcomes a street sign to die! 9:53-9:56
Spider-Man is busy and Infanada wants a flying car 11:49-12:08
Fantastic chickens meet the master of magnet 12:58-13:06
Why isn't this Magneto as big a meme as the "Master of Magnet"? He's magnificent!
Im so here for the Clue reference. One of my fav movies ever. Madeline Kahn is a treasurer
I heard before "Human Torch might make kids set themselves on fire, so they replaced him with a robot" but I thought that meant Johnny Storm was switched out with the other Human Torch who is a robot, not that the Human Torch was swapped out altogether with a completely random robot!
I'm looking forward to seeing random gas station attendant in the MCU.