You guys didn't have Eek! The Cat in the lineup! A travesty...to be sure. Anyone remember this cartoon?? It was cancelled for being too violent. It totally belongs here!

"Spider-Man: The Animated Series" pretty sure was a dark cartoon. Even though humor is present on the series, the tone and some issues are very mature and dark for a kid's show. Themes like loss, grief, corruption, greed, power, patriotism, responsability, abusive relationship (Hydro-Man and Mary Jane) etc etc, are some of them. Also, there's a lot of dark moments on this series, like: • When Spider-Man wears the alien costume, he becomes so dark that he almost kill Rhino and Shocker, and even threaten J. Jonah Jameson and Eddie Brock with violence • When Spider-Man becomes the monster Man-Spider • The first episode of the series, "Night of the Lizard", is dark • The two episodes featuring the X-Men are very mature and serious • The two episodes featuring Daredevil are very mature and dark • Episodes featuring Green Goblin are very dark, especially "The Turning Point" and "The Return of the Green Goblin" • Following the episode "The Turning Point", the series changes its tone, becoming more serious, heartbreaking and dark • Episodes featuring Venom and Carnage are very dark, as they are pretty sinister and menacing villains • Episodes featuring Morbius are pretty dark • Some villains have a very frighting appearance, like Venom, Carnage, Morbius, Lizard, and others • Mary Jane's clone watery death is the darkest and saddest scene of the entire series • Spider-Carnage's redemption and sacrifice is very heartbreaking and dark If you remember another dark, mature or heartbreaking moment of this fantastic series, please be welcome to write it down on the comments.

Gargoyles felt like a Dark Fantasy that teased a happy ending just to pull the rug from us.

Y'all are assholes for mixing up LaMarche's and Paulsen's names. Show some respect!

Spider-Man the Animated Series Batman the Animated Series and Ren and Stimpy and courage and a little bit of Powerpuff Girls

Also X-Men, my favorite Wolverine.

@@Woozlewuzzleable My three favorite superhero cartoons. Spider-Man, X-Men and Batman.

I consider it a criminal injustice that Spider-Man: The Animated Series never got a proper conclusion of the Mary-Jane storyline.

@@krizwatcher Same here.

@@Woozlewuzzleable the X-Men series that Disney is reviving isn't going to be the same show we love. I can guarantee that. some of the shows themes are going to be toned down and there'll be changes so it's more suited for the current state that society is in today. a lot of fans aren't going to like those progressive, inclusive and diverse changes even though that's pretty much the picture that the X-men's creators wanted to paint when they created the X-Men

That show was amazing

SHOULd be no.1

or Batman

More like the golden age of human kind

10/10 decade for sure

DCC = Cool DCU = Not cool

@@sweatysam6264 I personally like the DCEU.

@@BlazerK1914 I didn't say it was bad just not good. And for the record no I haven't seen the Zack snydercut of Justice League but I've seen all the other films and there are alright just not on Marvel standards I mean I feel like they really earned that climatic end.

But dbz is better

X-Men is better.

I was checking to see if anyone had!

Thanks you

I'd argue that they reintroduced him entirely. The mr. freeze from the 60s wasn't named victor fries

I hope they adapt the Onslaught saga. I know I was scared by Onslaught 2nd form's face in MVC 1

@@chronoplex89 "Know my name and fear it. I am Onslaught!"

@@mikejohn29mj NO ONE IS SAFE!!!

@@chronoplex89 The dream is dead!

I mean, the first season of X-Men TAS had the Day Of Future Past storyline; Wolverine going to an mutant extermination camp, and seeing the tombstones of all the other X-Men, Jubilee dying especially young. Doesn't get much more dark than that.

I wish the last movie adapted the Alpha Storyline. That would have been awesome to see on the big screen. Watching Alpha's transformation was horrific

And wolverine puch cyclops dude had it comming

i knew batman was but had no idea the same was done for the other two. makes complete sense

This is a bit off topic.. but cool info nonetheless 👍

@@intothefrayyo it’s literally 💯 on topic 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@forsaken7976 sure bud 👍

I wonder how they managed to pencil in the outlines of the characters.

Yeah, I remember that episode... it's disturbing and has to be one of WatchMojo's top 10 times Disney went too far.

Conroy and Hamill are MY Batman and Joker as well. :)

His name is Robert Paulson.

And now, modern cartoons are crap, Except for indie animation.

Even cartoons aimed at preschoolers?

True, but the list is about kids shows.

My thoughts exactly! 😄

The special where Ed's brother appears was kind of dark. Showing that Blood only make related but loyalty makes you family. Then the episode where everyone is thinking about their future and Ed doesn't like that. Then it show all of them as elderly men that keep reflecting on their past

OMG I MISS THAT SHOW! 😫

It's amazing how a series so heavily censored could still be so dark.

@@GrandmasterDevo the series was not censored. The creator, John Semper, stated that thousands of time. The thing that "Spider-Man was censored" is a myth created by the internet.

When Kraven helps capture Calypso

@@wynonasbigbrowndragon6121 good one. The episode "The Return of Kraven The Hunter" is pretty dark too

Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one that remembers the existence of that show

@@wynonasbigbrowndragon6121 It needs more attention.

I rewatched the series recently and Jubilee isn't that bad (definitely not my favorite though) but Cyclops and Jean are so arrogant and stuck up and just don't grow as characters at all I just wanted to slap them both. I thought magneto was awesome as a kid and after watching it again decades later still think he is awesome.

Animaniacs writers must have either been Amurican fanatics or the talmudic people.

"Spider-Man: The Animated Series" pretty sure was a dark cartoon. Even though humor is present on the series, the tone and some issues are very mature and dark for a kid's show. Themes like loss, grief, corruption, greed, power, patriotism, responsability, abusive relationship (Hydro-Man and Mary Jane) etc etc, are some of them. Also, there's a lot of dark moments on this series, like: • When Spider-Man wears the alien costume, he becomes so dark that he almost kill Rhino and Shocker, and even threaten J. Jonah Jameson and Eddie Brock with violence • When Spider-Man becomes the monster Man-Spider • The first episode of the series, "Night of the Lizard", is dark • The two episodes featuring the X-Men are very mature and serious • The two episodes featuring Daredevil are very mature and dark • Episodes featuring Green Goblin are very dark, especially "The Turning Point" and "The Return of the Green Goblin" • Following the episode "The Turning Point", the series changes its tone, becoming more serious, heartbreaking and dark • Episodes featuring Venom and Carnage are very dark, as they are pretty sinister and menacing villains • Episodes featuring Morbius are pretty dark • Some villains have a very frighting appearance, like Venom, Carnage, Morbius, Lizard, and others • Mary Jane's clone watery death is the darkest and saddest scene of the entire series • Spider-Carnage's redemption and sacrifice is very heartbreaking and dark If you remember another dark, mature or heartbreaking moment of this fantastic series, please be welcome to write it down on the comments.

And no. Spidey did punch on this series. This is a myth created by the internet. There were punches on this series

@@Gabriel_Santos2001 he punched but wasn't allowed to actually hit people. He missed plenty of times. Just like how all the guns, minus that one episode about robbie's son were laser guns. He wasn't also allowed to land or hurt pigeons.

@@thecunninlynguist there were episodes featuring real guns. And there were pigeons too. The laser guns were creative decisions. And, missing a punch doesn't mean he didn't throw a punch. Spidey threw more than 20 punches on this series. On Batman, for example, there were episodes where characters never throw a single punch. We see only kicks and characters grabbing and throwing each other away. And when they throw a punch, most of them are not seen or missed.

@@Gabriel_Santos2001 none of the guns shot bullets. That is a fact. The only "real" gun was the tombstone/robbie ep. There were pigeons, I didn't say there weren't any. I said he wasn't allowed to hurt or land on them. And did you miss the part where I said he wasn't allowed to actually hit people? I never said he didn't throw punches, I said he was never actually allowed to hit people with a punch.

It's in watchmojo top 10 teenage mutant ninja turtles rip offs

Yes! I'm actually rewatching Exo-Squad now (free on Peacock with limited ads)! That show was way ahead of its time - being heavily serialized in an era where daytime cartoons just didn't do that - and darker than 90% of what's on this list! Racial politics, major character deaths, that one episode where the mutated alien gets aboard the ship and kills all but a few survivors. Fully agreed!

They’re Pinky, they’re Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, NARF!

It's also an 80's cartoon.

@@AlexSeverinski didn't see the 90's part 🤦🏿‍♂️

@@AlexSeverinski but it did end in 91 so...does that count.