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Keith David's voice work as Spawn was epic! That man's voice is iconic and drips evil with every inflection. No one has done it better.

Todd McFarlane’s Spawn deserves the top spot on this list. The show literally pushed the boundaries for an animated series by showing things that were never seen in cartoons before, and boy did it deliver in every episode. I pray we get a continuation one day so Spawn can get a proper conclusion.

‘Todd MacFarlane’s Spawn’ became one of the best animated shows in the ‘90s. Surprisingly, it won an Emmy. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Aeon Flux deserves at least an Honorable Mention. Love that series.

Glad someone remembers the animated Hellboy movies they’re hella underrated and underappreciated imo.

Every video you make is always something that people love. I'm glad this show exists

‘The Death of Superman’ is still one of my top 5 most favorite DCAMU movies.

Keith David bordered the line of Shakespearian brilliance with his performance as Spawn. Even with the new generation of intense series that have come out, Spawn will forever stand alone. RIP Richard Dysart, who voiced Cogliostro for the animated series.

All adult-themed, animated superhero shows are indeed meant for hundreds of thousands of older teens, young adults, 30-something-year-olds, and middle aged people alike.

The Boys: Diabolical is AMAZING. I thought Return of the Joker would be up here as well. That was pretty dark.

Damn I forgot about The Maxx. I loved that show as a kid. This list is legit.

Stripperella was surprisingly good. I'm surprised it didn't get more seasons.

Even though I don’t agree with all the changes they made to the Invincible show, I’m happy to see it’s making waves now like it used to. And I love how, even as adult as the Harley series is, it also weirdly gives the best reasons why Batman shouldn’t merc his rogues. Most of them are reformed do-gooders in that series. Even the Joker. The Joker!

I found Spawn in a complete steelbook at an FYE probably 10 years ago. I'd never seen it but at $20 I couldn't resist. Don't regret it for a second 😊

Spawn TAS was the first adult oriented cartoon show I ever ver saw. So glad its not forgotten.

Great list. Some new content to put on my must-watch list now. Thanks!

You missed one, Rob Zombies El superbeasto, it’s messed up but incredibly entertaining

I’m interested to see if Young Justice makes the list because while the first two seasons were definitely marketed to kids the latter two most certainly were not

I love how a good majority of the list was from DC. And a good majority of that majority was from Batman

Recently heard that Blumhouse is pushing for the upcoming Spawn to be released in 2025. I just hope that it is just as good if not better than the animated series and nothing like the 90s movie.

I remember watching the Awesomes in five days a year ago and being obsessed with it. It was so good and really under appreciated. It had good characters, writing, and an amazing voice cast from Saturday Night Live and Mad TV. I wish it can come back for another season or two💚.

I don't know about y'all but the DCAMU was awesome! the amount of action and seriousness put into it was incredible.

Finally! Spawn TAS is shown the respect it deserves! 👏

Half of these are Batman movies lol.

Nice list! Will definitely have to check out the ones I haven’t seen yet

Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law (2000-2007;2018) and The Delta State (2004-2005) are the best ones out there In my opinion

Aeon Flux and Super Mansion deserve an honourable mention on this list as well.

Really surprised that Killing Joke didn't make this list. Great movie, great graphic novel. What he did to Barbara and Jim is still one of the darkest things Joker has ever done.

interesting clip ! ... 😊👍 Good animations, with good story modes behind ! ... 😊👍

The amount of DC content on this list is why I love DC Animation.

I stumbled on to 'Stripperella' flipping through channels one night with one of those 'what the hell is this' moments. And while I don't remember much beyond the name and the basic design of the character and hero costume - I do remember liking the idea of a superhero stripper because honestly - it was just so different. I mean - there's how many millionaires/billionaires, scientists, you have acrobats, reporters, soldiers, diplomats, a few cops/ex-cops, students, a lot of 'typical' jobs that so clearly make it easy to be one cause all the money to live or puts you in a position to do both at the same time, or are some past thing where it's almost part of the tropes. Stripper is just so left field by comparison and it's actually great, especially if you were to have a Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark do a double take and point out that some people have to actually work for a living and aren't super geniuses (or perhaps she is and it's an easy way to fool people in to thinking she isn't cause people assume things). Given the legal past they'd likely have to change the name, maybe character design and all, or just out right make a new character/characters - but it'd be interesting to see Marvel (since it was a Stan Lee thing) if they actually had the marbles or more likely DC since they seem less concerned about ticking people off run with the idea even if they had to make it a bit more tame like it's a bar where certain amount of clothing stays on (cause those do exist) and what not.

DC cartoons have been really good for a long time, especially the movies.

Harley Quinn, Stripperella, Hit Monkey and M.O.D.O.K. are my favorites. I had hoped to get my Stripperella DVD set signed by Stan Lee but never got the opportunity :(

The new Harley Quinn HBO animated series is pure gold, can't wait for season 4 at the end of this month. Todd Mcfarlane's Spawn is pretty good watch too

Loved Hellboy blood and iron and Hellboy sword of storms. Watched both like 50 times each 😅😂❤🎉

Great list! If you ever update it, you have to include Heavy Metal.

Gods and Monsters deserves a spot. Vampire Batman? Yes please!

All of them are masterpieces loved this video I have watched most will watch more obscure one now

The reason Stripperella got cancelled is because Stan Lee was sued by a former stripper who accused him of stealing her idea when they were talking at the strip club.

Please do Ranking Batman’s love interests from Worst to Best!

Harley Quinn is one of my all time favorite adult themed superhero cartoons! And I used to watch the Hellboy Animated films all the time when I was younger In fact I still have them on DVD I also loved Stripperella when I was a teen sure it was weird but it made me laugh.

U guys research so much , bow down to u guys for such in depth analysis..

What a bunch of awesome series and movies

Great list

If anyone wants to know, there’s Spawn as a DLC character in Mortal Kombat 11 but you can find him to fight against him for free in any towers. He’s absolutely awesome.

There's also that other stop motion show called Supermansion. It's funny as hell and it's on prime video right now; definitely worth taking a look.

I truly concur with your number 1 and 2.! I couldn't believe both of them!! They were Outstandingly shocking and Shockingly outstanding!!

One animated series or movie that comes to mind is "Gen 13". Originally created by Jim Lee the comic book was adapted into a movie that depicts how the team came to be. Only showing three characters evolution the movie also saws The voice talent of Mark Hamill as the main villain. It might have been drawn in the same style as the Justice League series but in no way is it kid friendly. Another one I can think of is the series called Titan maximum which is more of a spoof of the classic Voltron and power Rangers aesthetic. Old claymation stop motion and with vulgar humor that had a cliffhanger at the end of the series. It was originally on adult swim. I do not know if you would consider anime to be on the list but one that also I hold dear to my heart is Bio-booster Armor Guyver. Cyber 6 could have been on this list if it was not toned down for kids. When did superheroes movies especially animated movies became so Gory? I don't know if you guys even remember but wasn't the anime Marvel shows more adult? It was a iron man, blade, wolverine, and an X-Men anime which actually was in my opinion more adult as well. You can't forget punisher and black widows staying alone movie and iron Man technovore movie. Heck the ultimate avengers movies will probably more adult as well. Not sure if you guys are aware of these titles but Stan Lee worked on a animated movie called condor and another one called mosaic before he did super 7 or was it mighty 7?

I've watched several of your videos in the past 10+ years but never subscribed....until now. I found everyone of the titles very interesting and many within my reach in the streaming services that I subscribe to. Of these series and movies, I've seen several of the Spawn episodes.

The Maxx was amazing! The story and art of the comic had me hooked, then I stumbled upon MTV’s twisted television (after taking an especially impressive and mind melting square). The Maxx animated series along with Aeon Flux, Spawn etc was awesome. Psychedelics and MTV’s twisted television in my younger years = life changing haha

Some honorable mentions: 1) Supermansion - satire of superhero series similar to "The Awesomes" (I think they even came out around the same time), except this was made by the same people who made "Robot Chicken" and "M.O.D.O.K" (i.e. stop-motion) and had Brian Cranston as a superman-like character (subterran 2) The Killing Joke - this movie had a ton of hype behind it. Iconic graphic novel made by the infamous Alan Moore? Check. Kevin Conroy as Batman? Check. Mark Hamil as Joker? Check. Created by the same people who made Batman, Superman and Justice League series in the 90's? Check. So what went wrong? The first half of the movie was used as a new prologue to the story, dedicated to making batgirl fall in love with batman, resulting in them eventually having sex on the roof of a building. Seriously? No one asked for that Seriously, most DC animated movies since the late 2000's were targeted to either young adults (teen titans) or adults proper (I think Justice League Dark was the first R rated movie)

Had me worried for a sec That does deserve to be #1

Justice League Dark should have been at least mentioned if not included on this list. It’s successor, “Justice League Dark: Apocalypse War” may have upped the ante in terms of darkness and brutality, but it’s predecessor laid the foundation for it and is dark and brutal in its own right.

One Punch Man got pretty dark at times. Btw, my favorites on this list is Hellboy, Maxx and Invincible.

Surprised that the Son of Batman animated movie wasn't on this list. That's a pretty brutal movie, I'm pretty sure. Haven't seen it yet, but I'm looking forward to watching it and Under The Red Hood one of these days.

Great Video 🙊🤯🥰😍😁💗

That was well done I totally agree with you

I think The Legend of Vox Machina deserves a spot on this list or at least an honorable mention.

This guy's gettin' good!

The Awesomes was the most under appreciated show. I loved that show so much!

Stan Lee's Stripperella was def something. Now that would be an interesting live action one and team up with avengers; sadly could never happen now.

Glad someone remembers the animated Hellboy movies they’re hella underrated and underappreciated i

"Harley Quinn", "Striperella", and "Invincible" are the only ones I know on this list. I learned about number seven and one from another video, but didn't know what shows they were. I have seen trailers for "Invincible"! Also, I didn't know "Harley Quinn" was an adult superhero cartoon. It does suck how some on this list were the shortest running series! I haven't seen any of these shows on this list. I'd like to check them all out! They seem like great shows! Also, the ladies in these shows looks so nice!😍

I have the Hellboy animated, and the Spawn but only the two seasons of that. I like both of them. I'll have to check out the others.

I’m probably one of the few who remembers The Maxx. I loved that show. It’s from back when MTV was good. That’s the first show I thought of when I saw this video in my suggestions. I was actually surprised to see it included here though. Like I said, I don’t think many people today remember it.

a shame you missed Frisky Dingo, the precursor to Archer, but I'm impressed you included The Maxx.

that you put the dark knight returns over red hood is speachless

I still have to applaud the choice to cast Peter Weller as Batman in The Dark Knight Returns. It works well, but it's also a nod to Frank Miller's involvement in the screenplays for the second and third Robocop movies.

The Maxx is a great animated series! Have not seen it in years!!! I’m going to have to look for it.

So Glad Spawn Is a special Guest in MK11 his lines are badass

Spawn definitely deserves #1. Man that show was off the chain. I was disappointed when the creators never made a new season. I still remember how I felt watching Spawn back when it first premiered.

Cant wait for the day that we can watch curated playlists on streaming of these lists! MAybe by then it would be one streamer to rule them all!

That's funny, I remember Hellboy: B&I being aired on Cartoon Network (no, I don't mean Adult Swim) back around the time The Golden Army came out in theaters.

@6:34, looks like Gordon is the narrator with his mouth matching the narrator's voice.

"I scream, You scream, we all scream for ice cream"

i feel like the Haunted World of el Superbeasto needs a spot on this list!

What people pointed out alongside me is that Spawn was added as a guest character in MK11, which confused me when they introduced him.

#7 I want more of it!!!

Man! Justice League Dark: Apokolypse War is fantastic

Cool 👍

I think all of the adult superhero cartoons are my gritty favorites

You nailed the Number 1….🎉

Can’t believe that the actor of Jesse in Minecraft story mode voices Modok

The Maxx is a gem

It's amazing how DC nominates in the animation universe and now I wish to have a new DCU like this only.

how did tripping the rift not make this list

Imo, flashpoint paradox is the most comic accurate editions of the flashpoint storyline, it's honestly a great film

How tf did dark war not get first that shit was actually traumatizing

Some of the Batman flix, they are some of favorites

I remember the first time I saw the max instantly I knew there was a higher genre of animation and screenwriting that could never be touched! Till this day it is absolutely my favorite animated series! Absolutely love the Twisted evolution of certain players in the series along with the Great Northern crabbit and the is! Hands down the best animation I've ever encountered!

Great video thanks! TL;DR: The video "Top 20 Most Adult Superhero Cartoons" lists the following shows: 1. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight 2. Marvel's Modok 3. The Awesomes 4. The Death of Superman 5. Injustice 6. Hit Monkey 7. Batman: Year One 8. Hellboy: Blood and Iron 9. Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay 10. Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox 11. Justice League Dark: Apocalypse War 12. Batman: Under the Red Hood 13. The Max 14. Constantine: City of Demons 15. The Boys Presents: Diabolical 16. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Parts 1 and 2 17. Stripperella 18. Harley Quinn 19. Invincible 20. Todd McFarlane's Spawn Additionally, the video mentions "Stripperella" and "Justice League Dark: Apocalypse War" as adult superhero cartoons, but they are not part of the top 20 list. These shows are known for their mature themes and are not typically suitable for younger audiences.

Nice

I am surprised that the Venture Brothers didn't make the list for this video.

Ah! What happened to the WatchMojo lady? This isn't my childhood...

11 year old me definitely wasn't allowed to watch Stripperella, but he still watched and definitely enjoyed it. Stripper by night, superhero by later night.

INJUSTICE SUPERMAN was the sovereign version of SUPERMAN SUPERBOY 1988 series showed that version

I used to like the ‘Stripperella’ series.

Loved the Maz

I had Stripperella on DVD in my 20s