The Penny Men dive into the interconnected world of Marvel’s 1990s animated universe!
We’re talking X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Spider-Man Unlimited, and apparently enough Captain America appearances to make you wonder why there was never a Captain America cartoon!
We discuss how all these shows connect, where the continuity gets weird, and why sometimes the best way to adapt 30 years of comics is to just take a bunch of different stories, shake them up, and hope nobody notices that Colossus is showing up about 20 years too late!
We also get into:
- The surprisingly complicated history of the X-Men cartoon
- Spider-Man’s various attempts to get around killing people
- Hydro-powered clones
- Alternate Venoms and Carnages
- And whether Spider-Man Unlimited even belongs in this universe anymore!
Plus:
- The Incredible Hulk
- She-Hulk stealing the show
- Rick Jones being everybody’s sidekick
- Doc Samson’s extremely questionable hair
- Evil Hulks
- Canadian voice actors
- And the important question of why Matt Frewer keeps getting hired to play guys with enormous heads!
And if you were wondering whether we somehow found a way to bring Star Trek into a discussion about ’90s Marvel cartoons: obviously we did!
It’s Marvel! It’s the ’90s! It’s all connected! Sort of!
