History WesternAnimation / TheFantasticFour1978

* DontTryThisAtHome: Averted, despite popular belief. An urban legend posits that The Human Torch was replaced by H.E.R.B.I.E. at the insistent demand of the network, out of fears that children would set themselves on fire to emulate their hero. The legend was aided by a later issue of the comic in which a kid dies doing just that, and later recollections in the Marvel house magazine ''Marvel Age'' which seemed to confirm the rumor. In reality, as mentioned above, the rights had been negotiated separately for a project that never materialized and the Torch character was unavailable (the same snarls prevented the Torch from being one of the "Amazing Friends" in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'').

* RobotNames: See FunWithAcronyms above.

* UrbanLegends: See DontTryThisAtHome above.

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Also called ''The New Fantastic Four'', this is a 1978 AnimatedAdaptation of MarvelUniverse SuperHero team ''The Comicbook/FantasticFour''. The one with the [[RobotBuddy cute robot]] taking the place of the Human Torch, [[ExiledFromContinuity who was tied up in a separate film deal at the time]].

* AdaptationalVillainy: Comicbook/TheInhumans are flat out villainous in this version, and want to conquer the planet, though Reed eventually talks all of them except Medusa out of it.
* AdaptationalWimp: Nobody in this series comes out looking too good, due to them generally acting like idiots, but even then, the show's version of Magneto is justly memetic for the colossal ForgotAboutHisPowers moment in his main appearance.

* FantasticRacism: The episode "The Olympics of Space" involved the Thing being caught up in a conflict between two similar-looking alien races who hated each other for having differently colored eyes.

* SeriesContinuityError: When Lockjaw first appears, Sue mentions that he was loaned to the team by Medusa. This implies the FF and Inhumans are on friendly terms, when in actuality (as mentioned in the AdaptationalVillainy section), Medusa is a villain in this continuity and ''hates'' the Fantastic Four.

See {{Franchise/Fantastic Four}} for a list of all the other works with this title.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Or rather, it isn't anymore -- but the lines could've been taken directly from [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic scripts, so you see about how a comic book would sound in life. (The answer, by the way, is "hilarious.") You get characters taking forever as they overdramatically describe what they're going to do, and actually doing it goes on to take half a second. No one ''ever'' tries to stop the enemy standing two feet away giving long dissertation on exactly how he or she is about to attack.

* MarvelUniverse

* TheNotableNumeral
* RobotNames: See above.

* SuperHero

* AdaptationalVillainy: Comicbook/TheInhumans are flat out villainous in this version, and want to conquer the planet.

* LargeHam: Several villains, but especially Magneto.

* CanonImmigrant: H.E.R.B.I.E.

* AdaptedOut: Again, H.E.R.B.I.E. replaced Johnny Storm.

Also called '''''The New Fantastic Four''''', this is a 1978 AnimatedAdaptation of MarvelUniverse SuperHero team '''''The Comicbook/FantasticFour'''''. The one with the [[RobotBuddy cute robot]] taking the place of the Human Torch, [[ExiledFromContinuity who was tied up in a separate film deal at the time]].

1978 AnimatedAdaptation of MarvelUniverse SuperHero team '''''The Comicbook/FantasticFour'''''. The one with the [[RobotBuddy cute robot]] taking the place of the Human Torch, [[ExiledFromContinuity who was tied up in a separate film deal at the time]].

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Or rather, it isn't anymore -- but the lines could've been taken directly from SilverAge comic scripts, so you see about how a comic book would sound in life. (The answer, by the way, is "hilarious.") You get characters taking forever as they overdramatically describe what they're going to do, and actually doing it goes on to take half a second. No one ''ever'' tries to stop the enemy standing two feet away giving long dissertation on exactly how he or she is about to attack.

* ExiledFromContinuity: The Torch. See above.

* AdaptedOut: Again, H.E.R.B.I.E. replaced Jhonny Storm.

* AbridgedSeries: Sometimes this show gets redubbed in DisneyXD's ''WesternAnimation/MarvelMashUp''.

* Creator/FrankWelker: The VA for H.E.R.B.I.E and Impossible Man (and their first VA as well)

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The Torch

* IdiotPlot: "The Menace of Magneto." Magneto (yes, THAT Magneto) convinces the FF he's a hero that he needs help foiling a bank robbery...by emptying the vault into his car so he can protect the money from the "real" crooks. And then surrenders when he believes his powers are gone due to him being unable to manipulate a gun, only for Reed to tell him it is a wooden gun, prompting Magneto to...allow himself to be led away to a police car in handcuffs. [[FlatWhat What.]]

* UrbanLegends: It was rumored that the reason for Human Torch's omission was concern that impressionable children would set themselves on fire in an attempt to mimick his powers.

* Narm: AND HOW! Magneto especially takes the cake, though.