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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Due to Creator/HannaBarbera having [[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour1967 their own plans]] for the Comicbook/FantasticFour, the studio could not secure the rights to any of that series' characters -- other than, curiously, Doctor Doom. Because of this, a ''Sub-Mariner'' vignette featuring Doom replaced Reed and his companions with the first five Comicbook/XMen, albeit with their team's name changed to, "The Allies For Peace."

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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Due to Creator/HannaBarbera having [[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour1967 [[WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour1967 their own plans]] for the Comicbook/FantasticFour, the studio could not secure the rights to any of that series' characters -- other than, curiously, Doctor Doom. Because of this, a ''Sub-Mariner'' vignette featuring Doom replaced Reed and his companions with the first five Comicbook/XMen, albeit with their team's name changed to, "The Allies For Peace."
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The studio apparently could not secure the rights to any ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' characters, other than Doctor Doom. Because of this, a ''Sub-Mariner'' vignette featuring Doom replaced Reed and his companions with the first five Comicbook/XMen, albeit with their team's name changed to, "The Allies For Peace."

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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The Due to Creator/HannaBarbera having [[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour1967 their own plans]] for the Comicbook/FantasticFour, the studio apparently could not secure the rights to any ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' characters, of that series' characters -- other than than, curiously, Doctor Doom. Because of this, a ''Sub-Mariner'' vignette featuring Doom replaced Reed and his companions with the first five Comicbook/XMen, albeit with their team's name changed to, "The Allies For Peace."

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* AdaptationNameChange: The adaptation of the Hulk's origin story renames the Gargoyle as the Gorgon.

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The adaptation of the Hulk's origin story renames the Gargoyle as the Gorgon.Gorgon.
** The first ''Iron Man'' segment adapted the debut of the villain the Blizzard, but curiously changed his alias to Jack Frost.
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* TruerToTheText: Captain America's segments stayed more faithful to his comics than his 1940s serial did.

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* TruerToTheText: Captain America's segments stayed more faithful to his comics than his 1940s serial did. The Hulk, Thor and Iron Man are all inversions as their segments were more faithful than what came between this and a few later portrayals such as the infamous Kenneth Johnson Hulk series that featured Bill Bixby. Namor however has not appeared as the lead of his own solo series since this one so this remains the only faithful screen adaptation of the Namor comics because it is the only one.
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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics in comparison to what came before it, in the case of Captain America, and after it, in the case of everyone else save Namor (however, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' is almost the closest to this series in the terms of a very faithful adaptation of the Creator/MarvelComics series as well as the superhero team ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and the Mainstream Marvel comics in general).

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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely Captain America's segments stayed more faithful adaptation of the original to his comics in comparison to what came before it, in the case of Captain America, and after it, in the case of everyone else save Namor (however, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' is almost the closest to this series in the terms of a very faithful adaptation of the Creator/MarvelComics series as well as the superhero team ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and the Mainstream Marvel comics in general).than his 1940s serial did.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The studio apparently could not secure the rights to any ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' characters, other than Doctor Doom. Because of this, a ''Sub-Mariner'' vignette featuring Doom replaced Reed and his companions with the first five Comicbook/{{X-Men}}, albeit with their team's name changed to, "The Allies For Peace."

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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The studio apparently could not secure the rights to any ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' characters, other than Doctor Doom. Because of this, a ''Sub-Mariner'' vignette featuring Doom replaced Reed and his companions with the first five Comicbook/{{X-Men}}, Comicbook/XMen, albeit with their team's name changed to, "The Allies For Peace."
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* AbortedArc: The series for the most part avoided leaving storylines hanging and primarily stuck to adapting stories that were self-contained, but the ''Hulk'' segments had two episodes that ended on a cliffhanger that was ignored by the next installment and never resolved because of the comic stories where they were resolved never being adapted.
** "Terror of the Toad Men/Bruce Banner: Wanted for Treason/Hulk Runs Amok" had Bruce Banner find a solution to his transformations by creating a hideout to enter whenever night comes, relying on Rick Jones to let him out in the morning after his transformation wears off. By the next episode, this solution is forgotten and Banner is back to struggling to keep his transformations into the Hulk under control.
** "Within This Monster Dwells a Man/Another World, Another Foe/The Wisdom of the Watcher" has the ending narration mention that the Hulk is unable to change back into Bruce Banner. The next episode disregards this detail and has Bruce change into the Hulk and back with no problem.



* BigBad: Some of the segments had the hero's archenemy in the comics serve as the most frequently recurring or most prominent villain.
** The Red Skull in ''Captain America''
** The Mandarin in ''Iron Man''
** Loki in ''The Mighty Thor''



* RememberTheNewGuy: The Captain America segment featuring the Masters of Evil has Iron Man recognize the Black Knight and the Melter even though the former appeared much later in Iron Man's own segments and the latter made no appearances in the Iron Man episodes at all.




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* WhenSheSmiles: The usually grouchy Hulk is seen smiling and laughing in the show's closing sequence accompanied by the song "The Merry Marvel Marching Society".
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* OffModel: Characters are occasionally shown with mistakes in their coloring and inconsistency in character designs. The most notable offenders are Odin and Loki in the ''Mighty Thor'' segments, who frequently change physical appearances between shots.
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* LimitedAnimation: This cartoon was notorious because of the fact that they just photocopied the artwork of the original comics, what little animation there is being limited mainly to the characters' mouths moving when they talk as well as the occasional eyes blinking and arms flailing.
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* NeverSayDie: Averted. The segments explicitly have characters use the words "die" and "death" where appropriate and even have some characters get killed off.
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* BraggingThemeTune

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* BraggingThemeTuneBraggingThemeTune: The theme songs all boast about how awesome the heroes are.
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* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: Because the show has segments for five superheroes and gives each hero's segment 13 episodes, there are 65 episodes altogether.
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* AdaptationNameChange: The adaptation of the Hulk's origin story renames the Gargoyle as the Gorgon.
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Contrary to popular belief, the SoBadItsGood songs were not written by Creator/StanLee. They remain {{earworm}}s to this day, with Iron Man's theme even receiving some new remixes in [[Film/IronMan1 his first live-action movie]]. (lyrics [[http://www.retroist.com/2009/03/06/complete-set-of-opening-credits-to-the-marvel-cartoons-of-the-1960s-with-lyrics/ here]] or [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614101520/http://homepage.mac.com/jjbeach/einheri/music.html here]]).

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Contrary to popular belief, the SoBadItsGood songs were not written by Creator/StanLee. They remain {{earworm}}s to this day, with Iron Man's theme even receiving some new remixes in treatments for [[Film/IronMan1 his first live-action movie]]. (lyrics [[http://www.retroist.com/2009/03/06/complete-set-of-opening-credits-to-the-marvel-cartoons-of-the-1960s-with-lyrics/ here]] or [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614101520/http://homepage.mac.com/jjbeach/einheri/music.html here]]).
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Contrary to popular belief, the SoBadItsGood songs were not written by Creator/StanLee. They remain {{earworm}}s to this day. (lyrics [[http://www.retroist.com/2009/03/06/complete-set-of-opening-credits-to-the-marvel-cartoons-of-the-1960s-with-lyrics/ here]] or [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614101520/http://homepage.mac.com/jjbeach/einheri/music.html here]]).

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Contrary to popular belief, the SoBadItsGood songs were not written by Creator/StanLee. They remain {{earworm}}s to this day.day, with Iron Man's theme even receiving some new remixes in [[Film/IronMan1 his first live-action movie]]. (lyrics [[http://www.retroist.com/2009/03/06/complete-set-of-opening-credits-to-the-marvel-cartoons-of-the-1960s-with-lyrics/ here]] or [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614101520/http://homepage.mac.com/jjbeach/einheri/music.html here]]).
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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics in comparison to what came before it, in the case of Captain America, and after it, in the case of everyone else save Namor (however, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' is almost the closest to this series in the terms of a very faithful adaptation of the Mainstream Marvel comics in general as well as the Creator/MarvelComics series and the superhero team ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'').

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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics in comparison to what came before it, in the case of Captain America, and after it, in the case of everyone else save Namor (however, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' is almost the closest to this series in the terms of a very faithful adaptation of the Creator/MarvelComics series as well as the superhero team ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and the Mainstream Marvel comics in general as well as the Creator/MarvelComics series and the superhero team ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'').general).
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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics in comparison to what came before it, in the case of Captain America, and after it, in the case of everyone else save Namor (however, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes! The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' is almost the closest to this series in the terms of a very faithful adaptation of the Mainstream Marvel comics).

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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics in comparison to what came before it, in the case of Captain America, and after it, in the case of everyone else save Namor (however, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes! ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' is almost the closest to this series in the terms of a very faithful adaptation of the Mainstream Marvel comics).comics in general as well as the Creator/MarvelComics series and the superhero team ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'').
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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics in comparison to what came before it, in the case of Captain America, and after it, in the case of everyone else save Namor.

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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics in comparison to what came before it, in the case of Captain America, and after it, in the case of everyone else save Namor.Namor (however, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes! The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' is almost the closest to this series in the terms of a very faithful adaptation of the Mainstream Marvel comics).
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* ClipArtAnimation: The series basically took the artwork from the comics, and added moving mouths and limbs, spoken dialogue and sound effects. Still, considering the artwork was from people such as JackKirby, it was still impressive to see.

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* ClipArtAnimation: The series basically took the artwork from the comics, and added moving mouths and limbs, spoken dialogue and sound effects. Still, considering the artwork was from people such as JackKirby, Creator/JackKirby, it was still impressive to see.
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* CrowningMomentofHeartwarming : As noted in LawyerFriendlyCameo, the FF were off limits to this version of Namor's story. So they reworked Namor's comic book memory loss, with no runaway Johnny Storm to revive him. Instead, Namor is seemingly menaced by two men working for an old woman using Agatha Harkness' image model. In the end, they gain custody of Namor and bring him to the old woman, who turns out to be [[spoiler: Namor's paternal grandmother, who tells him of his origins, and who only wanted to meet her grandson, implied to be before her time came. Just for a moment, Namor is just a boy meeting his Grandma, and his happiness is obvious.]]
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* CrowningMomentofHeartwarming : As noted in LawyerFriendlyCameo, the FF were off limits to this version of Namor's story. So they reworked Namor's comic book memory loss, with no runaway Johnny Storm to revive him. Instead, Namor is seemingly menaced by two men working for an old woman using Agatha Harkness' image model. In the end, they gain custody of Namor and bring him to the old woman, who turns out to be [[spoiler: Namor's paternal grandmother, who tells him of his origins, and who only wanted to meet her grandson, implied to be before her time came. Just for a moment, Namor is just a boy meeting his Grandma, and his happiness is obvious.]]
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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics.

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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics.comics in comparison to what came before it, in the case of Captain America, and after it, in the case of everyone else save Namor.
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Not true, there was the Captain America serial fro the 1940's and now there is much of the stuff that has come after it.

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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics.
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There wasn't anything at the time to compare it to.


* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics.
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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriednlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics.

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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriednlyCameo LawyerFriendlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics.
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* TruerToTheText: AdaptationDyeJob, AdaptationalAttractiveness and LawyerFriednlyCameo aside this is an extremely faithful adaptation of the original comics.
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Contrary to popular belief, the SoBadItsGood songs were not written by Creator/StanLee. They remain {{earworm}}s to this day. (lyrics here [[http://homepage.mac.com/jjbeach/einheri/music.html]]).

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Contrary to popular belief, the SoBadItsGood songs were not written by Creator/StanLee. They remain {{earworm}}s to this day. (lyrics here [[http://homepage.[[http://www.retroist.com/2009/03/06/complete-set-of-opening-credits-to-the-marvel-cartoons-of-the-1960s-with-lyrics/ here]] or [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614101520/http://homepage.mac.com/jjbeach/einheri/music.html]]).
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* ''[[{{Comicbook/IncredibleHulk}} The Incredible Hulk]]''
* ''[[{{Sub-Mariner}} The Sub-Mariner]]''

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* ''[[{{Comicbook/IncredibleHulk}} ''[[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk The Incredible Hulk]]''
* ''[[{{Sub-Mariner}} ''[[ComicBook/SubMariner The Sub-Mariner]]''
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The studio apparently could not secure the rights to any ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' characters, other than DoctorDoom. Because of this, a ''Sub-Mariner'' vignette featuring Doom replaced Reed and his companions with the first five Comicbook/{{X-Men}}, albeit with their team's name changed to, "The Allies For Peace."

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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The studio apparently could not secure the rights to any ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' characters, other than DoctorDoom.Doctor Doom. Because of this, a ''Sub-Mariner'' vignette featuring Doom replaced Reed and his companions with the first five Comicbook/{{X-Men}}, albeit with their team's name changed to, "The Allies For Peace."

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