YMMV / Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes

• Awesome Art: One thing that cannot be complained about with this series is the animation. All of the characters are well designed and Animesque, with the fight scenes done excellently.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Most people will remember this as the series that gave Susan Storm a very good figure, complete with shots of her rear.
• Complete Monster:
  • Doctor Doom, the Arch-Enemy of the Fantastic Four, lacks the redeeming qualities of his original comic counterpart. Responsible for the incident that led to the Fantastic Four getting their powers, Doom later switched bodies with Reed Richards to ruin his reputation, to the point of deciding to overload the power core of the Fantastic Four's base to destroy everything within several city blocks. Afterwards framing Reed for supposedly "experimenting on his friends", Doom tried to use his inventions to unleash the energy of the Negative Zone upon New York, which threatened to kill thousands. In his most ambitious scheme, Doom stole Annihilus's power source and brought it to Earth, threatening to destroy the entire universe, solely so he could use it to conquer and destroy everything he sees. Despite losing the way of controlling the power source, Doom still clung to it, not caring that it was close to wiping out all life in the cosmos.
  • Mole Man is the short hideous man who resented "pretty people" for looking down upon him. Building his base underground, Mole Man created "Moloids", whose sole purpose was to serve him. Regularly plotting to destroy "the surface world", Mole Man tried to take control over the army of monsters, so he could lead them to wipe out humanity. After being thwarted, Mole Man created a device, which he planned to use to erupt all volcanoes on Earth, fully ready to destroy all life on the surface of the planet for petty revenge.
• Fan Nickname: EmoDoom because of his tendency to brood (well, moreso than usual), and because his design kind of looks like a skinny kid in a hoodie.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In "My Neighbor Was A Skrull", most of the Skrulls who interact with the Four are disguised as elderly humans. In Captain Marvel, the titular character chases and fights a Skrull disguised as an elderly human woman.
  • "Doomed" has Doom switching bodies with Reed. Seven years later, another Marvel science hero would have his body stolen by his mad scientist arch-enemy.
  • As with Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, David Kaye voices Iron Man here in his guest appearance. He would go on to voice the Jarvis AI and the Vision in other animated adaptations such as Avengers Assemble. Similarly, the Brazilian voice actor, Eduardo Borgerth, would later dub Jarvis and Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Iron Woobie: Ben Grimm, like his comic counterpart, just wants to be human again. However, every time he comes close, he ends up losing the opportunity. In "The Cure", Reed changes him back to human by altering him on a molecular level to the way he was before the space station incident, but that erases his memories. Furthermore, he decides at the end of the episode that he needs to be turned back into The Thing to continue helping the others. Another time, he and Reed switch powers, and Reed intends to let the matter stand despite how difficult Ben's powers make his life, because it is the closest to a cure Ben can get. Ben ended up sacrificing the opportunity to save his teammates from a Doombot. When the Grandmaster declared Ben the winner of the Contest of Champions, he suggested that he'd want to use the wish offered as a prize to return to his human self, but Ben instead used it to free everyone who had been trapped in the contest. Each time demonstrates how much of a hero he is, despite his endless bad luck.
• Moral Event Horizon: Doom has two moments. The first is in "Doomsday" where he opens a portal to the Negative Zone to unleash monsters and unstable energy from the dimension into New York and make it look like Reed caused it. The second is when he erases Reed from existence in "Out of Time". Luckily, Reed is brought back after time is properly reset.
• Nightmare Fuel: The Negative Zone, and Annihilus himself in “Annihilation”. The show may be Lighter and Softer, but he’s an Ax-Crazy Knight of Cerebus, and the episode is one of the creepiest in the series.
• So Okay, It's Average: Overall the reception to this show is middle-of-the-road. The good animation and visuals have won the show praise, in addition to the characterization of the Four. On the other hand, the writing's considered decent-but-not-great at best or so-so at worst and WGH didn't do much to move the goalposts for Marvel in animation during the time it was airing, being a largely forgotten show nowadays. As a result, few people remember this show in modern times despite the 2000s seeing Marvel's success grow exponentially in its other franchises like Spider-Man, X-Men, or Iron Man.