> Anyone but me remember the New Fantastic Four? Wolverine, Spider-man, Ghost Rider, and the Incredible Hulk. But I digress.

I'm still trying to forget. Animation from that era is so freaking bad! But, as a kid, I watched it all. Thundarr the Barbarian. Scooby Doo with Scrappy, too. Any of the new Spiderman shows. Yes, it was bad, but I remember Saturday mornings fondly if only to laugh about that crap.

Speaking of Ghost Rider, I saw the preview (COMING FEBRUARY, 2007). I won't be holding my breath for that one.

> Wolverine, for instance. He's extremely hard to injure, regenerates (very rapidly) any damage he DOES take, and has claws made out of magic metal that can cut through anything.

Did Wolverine heal as fast in the comics as he does in the movies? I thought it took a little bit longer than 2 seconds, especially when being shredded.

> You remember the Superfriends. The core membership was basically Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the Green Lantern, the Flash, Hawkman, and Aquaman. And in every single episode, some means of writing Superman and the Lantern out of the action had to be devised or the other characters would have nothing to do. The X-Men are in the same sort of boat; the neato utility characters like Nightcrawler will get stories written around them every so often, but when there's something *serious* going on, they get left behind and the big guns take over.

That was a benefit of having Wolverine be such a wandering loner. Half the time he was up in the wilds of Canada, running into Alpha Flight and fighting the Wendigo. With him gone, you could have Storm and Rogue try to get out of crazy situations.

And there are always some teenage misfits with weird or not-under-control powers who get into trouble. As Sam mentioned, the Wonder Twins and their blue monkey, Gleek.

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