''Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes'' is an

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based on the

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' ''

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series. This is the team's fourth foray into animation. The series is co-produced by American company

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and French company

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, with the participation of M6 and Cartoon Network Europe, and distributed by

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Airing

In the United States, the show had an erratic airing schedule on

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, having premiered as part of Toonami on September 2, 2006. It ran for only eight of the season's 26 episodes before being pulled. It subsequently returned to the network starting June 9, 2007, shortly before the release of the film '' Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer''. The second launch of the show aired only nine episodes, leaving nine installments not televised in the USA. The show aired on Boomerang for a brief time before moving to Nicktoons in 2009 for the final episodes. The series was produced in 16:9 widescreen, although it was letterboxed or cropped when broadcast.

Plot

''World's Greatest Heroes'' is not directly connected to any of the previous iterations of the Fantastic Four, telling its own version of the team's origin and their encounters with their rogues gallery. Unlike its 1994 predecessor, which consisted almost entirely of straight or modified reinterpretations of classic ''Fantastic Four'' comic book stories, World's Greatest Heroes features mostly original stories, though elements from various comic iterations of the Fantastic Four were used in the series.

Cast

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- Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic *

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- Susan "Sue" Storm/Invisible Woman * Christopher Jacot - Jonathan "Johnny" Spencer Storm/Human Torch * Brian Dobson - Benjamin "Ben" Grimm/The Thing,

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, Peter Parker * Paul Dobson - Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom, Mole Man,

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, Doombots *

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Guest stars

* Mark Acheson -

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* Michael Adamthwaite - Namor * Don Brown - Henry Peter Gyrich *

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- Diablo * Michael Dobson - Ronan the Accuser, Mr. Bonner-Davis * Brian Drummond - Agent Pratt * Laura Drummond - Courtney Bonner-Davis * Mark Gibbon -

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* Jonathan Holmes - Wizard *

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- Tony Stark/Iron Man * Terry Klassen - Impossible Man * Scott McNeil - Annihilus * Colin Murdock - Willie Lumpkin * Peter New - Rupert the Geek * John Novak - Supreme Intelligence * Mark Oliver - Cmd. Kl'rt/Super-Skrull * John Payne - Hank Pym/ Ant-Man * Alvin Sanders - Phillip Master/Puppet Master * Rebecca Shoichet - Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk, Squirrel Girl * Venus Terzo -

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