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

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based on the

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superhero team of the same name. The series was co-produced by

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and

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, with the participation of M6 and

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, and distributed by Taffy Entertainment.

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'' primarily features original stories, though elements from various comic iterations of the Fantastic Four were used in the series.

Cast

Main

Hiro Kanagawa is a Japanese-Canadian actor and playwright based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has appeared in numerous high-profile films and television series shot in the Vancouver area, including ''The X-Files'', ''Smallville'', ''Caprica'', ''Godzil ...

– Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic *

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– Susan Storm / Invisible Woman *

Christopher Jacot Christopher Jacot (born June 30, 1979) is a Canadian film, television and voice actor. He has appeared in 4 seasons of '' Slasher''. Early life Jacot was born in Toronto. He attended Earl Haig Secondary School in the Claude Watson programme fo ...

– Johnny Storm / Human Torch * Brian Dobson – Ben Grimm / The Thing, Flatman * Sam Vincent – H.E.R.B.I.E.,

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* Paul Dobson – Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom,

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* Sunita Prasad –

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Guest stars

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* Don Brown –

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Trevor Devall Trevor Devall (born November 10, 1972) is a Canadian voice actor. He worked for various other studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for years, before he relocated to Los Angeles, California in 2013. Early life Trevor Devall was born ...

– Diablo * Michael Dobson –

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, Mr. Bonner-Davis *

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– Agent Pratt,

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– Courtney Bonner-Davis *

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* Jonathan Holmes – Wizard * Andrew Kavadas –

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* David Kaye – Tony Stark/Iron Man *

Terry Klassen Terry Klassen is a Canadian voice actor, ADR director and writer. Before animation, Klassen worked in radio in Winnipeg (CITI-FM), Toronto (Q107), Calgary (CFAC), Portage la Prairie (CFRY) and part-time at CFOX and CFMI. In animation, he is best ...

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* Colin Murdock –

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– Rupert the Geek *

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* Mark Oliver – Kl'rt/Super-Skrull * John Payne –

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– Phillip Master/Puppet Master *

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– Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk,

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Production

In October 2004, it was announced

and

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would be teaming up to produce an animated series based on the

' ''

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series which would be shopped to potential buyers. After development began,

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was hired to serve as story editor for the series and worked with

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, in developing the series. In March 2006, it was announced

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had picked up the series for broadcast.

Episodes

Broadcast

During its original run on

, the series was subject to an erratic airing schedule, with only 8 of 26 episodes being broadcast. Cartoon Network briefly brought the series back in June 2007 to tie-in with the release of '' Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'', but this run would also be cut short. As a result, the series was not broadcast in its entirety until 2009, when

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acquired the rights to air it alongside '' Wolverine and the X-Men'' and '' Iron Man: Armored Adventures''.

Home releases

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