History WesternAnimation / TheFantasticFour1967

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* NeverSayDie: The characters refer to demises with such terms as "finished" and "done for".

* AdaptationalBadass: Oftentimes Hanna-Barbera adapted a comic set when Sue [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway could only turn herself invisible]], and had her use the powers she originally developed later to make a relatively more significant contribution to the plot.

* ClipShow: "The Terrible Tribunal" (doubles as a CourtRoomEpisode) and "The Deadly Director".

* EvilIsHammy

* RaceLift: Twice and both times involved a Namor expy.
** Prince Triton is a full Homo Mermanus instead of half as indicated by his blue skin and not being able to be outside of water.
** Dr. Gamma is a fully human scientist who is mutated into some huge purple sea creature with a fin on his head. As a human he was Asian, in contrast to Namor whose human heritage was European.

* TheSpaceRace: "The Red Ghost" has the Fantastic Four race the Russian Red Ghost and his super-apes to the moon.

* {{Expy}}: Since the rights to [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor the Sub-Mariner]] were already claimed by ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes'', Prince Triton was created in his place.

** CreditsMontage: The end credits reel basically superimposes text over the above intro.

* BlackBeadEyes: SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom appears to have these most of the time. In close-ups, his eyes look blue with black pupils.

* NarratingTheObvious: Par for the course in TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace:
** No one needs helmets when visiting an abandoned moon city in "The Red Ghost", and Johnny also successfully flames on in space.
** Johnny manages to flame on again when flying to steal the Ultimate Nullifier from Galactus' ship.
** Averted when the Four visit an undeveloped area of the moon in "It Started on Yancy Street". Sue has to provide an air supply by encasing the team in her force field, while Ben attempts to create an underground tunnel back to the city. The gang really does lose consciousness as an exhausted Sue strains to hold the shield, until air from the Watcher's laboratory flows into the tunnel, and revives them.

* AdaptationalBadass: Oftentimes Hanna-Barbera adapted a comic set when Sue [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway could only turn herself invisible]], and had her use the powers she originally developed later to make a relatively more significant contribution to the plot. Also, at least one episode reveals that Sue's been taking Judo lessons from Reed, who had a black belt in the comics.

** No one needs helmets when visiting the moon in "The Red Ghost", and Johnny also successfully flames on. Averted when the Four visit a different area of the moon in "It Started on Yancy Street", as they actually almost run out of air, until they reach the Watcher's laboratory.

** No one needs helmets when visiting the moon in "The Red Ghost", and Johnny also successfully flames on. Averted when the Four visit a different area of the moon in "It Started on Yancy Street", as the Four almost run out of air, until they reach the Watcher's laboratory.

** No one needs helmets when visiting the moon in "The Red Ghost", and Johnny also successfully flames on. Averted when the Four visit the moon again in "It Started on Yancy Street", as the Four almost run out of air, until they reach the Watcher's laboratory.

** No one needs helmets when visiting the moon in "The Red Ghost", and Johnny also successfully flames on. The original comic explained that the ancient moon village that everyone lands in has its own air supply.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: After the Fantastic Four stop the Super Skrull from taking over the world, he proclaims that he can not return to his home planet, lest the king of the Skrulls punish him for his failure. Reed allows him to stay on Earth under the condition that he turns himself into a cow, then lets Reed erase his memories of being a Skrull.]] Note that this differs greatly from the aftermath of the Four's first encounter in the comics with the Super Skrull (but ''not'' from their first encounter with Skrulls in general).

* NeverSayDie

* HeelFaceTurn: The ComicBook/SilverSurfer turns against Galactus after Sue demonstrates human sympathy towards him.

** Ben's girlfriend, Alicia Masters, never appeared in this show.

* AboveGoodAndEvil: {{Galactus}} provides an example that might not have come up too often in '60s children's cartoons.

* AdaptationalBadass: Oftentimes Hanna-Barbera adapted a comic set when Sue [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway could only turn herself invisible]], and had her use the powers she originally developed later to make a relatively more significant contribution to the plot.
** At least one episode reveals that Sue's been taking Judo lessons from Reed, who had a black belt in the comics.
* AdaptedOut: Ben's girlfriend, Alicia Masters, never appeared in this show.

* HappilyMarried: Unlike the comics, this cartoon always portrays Reed and Sue Richards as husband and wife, bar the flashbacks set before the founding of the Fantastic Four.
** The show does avoid portraying Reed's and Sue's marriage as 24/7 bliss. "Galactus" begins with Sue lamenting to Ben about how sometimes Reed spends more time with his science experiments than with her, and Ben assuring Sue that Reed still loves her.

!!Tropes:

-->--'''OpeningNarration'''

This action cartoon, produced by Creator/{{Hanna-Barbera}} for Creator/{{ABC}}, was among the first of several {{animated adaptation}}s of the ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' comic book. Several of the Creator/StanLee[=/=]Creator/JackKirby stories from the early issues were adapted for this program. This series ran for 20 episodes, including two 10-minute shorts, until the {{Media Watchdog}}s demanded less violence in children's television.

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This action cartoon, produced by Creator/{{Hanna-Barbera}} for Creator/{{ABC}}, was among the first of several {{animated adaptation}}s of the ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' comic book. Several of the Creator/StanLee[=/=]Creator/JackKirby stories from the early issues were adapted for this program. This series ran for 20 episodes, inlcuding two 10-minute shorts, until the {{Media Watchdog}}s demanded less violence in children's television.