History WesternAnimation / TheSuperHeroSquadShow

* CouchGag: In the opening of every episode, Hulk is transformed into something else; including the original Jack Kirby drawing of Hulk, Joe Fixit, and... a baby. Sometimes doubles as a ShoutOut, such as [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Simpson-]]Hulk.

* BadNewsIrreleventNews: Done at the end of "The Devil Dinosaur, You Say" as the Mayor says he has good news and bad news. The heroes already know the bad news is the Dark Surfer is sending Earth out of orbit, further out until everybody freezes to death. The Mayor says the good news is, it's a snow day, and then he gets down and makes a snow angel.

* AdaptationalModesty: Name a female character wearing a revealing costume and chances are it's been modified to cover them up more in the toyline, the show, or other related media.

* SealedEvilInACan: Literally. Doctor Strange has Baron Mordo sealed in a can of soda.

* RoleReprisal: A few actors who portrayed Marvel characters in past productions returned to voice their characters.
** To, no one's surprise, Creator/SteveBlum (starting with ''VideoGame/XMenLegends'') as Wolverine.
** Shawn Ashmore (The ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' trilogy and ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'') as Iceman.
** Ray Stevenson (''Film/PunisherWarZone'') as the Punisher.
** Dave Boat (''WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers'') as Thor.
** Creator/JimWard (''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'') as Professor Xavier.
** A.J. Buckley (''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'') as Toad.
** Creator/JessHarnell (The 90s ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'') as Impossible Man.

* UnusualEars: Galactus.

* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To The Wasp?]]: The first season starts off by indicating that the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier is the home of other members of the Avengers such as Hawkeye and Wasp. After getting a decent amount of focus for a couple episodes, they're never seen or heard from again.

-->'''Nebula:''' MMMRNN!
-->'''Thanos:''' Ooh, that is a ''good'' look for you!

''The Super Hero Squad Show'' (2009-2011) is an animated television series by Marvel Animation based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad action figure line from Creator/{{Hasbro}}, and a humorous take on the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. The series' animation is produced by Film Roman. While at first coming off as a ridiculous {{Disneyfication}}, especially since it began airing about two weeks after Creator/{{Disney}} announced it would buy Marvel (though this was in production way before that and Disney had nothing to do with it), it turns out to be more of a series full of jokes only the older comic book fans will get. Taken like this, it's surprisingly funny.

* {{Trickster}}: Loki. Who else?

''The Super Hero Squad Show'' (2009-2011) is an animated television series by Marvel Animation based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad action figure line from Creator/{{Hasbro}}, and a humorous take on the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. The series' animation is produced by Film Roman. While at first coming off as a ridiculous {{Disneyfication}}, especially since it began airing about two weeks after Creator/{{Disney}} announced it would buy Marvel (though this was in production way before that and Disney had nothing to do with it), it turns out to be more of a series full of jokes only the older comicbook fans will get. Taken like this, it's surprisingly funny.

As the series begins, Doctor Doom has forged alliances with just about every supervillain, forming the Lethal Legion [[GottaCatchThemAll in order to hunt down the scattered fractals]], each of which possesses dangerous and different powers of their own. Doom's forces, including his two primary henchmen ComicBook/{{MODOK}} and the Abomination, dwell in Villainville which is separated from Superhero City by a giant wall erected at the start of the series premiere. Once again opposing Doom's plan is Iron Man, now leading the elite team known as the Super Hero Squad, consisting of Comicbook/TheFalcon, the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk, ComicBook/SilverSurfer, ComicBook/TheMightyThor, and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. The Super Hero Squad are headquartered in the ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} helicarrier, and are frequently aided in their defence of Super Hero City by their superhero friends, including their boss ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, rookie "Squaddie" Reptil, S.H.I.E.L.D. leader Comicbook/MsMarvel, and many more.

--> '''Iron Man to War Machine''': Stop talking like [[Creator/LeVarBurton you're]] on Reading Rainbow!

-->'''Falcon''': I thought the future would be flying cars, not vacuum cleaners with death blades.
-->'''Magneto''': You should see the ''flying cars'' with death blades.

-->'''Stan Lee''': If I was writing this episode, we'd all be a lot funnier.

-->'''Hulk''': One, seven, fish, two thousand, negative three...

* DidNotSeeThatComing: Doctor Doom, word for word, in the ComicBook/BlackWidow episode when Comicbook/CaptainAmerica reveals his own double agent. [[spoiler:Screaming Mimi is really Songbird.]] Also Loki when Enchantress orders Odin to destroy both his sons.
* TheDitz: Let's just say Silver Surfer is now... well. [[SurferDude His name is rather appropriate.]]
-->'''Surfer:''' That is soooo cosmic.
** Thor tends to fill this role sometimes.

* FlightStrengthHeart: Comicbook/DoctorStrange's mystical abilities include "levitation, travel to other dimensions, transformation of matter, Bulgarian cow-tipping... and he's great at Sudoku."

** The title cards are a homage to the Marvel covers of the 1960's and 70's. In particular, the first episode, featuring the Mole Man, has one that pays homage to the famous first cover to ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'', with the featured superheroes standing in for the members of the Fantastic Four.
** Captain America, talking on the phone about a reenactment of Gettysburg he's attending: "Relax, Brubaker! It's just a Comicbook/CivilWar, what could go wrong?" It's also a nod to Ed Brubaker, long-time writer of Captain America.

** In the Squad's fight with the Skrulls in "If This Be My Thanos!", in a seemingly absurd attempt to get past the heroes' defenses, three of those aliens disguise themselves as ''cows''. Definitely a gag at what happened to the Skrulls on their first appearance in the ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' when Mr. Fantastic hypnotized the four Skrulls into cows. And possibly a hint, [[spoiler:as done in the ''ComicBook/TheKreeSkrullWar'', that there is one particular Skrull missing and is disguised as someone, particularly a significant guest star, which in this case is "Thanos".]]

** In "Too Many Wolverines!", one of said clones is none other than X-23 in a Wolverine outfit, manicuring her claws. [[Comicbook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel Which doubles as]] HilariousInHindsight.

-->'''Gray Hulk''': Ah, M.O.D.O.K. The Mental Organism Designed Only for Kick-ball.\\
'''M.O.D.O.K.''': Yes, it--''Hey''! That's not what it stands for!

-->'''Thor''': Of course, father Odin! What small child would ''not'' prefer a hammer to a new bicycle? ''Ooooooh'', rainbow...

-->'''Thor''': She's filled out nicely.

--> '''M.O.D.O.K.''': [[ITakeOffenceToThatLastOne "My head isn't THAT big!!"]][[note]]Note that he says this when Mystique becomes a M.O.D.O.K. with Hulk legs, which make the head look proportionally ''smaller''.[[/note]]

* CastingGag: Creator/AdamWest as the Franchise/{{Batman}} {{expy}} Nighthawk, Creator/SusanEisenberg [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague as the]] Franchise/WonderWoman expy Power Princess, and [[Series/TheVampireDiaries Nina Dobrev]] as ComicBook/WerewolfByNight's girlfriend, [[spoiler:who gets turned into a vampire]].

Originally aired on ''Creator/CartoonNetwork''. Later aired on ''Creator/TheHub''.

* CloudCuckoolander[=/=]FunnySchizophrenia: Doctor Strange when under the effects of an Infinity Fractal. Not that he's [[BunnyEarsLawyer all that focused]] normally...

* CaptainEthnic[=/=]CaptainGeographic: Ruthlessly parodied in the form of the All Captains Squad, which includes established heroes Captain America and Captain Britain... as well as Captain Australia, a boomerang slinging hero, Captain Brazil, a senorita who can dance a samba that causes sonic booms, and the diminutive but powerful (and economically prosperous!) Captain Lichtenstein. While Wolverine was a part of that squad, he became known as Captain Canada.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Mysterious Mayhem at Mutant High", Reptil laughs off the divining rod that Ringmaster was using to locate fractals and tosses it in the trash. [[spoiler:As he and Wolverine are flying away, the rod begins to shake and twitch violently and point towards Reptil in the sky, and the rock he wears around his neck begins to react as well in a subtle manner.]] There had been many subtler hints. [[spoiler:Reptil is the only one not depowered by Brynnie Bratton's fractal powered tiara]] and [[GoKartingWithBowser when he and Wolverine golf with M.O.D.O.K. and Abomination]] [[spoiler:he picks up a fractal and he is unaffected but Abomination is]]. And for some reason Wasp always goes for her opponent's ass when she attacks; her favorite target seems to be Screaming Mimi.

** In "Tales of Suspense" Doctor Doom gets a friend request from Magneto and Titanium Man. This is the name of a Creator/PaulMcCartney song from the Wings era.

** In "Deadly is the Black Widow's Bite!", Iron Man asks Black Widow[[note]](Mystique)[[/note]] if she can say "[[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Moose and Squirrel]]". [[CrowningMomentOfFunny She refuses.]]

* LighterAndSofter: The series is definitely more lighthearted than most Marvel Comics adaptations.

Originally aired on ''Creator/CartoonNetwork''. Now airs on ''Creator/TheHub''.

*** Another one has an Australian accent, like the character did in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' and the "Pryde of the X-Men" animated pilot.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:While Songbird later did a FaceHeelTurn while as Songbird, in the comics, she started out a criminal; here, she's revealed to be TheMole for S.H.I.E.L.D. and is hence a heroine from the start]].

* CouchGag: In the opening of every episode, Hulk is transformed into something else; including the original Jack Kirby drawing of Hulk, Joe Fixit, and... a baby. Sometimes doubles as a ShoutOut, such as [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Simpson-]]Hulk.