Line #58 WesternAnimation/TheMightyHeroes


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9	[[caption-width-right:200:[-Clockwise from top: Strong Man, Diaper Man, Tornado Man, Cuckoo Man, and Rope Man.-] ]]
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11	''The Mighty Heroes'' is a lighthearted SuperHero {{Parody}} cartoon that originally aired on Creator/{{CBS}} in 1966, reportedly created on-the-spot by animator Creator/RalphBakshi. The show featured a team of five misfit heroes -- Strong Man, Cuckoo Man, Diaper Man, Rope Man and Tornado Man -- protectors of the city of Good Haven. The show featured a fair amount of skewering of superhero tropes, and is seen by some as a precursor to Bakshi's work on ''[[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'' (where [[OldSuperhero an aged group of Mighty Heroes]] guest star in one episode).
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13	Dell Comics published a comic about the characters in 1967; decades later, one-shots with the characters were printed by Creator/MarvelComics and Spotlight Comics. Their last appearence being in 1998, from the now defunct Paramount Comics in attempt to reboot it.
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16	!!''The Mighty Heroes'' provides examples of:
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18	* AtrociousAlias: Okay, "Strong Man" and "Tornado Man" might be passable, but there's no excuse for the names of the rest of the group being ridiculous.
19	* BadassNormal: The Junker. He has no special powers other than his mechanical ingenuity, yet he briefly won a scuffle against Diaper Man, and is one of the few villains to achieve ''any'' sort of success against the heroes in the second half of the episode.
20	* BatSignal: When the city needs to summon the Mighty Heroes, it lights up an absolutely ''massive'' fireworks display to signal them.
21	* TheBigGuy: Strong Man, as the name implies, is the biggest, strongest member of the team.
22	* BlowYouAway: Tornado Man, who can turn his body into a vortex to grab and throw villains.
23	* BrainyBaby: Diaper Man, the team's leader, is the smartest of the lot despite being a baby.
24	* ButtMonkey: Each of the Heroes suffered from the ineptitude of each of their teammates at least once, but Cuckoo Man and Diaper Man in particular seemed to get the worst of it.
25	* CatchPhrase: During the opening AND ending of each episode, and sometimes during the episodes themselves.
26	** Diaper Man: "Up, and AWAY!"
27	** Strong Man: "Yeah HOOOOO!"
28	** Cuckoo Man: "Cuckoo, eh, cuckoo!"
29	** Tornado Man: "Wheeeeee!"
30	** Rope Man: "Gung HO!"
31	* ChainedToARailway: The Shrinker laid the tied up heroes on the rails in "The Dusters"
32	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Cuckoo Man, appropriately enough, is a very odd and eccentric person..
33	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Given how ineffective the heroes are in the first half of each episode, you'd be forgiven for forgetting that they ''always'' save the day in the end.
34	* CuckooClockGag: One of these five is Cuckoo Man. His alternate identity for civilian life is a shopkeeper selling timepieces. He changes into his Cuckoo Man outfit by leaping into a cuckoo clock on a wall. Somehow, this tiny {{Hammerspace}} can accommodate him, and is intact after he exits the thing. His only superpower is flight, and he's usually TheChewToy of the group.
35	* DeathTrap: The midway point of each episode, and right before the heroes [[LetsGetDangerous began their comeback]].
36	* DumbMuscle: Strong Man.
37	* FelonyMisdemeanor: The Time Keeper for using Cuckoo Man in his giant clock, and The Shocker for trying to take Diaper Man's bottle.
38	* FlyingBrick: Strong Man, the Franchise/{{Superman}} {{expy}}, is big and strong and can fly ... and that's pretty much all there is to him.
39	* FullyAbsorbedFinale: One episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'' (produced by Bakshi Animation), "Heroes and Zeroes", is a "guest star" story revealing that the Heroes had retired from super-heroics because they "got tired of life in the fast lane" and started the chartered accounting firm of Man, Man, Man, Man and Man. Mighty Mouse convinces them to come out of retirement and beat the bad guys once more.
40	* HurricaneOfPuns: The heroes AND the villains spout multiple puns throughout several episodes, befitting the show's genre parody nature.
41	* LanternJawOfJustice: Strong Man definitely has one.
42	* TheLeader: Diaper Man, the smartest of the lot, leads the team into action and contrives their strategy, such as it is.
43	* LetsGetDangerous: Any supervillain better pray his DeathTrap works, because when the team breaks free and regroups in the episode's second half, ''nothing'' can stop them!
44	* LightningCanDoAnything: A random lightning strike brings a scarecrow to life as a supervillain in "The Scarecrow".
45	* LivingMacGuffin: Cuckoo Man becomes one for the Timekeeper, who after all, needs the world's biggest cuckoo to complete his ultimate clock.
46	* MakerOfMonsters: The Monsterizer's probably the most obvious example, it being in his name that he turns people into monsters. The Ghost Monster creates an army of guard-demons from a witch's cauldron when he knows the Mighty Heroes are coming, too. Other villains probably count too, like the Junker with his army of giant robot termites, or the Scarecrow and the animated haystacks that carry out his bidding.
47	* MonsterOfTheWeek: Nearly every episode has the heroes fighting a different villain.
48	* MusclesAreMeaningful: Strong Man with his muscular build, to the point of comedic exaggeration.
49	* NoOntologicalInertia: Destroying a villain's device would usually undo its effects.
50	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The titular villain of "The Ghost Monster" is a spook who the heroes can't hit, but ''he'' can hit ''them''. After the Mighty Heroes escape from the requisite mid-episode deathtrap, Diaper Man gets the idea to change targets to something they ''can'' hit: the haunted house where the Ghost Monster lives. They completely obliterate it, which gets rid of the ghost.
51	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Diaper Man is literally a baby, yet his physical strength is not far from Strong Man's.
52	* PowerUpFood: Both Diaper Man and Strong Man can drink from Diaper Man's milk bottle when extra strength is needed.
53	* RubberMan:
54	** Rope Man, whose body is an unending length of rope.
55	** Even More so, the villain known as "The Stretcher"
56	* ScaryScarecrows: The titular villain of "The Scarecrow" was a scarecrow brought to life by lightning.
57	* ShockAndAwe: The Shocker, unsurprisingly, is a villain with electrical powers.
58	* SignatureMove: Strong Man's "jet-propelled blow" where he flies into a bad guy at full speed fist-first.
59	* SomethingPerson: All of the heroes, naturally, follow the naming convention of a word with "Man" added at the end.
60	* StrictlyFormula: A new villain goes on a crime spree. The city calls in the Mighty Heroes. TransformationSequence. The heroes get in each other's way and are easily defeated. The villain puts them in a deathtrap. They escape. The heroes come back as a perfectly unified group and beat the tar out of the now completely useless villain and his mooks.
61	* SuperheroSpeciation: The team is [[DownplayedTrope mostly]] defined by its members having different powers, although both Strong Man and Diaper Man have super strength and all the Heroes can fly.
62	* SuperheroesWearCapes: All the team wear blue capes as part of their superhero costumes, although Tornado Man's is nearly invisible because it's very short and the same color as the rest of his costume.
63	* SuperZeroes: The Mighty Heroes aren't all that impressive, often getting in each other's way and causing property damage until after they've managed to escape the villain's trap and gotten their act together for the last part of the episode. As one civilian says in "The Junker", "With heroes like this, who needs villains?"
64	* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Apparently, breathing in space is no problem for the Mighty Heroes .
65	* TeamSpirit: Pretty much the only way the heroes achieve success is by working together and never giving up.
66	* ThematicRoguesGallery: Most of the Mighty Heroes' enemies followed a formula of being named "the (something)-er". The Monsterizer, the Shocker, the Junker, the Stretcher, the Drifter, the Shrinker, the Duster...
67	* TopHeavyGuy: Strong Man has an exaggeratedly mesomorphic build with disproportionately small legs.
68	* TornadoMove: Tornado Man could turn himself into a tornado. He would suck villains into his vortex and shoot them into the nearest wall.
69	* TransformationSequence: In the lengthy[[note]]a full minute in a 7+ minute episode[[/note]] opening titles, the Heroes quickly shed their "day job" clothing for their superhero costumes.
70	--> As (X villain does Y bad thing), the call goes out for the Mighty Heroes!
71	* UnwantedAssistance: The first half of each episode is just the heroes interfering in each other's efforts and falling prey to one another's bungling. Honestly, they'd be more effective if they ''didn't'' team up. [[LetsGetDangerous Until the second half, that is.]]
72	* UpUpAndAway: Strong Man, Rope Man and Diaper Man fly in the classic pose, with no apparent effort. Averted with Cuckoo Man, who must continually flap his arms to fly, and Tornado Man, who flies in his tornado form.
73	* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Cuckooman doesn't really have any useful abilities. He can't even fly like the others without constantly flapping his arms.
74	* WouldHurtAChild: None of the villains have any qualms with harming Diaper Man even though he is an infant, or at most a young toddler.

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