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  • Hanna-Barbera's animated series Abbott and Costello had a short titled "Super Lou", in which Lou's Fairy Godmother gives him a pass to the Masquerade Ball, which Bud is attending. She also gives Lou a superhero costume and Flying Brick powers, which he loses at midnight, just after thwarting a pair of thieves.
  • Cubby impersonates the "Crimson Avenger" in one episode of Adventures of the Gummi Bears turning himself into a Zorro-like hero for a few days.
  • Amphibia has “Spider-Sprig” where Sprig, inspired by a Kamen Rider-esque superhero, becomes Frog Man, quickly gaining a new nemesis in the process.
  • The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius:
    • "N-Men", an homage to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, the kids are on their way back to Earth in their space ship (won on a game show in a previous episode) and accidentally get superpowers while passing through the Van Allen belt, each powers coming from what they were doing at the point. Jimmy was drinking orange juice and arm-wrestling (becoming orange and going into a Hulk-like state whenever angry) with Cindy (becoming Wonder Woman, essentially), Libby was putting on vanishing cream (gaining invisibility and force field abilities), Sheen was on a massaging chair (becoming the Flash... his bladder suffered) and Carl belching while drinking soda (gaining supersonic belching abilities).
    • A later episode reveals that Jimmy recreated their N-Men powers and made them into packets of powder to be ingested. He has Carl distribute them to everyone, who mixes them up, resulting in himself and Libby swapping powers while Cindy swaps powers with Sheen (although at the end, after the powers wear off, Cindy takes a swig of her own packet and regains her old powers so that she can dispose of a bomb). Jimmy's got switched with a love potion from another episode, so he uses that to make two of the villains fall in love with each other.
  • The Angry Beavers pretty much played this trope to death with its "Muscular Beaver" episodes, which had Daggett cause trouble by pretending to be a superhero called Muscular Beaver and his brother, Norb, having to keep him in line by playing along as a villain called Baron Bad Beaver.
  • Babar's episode "The Scarlet Pachyderm" has Arthur and Babar impersonating the in-universe comic book superhero of the same name in order to defend people from two corrupt rhino border guards.
  • The Backyardigans episodes "Race to the Tower of Power", "Front Page News", "Flower Power", and "Super Team Awesome".
  • A couple episodes of Beany and Cecil featured the serpent as Super Cecil going up against Dishonest John as the Billious Beetle ("Confidentially...I sting!").
  • Beetlejuice tries to become a superhero (for the comic book sales, of course) but can't get into a superhero union. He tries to get some of his antagonists to be his arch-villain, to no avail. Lydia does get to be the token cub reporter.
  • Season 3 of Big Mouth has an episode where everyone wakes up to discover they have super powers, each getting their own costumes and names. It turns out this was just based on something Caleb made in his spare time, though the character's actions do play into events that really happen.
  • The Casagrandes has two of them.
    • The first is Season 2's "Dynamic Do-Over". After a disastrous meeting with El Falcon leaves Carl disillusioned and miserable, Bobby decides to become the Flaming Wing Hero himself to rekindle his cousin's spirit. He even rallies his family members to dress up as villains to keep up the charade.
    • The second is Season 3's "Sidekickin' Chicken". El Falcon announces a contest where a lucky fan who submits a video themselves as a potential sidekick will have their hero-sona appear on the show. This leads to Carl portraying himself as El Pollito and records himself performing "heroic" deeds around the city.
  • CatDog has two episodes: "Dog the Mighty" and its Sequel Episode "Dog the Not-So Mighty". In the first one, Dog gets the impression that he is a superhero after saving Rancid Rabbit's life and tries to fight crime with Cat as his sidekick Cat-Boy. In the Sequel Episode, Cat quits as Dog's sidekick so Dog gets a new Cat-Boy in Randolph the news reporter.
  • Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: "It's A Bird, It's Insane, It's Dale" has Dale obtaining a fragment of a meteor that gives him super-stretching powers and he becomes a superhero... at the same time that the Villain of the Week obtains another fragment that gives him the same powers.
  • Craig of the Creek has “Silver Fist Returns”. Where J.P. dons the super heroic alter ego of “Silver Fist” to foil a mysterious thief in the creek, who later turns out to be blackmailed by Eliza.
  • In Dan Vs. "The Superhero," a Smug Super named Terrifi-Guy accidentally destroys Dan's car. After failing to get an apology, Dan and a reluctant Chris try to become better superheroes than him. When that fails, Dan instead decides to become a supervillain called "Dr. Jerk," which obviously suits him much better. He also tries to give the two of them superpowers with radioactive waste.
  • Danger Mouse had "Penfold B.F.," where Penfold takes an untested vitamin pill and turns into the Blue Flash, a rhyming superhero. His efforts to help DM corral a Patagonian pygmy pigeon is haphazard at best.
  • The Duck Dodgers episode "The Green Loontern", where Dodgers accidentally gets Green Lantern's uniform and ring from the dry cleaners.
  • A Magnificent Muttley installment had the snickering daydreamer imagine he's Super Muttley thwarting Dick "Light-Fingers" Dastardly from robbing a safe.
  • DuckTales (1987) notably had a superhero character added into the second season in Gizmoduck, but one episode entitled "The Masked Mallard" featured Scrooge becoming a masked vigilante.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy: "Robbin' Ed" has Johnny 2x4 and Plank as "Captain Melon-head and Splinter the Wonder Wood", who steal back the money Eddy conned off the other kids. This drives Eddy to plot revenge as the super-villain "Professor Scam". Melonhead and Splinter return in The Movie.
  • Endangered Species (2015) has "Just Us League of Superheroes", in which the trio dress up as superheroes.
  • The Fairly OddParents! loves superhero episodes. Timmy is, after all, the Crimson Chin's sidekick, Cleft the Boy Chin Wonder. And the Masked Magician. And occasionally Crash Nebula. And his parents are Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad.
    • "The Big Superhero Wish" turns everyone in the world into a superhero/villain.
    • "Power Pals!" has Timmy wishing up four superhero friends known as the titular superhero team— Super Sam, Wet Willie, Joan Jet and Dark Mark— after his friends abandon him after all the times he's taken advantage of them. Needless to say, the wish quickly goes awry. First, his new superfriends take advantage of him the same way he did with his regular friends, forcing a Jerkass Realization for Timmy. Then, when Timmy decides to reconcile with his friends, who started calling themselves the Anti-Timmy Force Four, the superheroes mistake them for a villainous group and decide to attack them.
    • Adam West is known as Catman, a Batman Parody who is part man, part cat. The same thing applies to his female counterpart, Cat Girl. The episodes in which he is prominent are "Miss Dimmsdale", "Catman Meets the Crimson Chin", "Go Young, West Man" "9 Lives!", "Cat-Astrophe", "Gone Flushin'", "Whittle Me This", "Nuts & Dangerous", "Cat 'n Mouse" and "Knitwits".
  • Family Guy: In the "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1" segment "Super Griffins", the family is mutated by a crashed toxic waste truck. Most of their powers are "normal", but Meg's power is super amazing fingernail growth. Since they behave like villains, Mayor West tries to get superpowers the same way... and gets cancer instead. However, his illness is the family's wake-up call, and they vow to use their powers only for good.
  • An episode of Felix the Cat had this. Apparently, his "Magic Bag" wasn't super enough on its own to count as making him a superhero, but it could just give him tights, super-powers, and a big beefy physique.
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends has "Challenge of the Super Friends", which is meant to be a homage to The Powerpuff Girls (1998), Craig McCracken’s previous work. Here, Mac becomes the sidekick for the superhero imaginary friend Imaginary Man, while Bloo took a role as the sidekick of Imaginary Man's enemy Nemesister.
  • The Futurama episode "Less Than Hero", in which Fry and Leela gain Super-Strength, Super-Speed, and Not Quite Flight Wall Jump as side effects of a medicated muscle rub. They are soon joined by Bender (despite his being "more on the supply side of crime"), who could do cool things already.
  • Garfield
    • Garfield and Friends:
      • "The Caped Avenger", where Garfield dresses as the titular hero when his beloved teddy bear, Pookie is stolen. Jon was actually washing Pookie.
      • Orson's Farm occasionally featured Orson becoming "Power Pig" in both "reality" and dream sequences. In reality, his only powers seemed to be having a stupid costume (in his debut episode, he was used to distract the villain (a fox) with his appearance, which caused the fox to fall down laughing); in dream sequences, his powers consisted of something along the lines of Superman's (super strength and flying). In dream sequences, which usually consisted of a jazzed up version of the problem of the episode being solved, he was used as an inspiration for what Orson did in "real life".
    • The Garfield Show:
      • "Super Me" sees Garfield disguise himself as the hero Ultra Powerful Guy in order to get Nermal to give him food. He then inadvertently gets caught up in helping the real Ultra Powerful Guy thwart a bank robbery.
      • "The Caped Avenger Rides Again!" is about Garfield taking on the identity of the titular superhero (with Odie as his sidekick Slurp) in order to find a stolen comic book. This got a sequel episode, "The Superhero Apprentice", in which Garfield tries to find a new sidekick and Nermal decides to become a supervillain.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy had the episode "Super Zero", where Grim makes Billy a superhero with the power to squirt yogurt from his armpits. Billy then heads off to space to fight an evil space empire.
  • The Hey Arnold! episode, Monkeyman! has Arnold being saved by the titular vigilante, who then neglects his duties after becoming famous before returning to crime-fighting.
  • Jackie Chan Adventures had an episode where Jade was inflicted with all the powers of the talismans. She then dons a cape and calls herself "T-Girl". She reprises this role in another episode although with fewer powers. In season five, Jade's friend Larry gets the power of the Earth demon and starts behaving like a superhero with disastrous results.
  • Jamie's Got Tentacles!: In "Super", Jamie wants to use his powers to become a superhero but he soon understands that it is harder than it looks.
  • Jimmy Two-Shoes had one in its first season and another in its second, though unlike the typical formula for this trope, the powers were incredibly unorthodox.
    • Season 1's was "Power Squid and Spaghetti Beezy", where after running afoul of the Rodeo Clowns, Jimmy uses a "squid-based muscle enhancer" to get his shoe and comic back from them, with Beezy joining him with his bad breath as his superpower. The pair soon use their powers to help Miseryville, which not only infuriates the humiliated clowns further, but is opposed by Lucius because their heroics make people happy.
    • Season 2 followed it up with "The Terrific Trio", where Lucius is constantly being attacked by a mysterious monster, leading Jimmy and Beezy to take their old mantles again, only this with Heloise joining them as Trouble Bubble Girl...and all three fighting over who gets to save Lucius. Also, Season 2 would occasionally have the characters become their superhero forms again if the need arose.
  • Kaeloo: "Let's Play Justice Masters", where Kaeloo is dressed as Zorro, Stumpy as Batman, and Quack Quack as Robin.
  • In Kim Possible, Kim and Ron each have a Superhero Episode — in "Go Team Go", Kim temporarily gains Hego's Super-Strength, and in "The Fearless Ferret", Ron temporarily becomes the sidekick of the TV-Batman expy hero (actually a delusional actor).
  • Looney Tunes:
    • In the Bugs Bunny cartoon Super-Rabbit, Bugs acquires carrots which, when eaten, temporarily give him the abilities of super strength and speed, flight and invulnerability. Later, the two villains obtain the carrots and gain super powers of their own. Followed up immediately by a Shout-Out to, in the eyes of just about all back then and still many today, some real-life superheroes... the US Marine Corps.note 
      Bugs: [sees the villains in Super form] This looks like a job for a real superman! [dives into a phone booth, and emerges in Marine Corps dress blues]
    • "Super Rabbit" is also the title of the last episode of The Looney Tunes Show where the story is a Whole-Plot Reference to Superman II with Bugs as Superman and Daffy as Zod.
    • The Daffy Duck short Stupor Duck had Daffy as an incompetent Superman parody who, thanks to overhearing a radio serial, went around causing trouble and suffering Amusing Injuries while trying to thwart what he thought was the work of a mad bomber. Also the 90's short Superior Duck.
    • Tiny Toon Adventures has a few to go around:
      • "Bats All Folks!" (the first and second segments of "Inside Plucky Duck") and "The Return of Batduck" has Plucky playing the role of Batduck (Batman) and Hamton playing the role of Decoy (Robin).
      • "SuperBabs" (the first segment in "Cinemaniacs!") has Babs being an obvious parody of Supergirl and having to stop Wex Wuthor/Montana Max's evil plan to blot out Acme Acres in black ink. Also, when she comes out of her burrow when she is called to action, she mistakenly puts on a Batgirl costume before putting on the proper costume.
      • In "Just-Us League of Super Toons" (the first segment of "New Class Day"), as Plucky and Hamton retain their roles as Batduck and Decoy, Buster plays the role of Superbun (Superman) and introduces Plucky to the Just-Us League of Supertoons, consisting of himself, Wonder Babs (Babs as Wonder Woman), Little Dasher (Little Beeper as The Flash), Hawk Loon (Shirley as Hawgirl), Aquamutt (Byron Basset as Aquaman), Pink Canary (Sweetie as Black Canary), Keen Arrow (Calamity Coyote as Green Arrow), and Scentenna (Fifi as Zatanna).
  • Men in Black: The Series:
    • One episode has K, J and L developing superpowers after they are exposed to an alien radiation. Their powers are essentially their biggest characteristic up to eleven (K is tough and his body becomes rock, L is smart and her brain develops telekinesis and other brain-related powers and J is pretty hyperactive and becomes flexible). Three alien criminals also developed superpowers.
    • Another has J becoming the Human Torch after eating alien food. This is, however, dangerous for him as the effects would eventually kill him if he uses his powers. Nevertheless he is forced to do it due to an alien enemy force attacking the MIB.
    • And another had an alien immigrant decide to become a superhero, so MIB HQ decides to make Agent J into a supervillain to stop him, and all the attention he's getting.
  • While Miraculous Ladybug is technically a superhero show anyway, the "Miraculous World: New York" special has the duo team up with traditional American DC-style superheroes instead of other french Magical Girls.
  • Monster Buster Club has an episode ("Comic Book Heroes") that features an alien nerd using the Earth as a place to store his billions of comic books. Cathy gets a hold of one series, "Liberty Lass", and pronounces herself a superheroine, Cathy Lass. She doesn't gain any new powers, but that doesn't matter because she usually has whatever wacky alien power she needs for any given situation anyway.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • "The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well" is an episode where Rainbow Dash goes on an ego trip after saving some ponies from accidents and being called a hero. Her thunder is stolen by the eponymous masked pony. Mare-Do-Well's costume is a homage to Darkwing Duck's, and some of her fans are seen carrying signs with a parody of the Batman: The Animated Series logo on them.
    • In the season 4 episode "Power Ponies", Spike and the Mane Six are accidentally pulled into the world of one of Spike's favorite superhero comics, and must protect the city of Maretropolis from the Mane-iac. Each member of the Mane Six becomes a Captain Ersatz of a famous superhero; Rainbow Dash as The Mighty Thor or Storm, Pinkie Pie as The Flash, Rarity as Green Lantern, Applejack as Wonder Woman (with some Batman thrown in) and Fluttershy as The Incredible Hulk (yes really). Twilight Sparkle seems to be the odd one out, possibly being either Cyclops or Icemannote . Spike meanwhile regrettably gets forced into the role of the seemingly pointless Robin-like sidekick (but he ends up saving the team by the end of the episode).
  • In the first-season Pac-Man episode "Super Ghosts", Mezmaron's formula gives the Ghost Monsters super strength and other powers. Afterward, Pac-Man and his wife eat special power pellets that enable them to fly.
  • The Patrick Star Show: "Super Stars" has the Star family become a legion of superheroes, and they're really bad at it. So much that "supervillain" Granny Tentacles is preferred by the townsfolk because she's way less destructive and actually trying to stop the Stars.
  • PAW Patrol has two of these episodes:
    • An episode where Apollo the Super-pup is need in help of the Paw Patrol to defeat the spider king.
    • A TV-movie where the Paw Patrol gained super-powers and facing a dangerous challenge from the villain who fights using a giant mech while damaging the city and have their Leader hostage. wooh! according to that wiki. It is the Special that everyone talked about: MIGHTY PUPS!
  • The Penguins of Madagascar had an episode where Kowalski, Rico, and Private find a bunch of comic books and decide to become costumed vigilantes around the zoo. When Julien finds the comics, he decides to become one as well, but confuses the superhero with the supervillain and needs to be stopped by the penguins.
  • The Pet Alien episode "The Amazing Atomic Tommy" revolves around the aliens believing Tommy is a superhero and putting him in life-threatening situations to train him. Dinko, Gumpers, Flip, and Scruffy all embrace the idea of becoming Tommy's sidekicks and don superhero identities (complete with theme songs, super-weaknesses and a willingness to be taken hostage), while Swanky plays the role of an over-the-top supervillain to fight Tommy.
  • Phineas and Ferb:
  • A Famous Studios Popeye installment had Olive swooning over Superman, so Bluto impersonates Superman and has Olive fawning over him. Popeye tries to one-up him, but when Bluto exposes himself as a faux Man of Steel, Popeye eats his spinach and becomes a caped hero himself.
  • The Pound Puppies (2010) episode "The Watchdogs" had Strudel bring hope to the dogs picked on by Stain by pretending to be a superhero named Electro-Noggin. Niblet joined the fun as another costumed hero named Mad Dog.
  • Interestingly, The Powerpuff Girls (1998) had one of these in "Super Zeroes", despite the main characters already being superheroes. After reading comic books, the girls decide to copy their favorite heroines in order to become better heroes, with Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles taking on new heroic identities as Liberty Belle (notably, the actual name of a Legacy Heroine in the Justice Society of America), Mange (a Spawn Expy), and Harmony Bunny (an Animesque cute rabbit character along the lines of Hello Kitty), respectively. It doesn't go well, since Blossom gets stuck in traffic when she drives the Morality Mobile, Bubbles is extremely slow due to traveling by pogo stick and her attacks consist of putting stickers on the Monster of the Week, and Buttercup won't do anything because of the sunlight. Eventually, the monster himself gets fed up and tells the girls to lose their new identities.
  • The Proud Family had "A Hero for Halloween", which doubles as a Halloween Episode. Penny is imbued with superpowers after eating her father's Proud Scary Snax, and uses them to save her friends' Halloween candy from the Gross Sisters and her family from a vengeful ghost. Puff gets hold of the snacks and gains the same powers at the end of the episode.
  • Quack Pack had "The Really Mighty Ducks", in which Professor von Drake has built a machine that grants superpowers. Our three protagonists use it, and emerge as... "Brain Boy!" "Captain Muscle!" "...and...the Really-Incredibly-Fast Guy!"
  • The Real Ghostbusters: In one episode, a comic book superhero (similar in powers to Superman) literally comes out of the pages, alongside the supervillain (a Mad Scientist in a mechanical suit ala Lex Luthor). The hero at first thought the Ghostbusters were supervillains but when things get clear they team-up to fight the villain.
  • While not a superhero episode as a whole, the Coyote hopelessly and hilariously subverts this in the first Road Runner cartoon "Fast And Furry-ous." He dons a superhero outfit thinking it will allow him to fly. Gravity says otherwise. (Chuck Jones described it as animator Ken Harris in a Batman costume.)
  • Rugrats (1991):
  • Rugrats (2021): In "The Future Maker", the babies imagine themselves as superheroes as they try to save the city from Spike as the Dog Monster, with their superhero alter-egos based on what Angelica said they'd grow up to be. Tommy is Dog Boy, Lil is Rainbow Rocket, Phil is Laser Mouth, Chuckie is Chuckie the Ghost, and Susie is Taco Tuesday. At first, Susie thinks that she isn't a real superhero because she doesn't have an awesome power like her friends do, but when the babies are unable to stop the Dog Monster and Foster as Mega Puppy, Susie uses her taco powers to distract the two dog monsters so she can help her friends.
  • Sabrina: The Animated Series: "The Senses-Shattering Adventures of Captain Harvtastic" explores Sabrina, Harvey and Salem ending up getting sucked into a comic book that Harvey drew. In it, Harvey becomes Captain Harvtastic — who can create anything if he draws it with his pen gun. The rest of the supers have rather pathetic powers — such as Mega Girl (atomic tantrum power), Gazebo Boy (turns into a gazebo to trap enemies) and Calamari Queen (shoots squids out of her hands). The last one at least proves useful when Harvey's pen runs out of ink, and she remembers what squids are good for.
  • Seven Little Monsters: The episode "The Adventures of Super Three" has the monsters play a game of pretend where Three and One are the superheroes Super Three and One Girl and they thwart the diabolical schemes of Four pretending to be a Mad Scientist supervillain and Five pretending to be his assistant Figor. Two pretends to be a news reporter while Six and Seven play victims of Four's experiments.
  • The Simpsons:
  • The Smurfs (1981)'s episode "Supersmurf" has Brainy becoming a Superman-like superhero defending the village from Bigmouth the ogre.
  • South Park originally had "The Coon", when Cartman tries to become a vigilante called the Coon, proves really bad at it, and gets pissed off when another Kid Hero named Mysterion shows up and proves far more popular. The episode ends with the audience unsure of which kid Mysterion is. Both characters later reappear in the "Coon and Friends" trilogy, where the other kids also have superhero identities and form a team, only for Cartman to get kicked out and team up with Cthulhu. The latter episodes are actually surprisingly dark after revealing that Mysterion, aka Kenny, is a Death Seeker because, unlike the others, his power—constantly dying—is both real and really unpleasant. There is also another kid with actual superpowers and Superman-like origins. He is the one who ends up defeating Cthulhu. South Park: The Fractured but Whole is this as an entire game, with the kids compete with one another trying to get their own cinematic universes.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants:
    • "Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy V" has SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy and Squidward all gain superpowers to fight Mermaid Man's enemies. Amusingly, this was made possible because powers come from wearing the ridiculous costumes. They all defeat themselves before doing anything useful with them—except for Mermaidman, who just spontaneously collapses.
    • A later episode, "Patrick-man!", has Patrick trying to be a superhero again.
  • The Talespin episode "Bullethead Baloo" has Baloo attempting to emulate a comic book hero that Kit's friends are into (a Bulletman/Rocketeer type), and foiling a Mad Scientist who kidnaps Shere Khan.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
    • Several episodes in the 1987 series, including "Super Irma", "Raphael Versus The Volcano," "Night of the Dark Turtle," and "Super Hero for a Day."
    • The 2003 series has several as well, as a Justice League type team actually exists in this world, and Michelangelo occasionally dips into his persona as "The Turtle Titan". Then there's the Alternate Reality Episode where he encounters the main cast in a world where they are ALL superheroes and Splinter is their archenemy.
  • In the Thomas & Friends episode, "James the Super Engine", James fantasizes about being a superhero called the Rail Rocket after hearing about a comic book superhero called the Red Shadow. When a barrel of oil spills over James' eyes, it makes him look like he's wearing a superhero mask. James spends the rest of the day pretending to be the Rail Rocket, but has a hard time finding anyone who needs to be saved. He eventually saves Rebecca from being hit by a falling coal hopper when an accident with Percy's freight cars causes said coal hopper to fall over.
  • A variant in the Total Drama Action episode "Super Hero-ld," which is based around superhero movies. The contestants don't actually gain powers, but have to create superhero identities and navigate an obstacle course to save a "damsel" (a sack of potatoes) from a supervillain (Chef in a costume). Some contestants do quite well: Courtney becomes "The Human Cricket," rubbing her legs together to generate an annoying screeching noise, and Harold becomes "Captain Alberta" and uses his love for burritos as a means to generate Fartillery. On the flip side, Duncan just tapes an eye to his forehead and pretends to be a psychic, while Lindsay just straight-up dresses as Wonder Woman (not that Chris minds, as he loved the character as a kid).
  • Trolls: TrollsTopia has "The Party Pooper", which continues off from the previous series Trolls: The Beat Goes On!'s episodes "Marshtato Fairy" and "The Partier's Apprentice". While the latter episode still had Shout-Outs to superhero media, it didn't have a superhero-like plot.
  • Wacky Races (2017): The aptly named "Super Wacky", taking place in the fictional city of Wackopolis with the racers assuming the roles of heroes and villains alike. The heroes are Peter Perfect as the Mighty Chin, Penelope Pitstop as the Pink Protector, I.Q. Ickley as Cy-Q, and the Gruesome Twosome as Massively Marketable Bat-Dude (Tiny) and Whatzhisname (Bella), while Dastardly and Muttley are the villains, known as, respectively, the Purple Puppeteer and Sonic Snicker.
  • Wander over Yonder: In "The Boy Wander", Wander dons a mask and cape (and an uncharacteristically serious demeanor) to take on Dr. Screwball Jones, a Mad Scientist whose twisted idea of bringing happiness and laughter to others is through Tickle Torture.
  • A variation for X-Men: Evolution, which is already about superheroes. It overlaps with Girl's Night Out Episode and "Walk on the Wild Side" Episode — where Jean, Kitty, Rogue, Amara and Tabitha decide to form a vigilante crime-fighting group known as the Bayville Sirens. Complete with black leather outfits, too.
  • In season two of Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Quick Draw McGraw, Huck Hound and Boo Boo Bear would form the Trio of Triumph (becoming El Kabong, Huckle Hero and Ramboo-boo respectively. They even have a poster on their wall of the ubiquitous laughing figures with the caption "You want your planet saved when?"
  • Zeke's Pad: In "Drawing Conclusions", Ida loses her precious electronic organizer. The organizer is what keeps the house tidy and the chores assigned. To help her find the organizer, and in turn prove that he is logical, Zeke draws himself as a superhero detective, Zeke Streak, complete with tight spandex and a mask.

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