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''The Super Hero Squad Show'' is an animated television series by Marvel Animation based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad action figure line from Hasbro, and a humorous take on the [[Marvel Universe]]. 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 [[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 hilarious series full of jokes only the older comicbook fans will get. Taken like this, it's surprisingly funny.
Prior to the beginning of the series, the villainous [[Doctor Doom]], in pursuit of universal domination, attempts to acquire the limitless reality-bending power of the [[Infinity+1 Sword|"Infinity Sword"]]. He is stopped by [[
As the series begins, Doctor Doom has forged alliances with just about every supervillain, forming the Lethal Legion in order to hunt down the scattered fractals, each of which possess dangerous and different powers of their own. Doom's forces, including his two primary henchmen [[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 [[
The second season starts after the Infinity Sword is reforged; it's taken by the Silver Surfer when he rejoins [[Galactus]] as his herald. The plot focuses on [[Thanos]], who wants to complete the all-powerful Infinity Gauntlet to become supreme ruler of the universe. The [[Scarlet Witch]] takes the Silver Surfer's place as the Squad travels across the universe to foil Thanos' plan.
It ran from 2009 to 2011.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Ms. Marvel and [[The Wasp]]
* [[Actor Allusion]]:
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* [[An Ice Person]]: Iceman
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
** "You are under arrest for curfew violation, resisting a Sentinel, and carrying duct tape without a proper license."
** Doctor Strange's mystical abilities include "levitation, travel to other dimensions, transformation of matter, Bulgarian cow-tipping.. and he's great at Sudoku."
* [[Barack Obama]]:{{context|reason=Is this a trope?}} The Mayor's campaign posters do seem VERY familiar...
* [[Big Bad]]: Dr. Doom in the first season, Thanos in the 2nd. The theme song even changes to reflect this between seasons. {{spoiler|Dark Surfer takes role for remainder of Season 2}}
* [[Big Fancy House|Big Fancy]] [[Haunted House]]: Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum.
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** To be fair, she's 3, and just wanted her daddy to come home from work. [[Missing Mom|(Of course, where her mother was in all of this is unknown.)]]
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Happens at least once per episode in the 2nd season. The Mayor of Super Hero city does this frequently.
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** Ms. Marvel berates Impossible Man for breaking the fourth wall for no good reason. He did it all throughout the episode that he shows up in, including revealing that he is ''the head writer of the show.''
** After one character makes a comment that breaks the fourth wall, other characters literally crash through a wall and Iron Man says "You know that's the fourth wall we've broken today."
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* [[Canon Foreigner]]: The Mayor of Super Hero City, Captain Australia, Captain Brazil, Captain Lichtenstein and Brynnie Bratton.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Reptil, who was created for the show, then appeared in the comics even before the show debuted.
* [[Cardboard Prison]]: Subverted. Every time Doom tried to escape prison in season 2, he would fail to escape. He was finally freed by Molecule Man because he's a reality warper.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Hero up," and "No problems... adamantium skeleton." (The latter is given by [[Wolverine|you-know-who]] in a pained or dazed manner whenever he suffers [[Amusing Injuries]]... which is often.
** Doom will often be heard yelling "Nuts!" after an [[Offscreen Crash]].
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* [[Companion Cube]]: Mjolnir at times (it's an [[Empathic Weapon]], but Thor has drawn a face on it).
* [[Composite Character]]: {{spoiler|Scorpio in the show is a disguise used by Nick Fury, which is kind of fitting as the two are brothers in the comics (and Nick has disguised himself as Scorpio in the past).}} Nick Fury himself could be deemed a composite of his Ultimate and Classic selves.
* [[Couch Gag]]: 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 [[Shout-Out]], such as [[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpson-]]Hulk.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: [[Stan Lee]] voices the mayor of Superhero City.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: In the intro for a second season episode, Dr Doom is seated on an electric chair, the camera zooms in as we hear:
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Do your worst... }}
** {{spoiler|then it's revealed that that "worst" is an psychotherapy session with Captain America}}
* [[Covered in Mud]]: Abomination, in response to being compared unfavorably to a dog, digs a huge pile of dirt and covers Reptil, Wolverine, and Thor in dirt to the point only their eyes are showing.
* [[Da Chief]]: Ms. Marvel and Captain America.
** Both of whom answer only to Nick Fury.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Bill (later Beta Ray Bill).
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Something along the lines of "FEAR THE POWER OF[[Beat|...]] MY POWER"
* [[Did Not See That Coming]]: Doctor Doom, word for word, in the [[Black Widow]] episode when [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]] reveals his own double agent. {{spoiler|Screaming Mimi is really Songbird.}}
* [[The Ditz]]: Let's just say Silver Surfer is now... well. [[Surfer Dude|His name is rather appropriate.]]
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** Thor tends to fill this role sometimes.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Hulk chooses to invoke this trope when his Infinity Fractal-induced brilliance makes him an ineffective know it all who can't even fight properly.
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* [[Enemy Mine]]
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: This happens to Doom when Dormammu comes to town.
* [[Expressive Mask]]: Iron Man and everyone with a mask.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|The Silver Surfer, after being corrupted by the Infinity Sword.}}
* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: M.O.D.O.K. and Abomination waste no time in heckling new villain Paste Pot Pete's choice of villain name. Even when he decides to change his name to Trapster.
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Enchantress and Thor, though completely one-sided.
* [[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 [[Go-Karting
** And for some reason Wasp always goes for her opponent's ass when she attacks; her favorite target seems to be Screaming Mimi.
* [[Foot Focus]]: Wolverine sniffs at Reptil's feet in "Tales of Suspense!". Coco von Doom as she's getting a pedicure in "Pedicure and Facial of Doom!".
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** The episode featuring their encounter with Dormammu has their physical makeups being altered and one instance shows Falcon along with his pet falcon Redwing dressed up in wedding attire, with him in a tux and the falcon in a wedding gown. His remark: "Hey! It is NOT like that!"
** In "Night at the Sanctorum," the heroes have to find a new place to temporarily live, and Iron Man reads off a list of heroes to stay with. He gets to She-Hulk and says to himself, "well, maybe if it was just ME."
** In the above episode: While crammed in the back of the Punishers van, one of the heroes starts muttering something about his nipple.
** Iron Man: Hulk, you trying to lose us our [[Medium Awareness|G rating]]?
** War Machine mentions ''something'' about Iron Man dating She-Hulk:
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'''Iron Man:''' Gentlemen don't discuss such things! }}
*** When She-Hulk shows up in a season 2 episode, she asks Iron Man why he never calls her. He responds with this line:
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** In "Honor Thy Sky-Father", Thor and Hercules face off in a competition. In one round, they have to fight an 8 headed Hydra and bring back one of it's heads. Thor rushes in, fights, and then brings back a bag.
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'''Reptile:''' Umm, Thor... That's not its head.
'''Thor:''' It is not.. I see... [[Bizarre Alien Biology|But there were 8 of them!]]
'''Wolverine:''' Okay, that was just gross. }}
** "Hehe, he said 'put out'" - Abomination, Election of Evil.
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*** "During the war..." is almost a catchphrase for him.
* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: The first season seems to deal with gathering pieces of an all powerful sword.
** The Infinity Gems in the second season.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Baron Mordo possesses Iron Man's armor, anyway.
* [[Heh
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'''Thor:''' Hehe, thou said [[Bait and Switch|scuttle.]] }}
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: When Black Widow ( {{spoiler|who is Mystique in disguise}}) briefly joins the team.
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** : {{spoiler|When the Mayor tried to reason with the Dark Surfer, he threw the Earth out of it's orbit, nearly destroying it's atmosphere from that alone, and slowly sending it further and further away from the sun.}}
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: The show doesn't skimp on them.
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'''Abomination:''' Paying their superpower bill?
'''M.O.D.O.K.:''' [''flailing uselessly''] Want to hit you...but arms...too short! }}
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: The '''Infinity''' Sword.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Flatman, but more "insufferable" than "genius", as he believes not only that [[Hollywood Global Warming]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|flat-out]] doesn't exist, but also that ''the Earth is flat''.
* [[Kaiju]]: Mole Man uses these as part of his ''modus operandi''.
* [[Lady of War]]: Valkyrie
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: Silver Surfer
* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: Wolverine and Reptil face off again M.O.D.O.K and Abomination in a full game of ''golf'' to decide who gets control of a fractal.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]:
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Made of Iron|Made Of Adamantium]]: "No problems, [[Wolverine|adamantium skeleton.]]"
* [[Magic Skirt]]: Jean Grey
* [[Medium Awareness]]: One episode features Dr. Doom and Magneto joining forces to obtain fractals, and end up accusing each other of stealing the entire pot. They had Falcon supposedly imprisoned, but he suddenly appears out of nowhere and snatches the remaining fractal in front of them.
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'''Falcon:''' Actually, it was me. Wish I could tell you about it, but....read the message boards. }}
** Again in ''Days, Nights and Weekends of Future Past'':
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'''Falcon:''' Uhh....nothing but positive things.
'''Scarlet Witch:''' Liar! No one EVER writes positive things on message boards! }}
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Too many to name, but one particularly noteworthy example is Thor being turned into '''Throg, Frog of Thunder''' in the episode introducing Dormammu.
** "Tales Of Suspense" as an episode title, with an A-Plot focusing on Iron Man.
** "So that is what happens when [[X-Men (
** 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 infamous first cover to ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'', 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 [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]], what could go wrong?"
** A special one that doubles as a [[Shout-Out]] is during a trip to the Negative Zone Iron Man sees a vision of himself as he looks on ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
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* [[The Napoleon]]: Captain Lichtenstein. Tiny, but economically prosperous!
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Parodied/played with:
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'''M.O.D.O.K.''': Yes, it--''Hey''! That's not what it stands for! }}
** Played straight when he once says the "K" stands for "Kick-butt."
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Flatman purposely calls Ben Stein to mind.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Chthon. Doom. Dormammu. Most of the villains, really...
* [[The Only One
* [[Screwed
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Valkyrie. The last time Thor saw her was in high school.
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* [[Shapeshifter Swan Song]]: Invoked when {{spoiler|Black Widow}} is revealed to be Mystique, and [[Slapstick Knows No Gender|a blow to the head from Mjolnir]] causes her to shift into mishmashes of several Marvel characters - in a manner reminiscent of the Hulk fractal [[Couch Gag]].
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* [[Shout-Out]]
** In "In Mental Organism Designed Only for Kissing", [[
** In "Election of Evil", the Mayor references Spider-Man, the most major of missing Marvel characters, quite a lot. For starters, he tries to get superpowers by "getting bitten by a radioactive bug", and his campaign motto is "With great responsibility comes great power...and vice-versa."
** Reptil's favourite cheese is [[Joe Quesada|Queso da Joe]] ("It's super-cheesy!")
*** M.O.D.O.K: "Ever since Knuckles Quesada got out of prison, he just hasn't been the same."
** Here's a particularly obscure one: In "Tales of Suspense," Doctor Doom gets a friend request from Magneto and Titanium Man. This is the name of a [[Paul McCartney]] song from the Wings era.
** In "The Ballard of Beta Ray Bill", the Stranger calls Beta Ray Bill "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Shown Their Work]]: As evidenced by the huge amounts of in-jokes and [[Mythology Gags]] the show uses. One example that stands out is in "Enter: Dormammu", in which the Hulk is the only squaddie to notice Dr. Strange's astral form, as a gag. It's not one of the Hulk's better known powers.
* [[Sizeshifter]]: The Wasp has the power to both shrink and grow.
* [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying]]: As a dinosaur-themed shapeshifter, Reptil is the major offender:
** To protect himself, he grows "Stegosaurus armor". Stegosaurus' plates were thin, covered barely anything, and were for regulating temperature (not protection).
*** No one knows WHAT they were for. Armor and temperature regulation are both separate theories.
**** And that doesn't even consider the time he grows stegosaurus plates on the bottom on his feet SO HE CAN SKATE.
** To fly, he grows "Pterodactyl wings". Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs, and their wings didn't look like bat wings (with multiple bony "fingers" going through the middle).
** And then there's the time he morphed a hadrosaur's beak to use it as a shovel.
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** It is, even if someone's missing from the lineup.
*** And Ka-Zar manages to RUN AWAY during the footage.
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** "Mysterious Mayhem At Mutant High" does it with Reptil. '''Just''' Reptil.
* [[Super-Deformed]]
* [[Superheroes Wear Tights]]: Ms. Marvel wears leggings with her uniform here.
* [[Take That]]
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** [[Iron Man]]: I can't believe this! ''[[Family Circus]]'' is still in the paper!
** Flatman's resistance to global warming is likely a subtle one towards the Republican Party and others' dismissal of said theories.
** Thor's theories explaining how Mjolnir could turn Beta Ray Bill's toilet scrubber into a mystical hammer in "The Ballard of Beta Ray Bill".
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* [[Talking to Himself]]: Lampshaded.
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* [[Team Dad]]: Iron Man
* [[That Poor Cat]]: [[Once Per Episode]], nearly.
* [[Toilet Humor]]: At least in the pilot. Not even Doom was exempt.
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'''* splat* '''
'''M.O.D.O.K.:''' THAT'S UNSANITARY! }}
** It also appeared in "From the Atom...It Rises."
** In one episode, Human Torch and Silver Surfer destroy part of the Fantastic Tower. Cue a shot of Thing sitting on the toilet reading a newspaper only to have the bathroom crumble around him.
* [[Training Montage]]: Doom gets one, including Rocky's sweater. His teddy bear (also with Doom armor) stands in for the trainer.
* [[Transformation Is a Free Action]]: Averted for [[Played for Laughs|comedy's sake]]. Dark Surfer interrupts the Hero Up sequence by [[Leaning
* [[Trickster]]: Loki. Who else?
* [[Tsundere]]: Ms. Marvel with... well, everybody.
* [[Unusual Ears]]: Galactus.
* [[Visual Pun]]: At one point in "Enter Dormammu," Doctor Strange's fractal-corrupted magic turns the heroes into various other things. Wasp becomes an insect, while Iron Man becomes a clothing iron and then a golfing iron.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Spider
* [[What Happened to
* [[Wipe That Smile Off Your Face]]: Nebula has her mouth removed from her face by Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet.
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'''Thanos:''' Ooh, that is a *good* look for you! }}
* [[Witch Hunt]]: Scarlet ''Witch'' is subjected to one by the founding citizens of Super Hero City in the year 1602, despite the fact that she had only shown good intentions and helped defend the city against the dreaded pirate Captain Doom up until that point. The Mayor reasoned that even though everyone likes her on an individual level, she is still guilty of being a witch.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Doctor Doom's mother attacks Hulk with her "sonic nag," to which Hulk responds that he doesn't fight girls. When she pours it on, he gets pissed and responds with his own sonic roar, properly causing a building to fall on top of her.
* [[Yuppie Couple]]: A bratty little girl [[Meaningful Name|appropriately named]] Brynnie Bratton appears several times and is usually pouting because whatever she was doing is interrupted by the heroes and villains fighting. She eventually gets [[A Day in
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