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    Formerly known by names including "Atlas" and "Timely", Marvel Entertainment is the publisher of comic books featuring iconic characters and teams such as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Daredevil. Currently owned by the Walt Disney Company, Marvel is one of the "Big Two" comic publishers along with DC Comics.

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    Edited By Wytchblade

    Which of the following do you think is the superior Marvel Series? 
     
    Wolverine & the X-Men 
     
    or  
     
    Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes

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    #1  Edited By I'maDC/ImageGuy!

    Avengers, because X-men has been done to death already.

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    #2  Edited By dstorres

    Wolverine and the X-Men, The animation was better, the voice actors fit the characters better and the Character designs rocked.

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    #3  Edited By Wytchblade
    @I'maDC/ImageGuy!: That's a pretty lame reason.  And actually it's only been done twice.   
     
    Avengers failed once already, we'll see if they can make it past season 1.
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    #4  Edited By I'maDC/ImageGuy!
    @Wytchblade: I like wolverine and the X-men but the X-men have already been done with and I want to see something new done with other marvel characters. X-men has been successfully been done twice though there are many incarnations of them.
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    #5  Edited By Wytchblade
    @I'maDC/ImageGuy!: Now I buy that.  Thanks for the comments.
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    #6  Edited By I'maDC/ImageGuy!
    @Wytchblade: Plus the reason why the first Avengers failed was due to licensing reasons Marvel and Sabban had getting the main characters. Plus it was done by the same people who did X-men the animated series.
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    #7  Edited By joshmightbe
    @Wytchblade: actually its been done 4 times 5 if you count the failed pilot in the 80s. they had a short lived run with marvel super heroes in the 60s then xmen the animated series in the 90s, xmen evolution, and wolverine and the xmen
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    #8  Edited By LightBright
    @I'maDC/ImageGuy! said:
    " Avengers, because X-men has been done to death already. "
    This.
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    #9  Edited By Illyana Rasputin

    Wolverine And The X-Men

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    #10  Edited By batman_is_god

    not a fan of either. I vote Spectacular Spider-Man
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    #11  Edited By Ferro Vida
    @batman_is_god said:
    " not a fan of either. I vote Spectacular Spider-Man "
    For probably the first time ever... I agree with this guy. 
     
    But the classic Spider-man show was my favorite. Between these two... Probably Avengers, by just the slightest margin.
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    #12  Edited By Jnr6Lil

    WXM is good but Avengers is good too so even to me but i say WXM better.
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    Thus far I'd say Wolverine and the X-men edges them out by a small margin, but pretty soon I think I'll being saying the opposite

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    #14  Edited By darkcloakx

    avengers earth's mightiest heroes for me.

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    #15  Edited By xerox_kitty

    It's bizarre to compare a cancelled series with one that's still relatively new. 
     
    If anything I see Avengers as a worthy successor to W&TXM.  Not better.  Not worse.  Just a good show to watch since the other one isn't around any more.  I've also enjoyed being introduced to several characters I'm not familiar with.    

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    #16  Edited By Icon

    Avengers. It's so faithful to the comics, and everything is just clicking so far, from the character interactions to the voice acting. Really loving it. 

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    #17  Edited By MrFantastic

    Avengers has been kicking some ass.  If only the Black Panther series had gone longer....

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    #18  Edited By Wytchblade
    @Icon:  Really, I was always under the impression that the founders left shortly after forming the group and Cap, Hawkeye, Wanada & Pietro took over.
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    #19  Edited By Wytchblade
    @xerox-kitty: I can see your point.  However I am inclined to agree with dstorres' assessment.  The Wasp looks and sounds like a high school senior. Tony Stark's voice actor is horribly miscast and looks very 2 dimensional.  Cap, Thor, Black Panther, and Hank Pym look good.  Hulk I'm not sure on.
     
    The writing is good (same writers as W&TXM).  Avengers just doesn't sit well with me for production reasons really.
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    #20  Edited By Icon
    @Wytchblade: Yep, in early 60's issues. The Avengers have had a changing/evolving roster ever since. Why though? I didn't say otherwise. In the comics the founders have all come back, and left again, and come back. Newer members have come and gone repeatedly too. As for the show, we have seen some of that there too. Hulk has departed (although I'm sure he'll be back) and Cap and Black Panther have joined. 
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    #21  Edited By Wytchblade
    @Icon:  Actually I was referring to your statement that it is so faithful to the comic.  It is anything but.
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    #22  Edited By Icon
    @Wytchblade: It's quite faithful to the Avengers comics that I read.
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    #23  Edited By ZombieFanatic

    Wolverine and The X-Men shame there not doing another season....def looking fwd to the Anime though....Japanese opening for The 90's AS....  

       anyone?
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    #24  Edited By Gambit1024

    They're both good, but I give it to Avengers. 
      
    I did not like the premise for WXM. First off, the show had a bad name. Wolverine and the X-Men tells me right off the bat that this is a show about Wolverine with guest appearances of the other X-Men. If they wanna do a Wolverine solo show, I say go right ahead, but don't play it off like the X-Men are just a group of sidekicks compared to him. Also, the way that Cyclops acted in that show made me angry. He was being a sad, mopey, b*tch and whoever gave him a trench coat may have been pretty dumb. Seriously, when has he ever worn something like that? That's Gambit's shtick, not Cyclops's.  
     
    That's the bad, but there is some good from this show. The voice acting was superb. Steve Blum is a perfect Wolverine and everyone else's voice fit the character. The costume designs (with the exception of Cyclops and Beast) were great. The action was also something that drew me into the show. They had just the right amount of it. 
     
    Now Avengers EMH is just something else. They took all of my favorite Marvel heroes (I'm a sucker for The Big Three) and just made them even greater on the show. Everyone has the perfect amount of screen time (which is remarkable when you consider the team has 8 members and growing) and the stories are incredible. Everyones characterization is pretty much spot on (with one little problem that I'll get to shortly). I'm fairly confident that this will last a bit longer than WXM, but nobody can see the future, right? 
     
    But with all the good there are a few problems. For one, as popular as Iron Man is, he shouldn't be leading this team. This is the problem with characterization I spoke of earlier. When you're entering the heat of battle, it should be Captain America that should be barking the commands, not Iron Man. Secondly, the roster is getting too big. As long as everyone gets good screen time, I wouldn't mind it, but how long can they keep it up? Also, why is Wasp the only female member? We need more female heroes making some appearances such as Ms. Marvel, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, and Spier-Woman. Lastly, the animation isn't as good as WXM or Spectacular Spider-Man, but they can always improve on that, right? 
     
    Sorry for the long post, lol 

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    #25  Edited By Nova`Prime`
    @xerox-kitty: Not to mention that it appears that you will probably see an Avengers and X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover eventually. We've already had mention of Reed, a newspaper a guy was reading in the last show mentioned a secret school for mutants and I believe the MDRB or whatever it was called in WatXM was mentioned in the shorts that aired prior to the first show.
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    #26  Edited By danhimself
    @Nova`Prime` said:
    " @xerox-kitty: Not to mention that it appears that you will probably see an Avengers and X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover eventually. We've already had mention of Reed, a newspaper a guy was reading in the last show mentioned a secret school for mutants and I believe the MDRB or whatever it was called in WatXM was mentioned in the shorts that aired prior to the first show. "
    Wolverine was in the show already to
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    #27  Edited By FadeToBlackBolt

    I prefer Avengers, having only seen a few microepisodes, I prefer it for the following reasons;
     
    Hank Pym 
    The Wasp
     
    That is all. 
     
    I hate Wolverine and the X-Men anyway. Wolverine leading the X-Men? Yeh, go die.

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    #28  Edited By BuddyBulson

    W&TXM is the best cartoon ever. period. hands down!

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    #29  Edited By Nova`Prime`
    @danhimself: Really? I don't recall, was it in one of the shorts with Cap and WW2? 
     
    @BuddyBulson said:
    " W&TXM is the best cartoon ever. period. hands down! "
    Whatever you're smoking I would like some.
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    #30  Edited By danhimself
    @Nova`Prime`:  yup he was in the first Captain America short
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    #31  Edited By thatlad

    Wolverine & the X-men, more developed plot and story. Better animation and good strong voice cast. 
     
    Avengers is good but not great

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    #32  Edited By Kairan1979
    @FadeToBlackBolt:

     I hate Wolverine and the X-Men anyway. Wolverine leading the X-Men? 

    Two words for you - Alternate Universe.


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    #33  Edited By armylife1124

    Both excellent series, like many things that we are overly critical of here, you have to accept them for what they are.  They are still cartoons, meant to appeal to a younger crowd, so they have to take a slightly lighter approach then most X-Books take, and the Avengers movie is trying to include the most popular Avengers of all time, and trying to tie them all together into a somewhat coherent story.  They both had good stories, and if you did not mark out a little for the Avengers series when you saw the Ultron's, Kang, some Loki mischief and even Zemo getting into the mix then you are not an Avenger fan at all. 

    In all I would give the edge to the Avengers because of some of the subtle dialoge that they add to the mix, especially in the first few episodes.  It is all about where they take season 2 now, you have to worry about the rest of the escapes, and of course Ultron, so they have some hopefully good stories coming up.

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    #34  Edited By TheBlueAngel93

    Both were/are great cartoons, I loved W&XM for it's wonderful stories and characters, along with the animation as well. Avengers I think is fantastic because it's showing the Marvel U in a whole new light and introducing famous Marvel characters that most non-comic book readers had never even heard of before. Plus the stories are fantastic and feel like I'm really reading a classic Avengers comic.

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    #35  Edited By Wytchblade
    @Kairan1979:  Actually Kairan, Wolverine has led the X-Men.  Shortly after the Mutant Massacre Storm left the team to go try and get her powers restored.  She put Wolverine in charged and he did so until her return.  He was also her 2nd from the moment Cyclops left the X-Men.

    You should do some research before crying AU.
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    #36  Edited By Loki9876

    avengers EMH

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    #37  Edited By weaponmaster
    @xerox-kitty said:

    " If anything I see Avengers as a worthy successor to W&TXM.  Not better.  Not worse.  Just a good show to watch since the other one isn't around any more.     "



    This.
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    #38  Edited By Kairan1979
    @Wytchblade:
    did you ever see me complaining about Wolverine being a leader? I'm absolutely OK with it. It's the others who don't like the idea of Wolverine leading X-Men.
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    #39  Edited By Wytchblade
    @Kairan1979: I apologize.  I mistook the context you used.  My bad entirely. 
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    #40  Edited By fbdarkangel

    Avengers, but i want X-men to show up too! Especially X-23!

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    #41  Edited By Aqua11500

     #Team X-men all day


    Avengers has a corny rip off JL feel to it..lol
    Still great for me ,because i love anything Marvel..so yeah
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    #42  Edited By andrewbullheaded

    any possibility for venom (flash) to appear in a new marvel cartoon

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