11 Dark, Intense, And Mature 90's Cartoon Shows - Explored
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- When you think of cartoons, you think of animation that is a light-hearted source of entertainment with comic relief. Even though most cartoons are generally created for kids, it is surprising how often deeper topics and more mature themes are added to it by its creators.
Considering the fact that the target audience for most cartoons consumes its content during their formative years, these shows play a huge role in shaping us and making us the people we are. It might not be easy for kids to catch a lot of the undertones and emotional complexities prevalent in the cartoons of the 90s, but they tend to permeate into the subconscious quite easily. As for the adults who were kids when the cartoons aired but are now on a rewatch spree with streaming services at their disposal, having a superhero to look up to is cool but it is even cooler when the superhero who can destroy any evil has the same complexities in their emotions as them.
The greatest feat about the cartoons in the 90s was the fact that censorship wasn’t as heavy as it is today. Creators got away with a lot of implied adult humor, which is something very prevalent in shows such as Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants. They would also use cartoons as means of social commentary or as means of emotional release.
In this video, we will talk about eleven such animated series from the 90s that are often intense and mature, with darker undertones than you would expect from a generic cartoon for kids.
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0:00 Intro
2:10 Batman: The Animated Series (1992) - amzn.to/3CyUQCp
5:05 Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994) - amzn.to/2ZzQhsX
7:47 Gargoyles (1994) - amzn.to/3mkRIV0
10:35 Cybersix (1999) - amzn.to/317ZBVB
13:38 Exosquad (1993) - amzn.to/3vRk0t3
16:45 Aeon Flux (1991) - amzn.to/3Crok56
19:29 X-Men: The Animated Series (1992) - amzn.to/3Gpa6UD
22:29 Batman Beyond (1999) - amzn.to/3jFXy1t
25:34 Courage the Cowardly Dog (1996) - amzn.to/3pHS7mg
28:02 Todd McFarlane’s Spawn (1997) - amzn.to/3mj9yYv
30:58 Pinky and the Brain (1995) - amzn.to/3183NEP - Розваги
If I could give you a million dollars I would because you listed EVERY SINGLE CARTOON I used to watch when I was a kid. Sir...Bravo and thank you deeply! FYI I had a deep love for Aeon Flux and EXO Squad was my favorite cartoon ever!!!
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Me too bro. Lol
Yes that's when TV didn't suck. Unfortunately nowadays the cartoons are pretty well over politically correct.
There were so many great cartoons and toys that came from those cartoons that made the 80's/90's childhood the best any could have. It was an amazing era to grow up in. Something I'm thankful for.
@@SM00THCR1M1NAL It reminds me of that song. Back in the day when I was young now I'm not a kid anymore.some days I would wish I was a kid again...
Spawn is one of the best and darkest classic animated series
I was always jealous of the kids in school that were able to watch that on hbo. That meant they got to do two things i couldnt. Watch hbo and stay up late.
These shows were still a big hit in the early 2000s and always will still be a big hit as a guy born the early 2000s these shows make me glad i was born during the era ❤
BRINGS BACK SO MANY AWESOME MEMORIES!
Yes long live the 90s my childhood !
Loved Phantom 2040 myself, but from the 90s Spiderman was my fave, but no animation could stand up to real classics for me, of Herculoids, Teen Force and Space Ghost with Dino boy, that were the only real thing I loved when young
This is what was supposed to continue. The stoppage of these types of tones have made people weak now a days.
NO. It was people not taking the themes to heart that makes people weak. Children have been taught important themes since movies like The Fox and The Hound, Pinocchio, and everything else. People aren't going to take to heart what doesn't serve their purposes. This "in my day" type of thinking (I watched the cartoons too, mind) means NOTHING because people have always been like this.
Well... Even thou they mostly took more mature aproach, Spawn was literally for mature audiences, or like Aeon Flux, also I was just watching The Maxx just in the topic
My dad would record the episodes on tape and even let me and my brother watch the show. Just had to make sure our eyes were closed during the nude scenes.
@@slanetroyard92 I remember watching Aeon Flux at like 9yo and didnt got hooked by the kind of sex scenes, didnt have propper sex or nudes scenes, as a child I found silly those things, but that show had some weird plot, very crazy episodes, that mostly made start to thing more like an adult than a child for the age I had, also by those days I was watching Evangelion, everything was on a channel name Locomotion ❤️
@@budaroddy aeon flux. Man that brings back memories. Back when MTV still had guts.
I can’t thank you enough for bringing me back to my childhood with this list I miss the 90s.
This video brings back wonderful memories
Totally a blast from the past! Thanks a lot 🙌
oh man x men i remember getting up on saturday mornings to watch x men as as a kid.
Those were days bro.It's a shame the kids today won't experience Saturday morning cartoons.
5:08 that episode was really cool
Xmen Rocked
I know.
Say to Cyclops I make him a convertible.
Ah, I love to see Mr Freeze
These brings back good memories thanks
You read my mind here.
The 90's Cartoon was quite metal ☠️
my beloved X-MEN till the end of all times
also BATMAN BEYOND for the best Batman related timeline of course
but seriously X-MEN is just the best and most purest beautiful thing that have ever happened in the Marvel universe
much love Sir Stan Lee.. may your soul stay blessed
and thank you for bringing to the world the true FIRST CLASS of X-People
Please talk about the Pirates of Dark Water!
One of the most underrated shows of all time. I still remember that awesome intro to this day!
Pirates of Dark Water; Underrated, Imaginative and Gone WAY too soon.
The production seems better in this video!
New intro and the video has an outro now. Really enjoyed the effort put in this one!
That's probably why they say the 90's is the last greatest decade.
For real .Kids today are missing out.
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Amazing video as always 😃
i loved them all back in the day
I think these dark, intense, and mature 90’s cartoon shows would be great to get rebooted, and to add have them all be shown on the (HBO MAX) network, and on the HULU broadcast network.
Right but if they wake em up I’ll be mad
@@K.Okiddfit ,Agreed .But It's better that these cartoons be left alone .Before they ruined them with their woke politics .
@@markmolino679 that's exactly what I was thinking
@@markmolino679 I noticed people with your mindset will always find something in a show or movie that you consider "woke". Even when it's not there. If these show's never aired until now. They definitely would be considered "woke" because of the themes they cover in some of their episodes. Especially Gargoyle's and X-Men.
But because they're established loved classics you're scared to call out anything that's "woke" in the series. Like Terminator 2 and Aliens with the hero being a woman who out lives everyone and kicks a$$. There's a bunch of "woke" moments in those movies. (Mary Sue, belittling of men, men being blamed for everything bad, all men are evil etc.). But because no social media was around to b!tch and moan about PC, woke, feminism back then. It's hard to do that now on the classics. So you just pretend it's not there and follow the sheep herder (UA-camr host) on what to like and what to not like next.
Why do people want everything rebooted? Why can't we just good new shows?
Thank you for the walk down memory lane
Awesome!Keep em' coming.
I was in my 20s during the 90s but I still loved each and evey show you mentioned
Cybersix was always my favorite. I would love see a well written fan loved reboot of it.
I never got a chance to se this one...
I'm actually watching Batman the animated series on HBO, x men,spiderman and gargoyles on Disney +. I watched them as a kid and they are still just as great.
Awesome video
Good ole memory road here, watched a good portion of these as they originally aired-mostly the ones that were on fox/broadcast tv back in the day
amazing video
Wing Command, Savage Dragon, Starship Troopers, Wild C.A.T.S., There were so many awesomely dark cartoons in the '90s.
All these shows influence my writing as a writer it all makes sense
Mines as well
Demonic Entities from the „Outcast“ TV Series explained. Please
Didn’t Keith David voice Goliath or whatever his name was, the main gargoyle?
Yep.His voice is iconic.
He also did Spawn (HBO)
Nice to hear X-men '97 is coming out which will continue the story of the X-Men we all used to watch in the 90s. A long awaited Season 6 since there were only 5 Season in the 90s. I cannot wait~
Marvelous videos..year of the robots!!
The 90's 👑🔥
I still can’t believe they were able get away with marketing toys from R-Rated movies to kids. I used to have a bunch of terminator, predator, and aliens toys that would freak the other kids at day care out
Who cares if other kids were scared. Those action figures would be worth a bit of dosh today.
I miss the 90's back when cartoons were fun.
Spiderman tas was years before Rami trilogy, so no it wasn't meant to tie into it. Plus tas stayed way more true to source material. That being said, how can something be meant as a tie in to something vastly different which didn't exist yet? Better reexamine your statement on that.
Spiderman tas 1994 Spiderman Rami movies 2002. DUH
He maybe got consufed with the New Animated series in MTV of 2003 that is based in the 2002 raimi movies as a sort of sequel
@@spidermansamp6013 I bet that's exactly what happened.
Here in the Philippines during the 90s, aeon flux was only shown after midnight. You felt transgressive when you watch it.
31:53 - Pinky and Brian 😂 😂 😂
and Larry
Lol!
:)
Good stuff
Two that I would add to this list for sure would be Reboot and Beast Wars, 2 of my favs growing up
Do u have any videos on your favorite dc cartoons. Which ones are your favorite.
Spider-Man 94 wasn't tied in with the Sam Rami Films whatsoever. The first Spider-Man film wasn't made until 2002 and the last season of the TV series ended in 99-00
The 90s spiderman show was most certainly NOT a tie in to the Tobey maguire films.. that would be “spiderman - the new animated series” which was created by mainframe entertainment and aired on mtv after the release of the first film in 2002
HBO Spawn is incredible, mindblowing.
It's my Childhood all over again..Watched all these Cartoon as a kid.
Biggz Was Here. 33.
Great
I think Batman Beyond and sonic were what got me into comics.
Cybersix deserves more love. 😭
I Watched and loved all these shows
I liked all the cartoons of the 90s but loved the older ones like thundarr, space ghost,thunder cats ,Dino boy,
6:50 This is Hobgoblin, and Norman Osborn was Green Goblin.
anime differs from cartoon by it's emotion expression, anime action is emotion based, cartoon action is more logic/caricature based , either way cartoon makes you process action and themes using your logical side, where anime makes you feel the action, rather than process it logically, expressions and emotions can be exaggerated, there are more differences but this one is most common.
ah FoxKids... the legend will never die...
Spiderman the Animated series was my introduction to Spiderman
Batman the animated series was fantastic. I loved the Scarecrow in that version.
" gee Brain what are we going to do tonight? " Pinky
"we're going to try and take over the world" 😂
This was another of my favorites Batman Beyond I even love the return of a joker he should have made more
Beast Wars should be considered in this
Brings back a lot of great memories. Before almost everything had to be PC. I remember an episode of xmen that my mom and I watched back in the day when I was getting ready for school. It involved the Friends Of Humanity aka F.O.H.. When they attacked a hospital for the blind and kidnapped Beast girlfriend she was pissed. Since I'm the youngest of my siblings and also have a disability I think she imagined me in beast girlfriend position. My mom was like just give me 20 minutes with those monsters and they'll learn what real fear iike.
Cool mom.
@@maccurtis730 yeah she was. Sadly she passed away when I was still a kid in grade school.
@@slanetroyard92 The world needs more mothers like her.
@@maccurtis730 appreciate it
@@slanetroyard92 ,You had an awesome Mom and yeah PC is ruining everything today.
Spider-Man was not allowed to hit anyone but got hit all the time by villains. Drove me nuts as a kid.
Spawn love that I had the movie I thought behind the movie first before I saw the cartoon series so I travel back to get it on VHS I did find it only for it to tear up
Beast Wars Transformers shound be on the list.
Alot of characters died in that series
Just realized Gotham is literally just Got Ham smashed together
😆😆😆😆
Back then shows focused more on telling great, memorable stories.
Source material is a win win
@@jamespope7669 Except Batman TAS strayed very far from the source material. Tons of shows from that era did yet they were still great because they focused more on characters and telling mature stories.
If what your saying is true, than why Bruce Timm said that he was restrict few times in Batman animated series.
The main reason for new Batman The caped crusader series is that Bruce Timm can make very serious and mature take on Batman.
we got a great show for you all tonight Spawn, Wolverine, and Batman are here we'll be right back.
David Spade : " yeah ok Venom we see you like a turd in the wind your movie sucked no one cares about you so go away bye bye!!"
Deadpool : " go go go go go go."
Aeon Flux looks like it was designed by the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley :)
How dare you call the hunchback of nowhere "freaky fred"
what happen to the phantom 2040 and zorro generation z and spider-man unlimited
I’m asking myself how the DCU will make a movie with Batman Beyond.
Guess if Michael Keaton played an Old Bruce Wayne, it’d be a great start.
5:54 so the cartoon that came out 1994 is suppose to be a tie in to a movie that came out in 2002?
X-men animated series is still my ring tone
Avatar the last bender is also another example. It deals concepts such as genocide, imperialism, death, orphanhood, war and a little bit of cabbages on top of them to lighten the mood😂
OMG!! i just found an easter egg in Pinky and the brain 31:26, THX 1138 is the first george lucas movie , really great movie btw
No the Maxx or phantom 2040? I’m sure there is others but those were the first 2 I thought of.
Ooo I forgot cyber6 that show was THE BEST
Out of these cartoons on this list I always thought exo squad an Aeon flux had a mature audience tone. The animation on these was also unique.
You should have added Ren & Stimpy, and made it an even dozen.
As a kid, I knew that X- men was based on true racism... Humans against Mutants... Not Humans against Humans of different color... We are all the same race...
I also noticed that Mutant League wasn't on this list, the Intro of Mutant League was Pretty Scary when I first saw it as a Kid...
6:50 that wasn’t Norman Osborne… Hobgoblin was Harry Osborne and Ned Leeds
They left out Image Comics WildCats & The Maxx
Mighty max was crazy dark should've been on here as well
I can't remember this cartoon it had a young boy that found this Orb during a to Revolution I believe it was the General and the guy that helps the king did something to the king and queen and this young boy saw it and he and the princess escape with this orb that can turn on all equipment they had futuristic technology but it was also not set up in the future. one episode they use that ordered to power of mech suit or a hover tank seen a few episodes don't remember that came on at night leave around 7 or 8 at night maybe later I believe it was around 94 to 98 . They also had to run away with other rebels from a city during the day and the boy used a jetpack or a hoverboard as the King's Knight's were chasing him down he had to leave them away from the safe house in the city so they all can escape I swear it was called cyber nine I know it has a number in the title a 6 or 9 cant remember the first part and Google in the description of the cartoon brings me up with nothing. It was on ABC CBS NBC or fox .
I’ve watched cyber six and was shocked it never got renewal for second season, and was the first cartoon to have a transgender character as a lead protagonist
Exosquad my shit. I still have season one on DVD.
It was my favorite show the X-Men I cried when they took it off the air and I was grown up
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A few mispronunciations and false info but still a good list
If you ask me, a Spawn-like animated adaptation of the X-Men should've been created as well and it's horrible than they haven't made such an adaptation yet LOL. By "Spawn-like" I mean a TV series oriented towards a mature audience of course. One where lethal force and bad language were allowed. Where Wolverine was allowed to slice up people and where he could smoke and drink like he does in the comics. The 1990s version was very limited due to it being designed as a kids show. An adult oriented adaptation must be made.
If I had kids they are totally watching of these cartoons.
same, my future kids will grow up on the best cartoons, not the brainless ones.
No Ren & Stimpy?
those werent mature and rarely were they dark, not dark in nature anyways. they were more an edgy cartoon that focused on gross out humor and arguably was TVs first LGBT couple.
90's animations were fucking great. Nowadays animations are joke. That is why 90s kids were much smarter
Batman Beyond 😍
eustice looks like my grandpa. that being said I love courage the cowaerdly dog