That cutesy cartoon version of the Marvel superheroes? They're going to premiere in September on Cartoon Network, and they've gone all-star. Check out this cast list:
• Shawn Ashmore (X-Men films) as Iceman
• LeVar Burton (Ali, Roots) as Rhodey
• Taye Diggs (Private Practice) as the Black Panther
• Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street) as Dormammu
• Greg Grunberg (Heroes) as Ant-Man
• Mark Hamill (Star Wars) as the Red Skull
• Lena Headey (Sarah Connor Chronicles) as the Black Widow
• Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica) as Sif
• Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Ugly Truth) as Stardust
• Wayne Knight (Seinfeld) as Egghead
• James Marsters (Smallville, Buffy The Vampire Slayer) as Mr. Fantastic
• Jennifer Morrison (Star Trek, House) as the Wasp
• Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) as Hawkeye
• Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, Meet The Spartans) as Ka-Zar
• George Takei (Heroes, Star Trek) as Galactus
• Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gossip Girl) as the Valkyrie
• The cast is also joined by comics legend Stan Lee in a recurring role as the Mayor of Super Hero City
Comments
Winzerous said:
Took me a while to recognize Levar Burton with the Ali credits. Where's his Star Trek TNG or Reading Rainbow credits... kinda like putting Sylvester Stallone and putting "Driven" and "Rocky" then it clicks on who he is lol.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 12:44:41 PM
MasterOod said:
Wow, how cool is that? I wasn't interested at first, but with all that great voice acting talent, I'm definitely intrigued now!
Stan Lee as the Mayor? That should be amusing as well!
Posted 07/24/2009 at 12:47:30 PM
cummins said:
Yeah, i'm with MushroomJones on this one.
I just hope the characters form a big superhero band and sing us songs of morality at the end of each episode.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 12:47:54 PM
Nameless said:
Hmmm... Stellar cast vs too-cutesy style. I'll definately watch the first episode.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 12:48:14 PM
Yakub Shabazz said:
How the hell are they going to afford this?? This has got to be costing them more per episode than what Sam Jackson wanted, which they wanted to lowball.
Also, Galactus is Asian? Huh, never knew.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 12:50:45 PM
Yakub Shabazz said:
Oh, what I wouldn't give to hear Galactus say "Hello!" in the extra-flaming tone of Family Guy's Takei impression.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 12:53:02 PM
too//damn//ninja replied to Yakub Shabazz:
+1 for that, i'm sure once the show hits then some useful person will overdub it and put it on youtube... ^_^
Posted 07/14/2010 at 05:12:20 PM
Herman said:
thats an awesome cast... i cant imagine how itd get much better...
Posted 07/24/2009 at 12:57:34 PM
Pupo said:
whoa, whoa, whoa everyone!!! what about Robert muthaf*cking Englund!?!? He was William Wexler for foxache!
Posted 07/24/2009 at 01:04:21 PM
MushroomJones said:
Stardust is one of the many heralds of Galactus. Maybe Terrax will appear next season.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 01:08:16 PM
sal said:
theres just thing about a ghey George Takei as Galactus that makes me smile
Posted 07/24/2009 at 01:17:28 PM
MyNoNos said:
Takei FTW!
Although the entire cast list is quite impressive.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 01:22:52 PM
Zortt1 said:
I can just see it now:
Reed Richards: We have the Ultimate Nulifier Galactus, be gone from this planet!
Galactus: (deep Takei voice) Oh my!
*****
Another question? Who's playing Cap?
Posted 07/24/2009 at 01:24:06 PM
me said:
Hamill as Red Skull should be awesome. But no CAP?
There is only one Red Skull figure and 4 Cap figures.
The ALL AMERICAN hero is not in the show but
the NAZI/FASCIST is? wtf
Posted 07/24/2009 at 01:32:53 PM
Ramone said:
@me, it's just a list of announced cast--not a complete list of show characters.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 01:42:19 PM
easilydissolvedinwater said:
No info on Cap at imdb, but I found out who's playing Iron Man and MODOK...Tom Kenny from Spongebob Squarepants.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 01:45:52 PM
emerson999 said:
@Zortt1
Someone has to dub that in the second galactus shows up.
I'm in total agreement on the general sentiment of him as galactus being a giant win.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 02:18:21 PM
Doc said:
I always pictured Galactus as a gay geriatric Asian. :)
Doc
Posted 07/24/2009 at 02:22:37 PM
Captain EO said:
Well that was a nice way to make me go from having no interest in the show to being very excited about it.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 02:28:26 PM
NeverPlayedWOW said:
How the hell do they have this kind of voice talent for this kind of show?!
Posted 07/24/2009 at 02:42:52 PM
jason said:
where the fuck is spider man? kids will recognize him a lot better than egghead, hawkeye, ant-man, or the red fucking skull.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 03:25:57 PM
Glorious Cheese said:
This would be great news if only the animation style wasn't akin to something you'd see on Nick, Jr.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 03:34:38 PM
Dr Rotwang! said:
I'dnot heard of this show until now, but my 5-year-old and I will be watching this. It'll be easier for me to tell her who everyone is -- a problem we have when we watch Justice League. "Daddy, who's that girl?" "I dunno, sweetie, but if this were a MARVEL show..."
Posted 07/24/2009 at 03:41:39 PM
John said:
Is the Levar Burton from "Ali" and "Roots" related to the same guy who was in "Star Trek: The Next Generation TV" series for 7 years and 4 movies, and was in Reading Rainbow for how-many years? I guess more people know him from "Ali" than a little sci-fi show. ;)
Posted 07/24/2009 at 03:53:47 PM
Teeks said:
I'm assuming most of these people won't be regulars. I can imagine they fight Galactus and the Red Skull on every episode. It's probably just a list of special guests that'll show up every once in a while. The main cast will be a bunch of voice actors from Nick and CN and you'll have never heard of most of them.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 04:56:38 PM
Mantyf said:
I thought Marvel was done with Cartoon Network, and I thought Cartoon Network was done with cartoons.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 05:03:10 PM
Snoodle said:
*dies*
*in a good way*
That's one seriously inspired cast, man.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 07:03:44 PM
TheShadow said:
Great casting. Most likely many of those stars will only be in one or two episodes.
I'm trying real hard to think of a way for the stellar voice cast to outweigh the general suckitude of the character design. It's not quite there yet. I'll give it a chance, but the writing will have to match the casting to keep this show from becoming Marvel's version of the Brave and The Bold cartoon.
Posted 07/24/2009 at 09:02:51 PM
Aaron b said:
well hamil and kenny will probably be regulars since they (now) are basically cartoon voice actors
Posted 07/25/2009 at 02:37:28 PM
Aaron b said:
oh and "Captain... it appears on our sensors that... I will eat this planet. Oh my!" and now we need shatner as Silver Surfer so it really will be FTW!
Posted 07/25/2009 at 02:39:27 PM
ZeroCorpse said:
Shatner as... Uatu The Watcher.
"Reed Richards, I... Can't interfere. You havetounderstand it's.... Against Our Code of conduct."
(YOU try typing in Shatnerese)
Posted 07/26/2009 at 12:21:15 PM
ZeroCorpse said:
You know: Sylvester Stalone! Known for his role in "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!"
Posted 07/26/2009 at 12:27:22 PM
Aezetyr said:
Could Marvel be getting any awesomer? Is that even a word?! Freakin' SWEEEEEEEET.
Posted 07/27/2009 at 05:37:16 PM
Karma said:
....James Marsters.
And that's when I stopped even remotely caring about this.
Anything he's in, will, by mere association, suck on ungodly levels. Nope, don't care, this whole show can go to hell.
Posted 07/28/2009 at 03:23:44 PM
Heliandum said:
I'm really excited about this. I've loved Marvel comics for quite a while.
Love the casting, especially George Takei.
Posted 07/28/2009 at 08:31:59 PM
Korbl said:
now I have visions of a british Mr. Fantastic, a gay asian Galactus, and Luke Skywalker, laughing as a nazi getting the shit kicked out of him by Captain America...
apparently they did the casting of this show so that the parents of the kids watching it will have nerdgasms...
Posted 07/29/2009 at 03:03:36 AM
Betsumei said:
George Takei's done quite a bit of voicework recently - he showed up in an episode of Transformers Animated as no one you'd recognize, and IMDB shows him on Clone Wars, Kim Possible, Scooby Doo, and a bunch of others.
And frankly, I'm okay with anything that features his voice.
Posted 08/04/2009 at 02:52:29 PM
BRENDAN said:
I LOVE MARVEL AND IM 12 I KNOWN IT MY WHOLE LIFE AND THIS SHOW SUX!!! WHY WOULD THEY MAKE THE ALL KIDS!!!THAT MIGHT BE THE ONLY REASON THE SHOW SUX SO BAD...OH AND THEY MAD THE ABOMINATION GREEN...HE WAS FRICKIN ORANGE
Posted 10/10/2009 at 08:58:24 PM
BRENDAN said:
OH ONE MORE THING I H8TE THE SHOW BUT THE CAST IS FRICKIN GREAT
Posted 10/10/2009 at 09:02:01 PM

