Bravest Warriors
Pendleton Ward's other great cartoon, free on YouTube and better than its web series pedigree deserves: four teens, the year 3085, and Catbug. IMDb 8.1, 82 episodes.
Genre Adventure
Adventure Time: Side Quests
Finn and Jake go back to the early days of Ooo in the revival that kept the grubby bits: 100% on RT, John DiMaggio back as Jake, 20 episodes on Disney+ and Hulu.
Black Sails
Starts as a sword and sandal pirate cash grab, becomes Game of Thrones with sails: Flint's war, Silver's ledger, a planned ending that lands. Boardwalk Empire next? This.
Fantastic Four (1967)
The first animated Marvel team: 20 episodes, recycled Dracula cels, the Gee jingle. A museum exhibit that occasionally smiles. Grade it as an artifact.
Fantastic Four (1994)
The Galactus Saga on a cereal budget: Surfer's defection played straight, Doom as a Cold War thriller, 26 episodes of the best First Family hour ever filmed. Disney+.
Defenders of the Earth
Newspaper strips go to war: The Phantom, Mandrake, Lothar, and the Junior Defenders vs. the floating brain Mindball. 65 episodes, vault locked, a funnies page curio.
Thundarr the Barbarian
Sabre and sorcery on a broken Earth with a writers' room of Kirby, Gerber, and Ellison. 21 episodes of broken sun America. Shout Factory Blu-ray is the only real way in.
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Noelle Stevenson's five season Netflix run: starts as a toy commercial rewrite, ends as a war epic about propaganda and defection. The best adapted villain romance in animation.
She-Ra: Princess of Power
The original Etheria: Adora's double life in the Horde, Catra, Hordak, and 93 episodes of Filmation rebellion. The appetizer to the 2018 remake.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
130 episodes of Filmation muscle magic: Skeletor, Sorceress, Orko, and the most famous sword raising in cartoon history. The complete Eternia shelf, graded honestly.