7.2
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Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Challenge of the Super Friends (1978)
Challenge of the Super Friends (1978)
Overview
Challenge of the Super Friends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 9, 1978, to December 23, 1978, on ABC. The complete series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Warner Bros. Television and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics and created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky. It was the third series of Super Friends cartoons, following the original Super Friends in 1973 and The All-New Super Friends Hour in 1977. It continues to air on Boomerang in the United States.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Google PlayRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Female Combat: Yes
Viewer Rating
7.2
Overview
Challenge of the Super Friends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from September 9, 1978, to December 23, 1978, on ABC. The complete series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Warner Bros. Television and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics and created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky. It was the third series of Super Friends cartoons, following the original Super Friends in 1973 and The All-New Super Friends Hour in 1977. It continues to air on Boomerang in the United States.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Google PlayDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film is rated as neutral because its core conflict of good versus evil and the pursuit of justice is presented in a universally appealing, apolitical manner, focusing on direct heroic intervention rather than specific ideological critiques or solutions.
The movie features visible diversity within its superhero team through the inclusion of non-white characters. Its narrative, however, maintains a traditional framing of identities without explicit critiques or central DEI themes.
Secondary
The show features Wonder Woman, a prominent female superhero, who repeatedly engages in and wins close-quarters physical fights against multiple male opponents, including henchmen and villains. Her victories are achieved through her superhuman strength and Amazonian combat skills.
Challenge of the Super Friends, a 1970s animated superhero series, does not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The show focuses on traditional superhero vs. supervillain conflicts without exploring queer identities or experiences.
The animated series 'Challenge of the Super Friends' is a classic superhero cartoon from the late 1970s. Its narrative focuses exclusively on the battles between the Super Friends and the Legion of Doom, with no depiction or exploration of transsexual characters or themes whatsoever.
All major characters in "Challenge of the Super Friends" (1978), including iconic DC heroes and villains, maintain their established canonical genders from the source comics. No pre-existing characters were portrayed with a different gender.
The animated series introduced new characters like Black Vulcan, Apache Chief, and Samurai to diversify the team, but these were original creations for the show and not race-swapped versions of existing characters. Established DC characters retained their canonical races.
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