Arsenal
04-01-2007, 12:11 PM
I threatened it. You thought I was kidding, but here it is. The Thunderbird Animation Retrospective:
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Thunderbird made his first animated appearance on Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. In the episode, "The X-Men Adventure," Thunderbird, the X-Men and Spider-Man fight a half-man, half-robot named Cyber-something or Techno-guy. It's hard to keep track or care. In the picture above, John Proudstar instructs Storm, Iceman and Firestar to stop in the name of love.
In this episode, Thunderbird lost his cliche kinda strong, kinda fast powers in favor of the ability to change into different animals. Before he could change into each animal, however, he had to call upon the "strength of the bear" or "flight of the eagle." I spent most of the episode hoping he would call upon power of Greyskull.
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Thunderbird earned strictly bit roles in X-Men:TAS. In the Genosha episodes, he got to play the role of "Mutant in crowd #4." He was one of the finalists for "Speaking mutant in crowd," but lost the part to Sunfire.
Tired of being marginalized by the X-Men, Thunderbird decided to branch into other Marvel properties. After executives blocked Johnny Storm from appearing in Fantastic Four (for fear children would immolate themselves), Thunderbird replaced him as the fourth.
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In this episode, Thunderbird builds a doombot out of a garbage can, speak 'n spell and a Sega Genesis.
Thunderbird's short tenure with the Fantastic Four was so successful, network executives tried to create a spin-off comedy hour with him and Lockjaw. Here is the only surviving animation cell from the debacle:
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It probably did not help that the executive editor on the show was the network president's 12-year-old niece.
After the embarrassment that was Thunderbird's foray into comedy, he decided to return to strictly superhero fare. He was cast in Ultimate Avengers after Marvel arbitrarily decided to turn Nick Fury into a Native American.
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His turn as the grizzled Fury was so well-received, Thunderbird tried to return to his first love--teen melodrama. He is scheduled to appear in the fourth season of Kim Possible as the boyfriend of Kim nemesis, Bonnie.
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2963/kimpossiblejc6.jpg
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6785/spideyamazingfriendsie0.jpg
Thunderbird made his first animated appearance on Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. In the episode, "The X-Men Adventure," Thunderbird, the X-Men and Spider-Man fight a half-man, half-robot named Cyber-something or Techno-guy. It's hard to keep track or care. In the picture above, John Proudstar instructs Storm, Iceman and Firestar to stop in the name of love.
In this episode, Thunderbird lost his cliche kinda strong, kinda fast powers in favor of the ability to change into different animals. Before he could change into each animal, however, he had to call upon the "strength of the bear" or "flight of the eagle." I spent most of the episode hoping he would call upon power of Greyskull.
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/3560/xmen90iz2.jpg
Thunderbird earned strictly bit roles in X-Men:TAS. In the Genosha episodes, he got to play the role of "Mutant in crowd #4." He was one of the finalists for "Speaking mutant in crowd," but lost the part to Sunfire.
Tired of being marginalized by the X-Men, Thunderbird decided to branch into other Marvel properties. After executives blocked Johnny Storm from appearing in Fantastic Four (for fear children would immolate themselves), Thunderbird replaced him as the fourth.
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/9625/doomku6.jpg
In this episode, Thunderbird builds a doombot out of a garbage can, speak 'n spell and a Sega Genesis.
Thunderbird's short tenure with the Fantastic Four was so successful, network executives tried to create a spin-off comedy hour with him and Lockjaw. Here is the only surviving animation cell from the debacle:
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/9220/lockjawjf4.jpg
It probably did not help that the executive editor on the show was the network president's 12-year-old niece.
After the embarrassment that was Thunderbird's foray into comedy, he decided to return to strictly superhero fare. He was cast in Ultimate Avengers after Marvel arbitrarily decided to turn Nick Fury into a Native American.
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1284/ultimateavengerssj5.jpg
His turn as the grizzled Fury was so well-received, Thunderbird tried to return to his first love--teen melodrama. He is scheduled to appear in the fourth season of Kim Possible as the boyfriend of Kim nemesis, Bonnie.
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2963/kimpossiblejc6.jpg