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TV Shows & Series: Best "superhero" TV Shows/Series

A superhero film is a film that focuses on superheroes and their actions. Superheroes are individuals who usually possess superhuman abilities and are dedicated to protecting the public. These films typically feature action, adventure, fantasy, or science fiction elements. The first film about a particular character often focuses on the hero's origin story. It also frequently introduces the hero's nemesis. (See also: supervillain or archnemesis.) Many superhero films are based on superhero comics. By contrast, films such as the Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and Super Sentai franchises, the RoboCop series, The Meteor Man, the Unbreakable film series, Hancock, Darkman and They Call Me Jeeg, were either based on TV shows or produced as original projects for the screen. While The Green Hornet is based primarily on the original radio series and its 1960s television adaptation, both Underdog and The Powerpuff Girls are based on animated television series. Anime superhero films are based on manga and television shows. The highest-grossing superhero film franchises (according to the box office income) since 1967 are Tsuburaya Productions' Ultra Series, Toei Company's Kamen Rider and Super Sentai, New Line Cinema's Blade, 20th Century Fox's X-Men, Sony Pictures' Spider-Man trilogy directed by... ()

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.(2013-2020)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 1,654 votes)

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

Directed by Jeph Loeb - With Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, ...

DC's Legends of Tomorrow(2016-2022)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,098 votes)

When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

With Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Victor Garber, Caity Lotz, Franz Drameh, Ciara Renée, ...
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The Powerpuff Girls(1998-2005)

TV-Y7
| 12min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 416 votes)

The Powerpuff Girls is a animated television series about Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, three kindergarten-aged girls with superpowers, as well as their "father", the brainy scientist Professor Utonium, who all live in the fictional city of Townsville, USA. The girls are frequently called upon by the town's childlike and naive mayor to help fight nearby criminals using their powers.

Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, John McIntyre, Robert Alvarez, Rob Renzetti, Rumen Petkov

The Flash(2014-2023)

TV-14
| 44min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 5,405 votes)

After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.

Directed by David Nutter - With Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Rick Cosnett, Tom Cavanagh, Jesse L. Martin, ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(1987-1996)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 328 votes)

Four turtles fall into the sewers and are befriended by Hamato Yoshi a Japanese man sent to New York who was forced to live in the sewers. One day he sees a strange green glow which transforms the four turtles into human-like creatures. Hamato (now Master Splinter) changes into a giant rat from the green glow and teaches the turtles the skills of the ninja as they team up with news reporter April O'Neil to battle against Yoshi's arch enemy Shredder and Krang, an alien warlord from Dimension X.

Invincible(2021-)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
4.3/5 (with 2,024 votes)

Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father’s tutelage.

Directed by Robert Valley

Arrow(2012-2020)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
3.4/5 (with 2,847 votes)

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

With Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Colin Donnell, Willa Holland, ...
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Blue Code(2017-2020)

Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A Czech medical television series that focuses on an emergency department. Each episode follows cases inspired by real-life stories and the cases of patients and healthcare professionals.

Directed by Vojtěch Moravec, Jaromír Polišenský - With Sabina Laurinová, Marek Němec, Marika Procházková, Eva Podzimková, Petra Tenorová, Filip Cíl, ...

Batman: The Brave and the Bold(2008-2011)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 116 votes)

The Caped Crusader is teamed up with Blue Beetle, Green Arrow, Aquaman and countless others in his quest to uphold justice.

The Incredible Hulk(1977-1982)

TV-PG
| 50min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.6/5 (with 212 votes)

During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever he becomes agitated. Unable to control his transformations, David Banner searches for a cure as he crosses the country, fugitive-style, with a dogged tabloid reporter on his trail.

Directed by Kenneth Johnson, Alan J. Levi, Joseph Pevney, L. Q. Jones, Bernard McEveety, James D. Parriott, ... - With Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, John Finn, Gary Graham, Robert Alda, ...

Marvel's Avengers(2013-2019)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 302 votes)

The further adventures of the Marvel Universe's mightiest general membership superhero team. With an all-star roster consisting of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Falcon and, occasionally--when she feels like it and only when she feels like it--Black Widow, the Avengers are a team in the truest sense. The Avengers save the world from the biggest threats imaginable--threats no single super hero could withstand.

Batman: The Animated Series(1992-1995)

TV-PG
| 22min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Mystery
4.3/5 (with 741 votes)

Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".

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Marvel's Jessica Jones(2015-2019)

TV-MA
| 52min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,067 votes)

After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

With Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter, Rachael Taylor, Wil Traval, Erin Moriarty, Eka Darville, ...
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Marvel's Spider-Man(2017-2020)

TV-G
| 21min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 172 votes)

An insecure but courageous and intelligent teen named Peter Parker, a new student of Midtown High, is bitten by a radioactive spider and given powers. He becomes a hero named Spider-Man after the death of his uncle and he must adapt to this new way of life.

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes(2010-2012)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
4.1/5 (with 322 votes)

When the powers of a single hero are not enough to save the world, the world’s greatest heroes—Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Ant-Man/Giant Man and Wasp—assemble to form the Avengers.

DC Super Hero Girls(2015-2018)

3min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

At Super Hero High, iconic Super Heroes like Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy, and Katana navigate all the twists and turns of high school. United by friendship, the DC Super Hero Girls empower kids to shine with confidence and courage, especially while they combat those overwhelming, exciting, and awesomely awkward moments of growing up (sometimes super powers can be super stressful!).

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Smallville(2001-2011)

TV-PG
| 43min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
4.1/5 (with 1,924 votes)

The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.

With Tom Welling, Laura Vandervoort, Annette O'Toole, Erica Durance, Kristin Kreuk, Allison Mack, ...

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman(1993-1997)

TV-PG
| 46min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 201 votes)

A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.

With Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Eddie Jones, K. Callan, Michael Landes, ...

The Gifted(2017-2019)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.8/5 (with 692 votes)

A suburban couple's ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.

Directed by Bryan Singer, Len Wiseman - With Jamie Chung, Amy Acker, Stephen Moyer, Blair Redford, Sean Teale, Percy Hynes White, ...

Young Justice(2010-2022)

TV-14
| 22min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 507 votes)

Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.

DC's Stargirl(2020-2022)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.9/5 (with 530 votes)

Courtney Whitmore, a smart, athletic and above all else kind girl, discovers her step-father has a secret: he used to be the sidekick to a superhero. "Borrowing" the long-lost hero’s cosmic staff, she becomes the unlikely inspiration for an entirely new generation of superheroes.

Directed by Glen Winter - With Brec Bassinger, Yvette Monreal, Neil Jackson, Amy Smart, Luke Wilson, Brian Stapf, ...

Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man(2012-2017)

NR
| 21min per episode | Kids & Family, Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 478 votes)

While being trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man battles evil with a new team of teen colleagues.

Marvel's Daredevil(2015-2018)

TV-MA
| 52min per episode | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
4.1/5 (with 2,095 votes)

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.

With Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Bob Gunton, Ayelet Zurer, ...
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X-Men: Evolution(2000-2003)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Kids & Family, Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
4.0/5 (with 209 votes)

Teenagers Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Spike fight for a world that fears and hates them.

Justice League Action(2016-2018)

TV-Y7
| 11min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 38 votes)

Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman lead the DC Super Heroes against their most infamous foes.

Loki(2021-2023)

TV-14
| 52min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 5,527 votes)

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

Directed by Kate Herron - With Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku, Richard E. Grant, ...

What If...?(2021-)

TV-14
| 34min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 1,977 votes)

Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.

Supergirl(2015-2021)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 2,025 votes)

Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.

With Melissa Benoist, Chyler Leigh, Floriana Lima, Mehcad Brooks, David Harewood, Calista Flockhart, ...
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DC Super Hero Girls(2019-)

TV-PG
| 11min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 80 votes)

The world may know them as Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl, but not-so-typical teenagers Diana, Kara and Barbara, alongside their Super Hero friends have much more to deal with than just protecting Metropolis from some of the most sinister school-aged Super-Villains. After all, being teens is tough enough, what with school, friends, family and the chaos that comes with managing a social life. But add super powers and a secret identity to the mix, and things can get a lot more complicated.

The Boys(2019-)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 4,569 votes)

A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

Directed by Eric Kripke - With Karl Urban, Elisabeth Shue, Erin Moriarty, Antony Starr, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, ...
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