I’ll admit as a kid I never watched Phantom 2040 mostly due to his boring purple outfit. If he had a cooler costume I probably would’ve watched it because otherwise it’s crime fighting in a cyberpunk city, which I’m a fan of.

So have any of you watched it? Is it any good? I worry that being a saturday morning cartoon from the 90s means it’ll just be basic childish plots resolved within 20 minutes. I mean, Spider-Man Unlimited has Spider-Man getting trapped in a cyberpunk city of human/animal hybrids with a spider-suit made of nanomachines and yet the execution was mostly boring. So I expect Phantom 2040 probably isn’t worth watching.

Here’s the intro. I happened to notice the show because the entire series is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, YouTube, Roku, and Pluto. And there’s also a SNES game which I’ve heard good things about.

    • _haha_oh_wow_English
      3·
      7 months ago

      I think they’re both based on comic books and 2040 is just a futuristic reboot.

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      7 months ago

      I had it on Genesis. Definitely a pretty game for its time. 16 bit consoles really got the look of cartoon and anime down.

  • Dud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    Well that’s a weird coincidence, I just made a vague reference to this show to confuse a bunch of Zoomers in Discord since they weren’t alive yet. I remember the intro more than anything.

  • maniii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    I remember I watched it in French-dubbed first before I found the English version many years later online.

  • _haha_oh_wow_English
    3·
    7 months ago

    lol, yeah I watched it a bit as a kid.

    It was weird and kinda reminded me of Aeon Flux but I think there might’ve been some of the same people working on both.

  • lurch (he/him)
    1·
    7 months ago

    i’m not sure. i remember this guy having powers of animals, but maybe there was an other show without “2040”