Has a lot of you have noticed one of the current treands today in animated action shows, are about teenagers and pre teen heros.
I have noticed that, on these non anime shows they hardly have any villains that are about the same age of the heros, that are really much of a threat. Most of the time, they either only have adult villains, and the kid villains are just annoyance, the young heros only equals are adults.
A rare show about teenage heros, that have equally powerful teenage villains is Avatar: The Last Airbender. You have Zuko, Azula, Jet, Mai, and Ty Lee. They all could hold their own against the Avatar and his friends. I don't know if the later three could put up a good fight against a motivated Aang (remember Aang was holding back the two times he fought Jet), but they could put up a good fight against Katara, Sokka, or Toph.
Another show is Ben 10, they have a villain named Kevin 11, who is a major villain, and is a big threat to Ben, who even had a nightmare about Kevin.
But the other non Anime shows about young heros, they don't have an equally good young antagonist for the heros to fight. The bigger threats are adults. Here are the shows that come to mind:
Kim Possible - Barely have any villains Kim's age except for Gill and Camille Leon. Gill only wants revenge on Ron, and wants to turn the other kids into mutants, in his only two apperances, when Ron put his mind to it, he defeated Gill easily. And the fact that he is mainly a foe to the sidekick Ron Stoppable hurts him in my eyes. Camille is just a common theif, not a great threat to the world.
Danny Phantom - While the young ghost villains like Johnny 13, Ember, Young Blood, are entertaining and sometimes come up with very evil plots. They seemed bush league when compared to the major villains like Vlad, Dark Danny, Ghost King, they just don't seem as bad and evil. It is not that they are lame or bad villains, it is just some of the major adult villains are just so much better, it makes them look less of a threat.
Teen Titans - Full of teenage villains. None of them come up as equals to the Titans, nor to the level of Slade, Trigon or the Brotherhood Of Evil. The most dangerous fellow teen villain is Blackfire, and she comes off as a bratty older sister, who's goal is to hurt Starfire, instead of enslaving or destroing the world like Slade. She is clearly the best young villain on the show. And the other villains like Johnny Rancid, and Kitten are just annoyances. The same applies to the H.I.V.E. kids. As much as I love the H.I.V.E. Five, that is just the truth. I don't count Terra as a villain. Her purpose was to be a character that is torn between good and evil, and in the end turn to stone.
But I noticed, Anime shows about young heros, give them a fair amount of equally skilled and dangerous foes their own age.
I have noticed that, on these non anime shows they hardly have any villains that are about the same age of the heros, that are really much of a threat. Most of the time, they either only have adult villains, and the kid villains are just annoyance, the young heros only equals are adults.
A rare show about teenage heros, that have equally powerful teenage villains is Avatar: The Last Airbender. You have Zuko, Azula, Jet, Mai, and Ty Lee. They all could hold their own against the Avatar and his friends. I don't know if the later three could put up a good fight against a motivated Aang (remember Aang was holding back the two times he fought Jet), but they could put up a good fight against Katara, Sokka, or Toph.
Another show is Ben 10, they have a villain named Kevin 11, who is a major villain, and is a big threat to Ben, who even had a nightmare about Kevin.
But the other non Anime shows about young heros, they don't have an equally good young antagonist for the heros to fight. The bigger threats are adults. Here are the shows that come to mind:
Kim Possible - Barely have any villains Kim's age except for Gill and Camille Leon. Gill only wants revenge on Ron, and wants to turn the other kids into mutants, in his only two apperances, when Ron put his mind to it, he defeated Gill easily. And the fact that he is mainly a foe to the sidekick Ron Stoppable hurts him in my eyes. Camille is just a common theif, not a great threat to the world.
Danny Phantom - While the young ghost villains like Johnny 13, Ember, Young Blood, are entertaining and sometimes come up with very evil plots. They seemed bush league when compared to the major villains like Vlad, Dark Danny, Ghost King, they just don't seem as bad and evil. It is not that they are lame or bad villains, it is just some of the major adult villains are just so much better, it makes them look less of a threat.
Teen Titans - Full of teenage villains. None of them come up as equals to the Titans, nor to the level of Slade, Trigon or the Brotherhood Of Evil. The most dangerous fellow teen villain is Blackfire, and she comes off as a bratty older sister, who's goal is to hurt Starfire, instead of enslaving or destroing the world like Slade. She is clearly the best young villain on the show. And the other villains like Johnny Rancid, and Kitten are just annoyances. The same applies to the H.I.V.E. kids. As much as I love the H.I.V.E. Five, that is just the truth. I don't count Terra as a villain. Her purpose was to be a character that is torn between good and evil, and in the end turn to stone.
But I noticed, Anime shows about young heros, give them a fair amount of equally skilled and dangerous foes their own age.