Kids' WB Recap: The Story So Far & Every Ending Explained (2026)

Updated October 21, 2026 · 24 titles · spoilers for everything below

Kids' WB was the WB network's children's block from 1995 to 2008, moving to The CW in 2006 for its final seasons. It was built on Warner Bros.' own studio: Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain, the DC animated shows from Superman to Batman Beyond and Static Shock, and later Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! during the anime boom. For many children of the late 1990s and 2000s, its Saturday lineup is the core of their cartoon nostalgia.

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No. 01 · 1993 · Series

Animaniacs recap

Yakko, Wakko and Dot, the Warner siblings, are cartoon characters from the 1930s who were locked in the Warner Bros. water tower for being too zany. Now loose, they run around the studio lot, tormenting the studio psychiatrist Dr. Scratchansniff and the guard Ralph, and singing songs about the countries of the world, the presidents and the US states. The show is a variety series made up of short segments. Besides the Warners, there is Pinky and the Brain, two lab mice trying to take over the world; Slappy Squirrel, a retired cartoon star; the Goodfeathers, pigeons spoofing gangster films; Rita and Runt, a cat and a dog; and Buttons and Mindy, a dog and a toddler who wanders into danger. The humour mixes slapstick with jokes aimed at adults. Produced by Steven Spielberg, it aired on Fox Kids from 1993 to 1995 and then on Kids' WB until 1998, with 99 episodes.

How Animaniacs ends

The original show has no story finale; it ended in 1998, and a direct-to-video film, Wakko's Wish, followed in 1999, in which the Warners compete for a wish from a falling star. Hulu revived Animaniacs in 2020 with the original voice cast. The revival ran for three seasons until 2023, with the Warners joking about their decades away, and Pinky and the Brain back as a regular segment.

No. 02 · 1995 · Series

Freakazoid! recap

Dexter Douglas, a nerdy teenager, is surfing the internet when his cat walks across the keyboard and sets off a hidden flaw in his computer's Pinnacle chip. Dexter is sucked into the internet and comes out with all its knowledge in his head, and whenever he says "Freak out!" he turns into Freakazoid, a blue-skinned, hyperactive superhero with super speed and strength and almost no attention span. When not in use, Freakazoid rests in the Freakazone, a part of Dexter's brain. He works with Sergeant Mike Cosgrove, a gruff police detective, and his enemies are as odd as he is: the Lobe, a criminal with a giant brain; Cave Guy; Armondo Gutierrez; Longhorn; the Cobra Queen; and Candle Jack. The show breaks the fourth wall constantly and fills each episode with short side segments such as Lord Bravery, The Huntsman, the Lawn Gnomes and Toby Danger. Bruce Timm and Paul Dini created it, Tom Ruegger developed it, Steven Spielberg executive produced it, and Paul Rugg voiced Freakazoid. It aired on Kids' WB from 1995 to 1997, for 24 episodes over two seasons.

How Freakazoid! ends

Freakazoid! ended without a story finale. Kids' WB cancelled it in early 1997 for low ratings, and the last episode, "Normadeus", aired on June 1, 1997: the Lobe kidnaps the TV carpenter Norm Abram and makes him build a giant wooden horn to destroy Freakazoid. The series closes with the whole cast singing "We'll Meet Again". It found a larger audience later in reruns on Cartoon Network.

No. 03 · 1995 · Series

Pinky and the Brain recap

Two genetically altered lab mice live in a cage at Acme Labs. The Brain is a short-tempered genius; Pinky is cheerful, simple and full of strange sayings. Every night, Pinky asks what they are going to do, and the Brain answers that they are going to try to take over the world. Each plan, built around a disguise, a giant machine or a scheme to win public opinion, fails, often through Pinky's blunders or the Brain's overlooking something obvious. The pair began as a segment on Animaniacs and got their own show in 1995, first in prime time on The WB and then on Kids' WB. The episodes lampoon films, musicals and history, with many famous guest voices. In its last season the network made the producers add Elmyra, a girl from Tiny Toon Adventures who hugs animals too hard, and the show was retooled as Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain, in which the mice are her pets.

How Pinky and the Brain ends

Pinky and the Brain has no story finale. The world is never conquered: the original show ended in 1998 after four seasons, and the retooled Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain ran for one season until 1999. The mice returned in 2020 as a regular segment in the Hulu revival of Animaniacs, still in their cage at Acme Labs and still trying to take over the world every night.

No. 04 · 1996 · Series

Superman: The Animated Series recap

The series opens on Krypton, where the scientist Jor-El fails to convince the council that the planet is about to explode and sends his infant son to Earth. Raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent in Smallville, Clark Kent becomes a reporter at the Daily Planet in Metropolis alongside Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and editor Perry White, and secretly works as Superman. His main enemy is Lex Luthor, a billionaire businessman who hides his crimes behind LexCorp. The show reworks Brainiac as a Kryptonian computer intelligence that helped destroy Krypton, and makes Darkseid, the tyrant of the planet Apokolips, Superman's greatest foe. Other villains include Metallo, the Parasite, Livewire, the Toyman, Bizarro and Mr. Mxyzptlk. Supergirl arrives in season 2, and Batman teams up with Superman in the three-part "World's Finest". Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett developed it as a companion to Batman: The Animated Series, with Tim Daly as Superman, Dana Delany as Lois and Clancy Brown as Luthor. It aired on Kids' WB from 1996 to 2000, for 54 episodes.

How Superman: The Animated Series ends

The two-part finale, "Legacy" (2000), has Darkseid brainwash Superman into believing he is Darkseid's adopted son and send him to lead an invasion of Earth. Luthor stops him, and the government sentences him to death, but Lois helps him escape. Superman confronts Darkseid on Apokolips and beats him, then returns to an Earth that no longer fully trusts him. The story continued in Justice League (2001), with Superman and Batman among its founding members.

No. 05 · 1997 · Series

The New Batman Adventures recap

The New Batman Adventures (1997) continues Batman: The Animated Series on Kids' WB, with a redesigned Batman leading a wider family of Gotham crimefighters. Produced by Warner Bros. Television Animation and credited to Paul Dini, Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett, it ran 24 episodes from September 13, 1997, to January 16, 1999, airing alongside Superman: The Animated Series as part of the DC Animated Universe. Kevin Conroy returns as Batman, and the look is streamlined for smoother animation: a darker costume without the yellow oval, a black-eyed Joker (Mark Hamill), a short-haired Catwoman in black and a Penguin modeled on the older comics. The stories give more room to the supporting cast. Dick Grayson (Loren Lester) has quit as Robin after a falling-out with Bruce and returns as Nightwing, and "Old Wounds" shows how they split. Tim Drake (Mathew Valencia) becomes the new Robin in "Sins of the Father," reworked as the son of a small-time crook who fled Two-Face, and Barbara Gordon (Tara Strong) is Batgirl in a costume closer to her comics debut. Episodes such as "Over the Edge," "Legends of the Dark Knight" and "Girls' Night Out" stretch the format, and guests include Etrigan, the Creeper and Supergirl. According to Bruce Timm, the Kids' WB censors allowed far more than Fox had.

How The New Batman Adventures ends

The New Batman Adventures ends with "Mad Love," aired January 16, 1999. Rejected by the Joker, Harley Quinn remembers how she was a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum until he manipulated her with stories of an abusive childhood, then tries to win him back by feeding Batman to piranhas on her own. She is defeated and sent back to Arkham, ready to give up on the Joker until she sees a card he has sent her. The DC Animated Universe continues with Batman Beyond (1999), set decades later, and with the film Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) in this style.

No. 06 · 1997 · Series

Men in Black: The Series recap

This animated series, which ran for four seasons and 53 episodes from 1997 to 2001, picks up after the first film in its own continuity: Agent K never retires, J is still treated as the rookie, and Agent L works at headquarters, which has moved beneath LaGuardia Airport. Most episodes are standalone cases in which J and K deal with alien criminals, smugglers and invasions, with Zed sending them out from headquarters. The main villain is Alpha, the founding chief of the Men in Black and K's old mentor, who turned criminal and grafts rare alien body parts onto himself in pursuit of immortality, growing more monstrous each time he returns. Other recurring enemies include the insect-like Bugs led by their Bug Queen, who return in several invasion attempts, and the oil-hungry Ixions. Some episodes explore K's past and bring J face to face with people from his own life before he joined.

How Men in Black: The Series ends

The series ends with the finale, "The Endgame Syndrome", in which Alpha is finally killed. J and K are still partners at the end. The show was not expected to be renewed after its third season, whose finale was written as a possible ending, before a fourth season followed. The film sequels do not follow its continuity.

No. 07 · 1998 · Series

Histeria! recap

A sketch comedy show about world history, made to meet the US requirement for educational children's programming. A cast of regular characters plays historical figures and travels through time, under the eye of the host, Father Time, who loses patience whenever the kids get their facts wrong. The regulars include Big Fat Baby, his accident-prone sidekick; Loud Kiddington, who shouts everything; Pepper Mills, an overexcited fan who demands autographs; Froggo, who asks for parts to build inventions; Charity Bazaar, a gloomy girl who announces "I'm not happy"; the World's Oldest Woman, who claims to remember when air was invented; and Lucky Bob, who agrees with everyone. Episodes take on a period, a place or a theme through song parodies, fake commercials and slapstick in the style of Saturday Night Live. Tom Ruegger created it, and it aired on Kids' WB from 1998 to 2000, for 52 episodes.

How Histeria! ends

Histeria! was cut short. Production stopped in 2000 before the 65 episodes originally planned were made, reportedly because the show had gone far over budget, and the last episode, "Big Fat Baby Theatre", aired on March 31, 2000. It ends with the cast and crew singing "Auld Lang Syne" over a montage of photos of the people who made the show. Reruns continued until 2001, and there has been no revival.

No. 08 · 1998 · Series

Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain recap

A retooled version of Pinky and the Brain made at the network's insistence, which wanted a more sitcom-like show with a human lead. Acme Labs is turned into a parody of the Disney Store, and Pinky and the Brain, suddenly homeless, hide inside a turtle that is bought by Elmyra Duff, the animal-crushing girl from Tiny Toon Adventures. Now living in Elmyra's house as her pets, the mice keep trying to take over the world while dodging her smothering affection. New supporting characters fill out Elmyra's world. The producers resisted the change, and the series was poorly received by fans of the original. It aired on Kids' WB from 1998 to 1999, for 13 episodes, some of which were broken into segments on a larger Warner cartoon package show.

How Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain ends

Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain ended without a finale after one season of 13 episodes. The last episode, "The Mask of Braino" (April 1999), has the Brain become a masked crimefighter in a parody of Zorro. Elmyra did not appear with the mice again, but Pinky and the Brain returned in 2020 as a regular segment in the Hulu Animaniacs revival, back in their cage at Acme Labs and plotting world domination.

No. 09 · 1998 · Series

Pokémon recap

Ash Ketchum, ten, sets off from Pallet Town to become a Pokémon Master. He gets a stubborn Pikachu that refuses its Poké Ball, then travels with Misty, a water trainer whose bike he wrecked, and Brock, a gym leader who wants to be a breeder. Team Rocket's Jessie, James and their talking Meowth keep trying to steal Pikachu. Ash wins badges at eight gyms in Kanto and reaches the Indigo League, where he loses in the top sixteen. He then travels to the Orange Islands, joined by Tracey, a Pokémon watcher, and wins the Orange League. Back with Brock, he travels through Johto, a new region with new Pokémon, earning eight more badges. He releases Butterfree and Pidgeot along the way and grows close to Charizard, who leaves for a time to train. Ash reaches the Silver Conference and loses in the top eight to Harrison, a trainer from Hoenn. Kids' WB began airing the show in the United States in 1999.

How Pokémon ends

The original series ends with "Gotta Catch Ya Later!" (2002): after the Johto League, Ash, Misty and Brock part ways, and Ash goes home to Pallet Town before heading to Hoenn, leaving everyone but Pikachu behind. The story continues in Pokémon: Advanced. Ash's full story ends in 2023 with Pokémon Ultimate Journeys, after which the anime moves to new main characters, Liko and Roy.

No. 10 · 1999 · Series

Batman Beyond recap

In 2039, an elderly Bruce Wayne has hung up the cowl after a heart attack nearly forced him to use a gun. Teenager Terry McGinnis, whose father is murdered on the orders of Derek Powers, who has taken over Wayne Enterprises, stumbles into the Batcave, steals a high-tech Batsuit and becomes the new Batman, with Bruce guiding him from the cave. Terry juggles school, his girlfriend Dana and his family while fighting a new rogues gallery: Powers himself, poisoned into the radioactive Blight, the shapeshifter Inque, the telepathic Spellbinder and the Jokerz street gang. Commissioner Barbara Gordon distrusts the new Batman at first and later accepts him. Across three seasons Terry grows into the role, meets the Justice League of the future, and learns more of the original Batman family's history.

How Batman Beyond ends

The last episode, "Unmasked" (2001), is not a true finale: Terry tells Max about an early mistake, when he took off his mask to calm a frightened boy, Miguel, and Kobra kidnapped the boy to get at Batman. The real ending comes later, in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Epilogue", which reveals that Terry is Bruce's biological son through a secret Cadmus project and shows an adult Terry carrying on as Batman.

No. 11 · 2000 · Series

Jackie Chan Adventures recap

Jackie Chan, a cartoon version of the actor, is an archaeologist who does not want to be a hero. When he finds a magic talisman, he is drawn into fights with the Dark Hand, a criminal gang led by Valmont, working for Shendu, a demon who wants all twelve zodiac talismans. Jackie's niece Jade, who hides along on his adventures, and his Uncle, a grumpy expert in magic who says "One more thing!", help him, joined by Tohru, a huge enforcer who switches sides, and Captain Black of the secret agency Section 13. Every season adds a new quest: Shendu frees his demon siblings through portals; the sorcerer Daolon Wong hunts the talismans' powers, now in animals; Tarakudo, king of the Oni, sends shadow ninjas and masks; and in the last season Drago, Shendu's son, collects demon chi. The series ran on Kids' WB for five seasons from 2000 to 2005.

How Jackie Chan Adventures ends

The finale, "The Powers That Be", has Drago absorb the demon chi and summon his demon relatives, forcing Jackie to recruit old enemies to help. Shendu returns and fights his son, and Tohru and Uncle seal both Drago and Shendu into the Netherworld, locking the chi and talismans away for good. A last episode, aired out of order, shows Jade meeting her adult self.

No. 12 · 2000 · Series

Static Shock recap

Virgil Hawkins, fourteen, lives in Dakota City with his father and older sister. During a gang war at the docks, police release an experimental gas, the Big Bang, which gives many of the teenagers there superpowers. Virgil gains the ability to control electricity and becomes Static, flying on a metal disc. His best friend Richie Foley builds his gear and keeps his secret. The kids who gained powers, called Bang Babies, mostly become villains; the recurring ones include Hotstreak, who controls fire, and Ebon, a shadowy leader of the Meta-Breed gang. The show deals with gangs, guns, racism and homelessness. From season 2 it gets darker and Static meets Batman and Robin. In season 3 Richie gains super intelligence from the gas and becomes the hero Gear. Static teams up with the Justice League in later episodes. The show ran on Kids' WB for four seasons from 2000 to 2004.

How Static Shock ends

The final regular episode, "Power Outage" (2004), has a cure strip the powers from Dakota's Bang Babies, including Static and Gear. Ebon and Hotstreak try to undo it and set off a new disaster that the two heroes have to stop. The show was cancelled for low merchandise sales. A future Static appears in Justice League Unlimited's "The Once and Future Thing" (2005).

No. 13 · 2001 · Series

The Zeta Project recap

The Zeta Project (2001) follows a government assassin robot who refuses to kill and goes on the run with a teenage runaway. Robert Goodman created it as a spin-off of Batman Beyond, where Zeta first appeared, and it ran on Kids' WB for two seasons and 26 episodes from January 27, 2001, to August 10, 2002. Infiltration Unit Zeta (Diedrich Bader) is a synthoid built to gather information and kill targets for the NSA, using hologram emitters to disguise himself. When he learns that one of his targets is innocent, he abandons his mission. Rosalie "Ro" Rowan (Julie Nathanson), a 15-year-old who ran away from the foster care system, joins him, and the two cross the country searching for his creator, Dr. Eli Selig, who can prove Zeta is harmless, while Ro hopes to find the older brother she was separated from. Special Agent James Bennet (Kurtwood Smith) leads the NSA pursuit, convinced that the terrorist group Brother's Day has reprogrammed Zeta, with agents Orin West (Michael Rosenbaum) and Marcia Lee (Lauren Tom) beside him and the heavily armed Infiltration Unit 7 sent after the pair. Goodman pitched a darker show, and Kids' WB, which still found it too dark, nearly cancelled it after the September 11 attacks because of its terrorism plots; Goodman left after the second season.

How The Zeta Project ends

The Zeta Project ends with "The Hologram Man," aired August 10, 2002, the last episode broadcast in the United States. Zeta and Ro slip into a top-secret NSA building and reach the Gnosis, the lab where Zeta was made, and Dr. Selig reveals that the mysterious module he built into Zeta works as a conscience, which Agent Bennet overhears. The Gnosis is destroyed, Zeta and Ro escape, and Selig and his assistant Andrea Donoso are presumed dead, though Donoso secretly emerges from the sea. A remaining episode, "The Wrong Morph," never aired in the US, and the series was not renewed.

No. 14 · 2001 · Series

Yu-Gi-Oh! recap

Yugi Muto, a shy boy, solves the Millennium Puzzle, an ancient Egyptian artefact, and gains the spirit of a pharaoh who takes over his body to play the card game Duel Monsters. With his friends Joey, Tea and Tristan, Yugi enters Duelist Kingdom, a tournament held by Maximillion Pegasus, who has trapped his grandfather's soul. Seto Kaiba, a cold, rich rival, wants to beat the pharaoh more than anything. In Battle City, Kaiba's tournament, Yugi battles Marik, who has stolen two of the three Egyptian God Cards and controls people with his Millennium Rod. Later seasons trap the friends in a virtual world built by Kaiba's stepbrother, Noah, then pit them against Dartz and the Seal of Orichalcos, which steals souls. After a tournament in Kaiba's amusement park, the final arc takes the pharaoh back to ancient Egypt through his memories, where he faces the evil Bakura and the demon Zorc and learns his name, Atem. The English dub aired on Kids' WB from 2001.

How Yu-Gi-Oh! ends

In the last episodes, Yugi and Atem play the Ceremonial Battle: Atem can only pass into the afterlife if Yugi beats him. Yugi wins, Atem walks through the door to the afterlife and says goodbye, and the tomb collapses, burying the Millennium Items. The story continued in the film Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions (2016), set after Atem is gone.

No. 15 · 2002 · Series

What's New, Scooby-Doo? recap

The original gang returns in a modern setting, with laptops, cell phones and a Mystery Machine full of gadgets, but the format is the classic one: travel somewhere, meet a monster, set a trap, unmask the culprit. The characters are close to their 1969 selves. Fred is obsessed with building elaborate traps that usually fail, Daphne has learned to defend herself, Velma is the brains, and Shaggy and Scooby are still hungry and scared. Casey Kasem returns as Shaggy after several years away, and Frank Welker, the voice of Fred, now also voices Scooby. The gang travels widely, to Scotland, Mexico, Hawaii, Egypt, Japan and an Antarctic research station, and recurring characters include the Hex Girls and Velma's awkward admirer Gibby Norton. The pop punk band Simple Plan performs the theme and appears in one episode. The series aired on Kids' WB from 2002 to 2006, for 42 episodes over three seasons.

How What's New, Scooby-Doo? ends

What's New, Scooby-Doo? ended without a finale. The last episode, "E-Scream", has the gang at a video game convention where cuddly characters turn evil, and it turns out the whole mystery was a virtual reality test Velma was running. The show led into Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! (2006), and its designs and voice cast carried on in the direct-to-video films of the period.

No. 16 · 2002 · Series

Ozzy & Drix recap

Ozzy & Drix (2002) moves the white blood cell and cold pill from Osmosis Jones into a teenage boy, where they work as private investigators fighting germs. Developed by Alan Burnett and Marc Hyman, the film's writer, it ran on Kids' WB for two seasons and 26 episodes from September 14, 2002, to July 5, 2004, fully animated with no live action. In the opening story, Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones (Phil LaMarr), an impulsive cell who challenges authority, and Drix (Jeff Bennett), a by-the-book cold pill, chase a scarlet fever bacterium (Tim Curry) and are carried by a mosquito out of their old host, Frank DeTorre, into Hector Cruz (Justin Cowden), a 13-year-old Cuban-American boy. Settling in the city of Hector, they guard his health through the trials of adolescence. Maria Amino (Tasia Valenza), a white blood cell cop and Drix's love interest, works beside them under the stern Chief Gluteus (Jim Cummings), while the immature Mayor Paul Spryman (Alanna Ubach) runs the city. Episodes tie a body problem, from a cavity or gas to a threatened appendix, to something happening in Hector's life, with villains such as General Malaise, leader of the tooth decay army, and Billy Blob Bile. The series is gentler than the film and drops its adult humour; only Ozzy, Drix and Frank return from it, with LaMarr and Bennett replacing Chris Rock and David Hyde Pierce.

How Ozzy & Drix ends

Ozzy & Drix ends with "Journey to the Center of the Tooth," aired July 5, 2004. Hector eats too much sugar without brushing, General Malaise gives him a cavity and plans to make his trip to the dentist even more painful, and Drix has to overcome his claustrophobia to help stop him. It is an ordinary case rather than a finale: Ozzy and Drix are still on duty inside Hector when the series stops after two seasons, and no further Osmosis Jones projects followed.

No. 17 · 2003 · Series

Xiaolin Showdown recap

Xiaolin Showdown (2003) follows four young monks from the Xiaolin Temple who race villains around the world for magical artifacts called Shen Gong Wu. Christy Hui created it, Brandon Sawyer developed it, and it ran on Kids' WB for three seasons and 52 episodes from November 1, 2003, to May 13, 2006. Omi (Tara Strong), raised at the temple and endlessly confident, is the Dragon of Water; Kimiko Tohomiko (Grey DeLisle) from Tokyo is Fire; Raimundo Pedrosa (Tom Kenny) from Rio de Janeiro is Wind; and Clay Bailey (Jeff Bennett), a Texas cowboy, is Earth. Master Fung trains them, and the small dragon Dojo (Wayne Knight) grows to full size to fly them to each Wu, with contested Wu decided in magical duels called Xiaolin Showdowns. Their enemies are the self-proclaimed evil boy genius Jack Spicer (Danny Cooksey) and the 1,500-year-old witch Wuya (Susan Silo), whom Jack frees from a puzzle box. Raimundo briefly sides with Wuya before choosing the temple again at the start of season two. That season introduces Chase Young (Jason Marsden), a Xiaolin monk turned evil, and Omi's bad chi takes over after a rescue in the Ying-Yang World, sending him to the Heylin side. In season three the others bring Omi back, the four are promoted to Wudai Warriors, and they face Hannibal Roy Bean, the demon who corrupted Chase.

How Xiaolin Showdown ends

Xiaolin Showdown ends with "Time After Time," an hour-long finale aired in the US in two parts on May 6 and 13, 2006. Omi travels into the past to stop Chase Young from drinking the Lao Mang Long soup, but the changed future is worse: Master Monk Guan turns evil and Omi's friends become farmers. The monks beat Hannibal, Wuya, Chase and Guan in a four-way Showdown, Omi resets time with a paradox, and Raimundo is named Shoku Warrior and leader. The series closes with every villain attacking the temple as the monks charge in. Xiaolin Chronicles continued the story on Disney XD in 2013.

No. 18 · 2003 · Series

Teen Titans recap

Robin, Batman's former partner, leads a team of young heroes who live in Titans Tower, a T-shaped building on an island near Jump City: Starfire, an alien princess learning Earth customs; Cyborg, half human, half machine; Raven, a quiet half-demon who keeps her emotions locked down; and Beast Boy, a jokey green shapeshifter. Episodes mix silly comedy with serious superhero drama, and each season has its own story arc. Season 1 introduces the mastermind Slade, who becomes Robin's obsession. Season 2 follows Terra, an earth-mover who joins the team, falls for Beast Boy and betrays them for Slade, before sacrificing herself and turning to stone. Season 3 focuses on Cyborg and the H.I.V.E.; season 4 on Raven's father, the demon Trigon, and her destiny to destroy the world; and season 5 on Beast Boy and the Brotherhood of Evil, which hunts young heroes worldwide. The show runs from 2003 to 2006.

How Teen Titans ends

The last episode, "Things Change" (2006), has Beast Boy find a girl who looks exactly like Terra at a new school; she insists she is not who he thinks and leaves him, unresolved. The episode before it, "Titans Together", wraps up the season by defeating the Brotherhood of Evil with dozens of young heroes. A TV movie, Trouble in Tokyo (2006), sends the team to Japan, where Robin and Starfire finally become a couple.

No. 19 · 2004 · Series

The Batman recap

Bruce Wayne is 25 and in his third year as Batman, working alone, while Gotham's police treat him as a criminal. Detective Ethan Bennett, Bruce's friend, is turned into Clayface by the Joker, and Detective Ellen Yin hunts Batman before becoming his secret ally. The show gives every villain a new look, including a dreadlocked Joker, Penguin, Mr. Freeze and Bane. Over five seasons the cast grows: Commissioner Gordon arrives in season 3 with Barbara, who becomes Batgirl, Dick Grayson becomes Robin in season 4, and the last seasons bring in members of the Justice League as Batman faces an alien invasion.

How The Batman ends

The series ends with the two-part "Lost Heroes" (2008): the alien Joining returns and steals the Justice League's powers for its androids, and Batman, Robin and Green Arrow help the League take them back. Batgirl finishes the code that shuts the Joining down, and the heroes celebrate on the Watchtower, with Batman now a full partner of the League he met at the end of season 4.

No. 20 · 2005 · Series

Loonatics Unleashed recap

In the year 2772, a meteor strikes the city-planet Acmetropolis, knocking it off its axis and giving six of its residents superpowers. They are descendants of the classic Looney Tunes characters: Ace Bunny, the sword-wielding leader descended from Bugs; Lexi Bunny, with super hearing, from Lola; Danger Duck, who teleports, from Daffy; Slam Tasmanian, a powerhouse, from Taz; Tech E. Coyote, an inventor who can rebuild his body, from Wile E.; and Rev Runner, super fast and talkative, from Road Runner. A mysterious figure called Zadavia gathers them into a team, the Loonatics, to protect the city from villains, many of them futuristic versions of other classic characters. Season 1 was serious superhero action, with Zadavia's brother Optimatus as the hidden main enemy. Season 2 was lighter, with Zadavia taking a direct role and a new villain, Deuce. The show aired on Kids' WB from 2005 to 2007, for 26 episodes over two seasons.

How Loonatics Unleashed ends

The last episode is the two-part "The Fall of Blanc" and "In Search of Tweetums". Optimatus, Deuce and Rupes Oberon try to use a wormhole generator on the planet Blanc to conquer the universe. Deuce betrays Optimatus, and Ace sends Deuce into another universe. The Loonatics then move their headquarters to Blanc and become protectors of the whole universe. The series was not continued, and the franchise's next TV show was The Looney Tunes Show in 2011.

No. 21 · 2005 · Series

Johnny Test recap

Johnny Test (2005) follows an 11-year-old boy whose genius twin sisters keep using him as the test subject for their experiments. Scott Fellows created it, basing Johnny and his sisters on himself and his own sisters, and Aaron Simpson developed it for Kids' WB, where it premiered on September 17, 2005. Johnny (James Arnold Taylor) lives in Porkbelly with his businesswoman mother Lila, his meatloaf-loving, cleanliness-obsessed father Hugh and his 13-year-old sisters Susan and Mary, who gave the family dog Dukey (Louis Chirillo, later Trevor Devall) the power to talk. Johnny misuses their inventions to dodge chores and homework, causes chaos and then has to fix it, sometimes as the superhero Johnny X alongside Super Dukey. Regulars include the rich rival Bling-Bling Boy, who has a crush on Susan, Johnny's rival and crush Sissy, the bully Bumper, and Mr. Black and Mr. White, government agents who call on the family for secret missions. Warner Bros. Animation made the first season; after The WB merged into The CW, Cookie Jar Entertainment took over with a new crew and Flash animation. The third season, the last on Kids' WB, was meant to end the series, but Cartoon Network picked it up in 2009, and it ran six seasons and 117 episodes until December 25, 2014.

How Johnny Test ends

Johnny Test ends with "The Last Flight of Johnny X" and "Johnny's Last Chapter," aired on Cartoon Network on December 25, 2014. In the first, Porkbelly is attacked by its 100th monster and the General bans all superhero activity; in the second, Johnny and Dukey are sucked into a history book while learning about Porkbelly's past. On Kids' WB, the run had closed with the two-part Johnny X story "A New Beginning" and "The Final Ending" on March 1, 2008. Netflix revived the show with new episodes in 2021.

No. 22 · 2006 · Series

Legion of Super Heroes recap

Legion of Super Heroes (2006) brings a teenage Clark Kent to the 31st century to join a team of young heroes and grow into Superman. Developed by Amy Wolfram and produced by James Tucker, it ran on Kids' WB, by then part of The CW, for two seasons and 26 episodes from September 23, 2006, to April 5, 2008. The Legionnaires bring Clark (Yuri Lowenthal), about to leave Smallville for Metropolis, to their time, where he takes the name Superman and learns to control his powers alongside Lightning Lad (Andy Milder), Saturn Girl (Kari Wahlgren), Brainiac 5 (Adam Wylie), Phantom Girl, Bouncing Boy, Triplicate Girl and Timber Wolf. Bouncing Boy is elected leader late in the first season, which ends with Clark returning to the present around the moment he left. The second season, set two years later and darker in tone, brings Superman back to fight the conqueror Imperiex alongside Superman X (also Lowenthal), a clone from the 41st century, and centres on Brainiac 5's struggle with his ancestor, the original Brainiac. Lightning Lad loses an arm to Imperiex and gains a robotic one, Chameleon Boy becomes a regular, and Triplicate Girl, after losing one of her selves, becomes Duo Damsel. The show was first developed for Cartoon Network around the release of Superman Returns, and Kids' WB picked it up when Cartoon Network passed.

How Legion of Super Heroes ends

Legion of Super Heroes ends with the two-part "Dark Victory," aired March 29 and April 5, 2008. Brainiac 5 falls under the original Brainiac's control, kills Imperiex, takes over the Dominators and seemingly kills Superman with kryptonite; Superman X saves him, and Saturn Girl takes both Supermen into Brainiac 5's mind to free him. Everything he digitized is restored, Brainiac 5 leaves the Legion out of guilt and Superman X returns to his repaired future, while Brainiac secretly rebuilds himself from the discarded armor. A planned third season, set three years later, was cancelled when 4Kids took over the Kids' WB slot.

No. 23 · 2006 · Series

Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! recap

Shaggy's Uncle Albert, a wealthy scientist, disappears and leaves Shaggy his fortune and a mansion staffed by a clumsy robot butler named Robi. Albert has also invented a nanotechnology formula and mixed it into Scooby Snacks, and when Scooby eats one he gets a random superpower for a short time: stretching, flying, super speed and so on. The evil Dr. Phineus Phibes, a technology thief, wants the formula and sends his henchmen after Shaggy and Scooby in every episode, while Uncle Albert sends secret messages helping his nephew stop him. Fred, Daphne and Velma appear only in occasional guest roles. The show swaps mysteries for spy-style action comedy. It aired on Kids' WB from 2006 to 2008, for 26 episodes over two seasons.

How Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! ends

In the final episode, "Uncle Albert Alert", Shaggy learns that Uncle Albert has been working undercover as Dr. Trebla, Phibes's right-hand man, feeding him information all along. Phibes escapes and sets his lair to self-destruct, and Scooby uses a special super speed snack to rescue Albert and the trapped agents. The series was followed by Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated in 2010.

No. 24 · 2006 · Series

Tom and Jerry Tales recap

Tom and Jerry Tales (2006) returns the cat and mouse to the style of their original theatrical shorts, with three seven-minute cartoons per episode. Warner Bros. Animation and Turner Entertainment made it for Kids' WB on The CW, where it ran two seasons and 26 episodes from September 23, 2006, to March 22, 2008; Joseph Barbera developed it with Rob LaDuca and Jeff Davison. Barbera, who created Tom and Jerry with William Hanna, served as executive producer until his death on December 18, 2006, making this the last Tom and Jerry project he worked on. Tom (Don Brown) and Jerry (Sam Vincent) chase each other through houses, kitchens and far-off places, joined by the little mouse Tuffy, the bulldog Spike (Michael Donovan), the alley cat Butch (Colin Murdock), the housekeeper Mrs. Two-Shoes (Nicole Oliver) and Toodles Galore, with Droopy in some segments. Each episode groups its three shorts around a shared theme, such as a trip that runs from the African veldt to the Australian Outback and a Malaysian monkey garden. Some shorts were first made in 2005 for a planned slate of more than 30 theatrical cartoons, cancelled after the box-office failure of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, which is why the first season carries a 2005 copyright.

How Tom and Jerry Tales ends

Tom and Jerry Tales ends with its 26th episode, aired March 22, 2008, made up of "Game of Mouse & Cat," "Babysitting Blues" and "Catfish Follies." In the first, Jerry plays a virtual reality game in a laboratory in which Mrs. Two-Shoes likes him and Tom is the one who is scared, until Tom arrives to play too. There is no finale; the chase simply continues. Kids' WB closed later in 2008, and the pair returned in The Tom and Jerry Show, which ran from 2014 to 2021.

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Tom and Jerry Tales (2006) is the latest. Tom and Jerry Tales ends with its 26th episode, aired March 22, 2008, made up of "Game of Mouse & Cat," "Babysitting Blues" and "Catfish Follies." In the first, Jerry plays a virtual reality game in a laboratory in which Mrs. Two-Shoes likes him and Tom is the one who is scared, until Tom arrives to play too. There is no finale; the chase simply continues. Kids' WB closed later in 2008, and the pair returned in The Tom and Jerry Show, which ran from 2014 to 2021.

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