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.

  • @[email protected]
    10•29 days ago

    I played the SNES game, which was pretty good, although the controls could be a bit clunky. So I was really excited when I saw there was an animated show. I think I only watched the first episode and I remember liking it, but not much else. Let me know if you watch more of it, I’m curious if it’s any good.

    Now what’s definitely worth watching is the 1996 live action movie, The Phantom. It’s super cheesy and kind of dumb, but I remember having fun watching it. I don’t know the relation to Phantom 2040, but they both wear purple suits and black masks.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylMVvzQrrII

    • @[email protected]
      3•29 days 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.

    • _haha_oh_wow_English
      3•28 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]English
    4•29 days 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.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•28 days 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•28 days 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.

  • @retrolaseredEnglish
    2•28 days ago

    So this is who phantom limb is a parody of …