10 Weirdest Moments In The Early Days Of Marvel Movies

5. Power Pack's After-School Special

Power Pack are not a superhero team that would be created today. In fact, creators have struggled to square the pre-teen siblings with the darker hue the Marvel Universe tends to work in nowadays, with the wholly innocent adventures of a bunch of kid superheroes being hard to insert into, say, an apocalyptic crossover even like the current Secret Wars. Poor tykes. During the early eighties, however, the Powers children (yes, that was their surname, nominative determinism or what) were pretty popular. Even after the issue about child abuse co-starring Spider-Man. Popular enough to warrant NBC taking a crack at bringing them to TV. As with so many of these early Marvel projects, the pilot wasn't picked up, so they aired it as a made-for-TV movie (and again, it's on YouTube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME8xvz2iHKQ And like Generation X, it made a lot of unnecessary changes like removing one character's ability to fly, not decking them out in costumes, and generally having a weird after-school special vibe to its preachiness and production values.