Ranking Every Marvel Animated TV Series From Worst To Best

5. Iron Man

I know there's a lot to be said about X-Men's intro (and we'll get to that in a bit), but I really do think we should consider nineties Iron Man as being the champ of the comic book cartoon intro.

I mean, you can totally ruin (or improve) the whole aesthetic by superimposing Yello's 'Oh Yeah' over the sequence instead of those banging vocals, but it's still a brilliant opening to what was a regularly enjoyable animated series. Hawkeye and Julia Carpenter (the second Spider-Woman), made regular guest appearances, and there was a healthy dose of villainy to go around too, epitomised in full by the Mandarin and characters like M.O.D.O.K. (a big floating Krang-like head, if you didn't know).

It's a pretty cheesy version of Iron Man, but the show still brings the essence of the comics into its animation. Tony still has all his armour, the Mandarin is still... Mandarin-y, and there's even a moment where he busts a suit out of a briefcase ala the one good scene from Iron Man 2, so all's good really.