
With the original scope of The Matt Signal migrated and rewritten, it’s time to turn my attention in a new direction, namely toward Metropolis. I watched a handful of episodes of Superman: The Animated Series as a kid, and am broadly aware of the biggest moments and episodes, but for the most part this will be an entirely different kind of journey for me. Not flying fully blind, but certainly much less familiarity. On the one hand that means I have no clue what the final list is going to look like before I even start like I did to an extent with BTAS, but on the other it also means I’m having to guess at what may or may not pay off later.
Almost everything will remain the same as with previous reviews, with trivia, a recap, Episode Ranking, Best Performance and Rogues Roundup etc. I have tentatively decided to follow airdate order as the production order seems far screwier here compared to it being obviously preferable in BTAS. I’ve also elected to rank multi-part episodes as a single entity. I remain perpetually torn about this, but I did it the other way for Batman and sometimes thought it had a negative impact on the final rankings, so I figure why not switch it up. Part I will get placed on the ranking and then the episode will move up, down or stay where it is after the other part(s).
Episodes (Chronological)
Season 1
- The Last Son of Krypton: Part I
- The Last Son of Krypton: Part II
- The Last Son of Krypton: Part III
- Fun and Games
- A Little Piece of Home
- Feeding Time
- The Way of All Flesh
- Stolen Memories
- The Main Man: Part I
- The Main Man: Part II
- My Girl
- Tools of the Trade
- Two’s a Crowd
Season Two
- Blasts From the Past: Part I
- Blasts From the Past: Part II
- The Prometheon
- Speed Demons
- Livewire
- Identity Crisis
- Target
- Mxyzpixilated
- Action Figures
- Double Dose
- Solar Power
- Brave New Metropolis
- Monkey Fun
- Ghost in the Machine
- Father’s Day
- World’s Finest: Part I
- World’s Finest: Part II
- Worlds Finest: Part III
- Bizarro’s World
- The Hand of Fate
- Prototype
- The Late Mr. Kent
- Heavy Metal
- Warrior Queen
- Apokalips… Now! Part I
- Apokalips… Now! Part II
- Little Girl Lost: Part I
- Little Girl Lost: Part II
Season Three
- Where There’s Smoke
- Knight Time
- New Kids In Town
- Obsession
- Little Big Head Man
- Absolute Power
- In Brightest Day…
- Superman’s Pal
- A Fish Story
- Unity
- The Demon Reborn
- Legacy (Part I | Part II)
Episode Ranking
- Legacy (Part I | Part II)
- Obsession
- The Late Mr. Kent
- Brave New Metropolis
- Apokalips… Now! (Part I | Part II)
- Unity
- World’s Finest (Part I | Part II | Part III)
- Livewire
- Double Dose
- Fun and Games
- Warrior Queen
- Knight Time
- Father’s Day
- Little Girl Lost (Part I | Part II)
- The Hand of Fate
- The Last Son of Krypton (Part I |Part II | Part III)
- Ghost in the Machine
- Stolen Memories
- Action Figures
- The Prometheon
- In Brightest Day…
- Tools of the Trade
- The Demon Reborn
- The Main Man (Part I | Part II)
- Mxyzpixilated
- Blasts from the Past (Part I | Part II)
- Target
- The Way of All Flesh
- Solar Power
- Where There’s Smoke
- Prototype
- My Girl
- A Little Piece of Home
- Feeding Time
- New Kids In Town
- Superman’s Pal
- Little Big Head Man
- A Fish Story
- Speed Demons
- Two’s a Crowd
- Absolute Power
- Identity Crisis
- Heavy Metal
- Monkey Fun
- Bizarro’s World
Rogues Roundup
- Darkseid
- Livewire
- Toyman
- Lex Luthor
- Unity
- The Joker
- Queen Maxima
- Parasite
- Metallo
- Granny Goodness
- Karkul
- Brainiac
- Mr. Mxyzptlk
- General Hardcastle/The US Military
- Talia al Ghul
- Harley Quinn
- Kalibak
- Volcana
- Ra’s al Ghul
- The Gotham Rogues
- Lobo
- Luminus
- Sinestro
- Project Firestorm
- The Female Furies
- DeSaad
- Detective Bowman
- Bruno Mannheim (and Intergang!)
- Steppenwolf
- The Preserver
- Bizarro
- Kanto
- Mercy Graves
- The Prometheon
- De’Cine
- Mala & Jax-Ur
- Corey Mills
- Earl Garver
- Titano
- Weather Wizard