![]() This is not to be confused with Cartoon Network’s DC Super Hero Girls (2015), which featured an entirely different voice cast (though I’m pretty sure the Tumblr kids love that one, too). If you’ve spent any time at all on Tumblr these last few years, you’ll know that the kids *love* Cartoon Network’s DC Super Hero Girls (2019). Stars: Grey Griffin, Tara Strong, Nicole Sullivan, Kimberly Brooks, Myrna Velasco, and Kari Wahlgren It’s not to say those superpowered teens aren’t worth watching, it’s just that, living as we are in the golden age of superheroic TV, there are more than enough teen superhero shows that we can dedicate a list just to them. This also means that if a show’s teens just have superpowers-we’re talking your Buffy the Vampire Slayers, your Impulses, your Legacies, your Teen Wolfs-then they likely won’t appear. That is to say, if a show’s teenage characters have superpowers and they put on spandex leotards, capes, or identity-obscuring masks before zipping off to wield them in the support of good, it’s likely to have made the list. To that end, we’ve curated a list of the best explicitly superheroic Teen TV out there. But as Paste’s Kathryn Porter underscored in her review of The CW’s Naomi, “superhero narratives thrive when the person getting powers is already in the middle of their own coming-of-age story.” The drama! The pathos! The natural constraints of being a teenager stuck in the same town, at the same school, with the same people all trying to make your life hell, day in and day out! In a media landscape overstuffed with superhero stories on the literal cosmic scale, that right there is a recipe for satisfyingly small-scale success. It’s basically 1) text your crush inscrutable emoji chains, 2) stomp down the stairs to help your parental unit with a hideous chore, and 3) sneak out with your talisman of ancient magical power to kick ass and save the world (or at least, the neighborhood). Oh, did your teenage years not also come with superpowers? That’s weird, because to hear TV today tell it, it is nearly as universal a teenage experience as sweating profusely at the sound of one’s crush saying their name, or rebelling against one’s parents’ unreasonable expectations. The burgeoning friendships, the roiling hormones.
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