Poll of the Day > NK vs CN: Avatar: The Last Airbender vs Justice League

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Now it's on. The best of Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon's history against each other. I've included three live action shows, if you don't like it, too bad. I'm fairly confident these are the best and most memorable of these network's original programming. Which side will be the last one standing?

Nick absolutely needs to win this round, or else.

Justice League is probably the best overall cartoon on this list and also the best superhero cartoon. It had a far more varied plots, more developed characters and only one horrible episode compared to batman the animated series which honestly had more crummy and mediocre episodes than people seem to realize.

4. Avatar: The Last Airbender
3. Hey Arnold!
2. Rocko's Modern Life
1. SpongeBob SquarePants

7. Justice League
6. Samurai Jack
5. Ed, Edd n Eddy
4. Johnny Bravo
3. Dexter's Laboratory
2. Courage the Cowardly Dog
1. Adventure Time

Eliminated:
60. Mike, Lu & Og (CN)
59. Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (CN)
58. I Am Weasel (CN)
57. Sheep in the Big City (CN)
56. 2 Stupid Dogs (CN)
55. The Wild Thornberrys (NK)
54. Time Squad (CN)
53. Rocket Power (NK)
52. iCarly (NK)
51. The Amanda Show (NK)
50. The Penguins of Madagascar (NK)
49. The Loud House (NK)
48. My Life as a Teenage Robot (NK)
47. As Told by Ginger (NK)
46. CatDog (NK)
45. SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (CN)
44. Ben 10 (original series) (CN)
43. Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (CN)
42. Steven Universe (CN)
41. Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (NK)
40. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (CN)
39. Drake and Josh (NK)
38. Keenan and Kel (NK)
37. Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (NK)
36. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NK)
35. Megas XLR (CN)
34. Uncle Grandpa (CN)
33. Are You Afraid of the Dark? (NK)
32. The Looney Tunes Show (CN)
31. Batman: The Brave and the Bold (CN)
30. All That (NK)
29. KaBlam! (NK)
28. Cow and Chicken (CN)
27. The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (NK)
26. Regular Show (CN)
25. The Amazing World of Gumball (CN)
24. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (CN)
23. Codename: Kids Next Door (CN)
22. The Angry Beavers (NK)
21. Doug (NK)
20. Danny Phantom
19. The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
18. The Fairly Oddparents
17. The Powerpuff Girls
16. Invader Zim
15. Rugrats
14. The Ren & Stimpy Show
13. The Legend of Korra
12. Teen Titans
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only good matches from here on boys
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Avatar gets my vote. Justice League was great and I loved how each season was basically a comic arc, but it wasn't long enough. Unlimited was okay, but it had too many heroes and a scattered focus.
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Justice League is probably the best western cartoon ever made. Better than TLA by a good measure.

Amusingly, the show was so iconic that when the Green Lantern film was being cast, there were people who complained that they thought GL was supposed to be black.

Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

Unlimited was okay, but it had too many heroes and a scattered focus.

The storylines in Unlimited were generally pretty tight and most things which happened, despite seeming disconnected, usually tied into the running story whether it was the incredible one-shot "Task Force X" which functioned beautifully as a stand-alone episode or the two-part "A Better World" which introduced the Justice Lords (which simultaneously opened so many plot threads). Hell, the show even managed to give us a proper ending to Batman Beyond!

Honestly, Unlimited was really where the show hit its stride. JL focused on smaller story arcs for the most part although it introduced several major elements in addition to having a huge build-up right near the end when it segued into Unlimited.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kXw0UUrMIE

It also includes a great reference to Frederic Wertham's book sneaked right in there that I forgot about.
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The Question was pretty based.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRU4iZUsTY0
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JL was great, but it also had one of my current most disliked heroes as a lead, in either case though, Avatar, it was the better show honestly....
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Justice league looked cool but I could never get into it
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Avatar was great, but loved Justice League more. Unlimited expanding the roster definitely could annoy people who had the core 7 as their favorites, but was great in terms of exposing people to more heroes from the verse they may have not been familiar with and more plot lines.
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literally my two favorite cartoons from both channels.
but Avatar is my favorite of all time.
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Avatar looks like it's got the rest of these on lock if it's not even struggling with Justice League. JL is every bit as great as Batman: The Animated Series. It's one of the very best superhero shows ever made.
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It's depressing but somewhat expected that Avatar would win by a margin on this board, considering it was more likely watched in the first place. JL/U was in all regards incredible and, besides serving as a perfect cap to the DCAU, also worked as a standalone. Likewise, most of the single or 2-part episodes also functioned fine without needing needing to know much of the context of the season, beginning, etc, while at the same time having running story elements, connections to other episodes, etc. By contrast, Avatar only really works as a binge-watch.
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I hope Nickelodeon wins this! ^_^
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I like CN a lot more as a whole, but prefer TLA and Spongebob (seasons 2 and 3) more than any single CN show. I want CN to win this, but can't vote against those two shows, so I'm pretty conflicted.
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Yeah I'm not sure anything can stop Avatar at this point. I definitely won't vote for anything else over it.
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1 hour! Time for a justice league comeback!
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Kaguya_Kimimaro posted...

JL was great, but it also had one of my current most disliked heroes as a lead, in either case though, Avatar, it was the better show honestly....

Umm, no it wasn't. Justice League was leagues (no pun intended) above Avatar. It built upon an already established continuity started with Batman the Animated Series and was awesome.