Marvel Super Hero Girls (2022 TV series)

***Marvel Super Hero Girls*** is an American animated superhero television series developed by Lauren Faust and produced by Marvel Studios for Disney Channel. Based on the web series and franchise of the same name, the series premiered on March 11, 2022, with a one-hour special.

The series follows the adventures of teenage versions of Black Widow, Spider-Gwen, Wasp, Captain Marvel, Valkyrie, and Scarlet Witch who are students at Metropolis High School.

## Premise

Main article: List of Marvel Super Hero Girls characters

The show focuses on six female teenage superheroes with secret identities: Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow voiced by Laura Bailey; Gwen Stacey / Spider-Gwen voiced by Dove Cameron; Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel voiced by Erica Lindbeck; Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch voiced by Kate Higgins, Brunnhilde / Valkyrie voiced by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn; and Janet Van Dyne / Wasp voiced by Kari Wahlgren. The six girls meet at Metropolis High School and form a superhero team dubbed the "Super Hero Girls".

The show tells the coming-of-age stories of the Super Hero Girls, deals with their choices and decisions regarding their superhero identities and their secret identities. The show focuses on physical comedy, emotional storylines, and a large gallery of villains.

## Episodes

Main article: List of Marvel Super Hero Girls (2022 TV series) episodes

The new incarnation of *Marvel Super Hero Girls* debuted at the 2021 San Diego Comic-Con and 2021 D23 Expo with the theatrical short *#TheLateSpidey* which screened in theaters before the movie *Black Widow*. The online "Super Shorts" debuted on January 14, 2022 with *#SuperSleeper* on YouTube. The TV series debuted with the one-hour special *#SweetAvengers* on March 11, 2022.
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## Production

Lauren Faust was approached by Walt Disney Studios to develop *Marvel Super Hero Girls* into a television series, after previously working on *Super Best Friends Forever*. The television iteration of the web series *DC Super Hero Girls* was announced in May 2017. Tara Strong and Nicole Sullivan reprise their roles as Batgirl and Supergirl respectively from *Super Best Friends Forever*, while Grey Griffin, who previously voiced Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) from the *DC Nation Shorts*, reprises her role as Wonder Woman from the web series. A year later, a poster showing the first look of the main characters was released. The series is animated by the Canadian studio Jam Filled Entertainment and Hasbro's Boulder Media from Ireland.

Several of the writers for this series had previously worked on *My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic* and *DC Super Hero Girls*, another show created and developed by Faust. Also, her series is the second collaboration of Tara Strong and John de Lancie, who respectively voiced Twilight Sparkle and Discord on *Friendship Is Magic*.

Natalie Wetzig, a director on *Marvel Super Hero Girls*, referred to the second season of the show in an interview at the 2020 Annie Awards. She later clarified she stated the second half of season 1. Co-executive producer Amanda Rynda said the crew is "introducing lots of new villains and pushing the needle on new story lines" for season 2.

## Broadcast

The show premiered on Disney Channel UK on 6 July 2022.
It began airing on CITV in September 2023.
All 52 episodes of season 1 are available to watch on Disney+.

## Video games

See also: Marvel Super Hero Girls § Video games

* *Marvel Super Hero Girls Blitz —* Budge Studios created a *Marvel Super Hero Girls* mobile game for Android and iOS devices which was released on August 11, 2022. It is a collection of microgames with difficulty-increasing-with-speed featuring the main heroines from the show, but some microgames needed to be bought separately each heroine to unlock those microgames.
* *Marvel Super Hero Girls: Teen Power —* A Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC game published by Disney Interactive and Marvel Interactive on June 4, 2024.

## External links

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14. ↑ DC Super Hero Girls Blitz (2019) (en) (2019-08-08).
15. ↑ DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power Is A Great Kids Game (en-us) (June 9, 2021).
16. ↑ DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power Review (22 June 2021).