From sinister sorcerers to devious Decepticons, the 1980s spawned a legendary run of cartoon villains that remain beloved fixtures of pop culture to this day.

There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought: “What if we simply gave them everything?” Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Disney Channel A lot of animation fans would cite the period roughly spanning from the '60s to the early '80s as a ...

Nostalgia for the heavy hitters of ’80s cartoons — He-Man, Transformers, My Little Pony, Thundercats, G.I. Joe, and so forth — remains a cottage industry, with endless retro merch and endless reboots ...

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The '80s was the heyday of animated TV shows -- a decade which delivered a classic array of programs that continue resonating today. It was an era in which Saturday morning cartoons were a household ...

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We recently posted an article highlighting the best forgotten cartoons of the 1990s and then decided, what the heck, let's travel back another decade and shine a spotlight on the overlooked animated ...

Once upon a time, there was a loincloth-wearing barbarian in fur boots leaping across our TV screens. The brash and daring adventurer wielded a powerful magical sword somewhat similar to a lightsaber ...

A lot of animation fans would cite the period roughly spanning from the '60s to the early '80s as a particularly dire era for the medium — a time when budgets ran dry, recycled models and sequences ...