Yep Freakazoid!
For those of you who grew up in the 90's watching the cartoon Animaniacs you may remeber that Freakazoid began as a seires of animated shorts(along with the vastly more well known Pinky and the Brain) that would eventually be given its own time slot.
He was the chronically insane superhero that did battle with equally batsh@t crazy villans (with names like the Nerdarator and Cave Guy). Alright so he's not really my favorite but looking back on it Freakazoid had its own blend of slapstick humor that set it apart from other more serious hero toons. Freakazoid couldn't even fly he would just run around with his hands up in the air going woooooosh. In fact I can't remember if he had ANY real powers.
You may notice in the title card above that the show was produced by Steven Spilberg (Yes that speilberg). Spilberg wasn't shy about putting humor that would be over most childrens head in the show often refrencing celebrity and political humor.
Alas as with many of the WB Speilberg spinoffs the show was cancelled after a few seasons in favor of more action packed shows as Pokeman and Yugi-Oh
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