There's a decent argument to be made that superhero cinema would never have gotten to the culturally hegemonic position it's at today without the tremendously successful history of superhero television to back it up . Since all the way back in the 1950s, audiences around the world have been consuming the stories of these superpowered crime-fighting individuals on the small screen, and they still haven't gotten tired of them.

From Marvel to DC and beyond, there have been plenty of great superhero TV shows over the years; but it's one thing for a show to be great, and another for it to be truly groundbreaking . These are superhero series that paved the way for others like them; ones that revolutionized the genre, took risks, and offered something new. These are 12 of those shows, ranked

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