After enthusiastic initial reviews from critics, Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur premiered Friday on the Disney Channel, earning a perfect score on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
This Marvel Studios-managed animation project has been praised for its humor-filled storytelling and heartfelt storytelling, slowly but surely winning the hearts of fans across the world. If you are unfamiliar with this particular relationship that combines 9-year-old genius Lunella Lafayette (alias Moon Girl) and her demon-like friend Devil, you are in luck since this isn't the first of its kind to be introduced in Marvel television.
Old Lace and Gertrude Yorkes
Gert and Old Lace are also psychically linked best friends who protect each other while on world-saving missions. Created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, this duo was first introduced in the Runaways series in 2003. The 2017 Hulu series Ariela Barer will play Gert.
Gert, an irreverent 16-year-old, is drawn to counter-culture and social activism by an unwavering moral compass. He has romantic feelings for the school jock Chase Stein, who couldn't be more different from her, but he's interested in the prototype beauty queen Karolina Dean.
Old Lace is a genetically modified Dinosaur, more specifically a Deinonychus, created by Gert's parents to guard their family. Her name is inspired by the 1944 film Arsenic and Old Lace, making the dinosaur a powerful and loyal weapon against most enemies.
Gert, Old Lace, Karolina, Molly, Chase, Alex, and Nico, all teenager superheroes, are members of a criminal group named Pride, which they join in a teenager team-up called Runaways. They then have to deal with the tension that remained between the group of friends following the death of Nico's sister Amy years earlier, while trying to avoid harming anyone else.
Marvel's Runaways: All three seasons are now available to stream on Disney Plus. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur air weekly on Disney Channel, with the episodes starting on February 15.