Comic book based Super Hero Cartoons

[BigDaddyCool]

I've been watching a lot of them via netflix lately. Are they suppose to be stand alone stories that we are suppose to know back stories with unless they decide to tell us what the character's back story is?

For example I saw the Return of Black Adam Last night, they assumed we knew who Superman is but had the origin of Captain Marvel. They followed up with the Specter, and didn't have any origin and just went straight into a story, and I have never fucking heard of this guy before and that one was just shit.

Last week or 2 weeks ago, I can't remember, it was when there was a huge fucking snow storm, I saw Batman/Superman Apocalypses. They assumed we knew who Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are, which is fine. They introduced/had the origin story for Super-girl, also fine, whatever, weird since we were suppose to know that Superman has a super dog, but not a super cousin. They also assumed we knew who Granny Goodness, Big Barta, and a handful of other minor character I don't know I have heard before. Now I am getting slightly confused, but they are minor, so who gives a fuck.

I do recall seeing Hulk Vs, and those they never give any one's backstory which is fine, but they also manage to introduce all the character in it.

I guess my point is, I'm never sure who I should already know in these stories and if they should be treated as "What If" stories, or just hey we want to tell this story with these characters, but don't remember anything about it because they won't in the next straight to dvd cartoon we make.