In a media landscape filled with superheroes, OK K.O.!: Let’s Be Heroes titular hero stands out from the crowd because he fights best with his feelings. Cartoon Network’s newest series is absolutely brimming with potential.

The show centers on K.O., an endlessly enthusiastic young boy who dreams of leveling up and becoming a true hero like everyone else in the town. When his initial attempts at cheating the system prove unsuccessful, he joins up with the apathetic Enid and slacker Radicles at the local hero supply convenience store. Under the watchful eye of Mr. Gar and occasional help of K.O.’s mom Carol, the three deal with wacky problems in the mall for heroes while fighting off attacks by Lord Boxman and his various robots.

In the opening six episodes of the series the strongest element of the show is without a doubt, K.O. While K.O.’s main goal might be to become your standard hero, what’s delightfully subversive is that he only gets closer to his dream when he eschews the more popular superhero tropes. In episode three, “You’re Everybody’s Sidekick” (easily the best episode of the first six), K.O. succeeds in his goal of helping people not by beating up robots but instead going through their social media and deducing their personal problems.

K.O. is a complete joy to watch, his positivety and optimism truly infectious. He’s the main character who has a lot to learn but you can’t help but want to root for him. He may be a young kid in a cartoon show, which usually means annoying, but his youthful vigor helps to prop up the more jaded heroes around him.