Instead, Captain Planet fought a recurring standard superhero's rogues' gallery of villains, given obviously evil names like "Hoggish Greedly", "Verminous Skumm", "Duke Nukem" (no, no that one), and "Dr.
Captain Planet and the Planeteers could not fight real world polluters without potentially leading children to ask uncomfortable questions about Mom and Dad's jobs. On the other hand, actual environmental issues take place in a real world without superheroes. While Captain Planet is typically only called when things become most dire for the Planeteers, nearly every episode features his eventual calling to dispose of the polluting malcontent, rescue the Planeteers and save the day, leading one to wonder: why don't the Planeteers just summon the Captain at the first sign of trouble?Īpart from pseudoscientific themes like Gaia and alchemy?Įnlisting children in environmental causes has long been a project of the environmental movement. When Captain Planet has prevailed, he returns the powers to the five Planeteers with the slogan "The power is yours!" Despite his great strength, Captain Planet is not invincible pollution and toxic waste are his Kryptonite, and he can be weakened by being doused in the stuff. Captain Planet, more powerful than all of the Planeteers acting separately, possesses flight, super strength and basically any other superpower the writers need to fit the episode's plot. Įach of the Planeteers has a variety of powers from their respective element based magic rings (freezing ray, fire manipulation, animal telepathy, etc.) which they can combine to summon Captain Planet (David Coburn)-a blue-skinned, green-mulleted environmental Übermensch. Ma-Ti (Scott Menville), a Native American from the Amazon basin of Brazil, given the power of Heart.Gi (Janice Kawaye), from South Korea, given the power of Water.Linka (Kath Soucie), a Soviet (later Russian), given the power of Wind.Wheeler (Joey Dedio), an American from Brooklyn, and the least responsible Planeteer, given the power of Fire.Kwame (Levar Burton), an African from Ghana, given the power of Earth.Gaia (Whoopi Goldberg or Margot Kidder), personification of the spirit of the Earth, musters a hard green carefully multicultural team of Planeteers, teenagers granted magic rings that give them superpowers based on the alchemical elements (plus one extra, just because).
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