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A description of tropes appearing in Captain Planet and the Planeteers. The brainchild of Barbara Pyle and Ted Turner (though most of the actual development …
- Heartwarming
When the team summons Captain Planet to keep the...
- Recap
Season One. "A Hero for Earth": Gaia summons Kwame, Wheeler,...
- Trivia
A page for describing Trivia: Captain Planet and the...
- TearJerker
After the powers of Earth and Heart bounce off the orbit,...
- Characters
The Planeteers are five teenagers from five different...
- YMMV
A page for describing YMMV: Captain Planet and the...
- WMG
Captain Planet is an alien who hates the planet that the...
- Awesome
When Kwame and Ma-Ti wind up in outer space, their powers...
- NightmareFuel
Earlier, upon seeing Captain Planet tortured by Nukem, Gaia...
- Headscratchers
Without summoning Captain Planet, avowed communist Ted...
- Heartwarming
The Planeteers are five teenagers from five different continents, assembled by Gaia, the Spirit of Earth to defend the world from pollution, criminals, and natural disasters. When the situation is too much for them to handle they let their powers combine to summon the environmental superhero, Captain Planet.
- Season One
- Season Two
- Season Three
- Season Four
- Season Five
- Season Six
"A Hero for Earth": Gaia summons Kwame, Wheeler, Linka, Gi, and Ma-Ti and makes them the Planeteers. For their first assignment, they must stop Hoggish Greedly's oil rig operation."Rain of Terror": Verminous Skumm attempts to destroy a city with acid rain while Ma-Ti battles self-esteem issues."Beast of the Temple": The Planeteers go to Thailand when Greedly starts destructively mining for rubies."Skumm Lord": Skumm contaminates the water with a formula that transforms people into rat people like him. Kwame and Ma-Ti must find a cure when the other Planeteers become infected."Mind Pollution": Verminous Skumm starts selling a highly addictive drug called Bliss, and soon Linka and her cousin Boris are addicted."The Garbage Strikes": Sly Sludge steals an untested microbe designed to eat garbage and unleashes it, but it soon goes out of control and grows into a city-threatening monster."Domes of Doom": Looten Plunder covers several forests with huge domes so he can sell the fresh air they create to cities that suffer from air pollution without the trees to purify them."Send in the Clones": Dr. Blight and Looten Plunder expose a locust and a young boy to a device that causes them to instantly double whenever they eat, threatening the local food supply."Greenhouse Planet": Dr. Blight misleads the President of the US into ignoring the Greenhouse Effect. Blight traps the President, Kwame, and Ma-Ti on a spaceship on a course for Venus, then a misha..."A Creep from the Deep": A mutated giant squid attacks a small town after Sly Sludge's illegal waste dumping kills its food supply."The Deadly Glow": Duke Nukem attacks Korea to search for cesium to absorb. Unfortunately, two children find a piece of cesium and mistake it for a "magic star", leading to their city being contami..."A Perfect World": The Planeteers are invited to enter a virtual reality world meant to be a paradise, but Dr. Blight takes control and turns it into a nightmare."A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste Part One": While the Planeteers try to stop Sly Sludge and Looten Plunder from dumping toxic waste into a salt mine, Captain Planet battles a resurrected Captai..."A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste Part Two": Captain Planet continues to battle Captain Pollution. As the Planeteers try to escape a trap, they reminisce about their pasts."I Just Want to Be Your Teddy Bear": Hoggish Greedly starts poaching Louisiana black bears during Mardi Gras."Missing Linka": Linka returns to her hometown to investigate why so many people are sick."Twilight Ozone": Animals are going blind due to radiation poisoning caused by Duke Nukem."Hollywaste": Dr. Blight attempts to sabotage a movie about the Planeteers that stars her good sister, Bambi Blight."The Ghost of Porkaloin Past": Hoggish Greedly inherits his grandfather Don Porkaloin's estate. His grandfather's will tells him to use the money to help the environment, but he disobeys, so his bu..."Disoriented Express": Dr. Blight kidnaps a philanthropist who is trying to set up a smog-reducing railway system."An Eye for an Eye": Hoggish Greedly starts hunting river dolphins."Whoo Gives a Hoot?": The Planeteers attempt to prove to a judge that Looten Plunder is cutting down an old growth forest and endangering animals."Frog Day Afternoon": Dr. Blight steals frogs hoping to use their DNA to heal her scar. While pursuing her, Wheeler and Linka are shrunken."5-Ring Panda-Monium": The Planeteers attempt to rescue abused animals from the circus.Captain Planet is an alien who hates the planet that the "villains" are from, which explains the blue skin.
When Kwame and Ma-Ti wind up in outer space, their powers bounce off the Earth's orbit, recreating a much weaker Captain Planet. After reaches Hope Island and Gaia brings him up to speed on the remaining Planeteers' current situation, he tries to fly to their rescue, but finds out he can't do it without the Wind power.
A page for describing YMMV: Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Alternative Character Interpretation: "Mind Pollution": Linka flirts with Wheeler while …
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A page for describing Trivia: Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Acting for Two: In the later seasons, when both Duke Nukem and Verminous Scumm were in the …
