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El Gallinero Gros posted:poo poo, I didn't even realize that. Is that back when he was "Kessler"? Ah yes those innocent days before Jason Alexander realized he was playing Larry David
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Iron Crowned posted:In that brief period before I aged out of Captain Planet, 12 year old me had a crush on Dr. Blight hosed up face and all That was always the main problem with Captain Planet. The villains were all cool as Hell, funny or super hot. Meanwhile the Planeteers were a bunch of nerds and GAIA, SPIRIT OF THE EARTH was a total killjoy. 8 year old me shouldn't be watching the show and rooting for the guy that wants to dump radioactive waste in water reservoirs.
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Don Gato posted:Wikipedia says the African guy is from Ghana, Wheeler is from NYC and Ma-Ti is Brazilian. I have no idea where they got that information from, but it sounds about right. IIRC they got backstories eventually with characters going back to their home place for an episode. The Wheeler is from NYC one is kind of funny because his backstory is introduced in an episode where he decides he loving hates being a Planeteer and goes back in time and stops himself from getting the ring and joining up. When he returns to the present everything sucks because for some reason Gaia couldn't just give the ring to another person, so there was no Captain Planet and the bad guys were winning.
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muscles like this! posted:IIRC they got backstories eventually with characters going back to their home place for an episode. The Wheeler is from NYC one is kind of funny because his backstory is introduced in an episode where he decides he loving hates being a Planeteer and goes back in time and stops himself from getting the ring and joining up. When he returns to the present everything sucks because for some reason Gaia couldn't just give the ring to another person, so there was no Captain Planet and the bad guys were winning. I wish we lived in the universe where Wheeler got the ring.
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I like my fanfiction where Captain Planet is a sequel to Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue. Wheeler and the Red Haired Drug Dealer have the same voice
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https://twitter.com/HetzerGonnaHetz/status/1088517537640398848?s=19 I'm just saying Captain Planet would have been more successful if he took more permanent measures 
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Frank Castle taking up the mantle of Captain Planet would be pretty awesome.
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Disgusting Coward posted:That was always the main problem with Captain Planet. The villains were all cool as Hell, funny or super hot. Meanwhile the Planeteers were a bunch of nerds and GAIA, SPIRIT OF THE EARTH was a total killjoy. 8 year old me shouldn't be watching the show and rooting for the guy that wants to dump radioactive waste in water reservoirs. The Planeteers were okay enough in a sorta Power Rangers-kinda superhero team kinda thing, and hell, I even liked Captain P himself as a campy weirdo, but yeah the villains were cooler. Basically between the character designs, the general premise, and the voice acting it was enough to not change the channel but the actual writing and animation was, again, just kinda...ennnnhhhh.....
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Schmeichy posted:I loved Captain Planet...  Then again, I loved Transformers, and I can't watch that crap now.
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My friend and I would always joke that Captain Planet just lived a normal life when he wasn't being summoned. Like he'd be loading groceries in his car while some villain is dumping toxic waste in the park across the street. Everyone around him would beg him to do something and he'd just be like "hey, I'm off the clock"
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There's interesting side-effects of how Captain Planet was written that made it kinda bad at doing the thing it was setting out to do. They made the villains cartoonishly, absurdly evil so that kids wouldn't turn against their parents for working for a car company or whatever, but their villains became so unreal that pollution itself started seeming like something not to be afraid of. Because nobody's doing a Hoggish Greedly plan, we have nothing to worry about! Captain Planet himself also didn't really help, because little kids would just be super cavalier about littering and the like and think Captain Planet would clean it up. The one thing I'd say it actually did right was having the Planeteers all be pretty cool, attainable people, rings aside. It's fair enough you want to be with someone like Kwame, or be someone like Linka, with the exception of the kid with a monkey that's all totally realizable and healthy! Except for Wheeler. Don't pine for Wheeler.
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Looten Plunder is basically just a regular CEO though.
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Cleretic posted:There's interesting side-effects of how Captain Planet was written that made it kinda bad at doing the thing it was setting out to do. They made the villains cartoonishly, absurdly evil so that kids wouldn't turn against their parents for working for a car company or whatever, but their villains became so unreal that pollution itself started seeming like something not to be afraid of. I never saw a lot of Captain Planet but their villains were ridiculous: "I'm gonna dump all this toxic waste in the beautiful river! HAHAHA!" Like, why? What possible reason do you have for doing that? Is it because Captain Planet has failed to ensure that appropriate regulatory devices and disposal facilities exist, so there's literally nowhere else for the waste to go? Maybe if you zoned appropriately Captain Planet, emissions would be under control and not bother living neighbourhood. Come on, this is basic SimCity.
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It depends on the episode, some of the eps with Hogglish Greedly have him with an actual business model that happens to be massively environmentally irresponsible (and also one has him and his henchman cross-dressing for no adequately explained reason) and Duke Nukum at least is a mutant who wants to irradiate the world so he has a place to live more comfortably. And then Zarm is implied to be what happens when a planetary spirit like Gaia goes bad. Captain Planet's weakness being the exact thing he sets out to fight actually kinda works, given he's incredibly overpowered otherwise.
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Zarm is Mraz backwards. Not a coincidence.
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Captain Planet makes sense when you realize it was a fever dream of Ted Turner. Also, probably a lot of cocaine.
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Captain Planet? I hear he's a hero, he's going to take pollution down to zero.
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muscles like this! posted:Captain Planet? I hear he's a hero, he's going to take pollution down to zero. He couldn't even do that right
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muscles like this! posted:Captain Planet? I hear he's a hero, he's going to take pollution down to zero. I heard that saving our planet is the thing to do.
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Captain Planet's cameo in OK KO was apparently pretty pessimistic about preparing children for a future with a collapsing environment.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Captain Planet's cameo in OK KO was apparently pretty pessimistic about preparing children for a future with a collapsing environment. Seems appropriate. If Captain Planet was serious about fixing the environment, he'd be teaching kids to burn down factories.
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Tiggum posted:I heard that saving our planet is the thing to do. I heard that the power is mine. If that's true we're kind of hosed.
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Don Gato posted:Also some of the voice cast is super weird, like villains were voiced by Ed Asner, Jeff Goldblum, Malcom McDowell, Sting, and Martin Sheen and I need to know how much Ted Turner bribed them to appear. Wasn't Dr.Blight voiced my Sharron Stone? Fake edit: Meg Ryan...I knew it was some sort of blonde, 90's actress.
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I mean LeVar Burton and Whoopi Goldberg were regulars too, don't forget
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Not Operator posted:Seems appropriate. If Captain Planet was serious about fixing the environment, he'd be teaching kids to burn down factories. Can you imagine the pollution that would cause? Controlled demolition is much better.
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Captain Planet definitely succeeded if his goal was to prepare me for an adulthood where no one cares about climate change and laughs at anyone who takes it seriously.
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I decided to have a look at the Captain Planet IMDb page, and I had no idea that they changed voice actors so much. Like, every villain was played by at least two different people.
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S1 was famous people like Meg Ryan, Jeff Goldblum and James Coburn. Later episodes, not so much.
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That said, the Mal voice change to Tim Curry was a much better choice.
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Rirse posted:That said, the Mal voice change to Tim Curry was a much better choice. Nothing has ever been made worse by the addition of Tim Curry
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purple death ray posted:Nothing has ever been made worse by the addition of Tim Curry Tell that to my marriage.
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Sunswipe posted:That's pretty much on par with your weakness being the colour yellow. Or a broken #2 pencil.
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purple death ray posted:Nothing has ever been made worse by the addition of Tim Curry The two things I remember about Earth 2 was that the captain lady was hot and Tim Curry was in it
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Rirse posted:That said, the Mal voice change to Tim Curry was a much better choice. Gonna put in a vote for David Warner over Malcolm McDowell too (going by the imdb page), just because he's always the best choice. It's like they replaced big names with their b-tier equivalents.
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nonathlon posted:I never saw a lot of Captain Planet but their villains were ridiculous: "I'm gonna dump all this toxic waste in the beautiful river! HAHAHA!" Like, why? What possible reason do you have for doing that? Is it because Captain Planet has failed to ensure that appropriate regulatory devices and disposal facilities exist, so there's literally nowhere else for the waste to go? Maybe if you zoned appropriately Captain Planet, emissions would be under control and not bother living neighbourhood. Come on, this is basic SimCity. Yeah, but is it cheaper to dump it in the river? Yes? Well there you go.
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No corporation in history has dumped waste illegally, that would be rude
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Danaru posted:No corporation in history has dumped waste illegally, that would be rude tbh watching that clip just now it didn't even strain credibility when they shouted "go pollution" in unison.
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I am very sure that you could not, in fact, beat up Captain Planet with a bat that had been dipped in a dumpster or whatever. It needed to be like chemical sludge blocking out the yellow globe on his chest or radiation.
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A radioactive bat sounds like both the cause of and solution to a lot of cartoon problems.
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Danaru posted:No corporation in history has dumped waste illegally, that would be rude With the Trump administration dumping waste won't be illegal, so problem solved.
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