Captain Planet

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Captain Planet
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The mullet is yours!
Gender Male
Affiliation Wheeler
Gi
Ma-Ti
Linka
Suchi
Gaia
Works for Planeteers
Father Mentioned
Mother Mentioned
Marital status Single
First appearance CP: "A Hero for Earth" (1990)
Played by David Coburn (1990-96, 2017)
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New Adventures of Captain Planet
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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

Captain Planet is an avatar made from Earth's elements, and the title character in the Captain Planet and the Planeteers animated television series. He is voiced by David Coburn.

Captain Planet is summoned by the teen environmentalists, the Planeteers, when a situation has become too much for them to deal with by themselves, usually caused by an Eco-Villain. When this moment arrives, the Planeteers use the combined power of their elemental rings to bring Captain Planet forth to deal with it in a classic superhero-type way, with some environmental message once he is finished.

Character description

Abilities

Weaknesses

Appearances

TV series

Comics

Books

Video games

Biography

DEEC Adventures

Hanna-Barbera Adventures

Captain Planet Sells Out

Tobias Wilson dresses as Captain Planet on one Halloween night.[1]

Let's Be Planeteers

Captain Planet in the Funny Books

Development

He was originally voiced by Tom Cruise, who due to a contract dispute only recorded a few episodes, which were redubbed by his replacement David Coburn.

Gallery

Main article: Captain Planet/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Kenner

Main article: Kenner
  • Captain Planet (1991)

A poseable action figure of Captain Planet.

Funko

Main article: Funko
  • Captain Planet (2023)

A non-poseable super deformed vinyl figure of Captain Planet.

Behind the scenes

  • At the Cartoon Network panel for Dragon*Con '99, it was revealed that the producers of Space Ghost Coast to Coast had tried to do a crossover with Captain Planet as a guest, who would be the first to sit in the chair (instead of appearing in a monitor on top of a chair), but was ditched either because the animation didn't turn out well or the producers of Captain Planet and the Planeteers didn't want to be associated with Coast to Coast.[2]

In popular culture

  • In the Sister, Sister episode "Out Alone," Tia and Tamera sit on a bus that advertises the series.
  • In the South Park episode "Imaginationland, Episode III," in the final battle, Captain Planet takes the side of the good imaginary characters fighting the evil imaginary characters.
  • Don Cheadle plays Captain Planet in the live-action Funny or Die short series called Captain Planet with Don Cheadle (also known as Don Cheadle is Captain Planet). He becomes evil and turns everyone into trees. He even turns against the Planeteers into trees (except for Ma-Ti who he turns into his servant until he kills him), and accidentally turns Gaia, his lover, into a tree. During this time he has also made enemies with the woodpeckers, who eventually find him and eat him up. The Planeteers' rings that he stole restore only the civilians to their former selves, but without the Planeteers and Gaia to stop them, they are free to continue to pollute the planet.
  • In the American Dad! episode "Honey, I'm Homeland," Stan wants to replace Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln on Mount Rushmore with the leftists Sean Penn, Michael Moore, and none other than Captain Planet.
  • In the 2020 Halloween special of the web series Homestar Runner, Marzipan is dressed as Captain Planet. Homestar says she looks like a zombie Ziggy Stardust, and Strong Bad criticises the yellow globe on her chest by calling it a drive-thru speaker.

Robot Chicken

Main article: Robot Chicken
  • "1987:" At the Turner HQ, Ted Turner hears about Pan-Global dumping sludge into the Atlantic Ocean, which enrages Turner so much that he dresses up as Captain Planet and goes about the streets on a lunatic crusade against injustice shouting "Captain Planet!" He kicks down a man who discards a cup into a regular bin instead of recycling it, before ziplining to Pan-Global HQ, where executives are already planning on dumping more sludge into the Grand Canyon. Ted holds one of them out of the window to force him into signing a document that they'll stop dumping sludge. He then drops the guy anyway, who falls into a recycling dumpster. He then ends the skit with a PSA-like announcement that he will kill you if you don't protect the environment.
    • The next segment called "Best Robot Chicken Ever," has Hal Sparks proclaim the biggest catchphrase of the new millennium will be shouting "Captain Planet!" before doing something lurid, like kicking people in the testicles, as Hal Sparks and his friends do.
  • "Hurtled from a Helicopter Into a Speeding Train:"
  • "Garbage Sushi:"
  • "Gimme That Chocolate Milk:"

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