Captain Planet (character)

This article is about the character. For the Dynamite Entertainment comic series, see Captain Planet.

Captain Planet
The mullet is yours!
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Kwame Wheeler Gi Ma-Ti Linka Suchi Gaia
Occupation	Protector of the environment
Works for	Planeteers
Father	Not mentioned
Mother	Not mentioned
Marital status	Single
First appearance	CP&TP: "A Hero for Earth" (1990)
Played by	David Coburn (1990-96, 2017)
New Adventures of Captain Planet
File:OKKO Captain Planet.png 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

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Abilities

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Weaknesses

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Appearances

TV series

• Captain Planet and the Planeteers
  • 1.1 "A Hero for Earth"
  • 1.2 "Rain of Terror"
  • 1.3 "Beast of the Temple"
  • 1.4 "Skumm Lord"
  • 1.5 "Deadly Ransom"
  • 1.6 "The Conqueror"
  • 1.7 "Last of Her Kind"
  • 1.8 "The Dead Seas"
  • 1.9 "Tree of Life"
  • 1.10 "Volcano's Wrath"
  • 1.11 "Littlest Planeteer"
  • 1.12 "A World Below Us"
  • 1.13 "Plunder Dam"
  • 1.14 "Meltdown Syndrome"
  • 1.15 "Smog Hog"
  • 1.16 "Polluting by Computer"
  • 1.17 "Don't Drink the Water"
  • 1.18 "Kwame's Crisis"
  • 1.19 "Ozone Hole"
  • 1.20 "The Ultimate Pollution"
  • 1.21 "Population Bomb"
  • 1.22 "Mission to Save Earth Part 1"
  • 1.23 "Mission to Save Earth Part 2"
  • 1.24 "Two Futures Part 1"
  • 1.25 "Two Futures Part 2"
  • 1.26 "Heat Wave"
  • 2.1 "Mind Pollution"
  • 2.2 "The Garbage Strikes"
  • 2.3 "Domes of Doom"
  • 2.4 "Send in the Clones"
  • 2.5 "The Predator"
  • 2.6 "The Ark"
  • 2.7 "Isle of Solar Energy"
  • 2.8 "The Coral Killer"
  • 2.9 "The Big Clam-Up"
  • 2.10 "An Inside Job"
  • 2.11 "The Fine Print"
  • 2.12 "Off Road Hog"
  • 2.13 "Trouble on the Half Shell"
  • 2.14 "Stardust"
  • 2.15 "The Blue Car Line"
  • 2.16 "Birds of a Feather"
  • 2.17 "Summit to Save Earth Part 1"
  • 2.18 "Summit to Save Earth Part 2"
  • 2.19 "Losing Game"
  • 2.20 "A Twist of Fate"
  • 2.21 "The Great Tree Heist"
  • 2.22 "Scorched Earth"
  • 2.23 "Hate Canal"
  • 2.24 "Radiant Amazon"
  • 2.25 "Fare Thee Whale"
  • 2.26 "Utopia"
  • 3.1 "Greenhouse Planet"
  • 3.2 "A Creep from the Deep"
  • 3.3 "The Deadly Glow"
  • 3.4 "A Perfect World"
  • 3.5 "The Dream Machine"
  • 3.6 "Bitter Waters"
  • 3.7 "The Guinea Pigs"
  • 3.8 "OK at the Gunfight Corral"
  • 3.9 "Canned Hunt"
  • 3.10 "Hog Tide"
  • 3.11 "A Formula for Hate"
  • 3.12 "If It's Doomsday, It Must Be Belfast"
  • 3.13 "The Night of the Wolf"
  • 4.1 "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste Part 1"
  • 4.2 "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste Part 2"
  • 4.3 "I Just Want to Be Your Teddy Bear"
  • 4.4 "Missing Linka"
  • 4.5 "The Unbearable Blightness of Being"
  • 4.6 "Wheeler's Ark"
  • 4.7 "Sea No Evil"
  • 4.8 "Future Shock"
  • 4.9 "I've Lost My Mayan"
  • 4.10 "Talkin' Trash"
  • 4.11 "The Energy Vampire"
  • 4.12 "Bottom Line Green"
  • 4.13 "Gorillas Will Be Missed"
  • 4.14 "Bug Off"
  • 4.15 "You Bet Your Planet"
  • 4.16 "Going Bats, Man"
  • 4.17 "Jail House Flock"
  • 4.18 "High Steaks"
  • 4.19 "Planteers Under Glass"
  • 4.20 "Orangu-Tangle"
  • 4.21 "No Horsing Around"
  • 4.22 "'Teers in the 'Hood"
  • 5.1 "Twilight Ozone"
  • 5.2 "Hollywaste"
  • 5.3 "The Ghost of Porkaloin Past"
  • 5.4 "The Disoriented Express"
  • 5.5 "Horns A' Plenty"
  • 5.6 "A River Ran Through It"
  • 5.7 "No Place Like Home"
  • 5.8 "Little Crop of Horrors"
  • 5.9 "In Zarm's Way"
  • 5.10 "No Small Problem"
  • 5.11 "Numbers Game"
  • 5.12 "Nothing's Sacred"
  • 5.13 "Who's Running the Show?"
  • 6.1 "An Eye for an Eye"
  • 6.2 "Whoo Gives a Hoot"
  • 6.3 "Frog Day Afternoon"
  • 6.4 "Five Ring Panda-Monium"
  • 6.5 "A Good Bomb is Hard to Find"
  • 6.6 "Twelve Angry Animals"
  • 6.7 "Dirty Politics"
  • 6.8 "One of the Gang"
  • 6.9 "Old Ma River"
  • 6.10 "Delta Gone"
  • 6.11 "Never the Twain Shall Meet"
  • 6.12 "Greed is the Word"
  • 6.13 "101 Mutations"
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
  • 1.38 "The Power Is Yours!"
  • 3.20 "Thank You for Watching the Show" (no lines)

Comics

• Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Marvel Comics)
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Marvel UK)
• Captain Planet

Books

• The Pop-Up Book of Captain Planet and the Planeteers
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: A Big Color/Activity Book
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Sticker Fun
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Paint 'n' Marker Book
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Puzzles
• Smash the Trash
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers Annual 1993

Biography

DEEC Adventures

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Hanna-Barbera Adventures

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Captain Planet Sells Out

Tobias Wilson dresses as Captain Planet on one Halloween night.

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Let's Be Planeteers

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Captain Planet in the Funny Books

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Development

He was originally voiced by Tom Cruise, who due to a contract dispute only recorded the first six episodes, as he only came under contract with DIC Entertainment if he recorded a seventh episode. The role was then recast with David Coburn, who also redubbed Cruise's episodes. Coburn believed the reason Cruise didn't stay on was because Cruise treated Captain Planet as a "macho superhero".

Gallery

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Toys and merchandise

Tiger Toys

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• Captain Planet (1991)

A poseable action figure of Captain Planet.

• File:Tiger Toys Captain Planet.jpg

Funko

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• Captain Planet (2023)

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

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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.

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.
• In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Lucky Stars," to defeat the Zodiac, Cyborg must believe in the astrological power of the planets to defeat the Zodiac, and when he does, it transforms him into a new form resembling Captain Planet.
• In the Daredevil: Born Again episode "Sic Semper Systema," BB calls Daniel Captain Planet after he tells her that he must get home and sleep for the next day which involves his boss Mayor Fisk talks with a new recycling company.

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Robot Chicken

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• "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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