Yea Captain Planet, who now dont get me wrong for its time had a awesome theme song, a diverse mix of characters, at least 3 messages per episode (1 in the main story and 2 mini how to help your enviroment crap), crazy super villians, and the GAYEST costume ever created for a superhero.
HERES THE DESCRIPTION I GOT FROM THE TURNER WEBSITE ABOUT HIS COSTUME
"Captain Planet only appears in his Captain Planet garb. These are not clothes but elements of the Earth that are integral to his composition. He is able to rearrange his molecular structure to transform himself into the various powers and elements of nature, e.g., water, wind, fire, ice, etc. Captain Planet's outfit does not represent a specific culture. He has grass-green hair, sky-blue skin, earthy brown eyes, blood-red chest, gloves and boots, and sunlight-yellow insignia/globe. The globe on his chest sometimes flickers and turns gray when he is losing power or is exposed to high levels of pollution."
LAME.
The 5 annoying kids had more personnality than the hero, but every story was this format:
Pollution by some super villian, planeteers go investagate, fight bad guys, lose to bad guys, call on Captain Planet, Captain Planet gets hurt/polluted, one of the planeteers throws water or dirt on him he gets better and saves the day.
The End
CAPTAIN PLANET INTRO AND OUTRO
But Captain Planet wasn't the only enviromental hero of 1991. Not by far, but he was the most memorible thanks to Ted Turner. The Toxic Crusaders led by the Toxic Avenger a nerdy janitor who got thrown into some toxic waste and became a super powerful super ugly superhero. It was based on the 1986 B-movie that was cheaply made, gorey, and had a huge cult following. He fought a alien race in the cartoon that thrived off of pollution so it was really surreal. The Toxic Avenger had a mop with a mind of its own and a girl who was blind I wish I was making this up but I am not his crusaders were,
NoZone a former pilot who flew through a hole in the Ozone layer and crashed into a silo of radioactive pepper, known for his powerful sneezes. Junkyard was a hobo who took shelter in a kennel with a guard dog in a polluted junkyard, which was covered in toxic waste when lightning struck it and merged them together. Headbanger is a fusion of two opposing personalities into a conjoined body - the cantankerous mad scientist, Fender and the surfer-like, singing telegram boy responsible for the accident, Bender. Finally, Major Disaster, who had the ability to control plants after falling into a radioactive swamp.
TOXIC CRUSADERS INTRO
The whole purpose of this blog is to educate you on how 1991 cartoons kicked ass and had a great message if it was not all rings shoot fire, toxic waste will give you super powers, pollution is bad tell your parents to stop, whatever. Both of these shows were fun had kick ass guitar solos in the intro, action figures came with plenty of suff you could lose or choke on (i.e. Toxie's mop or a planeteer ring) So with this knowledge of useless info and time wasting video go out this Earth Day and burn some gas, barbeque on the old charcoal grill, and take a hour long shower in the name of earth day cause we might as well use it while we have it.
"THE POWER IS YOURS!" - CAPTAIN PLANET
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