![]() ![]() In the first season, Captain Planet dragged him through dirt, lava and a tornado before hurling him into the ocean, and then it still took a 100’ bodyslam to seal the deal.Ĭaptain Pollution escaped that time, but he wouldn’t be so lucky in Season 4. Since he’s Captain Planet’s opposite in every way, Captain Pollution can only be defeated with… erm… clean stuff. I am so down with a Captain Pollution that gets bigger when trash is added. Fueled by enough garbage, Captain Pollution can grow to immense sizes. Since Pollution spends most of the two-parter just completely kicking the shit out of Captain Planet, I’d call Season 4 a much better outing for him. While the Planeteers are off telling their origin stories, Captain Planet tangles with Captain Pollution - brought back to life by a toxic spill. Since those episodes acted as a series reset, they’re mostly about the Planeteers rediscovering their roots and remembering why they fight for a cleaner Earth. That season opened with another two-parter, A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste. By then, the show had been rebranded as The New Adventures of Captain Planet. (Given that he could be defeated with spritzes of plain water, that isn’t terribly surprising.)Īt the end of the two-parter, Pollution stormed off to Parts Unknown, promising victory on another day.Ĭaptain Pollution wouldn’t return until the FOURTH season, in 1993. Instead of nice clean powers over wind, fire and heart, these rings - which had little mutant frowny faces on them - allowed the bad guys to control stuff like radiation and HATE.Ĭaptain Pollution put up a good fight, but he was no match for Captain Planet. The villains called upon him by using the Rings of Destruction, which were evil duplicates of the Planeteers’ rings. (Those episodes marked his *only* appearances for years, but I’ll get to that in a minute.) ![]() Remember, the polluting power is yours.ġ) He could be summoned by using the RINGS OF DESTRUCTION.Ĭaptain Pollution debuted in the first-season two-parter, Mission to Save the Earth, from 1991. If Captain Pollution is news to you, below are five facts that will help you feign expertise. ![]() Powered by pollution and sounding like a dickhead version of Michelangelo, Captain Pollution didn’t appear often, but when he did, OH MAN. Captain Planet’s evil double, which is pretty much my all-time favorite trope. Meet Captain POLLUTION!Ĭaptain Pollution is the best thing that ever came out of the Captain Planet universe. In September 2010, the Planeteer Movement was launched with the assistance of Pyle as a means for fans of the show to connect and continue to integrate the show's messages into their lives as real-life Planeteers.Forget Captain Planet. In February 2009, Mother Nature Network began airing episodes and unreleased footage of Captain Planet and the Planeteers on its website. The program is a form of edutainment and advocates environmentalism. Both series continue today in syndication. A sequel series, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, was produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services, and was broadcast from Septemto May 11, 1996. The series was produced by Turner Program Services and DIC Entertainment and it was broadcast on TBS from Septemto December 5, 1992. Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an American animated environmentalist television program created by Ted Turner, Robert Larkin III, and Barbara Pyle, produced by Pyle, Nicholas Boxer, Andy Heyward and Robby London, and developed by Pyle, Boxer, Heyward, London, Thom Beers, Bob Forward, Phil Harnage and Cassandra Schafhausen.
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