
When Captain Planet has prevailed, he returns the powers to the five Planeteers with the slogan "The power is yours!" Despite his great strength, Captain Planet is not invincible pollution and toxic waste are his Kryptonite, and he can be weakened by being doused in the stuff. Captain Planet, more powerful than all of the Planeteers acting separately, possesses flight, super strength and basically any other superpower the writers need to fit the episode's plot. Įach of the Planeteers has a variety of powers from their respective element based magic rings (freezing ray, fire manipulation, animal telepathy, etc.) which they can combine to summon Captain Planet (David Coburn)-a blue-skinned, green-mulleted environmental Übermensch. Ma-Ti (Scott Menville), a Native American from the Amazon basin of Brazil, given the power of Heart.Gi (Janice Kawaye), from South Korea, given the power of Water.Linka (Kath Soucie), a Soviet (later Russian), given the power of Wind.Wheeler (Joey Dedio), an American from Brooklyn, and the least responsible Planeteer, given the power of Fire.Kwame (Levar Burton), an African from Ghana, given the power of Earth.Gaia (Whoopi Goldberg or Margot Kidder), personification of the spirit of the Earth, musters a hard green carefully multicultural team of Planeteers, teenagers granted magic rings that give them superpowers based on the alchemical elements (plus one extra, just because).
