Cartoon
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
The New Adventures of Captain Planet

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Not your iced beverage

Outfit:  Khaki jacket (jhaki?) / AJPW T-shirt / Ma-Ti Stepanek's Heartsongs

Tagline:  "Heart!"

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Plot summary:  Captain Planet (and Gaia, who I'm still convinced was a mirage) needed five people to wear magically powered elemental rings and use them/him to protect the planet from eco-terrorism, general pollution, and depressed Indians.

So the PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF OUR PLANET and a SUPERHERO MADE OUT OF NOT POLLUTION in their INFINITE WISDOM decide to give a teenager the ability to BURN THINGS ON COMMAND and entrust a ring that CONTROLS OUR HEARTS to a twelve-year old Brazilian kid who with the help of his pet monkey has already reached 1.0 Wonder Twins. So now he's not only going to pester me to buy packs of gum and trinkets from him while I'm walking around the city, he's going to MAKE ME DO IT.

"ATM, ATM wooowwowowooooowoowowowow (that's the ring noise) oooowowow ATM!!"

MUST. USE. ATM.  SO. PRECOCIOUS. (more)

User Comments:  Ma-Ti catches a lot of grief from whoever inevitably writes or comments about him because "heart" is the least tactile of the Planeteer rings. Wheeler can shoot fire, Gi can control water, and so on. The black guy can make earthquakes (or "earf-quakes"). What can "heart" do other than make Ma-Ti the total Aquaman of the team? HE TALKS TO THE MONKEYS THAT MAKES ME TOO SCARED TO CONTINUE DUMPING CHEMICAL SLUDGE. EVERYBODY RUN. But "heart" can do so much more than that. It allows Ma-Ti to communicate telepathically with the other planeteers and Mother Gaia herself. It gives him powers over the very foundation of our thoughts and emotions as human beings. And it helps make it clear to whom it may concern that all he wants to do is make love to you.

Ma-Ti pities the fool who doesn't respect her son's abilities as a Planeteer. Although I guess it says something that the people who wrote the show just went out and named the guy's monkey "Sucky."

User Rating: 4.0/10 (7 votes)