Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Captain Planet and the Planeteers is a popular animated series created by Ted Turner and produced by Jane Fonda to promote environmentalism in children. The series were developed and animated by TBS Productions and DiC. It ran from September 10, 1990 until 1996 and continues in syndication. It was continued by Hanna-Barbera with the series The New Adventures of Captain Planet (1993 - 1996).

Villains

Since the planeteers and Captain Planet have abilities that are made to withstand different situations, they must then have opponents to put them to use against. The villains of the series are typically exaggerated and intense, intentionally and slightly unrealistic so that viewers of the show wouldn't consider their parents to be "villainous" for having jobs similar to the villains.

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Some of Captain Planet's enemies are simply greedy and careless, such as Hoggish Greedley, Looten Plunder, and Sly Sludge, while others are simply in it for the opportunity to spread pollution, such as Verminous Skumm, who lives to spread filth, Dr. Blight, who seeks to destabilize the ecosystem, and Duke Nukem, who puts his need for radioactivity before the rest of the world. Most of the villains have a sidekick, though some of the more useless ones were eventually lost.

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Hoggish Greedley - Looten Plunder - Sly Sludge - Verminous Skumm - Dr. Blight - Duke Nukem - Sidekick

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While many of the situations Captain Planet faces are to prevent catastrophes, there are times where the villains take a move against the good guys directly, having lost patience with trying to get around them. A prime example was the creation of Captain Pollution, who was the polar opposite of Captain Planet.

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One fasicnating aspect of the series is that another adversary, Zarm, was once Gaias' predeccesor as the very spirit of the Earth, but abandoned his responsibilities to conquer other worlds and galaxies with his concepts of ruling under an unrelenting hand, he very nearly corrpupted the Planeteers with this kind of power, but they eventually rejected him. He has returned many times since then, and several times has come close to instigating cival wars and almost killing Gaia, he is largly considered "the" Captain Planet villain.

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