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We grew up with a series where Black Jesus, a perpetually horny twink, a trans slug, a bucket of goo with identity crisis, a rehabilitated rebel/terrorist, and an Irishman reconciled cultural differences to restore a planet following a decades-long occupation. And it was awesome.
Rehabilitated? Her resistance movement won the war and they just promoted her. She was not a rehabilitated rebel/terrorist, she was a successful and proud rebel/terrorist.
IIRC she got heels and a sexier uniform after too
And a bisexual tailor. Yep just a simple tailor, nothing to see here.
And a space Uber capitalist who’s there to be ridiculed and whose brother quotes Karl Marx and somehow ends up leading their people.
Average FTL crew
Sisko, Bashir, Dax, Odo, Kira and Keiko O’Brien. Am I right or am I right?
Miles, not Keiko - although those two have an entire sitcom’s worth of issues between them.
The only sad thing about Captain Planet was that it taught me that if you point out the wrong-doings of the rich and powerful, there will be correct action taken by the authorities to right the wrongs and to punish those responsible. The truth is much sadder imho.
“Alright who’s got the fire ring. Lemme borrow that. You kids wait in the helicopter”
People talk a lot about the ethnic stereotyping of the original Power Rangers, what with the Black Ranger being black (and of course majorly into hip-hop), the Yellow Ranger being Asian and versed in several Asian stereotypes, and the leader being the straight white male (who then gets displaced as leader by another straight white male).
What we don’t talk about is how, to spite all of that, it was still a huge step forward for the time to make it such a diverse cast. It was progress, warts and all.
The original idea was to make the Red Ranger Native American which…wow. But still… it’d also have been note worthy for the time too to put a Native American character in this line up, let alone as the leader.
Honorable mention to Billy who, to spite the character not being gay, the actor was (and got harassed for it). I know he’s said he never made Billy gay, but I can’t help but think there’s a reason I identified with Billy as a kid, and not just because he was the nerd.
and the leader being the straight white male (who then gets displaced as leader by another straight white male).
Keep in mind that he became the leader upon becoming the white ranger.
he became the leader upon becoming the white ranger
MAGAts: When I was a kid I loved the White Power … Ranger
Everyone: Stop fuckin’ saying it like that!
On behalf of the council of native Americans, the clear monolith that we are, Jason David Frank was already introduced into the list of Honorary Native Americans the moment he tried to beat the fuck out of Goldar without being able to morph. Even if he was made suddenly native despite not being one IRL.
Good luck finding an actual native decorated martial arts actor back in that day. We take every baby step we can get.
Matí, the heart ranger that could communicate with animals, was Native American, tho likely from South America.
Too bad Power Rangers had terrible working pay and working conditions… https://jacobin.com/2023/07/power-rangers-labor-exploitation-wga-sag-hollywood-nonunion#:~:text=The show and its toy,work environment under hazardous conditions
Green hair and blue skin.
He blue himself. There are dozens of us.
He should go to the blue man group, a support group for depressed men.
Da ba de da ba die
Green hair, blue skin… I see where ot goes. Red flag.
I always felt bad for the kid who got the shaft by getting the lousy heart ring.
While it wasn’t as flashy as the others, long range communication, and the ability to mess with someone’s head are not to be underestimated. It was fairly useless on its own, but a powerful force multiplier on the others.
You have a point, but he mostly sat in the back and didn’t do much in my memory.
I also always wondered where Captain Planet went when he left. Like was there some Captain Planet bachelor pad where he hot tubs and reads the paper?
There was an episode that showed an alternate timeline where Wheeler refused the fire ring, so the planeteers were never able to summon Captain Planet and couldn’t defeat the villains, so they ultimately went their separate ways but kept the rings.
Ma-ti is shown using the heart ring to essentially mug people, altering their minds to force them to give him money.
It’s always Wheeler’s fault, isn’t it?
There was an episode on a few years ago, and I tuned in. Wheeler got trapped behind an ice wall.
He’s the fire guy.
An ice wall stopped him.
Yes. The Heart Ring is the most devastating of the rings of Environmental Power.
By controlling the hearts of its victims it’s able to induce the most horrific feeling known to man: meaninglessness.
While all of his opponents seemed to wither only slightly in battle, over 90% of them eventually committed suicide, as they saw the world move on without them, and found only so much solace in drugs and cheap sex.
Poor Matei
We elected Hoggish Greedly as premier of Ontario.
Hair? With a MULLET. Not super woke, still impressive.
The greatest mullet ever.
- Takes one look at this thread’s title and puts on… ♪Captain Planet, he’s a hero! Going to take pollution, down to zero! We’re the planeteers, you can be one too! Because saying the planet is the thing to do! Looting and polluting is not the way! Here is what Captain Planet has to say! The Power is yours!♪
Those kids are radicals
I’m 50 and I have no idea who captain planet is. When and where was that a thing? Did you need to have cable? Because like 5% of my friends had cable. I’ve still never paid for it.
Captain Planet? He’s a hero, he’s going to take pollution down to zero. https://youtu.be/OiYjTb3opAA?si=-wXp-JTkWkhAGELC
I watched a little bit of that and I’ve definitely never seen it before. I’ll ask again, where and when was that a thing?
I watched the cartoon in the UK as a child, I don’t remember how old I was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Planet_and_the_Planeteers
It was an early '90s cartoon, and yes, you needed cable to watch it.
That explains it. Nobody I knew had cable money then.
It comes on Boomerang, so idk maybe watch an episode of jabberjaw like when you were a kid and stick around to catch some Captain Planet
Cool but I don’t have boomerang
Pretty sure in the late 80’s early 90’s it was on Fox kids broadcast tv
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Wtf? Gives you anxiety?! How fucking sheltered are you?!?!
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Go to therapy. Get help. And stop using the phrase “dyke”. I’m not sure if English isn’t your first language or what, but it’s offensive as fuck, and I’m sure a better conversation could have been had if you hadn’t started off with that aggressive pejorative.
