Original subtitles

(male narrator) Our world is in peril.

Gaia, the spirit of the Earth can no longer stand

the terrible destruction plaguing our planet.

She sends five magic rings to five special young people.

Kwame from Africa, with the power of Earth.

From North America, Wheeler, with the power of fire.

[theme music]

From the Soviet Union, Linka, with the power of wind.

From Asia, Gi, with the power of water.

[splashing]

And from South America, Ma-Ti, with the power of heart.

When the five powers combine

they summon Earth's greatest champion

Captain Planet!

(Planeteers) Go, Planet!

(Captain Planet) The power is yours!

[instrumental music]

Fire!

[Zapping]

Earth!

Wind!

Water!

[splashing]

[thunder rumbles]

(Linka) 'Ma-Ti!'

[speaking in Russian]

‘Move! Mud slide!’

‘Get out of there!’

Oh, no!

[monkey chattering]

[panting]

He'll never make it!

Unless we let our powers combine!

Earth!

- Fire! - Wind!

Water!

Aah! Aah!

Heart!

By your powers combined

| am Captain Planet!

(all) Go, Planet!

Ah! Ah!

Well, there goes the neighborhood.

Come on, Ma-Ti. Let's go for a little spin.

Whoa!

[all screaming]

- Whoa! - Whoa!

Heh, okay, you guys.

When you're through playing around

come back to Hope Island.

The Earth Summit is about to begin.

[instrumental music]

(Gi) ‘| still don't know why we have to go to this meeting.’

- All they do is talk. - Gi is right.

This planet needs action, not more useless talk.

This talk could get countries of the world working together

to fix environmental problems.

That's what the Earth Summit is all about. Ooh!

Ohh!

[laughs evilly]

- 'Are you alright?’ - 'Gaia?'

- 'What's wrong?’ - | don't know.

Oh! Where was |?

The Earth Summit.

Yes, the Earth Summit.

It's time to show you just how important this meeting is.

- Wow! - Extraordinary!

(Linka) Beautiful!

It is like home, eh, Suchi?

[chattering]

[laughter]

It is a hologram, Suchi.

- And it's awesome! - It's nature.

But if countries don't agree to protect the world's forests

this is what will happen.

No!

[foreboding music]

[gasps]

[rumbling]

Now do you see why this summit is so important?

Alright! My hometown.

The Big Apple!

(Gaia) ‘It could be the Rotten Apple if we don't stop'

‘global warming from melting the polar icecaps.'

[elephant trumpets]

Africa, my homeland.

[instrumental music]

[roars]

[trumpets]

The animals! What happened to them?

Gone, Kwame.

At the rate we're going

‘killing off 100 plant, animal’

‘or insect species per day, they have no future.’

Unless we start protecting their habitats right now.

And I'll bet you always thought that

Hope Island was safe from devastation, right?

Wrong. What happens in one place affects the whole world.

[birds screeching]

No! Not the dolphins!

Stop, Gaia, please! It's horrible.

Yes, it is.

The future of the world looks pretty bleak

‘for all of us, unless the countries of the world'

‘start cooperating.’

‘And for that to happen, the Earth summit is the key.’

| am glad this is a hologram. | would hate to breathe this air.

Yeah. Looks like you could drill it with a jackhammer.

Hey, Gaia, alright. We get the point.

Patience, Planeteers.

| want you to meet our future leaders

if the Earth summit fails.

- Look familiar? - Greedly? Plunder?

- Dr. Blight? - And Nukem, Sludge, and Skumm!

Drink up, my foul friends. But first, a toxic toast.

Ahem, to beautiful, spacious, smog-ridden skies..

Hear! Hear!

...and burning waves of acid rain..

Nothing prettier!

...to purple mountains of oozing toxic landfills...

Oh, yeah! Pour it on, babe!

...above the desolate, strip-mined, clear-cut..

Sounds like money.

...overgrazed, totally blighted plains.

[laughs] Bottoms up, boys!

- Here's mud in your eye. - I'll drink to that!

[laughing and snorting]

This can't be our future!

This is it, if the Earth Summit fails.

That's why you have to go, Planeteers.

You can be sure that the eco-villains are already there.

They're not gonna wreck the Earth Summit if we can help it!

We're out of here!

- Save the Earth." - ‘Bah! Skummbug!'

Now, how do we ruin this global gathering of eco-geeks?

Maybe some genetically mutated seasoning

in the appetizers would spice things up.

Yeah!

Toxic-waste cocktails

would give them a real buzz.

A nuclear accident would be a blast.

How ‘bout we turn their meeting hall

into the world's largest landfill?

That'll trash their party. Haha.

| can't tell you how amusing | find your quaint little ideas.

Quaint little ideas?

What's the big idea, Blunder?

Big indeed, Greedly.

- Aah! - Aah!

Whoa!

Ha ha ha! How easily fooled you are.

[sighs] At last, the Earth is finally polluted enough for me.

No one sneaks up on me!

Hey, no harm intended, big fella.

But just out of curiosity, how did you do that.

- You know, look like me? - That is my power.

And soon, you'll share the ability to transform yourselves.

So? Hey, that's nice.

But, look, we're developing a plan here, and--

You miserable worms develop a plan? Ha!

You'll never figure out a way to stop Captain Planet.

‘And he will show up and wipe you off the face of the Earth!’

That's why you bumbling incompetents

will be working for me.

Hey, | work for no one!

boom

Uh, well, maybe part-time.

Now, then, to get rid of Captain Planet and his Planet-pests

we must defeat Earth itself.

- Gaia? - Of course.

She's the source of their power.

Destroy her, and you destroy them.

‘Destroy them, and the world is ours..'

... forever.

[helicopter whirring]

[instrumental music]

(male #1) ‘President Fuerte, sir, sir, can | just ask...’

Whoa! Major media!

(Gi) ‘And it looks like all the heavy hitters are here.’

[camera shutters clicking]

(President Fuerte) The Earth Summit is the first time

all the nations will join together to save our planet.

It is a turning point for Earth.

Her future, our future, hangs in the balance.

President Fuerte, what are your goals here?

First, to slow down climate change.

Gaia was right!

They really are gonna do something to save the planet.

Preserving natural habitats will also--

[whispering]

Please excuse me. | will return.

[chattering]

[chattering continues]

[evil laughter]

Oh!

| wish | knew what was going on.

Whatever it is, | don't like it.

Now, where were we?

What about the old-growth forests?

Any action to protect them?

Why? We need new, young trees, not old, rotting ones.

What did he say?

| say cut them down, the sooner, the better!

[murmuring]

What about the rain forests?

Oh, those!

Wet, nasty places

filled with slimy, dreadful creatures.

Please, excuse me.

| don't get it.

This does not seem like the same man.

No, it does not. Heart!

[gasps]

Ma-Ti, what is it?

Nothing! It is like there is nothing there!

Something's wrong. Let's stay close to this guy.

President Fuerte, what's going on?

- What is that? - | do not like this.

Get ready to run. Fire!

[instrumental music]

[screeching]

Shh!

- What is this place? - Ha ha ha.

Let me go!

Ha ha ha!

Yes, come to me, my sweet.

[all gasps] Zarm!

Ah! Ah!

[laughing and snorting]

No!

Aah!

Let's get this over with.

Aah!

What are they doing to her?

‘Look at Dr. Blight!’

[gasps] She looks exactly like Vice President Lockwood.

Okay. Now the voice check.

Testing! Very soon, the acid rain in Spain will be mainly..

[in Lockwood's voice] ... polluting the plains.

No!

Yes!

Quickly, bring in more delegates!

This is outrageous! | demand to know what's going on.

Mm, let me go! You'll never get away with this!

Well, well, well..

Come on. We gotta stop this!

| don't think so, Planet-pest!

Got you, you little punk!

Ah!

[screeching]

[screams]

Quickly, Planeteers! We must call--

[laughing evilly]

No!

[screeching]

No more tricks.

| only want this!

No! My ring!

Your ring is now mine.

And now to complete my Planeteer ring collection

and get on to bigger game.

Gaia and Captain Planet.

[instrumental music]

Ha ha ha!

This won't hurt a bit.

Zarm, you planet-wrecker! I'm gonna--

Aah!

You are going to behave yourselves.

[all screaming]

Hey, what is this?

- Hey, let me out! - It's a force field!

No kidding, Sherlock.

Hurry, Zarm!

[in Lockwood's voice] | mean, hurry, Zarm.

It's time for Fuerte's speech at the assembly.

Don't want to, uh, keep my public waiting.

I'm about to make the world a better place to live..

[in Fuerte's voice] ...for me, that is.

It will never work, Zarm.

The delegates will not go along with it.

They want to save the Earth like we do!

[laughs] Not after | round them all up

and replace them with my puppets. Ha ha ha.

After | use all of my transformation helmets

no one will be of a mind to oppose my plans.

[laughs evilly]

Good-bye, Planeteers.

Oh, how could | forget?

- No! - Our rings!

- Hey! - Help us!

[laughs evilly]

Lock them up and get to work.

| want my people in that assembly hall within the hour.

Ready for your beauty treatment, Plunder?

| say, | feel like a new man.

Get moving, Plunder, to the assembly hall.

Greedly, come here! You got to see this.

[applause]

Now to turn on the Zarm charm.

[clears throat]

[in Fuerte's voice] Welcome to Earth Summit.

A summit to change the world radically.

[cheers and applause]

First of all, | wish to correct

the few misconceptions about Earth.

It's in great shape, my friends!

'We have been the victims'

of inconclusive studies, doomsayers.

"There's no proof of ill effects from dumping waste’

‘into the ocean or building on landfills, for that matter’

so | say, keep dumping! Keep building!

What in the devil are you saying?

Yeah! That's it! Go for it!

| wanna hear it that way! Yeah! Yeah! Yay!

And as for the old-growth and rain forests

well, don't get me wrong.

‘I'm all for trees, lots of them!’

So we can cut them down for development.

[murmuring]

- Jolly good! Hear! Hear! - That's right. That's my boy.

[cheering]

Oh, Yeah! Oh, yeah!

And all this hysteria about global warming?

Complete hogwash!

You said it, Zarm!

Boy, I'm gonna like being his numero uno honcho.

I'll be wallowing in the lap of luxury!

Hold on, rump roast! I'll be his main man!

[laughing and snoring]

You nuked-out hothead! You got to be kidding.

Nuked-out hothead?

Hey! Hey, take it easy, big guy.

[Zapping]

Whoa!

Our rings!

Whoa!

Aah!

Linka!

| am all right, Wheeler.

Nukem's beam bounced off this.

And that gives me an idea.

What's the matter, piggy-wiggy?

[snorting] Nuke, Nuke, buddy, relax.

You know what porkers like you are good for?

Barbecue!

Yeow!

Here goes.

[shatters]

(all) Whoa!

I'm sorry, Nukem. I'm sorry.

[crying and snorting]

Let me go!

Those eco-brats are escaping!

- Wind! - Water!

[screams]

Sayonara, saps!

Earth!

- Yeow! - Yeow!

Hurry! Call Gaia!

Don't worry, Planeteers. I'm already here.

Thank goodness, Gaia! Zarm is turning the delegates--

| know. There's only one way to stop him.

Quickly, give me your rings.

Wait! My ring! How did you..

[gasps] Zarm!

[laughs evilly]

You're quick, Ma-Ti, but not quick enough. Seize them!

Zarm! | should have known.

This time you've gone too far.

Well, I'm gonna put a stop to this right now.

Ah!

You wanted to see me, Zarm? Well, here | am.

You can leave right now, or | can help you leave.

But mark my words, | will not let you destroy this planet.

You tell him, Gaia!

Not only will | destroy this planet, | will destroy you!

Oh! Ooh!

Gaia! No!

thud

You can try, but it will take more than this toxic ooze

to defeat the spirit of the Earth.

[Gaia inhales sharply]

Yech! Butterflies!

- Ha ha ha. - Show him, Gaia!

Oh, Gaia!

The game is up, Gaia.

Planeteers, shield your eyes.

boom

- Oh! - No!

- Aah! - What's the matter, Zarm?

Afraid you'll melt?

She sure is giving him the cold shoulder.

Give up, Zarm.

The good powers of the Earth outmatch your evil any day.

Maybe you can withstand my attacks, Gaia

but how about your precious Planeteers?

The powers of pollution!

Smog! Acid rain! Toxic waste!

Who will you save, Gaia, yourself or the Planeteers?

Choose!

[coughing and gagging]

No! Leave them alone!

(Planeteers) Whoa!

[Planeteers groans]

Gaia, no.

- Now I've got you. - Huh!

[glass shatters]

(Zarm) ‘Wrong choice, Gaia.'

Now you lose it all.

Aah!

Oof!

- Gaia! - Gaia! Gaia!

You haven't won, Zarm, not by a long shot.

Oh, no?

Ha ha ha!

[all gasp]

No!

No!

[Planeteers crying]

Oh, Gaia.

(Planeteers) Go, Planet!

Captain Planet wants you to help save the Earth.

With world leaders meeting for the Earth Summit in June of 1992

this is your chance to be heard.

We are all part of the tree of life.

To show your support, draw a leaf

on a postcard and send it to your head of state.

People all over the world will be sending leaves

so get your friends and schoolmates to do it, too.

Together, we can make a difference.

The power is yours!

Earth!

Fire!

Wind!

- Water! - Heart!

(Planeteers) Go, Planet!

(Captain Planet) By your powers combined

| am Captain Planet!

~ Captain Planet I

S He's our hero S

~ Gonna take pollution down to zero f

f He's our powers magnified f

f And he's fighting on the planet's side J

~ Captain Planet I

S He's our hero S

~ Gonna take pollution down to zero f

£ Gonna help him put asunder J

~ Bad guys who like to loot and plunder f

You'll pay for this, Captain Planet!

~ We're the Planeteers you can be one too f

~ 'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do J

~ Looting and polluting is not the way f

~ Hear what Captain Planet has to say Jf

(Captain Planet) The power is yours!