Poll of the Day > Which magic ring from the show Captain Planet would you have?

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The later 5 rings were created by Doctor Blight and together can summon Captain Pollution, Captain Planet's archenemy.

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Probably water or wind, whichever summons LIGHTNING!!! (And no, it's not fire, this ain't Avatar)

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I don't recall the 5 rings of pollution... but 'radiation' seems unfair since there's useful radiation, actually - deforestation can be useful too... and Toxics? Are they a homeopath?

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Heart is probably the best one - just no one is that creative with it. You ever play the new Deus Ex games with the pheromone reader? You just dominate.

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What kinda lame power is Heart anyway

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Hard choice. Earth and fire both seem really cool. And can be use it cool ways. Like lifting the ground, or burning the world. Wind seems cool, too. And you could Probably fly. Water would be useful as I cant swim. And heart is like the strongest of them all...
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Metalsonic66 posted...

What kinda lame power is Heart anyway

youll regret this the next time a wild bear or tiger or something is blocking your path and growling at you and you have no ability to calm it and make it just kinda go away

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Hate.
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Mead posted...

youll regret this the next time a wild bear or tiger or something is blocking your path and growling at you and you have no ability to calm it and make it just kinda go away

I roll for initiative

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I'm Captain Planet.

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cock

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Lokarin posted...

I don't recall the 5 rings of pollution...

Because they only featured in like 2 episodes. Captain Pollution was basically a one-shot villain where one of the rogues made a set of rings and handed them out to the other rogues. Captain Pollution beats Captain Planet during the first and maybe second encounter, but he's defeated by the end of the second episode and the rings stop working as a result.

He was literally just evil Captain Planet and summoned by rings that reference types of pollution, with the final element just being a counterpoint to heart. It wasn't a terribly inspired concept, although it was memorable just for being the evil counterpart.

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Sarcasthma posted...

cock

I have one of each of those...
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Zeus posted...

Because they only featured in like 2 episodes. Captain Pollution was basically a one-shot villain where one of the rogues made a set of rings and handed them out to the other rogues. Captain Pollution beats Captain Planet during the first and maybe second encounter, but he's defeated by the end of the second episode and the rings stop working as a result.

He was literally just evil Captain Planet and summoned by rings that reference types of pollution, with the final element just being a counterpoint to heart. It wasn't a terribly inspired concept, although it was memorable just for being the evil counterpart.

Deforestation is the worst kind of pollution.
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Revelation34 posted...

Deforestation is the worst kind of pollution.

Overlooking that I'm not sure deforestation even technically counts as pollution (because pollution tends to be a byproduct whereas deforestation is generally used as a means to an end), a lot of those other kinds of pollution would lead to plants dying.


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water or radiation

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I'd probably get the Sinestro Corps ring.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'd probably get the Sinestro Corps ring.

Fear is a good servant, but a poor master... no, wait, that's fire.

And I guess the Sinestro Corps cameo must have been in that lost episode.

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The hate flows through me.
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Zeus posted...

Overlooking that I'm not sure deforestation even technically counts as pollution (because pollution tends to be a byproduct whereas deforestation is generally used as a means to an end), a lot of those other kinds of pollution would lead to plants dying.

I was being sarcastic.
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Zeus posted...

Because they only featured in like 2 episodes. Captain Pollution was basically a one-shot villain where one of the rogues made a set of rings and handed them out to the other rogues. Captain Pollution beats Captain Planet during the first and maybe second encounter, but he's defeated by the end of the second episode and the rings stop working as a result.

He was literally just evil Captain Planet and summoned by rings that reference types of pollution, with the final element just being a counterpoint to heart. It wasn't a terribly inspired concept, although it was memorable just for being the evil counterpart.

How sad because it actually sounds like it could work well as a concept. Get five kids convinced to help 'improve' the planet with their destructive powers. They then both realize just how destructive their abilities are and how to help the world with them in spite of their destruction.

Anyways, I'd take water because it can be freaking broken on a planet with such massive amounts of water with life that depends on it. If not water than earth since being able to re-shape the planet would be a massive boon (and I could probably use it to find diamonds or some shit). Heart could be really potent if used on the right people but really useless if used on the wrong ones. Wind would be kinda meh. Not useless but there's better options. Fire would probably be the weakest and least useful overall; most likely to backfire for certain.

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Never watched it. Captain Planet was a show for dweebs.

Unbridled9 posted...

How sad because it actually sounds like it could work well as a concept. Get five kids convinced to help 'improve' the planet with their destructive powers. They then both realize just how destructive their abilities are and how to help the world with them in spite of their destruction.

Anyways, I'd take water because it can be freaking broken on a planet with such massive amounts of water with life that depends on it. If not water than earth since being able to re-shape the planet would be a massive boon (and I could probably use it to find diamonds or some shit). Heart could be really potent if used on the right people but really useless if used on the wrong ones. Wind would be kinda meh. Not useless but there's better options. Fire would probably be the weakest and least useful overall; most likely to backfire for certain.

I'd rather have it so either they think they're helping the planet but are actually being used or they realize how destructive the powers are and use them for evil instead.
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Heart would be the most useful in the modern world.

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Unbridled9 posted...

How sad because it actually sounds like it could work well as a concept. Get five kids convinced to help 'improve' the planet with their destructive powers. They then both realize just how destructive their abilities are and how to help the world with them in spite of their destruction.

To be honest, that's the Planeteers themselves to some degree. If you think about it, being able to wield the raw power of the elements can result in a lot of stuff getting destroyed, and you're sort of forcing the world around you into unnatural patterns to serve your purposes (ie, what humans always do).

And that's not even getting into how badly they can disrupt the local environment if they're not thinking holistically in terms of overall complex systems. Pull water out of a lake and you're disrupting the local ecosystem. Summon up strong enough wind gusts, and you're potentially disrupting weather patterns. Fling fireballs, and an unnoticed stray ember can start a wildfire. Careless use of a ring can damage things just as much as some of the things they fight. And that's not getting into the damage they can do to human interests - that earthquake you just called up to collapse the toxin-producing factory also potentially just collapsed a bunch of nearby apartment buildings and killed innocent people. Flood damage can be extremely expensive. Fire tends to burn indiscriminately once it starts.

The Planeteers are basically emotionally-volatile amateurs with poor judgment and impulse control (ie, teenagers) who have been handed WMDs. They're self-righteous eco-terrorists with magic powers.



Zeus posted...

Fear is a good servant, but a poor master... no, wait, that's fire.

Yeah, but the first test every Sinestro Corps member must face is to master their own fear so that they can better understand their chosen weapon.

Basically, they lock you in a box with a depowered ring, and you have to use your own fear to power it. If you can't feel fear you basically just die in the box, if you're consumed by your fear you just go crazy, and if you can't channel your fear into something more tangible you default to one of the above.

Fear isn't a cudgel, it's a scalpel. To wield it is a skilled art, not a bludgeon. There is more to fear than simply being able to cause it.

The red rings are similar. They aren't just about being eternally pissed off, they're rage channeled into constructive use. Most Red Lanterns are righteous avengers more than they are avatars of destruction. They're not lashing out at literally everyone, they're lashing out at the people who've wronged them (or people like the people who've wronged them). It's not just wrath, it's wrath with purpose.
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Unbridled9 posted...

How sad because it actually sounds like it could work well as a concept. Get five kids convinced to help 'improve' the planet with their destructive powers. They then both realize just how destructive their abilities are and how to help the world with them in spite of their destruction.

I'm not sure that concept could work with a pollution-themed gimmick. Plus you're still describing a one-shot storyline.

Plus the benefit to the Captain Pollution storyline iirc was that it was the largest villain team-up on the show and I seem to recall that the rings kinda suited the villains.

Unbridled9 posted...

Anyways, I'd take water because it can be freaking broken on a planet with such massive amounts of water with life that depends on it. If not water than earth since being able to re-shape the planet would be a massive boon (and I could probably use it to find diamonds or some shit). Heart could be really potent if used on the right people but really useless if used on the wrong ones. Wind would be kinda meh. Not useless but there's better options. Fire would probably be the weakest and least useful overall; most likely to backfire for certain.

You're kinda overestimating the extent of the rings' powers. As for fire, I seem to recall that it also granted over the flames themselves.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Basically, they lock you in a box with a depowered ring, and you have to use your own fear to power it. If you can't feel fear you basically just die in the box, if you're consumed by your fear you just go crazy, and if you can't channel your fear into something more tangible you default to one of the above.

I know how the initiation process works >_>


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I'm not sure that concept could work with a pollution-themed gimmick. Plus you're still describing a one-shot storyline.

Plus the benefit to the Captain Pollution storyline iirc was that it was the largest villain team-up on the show and I seem to recall that the rings kinda suited the villains.

Well, you wouldn't use stuff like 'De-forestation'. You'd pick things that could be either used as positive but are typically negative (EX: Radiation) or have the rings hide what they actually are doing behind a different name. That way the well-meaning ones don't realize what they're actually doing. Edit: Or you could even give the same/similar 'good' rings to kids who instead of using their power to help the planet get tricked into destroying it.

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Give a teen a ring of power and they'd be more likely to destroy things on purpose.
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CarefreeDude posted...

Heart would be the most useful in the modern world.

And the most likely to be abused, that could easily be used for utopian style mind control.
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Heart is easily the most powerful.
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ultra magnus13 posted...

Heart is easily the most powerful.

I said that earlier... Even the wiki says it...
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Apparently the heart ring lets em read thoughts so...obviously that

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hate ring, hell yeah

jk probably something dumb like water or fire

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I would prefer Heart. I take personality very seriously.

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I just used a random name picker and got Water so I'm going with that. Seems to be one of the more popular rings here, too.

Lokarin posted...

Heart is probably the best one

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LinkPizza posted...

I said that earlier... Even the wiki says it...

You also said it was a hard choice. It is not. You want Pyro's powers or Professor X?
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Nobody wants deforestation.

"What's your super power?"

"Well, I can chop down trees..."

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ultra magnus13 posted...

You also said it was a hard choice. It is not. You want Pyro's powers or Professor X?

Just because it's the most powerful doesn't mean it's the one I want, though. The others have some good uses. So, it's still a hard choice...
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wind and water

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ultra magnus13 posted...

You also said it was a hard choice. It is not. You want Pyro's powers or Professor X?

Considering Professor X's powers are tied to him being bound to a wheelchair -- for some fucking reason (because when he loses his powers, he's somehow able to walk again) -- I'm going to say that it *might* be a harder choice than you assume. Insanely OP powers are cool and all, but at the cost of lower body function? Ehhhh...

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Anyone remember that one episode where the Planeteers took in this kid and by the end of the episode he earned his own (6th) ring?

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Also, why is it that Ted Turner was the only one trying to save the planet for the last 30 years?

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Zeus posted...

because when he loses his powers, he's somehow able to walk again

That's mostly in the movies, and is mostly stupid.

In the comics, he's only paralyzed because he tried to fight an alien back in the 50s and it crippled his legs. Then he got the ability to walk back when his body was cloned (for reasons) in the early 1980s. Until the writers broke his back in the early 1990s and put him back in the chair. Then he got better. And then they killed him. And then he came back again.

If anything, the thing that keeps paralyzing Professor X isn't his powers, it's status quo. People remember him as "bald wheelchair guy", so he will ALWAYS be "bald wheelchair guy". Even when one writer has him cured somehow, it's only a matter of time before a future writer comes along and just cripples him again. It's like the reverse of Batgirl.

It's the same reason why no major character will ever really die. No matter how ridiculous a death one writer gives a character, someone else will eventually be along who has nostalgia for that character who will either bring them back to live or reveal that they were never actually dead in the first place. Most comic writers now grew up as comic fans, and they're mostly just writing fanfiction about the characters they liked as kids (which is why most mainstream comics basically suck now).
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

That's mostly in the movies, and is mostly stupid.

In the comics, he's only paralyzed because he tried to fight an alien back in the 50s and it crippled his legs. Then he got the ability to walk back when his body was cloned (for reasons) in the early 1980s. Until the writers broke his back in the early 1990s and put him back in the chair. Then he got better. And then they killed him. And then he came back again.

If anything, the thing that keeps paralyzing Professor X isn't his powers, it's status quo. People remember him as "bald wheelchair guy", so he will ALWAYS be "bald wheelchair guy". Even when one writer has him cured somehow, it's only a matter of time before a future writer comes along and just cripples him again. It's like the reverse of Batgirl.

It's the same reason why no major character will ever really die. No matter how ridiculous a death one writer gives a character, someone else will eventually be along who has nostalgia for that character who will either bring them back to live or reveal that they were never actually dead in the first place. Most comic writers now grew up as comic fans, and they're mostly just writing fanfiction about the characters they liked as kids (which is why most mainstream comics basically suck now).

Yep, and I guess sub in Gene Grey for the prof if you want, I think Heart ring may have granted telekinesis in addition to telepathy in a few eps, but I could be remembering wrong.
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ultra magnus13 posted...

I think Heart ring may have granted telekinesis in addition to telepathy in a few eps, but I could be remembering wrong.

Not sure about telekinesis but telepathy is definitely a Heart ring power. It had some weird limitations, though, like it couldn't be used to communicate with other Planeteers if an extremely evil person (like any of the Eco-Villains) was near them.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

In the comics, he's only paralyzed because he tried to fight an alien back in the 50s and it crippled his legs. Then he got the ability to walk back when his body was cloned (for reasons) in the early 1980s. Until the writers broke his back in the early 1990s and put him back in the chair. Then he got better

I thought it was because of a car wreck where he saved his half-brother? Or was that a cartoon origin?

(And speaking of TAS, they also used the power-loss-walk gimmick.)

Otherwise he also had robot braces that helped him walk in the comics, which they quickly abandoned.

At any rate, it's a more consistent status quo, unlike the sometimes-wheelchair-ridden Barbara Gordon.

ultra magnus13 posted...

Yep, and I guess sub in Gene Grey for the prof if you want, I think Heart ring may have granted telekinesis in addition to telepathy in a few eps, but I could be remembering wrong.

I can't remember him ever showing telekinesis and I can't find any citation for that.

And technically the Heart Ring's power is vastly overstated, because it has no impact on the villains.

JixHedgehog posted...

Anyone remember that one episode where the Planeteers took in this kid and by the end of the episode he earned his own (6th) ring?

I can't find a citation for a 6th ring, the wiki only lists 5.

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