Captain planet ending

The cartoons of the 1980s produced some of the most iconic villains of all time: Skeletor. Cobra Commander. Megatron. Shredder.

Captain planet hair

How could a less-intriguing ‘90s cartoon like Captain Planet and the Planeteers ever hope to create bad guys so memorable, so significant as to compare with these pillars of animated evil? Turns out it couldn’t… so it just brought in Hitler.

Full disclosure: Captain Planet and the Planeteers was after my time, nestled in that sweet spot between me putting away my childish things and later returning at top speed to buy expensive reproductions of the childish things I used to own.

That said, I’m well aware the Captain Planet cartoon had its own litany of regular villains, united mainly in how passionate they were about doing evil in general and defiling the planet in particular.

https://gizmodo.com/10-animated-classics-for-a-totally-radical-90s-bingewat-1842622204

To be fair, these bonkers goals admittedl