![]() It’s because of the traits mentioned above that Ma-Ti is given Heart. We are introduced to him in the first episode when he bravely saves his monkey friend Suchi from a ferocious jaguar. But what he lacks in physical size, he makes up for in….yeah you guessed it…heart. Ma-Ti is the youngest and smallest of the Planeteers. His parents died under mysterious circumstances, so he is now being raised by a mysterious Shaman in his village (resist the urge to make a catholic church joke). Basically he’s a pre-pubescent Brazilian Aladdin. Ma-Ti is an orphaned twelve year old who lives somewhere in the Amazon with his pet monkey, Suchi. To understand why the Heart Ring is so special you need to understand its owner, Ma-Ti. Power isn’t always about the physical and the Heart Ring’s ability to control the non-physical makes it the ring I’d most want to have. But now that I’ve grown up and have a blog where I re-examine everything from my youth, I’ve come to realize that Heart is actually the BEST ring to have out of the five. The mysterious fifth element of nature was….Heart?Īs kids, we watched Captain Planet and used to think that Heart was clearly the worst ring to have. At this point you’re probably thinking what is the fifth element? Is it the ability to control lightning like Thor? Is in the ability to make plants grow like FernGully? Is it the ability to stay eternally young like Pharrell? While all these would have been very useful, none of these came to the minds of the writers. The first four had the cool abilities to control Earth, Fire, Water and Wind. You’ve probably noticed that I said there were five teenagers but only mentioned four elements at the beginning of the piece. With these rings, they would fight against polluters and when they couldn’t defeat the bad guys by themselves (which happened every episode) they would combine their powers to summon Captain Planet. The main characters were actually five teenagers from around the world who possessed rings that controlled each one of the elements of nature. Planet wasn’t the main focus of the show. ![]() While the show was called Captain Planet, Mr. ![]() We were pretty kinky as a country but still 20 years away from the whole gender fluidity thing. He did all of this while wearing a red costume that consisted of your standard spandex underwear, boots, abnormally long gloves and very tight crop top that had a yellow oval in middle. Amongst his many powers were flight, super strength, the ability to control nature and apparently a likeness to the actor Don Chedele. Therefore, it is no surprise that the infamous Ted Turner choose to use these four elements to power his environmentally-conscious superhero Captain Planet.įor those of you that are unfamiliar, Captain Planet is a 90s superhero TV show centered around a muscular blue man with a green mullet. These four natural forces have the ability to sustain us or destroy us depending on how they are used. So powerful that just three of them can still create one of the greatest bands of all time. These four classical elements are the building blocks of our world. ![]() Why Heart beats out Fire, Water, Wind and Earth as the coolest Planeteer RingĮarth, Fire, Water and Wind.
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