Summoning Captain Planet (2001)

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Captain Planet & The Planeteers

Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an animated environmentalist television program that aired in the U.S. from September 1990 until December 1992. In the series, each of five Planeteers are given a ring which allows them to temporarily control one of the four classical elements—Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water—as well as the fifth element of Heart. When spoken out loud in a specific order and followed by the group’s cheer “GO PLANET!”, Captain Planet would appear from flashes of lightnings and sounds of thunders.

About

“Summoning Captain Planet” is a popular pastime on online BBS/imageboards like 4chan, Something Awful, and is rumored to have begun on LUElinks. The routine is adopted from the intro theme song of the popular 90s cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

Example / Usage

A typical summoning goes like this:

Poster A: EARTH!
Poster B: FIRE!
Poster C: WIND!
Poster D: WATER!
Poster E: HEART!

Poster F: By your powers combined..I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!

Usage of C-C-COMBO BREAKER

It is also very common for users to break the “Captain Planet” chain by posting “C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!” amidst the buildup.

Poster A: Earth!
Poster B: FIRE!
Poster C: WIND!

Poster D: C-C-C-C-COMBO BRRRREAKER!!!!

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29 Comments

Cooper Smith
Aug 20, 2009 at 09:29PM UTC , Cooper Smith wrote:

EARTH!

Spycrabs
Aug 20, 2009 at 09:31PM UTC , Spycrabs wrote:

fgsfds?

Captain Blubber
Aug 20, 2009 at 09:31PM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

SCISSORS!

Too bad Cooper, scissors beats Earth everytime..

Spycrabs
Aug 20, 2009 at 09:33PM UTC , Spycrabs wrote:

I disagree, What if th Earth activates it’s trap card?

Cooper Smith
Aug 20, 2009 at 09:35PM UTC , Cooper Smith wrote:

Darn you Blubber! I can’t beat that!

Spycrabs
Aug 20, 2009 at 09:36PM UTC , Spycrabs wrote:

Of this gets deadpooled I will lose all my faith in humanity

Cooper Smith
Aug 20, 2009 at 09:43PM UTC , Cooper Smith wrote:

Well, in that case, let’s accept it on a whim!

Spycrabs
Aug 20, 2009 at 09:43PM UTC , Spycrabs wrote:

Hoorah! :D

Jostin Asuncion
Aug 20, 2009 at 10:21PM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

I’ll just add a little something to get you a good head start in fixing this entry up…

Spycrabs
Aug 21, 2009 at 11:50AM UTC , Spycrabs wrote:

ahhh the small pics hurt my eyes

Chris Menning
Aug 22, 2009 at 07:26PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

I’m with Skycrabs. Don’t upload thumbnails, just full pics. The site makes thumbnails on its own.

Jamie Dubs
Aug 22, 2009 at 08:00PM UTC , Jamie Dubs wrote:

Any links to this in the wild? Forum threads, 4chan archive etc.

Spycrabs
Aug 24, 2009 at 12:11AM UTC , Spycrabs wrote:

I’ve seen it tons of times on GFAQS..im starting to think it originated from there.

Jamie Dubs
Aug 24, 2009 at 12:22AM UTC , Jamie Dubs wrote:

Spycrabs, can you dig up any links? Google cached pages are a good place to hunt if the threads are 404

Spycrabs
Aug 24, 2009 at 03:41PM UTC , Spycrabs wrote:

kay

Spycrabs
Aug 24, 2009 at 03:49PM UTC , Spycrabs wrote:

I’m starting to think Captain Planet is a meme, and summoning him is just a derivative of that.

Brad Kim
Sep 28, 2009 at 06:08PM UTC , Brad Kim wrote:

cleaned up & confirmed-

Darth Weegee
Sep 29, 2009 at 12:35AM UTC , Darth Weegee wrote:

Earth?

prokadae
Sep 29, 2009 at 11:29PM UTC , prokadae wrote:

WILFORD BRIMLEY.
C-C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER!

and now i add this little bit so technically my post isn’t entirely caps, thus making me appear to be a better and considerably less shouty-er person.

TEAL DEER.

ImperiousViking
Sep 29, 2009 at 11:54PM UTC , ImperiousViking wrote:

Earth!

Blackhawk003
Sep 30, 2009 at 06:57AM UTC , Blackhawk003 wrote:

Fire!

Kyokii
Sep 30, 2009 at 04:03PM UTC , Kyokii wrote:

Diarrhea!

Selene
Oct 02, 2009 at 12:21PM UTC , Selene wrote:

I always thought “Heart” was a pretty meaningless power.

Last HCompany
Oct 19, 2009 at 07:33AM UTC , Last HCompany wrote:

Summon Captain 4Chan!

*Rick Astley! With the power of Fail!

*Ceiling Cat! With the power of Win!

*Anonymous! With the power of For Teh Lulz!

*Encyclopedia Dramatica! With the power of being Heartless and douchebagism!

*And Chuck Norris! With the power of… Division by Zero and… C-C-C-Combo-Breaker!

OH SHI- (BOOM!)

AllYourBase
Nov 08, 2009 at 07:18AM UTC , AllYourBase wrote:

BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED, I AM TAY ZONDAY.

GO CHOCOLATE RAIN

failer
Nov 12, 2009 at 04:49PM UTC , failer wrote:

ZERG!

squidbuddy99
Nov 30, 2009 at 11:01PM UTC , squidbuddy99 wrote:

INTERNETS!

Jack Candle
Jan 01, 2010 at 08:56PM UTC , Jack Candle wrote:

EARTH!

Eric
Jan 22, 2010 at 03:47PM UTC , Eric wrote:

By all your powers combined
I
Am
SPARTA!!!!!

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