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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

He would say, "the power is yours!" Then he would fly away. Where did he go? Is there like a PlanetCave he just hangs out in and crochets until all the rings get used?

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[-] SGforce@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 months ago

I figured he like dissolved or something back into the constituent powers. But he doesn't want the kids to see that so he just goes around the corner.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Now I'm picturing Captain Planet stepping around a corner and having his flesh melt off and his bones dissolve.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Captain Planet has to go off and use his prostate massager so he can bust so hard he’s reduced to his constituent elements.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Does he never turn back into energy and flow back into the rings? I always assumed he just does that, but I'm not sure what is actually on those cartoons anymore.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

No, he always flew away.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago

"With your powers dispersed, I can go back to playing games on my NES!"

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

°proceeds to play Captain Planet on NES°

[-] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

To collude with billionaires in maximizing environmental damage.

Job security, you know?

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

He went to collide with the edges of the atmosphere. Once he reaches its horizon the solar energy breaks him apart and sends him back to the Planet Zone.

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

He goes back to Metropolis.

He owns The Daily Planet.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 months ago

He didn't fly away?

I thought he would break apart and his powers would go back to their component rings.

[-] Iunnrais@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

I don’t think your premise is correct. From memory, and scanning a couple episodes illegally uploaded to YouTube, it doesn’t look like Captain Planet flies away at the end. Usually, the scene just transitions to later after he’s gone, but the few times we see it, he dissolves into light, presumably returning the rings powers to the planeteers and disincorporating. He doesn’t go anywhere, he bodily ceases to be.

Where does his mind go? I think he’s a spirit. Where does team spirit go after the football game is over and everyone goes to bed? It still exists, but it’s not… here. It has to be activated to be tangible.

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