A special hero helps Lakewood Plaza Turbo save the planet.
Tropes:
- Affectionate Parody: The episode lampoons the often simpleminded villains from the original Captain Planet cartoons and the overt Green Aesop nature of the series, but the latter message is still presented fairly sincerely, and the end of the episode still takes the time to provide real tips to help the environment.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Dr. Blight says she's proud of how much Boxmore pollutes, we see a montage of Jethro slipping on oil and spilling his own, Ernesto ignoring a leaking nuclear waste pipe (that melts his upper half), and Darrell leaving a sink running after brushing his teeth.
- Art Shift:
- Captain Planet, Kwame and Dr. Blight have been retrofitted to the show's art style.
- The opposite happens at the end, where the characters are all drawn in the original Captain Planet art style.
- A minor one occurs with Captain Planet's introduction as a Shout-Out to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
- Bittersweet Ending: While Dr. Blight is defeated and the plaza gets cleaned up, the effects of Blight and Boxman's polluting have permanently affected the rest of the world. Then Captain Planet and the Lakewood Heroes give a Planeteer Alert.
- The Cameo: The rest of the Planeteers and Gaia make non-speaking appearances in the Planeteer Alert at the end of the episode.
- Comic-Book Time: In the twenty years since Captain Planet and the Planeteers ended, an unspecified number of years have passed for the characters, but Dr. Blight, Kwame, and (in the Planeteer Alert segment) the other Planeteers look the same age.
- Crossover: Captain Planet and Kwame visit the plaza, while Dr. Blight visits Boxmore.
- Ecocidal Antagonist: Discussed. Dr. Blight comes to Boxmore to pollute the area around Lakewood Plaza Turbo. She notes that her ultimate end goal is simply to pollute the planet until it dies. Boxman points out that, since THEY live on Earth, her plan will lead to their own deaths as well. Dr. Blight just states she doesn't care and continues on.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Downplayed Trope for Boxman. While he may have a point about Dr. Blight's plan on destroying the planet to make no sense as both of them would perish with the Earth, Boxman's crush on her caused him to blindly follow her.
- Fully Absorbed Finale: We're told the ultimate fate of the original Planeteers: They disbanded.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: Dr. Blight takes her singleminded goals of pollution from the original series to the point of parody; she wants to pollute the world and render it uninhabitable. Boxman, himself not very good with making choices, notes that this would kill them as well. Blight just kind of looks at him for a moment, notes she doesn't care, and continues with her plan.
- Green Aesop: Where Captain Planet goes, one of these is guaranteed to follow.
- Happy Ending Override: Years after Captain Planet and the Planeteers ended, Kwame is the only one still on the team, as the others (Wheeler, Linka, Gi, and Ma-Ti) got sick of fighting with each other and left to get "real jobs".
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: K.O.'s heart ring creates a Care-Bear Stare that gets the team to stop fighting and work together to clean the plaza.
- Missing Steps Plan: Dr. Blight insists polluting the Earth will make Boxmore loads of money, but gives no reason at all why.
- Mood Whiplash: The end of the episode abruptly goes from Captain Planet solemnly explaining to K.O. that cleaning the environment and fighting climate change has only gotten harder over the years, to the cheerful and optimistic "Planeteer Alert".
- Mythology Gag:
- Captain Planet's introduction recreates at least two of the shots from the opening of his home series, from the morphing of different colors and elements, to him flying over water.
- During the "Planeteer Alert", Brandon's Expressive Shirt says "I Heart H-B and DIC"- those being the companies that produced the original show (DiC and then Hanna-Barbera in 1993, after Ted Turner had purchased them).
- Noodle Incident: Kwame mentions that the fighting that Rad, Enid, ARMS, and Brandon get caught up in reminds him of a similar occurrence that caused the original Planeteers to disband.
- Stupid Evil: When Blight mentions how the pollution they emit would wipe out all life on Earth, Boxman interjects, saying that it would wipe them out too. Blight doesn't seem to care in the slightest, and Boxman goes along because he thinks it'll give him a shot at wooing her.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: While Captain Planet and the main characters managed to clean up the plaza, No Ontological Inertia is averted as Dr. Blight's actions still have lingering consequences (flooded areas, smogs, and climate change) on the surrounding area despite their best efforts.
- Take That!:
- At one point, Dr. Blight notes that her plan will go off without a hitch because "nobody believes [climate change is] real".
- The disbandment of Planeteers might also reflect with a common critique on the show's pro-social message that tend to promote obedience to the group while treating anyone who complains as an obstacle—Wheeler being the only one—being detrimental to team-building exercise for the audience since group-cohesion maintenance also required accountability and compromise of individuals' personality along with conflict resolutions on in-fighting rather than solely based on group-loyalty.
- The Vamp: Dr. Blight uses her looks to her advantage when negotiating with Boxman, who's practically putty in her hands.
- The Voiceless: MAL shows up with Dr. Blight, but doesn't speak.
