10 Best Animated Fantasy TV Shows Of All Time

Saving the environment is one of the biggest talking points in the world today. As such, issues like global warming usually trickle into most shows in some form or another. However, the benchmark for an environmentalist TV show was set years before the threat of climate change was even widely recognized as imminent.

Captain Planet as a show was ahead of its time in every way imaginable. It featured a diverse cast, was not afraid to point to those responsible for most environmental damage and tried to outline actual solutions that the average person could try to implement.

The premise is based on a mythical entity choosing a few special individuals and presenting them with powerful magic rings. No, not you Sauron. Gaia, the spirit of the earth, picks out five kids from different continents and imbues them with the power of fire, water, earth, wind and heart. When combined together, they called forth the master of all elements, the avata… no, sorry not that one either. Captain Planet. They summoned Captain Planet.

Each episode would usually target a particular threat to the environment and follow the protagonists as they try to defeat those responsible. If only we had learned.