Gaia (Captain Planet and the Planeteers)

Gaia is the overarching protagonist of Captain Planet and the Planeteers. She is the Spirit/Goddess of Earth, who is introduced in the first episode, A Hero for Earth. She is the third character to be seen or introduced, after Hoggish Greedly and his sidekick, Rigger.
She was voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in the first three seasons and by the late Margot Kidder in the remaining seasons.
== Appearance ==
Gaia appears as a beautiful, mature woman with tan skin, dark hair with lighter streaks and light-colored eyes. She wears a long, purple dress, purple shoes, a thin, golden headband and two long, light-colored decorative pieces of material, one of which is wrapped around her left upper arm and the other is tied together with a hem of her dress on her right shoulder.
== Personality ==
Though Gaia looks after the Planeteers and obviously views them as children to her mother-like figure, she rarely gives them personal advice. She treats them as a team, warning them to be careful and to take care of one another and work together. She often watches over them and contacts them as they are leaving Hope Island in the geo-cruiser.
In the first episode, A Hero for Earth, it would appear that Gaia has a soft spot for Ma-Ti, treating him with gentle affection. This may be because he is the youngest, but she also makes it clear that he has the most important power of all, and without him, the other Planeteers have no cause. In "There is No Place Like Home" episode, Dr. Blight referred her as "Empress Earth".
== Powers & Abilities ==
As the Spirit of Earth, Gaia has all the powers of nature at her command, and as such is tremendously powerful, though not omnipotent. Examples of powers she was shown to possess were:
* Earth Symbiosis: The ability to gain powers through a symbiotic relationship with the Earth. Gaia gains power from and protects Earth and suffers as Earth is damaged.
* Nature Intuition: The ability to have innate knowledge about nature and natural forces. Gaia possesses an innate sense to the state of Earth and nature, and as such has full knowledge and understanding of the damages that could be inflicted on nature and its forces, as well as the consequences of those damages.
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