Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series)

Two Futures: Part 2 (1991)

Scott Menville: Ma-Ti

Quotes 

• Wheeler : Ma-Ti! I was afraid you'd given up - on *everything*!

  [clasps his shoulder] 

  Ma-Ti : I would never give up on *you*, Wheeler. You are my amigo.

• Wheeler : [transported to a polluted city full of starving people]  This can't be the *rainforest*. There's been some kind of mistake.

  Ma-Ti : [sitting facing away from behind, sighs]  You are right. Both times.

  [Wheeler turns as he stands to face him with an empty bowl] 

  Ma-Ti : This place cannot be a rainforest anymore. And this *city* is a mistake. Please, young sir, some spare change?

  Wheeler : [horrified at how ragged and thin he is]  Ma-Ti...!

  Ma-Ti : Forgive me, but if I ever knew you, I have forgotten. I find life is easier if I can forget the past.

• Wheeler : [after he uses his ring to bring out enough Heart in an indifferent man to give charity]  Ma-Ti, you could do *so* much more with your power! You could move people to care about the whole planet!

  Ma-Ti : [sighs]  You have much Heart, young one. Why couldn't I have known you when I was a young Planeteer?

  Wheeler : Well... I, uh...

  Ma-Ti : But you cannot rebuild a *rainforest*. It is gone forever.

  [points at him in amazement] 

  Ma-Ti : And you think that you can save an entire world?

  [buries his face in his hands and begins to sob] 

• Captain Planet : [at the second Planeteer Alert, where we see people trying to put trash in an overflowing can]  We all wonder what effect each of us has on the future. Every person can set an example for bad...

  Kwame : ...Or for good.

  Linka : Together, with each of us setting good examples...

  Ma-Ti : ...We can save the planet.

  Wheeler : And protect the future.

  Captain Planet : The power is yours!