It Don't Matter. None of It Matters
Take Your Flat Earth And Keep On Driving is a webcomic adaptation of the Captain Planet and the Planeteers fanfiction of the same name. It was written by Zarius and illustrated by Erick Reyes. It is a Fix Fic and an alternative ending to the first season episode Tree of Life.
Doctor Blight, having harnessed the powers of nature itself, has come her closest yet to destroying Captain Planet. With his life at risk, Earth's greatest champion asks Blight to open up about her past...will hope, understanding, and perhaps even love, prevail?
The comic strip can be read here
, alternatively the original fic and strip can be read here.
Take Your Flat Earth And Keep On Driving provides examples of the following tropes:
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Blight utters "The Power Is Yours" to the Planeteers, a line the Captain usually says before returning his powers to their rings,
- Dating Catwoman: Planet and Blight by the end of the story
- Elemental Powers: As in the official episode, Blight has become immersuably powerful by borrowing sap from the treasured Tree of Life, making her an equal to Planet. Ma-Ti reveals at story's end that Blight has bonded permanently with the powers of nature, meaning she can be with Captain Planet 'forever' whenever he returns to the Planeteers rings, and that she too can be summoned alongside him when needed.
- In Medias Res: We join the story towards the end of the final act, with Captain Planet and Doctor Blight locked in combat.
- Parental Abandonment: Blight reveals to Planet that her mother abandoned her and her father when she was little
- Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: Captain Planet realizes Doctor Blight's scars, both 'inner and outer' comes from her abuse at the hands of her alchaholic father
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The fic's title is a play on the lyrics "Take your fast car and keep on driving" from the song Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
- The Big Damn Kiss: Planet and Blight conclude their little heart to heart with one of these
