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Doctor Blight
Dr. Blight
Overview
Gender Female
Race Human/Caucasian
Status Alive
Powers Hate (temporarily, Mission to Save Earth Part I and Part II)
First Appearance Deadly Ransom
Voices Meg Ryan & Mary Kay Bergman
Doctor Blight again? Even mad scientists call her crazy!

Gi, Two Futures Part I

Doctor Barbara "Babs" Blight, one of the Eco-villains, is a beautiful scientist, often found experimenting in various ways regarding how to take over the planet. Blight represents the dangers of out-of-control technology and unethical experimentation.

Appearance[]

Dr. Blight is a middle-aged female scientist who usually wears spandex jumpsuits with a utility belt slung loosely around her hips, long dark gloves, high-cut boots.

She has chin-length blonde hair with a distinctive white streak of hair acting as a blackout curtain to cover the horrifically scarred left side of her face. Though the origin of the scar that also resulted in the loss of her left vision was never revealed in the show, it was revealed by the Dr. Blight Collector Card that she had experimented on herself to make the perfect human, and therefore it is possible that the scars were a side-effect of her attempts.

Due to her hair being carefully combed in front of her face to hide her disfigurement, at first glance, Dr. Blight is a beautiful, white, blonde, slim blue-eyed (green-eyed in later seasons) woman , However, on occasions where her full face is shown, her scars were revealed to be of a darker-toned, rough, and scabby appearance, covered with numerous boils along with a long dark scar trail running down her scarred cheek, starting from just below her empty left eye socket. In later episodes that feature her in the future, her appearance was shown to have become saggy and crone-like.

Though it was never specifically revealed or confirmed, whatever caused Dr. Blight's scarring was likely to have inflicted excruciating pain on her as well, and perhaps contributed to her insanity.

Personality[]

Dr. Blight seems to have mixed feelings toward her facial scarring. In some episodes, such as The Energy Vampire and Losing Game, she has no problem showing the scar and seems almost proud of it. However, in other episodes, such as You Bet Your Planet and Frog Day Afternoon, she seems to be self-conscious and humiliated by it. These sorts of contrasting feelings seem to be common in other areas of Dr. Blight's life as well. Another example is her relationship with MAL. At times, she will be very fun and flirtatious acting toward MAL, while at other times she will become angry and violent when dealing with him. She also seems to display the same extreme range of emotions when dealing with the other Eco-villains or with Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Blight descends from Betty Blight, who appears in the episode Hog Tide. Blight also has a little sister, Bambi Blight, a beautiful Hollywood film star. She stars in the episode Hollywaste. It's evident that there is great tension between the sisters. Bambi Blight was the first person to reveal Dr. Blight's first name when she referred to her as "Babs" a shortened form of the name "Barbara". Blight will often flirt or flatter in order to get her way, though she's not afraid to stand up for herself if one of the other Eco-villains dares to upset her. She often supplies chemicals or machinery and technology to the other Eco-villains in exchange for cash or favors.

Sidekick[]

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MAL.

MAL: Blight is never seen without her main sidekick and computer husband, an electrical program named MAL. They often share banter or argue against one another when things go wrong.

Blight often speaks in a slow, sultry voice to her computer, indicating perhaps that he is the only "man" in her life. When she teamed up with Sly Sludge to falsify his records as well as those of the Planeteers, she admonished Sludge for calling MAL ugly, and also mentioned if she could find a human being with MAL's intelligence, she would marry him. However, there are also indications there could be a secret relationship with Looten Plunder.

MAL is voiced by David Rappaport in early episodes. In later seasons, he's voiced by Tim Curry.

Family[]

Blight's relationships with her family are complicated, to say the least.

She appeared to have an often-tumultuous relationship with her younger sister, Bambi Blight, implied to be the result of a long sibling rivalry from their childhood. Unlike Blight who chose to dedicate her life to science, Bambi, having been gifted with natural beauty, eventually became rich and famous as a model and actress. Something which Blight greatly resents due to her own badly damaged face.

In an alternate timeline, Blight would give birth to a girl, Betsi Blight. Betsi proved to be very different in personality from her mother, unlike Blight who believed in science and using it to cause worldwide disasters, Betsi was a kind-hearted woman (much like her mother's old enemies, the Planeteers) who believed in the gifts of nature and preserving life rather than destroying it.

These conflicting worldviews would eventually cause the two to have a falling out. The two would end up clashing several times as a result with neither side willing to back down or let the other win. By the end of the episode however, Blight does begin to contemplate reforming for her daughter, suggesting that she does genuinely love her deep down.

Blight's most positive relationship appeared to be with her grandmother Betty Blight, who appeared to share her granddaughter's love for science and twisting it to suit her own purposes. Indeed, it's likely that Betty was probably the one who inspired Blight to go down the same path.

Blight would also meet one of her distant descendants, the much more megalomaniacal Blight 5, and becomes very impressed after hearing about the dystopian future that she and her partners rule over. Blight agrees to help her find and kill a young girl who if allowed to live, will one day grow up to change the future for the better. Unfortunately their plan fails and Blight 5 along with her future are seemingly erased from history much to Blight's absolute fury.

Powers and abilities[]

  • Science: Dr. Blight knows seemingly all scientific fields, including chemistry, robotics[1], computing and time-travel[2].
  • Gadgetry
  • Aviation
  • Dr. Blight was once powered by a compound from Tree of Life. She used its sap to create a perfume that granted her superpowers, making her powerful enough to fight Captain Planet, including:
    • Superhuman Strength
    • Invulnerability
    • Flight
    • Energy Blast
    • Super Breath
    • The Ability to Become a Mobile Plant.

Animation Errors[]

Dr. Blight's scar is occasionally rendered inconsistently - most episodes will depict her with her left eye missing, however in some episodes she is shown with an eye intact such as in A Perfect World (after being electrocuted by the console after MAL sneezes on it), Little Crop of Horrors (when she turns around in the cockpit to scold Mal) and in Frog Day Afternoon (during a close-up of her scar in a hand mirror).

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Design Changes[]

Over the course of the series Dr. Blight's design has gone through many changes, most of them move to simplify her design and each of the changes line up with the different seasons.

Gloves

Dr. Blight wears elbow length gloves in nearly every episode, but in her second appearance, The Tree of Life, she wears shorter gloves. This is also true in Season 3 in the episode Greenhouse Planet. She wears no gloves in the episode Wheeler's Ark.

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Dr. Blight's shorter gloves in The Tree of Life

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Dr. Blight's shorter gloves in Greenhouse Planet

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Dr. Blight's lack of gloves in Wheeler's Ark

In Seasons 1 and 2, Dr. Blight's gloves are a dark black and feature 3 yellow bands: one near her wrist, one near her elbow, and a final closer to her shoulder. After this third band, the glove fans outward.

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's Heat Wave

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Dr. Blight from Season 2's Losing Game

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Dr. Blight from Season 2's Utopia

In Season 3, this design was substantially simplified. In this design only the band near the wrist remained. Further, this design of the glove doesn't fan out as much.

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Dr. Blight from Season 3's A Perfect World

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Dr. Blight from Season 3's The Guinea Pigs

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Dr. Blight from Season 3's The Guinea Pigs

In The New Adventures of Captain Planet (Seasons 4-6), Her gloves are more of a dark purple, but maintains the one band simplified design of Season 3. In this glove design, the opening fans out more near her elbow as opposed to the end of the glove like the Seasons 1-3 design.

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Dr. Blight from Season 4's Planeteers Under Glass

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Dr. Blight from Season 5's Hollywaste

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Dr. Blight from Season 6's 101 Mutations


Outfit

Similar to her gloves, Dr. Blight's most elaborate jumpsuit design is from Season 1 but is simplified over the course of of the series.

The color of Dr. Blight's jumpsuit fluctuates constantly throughout Season 1. In some episodes, it is closer to a magenta and in others it is closer to pink. One thing that is consistent is that Dr. Blight sports a belt with a circular buckle and a yellow pouch near her shoulder.

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's The Littlest Planeteer

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's Heat Wave

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's Don't Drink the Water

In Season 2, her jumpsuit becomes consistently pink but maintains the pouch and the circular buckle.

In Season 3 her outfit is simplified, as the pouch is removed and the circular buckle becomes a yellow square. The pink color is also softer.

During The New Adventures of Captain Planet (Seasons 4-6), her design follows that of Season 3's with its more simplified design and consistent pinks.

She does not wear her traditional outfit in her first appearance, Deadly Ransom. The radiation proof suit protects her from Duke Nukem's radioactivity, and yet in subsequent appearances she just wears her usual outfit regardless. In Tree of Life, Two Futures I and II, Greenhouse Planet, Little Crop of Horrors (in a night gown), Wheeler's Ark, and Who's Running The Show (during a commercial segment) she also wears a non traditional outfit.

Hair

Throughout most of Season 1, Dr. Blight's hair was a much lighter blond, nearly blending in with the hair covering her left eye.

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's The Littlest Planeteer

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's Polluting by Computer

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's Don't Drink the Water

However, there are a few episodes, like Two Futures and Mission to Save Earth, in which her hair is closer to the yellow of the later seasons.

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's Two Futures Part I

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's Mission to Save Earth Part I

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's Mission to Save Earth Part II

Dr. Blight's hair never fully reverts back to this light blond hair, as the series continues her hair remains this yellow color.

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Dr. Blight from Season 2's Send in The Clones

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Dr. Blight from Season 5's No Place Like Home

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Dr. Blight from Season 4's A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste Part I

However when she is depicted as older, as in A Good Bomb is Hard to Find, her hair is gray. In Dirty Politics, her hair remains yellow but the hair that covers the scar of this older version of Dr. Blight is more gray.

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An older Dr. Blight from Season 6's Dirty Politics

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An older Dr. Blight from Season 6's Dirty Politics

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Future Dr. Blight from Season 6's A Good Bomb Is Hard to Find

Eyes

The change in Dr. Blight's eyes is really only limited to the color of her eyes.

During Seasons 1-3 Dr. Blight's eyes are blue.

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Dr. Blight from Season 1's The Littlest Planeteer

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Dr. Blight from Season 2's Summit to Save Earth Part 2

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Dr. Blight from Season 2's The Ark

When the show went through a radical design change in Seasons 4-6, her eye color changed to green.

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Dr. Blight from Season 4's The Energy Vampire

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Dr. Blight from Season 5's Little Crop of Horrors

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Dr. Blight from Season 6's Frog Day Afternoon

Episode Appearances[]

(In order of appearance, spaced by season)

Quotes[]

Deadly Ransom[]

  • Nukem: Dr. Blight, that computer of yours is a menace!
    MAL: Why must we put up with this nuclear nitwit?
    Blight: MAL, baby, you be polite! Dr. Nukem's here to help us be wicked.
  • MAL: It's sheer genius to get nuclear waste by pretending you already have it! No one cheats, lies and tricks better than you do, Doctor.
    Blight: Oh, MAL, you say the sweetest things...!
  • Don't congratulate yourself yet, Planeteers. You're not safe, you've just prolonged your inevitable doom!
  • Captain Planet: What's going on? Where am I?
    Blight: Welcome to my parlour, said the spider to the fly.

The Littlest Planeteer[]

  • MAL: Ready for my next evil assignment Doctor Blight.
  • Dr. Blight: You do bad so well MAL, no wonder you're my favourite computer. Go ahead, analyze the air.
  • MAL: Air quality good.
  • Dr. Blight: gags I hate clean air, it makes people so healthy. But we'll soon have a remedy for that, won't we? My little microchip?.
  • MAL: You're the doctor, Doctor laughs
  • Dr. Blight: Now to work, although I really think of it as playtime. Are you ready my little Smoglet?.
  • MAL: I thought I was your little darling.
  • Dr. Blight: Oh you will always be Number 1 with me MAL. But if my theory is right, this little smog blob is going to create more damage than anything we've ever done. All it needs is a tasty morsel of carbon monoxide to complete our final test.
  • Dr. Blight: Here comes breakfast now. a bus drives past emitting fumes Diesel fuel a la school bus. Mmm! I love the smell of pollution!.

Heat Wave[]

  • You chip-head! She got away!
  • Mad at MAL after Linka's escape.
  • MAL: Doctor Blight, aren't you going to stick around and watch Hope Island go under?
    Blight: No need, my micro-chipper friend. It's already on the rocks! Just think of the disasters when I melt the polar ice caps. Today, Hope Island - tomorrow, the world!
  • Quick, MAL! Tell me everything I need to know about surfing!
    • Seeing a tidal wave coming towards her speedboat.
    • MAL: Two words Doctor!! WIPEOUT!!

An Inside Job[]

  • Blight: How cute, micro planeteers!.

Greenhouse Planet[]

  • Blight: I took the liberty of refueling your rocket. The mileage isn't great, but the pick-up's out of this world!
  • MAL: Doctor, your plant is leaking carbon dioxide into the air vents! It will put everyone in there to sleep.
    Blight: What a gas, MAL! Did you ever have one of those days where everything was working out perfectly?

Little Crop of Horrors[]

  • MAL: Your experiment is going quite well, Doctor!
    Blight: You can bet your sweet hard-drive it is! My smoke-oil formula from melaleuca trees will make mace-in-the-face seem like breath freshener!
  • Blight: Ah, there's nothing like nature run amok.
    MAL: Correction, Doctor. Melaleuca trees are not natural to this region. They were brought here in a feeble attempt to turn wetlands into real estate. Now the highly-flammable melaleuca trees are taking over 40 acres of everglades a day, and -
    Blight: Can the lecture, MAL! Just tell me - am I the greatest or what?
    MAL: Don't uncork the bubbly just yet, Snow Blight. There's a scientist developing a new plant growth-enhancing ray. Soon, all will hail this doctor the most brilliant.
    Blight: I've dealt with ancient wannabes in the past.
    MAL: Newsflash! This doctor is no fossil! Georgina Carver. Vibrant. Beautiful. And young. Mmm, I'd like to network with her.
    Blight: Can it, disk-head!
  • Blight: You know, I couldn't ask for a better-looking test site.
    MAL: Really? It looks denuded, deforested and desertified to me.
    Blight: Exactly! So when I realize Carver's - I mean, MY test plant, it'll solve the erosion problem around here. And the scientific journals will fall all over themselves to interview me! Now, to add the Blight touch...
    MAL: I tapped into Carver's computer. The enhancer ray should be used for only - repeat, only - three seconds.
    Blight: If seconds are good, minutes are better!
    MAL: Doctor, dear, I suggest you review the existing data.
    Blight: Are you wimping out on me, MAL?
    She turns the laser towards MAL.
    MAL: No, let 'er rip!
  • MAL: Do you realize we were seconds away from annihilation?
    Blight: Thrilling, wasn't it?
  • Blight: MAL, change my little black book, would you? Change Captain Planet to Captain Planted! Seeing that the vine is too powerful for Captain Planet.

101 Mutations[]

Dr. Blight is looking at a bunch of puppies in a cage.

Dr. Blight: Well, this batch is looking good!

MAL: Good? They're deformed! They're not malamutes, they're mala-mutants!

Dr. Blight: *scoffs* Who care about quality; I'm breeding for quantity! *chuckles*


Dr. Blight: Oh, Slasher! Lasher! Mommy's here! Want some yummies?

Slasher and Lasher attempt to attack her, but are restrained by rope.

Dr. Blight: *Laughs* Dumb animals!


Dr. Blight: Now to check on my puppy production line,

Dr. Blight begins counting the puppies in cages

Dr. Blight: ten puppies, fourteen puppies, fifteen, ONE!?

MAL: News flash doctor dearest, not all of your dilly dogs are popping out multiple mongrels

Dr. Blight: Well then she can starve, like the other non-producers.

MAL: What about the pup?

Dr. Blight: Toss it inside, and I'll use it later in one of my experiments.

MAL: BRRRR! She's cold!

A Good Bomb Is Hard to Find[]

Dr. Blight: Oh, don't get a bug in your operating system.

Dr. Blight turns a satellite dish on her new creation

Dr. Blight: I'm just about ready to unveil my most ingenious invention!

Dr. Blight pushes a red button

Dr. Blight: Tada!

MAL: It's about time.

Dr. Blight: That's exactly what it's about, time! I've created a new and improved Time Travel Transporter!

An older Dr. Blight from the future enters the scene through the Time Travel Transporter

(Future) Dr. Blight: What took you so long kid?

Gallery[]

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