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The Tina-Teers were a group of four people from each major ethnicity: Caucasian (Russian), Black (Jamaican), Italian-American, and Asian (Chinese). In the mid 1990's, when they were young adults, Mother Nature recruited them to combat pollution and entrusted them with four magic rings which grant the powers of fire, water, air, and dirt.
When the Tina-Teers combine their powers, they summon the environmental superheroine Planetina.
By the time they were middle aged, they became more concerned with making money than saving the planet and began to see Planetina as a product, eventually planing to sell her to an Arab who likes to eat the meat of baby endangered animals.
Morty Smith, who had fallen in love with Planetina, killed the Tina-Teers and stole their rings so that he and Planetina could be together.
Trivia[]
- They are a parody of the Planeteers, a group of five eco-warrior teenagers with element-powered rings granted to the by Gaia from cult 90's television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
- The Tina-Teer's different ethnic origins is a riff on the Planeteers' different national origins (Kwami from West Africa, with the power of Earth. Wheeler from New York City, USA, with the power of Fire. Linka from the Soviet Union/Eastern Europe, with the power of Wind. Gi from East/Southeast Asia, with the power of Water. And Mati, a Brazilian native with the power of Heart.).