Captain Carrot resigns as well, as do Sergeant Colon, Sergeant Detritus and Corporal Angua.

Several foundlings appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld: most notably Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson ( found as a toddler among the ruins of a caravan party attacked by bandits, surrounded by the bodies of the adults ; Carrot was adopted and raised by the dwarfs who discovered him, and was surprised to learn at age 16-and 6ft 6in tall-that he was not a dwarf ; mounting evidence suggests that Carrot is the scion of the deposed Ankh-Morpork royal family, but he himself has suppressed this as much as possible, considering the role of police captain to be a preferable one in which to safeguard his city and keep order ), also Tomjohn ( rightful heir to the throne of Lancre, rescued from his father's killer by loyal servants, entrusted to the local witches and given to travelling actors to raise ; Tomjohn eventually returns to the kingdom, but does not wish to rule it, preferring to remain an actor ) and Keith ( The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents-ironically, Malicia, obsessed with fairytales, is certain that this makes him likely to be a prince, but Keith explains that it is common in the city to abandon babies outside the Guilds where they are likely to receive care and training in a trade ).

The 1980s series Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew presented the parallel Earth of " Earth-C-Minus ," a world populated by funny animal superheroes that paralleled the mainstream DC Universe.

With the assistance of their new forensics expert dwarf Cheery Littlebottom, Commander Vimes and Captain Carrot slowly unravel the mystery.

It is the task of the Night Watch – Captain Vimes, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Nobbs, and new volunteer Carrot Ironfoundersson – to stop them, with some help from the Librarian of the Unseen University, an orangutan trying to get the stolen book back.

Leonard of Quirm, Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson, and Rincewind are selected for the trip.

Captain Carrot attempts to arrest the Horde, at which point the Horde arms the explosives.

The Throne remains untouched despite being allegedly made of gold, but Vetinari reveals to Captain Carrot that it is actually merely gold foil over now-rotten-through wood.

They are small, matted and dirty enough to sprout fungi and grasses on their hides ( and seem to relate to soil as trolls relate to rock ), and act as street-cleaners in cities like Ankh-Morpork ; as Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson puts it, they " pick up this, pick up that, maybe bang it against the wall until it stops struggling ..." In the case of at least Stoolie, if not every gnoll on the Discworld, there seems to be a tendency to drop the vowels in words, reflecting a croaking sort of voice.

* In Captain Carrot and the Final Ark, Ra's is parodied as Rash Al Paca, an alpaca who plans to save the environment from " animalkind " by increasing global warming and flooding the planet.

Hence, Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson is accepted as a dwarf, despite being a human.

# redirect Ankh-Morpork City Watch # Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson

Following his promotion to Commander of the City Watch ( and becoming Sir Samuel Vimes as a consequence ), the role of Captain of the Watch is given to Carrot.

Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!

These six issues were eventually published in three double-sized issues as Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew in the Oz-Wonderland War Trilogy, with the indicia title Oz-Wonderland Wars ( plural ).

In October 2007 a three-issue series called " Captain Carrot and the Final Ark " featured the Zoo Crew picking up from the Teen Titans storyline.

Indeed, several characters from these series made cameos during the run of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew.

In Teen Titans vol. 3, # 30-31 ( December 2005-January 2006 ), the Zoo Crew made their first return appearance in some time, in stories presented as excerpts from a comic book story " Whatever Happened to Captain Carrot?

Fastback has disappeared, Pig-Iron and Rubberduck operate as underground superheroes against the current anti-superhero law and Captain Carrot is in self-imposed retirement after the death of his partner, Carrie Carrot, at the hands ( or paws ) of Armordillo and Frogzilla.

The story is a parody of the grim and gritty trend most often identified with late 1980s to early 1990s superhero comics, and it includes references to several of DC's own series ( such as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, including the cover of the Captain Carrot comic, which bears a resemblance to the cover of Watchmen # 1 ).

Acting independently of them, he confronts Rodney Rabbit and bullies him into becoming Captain Carrot again.

The others are disappointed when Abra refuses to rejoin the team, but rejoice when American Eagle brings Captain Carrot back to them.

Spencer was quiet for a moment longer, then he said, `` There is nothing I want to say, Captain ''.

`` What is the next step, Captain ''??

`` Of course, I agree with the Captain '', Gansevoort said thoughtfully, `` but the conspiracy is ferocious and desperate.

Here is how Captain Arthur Hastings first describes Poirot:

* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

* 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.

That these settlers survived at all is due in large measure to Captain John Smith, a pirate turned gentleman.

In 2007, Geoffrey Robertson QC alleged that Phillip's remains are no longer in St Nicholas Church, Bathampton and have been lost: "... Captain Arthur Phillip is not where the ledger stone says he is: it may be that he is buried somewhere outside, it may simply be that he is simply lost.

But Philia insists that, even though she is in love with Hero, she must honor her contract with the Captain, for " that is the way of a courtesan.

Philia comes out of the house, and, thinking that Senex is the Captain, offers herself up to him.

Philia's betrothal to the Captain is obviously nullified by the unexpected revelation that he's her brother.

* The title is referenced in Marvel One-Shots A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer and is included on the Captain America: The First Avenger Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases.

Another " big push " is planned, and Captain Blackadder's one goal is to avoid being killed, so he plots ways to get out of it, but his schemes always land him back in the trenches.

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.

Fuller and Captain B. H. Liddell Hart have often been associated with the development of blitzkrieg, though this is a matter of controversy.

Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation Throne of Blood makes the character into Capitan Miki ( played by Minoru Chiaki ), slain by Macbeth's equivalent ( Captain Washizu ) when his wife explains that she is with child.

The team leader (# 1 ) is the Commanding Officer and is always a Navy Commander, who may be promoted to Captain mid-tour if approved for Captain by the selection board.

His alter ego, Captain Clegg, also makes appearances, where he is mentioned to have had a brief romantic liaison with future teammate Fanny Hill.

La Forge once impressed Captain Jean-Luc Picard by staying up all night to fix a shuttle craft that Picard mentioned had a superficial problem.

Arion is mentioned in Act 1, scene ii of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, where the Captain reassures Viola that her brother may still be alive after the shipwreck, for " like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves.

Another debate that brought Raeder's name into the news had started in January 1956 when Captain Karl-Adolf Zenker of the Bundesmarine gave a speech before a group of cadets, which he had mentioned he shown to Raeder in advance for his approval, during which Zenker argued not only for the innocence of Raeder and Dönitz whom Zenker called officers just doing their duty in "... a war thrust upon them ", but also called Raeder and Dönitz great heroes who should be role models when the cadets became officers.

The Areois travelled about, devoting their whole time to feasting, dancing ( the chief dance of the women being the grossly indecent Timorodee mentioned by Captain Cook ), and debauchery, varied by elaborate realistic stage presentments of the lives and loves of gods and legendary heroes.

* Star Trek Generations ( 1994 ): Palmdale, although not mentioned by name in the film, was the filming location of the scenes where Captain Jean Luc Picard and Captain James T. Kirk battle with Dr. Tolian Soran on the surface of Veridian III.

Captain Nick Nelson and other " notable " Noankers are mentioned in his book Draggerman's Haul.

Wichita is mentioned in the songs " Wichita Skyline " by Shawn Colvin, " Seven Nation Army " by The White Stripes, and the song, " Captain Bobby Stout " by local musician Jerry Hahn.

He served in North Africa with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry as a Captain ( Acting Major ), where he was mentioned in despatches.

John Draper is specifically mentioned as " Captain Crunch " in one scene in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, in which a hacker mentions that " Cap ' n Crunch broke into the national phone system with a plastic whistle.

Captain Gustavo Duron, in charge of a 75mm battery, followed the orders but shot around the tower, avoiding it and protecting the monument, as mentioned by local historian Herminio Martínez.

Somewhat later, TV21 mentioned a second " super-sub " entering service with the WASPs — that is, until it is stolen by a Mysteron agent as part of the plot of a Captain Scarlet story!

Marlborough was an officer in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars and fought in the Second Boer War as a Staff Captain in the Imperial Yeomanry and as Assistant Military Secretary to Lord Roberts ; he was mentioned in despatches.

* It has appeared in the musical version of Peter Pan with Mary Martin and is danced by Captain Hook and his band of pirates, illustrating the above mentioned occasional association with swordfights vis à vis the metaphor of pirates.

Captain Vancouver recorded in his journal " Here we met about fifty Indians, in their canoes, who conducted themselves with the greatest decorum and civility, presenting us with many cooked fish, and undressed, of the sort already mentioned as resembling the smelt.

As previously mentioned, Collins probably is best known for his role as the Reverend Eric Camden in more than 200 episodes of the television series 7th Heaven, though he also notably portrayed Captain / Commander Willard Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Peace is mentioned by name in the Sherlock Holmes short story, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client and in Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.

During World War II, Joseph served as a Captain in the Royal Artillery, and suffered a minor wound during German shelling of his company's headquarters in Italy, as well as being mentioned in despatches.

Lymington is mentioned in The Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat.

Dorothy is a standard character, having at least a cameo role in thirteen of the fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum ( while she did not appear at all in The Marvelous Land of Oz, she is mentioned several times in that story, as it was her actions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that led to the events in the former ) and is at least a frequent figure in the nineteen that followed by author Ruth Plumly Thompson, getting at least a cameo in all her books except Captain Salt in Oz ( in which neither Oz nor any of its inhabitants appear, though they are mentioned ).

At about 1, 500 feet ( 460 m ) above ground level, First Officer Price mentioned to Captain Connors that he saw lightning in one of the clouds ahead.

In the spinoff series Torchwood, in the first episode of the second series, another time loop is mentioned, where main character Captain Jack Harkness and his partner John Hart were trapped in a two-week time loop for five years.

and Vril Dox are mentioned several times, although not shown, in Mystery in Space ( 2006 ) featuring Captain Comet.