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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.

Captain and well
On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.
The letters of the captain and alternate captains were moved to the player's right shoulder ; Detroit is the only team in the league that made this change ( the change was necessitated by the stitching of the sweater ), although the 2008 NHL All Star jerseys featured this as well, and the Captain and Alternate Captain's letters have switched back to the left shoulder as of the 2011 – 12 NHL Season.
In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.
Unlike the DC Universe, few of Marvel's 1940s characters have become major characters in modern publications ; Captain America is one exception, and to a lesser extent his contemporary, the Sub-Mariner, is as well, primarily because both of these characters were reintroduced to readers and to the Marvel Universe during the 1960s.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin was not well received by critics, but made $ 62 million worldwide.
The historical representation of Charlie Company's actions, led by its commander, Captain Ralph E. Goranson, was well maintained in the opening sequence.
A continuing story, it features the declining health of Yamato's Captain Okita ( Avatar in the Star Blazers dub ), and the transformation of the brash young orphan Susumu Kodai ( Derek Wildstar ) into a mature officer, as well as his budding romance with female crewmember Yuki Mori ( Nova ).
Straczynski and Netter hired many of the people from Captain Power, as well as hiring Ellison as a consultant and DiTillio as a story editor.
* This book was read aloud by the Captain ( played by Bob Keeshan ) on an early episode of Captain Kangaroo in the 1950s, as well as at least once in the 1960s or early 1970s.
On Star Trek: Voyager, the Prime Directive was used more than once as a plot device as well, and on more than one occasion, Captain Kathryn Janeway also applied the Prime Directive to a situation which clearly did not involve a pre-warp civilization.
The gentlemanly and popular Captain greets his " gallant crew " and compliments them on their politeness, saying that he returns the favour by never (" well, hardly ever ") using bad language, such as " a big, big D ".
The governor of the area, Brigadier Don Gabriel José de Zuloaga had prepared the port defenses very diligently, and Spanish troops were well commanded by Captain Don Francisco Saucedo.
Syldavians seem to be fond of mineral water, which does not go down well with the whisky-drinking Captain Haddock, one of Tintin's travelling companions.
The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo, featuring a family of sea explorers, was featured as well.
" Many of the openings featured non-celebrities, but some featured stars from TV shows, most of which broadcast over CBS, such as The Bob Newhart Show and One Day at a Time, as well as other characters with a connection to the network, including William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, dressed as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock ; characters from the Peanuts cartoons ; and Fred Rogers from Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.
Others have criticised Haddock's calling them " addle-pated lumps of anthracite ", but Hergé did not intend to be racist – Captain Haddock is well known for his frequently colourful language, which comprises almost 200 insults in total.
The senior staff of Voyager include Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ), who commands the ship ; Commander ( field commission ) Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ), her first officer, who joined from the Maquis ; Lt. Tuvok ( Tim Russ ) ( later rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander ), the Security / Tactical officer ; Ensign Harry Kim ( Garrett Wang ), the Operations Officer ; Lt JG ( junior grade ) ( field commission ) B ' Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ), Chief Engineer ; Lt. JG ( falling to ensign as a result of demotion but later rising in rank to full lieutenant ) Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ), Helm Officer ; as well as several noncommissioned personnel, the Emergency Medical Hologram ( Robert Picardo ) as the Chief Medical Officer, Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) as the ship's cook and later Voyager's ambassador, Kes ( Jennifer Lien ) as the EMH's Medical Assistant, and Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ), who plays several roles, generally in Astrometrics or Engineering.
As well as part of the title song ( including the origin of a stanza about Venus ) using the tune " Rosin the Bow ", two verses of " The Captain is a Father to His Crew " are sung, plus choral verses of " Jet Song ", and a complete and particularly beautiful version of " The Grand Canal ".
Although information obtained well after the fact supported Captain Herrick's statements about the inaccuracy of the later torpedo reports as well as the 1981 Herrick / Scheer conclusion about the inaccuracy of the first, indicating that there was no North Vietnamese attack that night, at the time U. S. authorities and all of the Maddox crew stated that they were convinced that an attack had taken place.
The version of Captain Hook who appears in the Disney animated film adaptation of Peter Pan is somewhat of a comic relief character, a spoiled fop prone to crying out for help as well as being called a codfish and having his clothes repeatedly ruined.
Actor Hans Conried set the tone for Disney's interpretation of Hook, as he was the original voice for the Captain, as well as, in the tradition of the stage play, Mr. Darling.
Captain Hook also appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meetable character, as well as part of the dark ride Peter Pan's Flight.
* Captain Lone Starr combines traits from Star Wars two male heroes, Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) and Han Solo ( Harrison Ford ), as well as Indiana Jones ( also Ford ).

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