Rubie's Official Pirate Hook Adult (One Size)

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Witchblade: A killer who targets fashion models has a prosthetic hook in place of his right hand. This is because he once tried to wield the Witchblade, which desiccated his arm as punishment since it only accepts female bearers.

Literary scholar Christopher Pittard traces the plot dynamics of the legend to Victorian literature, particularly the 1913 horror novel The Lodger by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. [6] Though the two narratives have little in common, he notes that both are built upon a "threefold relationship of crime, dirt, and chance... Such a reading also implies a reconsideration of the historical trajectory of the urban legend, usually read as a product of postmodernist consumer culture." [7] Interpretations [ edit ] Douglas in Mosquito Squadron lost his left hand in combat, and has it replaced with a hook prosthetic. The first time he appears with it, he throws around pirate slang and jokes how his sister and the main character are "shark food". The story is thought to date from at least the mid-1950s, and gained significant attention when it was reprinted in the advice column Dear Abby in 1960. [2] It has since become a morality archetype in popular culture, and has been referenced in various horror films. To replace the forearm he lost in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) remake, Leatherface gets a hook hand (composed of a bone, belts, and a meat hook) in the comics set after the film. The Commandant from Malcolm in the Middle. He later got a hook hand on his other hand when Francis accidentally sliced it off with a saber.The High Priest of Tyr has a hook replacing his right hand. Fitting, as in Norse Mythology Tyr lost his hand to Fenrir. This might be self-mutilation as part of the creed. According to the (2007 non- canon) novel Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth, Captain Hook was the illegitimate son of a nobleman, "Lord B", and an unnamed woman Hook has never met (implied to be the Queen). Disowned by Lord B., James Matthew is reared by a Shakespearean actress he calls Aunt Emily, and unwillingly attends Eton College as an Oppidan scholar, where he is an avid reader of Shakespeare and Shelley, and his motto is "Knowledge is Power". He describes many things as first-rate – "Topping Swank", and punctuates his sentences with "The End". He is very interested in the French Revolution.

Played for laughs on an episode of M*A*S*H. While Frank was asleep, Hawkeye and Trapper put his arm in a cast with a retractor on the end as a hook. In The Simpsons short film Welcome to the Club, Captain Hook (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) appears along with other Disney Villains trying to convince Lisa Simpson how fun it is to be a villain. [15]

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Captain Hook from Peter Pan might be the Ur-Example. He's definitely a major reason for this trope's piratical associations.

The story has also appeared in various television programs; " The Pest House" (1998), the fourteenth episode of season 2 of the TV series Millennium, opens with a murder similar to that of the urban legend. Season 1, episode 7 of the TV show Supernatural features a hookman as the villain. It is the first story in the first episode of Mostly True Stories?: Urban Legends Revealed. The Canadian animated anthology series Freaky Stories (1997) has a segment in its first season based on the Hook, set in the 1950s. [20] The story is referenced in "The Slumber Party" episode of Designing Women. NBC Hopes 'Peter Pan Live' Can Fly to New Heights". Variety. 26 November 2014 . Retrieved 5 December 2014. Captain Hook is one of the Disney Villains who have a main focus in the direct-to-video anthology film Once Upon a Halloween. Ellis, Bill (1987). "Why Are Verbatim Transcripts of Legends Necessary?". In G. Bennett, P. Smith and J. Widdowson (ed.). Perspectives on Contemporary Legend II. Sheffield Acad. Press. ISBN 978-1-850-75118-2.Five Nights at Freddy's: Foxy has his right hand replaced with a hook, in keeping with his pirate theme. In many versions of the story, the killer is typically portrayed as a faceless, silhouetted old man wearing a raincoat and rain hat that conceals most of his features, especially his face. Xavier, a recurring immortal in Highlander: The Series, loses his hand in his first fight with Duncan, and replaces it with a set of hooks. In the sequel Return to Never Land (2002), Hook mistakes Wendy's daughter Jane for Wendy and uses her as bait to lure Peter Pan to his death. After this fails, he promises to take Jane home if she will help him find the island's treasure, and "not to harm a single hair on Peter Pan's head". This last promise is kept when he pulls a single hair from Peter's head, declaring "the rest of him is mine". At the end of the film, he and the crew are pursued into the distance by a giant octopus.

Truly's dad in Absolutely Truly has a hook for a hand on his first prosthetic arm. It tends to scare Pippa until her siblings convince her to compare it to Captain Hook's hook. Luigi's Mansion 3 has Captain Fishook, a ghost pirate shark who has one of these in place of his right fin. It's also his main weapon during his battle. Reif, Alex (8 September 2022). "TV Recap: "The Simpsons: Welcome to the Club" Brings Disney Villains to Springfield". LaughingPlace.com . Retrieved 9 September 2022. Nazi science sneers at any example list which doesn't contain Colonel Haken from Irregular Webcomic!. There's also the Sea Dog in the Supers arc, a pirate-themed humanoid canine.Armstrong, Kent Bryon (2003). Slasher Films: An International Filmography, 1960 Through 2001. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-41462-8. Most notably, Cyril Ritchard played Captain Hook in the 1954 musical adaptation which starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan. George Rose played the role in the 1977 revival which featured Sandy Duncan as Pan. De Caro, Frank (2008). An Anthology of American Folktales and Legends. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-765-62129-0.