Torg's blind date from early on in Sluggy Freelance. Mind you, that's just one of her... hum... less than ideal characteristics. The character is played by David Gyasi in the 2020 film Come Away as CJ (a reference to "Captain James"), a ruthless pawnbroker and crime lord who is also the son of the Mad Hatter, the paternal uncle of Alice and Peter Pan, and the paternal great-uncle of the Darling children, Wendy, Michael and John. Brunvand, Jan Harold (December 17, 2003). The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Both anthology films Campfire Tales (1991) and Campfire Tales (1997) feature a version of the Urban Legend about an escaped mental patient with a hook hand.

Live and Let Die. Tee Hee Johnson, The Dragon to Big Bad Kananga, has a vicious-looking pincer in lieu of a right hand. He threatens to cut James Bond's little finger with it during an interrogation. In fact, his whole arm is mechanical — he lost it to a caiman. Plunkett, John (14 May 2015). "Paloma Faith and Stanley Tucci to star in ITV's Peter Pan drama". theguardian.com. Guardian News & Media Limited . Retrieved 28 December 2019. Alongside other inflatable villains such as Lord Voldemort, the Queen of Hearts, Cruella de Vil, and The Child Catcher, Captain Hook made an appearance during the opening ceremony of the XXX Olympiad in London, representing one of the villains of British children's literature. 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. a b c d Mikkelson, David (2 December 1998). "The Hook:An escaped killer interrupts a young couple's make-out session". snopes.com . Retrieved 11 July 2019.

The Areas of My Expertise: According to John Hodgman, most (well, at least 9) of the U.S. presidents, though George W. Bush has a chainsaw instead. He also claims that in the original Hollywood script for the 2008 election, John McCain would win, Sarah Palin would remove her rubber hand and reveal that she had a hook hand as well as an assault rifle for a leg, become the de facto president, and change the title of President to "The American Huntress". Admit it, that sounds pretty cool.Jude Law portrays Captain Hook in Disney's live-action film Peter Pan & Wendy, which loosely adapts material from the 1953 animated film. [16] [17] Unlike the animated version, his hook is his right arm. In contrast to Barrie's original play and later Peter Pan adaptations, in which the same actor play Hook and Mr. Darling, the latter's role is performed by a different actor, Alan Tudyk. [18] In this version, Hook is revealed to be an old friend of Peter's and the first Lost Boy, but he left Neverland because he missed his mother. Years later, he returned to Neverland as a pirate, being rejected by Peter because he had become an adult. [19] Williams, David Park (1965). "Hook and Ahab: Barrie's Strange Satire on Melville". PMLA. 80 (5): 483–488. doi: 10.2307/460839. JSTOR 460839. S2CID 163344199. He is voiced by Chikao Ōhtsuka, who also portrayed the Disney incarnation of the character in Japanese media, particularly in Kingdom Hearts games.