And tiny tears and patches in the clothes give a real rough and rugged feel. You can tell Sherahbim put so much work into creating the perfect pirate costumes. The Hookman is also used as a plot device in season 3, episode 5 of Community: " Horror Fiction in Seven Easy Steps".

Trevor J. Blank; Lynne S. McNeill (2018). "Introduction: Fear Has No Face: Creepypasta as Digital Legendry". Slender Man Is Coming Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet. Louisville, Colorado: Utah State University Press. pp.12, 13. ISBN 9781607327813. 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. Fireworks: Celebrate the Magic • Disney Enchantment • Disney Movie Magic • Fantasy in the Sky • Happily Ever After • Ignite the Dream: A Nighttime Spectacular of Magic and Light • Magic, Music and Mayhem • The Magic, the Memories and You • Remember... Dreams Come True • World of Color In the James Bond novels, Felix Leiter has a hook for a hand in all of his appearances after Live and Let Die when he was mauled by a shark. Armstrong, Kent Bryon (2003). Slasher Films: An International Filmography, 1960 Through 2001. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-41462-8.

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Beard Blade has a pirate boss named Barnacle "Hook" Barley, who has hooks for both hands. Which he'll use to slice you up throughout the fight. Brunvand, Jan Harold (1994). The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31208-9. The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night: The Sky Pirate captain Skabb has one on his right arm, which he can launch and reel in through a built-in hookshot and which serves as his main weapon in the first phase of his boss battle. In The Hobbit, the orc chief Azog loses his left hand in a fight with Thorin and has it replaced with a prosthetic consisting of a metal rod impaled through the stump and protruding through his elbow, with a twisted claw at the end. Calibos in Clash of the Titans (1981). After Perseus cuts off his left hand, it is replaced by a short trident.

Bikke the pirate in 8-Bit Theater is under the distinct impression that a grim, rusted hook takes the place of one of his hands; this is pointedly not the case. He later gets one that fits over his hand, but it keeps falling off. Perhaps it's one of those cheap plastic ones that you get in those old pirate costumes they sold in plastic bags. De Caro, Frank (2008). An Anthology of American Folktales and Legends. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-765-62129-0.Brain Dead 13: Fritz, the psychotic, diminutive minion who chases Lance throughout the game, has TWO hooks for hands. a b "Captain Hook: Character History". Disney Archives. Archived from the original on 8 August 2009 . Retrieved 1 August 2009. Urban Rivals: Cyan from the Piranas pirate gang cut off her own hand solely to affix a hook to it for pirate cred. In The Sharing Knife, Dag lost his hand years ago, but commissioned a device for his arm that can have any number of implements screwed into it, including a hook with some pincers, a spork, a fake hand for public appearences, and even a specially modified bow.

An unusual biological variant in The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution with the Northclaw, a raptor-like carnivorous dinosaur which, while possessing three clawed fingers on its left hand like a typical theropod's, sports a single massive hooked claw on its right, which it uses to disembowel prey. In the Descendants franchise novels Isle of the Lost (2015) and its sequel Rise of the Isle of the Lost (2017), Captain Hook appears as one of the villains who live imprisoned on the titular island. He is also the father of Harriet (eldest daughter), Harry (middle son), and CJ (youngest daughter). In the play, it is implied that Hook attended Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, [7] [8] and his final words are "Floreat Etona", Eton's motto. In the novel, Hook's last words are a similarly upper-class "bad form", in disapproval of the way Peter Pan beats him by throwing him overboard. An alternate version of Captain Hook appears as a playable character in the video game Disney Mirrorverse. [25] Attractions and live events [ edit ] Disney's version of Captain Hook as a meetable character in the Disney Parks. Brunvand, Jan Harold (December 17, 2003). The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.Kroll, Justin (7 July 2020). "Jude Law to Play Captain Hook in Disney's Live-Action 'Peter Pan' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved 7 July 2020.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Foxy has his right hand replaced with a hook, in keeping with his pirate theme.Captain Hook from Peter Pan might be the Ur-Example. He's definitely a major reason for this trope's piratical associations. The Hook urban legend was used as the basis for an episode of Freaky Stories (and a Musical Episode at that).