All The Tropes

Captain Superhero: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Captain Superhero (view source)

Revision as of 16:09, 7 August 2014

45 bytes removed ,  9 years ago
m
revise quote template spacing
VisualWikitext
m (Mass update links)
m (revise quote template spacing)
Line 26:
* Another villain is [[Shazam|Captain Marvel]] foe Captain Nazi.
* The Captain from ''[[Nextwave]]''. A straight-up parody, as he kept trying to find things to put after "Captain" but kept encountering trouble with it. He went with "Captain ☠☠☠☠" at one point, but got his mouth washed out with soap by [[Captain America]].
{{quote| '''The Captain:''' I was Captain Power for a while. But then I got sued. Something about [[Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future|a cartoon]]. Then I changed it to [[Captain Ron]]. And got sued. Changed it to [[Church of Happyology|Captain L. Ron]]. Got beaten up by Tom Cruise. I was Captain Universe, but it turned out there was already a [[Captain Universe]]. Captain Ultra. There had been one of those. A plumber, would you believe. Broke into my apartment and left a horse's head in my water tank as a warning. Captain Avenger, taken. Captain Avalon, I had to give up(...)I tried Captain Marvel. There've been, like, eight [[Captain Marvel|Captain Marvels]]. One of them was an adult movie star with a lightning bolt on his...anyway. There was a Captain Kerosene. I mean, I was scraping the bottom of the barrel, and there was already a Captain Kerosene. That was my luck right there. I wasn't Captain Rectitude, but I was pretty much all of the other Captains at one time or another. So I gave up. I decided I was just The Captain. And then some marine-looking guy tracks me down and says, ''"I was The Captain First!"''. I had to pay him money in the end.}}
* ''[[Captain Confederacy]]''. Lampshaded in the backup strip "Saks and Violet", where comic artists in the Free City of New York briefly consider a "Captain NYC" character, and one asks why superheroes never seem to rise above Captain.
* Slightly averted in the Johnson-era satire ''SuperLBJ and the G.R.E.A.T. Society'', where Goldwater is depicted as "COLONEL America". (The real Goldwater's reserve rank was Major General.)
Line 34:
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[How To Be A Superhero]]'' has several. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the section explaining why superheroes shouldn't try to fund their career with bank loans:
{{quote| '''Superhero:''' Good morning. I want to apply for a loan.<br />
'''Bank official:''' Certainly sir. And what is your name?<br />
'''Superhero:''' Captain Whirlwind.<br />
'''Bank official:''' Ah, a captain. Well, we offer peferential loans for veterans. What part of the forces did you serve in?<br />
'''Superhero:''' Er ... well ... I didn't ... I'm not actually a real captain. }}
* [[Captain Underpants]]
Line 59:
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-01-07 This] ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' features Catalina suggesting a "Captain Superhero" rename of Cheerleadra.
{{quote| '''Susan:''' Cheerleadra... I can't ''believe'' they dubbed her Cheerleadra.<br />
'''Catalina:''' Yeah! That's, like, a ''sidekick's'' name! They should've called her "Captain" Something! '''''Captain Tiny Skirt!'''''<br />
'''Susan:''' <[[Beat]]><br />
'''Catalina:''' ...[[Defensive What|What?]] I don't have a lot to go on. }}
 
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1076453"