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* 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 (comics)]].
{{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 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.)
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