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[[Flaming Carrot]] is a [[Superhero]] created by [[Bob Burden]]. The character first appeared in ''Visions'' #1 (1979), the yearly Atlanta Fantasy Fair publication. He made regular appearances there to 1987. Burden self-published the one-shot ''Flaming Carrot Comics'' #1 (1981). But the real launch of the character took place when Dave Sims of Aardvark Vanaheim decided to hire Burden. Launching ''Flaming Carrot Comics'' as a regular series. The series changed publishers a couple of times, running for a total of 31 issues (May, 1984- October, 1994).
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* [[Almighty Janitor]]: He's a vagrant; when not righting wrongs, he doesn't do much except drink corn whiskey with other bums and read comic books.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]
* [[
* [[Chess with Death]]: Lampooned on the cover of #2 of the comic:
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] - The title character himself.▼
{{quote|'''Flaming Carrot:''' : Yes, Mr. Death ... I'll play you a game! But not chess!!! Bah ... Fooey! My game is... ''wiffle ball!!!''}}
:* This was an edited second version, by the way, in the original, his game was [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lawn_darts Jarts]. The writer felt not enough readers would know what Jarts was, so it was changed.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]
* [[Crazy Prepared]]
** More troperly, [[Subverted Trope|subverted]], as one of The Flaming Carrot's greatest powers is his Zen Stupidity.
* [[Crossover]]
** And with [[Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman]], a fellow
** On occasion, there have also been crossovers with the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]].
** Flaming Carrot also appeared in the [[Normalman]]/
* [[Dada Comics]]
* [[Darker and Edgier]]
* [[Dirty Commies]]
* [[Fauxreigner]]
* [[Guile Hero]]: While he is strong enough to bend steel bars, he pretty much has little to help him but his wits.
* [[Kavorka Man]] - The ladies love him.▼
* [[
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: The only weapon he regularly uses is a pogo stick stored in the hollow lower part of his mask, for chasing crooks. Otherwise he uses whatever is handy, like a vacuum cleaner to capture ghosts, an umbrella handle to slide down ropes, and the like.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]
▲* [[The Ditz]]: Even his official introduction describes him as "quintessentially retarded".
* [[Super-Hero Origin]]
▲* [[Superhero]] - a low rent one.
** In at least one issue his origin is given as having been a normal person who read
▲* [[Super-Hero Origin]] - His ''lack'' of one has been [https://web.archive.org/web/20111107130901/http://www.flamingcarrot.com/FC/iCarrot/iCarrot1.html noted]. There have been some hints that he's actually Jim Morrison, but they're not very serious. Incidentally, that's probably the strongest argument in its favor.
▲** In at least one issue his origin is given as having been a normal person who read 500 comic books at a sitting, on a bet, and went insane.
▲* [[In a Single Bound]] - [[I Love Nuclear Power|Nuclear Powered]] ''Pogo Stick''.
* [[Useless Accessory]]: He wears flippers all the time. Why? [[Cloudcuckoolander|In case he needs to swim of course.]]
* [[Verbal Tic]]
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]
* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]
* [[You Cloned Hitler]]
{{reflist}}
[[Category:US Canadian Comics]]
[[Category:The Seventies]]
[[Category:The Eighties]]
▲[[Category:Flaming Carrot]]
[[Category:Comic Books]]
[[Category:Comic Books of the 1980s]]
[[Category:Comic Books of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Comic Books of the 2000s]]
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