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{{quote|''Watch out for The Hook!
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A character replaces their hand with a hook or similar object. [[Peter Pan|Bonus points if a Crocodile is somehow involved.]]
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* Captain Hook from the book, cartoon, film, and stage adaptations of ''[[Peter Pan]]'' by J.M. Barrie might be the [[Ur Example]]. He's certainly the [[Trope Codifier]], at least in the modern meme pool, and the primary reason for the trope's association with pirates. He has, of course, made appearances in all the various adaptations of ''Peter Pan'' (such as the Disney version, from which the page image comes). He also appears in various works inspired by or drawing on ''Peter Pan'', like:
** The version of Captain Hook in the ''[[Shrek]]'' movies, who plays piano in a bar despite his Hook Hand.▼
** Captain Hook in, well, ''[[Hook]]''.
*
== [[Advertising]] ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXOqKEsCkeM&ab_channel=memberberries This commercial] for the American Dairy Council; the pirates can't get at that cheese until their captain arrives because his "hook" is a cheese cutter.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[One Piece]]''
** Sir Crocodile; this itself is a reference to Captain Hook, who lost his hand to a crocodile. Crocodile himself seems to love the creatures, and how he lost his hand has yet to be explained. It is also bigger than his head and gold-plated. He can remove the gold sheath, which allows the hook to inject deadly scorpion venom on contact, and [[Crazy Prepared|there's a hidden knife blade if that hook is broken]].
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* Zellogi, one of the minor [[Shinigami]] from ''[[Death Note]]'', has a Hook Hand.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* [[Aquaman]] loses his hand to [[Piranha Problem|piranhas]] after the villain Charybdis steals his ability to control sea life, and replaces it by simply tying a harpoon head to the stump; later he'd be fitted with a more elegant hook that he could launch on command or swap out with a cybernetic hand. In the ''[[Justice League]]'' cartoon, he gets trapped under a rock, and is forced to cut it off himself in order to rescue his infant son.
* This was parodied in the first issue of ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'', where [[Batman|Robin]] has a nightmare about his hand being eaten by cockroaches and being replaced by a batarang hook thing. [[Self Deprecating Humor]] at work -- [[Peter David]] wrote both ''Aquaman'' when the hook was first introduced and ''Young Justice''. The other two characters' nightmares were [[Superboy]]'s jacket becoming fiery wings (David's ''[[Supergirl]]'') and [[The Flash|Impulse]] ricocheting from one unbalanced personality to another, before snarling "[[Hulk Speak|Impulse FLASH!]]" (David's ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'').
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* To replace the forearm he lost in ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' remake, Leatherface gets a hook hand (composed of a bone, belts, and a meat hook) in the comics set after the film.
* Lucien Machete in the Topps Comics ''[[Zorro]]'' series. He adapts his hook hand into a [[Swiss Army Weapon]].
* [[Howard the Duck (comics)|Howard the Duck]]'s enemy Dr. Bong lost his right arm in high school due to an accident with a prop guillotine at a school play. As a villain, he has replaced it with a giant clapper. By striking his bell-shaped helmet with the clapper, he can create destrucitve sonic waves to use offensively, and activate a teleportation device in his armor.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
* Hsu Tanaka in ''[[Hsu and Chan]]'' lost a hand in a swordfight with his lifelong rival Akira Yamamoto, and subsequently had it replaced by a simple prosthetic claw that can bend solid steel.▼
* Gaspar, the [[Evil Poacher|evil dolphin hunter]] in the "Dossier on Pluto" arc from ''[[Modesty Blaise (comic strip)|Modesty Blaise]]''.▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* Done jokingly in ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]''; after Snape {{spoiler|cuts off his hand during Voldemort's rebirth}}, he replaces it with a hook.
* In chapter 13 of ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk II]]'', [[Bubblegum Crisis|Lisa Vanette]] overhears a couple of gamers in a diner mocking the trope:
{{quote|"He's a half-elven pirate with a wooden leg..." said one; "And a hook for a head!" called out another as the table collapsed in laughter}}
== Films -- Animation ==▼
▲* The version of Captain Hook in the ''[[Shrek]]'' movies, who plays piano in a bar despite his Hook Hand.
* Gobber from the film version of ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' has interchangeable prosthetics for his lost hand, including axes, hammers and, if memory serves, a hook.
* The thug with a hook for a hand in ''[[Tangled]]'' who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. {{spoiler|His dream comes true in the end}}.
* ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]'', though in this case, Edward was an unfinished project who did not have hands to begin with, his creator dying of old age before he could give him them.
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* C. A. Rotwang, the mad scientist in Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction film ''[[Metropolis]]'', wears a fully functioning prosthesis in place of his lost hand.
* ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'': Dr. Strangelove (a.k.a. Merkwürdigliebe, the literal German translation of
** Dr. Strangelove was actually translated as Dr. Seltsam (Strange) in the
* [[Dr. No]] fitted himself with metal manual prostheses after Tongs cut off his hands.
* Claw, or Dr. Claw, from the 1999 ''[[Inspector Gadget (film)|Inspector Gadget]]'' movie. In the animated series, he just wears metal gloves.
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* The (mostly good) tow truck driver in ''[[Adventures in Babysitting]]'', right after Chris has told the kids a horror story about a killer with a hook.
* Moon, from the ''[[Martial Arts Movie|martial arts]]'' fantasy "Fox Legend". After a fox demon gnawed off her left hand, she had it replaced with a hook-like knife.
* ''Candyman'', ''Candyman'', ''Candyman'', ''Candyman'', ''[[Candyman]]''.{{context}}
** You fool, you've doomed us all! The only thing that could be worse would be invoking [[Freakazoid!|Candle Jack]] and
* In ''[[Puppet Master (film)|Puppet Master]]'', the puppet Blade has a tiny little hook for one hand. Befitting his name, the other hand is a little knife.
* ''[[Godzilla]]'' gives us Gigan, who has hooks in lieu of hands among his other [[Spikes of Villainy]]. In the final battle in ''Final Wars'', he replaces the hooks with [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaws]]
* A heroic example happens in the 1977 film ''[[Rolling Thunder]]'', where the main character (a former Vietnan POW) loses his hand and replaces it with a sharp set of hooks.
* Leatherface's brother Tech (alternatively known as Tinker) from ''Leatherface: [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]] III''.
* Sported by one of the killers in ''[[Lovers Lane]]''. The other two just have [[Hooks and Crooks|removable hooks]] that go over their hands.
* In ''[[Evil Dead]] II'', after he has to cut off his own hand, Ash attaches a chainsaw to the stump.
* Matthew, the [[Villain Protagonist]] of [[The Seventies]] [[Slasher]] ''[[Scream Bloody Murder]]''. Weirdly, despite Matthew's general [[Ax Crazy
* One of the bad guys in ''[[Surf Nazis Must Die]]'' is hook-handed and goes by the name Hook.
* ''[[Judge Dredd (film)|Judge Dredd]]''. One of the Angel Family, the cyborg known as Mean, has a hook at the end of his cybernetic arm.
* Despite the title, the killer in ''The Hook of Woodland Heights'' has [[Fork Fencing|a barbecue fork]] in place of one of his hands.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Folklore ==
* The hook-hand killer from [http://people.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend4.htm the famous urban legend].▼
== Gamebooks ==▼
* In Book 5 of the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' series, ''Shadows on the Sand'', during the palace prison escape path, you can meet "Hammerfist the Armourer", a huge weaponsmith with a hand replaced by a warhammer for both fighting and metalworking.▼
▲== Literature ==
* Fergus in the ''[[Outlander (novel)|Outlander]]'' series. He's not a pirate, but a [[Loveable Rogue]]. [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|Until he's not.]]
* In the ''[[James Bond (novel)|James Bond]]'' novels, Felix Leiter has a hook for a hand in all of his appearances after ''[[Live and Let Die (novel)|Live and Let Die]]'' when he was mauled by a shark.
* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', Count Olaf's associate {{spoiler|Fernald}} has two hooks for hands (and in fact is generally referred to by the narration as "the hook-handed man"). It is never told how he lost his hands, but since he works for a [[Pyromaniac]] (and has also few traits of it) he probably
* Panamon Creel from ''[[The Sword of Shannara Trilogy]]''.
* ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'': According to John Hodgman, most (well, at least
* Captain van [[Meaningful Name|Hoek]] in [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'' ends up with one of these.
* {{spoiler|Eugenides}} in Megan Whalen Turner's ''[[The Queen's Thief|King of Attolia]]'' uses a hook as a replacement for his right hand. It seems mostly useful in battle, since the inner edge is described as knife-sharp.
* In ''[[The Sharing Knife]]'', Dag lost his hand years ago, but commissioned a device for his arm that can have [[Swiss Army Appendage|any number of implements screwed into it]], including a hook with some pincers, a spork, a fake hand for public
* The title character in ''Dr. Adder'' has [[Power Fist|a humane cow-killer for a right arm]].
* ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'': The warrior caste of the K'Chain Che'Malle replaced their forearms with massive blades.
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* Hal from ''[[The Brotherband Chronicles]]'' makes one of these for Thorn, with interchangeable parts depending on what he wants to do.
* {{spoiler|Buster}} from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''.
{{quote|"[[Crowning Moment of Funny|I'M A MONSTEEEEEER!!!!]]"}}
* The Commandant from ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]''. He later got a hook hand on his ''other'' hand when Francis accidentally sliced it off with a saber.
* Leonard, the security guard with the [[Funny Afro|Big Giant Afro]], in ''[[Scrubs]]''. He's also a killer Poker player. The hair actually manages to be more noticeable than the
* Demetrios in ''The [[Young Indiana Jones]] Chronicles'' has one when he meets Indiana Jones for a second time in 1916. How he got it is never explained.
* Xavier, a recurring immortal in ''[[Highlander
* The ghost story in the second season of Nickelodeon's summer reality show ''Scaredy Camp'' involved a female counselor who was so astoundingly clumsy that she somehow managed to ''chop her own hand off while cooking'' and had it replaced with a hook. She felt so ashamed after the accident that she pushed her fiancé away, and it was the campers' task to reunite the two spirits.
* One of the Master's vampires in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has multiple blades where one of his hands used to be.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** [[Gentle Giant|Condo]] has one to replace the arm [[Mad Scientist|Solon]] has [[Organ Theft|stolen from him]] in the serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S13
** And Captain Pike from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S4
* As of season four, Drew from ''[[30
* ''[[Married... with Children]]'': When Kelly auditions for Miss Weenie Tot, all the judges had hooks. She aced the audition by saying she thought guys with hooks for hands were cool.
* The appropriately named "Hook Man" in the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode [[Supernatural (Anime)/Recap/S01
* According to the third-season episode "Quagmire" of ''[[The X-Files]]'', as a boy Fox Mulder of wanted to have a peg leg or hooks for hands because other people would underestimate him, thinking he could accomplish nothing more than bravely facing the adversity of his life.
== [[New Media]] ==
* Believe it or not, [[Rule 34]] and
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▲* Hsu Tanaka in ''[[Hsu and Chan]]'' lost a hand in a swordfight with his lifelong rival Akira Yamamoto, and subsequently had it replaced by a simple prosthetic claw that can bend solid steel.
▲* Believe it or not, [[Rule 34]] and [[Rule 34]] apply here, as well. Search carefully, tropers, and keep the [[Brain Bleach]] close at hand.
▲* Gaspar, the [[Evil Poacher|evil dolphin hunter]] in the "Dossier on Pluto" arc from ''[[Modesty Blaise (comic strip)|Modesty Blaise]]''.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
▲* The hook-hand killer from [http://people.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend4.htm the famous urban legend].
== [[Radio]] ==
* In the ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who]]'' audio adventure "[[Big Finish Doctor Who/Recap/043 Doctor Who and the Pirates|Doctor Who and the Pirates]]", Evelyn initially claims that Red Jasper has two hooks for hands. When Sally points out he would not be able to fire a pistol, Evelyn admits she was embellishing, but it is not clear if Jasper has one hook or none.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* Invoked in ''[[Deteriorata]]'' by the [[National Lampoon]], which reminds listeners to "Hire people with hooks".
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲=== Gamebooks ===
▲* In Book 5 of the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' series, ''Shadows on the Sand'', during the palace prison escape path, you can meet "Hammerfist the Armourer", a huge weaponsmith with a hand replaced by a warhammer for both fighting and metalworking.
=== Tabletop RPG ===
* ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' naturally has a place for the old [[Urban Legend]] slash horror story of the Hook-handed Killer. There are even at least two versions statted out; one of the minor ideas in the Urban Legends sourcebook is a maniac with some dash of supernatural power who embodies this, and there's also a [[Changeling: The Lost|True Fae]] version.
== [[Theatre]] ==
== Theater ==▼
* Captain Kadd from ''The Abduction of Figaro'' by [[PDQ Bach]] is a stereotypical pirate in all ways, including this one.
* Gahlok Va, from ''[[Bionicle]]'', has a hook in place of its left hand.
* Lord Sam Sinister from [[LEGO]] Adventurers, being a [[Classic Villain]], naturally wears one on his left hand.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* Two enemies in the ''[[Wario Land]]'' series, Captain Coin from ''[[Wario Land]] 4'' and Captain Skull from ''[[Wario World]]'', have a hook for at least one hand (the latter also has a cannon replacing the other hand).
* Dr. Loboto in ''[[Psychonauts]]''. Part hook. Part pepper grinder. Part of your [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] as Loboto involves using a trophy as a hook.
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* Cyan from the Piranas pirate gang in ''[[Urban Rivals]]'' cut off her own hand solely to affix a hook to it for pirate cred.
* Freed the [[Pirate]] from ''[[Battle Fantasia]]'' has a very large hook hand.
▲* Considering it isn't the real [[Peter Pan|Captain Hook]], this may deserve a different entry. In 2010's ''[[Epic Mickey]]'', the title Mousey hero fights an animatronic Captain Hook, corrupted by one of the Mad Doctor's machines. You can destroy him, send him to the obligatory Crocodile, or rescue "Tinkerbell" to go get [[Nightmare Fuel|Pete Pan]].
* ''[[Star Fox]]'' Adventures, [[Big Bad|General Scales]] uses two of them in place of a left hand.
* One NPC you meet in the Frogwares game ''[[Sherlock Holmes
** You get to help him by delivering a prosthetic instead, because you need the hook to solve a puzzle. It's that kind of game.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* Nazi science sneers at any example list which doesn't contain Colonel Haken from ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]''
* Bikke the pirate in ''[[8-
* Harvoc from ''[[Emergency Exit]]''. He is a ''mailman''.
* Torg's blind date from early on in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Mind you, that's just one of her... hum... less than ideal characteristics.
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* In ''[[Rusty and Co.]]'', Cleave-Hand the gnoll has a axe head for right hand. Until Roxy tears it off, at least.
* [[Pirate Girl|Captain Cherry]] from ''[[Skullkickers]]''.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160412074620/http://jimbenton.com/page5/files/41e730b3de799f5b6b42fffc66dbd66d-445.html Cap'n Forkfinger]'' by Jim Benton.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Hobbes from v3 of ''[[Open Blue]]'', who lost his hand while being tortured by the Inquisition.
* The kidnapper from the "The Basement" series of ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' videos has no hands. He replaced one with an axe; thus the character acquired the nickname Axe Hand.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': In "The Ember Island Players", the actor playing Jet has a pair of hook hands instead of Jet's hook swords.
* Dr. Hutchison from ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''. The hook is extremely prominent, and she uses it to scratch someting to announce herself, but she is generally a friendly warm person. However, this just accentuates her [[Stepford Smiler]] characteristics, and the viewer is constantly sure she's gonna start killing everyone. (According to the creator, the hook was due to the fact that they were [[Executive Meddling|told by executives]] that they needed a [[Affirmative Action Girl|female character with a good hook]]. They decided to take that a bit more literally than intended.)
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** Actually the chainsaw was his other hand.
* The Hook urban legend was used as the basis for an episode of ''[[Freaky Stories]]'' (and a [[Musical Episode]] at that).
* Roostre in ''[[12 oz.
* Gripper from the ''[[Rambo]]'' [[Animated Series]] has a big clamp in place of his right hand.
* Laser Pirate from ''[[Teamo Supremo]]'', who combines this trope with [[Laser Blade]].
* In the ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' episode "Johnny Goes to Camp", Johnny begins telling a campfire story about a man with a hook for a ''head''. The other campers (who are all [[Hollywood Nerd
* Lefty from ''[[John
* Captain Stickybeard from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' has a candy cane as Hook Hand.
* Heroic example from ''[[The Owl House]]''; sometime during the first [[Time Skip]], between seasons two and three, Eda loses her right hand (she claims later it's "a short story" but does not give the details) after the second time skip (four years later, in the finale) she has replaced it with a golden hook.
* The ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "You Scratch My Back" Enrique El Gancho, aka "Ricky the Hook", a Columbian enforcer and smuggler for [[The Cartel]], who got his nickname for this reason. Unfortunately, [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character| he was more or less a secondary villain of the episode]], with Catwoman being far more important to the plot.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has a hook for a hand.
* Motivational speaker Jeff Steinberg,
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShZBnqdb9AI Private investigator J.J. Armes.] (He even had an action figure!)
* '60s garage rock group The Barbarians had a one-armed drummer, Victor "Moulty" Moulton, who sported one of these.
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