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== The Trope Codifier ==
* 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]]''.
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== [[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.
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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]] ==
* 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}}
== [[Film]] ==
▲* 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}}.
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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''.
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== [[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.
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* ''[[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/E07 Hook Man|of the same name]]. In life, he was a preacher who was executed for killing prostitutes with his hook, something he continued to do after his death.
* 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]] ==
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== [[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]] ==
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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: The Awakened]]'' is an utterly miserable guy with one of them. The punchline to his sordid story is the one time he had to go to the toilet...
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* 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]]s) call him out on the biological implausibility of such a thing.
* 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]] ==
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