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* Zellogi, one of the minor [[Shinigami]] from ''[[Death Note]]'', has a Hook Hand.
* 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}}▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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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]] ==
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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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* 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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