The original version of Hawaii Five-O has an episode in which the villain of the week is a vengeful sniper with hooks for hands; he was played by J. J. Armes, who is listed in Real Life below. The remake of the series remade the episode, with Peter Weller playing the character, along with a stand-in for closeups. The Hook was one of the New Blood heroes introduced during the Bloodlines Crisis Crossover event in 1993. He was a hook-handed Vietnam vet who gained the power to cut through anything with his hook. Harper, Jim (2004). Legacy of Blood: A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies. Critical Vision. ISBN 978-1-900-48639-2. Bikke the pirate in 8-Bit Theater is under the distinct impression that a grim, rusted hook takes the place of one of his hands; this is pointedly not the case. He later gets one that fits over his hand, but it keeps falling off. Perhaps it's one of those cheap plastic ones that you get in those old pirate costumes they sold in plastic bags. A relatively minor example in the Aubrey-Maturin series, wherein midshipman William Reade has a hook to replace the hand he lost in combat. Reade views it in good humor, at one point saying that he might have a disadvantage in passing for lieutenant as he was a tripod instead of a quadruped.

Despite the title, the killer in The Hook Of Woodland Heights has a barbecue fork in place of one of his hands. Peter Pan (2003). Jason Isaacs plays the only Captain Hook who's actually shown as having an ugly scarred stump of his right arm, before we see him strapping on the heavy complicated leather harness that holds his hook in place. Last Rites have skeletal zombie enemies whose left hands have been grafted with sharp hooks, which they'll use to slice you up.

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Wario: Two enemies, 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). Calibos in Clash of the Titans (1981). After Perseus cuts off his left hand, it is replaced by a short trident. In the James Bond novels, Felix Leiter has a hook for a hand in all of his appearances after Live and Let Die when he was mauled by a shark. The Areas of My Expertise: According to John Hodgman, most (well, at least 9) of the U.S. presidents, though George W. Bush has a chainsaw instead. He also claims that in the original Hollywood script for the 2008 election, John McCain would win, Sarah Palin would remove her rubber hand and reveal that she had a hook hand as well as an assault rifle for a leg, become the de facto president, and change the title of President to "The American Huntress". Admit it, that sounds pretty cool. The Hookman is also used as a plot device in season 3, episode 5 of Community: " Horror Fiction in Seven Easy Steps".

In the Kingdom Keepers series book Disney at Dawn (2008), Captain Hook was snooping around Ariel's Grotto, having been sent by the Overtakers in investigate the meaning in Jess playing songs over the park speakers.

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In The Sharing Knife, Dag lost his hand years ago, but commissioned a device for his arm that can have any number of implements screwed into it, including a hook with some pincers, a spork, a fake hand for public appearences, and even a specially modified bow.

In many versions of the story, the killer is typically portrayed as a faceless, silhouetted old man wearing a raincoat and rain hat that conceals most of his features, especially his face. Captain Hook is one of the Disney Villains who have a main focus in the direct-to-video anthology film Once Upon a Halloween. The Secret of Monkey Island: Meathook has both hands replaced by hooks. He paints in his spare time. 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. To replace the forearm he lost in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) remake, Leatherface gets a hook hand (composed of a bone, belts, and a meat hook) in the comics set after the film.Coming in first place is pirate royalty we’ve got this clothing CC set. Of course, there can only be one pirate King or Queen. Brunvand, Jan Harold (2004). Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32613-0.