Talk:Captain Nemo

message: Where is it said that Captain Nemo is a 'dispossed Indian rajah'? In the book his exact nature is left an open-ended mystery, right? -- Gaurav 15:51, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: In the first book, yes. In the sequel, though, he does the full death-bed biography bit. There's a link to the relevant part of the book in the article now. —Paul A 01:48, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)

text: Good point, but not necessarily completely explicit; this might very well be a figure of style to express his support of the Indian cause, quite similarly to what he says about Greece, rather that some litteral. But an interesting clue indeed. Rama 12:57, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  disposed Indian rajah 

message: The two actor images :Image:Nemo-sharif.jpg and :Image:Nemo-shah.jpg don't appear for me using Firefox, but they do appear on other pages. What's up? Anárion 12:30, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: For the sharif image: the image page calls http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Nemo-sharif.jpg but it is actually at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/300px-Nemo-sharif.jpg -- the second URL is from the Omar Sharif article. Anárion 12:34, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: This is most puzzling ! I uploaded these images yesterday and they were displayed normally, but today I cannot seem to see them either. I had a similar problem yesterday with the Khaled_Kelkal article. I will try to see what the problem is... Thank you for your vigilence and interest ! Rama 13:56, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text:  UPDATE : well-informed sources from Wikipedia told me that this is a site-wide problem, which is currently studied by the development team. Rama 14:01, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Home port of Osmk ? Where does this information come from ? I though that the Nautilus party had renounced all links with humanity and were based in a desert island (Mystery Island)... Rama 22:22, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Omsk 

message: I disagree that the song Nemo by Nightwish is about captain Nemo, as the page says. It is about being "nobody", as the latin meaning of the word is. I could be wrong, though so I won't touch it now until I have read the lyrics again.
-Anonymous Poster
* The song's lyrics contain the verse "Nemo sailing home" which shows clearly that the Nemo of the song has something to do with sea. Also, words like compass ("...without an honest heart as compass...") are commonly used by sailors and captains.
* "Nemo Sailing home" sounds more like the story of Odysseus, who gave "Nemo"/"No one" as his name to the cyclops Polyphemus. Agree with the original poster that it the song is about being a nobody and not that particular character.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.96.204.3 (talk) 12:41, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nightwish 

message: I removed this from Trivia:
:creating inconsistency with the first part (why did professor Arronax did not notice Nemo Hindu-looks, at the very least?)
How is Nemo described in the 20,000 Leagues?
A high-caste sea-washed Indian could be unsurprising for a Frenchman, I think.
Here are Nemo's cousins and uncle.
--Error 00:54, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed "inconsistencies"

message: Why is Nemo in the category of fictional anarchists? There is nothing about this in the text. Supersheep 23:00, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He respects no state, though you could argue that his submarine and his hidden base are his hidden "country". However he doesn't seem to carry his ship democratically, not even as much as bucaneers did. --Error 00:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Anarchy?

message: "His name is the Latin for "nobody" or "no one", an allusion to the answer given by Odysseus to Polyphemus in the Odyssey." Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Odysseus written by the blind, *Greek* poet, Homer? Every version of the Odyssey that I have seen so far says "No One" or "Nobody", not "Nemo". Also, the Latin language was extremely young when Homer would have been able to write The Odyssey. We're talking 8th, 9th century BC. And since Odysseus was a Greek coming back from a war with the Trojans that at that point was already concidered ancient history; why would Homer, a Greek, have Odysseus (an ancient greek to Homer's time) give the cyclops a name from a language that barely existed in Homer's time and didn't exist yet in Odysseus's time. I find this connection to be tenuous at best. -- Lucy 08:03, September 14, 2006
I've removed this unsourced speculation from the article.  If this is mentioned by some reputable critic, then it can be returned to the article once sourced. Gamaliel 23:30, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a word in Greek which is the exact counter-part of Nemo. Oυτις. It means the exact same thing, it is "no one" rendered in the form of a name. I'm pretty sure that the Latin "Nemo" originates from the Odyssey's "Oυτις", being simply translations of eachother.  --IronMaidenRocks 18:42, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin Odyssey? 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Nemo-shah.jpg

message: Shouldn't he also be listed as a Byronic hero?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.116.106.154 (talk) 03:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hero

message: is that accurate?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.43.141.176 (talk) 02:41, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, for at least one good reason: you don't "become gay". It's not a choice (no matter what Jerry Falwell & the right-wing anti-gay loons say.  Trekphiler (talk) 19:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I became gay. You wanna police my experience? 69.122.244.46 (talk) 23:27, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  he became gay? 

message: Verne's original intention was to make Nemo a Polish, not an Indian, freedom fighter, a rebel against Russian oppressors. Hetzel wouldn't have it, because his books did a brisk biz in Russia and he didn't want to offend his readers. So Verne left his 20,000 Leagues under the sea and made him an Great Guy in Mysterious Island. Shouldn't this be in the article? Tom129.93.17.106 (talk) 22:29, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Originally he was supposed to be a Polish revolutionary

message: Nemo was modeled after Nana Saheb, adopted son of the last Peshwa of Pune, Bajirao II. Nana Saheb was the leader of the War of Independence 1857, quoting a Times of India leader
 Yogesh Khandke (talk) 08:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Nemo was modeled after Nana Saheb, adopted son of the last Peshwa of Pune, Bajirao II.

message: Captain Nemo was clearly a Byronic hero, NOT an anti-hero. An anti-hero would be someone like Woody Allen. Captain Nemo had ALL the characteristics of a traditional hero save that his goals were not consistent with the ideals of the viewpoint characters. 
JohnFMayer (talk) 05:23, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Captain Nemo Was Not an Anti-Hero 

message: I'd have tacked this on to one of the existing threads, but the relevant ones are so old.
There was an essay, reprinted as an appendix to the Philip José Farmer novel, The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, entitled "A Submersible Subterfuge." It makes a good case that Mysterious Island should not be considered canon. Would that be appropriate for the article (with citation, of course)? --Tbrittreid (talk) 00:17, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The discrepancies 

message: In Mysterious Island, Nemo's real name is given as Prince Dakkar. Where do you get "Armitage Ranjit"? Tom  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.222.198.12 (talk) 22:17, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nemo's Name 

message: While its true there was a winter storm named Nemo, this is a naming convention only used by The Weather Channel. Listing it could potentially add to the confusion that these winter storm names are somehow a universally agreed upon standard. --Newton21989 (talk) 00:29, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: The Weather Channel Naming

message: I have a portrait of an old man in a foul weather suit smoking a pipe. I am assuming it is Captain Nemo and I need help finding out who this is. It was painted and signed by R. Tolan. Can anyone help me?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.254.57 (talk) 04:08, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrait 

message: "He is said to have died of old age, on board the Nautilus, at Dakkar Grotto on Lincoln Island in the South Pacific. Funereal rites were administered by Cyrus SmithItalic text, one of the castaways protected by Nemo himself, and the vessel was then submerged in the waters of the grotto."
The character's name was Captain Cyrus HARDING, not Smith.
"Throughout the same book, Nemo acts as an agent of Divine Providence, as when the sailor Pencroft laments the absence of tobacco, and a hunting party discover a plant that the young naturalist HarbertItalic text identifies as such."
The character's name was HERBERT, not Harbert.
MrsTigercat (talk) 21:19, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  correction of typographical error 

message: In The Mysterious Island, is told that Captain Nemo lived in Europe  since he was 10 years and that he returned to India when he was 30 ad after that is told that he returned to Bundelkund in 1849  The mysterious island200.0.25.182 (talk) 16:30, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nemo's born date is 1819 

message: Where does it specifically mention Nemo's connection to Tipu Sahib? I have Mysterious Island in front of me, and though it does say he is the son of a Raja, it does not mention the Mysore Wars, that I can see. Where is that reference from?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:62D5:7D00:8E9:8756:AF1F:EF95 (talk) 23:47, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bigography Question... 

message: Where did you have the pronunciation? It's pronounced "Naymoh" in French, how come that you have a detailed pronunciation in English?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.91.51.235 (talk) 22:34, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation