Captain Hook

Captain Hook is an antagonist and a member of The Villains.

## Character Information

### Personality

Sadistic, vain, vengeful, selfish, manipulative, cunning, menacing, persuasive, elegant, devious, cruel, hot-tempered, bloodthirsty, power-hungry, pompous, treacherous, sneaky, ruthless, suave, charismatic, violent, evil, dishonest, argumentative, egotistical, sarcastic, abusive, childish, cowardly, intelligent, murderous, greedy, tragic, arrogant, careless, tricky, callous, wrathful, obsessive, conniving, bumblin

### Nicknames

Hook
Codfish (Referred to by Peter Pan)

## **BIOGRAPHY**

It is revealed that Hook had a rather miserable childhood. As a young buccaneer, he was trained in the ways of a piracy by his mother, Mama Hook, so that he would one day become a feared captain, much like her. However, according to Mama Hook, James was a pitiful pirate during his training and seemed hopeless for many years. It was also revealed that James was heavily ostracized as a child. These factors all seem to play a part in Captain Hook's cruelty.

In *The Pirate Fairy*, James mentions that he was educated at Eton College in England, and it is also revealed that he met Smee after losing his original crew and becoming stranded in the middle of the sea, to which Smee comes in and rescues him.

Following his meeting with Smee, James came into the possession of *Jolly Roger*, of which he would command as captain with Mr. Smee as his first mate. With a new crew at his disposal, James would plunder and pillage the seas with pride. He would eventually cross paths with Peter Pan, a young boy from Neverland with the ability to fly. As a "childish prank", Peter cut off James' left hand and fed it to an enormous crocodile. James would replace his lost hand with a hook, but the crocodile enjoyed the taste of the captain so well that it followed the *Jolly Roger* ever since, hoping to devour the rest of James. Infuriated by the loss of his hand and the threat of the crocodile, a vengeful James—now known as Captain Hook—vowed to never leave Neverland's shores until he has killed Peter Pan.

Outside of Neverland, he is also a member of The Villains.

## **APPEARANCE**

Captain Hook is a thin man with long black hair, a large hooked nose, a thin black handlebar mustache that angles upward sharply, and a large chin. He is usually clean-shaven, but sometimes (even in the same movie) he sports a stubble beard which makes his chin look gray. He wears a frilly white cravat underneath a red coat with gold lining and red cuffs. Each of these cuffs sports two gold cufflinks. Beneath his coat, it was a pink turtleneck with white frills in each sleeves. He also wears an orange sash over his right shoulder that holds his sword scabbard at his left hip. He wears rose pants and white knee-high socks, as well as black boots with a pink circle decorating each one. The tongues of his boots are enormous, reaching halfway up his shins. He wears a large crimson hat with a huge lavender feather stuck in it. He carries a rapier with a gold hilt and guard as a weapon. He has a hook on his left-hand, made of silver or gold depending on the occasion.

## **PERSONALITY**

Captain Hook is emotionally vulnerable. Due to this, he has made a fool of himself quite often. On the contrary, he typically acts as a menacing and cunning villain who never gives up on his pursuits particularly his desire to get revenge on Peter Pan. He is also a murderous character, almost to an extreme extent, as at one point in the film, he callously shot and killed one of his crew members because of his annoying singing. Later in the film, he viciously threw one of his pirates overboard using only his hook. While comically and occasionally bumbling, Hook is a force to be reckoned with, both physically and mentally. With his temper extremely fragile, those around him are often at risk, with Peter Pan being the only individual truly skilled enough to take on the villainous captain.

Hook is extremely intelligent and manipulative and aided by his charming and suave personality. He is able to trick anyone even those who are more than aware that he is not to be trusted. Captain Hook also seems to have a tendency to find loopholes in agreements or contracts, or show obedience to the letter of the law, rather than the spirit of the law. For instance, when Hook was made to promise that he would not lay a finger or a hook on Peter Pan, he agreed, but instead he planted a bomb disguised as a present in Peter's hideout.

## **TRIVIA**

* Captain Hook was listed #24 in Empire Magazine's The 50 Best Animated Movie Characters, stating as his stroke of genius the gibbering panic that overtakes the otherwise snarling bad guy whenever the sound of ticking comes near.
* Hans Conried (Hook's previous VA) also provided voice and live-action-reference for George Darling, remaining faithful to the theatrical tradition that Captain Hook and George Darling are portrayed by the same actor.
	+ Chikao Ōtsuka, Hook's Japanese voice actor, also voiced the character in various adaptations of *Peter Pan* outside of Disney. The only exception was in *Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep*, *Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance*, and *Kingdom Hearts III*, due to Otsuka voicing another character in those games.
* Captain Hook is briefly mentioned in the *DuckTales* episode "All Ducks on Deck", when the Phantom Blot is comparing himself to other villains: "Compared to me, Doctor Doom is a wimp, and Captain Hook is about as dangerous as a plastic coat hanger!"
* Captain Hook is briefly mentioned in the *Marsupilami* episode "Thorn O Plenty", when Eduardo the jaguar is being attack by a crocodile.