One of the Master's vampires in Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has multiple blades where one of his hands used to be. In The Hobbit, the orc chief Azog loses his left hand in a fight with Thorin and has it replaced with a prosthetic consisting of a metal rod impaled through the stump and protruding through his elbow, with a twisted claw at the end. A clue to Ravello's true identity is given when one of the Lost Boys asks Ravello his name: he thinks for a while as if trying to remember, and finally says the name his mother gave him was Crichton, but that names given by mothers don't mean anything.

Alongside other inflatable villains such as Lord Voldemort, the Queen of Hearts, Cruella de Vil, and The Child Catcher, Captain Hook made an appearance during the opening ceremony of the XXX Olympiad in London, representing one of the villains of British children's literature. Lillian wears this as part of her pirate costume in the Ready Jet Go! episode "That's One Gigantic Pumpkin, Jet Propulsion!". Frank Thomas Obituary". The Free Library. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017 . Retrieved 1 August 2009. And tiny tears and patches in the clothes give a real rough and rugged feel. You can tell Sherahbim put so much work into creating the perfect pirate costumes.Plunkett, John (14 May 2015). "Paloma Faith and Stanley Tucci to star in ITV's Peter Pan drama". theguardian.com. Guardian News & Media Limited . Retrieved 28 December 2019. In Yellowbeard, Moon loses his left hand when Yellowbeard slams the lid of a treasure chest on it. He has it replaced with a hook. Moon, from the martial arts fantasy "Fox Legend". After a fox demon gnawed off her left hand, she had it replaced with a hook-like knife. The new Vengeance, ex-cop Kowalski, lost his hand to a lunatic (the last heir to an ancient curse, naturally) who ate it to tide him over until he could finish him off for dinner. He would get a pincer hook thing, but after finally encountering Ghost Rider again in the desert, he became a Spirit of Vengeance and his hook became a more familiar (but angular-y) shape. Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives. He was played by real-life double amputee Harold Russell, a drill sergeant during the war who lost his hands in a training accident.

The story has also appeared in various television programs; " The Pest House" (1998), the fourteenth episode of season 2 of the TV series Millennium, opens with a murder similar to that of the urban legend. Season 1, episode 7 of the TV show Supernatural features a hookman as the villain. It is the first story in the first episode of Mostly True Stories?: Urban Legends Revealed. The Canadian animated anthology series Freaky Stories (1997) has a segment in its first season based on the Hook, set in the 1950s. [20] The story is referenced in "The Slumber Party" episode of Designing Women. Castenado from Garth Ennis' Just a Pilgrim has two hooks, to match his two peg legs and the two missing eyes covered by eyepatches and cement him as the ultimate pirate. Calibos in Clash of the Titans (1981). After Perseus cuts off his left hand, it is replaced by a short trident. Ashfall Trilogy has this happen to Alex and Darla in a rare non-villainous, non-pirate example. The hook is actually what shakes her out of a deep depression. The Commandant from Malcolm in the Middle. He later got a hook hand on his other hand when Francis accidentally sliced it off with a saber.

Treasure Adventure Game: The main character has one, fitting in the nautical theme of the game. It acts both as a weapon and as a tool for hanging off certain parts of the scenery. Knife for the Ladies: One of the townsfolk who joins Jarrod's posse to hunt down Ramon has a hook for hand. This is never commented upon. Despite the title, the killer in The Hook Of Woodland Heights has a barbecue fork in place of one of his hands. Torg's blind date from early on in Sluggy Freelance. Mind you, that's just one of her... hum... less than ideal characteristics. According to the (2007 non- canon) novel Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth, Captain Hook was the illegitimate son of a nobleman, "Lord B", and an unnamed woman Hook has never met (implied to be the Queen). Disowned by Lord B., James Matthew is reared by a Shakespearean actress he calls Aunt Emily, and unwillingly attends Eton College as an Oppidan scholar, where he is an avid reader of Shakespeare and Shelley, and his motto is "Knowledge is Power". He describes many things as first-rate – "Topping Swank", and punctuates his sentences with "The End". He is very interested in the French Revolution.

Both anthology films Campfire Tales (1991) and Campfire Tales (1997) feature a version of the Urban Legend about an escaped mental patient with a hook hand.

Actor Hans Conried set the tone and pathos for Disney's interpretation of Hook, as he was the original voice for the Captain, as well as, in the tradition of the stage play, Mr. Darling, and performed live-action reference for the two characters. [13] In subsequent Disney animation, Hook is voiced by Corey Burton. The High Priest of Tyr has a hook replacing his right hand. Fitting, as in Norse Mythology Tyr lost his hand to Fenrir. This might be self-mutilation as part of the creed. The Hookman is also used as a plot device in season 3, episode 5 of Community: " Horror Fiction in Seven Easy Steps". Truly's dad in Absolutely Truly has a hook for a hand on his first prosthetic arm. It tends to scare Pippa until her siblings convince her to compare it to Captain Hook's hook. Find sources: "The Hook"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)