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Captain Atom
Captain Atom (Allen Adam / Nathaniel Adam) is a nuclear-powered DC superhero co-created by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko at Charlton Comics in Space Adventures #33, later the template for Watchmen's Doctor Manhattan.
Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart, stage name of Don Van Vliet (1941–2010), American avant-garde rock musician and painter who led the Magic Band; Trout Mask Replica (1969), produced by Frank Zappa, defined his surreal blues-fusion style.
Captain Beyond
Captain Beyond is an American hard rock/stoner rock band formed in Los Angeles in the early 1970s by ex-members of Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, and Johnny Winter And; debut album Captain Beyond (1972), later Dawn Explosion, reformed by Bobby Caldwell in 2013.
Captain Blood (1935 film)
Captain Blood (1935) is a Warner Bros. swashbuckler directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Basil Rathbone, adapted from Rafael Sabatini's novel; Flynn's first lead and Oscar-nominated Best Picture.
Captain Boomerang
Captain Boomerang (George "Digger" Harkness) is a DC Comics Australian supervillain, a Flash Rogues member and Suicide Squad recruit, created by Broome and Infantino, debuting in Flash #117 (1960), played by Jai Courtney in film.
Captain Britain
Captain Britain is a Marvel Comics superhero created in 1976 for Captain Britain Weekly, the first comic made for the British market by Marvel. Brian Braddock, empowered by Merlyn, later joined Excalibur and the multiversal Captain Britain Corps.
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels is an American animated mystery comedy produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC from 1977 to 1980, about three teenage detectives and their caveman superhero.
Captain Cold
Captain Cold (Leonard Snart) is a DC Comics supervillain and leader of the Rogues, the Flash's oldest enemies, debuting in Showcase #8 (1957); he wields a cold gun that slows matter to absolute zero.
Captain Comet
Captain Comet (Adam Blake), DC Comics mutant superhero created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, debuting in Strange Adventures #9 (June 1951); born 100,000 years ahead of his time, predating the X-Men by 12 years.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is Louis de Bernieres's 1994 wartime novel set on Cephalonia under Italian occupation, about Pelagia and Captain Antonio Corelli; it won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, sold 1.5 million copies, and was filmed in 2001 with Nicolas Cage.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a 2001 British-American-French war romance directed by John Madden, starring Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, and Christian Bale, adapted from Louis de Bernières's 1994 novel.
Captain EO
Captain EO is a 17-minute 3D musical sci-fi film starring Michael Jackson, directed by Francis Ford Coppola with George Lucas as executive producer, shown at Disney parks from 1986 and revived 2010-2015 after Jackson's death.
Captain Fantastic (film)
Captain Fantastic is a 2016 American comedy-drama written and directed by Matt Ross, starring Viggo Mortensen as Ben Cash, an off-grid father of six in Washington state whose wife's death forces the family back into society; Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Directing winner.
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) is Elton John's ninth studio album, an autobiographical concept album with Bernie Taupin about their early London years; the first album ever to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, featuring Someone Saved My Life Tonight.
Captain Flint
Captain Flint is the fictional pirate captain of the Walrus in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883). Dead before the story begins, he buried the treasure, drew the map Jim finds, and is Long John Silver's parrot's namesake.
Captain Haddock
Captain Archibald Haddock is the hot-tempered, bearded sea captain in Hergé's Tintin comics, debuting in The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941); famous for invented expletives like 'blistering barnacles', his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock, and Marlinspike Hall.
Captain Hook
Captain Hook is J.M. Barrie's pirate arch-enemy of Peter Pan, captain of the Jolly Roger, first appearing in the 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy; an Eton-educated villain whose iron hook, Darling-actor doubling, and Disney, Spielberg, and 2023 adaptations define him.
Captain Hook (musician)
Captain Hook is the performance name of Reshef Harari, an Israeli psytrance producer and DJ, born in Tel Aviv in 1979, who has released four albums on Iboga Records.
Captain Kangaroo
Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on CBS from 1955, created by and starring Bob Keeshan as a grandfatherly character.
Captain Marvel (film)
Captain Marvel (2019), directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, is the 21st MCU film and the first led by a female superhero, starring Brie Larson as Carol Danvers; it grossed $1.13 billion worldwide.
Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) is Marvel Comics' original Captain Marvel, a Kree officer created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan in 1967, hero of the Nega-Bands and Protector of the Universe, who died of cancer in the 1982 graphic novel The Death of Captain Marvel.
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics)
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) is a name held by several Marvel superheroes, chiefly the Kree Mar-Vell (1968–1982) and Carol Danvers, who claimed it in 2012 after eras as Ms. Marvel, Binary, and Warbird; Marvel's 1960s trademark forced DC to title its rival book Shazam!
Captain Marvel Jr.
Captain Marvel Jr. (Freddy Freeman, later Shazam Jr.) is a DC Comics teenage superhero debuting in Whiz Comics #25 (1941), a disabled newsboy maimed by Captain Nazi who transforms by saying "Captain Marvel" and inspired Elvis Presley's look.
Captain Miller (film)
Captain Miller is a 2024 Tamil action-adventure film directed by Arun Matheswaran, starring Dhanush as a British Indian Army soldier turned outlaw in 1930s British India; released 12 January 2024, it earned ₹104.79 crore worldwide in 12 days.
Captain Morgan
Captain Morgan is a spiced rum brand named after privateer Henry Morgan, introduced by Seagram's in 1944 in Jamaica and owned by Diageo since 2000/2001. Flagship Original Spiced is 35% ABV Virgin Islands rum with over 11 million cases sold yearly in 100+ countries.
Captain N: The Game Master
Captain N: The Game Master is a 1989–1991 DIC Entertainment NBC cartoon (34 episodes) in which teenager Kevin Keene is pulled into Videoland to lead Mega Man, Kid Icarus, and Simon Belmont against Mother Brain; also known as Captain Nintendo.
Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo (Capitaine Nemo, Prince Dakkar) is Jules Verne's fictional submarine commander of the Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869-70) and The Mysterious Island, originally conceived as a Polish aristocrat before being revealed as an Indian prince.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Pantaleón y las visitadoras) is a 1973 comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa in which a model army officer organizes a clandestine prostitution service in the Peruvian Amazon.
Captain Phasma
Captain Phasma is a Star Wars sequel trilogy character, a chromium-armored First Order stormtrooper commander played by Gwendoline Christie in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, expanded in Dawson's Phasma novel and Marvel's Captain Phasma comic.
Captain Phillips (film)
Captain Phillips (2013) is Paul Greengrass's biographical thriller starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi about the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking; it earned six Oscar nominations and grossed $218.8 million worldwide.