Folklorists have interpreted the long history of this legend in many ways. Alan Dundes's Freudian interpretation explains the hook as a phallic symbol and its amputation as a symbolic castration. [8] Find sources: "The Hook"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) 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. Fireworks: Celebrate the Magic • Disney Enchantment • Disney Movie Magic • Fantasy in the Sky • Happily Ever After • Ignite the Dream: A Nighttime Spectacular of Magic and Light • Magic, Music and Mayhem • The Magic, the Memories and You • Remember... Dreams Come True • World of Color Brunvand, Jan Harold (December 17, 2003). The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

The story is thought to date from at least the mid-1950s, and gained significant attention when it was reprinted in the advice column Dear Abby in 1960. [2] It has since become a morality archetype in popular culture, and has been referenced in various horror films. Nazi science sneers at any example list which doesn't contain Colonel Haken from Irregular Webcomic!. There's also the Sea Dog in the Supers arc, a pirate-themed humanoid canine. Kroll, Justin (25 September 2020). "Yara Shahidi to Play Tinkerbell in Disney's Live-Action 'Peter Pan' ". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 27 September 2020. She will join Jude Law, who is set to play Captain Hook, and Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson, who will play Peter and Wendy, respectively. The Outsiders once fought a villain named Nunchuku, who instead of hands, had, well... what do you expect? He was arguably one of the less silly opponents The Outsiders faced. 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.Torg's blind date from early on in Sluggy Freelance. Mind you, that's just one of her... hum... less than ideal characteristics.

In the sequel Return to Never Land (2002), Hook mistakes Wendy's daughter Jane for Wendy and uses her as bait to lure Peter Pan to his death. After this fails, he promises to take Jane home if she will help him find the island's treasure, and "not to harm a single hair on Peter Pan's head". This last promise is kept when he pulls a single hair from Peter's head, declaring "the rest of him is mine". At the end of the film, he and the crew are pursued into the distance by a giant octopus. The story has also received a resurgence in popularity on the internet following a retelling of it on 4chan that became an internet meme, due to it being written in broken English with several humorous errors, most notably its abrupt ending where the entire twist ending is rendered simply as the phrase "Man door hand hook car door" which has since become what this version of the story is referred to as. [22] See also [ edit ] Captain Hook appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meetable character along with Mr. Smee in Adventureland. He also appears as a figure during the dark ride Peter Pan's Flight. Brain Dead 13: Fritz, the psychotic, diminutive minion who chases Lance throughout the game, has TWO hooks for hands.

The origins of the Hook legend are not entirely known, though, according to folklorist and historian Jan Harold Brunvand, the story began to circulate some time in the 1950s in the United States. [1] According to Brunvand in The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings, the story had become widespread amongst American teenagers by 1959, and continued to expand into the 1960s. [4] Snopes writer David Mikkelson has speculated that the legend might have roots in real-life lovers' lane murders, such as the 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders. [2] 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. Kroll, Justin (7 July 2020). "Jude Law to Play Captain Hook in Disney's Live-Action 'Peter Pan' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved 7 July 2020.

Brunvand, Jan Harold (2001). Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1-59884-720-8. The character is played by David Gyasi in the 2020 film Come Away as CJ (a reference to "Captain James"), a ruthless pawnbroker and crime lord who is also the son of the Mad Hatter, the paternal uncle of Alice and Peter Pan, and the paternal great-uncle of the Darling children, Wendy, Michael and John.Christopher Walken plays Captain Hook in the musical production Peter Pan Live! which was broadcast live by NBC in December 2014. Compared to the 1954 musical on which it was based, this show sought to "strengthen and deepen" the portrayal of Captain Hook. [30] Hook and his pirate crew perform songs from the original musical, such as "Hook's Tango", in addition to new songs such as "Vengeance" and "Only Pretend". [31] Peter and Wendy (2015 TV film) [ edit ] The first episode of TLC's Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed, hosted by Natasha Henstridge (now available here ), examines the plausibility of the " Serial Killer with a hook for a hand who stalks couples at Make-Out Point" tale, among other myths. Phil, The Mentor in Pirate Club. He didn't actually lose his hand to a killer whale as he might tell you; he's been a garbage man for decades and accidentally got his hand caught in the mechanism. However, being an old guy with a hook for a hand causes him to be idolized by the Pirate Club. 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. Trevor J. Blank; Lynne S. McNeill (2018). "Introduction: Fear Has No Face: Creepypasta as Digital Legendry". Slender Man Is Coming Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet. Louisville, Colorado: Utah State University Press. pp.12, 13. ISBN 9781607327813.