Captain Carrot
Captain Carrot is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Roger Rodney Rabbit was an anthropomorphic rabbit who lived on the other-dimensional world of Earth-C that was an alternate Earth populated by sentient animals.
The renegade Monitor Nix Uotan came to restore Captain Carrot and his Zoo Crew teammates back to their normal selves. (Final Crisis v1 #7)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Captain Carrot came to be one of many superheroes from across the Multiverse that were called to the House of Heroes. Whilst there, he was part of the team that went to Earth-8 in search of the missing Monitor Nix Uotan. (The Multiversity v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Captain Carrot was a tall, bipedal mammalian creature that possessed the biological features of an anthropomorphic rabbit integrated with a classic superhero uniform. Captain Carrot possessed a bright orange fur coat covering the entirety of his heavily muscled and athletic torso, upper limbs, and lower limbs, with the explicit exception of his inner ears, muzzle, and stomach, which exhibited a lighter cream coloration. The facial structure featured two large, white rounded eyes with dark pupils, long vertical rabbit ears, a small pink nose with whiskers, and a prominent pair of large white front incisor teeth protruding from his upper jaw. For his uniform, Captain Carrot wore a bright yellow skin-tight bodysuit featuring a large, stylized orange carrot emblem emblazoned vertically across the chest. The uniform was completed with a thick blue belt wrapped around his waist, matching blue wristbands on each forearm, and a flowing blue cape attached to the shoulders that trailed down his back. (Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew v1 #1)
During his time on New Earth, Rodney fathered a child named Lucky with one of Zatanna's rabbits, who was still in her keeping. (Zatanna v2 #4)
Powers and abilities
Captain Carrot was born a member of an anthropomorphic animal race where Captain Carrot was a member of the lagomorph rabbit species. On a basic feats level, his standard form possessed ordinary animal limitations until Captain Carrot consumed a specialized carrot irradiated by cosmic meteor fragments. This consumption granted Captain Carrot immense physical attributes for a temporary duration of approximately twenty-four hours per carrot. Captain Carrot possessed immense superhuman strength, allowing him to lift heavy vehicles, bend solid steel bars, and leap incredible distances through the atmosphere that simulated actual flight. His physical durability was elevated to an elite tier, rendering him completely invulnerable to heavy blunt force trauma, high-velocity projectile impacts, and extreme falls. Additionally, Captain Carrot possessed heightened sensory perception native to his species, accompanied by human-level cognitive intelligence and tactical problem-solving skills that enabled him to coordinate operations with other superpowered entities. (Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew v1 #1)
Upon eating a 'cosmic carrot', Rodney was imbued with various superpowers, including limited invulnerability, superhuman strength, enhanced speed, stamina, hearing and vision, and the ability to make gigantic, powerful leaps.
After 24 hours or a period of extreme exertion, Captain Carrot's powers wear off and Rodney reverts to being normal again. As such, Rodney keeps a window-box full of carrots, plus his chunk of the meteorite.
In his alter ego, he worked as a writer and artist primarily on the comic Just'a Lotta Animals.
Notes
- Captain Carrot was created by Roy Thomas, Scott Shaw, and Gerry Conway where he made his first appearance in New Teen Titans v1 #16 (February, 1982).
Alternate Versions
- In Threshold v1 #2 (2013), a Prime Earth version of the character seemingly existed known as Captain K-Rot who was an extraterrestrial rabbit-like pilot. K'Rot leads Pig Iron, a humanoid swine who is second in command, and Sleen as their Captain on the planet Tolerance in the Tenebrian Dominion. Captain K'Rot is also trying to find what he needs and at the hear end of the 4 issue of Threshold the city was attacked by Superman enemy called Brainaic who is trying to take over the city and destroy it with his power. Captain K'Rot saw the slug master of the games to get Green Lantern and to be hunted. He saw a member of the group attacked and pulled the Green Slug heart out and killed him instantly and left. Captain K'rot said I should get back to the Zoo Crew Team. Captain K'Rot was seen again in the last issue of the series called The Hunted he was cast as a super solider on a space TV show. Captain K’Rot led his crew through the slums of Tolerance, tracking down Blue Beetle’s Reach scarab. He intercepted a gang attempting to sell the device, knocked them unconscious with swift strikes, and secured the scarab for analysis. He then delivered it to Jaime Reyes’s unconscious body and fled before guards could arrive. He ambushed Jediah Caul in a rundown safe house, dropping him unconscious beside the Blue Beetle scarab to misdirect The Hunted’s trackers. K’Rot then escaped into the shadowed streets, taunting his pursuers with a mocking salute before vanishing. K’Rot found himself recruited as both bounty hunter and contestant on The Hunted reality game. During a brutal chase, he led Pig-Iron and Sleen in subduing a Reach warrior who had been sheared from Jaime Reyes’s body. He wrestled the scarab away and delivered it to the show's broadcast chamber—drunkenly proclaiming himself 'King K’Rot'. Following a televised ambush gone wrong, K’Rot coordinated the team’s evacuation from a collapsing broadcast tower. He guided civilians to hiding spots while drunkly cackling, then fired smoke grenades to cover their retreat before hopping into a hijacked shuttle. Trapped inside a Brainiac-bottled Tolerance, K’Rot confronted hostile troops. He detached his cybernetic eye and used it as a signal beacon to warn the Resistance. He then snatched the Green Lantern energy battery from Bleeding Adonis’s vault—winking at the camera before disappearing through a teleport pad. K’Rot turned on his show-rivals in a drunken but legendary tirade, forcing broadcasters to reboot the signal before storming off the set carrying Pig-Iron by the scruff. He vanished again, yelling for a bar on Vega, leaving the resistance to scramble in his wake.
In other media
Television
- In Robot Chicken DC Comics Special, Captain Carrot made a guest cameo appearance in the setting of the animated television series In one sketch, the DC superheroes visit Earth-C for Captain Carrot's funeral. Green Lantern Hal Jordan could not help laughing at the funny animals though.
Appearances
- New Teen Titans v1: (1982)
- Final Crisis v1: (2009)
- The Multiversity v1: (2014)
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