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In DC Comics, there is an endless omniverse separated into countless multiverses. Each reality is its own thing, with some having just minor differences – perhaps Eric Stoltz starred in Back to the Future on Earth-98 – while others are vastly different – Abraham Lincoln assassinated John Wilkes Booth on Earth-3. One of the oddest Earths is Earth-26, an Earth that runs on cartoon physics and has Captain Carrot and his super team of animals as its heroes.
Captain Carrot and his team have been appearing in comics since 1982, but it was the super rabbit’s appearance in Multiversity that really brought them back to the public consciousness, and now that he is appearing in Infinite Frontier even more eyes are on the caped critter. And with Captain Carrot getting more attention, it’s a great time to learn all about him.
10 He Is Originally From Earth-C
A character who came into existence before Crisis on Infinite Earths, while Captain Carrot was a version of Superman, he was the leader of the Zoo Crew, a team filled with analogs for the Avengers; Pig-Iron instead of Iron Man, Yankee Poodle for Captain America, and Alley-Kat-Abra for Scarlet Witch are examples.
Earth-C was a world of anthropomorphized talking animals that worked on cartoon physics and had numerous cities and people based on real places and humans, like Gnu York, Follywood, Califurnia, and Marlin Brando. As the setup of Earth-C suggests, the Zoo Crew adventures were usually lighthearted fun.
9 He Shares A Name With Another Famous Rabbit
While the world knows him as Captain Carrot, the super-strong hero in yellow and red lives his civilian life as Rodney Rabbit, the writer and artist of the comic book Just’a Lotta Animals, which tells the adventures of a superhero team not unlike the Justice League of America.
But when Captain Carrot was first introduced, he had a different name; Roger Rabbit. To avoid any confusion, DC decided to have the hero start going by his middle name Rodney right around the time Disney released the hit film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
8 He Is A Lot Like Superman
The analog for Superman on Earth-26, and Earth-C before that, Captain Carrot shares many of the same powers as the Man of Steel, including superstrength and invulnerability. In early adventures – just like Superman – Captain Carrot couldn’t fly but could leap great distances. This appears to have changed over time.
Captain Carrot gained his powers because of Superman. When the Last Son of Krypton crossed through an energy barrier created by a strange meteor, he found himself on Earth-C. Along with Superman, shards of the meteor fell through the barrier and landed in Rodney Rabbit’s garden window box, irradiating his carrots. When Rodney ate one of the irradiated carrots, he gained his powers.
7 He Is Very Different From Superman
Unlike Superman, Captain Carrot was born on his Earth. He is also missing a number of Superman’s better-known powers, including heat vision. Also unlike Superman, Captain Carrot’s powers aren’t created by an internal source, but by an external one. While Superman absorbs yellow sun radiation to power himself, Captain Carrot needs his special irradiated carrots to have his powers. Not unlike Hourman, Captain Carrot’s powers only last for twenty-four hours at the most. The more he uses them, the faster his powers will run out, which is why Captain Carrot carries some of his “cosmic carrots” in his suit.
6 He And The Zoo Crew Were Spared In The Crisis
While DC Comics had made the decision to erase the multiverse with Crisis on Infinite Earths, the company just couldn’t find the willingness to do away with Captain Carrot and the residents of Earth-C. The decision was made to spare Earth-C and claim that it was not part of the multiverse, but actually an alternate dimension. In the miniseries The Kingdom, it is revealed that Earth-C is actually a Hypertime reality, which is why it was not affected by the Crisis. Sadly, this would not save Earth-C from the effects of the Final Crisis.
5 He Was Sued Over His Comic
Working as a writer and artist for Wombat Communications, Rodney Rabbit created the superhero team Just’a Lotta Animals. While the team Rodney created were versions of the Justice League, he based their adventures on the missions he and the Zoo Crew went on.
Rodney was forced to end his comic when it turned out that the Just’a Lotta Animals were real and lived on Earth-C-Minus. The team sued him for rights infringement. This followed a dark period for the Zoo Crew and Earth-C, which saw the death of Little Cheese and Yankee Poodle on the run from the law after being accused of trying to assassinate the president.
4 Starro Destroyed His Planet
One of the lead-ups to Final Crisis, Captain Carrot and the Final Arc shows the destruction of Earth-C at the hands of that reality’s version of Starro the Conqueror. In the story, the Zoo Crew and the Just’a Lotta Animals from Earth-C-Minus team up to get the people of Earth-C off of the planet on Barton Boa’s Ark.
The plan worked, though Pig Iron sadly sacrificed himself in the process, and the residents of Earth-C made their way into space. Before long, the heroes and Barton Boa’s Ark came across the Earth-C versions of the New Gods, who opened a portal to another universe where the animals would be safe. That portal brought them to Earth-Prime, but as a result, every resident of Earth-C turned into normal animals.
3 After The Final Crisis, He And His People Got A New Earth
At the end of Final Crisis, as Superman fought to save all of reality, the Supermen from across the multiverse came together to help. To help in the battle to stop Darkseid, the Monitor Nix Uotan restored the Zoo Crew to their anthropomorphic forms so that Captain Carrot could take part in the fight.
After the events of Final Crisis, it was revealed that the Zoo Crew, and all the residents of Earth-C, now lived on Earth-26 and had become a proper part of the multiverse instead of just being an alternate dimension.
2 Perpetua Destroyed Earth-26
While Captain Carrot and the residents of Earth-C found a new home on Earth-26 following the events of Final Crisis and Multiversity, the peace was not to last. As seen in Dark Nights: Death Metal: Multiverse’s End, Perpetua and her army destroyed Earth-26, killing all the heroes of the Zoo Crew save for Captain Carrot.
Captain Carrot continued to fight against the evils of Perpetua, joining the heroes of other destroyed Earths to try and save the remaining universes. Even with the deaths of his closest allies, Captain Carrot’s positive attitude wasn’t diminished. His courage and endless well of hope are what make him such an important member of the Justice Incarnate.
1 There Is A Grim And Gritty Version Of Him
Just about every hero in the DCU has a variant version out there that is darker and grittier than they are. Batman has Flashpoint Batman, Superman has a whole bunch of them, and even Flash has Dark Flash. Keeping that tradition alive, readers were introduced to the dark version of Captain Carrot in the short-lived series Threshold.
Created by Keith Giffen and Tom Raney, Captain K’rot was described as a “borderline psychotic, booze-swilling, whore-mongering rabbit” who has a cybernetic eye and a missing foot that someone took from him for luck.
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