Editing Captain Hook (section)

===In literature===
====''Peter Pan in Scarlet''====
[[Geraldine McCaughrean]]'s [[Peter Pan in Scarlet|authorized sequel]] to ''Peter Pan'' gives Peter a new nemesis, while bringing back the old favourite.

Ravello, a [[circus]] man in a constantly ragged woollen [[coat (clothing)|coat]], volunteers to become Peter's valet in the search for the [[treasure]]. Ravello provides a red coat (that formerly belonged to Hook) and a bad influence, influencing Peter increasingly to become more and more like Captain Hook. He sees himself not as a living person; he never sleeps and eats only [[egg (food)|eggs]]. He is revealed in the middle of the book to be the old James Hook, who escaped the [[crocodile]] when the animal's stomach contractions broke the [[vial]] of [[poison]] Hook kept with him at all times. The poison killed the crocodile, and Hook used his [[Prosthesis|hook]] to claw his way out, but he was [[mutated]] by the [[stomach acid]] into an uglier man with a scarred visage—vastly different in appearance from the noble pirate. He then assumed a new identity of Ravello, owner of a travelling circus, complete with [[lions]], [[tigers]], and [[bears]].

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.

====''Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth''====
According to the 2007 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]].

In the novel, James has only a few friends including Roger Peter Davies, whom he nicknames "Jolly Roger" (the name of his ship in later life), and the spider "Electra". A seventeen-year-old Colleger, Arthur Darling (named after Arthur Llewelyn Davies) is his rival in studies, fencing, sports, and the attentions of the visiting [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Sultana Ananova Ariadne. When James successfully woos Ananova, their affection sets off political outrage that affects the noble position of Lord B., who arranges for James to leave Eton on his trading ship, the ''Sea Witch''. Upon leaving, James defeats Arthur in a final duel and burns his own school records to leave no traces of his behaviour. On the ''Sea Witch'', he befriends [[boatswain]] Bartholomew Quigley Smeethington, generally called [[Smee]], frees the slaves aboard ship, overthrows the ship's captain (killed by Electra), and murders the quartermaster with a metal hook.

Throughout ''Capt. Hook'', author J.V. Hart relates events in James Matthew Barrie's life and the lives of the Llewellyn Davies children. The narrative expands upon details of Barrie's original play and novel but ascribes James's unusual colouring and yellow blood to a blood disorder, makes James's long dark hair natural, rather than the usual wig, and has James titled "Hook" after murdering the quartermaster of the ''Sea Witch'', rather than in reference to his prosthetic hand.

====''Peter and the Starcatchers''====
In the novel ''[[Peter and the Starcatchers]]'' by [[Dave Barry]] and [[Ridley Pearson]], Captain Hook is distinguished by [[halitosis]], beady black eyes, a pock-marked face, and perpetual filth of his person and surroundings contrasting strongly with J. M. Barrie's Etonian gentleman. The novel, which takes place before the Captain meets Peter Pan, calls Hook "Black Stache" for his prominent moustache, and his ship is called the ''Sea Devil''; he captures the ''[[Jolly Roger]]'', originally a British ship called the ''Wasp'', later. Black Stache is renamed "Captain Hook" in the second instalment, ''Peter and the Shadow Thieves''. In Barry and Pearson's book, his left hand is accidentally cut off by Peter.

In Rick Ellis' theatrical adaptation of the Barry-Pearson novel, Black Stache (portrayed in the original production by [[Christian Borle]], who won a [[Tony Award]] for the role) is a witty, poetical, but psychotic pirate prone to [[malapropism]]s and the occasional [[Pratfall effect|pratfall]]. Similar to the Disney film character, Black Stache resembles both a dangerous villain and a comic buffoon. The last of a line of villains, he seeks to become a great villain by fighting a great hero, and finds one in Peter. His hand is cut off not by Peter, but accidentally severed when he slams the lid of a trunk in a fit of rage.

====''Pirates of the Caribbean''====
One of conceptual consultant [[James Ward Byrkit]]'s concept art for the 2007 film ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End]]'' showed a pirate similar to Captain Hook as one of the Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court.

In [[A. C. Crispin]]'s 2011 novel ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom]]'', during a conversation between Captain Teague and Pirate Lord Don Rafael: "You'll never guess who I encountered at Oporto a few months ago. [...] James. [...] He's lost a hand. [...] he said it wasn't so bad, the hook was as good as a dagger in a fight. [...] He didn't look a day older, not a day. [...] James was a lot more...subdued. [...] The taberna keeper's little lad came round to collect our plates, and when he turned and saw he, for just a second he looked—scared. No, worse than that. Terrified. [...] Can you imagine that? Afraid! Of a young boy!"<ref name="The Price of Freedom 1" /><ref name="The Price of Freedom 2" /> It was confirmed by the author Crispin that "James" is indeed Captain Hook from J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan''. Crispin figured that since the ''Pirates'' franchise had a couple Disney "in" jokes (such as Gillette's comment about "a little mermaid" in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''), that she'd include the mention of "James" as a joke.<ref name="KTTC" /><ref name="Goodreads" />