History ComicBook / CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew

* TakeThat: The independent comic series ''ComicBook/AtomicMouse'' might include one about the way DC has handled the Zoo Crew.

* LastOfHisKind: American Eagle; Alley-Kat-Abra([[AuthorsSavingThrow 's Evil Twin]]) funded the species-ist group that killed his parents.

* TakeThat: The independent comic series ''AtomicMouse'' might include one about the way DC has handled the Zoo Crew.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When [[TheFlash Grodd the Super-Gorilla]] travels to Earth-C, his biggest immediate problem is everyone's reaction to his being ''naked.''

* CanonImmigrant: ''TheFoxAndTheCrow'', which not only had its own theatrical cartoon series but ran as a DC comic for twenty years, is considered an official part of Earth-C.

* CanonImmigrant: TheFoxAndTheCrow, which not only had its own theatrical cartoon series but ran as a DC comic for twenty years, is considered an official part of Earth-C.

* RecursiveCanon: Earth-C is an alternate Earth-Prime. Earth-C-Minus is an alternate DC Universe. Rodney Rabbit draws ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justa Lotta Animals]]'', who are real superheroes on Earth-C-Minus who end up suing Wombat Communications for trademark violation.

* GRatedDrug: In ''Oz[=/=]Wonderland War'', Alley-Kat-Abra actually gets a [[HighOnCatnip catnip high]], tells Captain Carrot that he is "really cute, but would be cuter if he was a cat", uses her magic powers to ''turn him into one'', and offers him some catnip. They're playing SickeninglySweethearts by the next scene until the catnip cloud's blown away. No, this wasn't from VertigoComics...

In their origin story, it was explained that fragments from a strange meteor (which had been shattered by Franchise/{{Superman}} before it could hit Earth) were somehow transported to the AlternateUniverse called Earth-C, which was inhabited by HumanoidAnimals instead of humans (specifically, it's the setting of all the FunnyAnimal comics DC published back in the GoldenAge). The fragments gave superpowers to various animals, who decided to join together and form their own superhero team, the Zoo Crew. They are:

* ShoutOut: The uniform of Stargirl of the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' was partly inspired by Yankee Poodle.
** Christopher Kent in ''{{Superman}}'' had a Pig-Iron wristwatch. (The Zoo Crew is a popular cartoon in the main Franchise/DCUniverse.)

** Christopher Kent in ''{{Superman}}'' had a Pig-Iron wristwatch. (The Zoo Crew is a popular cartoon in the main DCUniverse.)

* FranchiseZombie: In a ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' parody story; Ezra Hound's "Bow-Zar the Barkbarian" series reached this point, and he's ready to finally end it. But he hires Pig-Iron as a bodyguard because of the nightmares he's been having of his anti-hero seeking vengeance. MeanwhileInThePast, a real Bow-Zar's visions of a magician (Hound) drive him to travel into future [[HollywoodCalifornia Follywood]] seeking vengeance.

[[caption-width-right:320:Left to right: Yankee Poodle, Rubberduck, Little Cheese, Alley-Kat-Abra, Pig Iron, Fastback and Captain Carrot.]]

''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!'' is a team of [[AnimalSuperheroes Superhero Funny Animal]] characters owned by Creator/DCComics. They were first published in their own comic book series in the early 1980s, though it didn't last very long. Created by writer Creator/RoyThomas and artist Creator/ScottShaw, this was the first team of FunnyAnimal characters to be specifically recognized as being part of the Franchise/DCUniverse.

** The {{New 52}} comic ''Threshold'' features "Captain K'Rot", described by writer Keith Giffen as "a borderline psychotic, booze-swilling, whore-mongering rabbit."

** As well as single-panel visits (during a trip from Earth-C to Earth-C-Minus) to the {{Disney}} universe, a WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry-like universe, the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica's Earth-2, and ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}'''s swamp ...

** As well as single-panel visits (during a trip from Earth-C to Earth-C-Minus) to the {{Disney}} universe, a WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry-like universe, the JusticeSocietyOfAmerica's Earth-2, and ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}'''s swamp ...

* ShoutOut: The uniform of Stargirl of the ''JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' was partly inspired by Yankee Poodle.

* BrickJoke: The end of ''Final Ark'', which deliberately tossed the brick for Creator/GrantMorrison to drop in ''FinalCrisis''.

* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Bridge On Them]]: The Zoo Crew's fate at the end of ''The Final Ark'' seemed needlessly cruel and left a bad taste in a lot of long-time fans' mouths. Thankfully, this may have been a BrickJoke, resolved in ''FinalCrisis''; fan speculation has it that Creator/GrantMorrison used ''FinalCrisis'' to undo what he saw as obnoxious ExecutiveMeddling. Morrison later used Captain Carrot as a character in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', where he knocked out a CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk--[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments with one punch]].

!!Tropes:

''Captain Carrot And His Amazing Zoo Crew!'' is a team of [[AnimalSuperheroes Superhero Funny Animal]] characters owned by DCComics. They were first published in their own comic book series in the early 1980s, though it didn't last very long. Created by writer RoyThomas and artist ScottShaw!, this was the first team of FunnyAnimal characters to be specifically recognized as being part of the Franchise/DCUniverse.

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* MorallyAmbiguousDucktorate: Subverted with the heroic Rubberduck.

The Zoo Crew battled both their own villains and ones from the main DC Universe (Starro, the Starfish Conqueror, an old JusticeLeague alien enemy, in their first issue; Gorilla Grodd in their last.) They also met the "Just'a Lotta Animals" ("JLA") a team of heroes from the similar "Earth C-minus" whose heroes were {{Expies}} of DC's main heroes.

* RecursiveCanon: Earth-C is an alternate Earth-Prime. Earth-C-Minus is an alternate DC Universe. Rodney Rabbit draws ''[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justa Lotta Animals]]'', who are real superheroes on Earth-C-Minus who end up suing Wombat Communications for trademark violation.

* [[StarfishAliens Starfish Alien]]: Literally, with old [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]] foe Starro the Conqueror.

After the series was canceled, the characters reappeared in, of all places, "The [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]] / [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Wonderland]] War" miniseries, which was ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Decades later in the 2000s, they reappeared in an issue of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' (as part of a comic book one of the characters was reading) in a story that parodied the "[[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]]" style of modern comics: The team had disbanded after Little Cheese's death, whose murderer (seemingly) turned out to be Alley-Kat-Abra! This was followed by a 2007 miniseries, ''Captain Carrot and the Final Ark'', where the team was reunited and Abra was cleared of the murder. They were joined by a new member, the non-powered crimefighter '''American Eagle''', secretly right-wing talk show host Johnny Jingo. However, Earth-C was flooded as a result of a war between aquatic and non-aquatic animals, and the heroes had to evacuate it on a "Space Ark." They ended up on the main Earth of TheMultiverse, but found themselves changed into normal animals while there. However, they were changed back to their true forms in the last issue of the ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' CrisisCrossover. Captain Carrot has now reappeared in the pages of ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity.''

* AnimalJingoism: Subverted, it doesn't really happen here except for Alley's murder of Little Cheese (which turned out to be the work of a magically created EvilTwin[=/=]{{Doppelganger}}).

After the series was canceled, the characters reappeared in, of all places, "The [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]] / [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Wonderland]] War" miniseries, which was ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Decades later in the 2000s, they reappeared in an issue of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' (as part of a comic book one of the characters was reading) in a story that parodied the "[[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]]" style of modern comics: The team had disbanded after Little Cheese's death, whose murderer (seemingly) turned out to be Alley-Kat-Abra! This was followed by a 2007 miniseries, ''Captain Carrot and the Final Ark'', where the team was reunited and Abra was cleared of the murder. They were joined by a new member, the non-powered crimefighter '''American Eagle''', secretly right-wing talk show host Johnny Jingo. However, Earth-C was flooded as a result of a war between aquatic and non-aquatic animals, and the heroes had to evacuate it on a "Space Ark." They ended up on the main Earth of TheMultiverse, but found themselves changed into normal animals while there. However, they were changed back to their true forms in the last issue of the ''FinalCrisis'' CrisisCrossover. Captain Carrot has now reappeared in the pages of ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity.''

* '''Captain Carrot''', who is in reality mild-mannered comic-book artist Rodney Rabbit. The fragment didn't give ''him'' powers- rather, it charged up the carrots he was growing in his windowsill, so that eating them turns him into a musclebound rabbit with {{superstrength}}--temporarily. (This is reminiscent of Super Goof's super peanuts power source but probably owes more to the BugsBunny cartoon ''Super Rabbit''.)

After the series was canceled, the characters reappeared in, of all places, "The [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]] / [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Wonderland]] War" miniseries, which was ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Decades later in the 2000s, they reappeared in an issue of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' (as part of a comic book one of the characters was reading) in a story that parodied the "DarkAge" style of modern comics: The team had disbanded after Little Cheese's death, whose murderer (seemingly) turned out to be Alley-Kat-Abra! This was followed by a 2007 miniseries, ''Captain Carrot and the Final Ark'', where the team was reunited and Abra was cleared of the murder. They were joined by a new member, the non-powered crimefighter '''American Eagle''', secretly right-wing talk show host Johnny Jingo. However, Earth-C was flooded as a result of a war between aquatic and non-aquatic animals, and the heroes had to evacuate it on a "Space Ark." They ended up on the main Earth of TheMultiverse, but found themselves changed into normal animals while there. However, they were changed back to their true forms in the last issue of the ''FinalCrisis'' CrisisCrossover. Captain Carrot has now reappeared in the pages of ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity.''

** The fourth issue of that miniseries upped the ante when the Nome King accidentally summoned Wonder Wabbit, [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Hoppy the Marvel Bunny and his girlfriend Millie]], the March Hare, the Easter Bunny, Wonderland's White Rabbit, and Bo Bunny from one of DC's old FunnyAnimal comics. The plan was to trap them with a QuirkyMinibossSquad of Franchise/FantasticFour {{parodies}}, but it goes so wrong the Nome King has to literally wish he never thought of the plan to keep them from ending the miniseries early.

* NowDoItAgainBackwards: Literally flying a spaceship ''backwards'' in one story--to escape an ''UnrealisticBlackHole''. "[[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum It'll never notice the difference!]]"

* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Bridge On Them]]: The Zoo Crew's fate at the end of ''The Final Ark'' seemed needlessly cruel and left a bad taste in a lot of long-time fans' mouths. Thankfully, this may have been a BrickJoke, resolved in ''FinalCrisis''; fan speculation has it that Creator/GrantMorrison used ''FinalCrisis'' to undo what he saw as obnoxious ExecutiveMeddling. Morrison later used Captain Carrot as a character in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', where he knocked out a CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/TheincredibleHulk--[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments with one punch]].