History ComicBook / CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew

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

* AffectionateParody: ''Zoo Crew'' is a gentle ribbing of superhero comics in general. Some of the parodies included recognizable elements from mainstream DC comics; Zoo Crew headquarters was based on [[Franchise/TeenTitans Titans Tower]] (only shaped like a Z instead of a T), one villain was a ComicBook/SwampThing-like MuckMonster, and one issue saw the team fighting a spoof of ''ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}'''s [[MonowheelMayhem War Wheel]]. FunnyAnimal versions of Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian and Franchise/IndianaJones also showed up.

* AffectionateParody: ''Zoo Crew'' is a gentle ribbing of superhero comics in general. Some of the parodies included recognizable elements from mainstream DC comics; Zoo Crew headquarters was based on [[Franchise/TeenTitans Titans Tower]] (only shaped like a Z instead of a T), one villain was a ComicBook/SwampThing-like MuckMonster, and one issue saw the team fighting a spoof of [[ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}} the War Wheel]]. FunnyAnimal versions of Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian and Franchise/IndianaJones also showed up.

* CunningLikeAFox: One of the more popular secondary characters who showed up quite a few times was a blond vixen named Farah Foxette.

%%* AffectionateParody

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: In an odd subversion, a good portion of the characters wear completely formfitting boots, complete with individual toes.

* FranchiseZombie: An InUniverse example 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. [[Meanwhile in the past]], a real Bow-Zar's visions of a magician (Hound) drive him to travel into future [[HollywoodCalifornia Follywood]] seeking vengeance.

* HufflepuffHouse: Brother Hood created three giant villains-Frogzilla, Jailhouse Roc and Kongaroo. Frogzilla became a recurring villain while Jailhouse Roc and Kongaroo were never seen again.

** The second 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, along with Captain Carrot. 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.

* MutuallyFictional: The Zoo Crew and Just'a Lotta Animals both considered the other to be fictional before they met up.

%%* {{Sizeshifter}}: Little Cheese's power.

* WolverinePublicity: Superman in the origin story. Also, Changeling from the then astronomically popular ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' in the last issue ({{lampshaded}}: "Alright, already! We admit it! We ''sold out!''").

* OddlySmallOrganization: A.C.R.O.S.T.I.C. had only four members (Brother Hood, Armordillo, Frogzilla, Jailhouse Roc and Kongaroo) and crime boss Fatkat had only two henchmen.

* AffectionateParody

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: A few of the characters.
** In an odd subversion, a good portion of the characters wear completely formfitting boots, complete with individual toes.

** Peter Porkchops used to be a regular funny animal which was reused in this series, and in the early Peter Porkchops strips, his wolf neighbour actually wanted to eat him. This is referenced in the comic with Wolfie seeking psychiatric treatment, because he is having cannibal fantasies and it worries him. It ends badly despite his good intentions--see OurWerewolvesAreDifferent below.
* CatsAreMagic: Alley-Kat-Abra.
* CityMouse: Yankee Poodle.
* CombatStilettos: Alley-Kat-Abra wears them.

* PunnyName: The comic is full of them.

* RighteousRabbit: Captain Carrot, of course.
* RogerRabbitEffect: The second type.
* RubberMan: Rubberduck.

* {{Sizeshifter}}: Little Cheese's power.
* [[StarfishAliens Starfish Alien]]: Literally, with old [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]] foe Starro the Conqueror.

* TwoGirlsToATeam

* WorldOfFunnyAnimals

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

** And then it happened ''again'' in ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', in which [[spoiler:Perpetua's Apex Predators kill the entire Zoo Crew, with Captain Carrot as the SoleSurvivor.]]

** OneMarioLimit: On a vaguely related note, Roger Rodney Rabbit started using his middle name about halfway through the series for ''[[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit some reason]]''...

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

* [[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 ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''; fan speculation has it that Creator/GrantMorrison used ''ComicBook/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]].

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal

* '''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 WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon ''Super Rabbit''.)

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

* SixthRanger: Little Cheese and American Eagle both joined the team a significant amount of time after the other members have been active..

Not to be confused with [[Literature/{{Discworld}} that other Captain Carrot]].

* SixthRanger: Little Cheese and American Eagle.

* HumongousMecha

* TheBigGuy: Pig-Iron.

* FranchiseZombie: An InUniverse example 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. [[MeanwhileInTheFuture Meanwhile, in the Past]], a real Bow-Zar's visions of a magician (Hound) drive him to travel into future [[HollywoodCalifornia Follywood]] seeking vengeance.

* FranchiseZombie: An InUniverse example 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.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: One story had a "wuz-wolf"--a mild-mannered wolf who turned into a monstrous, cannibalistic human at night.

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.