History Main / CaptainSuperhero

* ''NewspaperComic/CalvinAndHobbes'' features several ShowWithinAShow examples, such as Captain Napalm and Captain Steroid.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' has the [[ShowWithinAShow [[=SuperCaptainCoolMan=]] comic]].

* Captain Diabetes in "South Park: The Fractured But Whole".

* Captain Sunshine from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''.

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Flash and Substance" in the scene where the Trickster is {{drowning his sorrows}} and grousing about how the other [[RoguesGallery Rogues]] [[TheFriendNobodyLikes don't respect him]]:

* ''ComicBook/DrBlinkSuperheroShrink'' has both Captain Omnipotent and Major Amazing. They argue over who outranks who.

* PlayedWith in ''Series/TheBoys'', as the first supervillain (well, ''[[VillainWithGoodPublicity open]]'' supervillain) shown is a {{Middle Eastern Terrorist|s}} with ActionBomb powers who calls himself Naqib, the Arabic word for Captain.

* PlayedWith in ''Series/TheBoys'', as the first supervillain (well, ''[[BewareTheSuperman open]]'' supervillain) shown is a {{Middle Eastern Terrorist|s}} with ActionBomb powers who calls himself Naqib, the Arabic word for Captain.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain''.

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* WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresofSonicTheHedgehog has Captain Rescue, an [[OldSuperhero over-the-hill hero]] who is a send-up of both TheCape and GadgeteerGenius types of heroes.

** Since Mar-Vell's death, his codename has been taken up by ComicBook/MonicaRambeau, Phyla-Vell and ComicBook/CarolDanvers. Carol had reached the rank of full bird colonel by the time she quit the Air Force, meaning that she's more than earned the title.

* ''Franchise/TheFlash'' rogues Captain Cold and Captain Boomerang are villainous examples.

* Captain Britain, as well as his sister ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} when she briefly took the mantle of Captain Britain - and she's now Captain Britain again, for the foreseeable future.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: When ComicBook/SteveTrevor gained superpowers for about a week and took up costumed superheroing he used the title Captain Wonder.

* Don Martin's Mad Magazine character Captain Klutz was a luckless schlub who attempted to commit suicide jumping out his tenament window but on the way down he gets caught up in a pair of long johns, some polka dot shorts, a bath bonnet and a towel. He then falls on top of a bank robber in who called him a klutz. When the police asks who he is, he slurs "I'm a klutz, captain." The officer takes this as a spoonerism and christens him Captain Klutz.

* Don Martin's Mad Magazine character Captain Klutz was a luckless schlub who attempted to commit suicide bumping out his tenament window but on the way down he gets caught up in a pair of long johns, some polka dot shorts, a bath bonnet and a towel. He then falls on top of a bank robber in who called him a klutz. When the police asks who he is, he slurs "I'm a klutz, captain." The officer takes this as a spoonerism and christens him Captain Klutz.

* ''Comicbook/CaptainMarVell'':

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* He started as a toy, but was incorporated into DC and Marvel comics, but Captain Action certainly counts. Basically he's a guy in tights wearing a sea captain's cap (complete with boat anchor insignia) and wields a laser pistol and a "lightning sword," a sword with a blade shaped like a lightning bolt. He possesses super-strength as well as the ability to change his appearance to look like almost anyone. His comic series didn't do so hot in the 60's, or when they tried to revive him in the 90's. They're trying again with a new figure and darker and grittier comics.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' might not be the first, but he's one of the most famous. However, he is one of the few who have actually earned the rank of Captain.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainCanuck''

* ''ComicBook/CaptainGravity''

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* ''Comicbook/CaptainAtom''

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' might not be the first, but he's one of the most famous. However, he is one of the few who have actually earned the title of Captain.

* Captain Britain, as well as his sister ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} when she briefly took the mantle of Captain Britain.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': When ComicBook/SteveTrevor gained superpowers for about a week and took up costumed superheroing he used the title Captain Wonder.

** Also present in one scene of ''{{Film/Deadpool2}}'', where Wade introduces himself as Captain Deliciouspants, before [[spoiler: jumping into bear pen in a zoo, attempting to commit suicide after his girlfriend's death.]]

* ''Comicbook/TheFlash'' rogues Captain Cold and Captain Boomerang are villainous examples.