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{{quote|''"Captain Cold... Captain Boomerang... they probably would have gone for it if I was a captain."''
|'''[[The Flash|Trickster]]'''|''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''}}
There is a definite prejudice in [[Superhero]] comics towards using force rather than reason to sort things out. As a result, a fighting man with a military-sounding background gets more respect than a thinking man with a [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|doctorate or a medical qualification]]. This is probably an inheritance from the early days of comics, where the patriotic [[World War II]] setting made military good guys obvious. The rank of "Captain" probably became common as, in the Army, it is low-ranking enough to be approachable and avoid the [[We Have Reserves|inevitable moral ambiguity]] of the most senior ranks, but high enough to deserve some respect.
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** ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'''s Captain Rex: Good... Which very likely changes with Order 66.
* ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'': Commander Lyle Rourke is a subversion of this, and a good one too. There are a couple hints in his dialogue that he's not what he seems, but overall he does a good job faking the audience out and setting up the reveal.
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