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The series was also popular in Japan, where it inspired a 1967 tokusatsu series (under the title ''Captain Ultra'', as it was commissioned as a filler for the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' timeslot) and a 1978 anime. Sci-fi writer Creator/AllenSteele has also written an OriginStory homage novel ''Avengers of the Moon''.
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The series was also popular in Japan, where it inspired a 1967 tokusatsu series (under the title ''Captain Ultra'', as it was commissioned as a filler for the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' timeslot) and a 1978 anime. Sci-fi writer Creator/AllenSteele has also written an OriginStory homage {{reconstruction}} novel ''Avengers of the Moon''.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Having been raised with the Futuremen as sparring partners, Captain Future is more than a match for any human opponent.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Having been raised with the Futuremen Otho and Grag as sparring partners, Captain Future is more than a match for any human opponent.opponent, and the Brain's education has turned him into an OmnidisciplinaryScientist.
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* TouchOfTheMonster: One famous pulp cover has Grag of all characters clutching a woman in a metal bikini while fending off someone offscreen with its raygun.
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* TouchOfTheMonster: One famous pulp cover has Grag of all characters clutching a woman in a metal bikini while fending off someone offscreen with its raygun. Another cover plays it straight with Curt firing on a TinCanRobot who's in the process of picking up a DamselInDistress.
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* MasterOfDisguise: With the help of a chemical, Otho can mold his face to mimic any individual.
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* RayGun: The hero's proton blaster is shown on the pulp covers shooting a stream of ever-expanding rings. In the ''Creator/AllenSteele novel, this is handwaved as [[BlowingSmokeRings smoke rings]] created by the [[FrickinLaserBeams invisible plasma beam]].
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* RayGun: The hero's proton blaster is shown on the pulp covers shooting a stream of ever-expanding rings. In the ''Creator/AllenSteele novel, Creator/AllenSteele novel this is handwaved as [[BlowingSmokeRings smoke rings]] created by the [[FrickinLaserBeams invisible plasma beam]].
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* ArchNemesis: Ul Quorn, the 'Magician of Mars', an evil genius whose intellect is a match for Captain Future. He's also the son of Victor Corvos who murdered Curt's parents and was killed in turn by the Futuremen, so ItsPersonal for both of them.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Curt's parents, both scientists, were murdered by power-hungry politician Victor Kaslan who wanted to steal their biochemical knowledge for his own schemes. Unfortunately for him Ortho and Grag prove to be ImmuneToBullets and quickly avenge their creators, leaving Curt to be raised by them and Simon Wright.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Curt's parents, both scientists, were murdered by power-hungry politician Victor Kaslan Corvos who wanted to steal their biochemical knowledge for his own schemes. Unfortunately for him Ortho and Grag prove to be ImmuneToBullets and quickly avenge their creators, leaving Curt to be raised by them and Simon Wright.
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* RetroRocket: The [[WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens cyclotron-powered]] ''Comet'' (though not in the anime).
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* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: President James Carthew runs the entire solar system from his office in New York City.
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* TouchOfTheMonster: One famous pulp cover has Grag of all characters clutching a woman in a metal bikini while fending off someone offscreen with its raygun.
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* DerelictGraveyard: One of the books is titled "The Sargasso of Space." It's about an eponimous region of space into which currents of aether tend to drag all kinds of ship wreckage.
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* DerelictGraveyard: One of the books is titled "The Sargasso of Space." It's about an eponimous region of space into which [[SpaceIsAnOcean currents of aether aether]] tend to drag all kinds of ship wreckage.
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* FairCop: Curt's LoveInterest was Joan Randall of the Planet Police.
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* RetroRocket: The [[WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens cyclotron-powered]] ''Comet''.
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* RayGun: The hero's handgun is shown on the pulp covers shooting a stream of ever-expanding rings. In the ''Creator/AllenSteele novel, this is handwaved as [[BlowingSmokeRings smoke rings]] created by the [[FrickinLaserBeams invisible plasma beam]].
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* RayGun: The hero's handgun proton blaster is shown on the pulp covers shooting a stream of ever-expanding rings. In the ''Creator/AllenSteele novel, this is handwaved as [[BlowingSmokeRings smoke rings]] created by the [[FrickinLaserBeams invisible plasma beam]].
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* RayGun: The hero's handgun is shown on the pulp covers shooting a stream of ever-expanding rings. In the ''Creator/AllenSteele novel, this is handwaved as [[BlowingSmokeRings smoke rings]] created by the [[FrickinLaserBeams invisible plasma beam]].
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Averted as the stories began before the TropeNamer. Grag has no problem obeying an order to kill those who murdered his masters.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Having been raised with the Futuremen as sparring partners, Captain Future is more than a match for any human opponent.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Curt's parents, both scientists, were murdered by power-hungry politician Victor Kaslan who wanted to steal their biochemical knowledge for his own schemes. Unfortunately for him Ortho and Grag prove to be ImmuneToBullets and quickly avenge their creators, leaving Curt to be raised by them and Simon Wright.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Ortho and Grag are always arguing over which one is superior.
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* NeverGetsDrunk: While Otho is supposed to be organic, his metabolism is powerful enough to drain a bottle of the Solar System's strongest GargleBlaster to no effect.
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* GargleBlaster: In one of the books, Otho orders some drink which the others describe as something like "one ounce makes you feel like being hit with a meteor, two make you become one".
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* GargleBlaster: In one of the books, Otho orders some drink which the others describe as something like "one Jovian fire-liquor. The description is "One ounce makes of it, and you feel like being think a meteor's hit with a meteor, two make you. Two ounces, and you become one".think you're a meteor yourself." Otho the android is unaffected.
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* VillainSong: Some of the books have a few lines from the SpacePirates' anthem:
-->From Mercury to Pluto, \\
From Saturn back to Mars, \\
We’ll fight and sail and blaze our trail \\
In crimson through the stars! \\
We’ll cram our holds with plunder \\
From every world and moon...
-->From Mercury to Pluto, \\
From Saturn back to Mars, \\
We’ll fight and sail and blaze our trail \\
In crimson through the stars! \\
We’ll cram our holds with plunder \\
From every world and moon...
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* DerelictGraveyard: One of the books is titled "The Sargasso of Space." It's about an eponimous region of space into which currents of aether tend to drag all kinds of ship wreckage.
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* SuperSargassoSea: One of the books is titled "The Sargasso of Space." It's about an eponimous region of space into which currents of aether tend to drag all kinds of ship wreckage.
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* HumanityCameFromSpace: From Deneb, to be precise. There are other colonies all over the Solar System and beyond.
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* SceneryPorn: The silver seas and crystal cliffs of Throon are an especially plangent example.
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* GiantSpiders: Captain Future encounters some on some of the Solar System's planets.
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''Captain Future'' was a SpaceOpera adventure series created by Mort Weisinger and mostly written by Creator/EdmondHamilton, with occasional contributions by Joseph Samachson and Creator/ManlyWadeWellman. The stories originally appeared in the {{Pulp Magazine}}s ''Captain Future'' and ''Startling Stories'', and were later reprinted in book form.
Captain Future is Curt Newton, a brilliant scientist and athlete who [[WeHelpTheHelpless helps the helpless]] with the assistance of Simon Wright, a scientific colleague of his father's who is now a BrainInAJar, and two robots created by Wright and Newton Sr.: Grag, a seven-foot-tall DumbMuscle man of metal, and Otho, a shape-shifting ArtificialHuman.
The series was also popular in Japan, where it inspired a 1967 tokusatsu series (under the title ''Captain Ultra'', as it was commissioned as a filler for the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' timeslot) and a 1978 anime.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AIGettingHigh: Otho the android drains a bottle of GargleBlaster to no visible effect while undercover... and then asks for wine with radium chloride. This time, the radiation does get him intoxicated.
* AlienCatnip:
** One of the characters has a pet called Eek who eats metals, preferring heavy ones. Large doses of silver or gold were shown to make him rather drunk.
** In one of the books, Otho, disguised as a human, goes to investigate in a bar. First, he drinks a bottle of GargleBlaster without any visible effect, then he orders wine... laced with radium chloride. That one works.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Taken to an extreme, with Earth's moon being perhaps the only exception. All of the Solar System's planets are Earth-like, and harbor humanoid life. The planets' moons also often harbor Earth-like life -- at one point, Captain Future encounters a GiantSpider on Leda, one of Jupiter's moons.
* BatSignal: Captain Future is summoned from his secret Moon base by a magnesium flare fired from the North Pole.
* BrainInAJar: Simon Wright. A distinguished but elderly scientist, he had his brain transplanted into an artificial case before his body gave out. At the beginning of the series the case is immobile and has to be carried around by the RobotBuddy; later it gets an upgrade and is able to hover around under his direction.
* CaptainSuperhero
* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: In ''Outlaw World'', Captain Future temporarily ends up with some pirates, and pretends to be a survivor from a recently destroyed band.
* EarthAllAlong: In ''Planets in Peril'', Captain Future goes to help a human looking race in a dying universe (a short time away from being reborn in a new Big Bang). In the end, it is revealed that the universe is actually our own some 20 billion years in the future.
* GargleBlaster: In one of the books, Otho orders some drink which the others describe as something like "one ounce makes you feel like being hit with a meteor, two make you become one".
* GenuineImposter: In ''Planets in Peril'', Captain Future goes into an alternate universe to impersonate an [[KingInTheMountain ancient hero who promised to return when needed]]. The ending reveals the alternate universe to actually be EarthAllAlong, with which information it becomes apparent that the ancient hero's name, Khaffr, is a half-recalled distortion of "Captain Future".
* GiantSpiders: Captain Future encounters some on some of the Solar System's planets.
* HandyFeet: The android Otho once shot a blaster with his feet when chained.
* IAmOneOfThoseToo: In ''Outlaw World'', Captain Future temporarily ends up with some pirates, and pretends to be a survivor from a recently destroyed band. Then, they visit [[WretchedHive the pirates' main den]], and one person states he served in that band for nine years and had never seen him. The Captain buys a reprieve by claiming he was a freshly recruited technician, and had no opportunity yet to interact with a gunner.
* KingInTheMountain: In ''Planets in Peril'', Captain Future is convinced to go into a parallel universe and impersonate an ancient hero who promised to come back when needed. In the end, it is revealed he didn't go into a parallel universe, but his own twenty billion years in the future, and the legend he has been impersonating is based on himself.
* LotusEaterMachine: A villain named Ru Ghur discovered a type of radiation capable of doing that. He denied it was anything bad, but people were apparently a bit too desperate to get another dose.
* MyBrainIsBig: Doctor Zarro.
* ObliviousAstronomers: ''Captain Future and the Space Emperor'' begins with a DoNotAdjustYourSet moment where a mysterious person warns of a danger; an incoming dark star that will destroy the Solar System unless all its resources are entrusted to him to avert the danger. The star is already close enough to be seen through an amateur's telescope, yet the professional astronomers have noticed nothing, so naturally, after this kind of blunder no one trusts them when they say it's merely a low-mass dust cloud. Subverted at the end; it's nothing but an enormous hologram, so naturally nothing could be detected until the projectors were turned on.
* RapidAging: In one story, a gang was selling water from a radioactive spring which made people young. Too long without the water, and the person died from rapid aging. There was actually an attempt to give a scientific explanation; the body no longer has the resources and regeneration of a young person, but continues expending them like one.
* SceneryPorn: The silver seas and crystal cliffs of Throon are an especially plangent example.
* StrappedToARocket: One of the PulpMagazine covers involved the hero's {{Love Interest|s}} strapped to a small RetroRocket while his RobotBuddy tries to cut her free. A later edition had her ''inside'' the one-woman rocket, peering out through a transparent plate as Captain Future fired his raygun at a villain about to pull a large lever, presumably to send her off.
* SuperHero: Captain Future is quite a textbook example, being stronger, smarter, and more agile than any other human being in existence, and being also an OmnidisciplinaryScientist who is more knowledgeable than the leading scientists in any given field. His team of sidekicks isn't far behind.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Cold Ones, beings created by a human scientist to be humanity's successors when the stars started going out. They turned out: 1) AlwaysChaoticEvil and 2) [[spoiler:[[WeaksauceWeakness incapable of surviving in a normal universe]] -- and the scientist's dying universe was supposed to be reborn in a new Big Bang in a few thousand years]]. When the scientist tried to destroy them and start anew, they killed him and then tried to eliminate mankind. By the time our heroes arrive, humanity has been reduced to mere millions on a few planets, and the Cold Ones are giving them a choice between extermination and sterilization.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Grag and Otho.
* WeirdScience
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Captain Future is Curt Newton, a brilliant scientist and athlete who [[WeHelpTheHelpless helps the helpless]] with the assistance of Simon Wright, a scientific colleague of his father's who is now a BrainInAJar, and two robots created by Wright and Newton Sr.: Grag, a seven-foot-tall DumbMuscle man of metal, and Otho, a shape-shifting ArtificialHuman.
The series was also popular in Japan, where it inspired a 1967 tokusatsu series (under the title ''Captain Ultra'', as it was commissioned as a filler for the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' timeslot) and a 1978 anime.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AIGettingHigh: Otho the android drains a bottle of GargleBlaster to no visible effect while undercover... and then asks for wine with radium chloride. This time, the radiation does get him intoxicated.
* AlienCatnip:
** One of the characters has a pet called Eek who eats metals, preferring heavy ones. Large doses of silver or gold were shown to make him rather drunk.
** In one of the books, Otho, disguised as a human, goes to investigate in a bar. First, he drinks a bottle of GargleBlaster without any visible effect, then he orders wine... laced with radium chloride. That one works.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Taken to an extreme, with Earth's moon being perhaps the only exception. All of the Solar System's planets are Earth-like, and harbor humanoid life. The planets' moons also often harbor Earth-like life -- at one point, Captain Future encounters a GiantSpider on Leda, one of Jupiter's moons.
* BatSignal: Captain Future is summoned from his secret Moon base by a magnesium flare fired from the North Pole.
* BrainInAJar: Simon Wright. A distinguished but elderly scientist, he had his brain transplanted into an artificial case before his body gave out. At the beginning of the series the case is immobile and has to be carried around by the RobotBuddy; later it gets an upgrade and is able to hover around under his direction.
* CaptainSuperhero
* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: In ''Outlaw World'', Captain Future temporarily ends up with some pirates, and pretends to be a survivor from a recently destroyed band.
* EarthAllAlong: In ''Planets in Peril'', Captain Future goes to help a human looking race in a dying universe (a short time away from being reborn in a new Big Bang). In the end, it is revealed that the universe is actually our own some 20 billion years in the future.
* GargleBlaster: In one of the books, Otho orders some drink which the others describe as something like "one ounce makes you feel like being hit with a meteor, two make you become one".
* GenuineImposter: In ''Planets in Peril'', Captain Future goes into an alternate universe to impersonate an [[KingInTheMountain ancient hero who promised to return when needed]]. The ending reveals the alternate universe to actually be EarthAllAlong, with which information it becomes apparent that the ancient hero's name, Khaffr, is a half-recalled distortion of "Captain Future".
* GiantSpiders: Captain Future encounters some on some of the Solar System's planets.
* HandyFeet: The android Otho once shot a blaster with his feet when chained.
* IAmOneOfThoseToo: In ''Outlaw World'', Captain Future temporarily ends up with some pirates, and pretends to be a survivor from a recently destroyed band. Then, they visit [[WretchedHive the pirates' main den]], and one person states he served in that band for nine years and had never seen him. The Captain buys a reprieve by claiming he was a freshly recruited technician, and had no opportunity yet to interact with a gunner.
* KingInTheMountain: In ''Planets in Peril'', Captain Future is convinced to go into a parallel universe and impersonate an ancient hero who promised to come back when needed. In the end, it is revealed he didn't go into a parallel universe, but his own twenty billion years in the future, and the legend he has been impersonating is based on himself.
* LotusEaterMachine: A villain named Ru Ghur discovered a type of radiation capable of doing that. He denied it was anything bad, but people were apparently a bit too desperate to get another dose.
* MyBrainIsBig: Doctor Zarro.
* ObliviousAstronomers: ''Captain Future and the Space Emperor'' begins with a DoNotAdjustYourSet moment where a mysterious person warns of a danger; an incoming dark star that will destroy the Solar System unless all its resources are entrusted to him to avert the danger. The star is already close enough to be seen through an amateur's telescope, yet the professional astronomers have noticed nothing, so naturally, after this kind of blunder no one trusts them when they say it's merely a low-mass dust cloud. Subverted at the end; it's nothing but an enormous hologram, so naturally nothing could be detected until the projectors were turned on.
* RapidAging: In one story, a gang was selling water from a radioactive spring which made people young. Too long without the water, and the person died from rapid aging. There was actually an attempt to give a scientific explanation; the body no longer has the resources and regeneration of a young person, but continues expending them like one.
* SceneryPorn: The silver seas and crystal cliffs of Throon are an especially plangent example.
* StrappedToARocket: One of the PulpMagazine covers involved the hero's {{Love Interest|s}} strapped to a small RetroRocket while his RobotBuddy tries to cut her free. A later edition had her ''inside'' the one-woman rocket, peering out through a transparent plate as Captain Future fired his raygun at a villain about to pull a large lever, presumably to send her off.
* SuperHero: Captain Future is quite a textbook example, being stronger, smarter, and more agile than any other human being in existence, and being also an OmnidisciplinaryScientist who is more knowledgeable than the leading scientists in any given field. His team of sidekicks isn't far behind.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Cold Ones, beings created by a human scientist to be humanity's successors when the stars started going out. They turned out: 1) AlwaysChaoticEvil and 2) [[spoiler:[[WeaksauceWeakness incapable of surviving in a normal universe]] -- and the scientist's dying universe was supposed to be reborn in a new Big Bang in a few thousand years]]. When the scientist tried to destroy them and start anew, they killed him and then tried to eliminate mankind. By the time our heroes arrive, humanity has been reduced to mere millions on a few planets, and the Cold Ones are giving them a choice between extermination and sterilization.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Grag and Otho.
* WeirdScience
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