25 Facts About Captain Nemo

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Captain Nemo is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne .

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Captain Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island .

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Captain Nemo makes a brief appearance in a play written by Verne with the collaboration of Adolphe d'Ennery, Journey Through the Impossible .

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4.

Captain Nemo has appeared in various film adaptations of Verne's novels, where he has been portrayed by such celebrated actors as James Mason, Herbert Lom, Patrick Stewart, Naseeruddin Shah, Ben Cross, and Michael Caine.

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Captain Nemo has been appropriated by other authors for their own novels, including Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Philip Jose Farmer's The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, Kevin J Anderson's Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius, Thomas F Monteleone's The Secret Sea and Howard Rodman's The Great Eastern.

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Chief among the few details of Captain Nemo's history given in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas are his hatred of imperialism and his grief over the loss of his loved ones in years past.

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7.

The Nautilus library, lounge, and art collections reveal that Captain Nemo is intimately acquainted with European culture, that he's an accomplished performer on the organ.

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8.

Captain Nemo dies of unspecified natural causes on board the Nautilus, docked permanently inside Dakkar Grotto on Lincoln Island in the South Pacific.

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9.

Cyrus Harding, leader of the castaways whom Captain Nemo protected, administered the last rites, then submerged the Nautilus in the grotto's waters.

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10.

Captain Nemo's characteristics are largely presented through the observations of Professor Pierre Aronnax, narrator of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.

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11.

Captain Nemo avoids dry land, except for desert islands and uninhabited regions such as Antarctica.

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12.

Captain Nemo therefore identifies himself with the Earth's oppressed, whether Ceylonese pearl divers, Cretans rising against the Turks, or even right whales attacked by sperm whales.

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13.

Captain Nemo insists that terrestrial laws no longer apply to him, exclaiming in one scene:.

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14.

Captain Nemo is devoted to his crew and grieves deeply when members are killed after a mysterious collision with a surface vessel or during a giant squid attack in the Caribbean Sea.

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15.

Captain Nemo is equally compassionate in his treatment of the castaways in The Mysterious Island, retaining a deep attachment to his deceased wife and children.

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16.

An innovative engineer, Captain Nemo both designed and manufactured the Nautilus, including her electric propulsion units and navigational systems.

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17.

Captain Nemo has an exhaustive knowledge of marine biology, and it is his respect for Professor Aronnax's preeminence in the field that led to his befriending the professor once the latter was cast aboard the Nautilus.

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Further, Captain Nemo is a polyglot, able to read all the books in the Nautilus vast library, regardless of their language.

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19.

Captain Nemo invents a new language that he and his crew use to communicate with each other.

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20.

Captain Nemo has an exquisite taste in the fine arts, possessing many masterpieces of both painting and sculpture, from old masters to moderns.

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21.

Captain Nemo's emblem, as reproduced on the flag he raised when claiming the South Pole, is a large golden N on a black field.

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22.

Captain Nemo is the official file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment; the name plays off of the Nautilus file manager from which it was forked.

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23.

Captain Nemo creates an airship named the Nautilus within the game.

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24.

Captain Nemo considers the engineer Impey Barbicane, a reference to another Jules Verne novel, his ultimate scientific rival.

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25.

Animated series Space Strikers stars a descendant of the original Captain Nemo, leading the crew of the spaceship Nautilus ina crusade to liberate Earth and other planets from the evil forces of Master Phantom.

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