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General Zapp Brannigan is a 25 star General and spaceship captain in the Democratic Order of Planets -- the DOOP -- in the television series Futurama. His flagship is the Nimbus. Kif Kroker is his beleaguered lieutenant and personal assistant.
Zapp is an arrogant, idiotic, ineffectual space captain and a political officer of no small consequence. He suffers from a sexy learning disability -- sexlexia. His tactics in matters of battle are always daring and almost always unnecessary. He wastes no time sentencing his men to death in ridiculous, easily avoidable altercations.
Career triumphs include conquering the pacifists of the Gandhi Nebulae, carpet bombing Eden Seven, triumphing over the senior citizens of the Assisted Living Galaxy, and attempting to destroy the Neutral Planet because he detested their neutrality (their motto is "Live free or don't"). Perhaps his greatest military victory was the defeat of a horde of rampaging Killbots which he achieved by sending in wave after wave of his own men until the Killbots reached their preprogrammed kill-limit. He would later go on to defeat the Giant Arachnids, resulting in a silk surplus.
Brannigan briefly took a break from DOOP to serve as captain of the USS Titanic, which ended up being destroyed in a black hole after Zapp altered the simplistic tour route.
Brannigan was once dismissed from the DOOP along with Kif for his role in destroying DOOP's new $300 billion headquarters. In order to show off, Brannigan used his ship's tactical laser, set on Hyperdeath(tm), to cut the ribbon to inaugurate the new station, but instead managed to destroy the station by cutting it right down the middle. He served briefly with the crew of Planet Express and led a mutiny against Leela. He ordered the crew to set a crash course against the Neutral Planet (setting off a beige alert) where they would all die horribly, except for Zapp who would escape in the only space suit onboard. Leela was reinstated as captain after this, and lied about Zapp's role in the attack on the Neutral Planet so he would be reinstated in DOOP and stay away from her ship.
Brannigan later would lead the defence of Earth during the invasion of the aliens of Omicron Persei 8. Zapp's battleplan was to send all of his ships on a head-on charge on the gun-turrets of the alien mothership, until "the debris from our destroyed ships clogs their guns". He later attempted to end the war by sacrificing the President of Earth to the Omicron leaders; the President was killed, but this did not stop the invasion. Another career high point is when he conquered Spheron 1, home planet of a race of sentient ball-like creatures. Spheron 1 had no strategic value of any kind and no natural resources to speak of; further, first contact had never been made with the Sphereons. Nonetheless, Brannigan boldly conquered the planet, evicting its native inhabitants, and suffering high attrition rates among his men. During this campaign, it was revealed that Zapp named his warhorse--a real live horse that stands on a flying disk as he rides it--"Felicity"; it's a male horse. Zapp never purposely puts himself at equal risk, though his stupidity often lands him in life-threatening situations.
Zapp later very nearly died--by snoo-snoo--when he was captured on Amazonia. Zapp also doesn't understand that firing a weapon within a starship can easily rupture the hull and lead to fatal decompression, a fact he learned the hard way.
Brannigan managed to sleep with Turanga Leela in the fourth episode, "Love's Labour's Lost in Space," a fact he will not let her forget. He is consistently attracted to Leela, like Philip J. Fry, but is a womanizer and pursues just about everything that moves.
Zapp Brannigan could be based on the character Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Besides the similar name and identical initials, the two share in common:
Zapp was probably the character created for Phil HartmanPhilip Edward Hartmann ( September 24, 1948 May 28, 1998) was a graphic artist, writer, actor and comedian born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Hartman became a US citizen in the early 1990s. The exact timing of his switch from "Hartmann" to "Hartman" is u, who was given a permanent role on Futurama before his untimely death. It can be seen through his voice, which sounds like Hartman's, and his mannerisms, which are similar to Lionel HutzLionel Hutz is a fictional character on The Simpsons television show. He is an inept ambulance chaser that the Simpsons keep hiring as their lawyer (a fact remarked on by Marge in a typically self-aware aside). Lionel Hutz was one of the Simpsons characte and Troy McClureTroy McClure is a fictional character in the television cartoon series The Simpsons voiced by Phil Hartman. Troy is the prototypical Hollywood has-been; ubiquitous presenter of educational videos, voiceovers, and advertorials. At one stage Troy McClure ha (who looks and acts like Brannigan) from Matt GroeningMatthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954) (name rhymes with raining SAMPA ['grEniN]) is an American cartoonist and the creator of the television series Futurama and The Simpsons where he currently serves as creative consultant. In high school, he wa's other show, The SimpsonsHomer, Marge, Maggie, Santa's Little Helper, Bart, Snowball II, and Lisa. The Simpsons is the longest-running animated television series and sitcom series in U. television history, with 16 seasons and 338 episodes since its debut on December 17, 1989..
Another basis for Brannigan's character is the Star TrekStar Trek collectively refers to six science fiction television series, ten motion pictures, and hundreds of novels, video games, and other works of fiction all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the early to mid 1960s. captain James Tiberius Kirk, played by William ShatnerWilliam Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is an actor and writer who was born in Montreal, Quebec. Shatner is most famous for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven. The creators of the series envision Brannigan as being similar to what Shatner himself would be like as a starship captain.
Brannigan can also be seen as a loose parody of a multitude of other "dashing space commanders", from Buck Rogers to Bel Riose.
Zapp also resembles Lord Flashheart from the BBC series, Blackadder.
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