Zapp Brannigan

''"We fight this battle not for ourselves, but for our children, and our children's children, which is why I'm forming a children's brigade." ''~ Zapp Brannigan

"Stop exploding you cowards!" ~ Zapp Brannigan

Zapp Brannigan is an antagonist from the cartoon series Futurama and is considered one of the show's main recurring villains along with Mom - however unlike the scheming, malevolent Mom Zapp Brannigan is a very goofy, very stupid and very, very selfish villain: unfortunately he also seems to hold considerable power despite his idiocy and thus can cause trouble for the show's heroes.

Zapp Brannigan is despised even by his own crew-mates, probably because he has completely no respect for anyone other than himself - he is not necessarily much of a threat (unlike Mom) but is nevertheless a recurring problem for the Planet Express Crew - especially Leela (due to a rather unfortunate.. personal encounter.. he simply won't let her forget).

Much of Zapp Brannigan's humor comes from his continual use of inneudo as well as his sexist attitude and general idiocy - as stated before despite his general incompetence Zapp is somehow able to keep the official rank of Captain, a rank which provides him with great power that he seems to enjoy abusing.