"Yes, Mr. Death... I'll play you a game! But not chess!!! My game is WIFFLE BALL!!!"
A
comic book character created by
Bob Burden in 1979. He made his
debut in "
Visions #1," which was distributed mainly in
Georgia, but
Dark Horse Comics is the company that usually publishes his
reprints nowadays. (He's also made quite a number of
guest appearances in other comics, including
Cerebus,
the Fat Fury, the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and others)
The Carrot has no
superpowers at all, but he decided to become a
superhero after reading 5,000 comic books in a single sitting. The experience apparently drove him utterly
insane, as he started running around
Iron City wearing a white shirt, red pants, green
flippers (because you never know when you might have to go
swimming), and a six-foot-tall
carrot mask with a jet of
flame coming out of the top. The Flaming Carrot's
battle cry is "
Ut!", he rides an
atomic-powered
pogo stick into battle, and he is a member of the
Mystery Men, which leads some to hope that he might appear in a
sequel to that movie. I suspect he'd be played by
Tom Cruise.
Research from http://www.toonopedia.com/fcarrot.htm