Captain Broom is an old friendly rabbit who used to live at Redstone Warren and was a captain. He now lives at Watership Down Warren with Hazel and the rest of the rabbits.
Personality[]
Captain Broom has a tendency to ramble due to his age. As a result of loneliness, he has gone slightly mentally unwell and believes that he can still see and speak to the dead members of his warren. These delusions appear to go away once Primrose accepts that they are gone and Broom establishes that the Watership Down rabbits are real. Broom is a knowledgeable and experienced rabbit and warns that they will have trouble when a herd of sheep comes to Watership Down.
During General Woundwort's attempted raid on Redstone, Broom displays that he still possesses the courage and cunning of a Captain of Owsla. Not only does he face several bloodthirsty rabbits, including Woundwort himself, all alone with a cheerful act of a senile old rabbit, but he also successfully fools all of them into thinking that he has an infectious disease which causes them to retreat. Despite his age, Broom is able to fight two Efrafan warriors at once and survive without any serious injury.
Trivia[]
- Broom was voiced by Richard Briers, the same person who voiced Fiver in the 1978 film.