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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.

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Rabbits
Cross-media
Sandleford Warren
BigwigBlackberryBluebellCaptain HollyDandelionFiverHawkbitHazelPipkinPimpernelSilverThrearahToadflax

Nuthanger Farm
BoxwoodCloverHaystackLaurel
Cowslip's Warren
CowslipKingcupLaburnumSilverweedStrawberry
Efrafa
BlackavarCaptain CampionCaptain ChervilCaptain OrchisGeneral WoundwortHyzenthlayRagwortSainfoinThethuthinnangThistleVervainVilthuril
Folklore
Black Rabbit of InléEl-ahrairahHufsaRabscuttle

Books only
Introduced in Watership Down
AcornAshAvensBartsiaBetonyBuckthornButterburCaptain BuglossCaptain MallowCharlockColtsfootFlescaGroundselMarjoramMoneywortNelthiltaNightshadeNildro-hainNose-in-the-AirPine NeedlesScabiousSnowdropSpeedwellThrayonlosaThrearThunder

Introduced in Tales from Watership Down
BurdockCelandineCrowfootCrowlaFescueFlyairthFoxgloveHeartseaseKing Fur-RociousKnapweedLemistaLoosestrifeMelsaMianMilmownNyreemPeertonPrakeQuiensRithlaSandwortStitchwortStonecropThrennionTindraWoodruff

AspenBlueskyButtercupCaptain BroomFelsparFlaxGentianGiliaGorseGraniteHeatherHickoryLarchMallowMarigoldMossPrimroseRaincloudRedShaleSnowdropSpartinaSpeaker of the Past
Film/Miniseries only
Dewdrop (Miniseries) • Nettle (Miniseries) • Violet (film)
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