Click to viewIf you watched Joss Whedon ’s web seriesDr . Horrible ’s Singalong Blog , you know all about the sorta dickey good guy rope Captain Hammer ( Nathan Fillion ) . He ’s receive rubber gloves , a thyroxin - shirt with a hammering on it , and nebulous superpower of . . . something . I mean , we know he ’s supervillain protagonist Dr. Horrible ’s scourge . But we never really see him do much in the way of , say , shooting fireballs or flight . That ’s why we cornered Fillion at Comic - Con and postulate him what Captain Horrible ’s power in reality are . Here ’s what he say .
He went on to explain — off television camera — that he does n’t take care being call Captain Tightpants , either . That was his nickname on the readiness of space western Firefly , where he played Captain Malcolm Reynolds , a major badass and wearer of mean pants . These day , he allow in to us , he no longer wears tight pant because “ my ass would carve up them . ” When we asked if that explained why he ’d done a nude shot , he said yes — “ My pants had just break up at the seams so it was the only thing we could do , ” he said with a gain ground smile .
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