Captain Loranzo – Lorenzo Dow Baker and/or Captain Carmine Lorenzo
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Captain_Loranzo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Dow_Baker
https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Carmine_Lorenzo
Captain Loranzo is the captain of the “Sea Chicken” in Walruskberg Harbor.
“Aha! So you are the cause of the ruckus? On whose authority do you dare to board my ship? Chief Advisor Rasputin himself ordered this shipment. So you have no authority at all then? Very well. Then it’s time for you to learn that the Sea Chicken will not be so easily plucked!” – Capatain Loranzo
Lorenzo Dow Baker (March 15, 1840 – June 21, 1908) was an American sailor, ship’s captain and businessman whose 1870 voyage from the Orinoco to Jamaica and then to Philadelphia launched the modern banana production industry. In 1881 he partnered with his brother-in-law Elisha Hopkins to form L.D. Baker & Co. In 1885 he joined forces with Andrew W. Preston and eight others to form the Boston Fruit Company, which led to several successive partnerships, ending in the 1899 formation of the United Fruit Company, now Chiquita.
Carmine Lorenzo is the stubborn and initially incompetent Chief of Police of Dulles International Airport played by Dennis Franz. On Christmas Eve, 1990, he constantly argued with John McClane and gave him problems when McClane tried to intervene and help them fight the terrorists, as he thought McClane was arrogant. Despite this, however, he does grow to like McClane and later tears up his parking ticket as gratitude for stopping the terrorists.
“You are in my little pond now, and I am the big fish that runs it.”
―Carmine Lorenzo to John McClane
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