John Bull the past Navy blue, but more recently with the Union Jack colours). Britannia, or a lion, is sometimes used as an alternative in some editorial cartoons. As a literary figure, John Bull is well-intentioned, frustrated, full of common sense, and entirely of native country stock. Unlike Uncle Sam later, he is not a figure of authority but rather a yeoman who prefers his small beer and domestic peace, possessed of neither patriarchal power nor heroic defiance. John Arbuthnot provided him with a sister named Peg (Scotland), and a traditional adversary in Louis Baboon (the House of Bourbon in France). Peg
John Bull had reached the last limits of insult." In another of Verne's novels, "Around the World in Eighty Days", an American colonel refers to the English protagonist as "a son of John Bull." Some John Bull imagery appears in the first volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. John Bull is visible in the illustration accompanying the foreword, on a matchbox on the comic's first page and in person at the bottom of the final panel. In the Japanese anime "Hellsing Ultimate", Alucard refers to Walter, the Hellsing family butler, as "John Bull" on a