Major Misunderstanding

Major Misunderstanding is a character in the British adult comic Viz.

He is a retired major who dresses smartly, has a bushy walrus moustache and wears his medals on his chest for all to see; things which suggest that he is very pompous. He seems senile and certainly set in his ways, ranting against anything that he believes goes against his traditionalist right wing moral values. He reads the Daily Mail.

As his name suggests, he often gets the wrong idea completely. For example he once believed that a blood donor van was a chip van and berated the nurse operating the van for trying to bring "unwanted custom" to the "close-knit community".

He is somewhat similar to another Viz character, Victorian Dad, although the major has never been shown to have any family. Like Victorian Dad he is often presented as a hypocrite. In one episode he mistakes a woman asking for directions to be a prostitute, and while he rants at her for her immorality he reveals that in his army days he and his other men regularly used prostitutes in Taiwan, which he claims was "different". At the end of the episode he decides that he will use the "prostitute"'s services after all.