Captain Falcon

The Bounty Hunter with a Mysterious Past
Captain Falcon
Species	Human
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Brown
Relatives	Blood Falcon(Clone) Kent Akechi(Supposed son)
Voiced by	Ryo Horikawa
Debut	F-Zero

Captain Falcon is a champion F-Zero racer and a bounty hunter. No one knows how many criminals Captain Falcon has captured, but it's a large amount. In between races and bounty hunting, Captain Falcon spends his time practicing on his private tracks on islands off of Port Town. His full name is Captain Douglas Jay Falcon. Captain Falcon's rivals include Samurai Goroh, Zoda, Michael Chain, Blood Falcon, Black Shadow, Deathborn, Dai Goroh, and Don Genie.

Background

Main Series

Not much is known about Captain Falcon before his F-Zero career. The only known fact is that he's from Port Town. Rumors say that he used to be a captain of the Internova Police. When not racing he is an accomplished bounty hunter who has butted heads with multiple targets and few have escaped his grasp. With the amount of money he earned from his dual professions, he purchased his own chain of islands off the coast of Port Town. He uses the different islands to practice his racing skills.

Captain Falcon competed in the first F-Zero race in 2560. Competing against Pico, Dr. Stewart, and Samurai Goroh, Captain Falcon emerged victorious.

Captain Falcon continued racing in the F-Zero Grand Prix until the Horrific Grand Finale. During the Horrific Grand Finale, Captain Falcon was injured and hospitalized. Though he made a full recovery, some of his DNA was stolen. The DNA was used to create his clone, Blood Falcon.

Several years after the accident, F-Zero racing was reinstated with new rules. The new tournament was called F-Zero X. Captain Falcon has gone on to win the F-Zero X Grand Prix several times, while thwarting his various rivals. In the year 2571, he thwarted the plans of Black Shadow and Deathborn from rigging the Grand Prix by eliminating all the other skilled pilots.

GP Legend

In the anime-inspired games F-Zero: GP Legend and Climax, little is known about Captain Falcon beyond his popularity in the Grand Prix. His machine is so popular that it is virtually the symbol of the F-Zero races. His true identity is Bart Lemming who often gives advice to Rick Wheeler and his friends.

He has his own story path in GP Legend. He was originally hired by an old friend to escort Dr. Clash in Mute City. However, he then encountered Zoda, who captured Dr. Clash, and began to pursue him with the help of Rick Wheeler, whom he met for the first time and was confused by his claims of having known Zoda for centuries, but they wound up accidentally capturing a decoy instead. He then encountered Samurai Goroh in Red Canyon while attempting to continue his pursuit, but Goroh accused Falcon of poisoning him and raced him. Goroh ran off afterwards.

Captain Falcon returned to Port Town empty-handed, only to be confronted by Blood Falcon. He beat Blood Falcon in a race, but his racer broke down afterwards. Lisa Brilliant then offered her help to him, and whether or not Blood Falcon was beaten on the first try, he either accepted her help and then defeated Blood Falcon in a race with Jody Summer's help in the Sand Ocean, or he refused her help and decided to fix his machine with a boost blast, realizing that he had only one lead left. Afterwards, Captain Falcon made his way to Lightning and raced Black Shadow, whom Falcon knew had captured Clash due to his being Blood Falcon's master. After defeating Black Shadow, Jody was able to save Dr. Clash and thanked Captain Falcon for the evil he prevented Black Shadow from unleashing. But Captain Falcon insisted he was only doing the job he was hired for and resumed his anonymous career as a bounty hunter.

In F-Zero Climax, Captain Falcon's alias Berserker is unlockable. After Bart passes down the mantle of Captain Falcon to Rick Wheeler (along with the Blue Falcon), he takes on a new alias known as the Berserker and races in the Red Bull.

Blue Falcon

• Number: 07
• Creator: Unknown
• Engine: BF2003x4
• Weight: 1260kg
• Body: B
• Boost: C
• Grip: B

Captain Falcon has raced in the Blue Falcon since his first F-Zero race. It's easily one of the most recognizable machines on the track. Captain Falcon hopes to upgrade to the Neo Blue Falcon soon.

Other Appearances

Video Games

• Captain Falcon is an unlockable fighter in Super Smash Bros., one of the starting fighters in Super Smash Bros. Melee and again an unlockable fighter in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Due to F-Zero being a racing series and thus Captain Falcon never used any fighting abilities in the games, the Smash Bros. teams invented his moveset from scratch. In Melee and Brawl, one of his alternate costumes is Blood Falcon, and the character Ganondorf is a clone of his moveset..
  • In the original Super Smash Bros., he was unlocked by beating the game on 1-P Mode in under twenty minutes. In Melee Captain Falcon has three unlockable trophies. In Brawl, Captain Falcon is unlocked by playing 70 brawls, beating Classic Mode on Normal or greater in under twelve minutes or by getting him to join the party in "The Subspace Emissary".
  • Within "The Subspace Emissary", Captain Falcon first appeared on the Island of the Ancients to help Olimar fight a giant R.O.B.. After arriving in the Blue Falcon, he leaped out and took out the R.O.B. in a single punch, but accidentally killed many Pikmin as he landed. Captain Falcon then explored the island with the more fretful Olimar. They arrived at the edge of the island and witnessed Diddy Kong saving Donkey Kong and fighting off Subspace enemies atop the Smash Skiff that was heading for the island. Captain Falcon seemed impressed and then leaped onto the Smash Skiff with a reluctant Olimar to help them. This eventually took them within the Subspace Bomb Factory. After Ganondorf set off all the Subspace Bombs in the factory, Captain Falcon led the evacuation of the heroes and called in the Falcon Flyer as their escape craft. After escaping the island's destruction, they united with the main party of the game to go into Subspace and take on Tabuu.

Trivia

• A model of the Blue Falcon is located in Barrel Volcano in Super Mario RPG.
• Captain Falcon's helmet is one of the treasures in the Great Cave Offensive, one of the games in Kirby Super Star.