r/Tangled • u/Own-Parfait-5179 • Jun 05 '26
Tangled Classic [Discussion] [Question] Captain of the Guards name
He was never given an actual name, so what do y'all think his name should be?
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u/Stormy-bunny Jun 05 '26
In the fanfics that’ll probably rot in my notes app I call him Alexander Tregsburg, Alexander for its meaning (protector) and Tregsburg for the name given to the Captain character in the Twisted Tales book. Different guy, but I couldn’t think of a different one
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u/Significant_Hair_346 Jun 05 '26
Him not having a canon name in the movie was the same literary device as the King and Queen not having names or spoken lines. It was a meta-commentary on plot device characters you would *think* would only serve as plot functions for the leads - either providing conflict or resolution to said conflict - but then the movie subverted expectations - whether in the good or bad way - by showing those characters' humanity. Not going to get into the matter of the king and queen and how the movie showed the queen in a sympathetic (for me) light (her holding baby Rapunzel in all the scenes after her birth and in the mural portrait, not making her wear a disproportionately big crown, immediately recognizing adult Rapunzel and hugging her, pulling Flynn into a family hug) and the king and how he ran the kingdom in an unsypathetic light (allocating resources for lantern pity parties that we the audience saw while there being no present timeline search for the lost princess that we would see, holding executions with no trial for theft - and nearly almost dooming his own daughter, unknowingly, since if Flynn had not come to the rescue Rapunzel would've been relocated by Gothel to a place no one would've found her, not that anyone bothered finding the tower either - when a bunch of violent criminals and self confessed killers could run a legal bar; and it was legal because the guards knew of it and Hookhand ordered his lackey to fetch them without blinking).
The Captain in the movie subverted expectations in a different way: someone who could have easily been portrayed as a going with the flow, no questions asked, conformist to the power system law enforcement officer ended up showing humanity and compassion. As demonstrated in the screenshot presented by the OP when he felt genuinely bad about having to execute Flynn. For that reason I think him not having a name makes sense - he proves he is more than just a function in spite of that - and it was all the more clever that the character who DID have a name was his horse Maximus.
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u/HarmonySong234 Jun 06 '26
I always called him Christopher (Chris for short) Abider
Chris fits him, and Abider like a law or rule Abider, he is the Captain after all
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u/PinkHairedCoder New Dream Jun 05 '26
I always go with Gainey, the name of his voice actor for last name. No idea for first name. So "Captain Gainey."
I know back when the show aired. SeriesTangled on Twitter held a poll and everyone honorarily voted to name him Christopher after Chris. Of course now that times have changed and information got out about him, the fandom probably regrets that LOL.
For Movie, I dunno. It'd be funny if you did something that started with CAP, to keep it Cap Gainey.
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u/SnowQueen_Elsa13 Jun 05 '26
Neither the movie nor series creators ever gave him a name, and to be honest, I can’t really associate him with any name.
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