| “ | *Cough, cough* How much dust! *Cough* Hey, what's happening with me? *cough* F-finally, *cough* FREE! Captain Fray attacks again! | „ |
| ~ Captain Fray's origin in the original comic strip. |
| “ | (The Serpent): This is the day of your rebirth! How would you like to be renamed? Captain Fray: The way they nicknamed me in the orphange... It, it is perfect! YES!!! Captain Fray attacks again!! | „ |
| ~ The reimagination of Fray's origin, in Monica Teen. |
Feitoso Araujo, better known as Captain Fray (Capitão Feio in Portuguese) is the main antagonist of the Monica's Gang franchise.
He is a supervillain obsessed with filth, making everything dirty, and becoming the dirtiest being in existence. He is often arrested by the Department National of Mysteries and Catastrophes (DE.NA.MY.CA, or DI.NA.MI.CA, in Portuguese). He's the uncle and arch-nemesis of Smudge.
He is a major antagonist in the spin-off manga-like series Monica Aventures, most notably acting as the main antagonist of the Inverted Tower Arc, is a supporting antagonist of the cartoons and video games, often being the main antagonist of them, and often appears "roleplaying" as different parodies of movie villains in the Cinema Classics series.
Fray is also the anti-heroic protagonist of Captain Fray: Identidy, and Captain Fray: Storm, two issues of Graphic MSP, a series of oficcial, yet non-canonical graphic novels of Monica's Gang universe, written by various Brazilian artists.
In the animated series, he was voiced by Marcio Araujo and Alex Minei.
Biography[]
Background[]
Feitoso was once a normal kid, until his house suffered a landslide during a storm, causing his family's death. He was also afraid of dying. However, a Centipede appeared, talked to him, and offered him a chance of surviving. Horrified, Feitoso accepts, and the centipede uses the power of the insects to make him alive until a rescue team appeared, but said that one day, he would pay the favor back. He was rescued a fortnight later and started living in the Inverse Tower, a magical building, founded by Asclepio's House, a secret organization, formed by the most influent families of the Pitanga Tree district. There, they picked up orphan children to teach the organization's principles, that modern society were totally messed up, and that they should bring order to it by ruling the world. Agnes's Parents were part of the organization, and Agnes herself lived there. She, along with Boris, constantly bullied him, from being a fan of Captain Pitoco, even though he was clean, well manered, and brave, and Feitoso was just a normal wimpy kid. They nicknamed him "Captain Fray".
Apart from the bullying of Agnes and Boris, he gained a bad name in the orphanage for constantly attracting insects. These insects were spying on him, so he would never tell anyone what happened in the landslide. However, the diseases the insects brought sickened and killed Agnes's parents, making her traumatized and hypocondriac, and she left the orphanage. Feitoso, along with a woman, left the orphanage too, and lived with this woman, who was Smudge's future grandmother, and her son, Antenor Araújo.
He grew up and became a comic book fanatic. Even so, he remained a loving person who loved his adoptive brother and mother, and mainly, his brother's son, Smudge, his adoptive nephew. Smudge admired him, and in his eyes, Feitoso was the coolest guy on Earth. One day, however, a dust cloud appeared when he accidentally dropped some old comic books in his house, and with it, the Centipede, who said it was time to him pay the favor back. He must be turned in one of the Horses of the Apocalypse, the White Horse of Decay, and if he wasn't it, his nephew, Smudge, would take the curse for him. He accepted, and became a villain whose mission was to pollute the world, so much, that the lightstrays couldn't reach the ground, to bring a decay to the world, and he renamed himself Captain Fray, like he was nicknamed years ago.
Monica's Gang[]
He still lives in the Lemon Tree district, in São Paulo, problaby because of that Smudge still lived there. He created an army of "Sewer Creatures" to help him in his goals, and created a base in the sewers of the city. He always tries to fulfill the mission that was given to him, to pollute the world entirely. However, a gang of local kids, including Smudge, often defeats him, Monica's Gang. His most common plans involve creating elaboreted pollution machines to increase his powers, blackmailing and kidnapping the Lemon Tree kids to make Smudge goes to his side and become his pupil (as he still cares a lot about him) and sometimes more elaboreted plans. Sometimes, however, he gives a break in his villainious activities, and do more civil things, like going to the supermarket, or taking a day to just chill in the sewers with his goons.
Monica Adventures[]
Years after all of the events of the classic Monica's Gang comic books, Monica Adventures takes place, with Fray returning as well. His first appearences in the second series were always with him using the alias of Poeira Negra (Dark Dust, literally translated) and with a much more fancy behavior, sophisticated style,, but kept with his evil plans. His first appearence was in the series first arc, The Four Magical Dimensions, in which he is the secondary antagonist, freeing the witch Yuka, the arc's main antagonist, and helping her in trying to stop the gang in their quest to collect the four magical itens, and defeat her. Eventually, he betrays Yuka, turns her into stone and steal her powers. Before he can end the gang, however, many secondary characters appears to distract him, giving time to the main gag return to their dimension, and defeats Fray, who, powerless, is arrested by common cops.
In the Super Saga: Fim do Mundo (Super Saga: End of the World) Fray's origin is revealed, as one of the horses of the apocalypse, serving as the White Horse of Decay. In The Inverse Tower arc, he is arrested by DE.NA.MY.CA again, but, due to his Horse of the Apocalypse powers starting to take effect, his body starts to decay, and, in a few hours, he turns in an old and decayed man, with his body rottening even with him staying alive. A doctor named Robert Stavros is chosen to take care of him, despite the fact that the latter doesn't believe in magic or anythin supernatural. With the alias of Mr. Samyr, Fray takes the hohspital over, molding the flesh of anyone he encounters and turning them into monsters, that serves as his henchmen, also having an army of different insects, that helps him. He wants, by unknown motives, kidnnap Penha. The gang protects her, while discover the misteries of the Inverse Tower and Fray's past. In the end, Smudge steals Fray's powers, because of he is the next in the succection line of the White Horse of Decay's curse, but is mind-controlled by The Serpent, who will now use Smudge to achieve his goal and rule the world along with the other horses. But, in the last second, Denise frees Cumulus, who was trapped in a water bottle, an old foe of the gang, who has the power to control every liquid. He absorbs the mysterious black liquid The Serpent used to brainwash Smudge, and desintegrates in contact with sun. To protect Smudge, Feitoso touches him and absorbs the curse's powers, turning Captain Fray again, but leaving without attacking the gang.
Alter egos[]
In some stories, Fray has been seen changing his alter ego depending on the story it was based on or based on one of his plans. Among his known alter egos are:
- Dart Fray (Dart Feio): a parody of Darth Vader, being the main villain in the Coelhada nas Estrelas trilogy.
- Captain Spinosaurus (Capitão Espinossauro): a temporary dinosaur form he achieved in Horacic Park III after an accident he had while using Franklin's machine again also turning the Sewer Creatures into velociraptors. He received this name near the end of the story and was referred to as such by Monica and her friends.
- Mauricio da Silva: a disguise used in the story A Turma da Cônica where he pretends to be Mauricio de Sousa's cousin creating a group of malicious characters known as Conica's Gang as a way to combat the popularity of Monica's Gang.
Personality[]
Captain Fray is an short tempered, evil, determinated, and obssessed individual, and the Gang's most frequent foe. His goals are to have his nephew, Smudge, at his side as a pupil, and to pollute Earth entirely, reducing it to a dirty, garbage land, with him as ruler. Despite being constantly defeated by Monica and her friends, he never gives up in fulfilling his goals. Fray also shows to be extremly short tempered, constantly raging on his fellows goons, the "Sewer Creatures".
However, Fray was once a kind-hearted and easy going man, Feitoso Araújo, who was trasformed into a villain by a enormous dust cloud, caused by his old comic books, turning him in
Personality[]
Captain Fray is an evil, determinated, and obssessed individual, and the Gang's most frequent foe. His goals are to have his nephew, Smudge, at his side as a pupil, and to pollute Earth entirely, reducing it to a dirty, garbage land, with him as ruler. Despite his constantly defeats by Monica and her friends, he never gives up in attempting to fulfill his goals. Fray also shows to be extremly short-tempered, constantly raging on his fellows goons, the "Sewer Creatures".
However, Fray was once a kind-hearted and easy going man, Feitoso Araújo, who was trasformed into a villain by a enormous dust cloud, caused by his old comic books, turning him into a very mischievous man. But some traits of his old personality are still showing, as he can be sympathetic and even kind to others at times, and genuinely loves his nephew, Smudge, and don't want him to get hurt.
Powers and Abilities[]
Fray can fly, control dirt, moves object from distances using dirt, freezing people with dirt, and other dirt based powers. His dirt manipulation can be used in form of his infamous "dirt rays", which can have various affects, apart from the already listed ones. He can also be very intelligent and cunning, as numerous times he uses machines and weapons he claims he invented in his "secret laboratory", and has a good head for creating plans to acomplish his goals. Water works on him just like kryptonite works on Superman: Once he's wet, all his powers are gone.
During the Super Saga: Fim do Mundo (Super Saga: End of the World) history saga in Monica Adventures, which is based on the apocalypse book, from Bible, he temporarily serves as the embodiment of the White Horse of Decay, one of the four horses of the apocalypse. In this form, Fray can control insects, shapeshifts, and manipulates other people flesh, turning them into hybrid monsters, between humans and insects.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Captain Fray's origin was originally just the history of Smudge's comic book collector uncle who was transformed into a supervillain by a dust cloud, but Monica Adventures created a more elaborated version of this origin.
- Captain Fray's blood type is AB, according to his medical records.
- Captain Fray earned his original name Capitão Feio from the Portuguese "feio", which means "ugly" or "sordid".
Names in Other Languages[]
- Spanish: El Capitán Feo (Literally "Captain Ugly").
- Italian: Il Capitano Sórdido (Literally "Captain Dirty").
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