![]() Whenever he is geared up in his Spectrum uniform, Captain Scarlet can be said with some accuracy to be outfitted in "battle-lantern colours." He became one of Spectrum's top agents and formed a great friendship with fellow agent Captain Blue fanon describes this friendship as having initially developed when they were amongst recruits being evaluated as Cloudbase's senior staff officers. (Fanon notes that he found the regulation Spectrum duty uniforms for colour-coded senior officers too gaudy at first, however, not least in regard to his own, and that he needed a long time to accustom himself to them.) During his years of studying in the West Point Military Academy, his nickname was "Big Red," since "red," short for "redcoat," was a reference to the British trainees there, and since he himself was the top-ranked redcoat during this period. Metcalfe grew rather fond of the Spectrum code name he was assigned, "Captain Scarlet," since his favourite colour is red. Those outback roads led to Koala Base, the Spectrum Organisation's Training Academy fanon specifies its location as ten miles north of Liberty Point Mines in Australia's Great Sandy Desert, and provides a duration of one year for training there. During his course of training, Captain Black became Metcalfe's teacher and friend on Australia's outback roads. When the Spectrum Selection Committee learned about Colonel Metcalfe from World Space Patrol Colonel Conrad Turner (see Captain Black) in the middle 2060s, it recruited him into its ranks, making him one of the first personnel so chosen. When it did, Colonel Metcalfe "retired" from the WAAF at the Committee's request. This professional achievement, which Metcalfe notched before reaching the age of thirty years, was what brought him to the attention of former WAAF Colonel-cum-World Space Patrol Colonel Conrad Turner, the future Captain Black, who in turn brought him to the attention of the Spectrum Selection Committee. Fanon includes the Victoria Cross among the many medals and decorations he earned during his highly distinguished military career. Joining the World Army Air Force Special Forces, or "Red Berets," he rose quickly through the WAAF ranks in the course of his service and eventually became both the youngest full colonel in the WAAF's history and the WAAF's top weapons expert. Enrolling in the West Point Military Academy for its four-year course of training, he was "First Captain," or valedictorian, of his graduating class. He is a trained historian, holding degrees from Winchester University (his graduation from it making him an "Old Wykehamist") in technology and mathematics as well as in history. See Multiple Duty Puppets for more details. (Since the super-marionation puppet that was originally sculpted to represent him later saw repeat duty in The Secret Service, where the same puppet also represented the character of Paul Blake, who was shown to be an agent of the Universal Secret Service, fanon speculation holds that this character is Paul Metcalfe's grandfather on his mother's side, and also describes him as one of Charles Gray's predecessors as the Universal Secret Service's London Director.) This information, aside from "fanon" speculation clearly so marked, is based entirely upon the then Anderson spouses's history of Captain Scarlet himself, one of the many back-stories Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson provided for all characters in the programme.īorn on 17 December, 2036, in Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom, Paul Metcalfe is the son and only child of a World Army Air Force general officer (some fanon sources name this general officer as Charles Metcalfe) and represents the fourth generation of his family to serve in either the World Army or the World Army Air Force combined service. Paul Metcalfe, the Earthman military hero 5 The super-marionation programme: Behind the scenes.3.2 "One man fate has made indestructible!".1 Paul Metcalfe, the Earthman military hero.He is the title character both of the " super-marionation" (motorised marionettes-based) television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and of its " hyper-marionation" (computer-generated images-based) reboot, New Captain Scarlet. ![]() From the description in the programme's narration.Ĭaptain Scarlet is the colour code name the Spectrum Organisation has assigned to Paul Metcalfe, a fourth-generation military officer and a former colonel in the World Army Air Force Special Forces. Leading the fight - one man fate has made indestructible. Primary front-line Spectrum agent against the Mysterons' threatģ2 Instalments of Captain Scarlet and the Mysteronsįrancis Matthews ( Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons) ![]() Spectrum Field Agent and Field Commander, Senior Staff Officer and Colour Code Captain "Retro-metabolic," virtually indestructible Mysteron likeness
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