Tankman

Were you looking for the week or the similarly named background characters?
Sergeant John Captain, alternatively referred to as Captain or more commonly by his pseudonym Tankman, is the antagonist of Week 7. His tracks include Ugh, Guns and Stress. He's been confirmed to also be selectable as a playable character in the future.
He was teased alongside Pico, Cassette Girl and Hank J. Wimbleton on the 15th of November, 2020. He was added to the game with the release of Week 7 on the 18th of April, 2021.
He is the third guest character introduced to Friday Night Funkin', the first being Skid and Pump and the second being Pico.
==Appearance==
Tankman is a soldier with a monochromatic color scheme; his helmet, uniform, gloves, pants and boots are black, while his skin, goggles and vest are white. On both of his arms are white corporal insignias, which distinguish him from the rest of the Tankmen soldiers. He holds a microphone in one hand while keeping the other clenched.
==Origin==
Sergeant John Captain, referred to simply as Captain or Cap, is the main protagonist of the TANKMEN series, an animated web series created by JohnnyUtah in 2006 about the misadventures of Captain with his best friend Steve on the battlefield. Captain comes from a post-apocalyptic desert-like hellscape where only militias of Tankmen and other enemy factions survive.
Captain is the driver of the tank seen on the iconic Newgrounds logo. The site's logo was originally designed by Andrew J. Brozyna in 2000. However, the driver of the tank had yet to be established as a character until 2006 when JohnnyUtah redesigned the logo and created the TANKMEN series. While the name "Tankman" is used broadly to refer to any of the Tankmen soldiers from the series, Captain being the driver of the tank in the logo makes him the original Tankman.
==Personality==
Tankman is a rude and cruel individual, as he constantly insults Boyfriend and Girlfriend vulgarly and mocks Pico about the events of Pico's School straight to his face. He is also shown to be murderous, which is mostly due to his status as a soldier, as he usually kills or orders his soldiers to kill anyone who trespasses in his war zone, regardless of whether it was intentional or not. He appears to enjoy doing things simply out of amusement, given that he did not attempt to kill Boyfriend or Girlfriend immediately, since their arrival gave him the opportunity to alleviate his boredom.
==History==
Tankman meets Boyfriend and Girlfriend, who have both landed in Tankman’s war zone after falling from a plane, as an attempt of the parents to kill Boyfriend once again. With two Tankmen holding Girlfriend at gunpoint, he tells Boyfriend that he would normally just have them both killed for trespassing, but as his day has been boring, he decides to challenge him to a sing-off. After their first battle, Tankman mockingly praises Boyfriend for his performance against him while also making fun of him for overvaluing an "ugly, boring little teenager that wears her mom's clothes."
After their second battle, Tankman becomes annoyed due to his constant defeats and signals the two Tankmen to shoot Girlfriend before telling Boyfriend that there would be no prom for him this year with Girlfriend gone. As the two Tankmen are about to pull the trigger, Girlfriend is about to unleash her demon powers as her eye glows red and her skin turns slightly purple, until she is interrupted by Pico, who shoots the Tankmen holding her at gunpoint. Pico, however, was actually sent to the military space by the parents to confirm Boyfriend's death and retrieve his corpse, but instead botched his job again like last time and decided to save his ex-boyfriend. When he sees Pico, Tankman mocks him by calling him "[Boyfriend's] sexually ambiguous, angry little friend" and asks him if he doesn't have a school to shoot up (referencing the events of Pico's School). After insulting the couple, he challenges Boyfriend to one last sing-off while Pico slays several dozens of his soldiers.
==Relationships==
===Boyfriend===
Tankman is very rude to Boyfriend and only decided not to kill him on sight because he had a boring day. Though he compliments his performance the first time, he is just as quick to insult Boyfriend about his girlfriend. Tankman does not take losing to Boyfriend twice lightly, as he ultimately decides to order his men to kill the couple in retaliation. After the soldiers are stopped by Pico, Tankman decides to settle the situation by challenging Boyfriend to one final rap battle. Despite his vulgar attitude, he was impressed enough by Boyfriend to share another compliment halfway through Stress, saying "Heh. Pretty good!"
===Girlfriend===
When Girlfriend and Boyfriend end up in the Restricted Military Zone, Tankman's soldiers hold Girlfriend at gunpoint. However, Tankman and his men are bored, so they do not immediately kill her. Tankman is very rude to Girlfriend, insulting her on her appearance and being vulgar toward her and Boyfriend. When he orders his men to kill the couple after he loses twice, Girlfriend happily reveals her demon powers, showing her preparedness to fight back if necessary and that she isn't afraid of the Tankmen.
===Pico===
Tankman is very rude to Pico, as he mocks him about the tragic incident in Pico's School. Pico, on the other hand, is excited to kill many of his soldiers, but he doesn't attempt to kill Tankman himself, even after the latter slanders him.
===Tankmen===
The Tankmen are Tankman's soldiers who follow his orders. He doesn't seem to care much about them dying, as he lets Pico slay many of them without stepping in directly, instead settling the situation by rapping with Boyfriend.
==Trivia==
*Tankman's voice is reprised by JohnnyUtah, the creator of the TANKMEN series and Tankman's current design.
**JohnnyUtah also redesigned both the Friday Night Funkin' logo and the current Newgrounds logo.
***Tankman is the 4th character not voiced by Kawai Sprite, with the other four being Skid and Pump, Monster, Mommy Mearest and Darnell.
*Tankman is the first character in the game whose week includes fully animated and voice-acted cutscenes rather than dialogue boxes.
*With a total of 35 quotes, Tankman has the second largest speaking role out of any character in Friday Night Funkin' after Monster.
*Tankman has several voice clips that went unused and were later compiled as outtakes, as shown in a Tweet and a Newgrounds submission made by PhantomArcade.
*If Tankman manages to defeat Boyfriend (and subsequently the player), he will make a comment mocking his performance. He's currently the only character to have unique game-over lines.
**One of his quotes is "I guess your shitty blue hair dye got in your eyes. It's okay, it happens to all of us." This line pokes fun at the nature of Boyfriend's hair. However, Boyfriend's hair has been confirmed multiple times to be naturally cyan and not dyed, leading to Tankman being described as condescending and cruel.
**Some of his quotes depict him breaking the fourth wall, such as one where he tells the player that they should go play Week 1 again.
*Tankman is one of the few characters in Friday Night Funkin' to have a known surname, the other four being Daddy Dearest, Mommy Mearest, Ritz The Rat and Hank J. Wimbleton.
*Tankman appears in the profile picture of the official Newgrounds YouTube channel and Twitter account. He also appears in the default profile picture for registered Newgrounds users.
*Tankman, as well as the rest of the Tankmen, were confirmed to be asexual by JohnnyUtah in a Tweet.
**In another Tweet, JohnnyUtah described the Tankmen as "gay icons," indicating that they are also homoromantic or otherwise gay.
*Tankman was accidentally revealed to be the antagonist of Week 7 by PhantomArcade during a live stream. Ritz was previously believed to be the antagonist of Week 7, as a result of ninjamuffin99 posting a GIF of Ritz holding cheese on Twitter.
**PhantomArcade later made a Retweet confirming that Tankman will be the antagonist of Week 7 after accidentally leaking the background for it during another live stream (though the Tweet he Retweeted contained a fake screenshot depicting a fanmade recreation of the level).
*Tankman's first track, Ugh, is based on JohnnyUtah's involuntary groans, often considered his catchphrase and meme. The "ugh" noise in the song was sampled from his 3rd attempt out of 4 to say it in-game. Although not originally intended to be in a song, Kawai Sprite was inspired by the sound clip to turn it into one of Tankman's tracks.
**Ugh is the 6th song to feature voice lines in addition to sound effects, the others being Tutorial, Fresh, Spookeez, Monster, Winter Horrorland and Stress.
*Tankman is completely aware of Pico's efforts to save his school from the goth kids' attack, which is why he slanders him on purpose to make him feel bad.
*On the 3rd of May, 2022, PhantomArcade released the Flash files for Week 7 via a Tweet with links to Newgrounds dumps. The files also included Tankman's miss animations, as he will become a playable character in the future. The animations aren't in the current build of the game but will be implemented in the future.
**Additionally, a Flash file named "tankman-spooky-dance.fla" was released alongside the Week 7 assets. As the name suggests, this file contains an animation of Tankman doing the Spooky Dance, the dance Skid and Pump do in their idle animation and in the Spooky Month series. The file was most likely released with the other Flash files as a joke.
*Unlike in his home series, Tankman's goggles contort to fit his facial expressions, such as denting at the top when he frowns.
*Tankman's up note singing animation is based on that of a reskin mod replacing Skid and Pump with Tankman made by StaggerNight.
==Gallery==
View Tankman's full gallery here.
==References==
Category:Antagonists
Category:Week 7
Category:Guest Characters
Category:Non-Playable Characters
Category:Tankman
Category:Alive
Category:Humans
Category:Male
Category:LGBTQ+
es:
ja:
pl:
pt-br:
ru:Танкист
tr:
zh: