Kapten Zoom

Kapten Zoom (english: Captain Zoom), also known as Guru Zoom or Urban Zoom Karlsson, is a swedish-created superhero who first appeared in the 1976 tv-series Galaxer i mina braxer, sa Kapten Zoom (english: Galaxies in my pants, said Captain Zoom), altough he mostly known for having appeared as a recuring character in the Vintergatan-series (2000-2010).
Kapten Zoom allways introduces himself by saying "Kapten Zoom, Rymden" (english: Captain Zoom, space). His most reaccuring catchphrase is "Galaxer i mina braxer" (english: Galaxies in my pants), which he says when he is shocked by something. When he wants to leave, he often points somewhere and tells the people he's talking to to "look over there", after which he disappears.
Kapten Zoom is an alien from an unknown planet who was first sent to Earth to collect data. At first he didn't find any human life and concluded that he was all alone, and had to live a primitive life in the forest to survive. After four years, almost done with his research, he found an old Superman-comic book left by someone in the forest. He was surprised to learn that there were other lifeforms on the planet and that they somewhat looked like him. This led him to Bollunda, a small city in Södermanland, Sweden, were he met the woman Liselott Blom. He accidently stepped into her apartment while doing research, not realizing what he was doing was inappropriate. Liselott and Kapten Zoom soon became friends, and she taught him how the human world operates.
He then left Earth and came to the forest planet of Filione. There, he met a young forest creature named Femman (english: the Five), and became his new master. They got separated for unknown reasons, and during his search for his new friend, bumped into "den parallella exiditionen" (english: The parallel expedition). He eventually found Femman on den parallella expiditionen's ship. He eventually became good friends with the ship's crew, and helped them both in the fight against fifunerna (english: Fifuns) and Triumviratet (english: The Triumvirate).
==Biography==
=== 1970s ===
==== Four Years in Wilderness ====
The inhabitants of Zoom's home planet chose Kapten Zoom to be the one who would travel to Earth and study it. He would send back updates about what he learned. Kapten Zoom was sent to Earth in his space satelite and was left there. On Earth, Zoom couldn't find any traces of human life, but instead lived in the wilderness and learned how to survive. He planted crops, build a log cabin, a water wheel, and a food cellar. Over the time he learned much about surviving in the wilderness of Earth and reported it all back via video transmissions.
Efter four years in the wilderness, Zoom decided that the mission was complete. Although one day he found a bunch of plastic plates and cutlery lying about in the forest. As well as an abounded Superman comic book. He realized that there was intelligent life on the planet and that they somewhat looked like him.
==== Meeting Liselott Blom ====
When Kapten Zoom explored the city Bollunda, he accidently walked in through Liselott Blom's apartment window. Liselott didn't understand who he was or why he was there. Zoom tried to explain but was so exhausted that he fainted. Liselott looked through all of Zoom's video logs and understood that he needed her help. Later when using the toilet, he dropped his transmission ring, and needed to head to the sewege plant to find it. Liselott showed him to a street well and said goodbye. But when Zoom arrived at the treatment plant he was surprised to see Liselott again.
Kapten Zoom was intrigued by everything in society and asked questions all the time; many times about things Liselott never even had thought about. After visiting the super market and seen Liselott using pieces of paper to exchange for goods, Zoom became very curious. He made a visit to the bank but accidentally robbed a confused bank employee. When he realized that you have to work in order to get the pieces of paper, Liselott helped him to get employed at a building site. After talking to a colleague, he walked too close to the edge of the roof and fell down. He was transported to a hospital and got bandages around his whole body. When the nurse came in, he told her that he was sad because he thought he had scared away his only friend Liselott when he robbed the bank. The nurse removed the bandages and he saw that it was Liselott who was taking care of him.
==== Hunted by Police ====
Kapten Zoom moved in with Liselott, but then the Police came to visit. Zoom was discovered, and the hunt took them first to a church, then on to a log village. Zoom was confused when he saw that others also lived in log houses in the past, and Liselott explained that almost everyone lived in the country in the past. Wanting to find out more, Zoom contacted the "olden days" time to speak with Liselott's great-grandmother. They found out that a merchant bought grandmother's farm to get timber for his factory in Bollunda, and then married Liselott's grandmother Beda. Liselott got angry that she had a grandfather like that, while Zoom thought he was pretty cool.
Zoom was building a model over Bollunda and needed glue, so he called into the vent to see if any of the neighbors had it at home. Liselott got angry and said that he was embarrassing her. Confused, Zoom questions why she would want to live in an apartment so close to other people if she doesn't want to meet them, and she explains that she had no other choice.
Zoom went out to find a new home for Liselott. At first he wanted to build a house, but there was no available land. Then he wanted to buy a villa, but was not taken seriously because of his apperance. Zoom acquired a new suit but was then mistaken for Director Persson. In the misunderstanding, he had to give a speech and cut a ribbon. Zoom continued pretending to be the director and Liselott pretending to be Mrs. Persson. They went to the bank to get a loan. There the Bank Director explained to them that they need tenants who pay rent, and thus get back the money they borrowed.
They bought an apartment building to restore it and bring in higher paying tenants, but once they got there, the people who lived there didn't want to move. They changed their minds and did not want to be landlords. The police came back and detained Zoom and Liselott, but they managed to escape with the help of Zoom's launch rockets. Without rockets, however, Zoom would remain on Earth forever. When they got home, Zoom hid his spacesuit to become an Earthling. He heard Liselott say "sweetheart" to someone else on the phone, and was so distraught that he ran away with only his cloak as clothing.
==== Super-Hero of Children ====
He went to the immigration office to be allowed to live in Sweden, but they required a name and place of birth. He wrote that his name is Urban Zoom Karlsson, and he bought a checkered suit to appear more Swedish. But he felt alone. Out in town, Zoom met Kent and some other kids who had shoplifted. He ran after them and made them return what they had taken. After that, Zoom tried to find somewhere for them to be, but the after-school center was full and their parents didn't have time. Over juice, they talked about how kids never get to be anywhere and how they want Superman to come and save them. Then Zoom showed them his transmitter ring and told them that he is the superhero Kapten Zoom.
They went to talk to the architect Martin who designed Bollunda, and informed him that there are 20 places at the after-school center but that Bollunda had 600 children. But Martin had no power and told them that if they can get the state and the municipality to pay for more leisure centers, then he would be more than happy to design more places for children.
Zoom accompanied Kent home and then realized that Kent is Liselott's son, and that it was him she said sweetheart to on the phone. Together, with the help of the the tenants' associations throughout Sweden, they created a large demonstration with children in front of the parliment building. Kapten Zoom and Liselott, both dressed in Zoom costumes, entered to speak with the State.
After that, Zoom sent out a broadcast to all of Sweden's children that they must report if something bad happens, and that they must let their opinions be heard. In the broadcast, he said that he will continue to fight for the children both as Kapten Zoom and in his checkerd suit jacket.
=== 1970s- 2000s ===
It looked like Captain Zoom and Liselott were going to have a nice life together. But something unexpected happened that caused Zoom to go back to space on a new existential quest together with Femman. Kapten Zoom never forgot Liselott and still thought about her.
=== Summer of 2000 ===
==== The Parallel Expedition ====
In the year 2000, Kapten Zoom was contacted by a being only known as "Alien" to carry out a mission parallel to the mission that the crew on Alien's own spaceship was to carry out. On Earth, the human Mira had a strange dream about Kapten Zoom before she too was taken into space by Alien. At some point, Kapten Zoom came to Filione and became a friend and master of Femman. The friends then got separated.
On the forest planet of Filione, Zoom dropped his bag right onto Henrik, Glen, and Mira's tent. As Glen fiddled with the machine in the bag, he accidentally sent out radio signals, which Kapten Zoom picked up. Zoom came to the tent when Glen and Mira had already gone back to bed. He met Henrik, spun his cloak, and asked who he was. Henrik was confused and asked how Zoom could speak Swedish. Zoom understood that they were the parallel expedition. He found the bag and explained that it was his contact link to the mothership. To end the conversation, Zoom said that anything can happen in space, then he asked Henrik to look in another direction. After that he disappeared without a trace.
When Zoom visited the cave planet of Zeryj, he met Mira, who was worried that Peo and Glen wouldn't make it in time. To that he said time was relative, but she didn't know what that meant. After the comment, he continued to measure distance seconds with his tool. Mira asked who he was and he introduced himself. She then asked what he meant by everything being relative, to which he replied that she would have to learn that for the next time they met.
==== In Glen's Dreams ====
After being paralyzed by the poison of the carnivorous plant on the ocean planet of Zinij, Glen had a strange dream where he met Kapten Zoom, whom he recognized from Mira and Henrik's description of him. Zoom told him that in the dimension they were in, he has other names. After Glen did not understand what dimension is, he disappeared again without a trace.
==== Reunion with Femman ====
Kapten Zoom docked his ship with Alien's. Peo let him out of the airlock, and when they saw each other Zoom pinched him in the nose. Peo thought it was all stupid and left. Zoom explained that he was looking for Femman, and then suddenly Femman ran out of the engine room overjoyed. Zoom asked if he got hold of the space dust, and he had. After Femman gave everyone a stone, Mira and Glen explained what relative and dimension meant. Zoom tried doing his usual Kapten Zoom vanishing trick, but they failed. They humored him and looked away anyway, and Zoom and Fiveman returned to their ship.
They received new instructions from Alien, that they should go on a secret mission with Peo and his girlfriend Ulla. They beamed down with Peo, accompanying him as he said goodbye to Mira for the last time.
=== On Secret Mission ===
Together with Femman on his ship, and with Peo and Ulla in Peo's spaceship, Zoom went to the planet Ouggogo on behalf of Alien. Their mission was to make peace between two Insectoid tribes in the city of Ouppudele. Kapten Zoom taught Peo some of his Zoom tricks, and with them Peo managed to make peace between the tribes. After the mission was completed, Peo and Ulla got married on the planet. Kapten Zoom, Five, and all the insectoids attended the wedding. After the wedding, Peo and Ulla went on a honeymoon, while Kapten Zoom and Femman went back to Filione.
=== Summer of 2001 ===
==== Meeting Trean ====
On Filione, Kapten Zoom was supposed to meet Femman's sisters Trean (english: The Three) and Sjuan (english: The Seven), but when they arrived at Trean and Sjuan's cabin, they found it completely destroyed and burned down. Trean came out from behind a tree and explained to Zoom what had happened. That someone from space came and kidnapped Sjuan and burned down the hut before disappearing back into space again.
After that, Zoom and Femman stayed on the Forest Planet to help Trean rebuild the hut. Trean drew a picture of the kidnappers on a piece of cardboard which they show to Trean and Femman's father Tvåan (english: The Two) who has seen these people at a hat parade and identifies them as the Fifuns.
==Personality==
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==Powers and Abilities==
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==Appearances==
* Galaxer i mina braxer, sa Kapten Zoom/ Galaxies in my pants, said Captain Zoom (TV-Series, 1976)
* Vintergatan 5a/The Milky Way 5a (TV-Series, 2000)
* Vintergatan 5b/The Milky Way 5b (TV-Series, 2001)
* Tillbaka till Vintergatan/Back to the Milky Way (TV-Series, 2003)
* Vintergatan: Rädda Jorden/The Milky Way: Save the Earth (Game, 2003)
* Vintergatan: Fifunernas återkomst/The Milky Way: Return of the Fifuns (Game, 2004)
* Vid Vintergatans Slut/At the End of the Milky Way (TV-Series, 2010)
==External links==
*Kapten Zoom (Swedish Vintergatan Wiki)
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